Projectile Motion & Relative Motion — JEE Main PYQs & Practice Questions

Projectile Motion & Relative Motion is a Physics chapter in the JEE Main syllabus. This page brings together 90 previous-year and practice questions on Projectile Motion & Relative Motion, organised into 4 topics: Projectile on Flat Surface, Projectile on Inclined Surface, Relative Velocity and River-Boat and Rain-Man Problems. Most questions come with a step-by-step solution you can work through free in PrepWiser.

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Projectile on Flat Surface

• The angle of projection for a projectile to have same horizontal range and maximum…
• Two projectiles are fired with same initial speed from same point on ground at angles of…
• A ball is projected with speed 20 m/s at an angle of 30° with the horizontal. What is…
• A child stands on the edge of the cliff 10 m above the ground and throws a stone…
• If x and y coordinates of a projectile as a function of time (t) are given as 24t and…
• Two projectiles thrown at 30° and 45° with the horizontal respectively, reach the…
• The trajectory of a projectile in a vertical plane is y = αx - βx², where α and β are…
• The two projectiles are projected with the same initial velocities at the 15° and 30°…
• The trajectory of projectile, projected from the ground is given by y=x-x²/20. Where x…
• A stone is projected at angle 30° to the horizontal. The ratio of kinetic energy of the…
• A player kicks a football with an initial speed of 25 ms⁻¹ at an angle of 45° from the…
• Given below are two statements : one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is…
• Two balls with same mass and initial velocity, are projected at different angles in such…
• Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled…
• Two projectiles are fired from ground with same initial speeds from same point at angles…
• A projectile is fired horizontally from a cliff 80 m high with speed 30 m/s. How long…
• A fighter jet is flying horizontally at a certain altitude with a speed of 200 ms⁻¹…
• A ball of mass m is thrown vertically upward. Another ball of mass 2 m is thrown at an…
• The co-ordinates of a particle moving in x-y plane are given by : x=2+4 t, y=3 t+8 t²…
• A particle is projected at an angle of 30° from horizontal at a speed of 60 m / s. The…

Projectile on Inclined Surface

• A body starts falling freely from height H hits an inclined plane in its path at height…

Relative Velocity

• Two trains 'A' and 'B' of length 'l' and '4 l' are travelling into a tunnel of length…
• Train A and train B are running on parallel tracks in the opposite directions with…
• A particle is moving along the x-axis with its coordinate with the time 't' given be…
• Train A is moving along two parallel rail tracks towards north with speed 72 km / h and…
• A NCC parade is going at a uniform speed of 9 km / h under a mango tree on which a…
• Two trains approach each other on parallel tracks at 40 km/h and 60 km/h. Their relative…
• Two cars A and B are moving in the same direction along a straight line with speeds 100…
• At t = 0, truck, starting from rest, moves in the positive x-direction at uniform…
• A bomb is dropped by fighter plane flying horizontally. To an observer sitting in the…
• A passenger sitting in a train A moving at 90 km / h observes another train B moving in…
• A boy reaches the airport and finds that the escalator is not working. He walks up the…
• Two cars travel in the same direction at 60 km/h and 40 km/h. The velocity of the first…

River-Boat and Rain-Man Problems

• The maximum speed of a boat in still water is 27 km/h. Now this boat is moving…
• A girl standing on road holds her umbrella at 45° with the vertical to keep the rain…
• Rain falls vertically at 10 m/s. A person walks north at 10 m/s. The umbrella should be…
• When a car is at rest, its driver sees rain drops falling on it vertically. When driving…
• A river is flowing from west to east direction with speed of 9 km h⁻¹. If a boat capable…
• A butterfly is flying with a velocity 4√2 m/s in North-East direction. Wind is slowly…
• A swimmer can swim with velocity of 12 km/h in still water. Water flowing in a river has…
• A person is swimming with a speed of 10 m/s at an angle of 120° with the flow and…
• The speed of a swimmer is 4 km h⁻¹ in still water. If the swimmer makes his strokes…
• A river of width 200 m is flowing from west to east with a speed of 18 km/h. A boat…
• A swimmer wants to cross a river from point A to point B. Line AB makes an angle of 30°…

More Physics chapters

• Basic Mathematics for Physics
• Units, Dimensions & Errors
• Rectilinear Motion
• Vectors
• Newton's Laws of Motion
• Friction
• Circular Motion
• Work, Energy & Power
• Centre of Mass & Linear Momentum
• Collision
• Rotational Motion
• Gravitation
• Simple Harmonic Motion
• Elasticity
• Fluid Mechanics
• Surface Tension
• Thermometry & Calorimetry
• Kinetic Theory of Gases
• Thermodynamics
• Heat Transfer
• Mechanical Waves
• Sound Waves
• Experimental Skills
• Electrostatics I — Charges, Field & Gauss's Law
• Electrostatics II — Potential & Capacitance
• Current Electricity
• Moving Charges & Magnetism
• Magnetism & Matter
• Electromagnetic Induction
• Alternating Current
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Ray Optics
• Wave Optics
• Dual Nature of Radiation & Matter
• Atomic Physics
• Nuclear Physics
• Semiconductors & Electronic Devices
• Communication Systems

Frequently asked questions

How many Projectile Motion & Relative Motion questions are there for JEE Main?

PrepWiser has 90 Projectile Motion & Relative Motion questions for JEE Main, grouped into 4 topics such as Projectile on Flat Surface, Projectile on Inclined Surface and Relative Velocity.

Are these Projectile Motion & Relative Motion questions from previous-year JEE Main papers?

Yes — most are genuine previous-year questions from past JEE Main papers, and the rest are practice questions written to match the JEE Main pattern and difficulty.

Where can I see the answers and solutions to these Projectile Motion & Relative Motion questions?

Open any Projectile Motion & Relative Motion question in PrepWiser (it is free) to attempt it; most come with a step-by-step solution.