Circular Motion — JEE Main PYQs & Practice Questions

Circular Motion is a Physics chapter in the JEE Main syllabus. This page brings together 75 previous-year and practice questions on Circular Motion, organised into 4 topics: Centripetal Acceleration and Force, Centrifugal Force, Banking of Roads and Vertical Circular Motion. Most questions come with a step-by-step solution you can work through free in PrepWiser.

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Centripetal Acceleration and Force

• A stone of mass 1 kg is tied to end of a massless string of length 1 m. If the breaking…
• A particle is moving in a circle of radius 50 cm in such a way that at any instant the…
• A body of mass m = 10 kg is attached to one end of a wire of length 0.3 m. The maximum…
• A particle of mass m is fixed to one end of a light spring having force constant k and…
• One end of a massless spring of spring constant k and natural length l₀ is fixed while…
• A car is moving with a constant speed of 20 m/s in a circular horizontal track of radius…
• If the angular velocity of earth's spin is increased such that the bodies at the equator…
• A huge circular arc of length 4.4 ly subtends an angle '4s' at the centre of the circle…
• A clock has 75 cm, 60 cm long second hand and minute hand respectively. In 30 minutes…
• A coin placed on a rotating table just slips when it is placed at a distance of 1 cm…
• If the radius of curvature of the path of two particles of same mass are in the ratio 3…
• The angular speed of truck wheel is increased from 900 rpm to 2460 rpm in 26 seconds…
• In uniform circular motion, the velocity vector is always tangent to the circle.
• A string of length L is fixed at one end and carries a mass of M at the other end. The…
• A 2 kg body moves in a horizontal circle of radius 1 m with speed 3 m/s. The centripetal…
• A car moves in a horizontal circle on a level road. The centripetal force is provided by:
• A ball of mass 0.5 kg is attached to a string of length 50 cm. The ball is rotated on a…
• A man carrying a monkey on his shoulder does cycling smoothly on a circular track of…
• A car is moving on a circular path of radius 600 m such that the magnitudes of the…
• In uniform circular motion, which quantity stays constant?

Centrifugal Force

• A circular table is rotating with an angular velocity of ω rad / s about its axis (see…
• A tube of length 1 m is filled completely with an ideal liquid of mass 2 M , and closed…
• A tube of length 50 cm is filled completely with an incompressible liquid of mass 250 g…
• A child of mass 5 kg is going round a merry-go-round that makes 1 rotation in 3.14 s…

Banking of Roads

• A curved in a level road has a radius 75 m. The maximum speed of a car turning this…
• Statement I : A cyclist is moving on an unbanked road with a speed of 7 kmh⁻¹ and takes…
• A car of mass ' m ' moves on a banked road having radius ' r ' and banking angle θ. To…
• On a banked road with angle θ, the ideal (frictionless) speed for safely negotiating a…
• The normal reaction 'N' for a vehicle of 800 kg mass, negotiating a turn on a 30° banked…
• A car of 800 kg is taking turn on a banked road of radius 300 m and angle of banking…
• A train is moving with a speed of 12 m / s on rails which are 1.5 m apart. To negotiate…

Vertical Circular Motion

• A 0.5 kg mass is in contact against the inner wall of a cylindrical drum of radius 4 m…
• A smooth inclined plane ends in a vertical circular loop, as shown in the figure. A…
• A particle is moving with constant speed in a circular path. When the particle turns by…
• A small bob tied at one end of a thin string of length 1 m is describing a vertical…
• A particle is rotating in a circular path and at any instant its motion can be described…
• In case of vertical circular motion of a particle by a thread of length r if the tension…
• An object moves at a constant speed along a circular path in a horizontal plane with…
• A bob of mass m is suspended at a point O by a light string of length l and left to…
• A body of mass 100 g is moving in circular path of radius 2 m on vertical plane as shown…
• A small block slides down from the top of hemisphere of radius R = 3 m as shown in the…
• A body of mass ‘m’ connected to a massless and unstretchable string goes in vertical…
• A stone tide to a spring of length L is whirled in a vertical circle with the other end…
• A stone of mass 900 g is tied to a string and moved in a vertical circle of radius 1 m…
• A stone of mass m, tied to a string is being whirled in a vertical circle with a uniform…
• A ball is released from rest from point P of a smooth semi-spherical vessel as shown in…
• A bob of mass 'm' is suspended by a light string of length 'L'. It is imparted a minimum…
• A car moving with a speed of 54 km/h takes a turn of radius 20 m . A simple pendulum is…
• A large drum having radius R is spinning around its axis with angular velocity ω, as…

More Physics chapters

• Basic Mathematics for Physics
• Units, Dimensions & Errors
• Rectilinear Motion
• Vectors
• Projectile Motion & Relative Motion
• Newton's Laws of Motion
• Friction
• 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 Circular Motion questions are there for JEE Main?

PrepWiser has 75 Circular Motion questions for JEE Main, grouped into 4 topics such as Centripetal Acceleration and Force, Centrifugal Force and Banking of Roads.

Are these Circular 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 Circular Motion questions?

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