Rectilinear Motion — JEE Main PYQs & Practice Questions

Rectilinear Motion is a Physics chapter in the JEE Main syllabus. This page brings together 107 previous-year and practice questions on Rectilinear Motion, organised into 5 topics: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Equations of Motion, Motion Under Gravity, Variable Acceleration and Motion Graphs. Most questions come with a step-by-step solution you can work through free in PrepWiser.

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Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

• A vehicle travels 4 km with speed of 3 km / h and another 4 km with speed of 5 km / h…
• The distance travelled by an object in time t is given by s=(2.5) t². The instantaneous…
• The position vector of a moving body at any instant of time is given as r⃗=(5 t² î-5 t…
• A person travels x distance with velocity v₁ and then x distance with velocity v₂ in the…
• A cyclist starts from the point P of a circular ground of radius 2 km and travels along…
• A sportsman runs around a circular track of radius r such that he traverses the path A B…
• A person starts his journey from centre 'O' of the park and comes back to the same…
• A particle moves along the x-axis and has its displacement x varying with time t…
• A person moved from A to B on a circular path as shown in figure. If the distance…
• A car travels a distance of 'x' with speed v₁ and then same distance 'x' with speed v₂…
• The relation between time 't' and distance 'x' is t=α x²+β x, where α and β are…
• A person travelling on a straight line moves with a uniform velocity v₁ for a distance x…
• A car covers AB distance with first one-third at velocity v₁ ms⁻¹, second one-third at…
• Position of an ant (S in metres) moving in Y-Z plane is given by S=2 t² ĵ+5 k̂ (where t…
• An object moves with speed v₁,v₂ and v₃ along a line segment AB, BC and CD respectively…
• As shown in the figure, a particle is moving with constant speed π m / s. Considering…
• The position of a particle related to time is given by x=(5 t²-4 t+5) m. The magnitude…

Equations of Motion

• Two masses of 3.4 kg and 2.5 kg are accelerated from an initial speed of 5 m/s and 12…
• A bus moving along a straight highway with speed of 72 km / h is brought to halt within…
• A body starts moving from rest with constant acceleration covers displacement S₁ in…
• A particle starts with an initial velocity of 10.0 ms⁻¹ along x-direction and…
• The displacement and the increase in the velocity of a moving particle in the time…
• A train starting from rest first accelerates uniformly up to a speed of 80 km / h for…
• A car accelerates uniformly from rest at 2 m/s² for 5 s. Its final velocity is:
• A car accelerates from rest at a constant rate α for some time after which it…
• A body travels 102.5 m in nᵗʰ second and 115.0 m in (n+2)ᵗʰ second. The acceleration is :
• A particle moving in a straight line covers half the distance with speed 6 m / s. The…
• A scooter accelerates from rest for time t₁ at constant rate a₁ and then retards at…
• A car is moving with speed of 150 km / h and after applying the break it will move 27 m…
• The distance travelled by a particle is related to time t as x=4t². The velocity of the…
• For a train engine moving with speed of 20 ms⁻¹, the driver must apply brakes at a…
• A body moves on a frictionless plane starting from rest. If Sₙ is distance moved between…
• A particle starts from origin at t=0 with a velocity 5 î m / s and moves in x-y plane…
• An engine of a train, moving with uniform acceleration, passes the signal-post with…
• Starting from the origin at time t = 0, with initial velocity 5ĵ ms⁻¹ , a particle moves…
• Two cars are travelling towards each other at speed of 20 m s⁻¹ each. When the cars are…
• A small toy starts moving from the position of rest under a constant acceleration. If it…

Motion Under Gravity

• A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 19.6 ms⁻¹ from the top of a…
• A body falling under gravity covers two points A and B separated by 80 m in 2 s. The…
• A tennis ball is dropped on to the floor from a height of 9.8 m. It rebounds to a height…
• A juggler throws balls vertically upwards with same initial velocity in air. When the…
• An object of mass 5 kg is thrown vertically upwards from the ground. The air resistance…
• A balloon was moving upwards with a uniform velocity of 10 m/s. An object of finite mass…
• A gas balloon is going up with a constant velocity of 10 m/s. When this balloon reached…
• An object is thrown vertically upwards. At its maximum height, which of the following…
• A ball is thrown up with a certain velocity so that it reaches a height 'h'. Find the…
• A ball of mass 0.5 kg is dropped from the height of 10 m. The height, at which the…
• A ball is thrown up vertically with a certain velocity so that, it reaches a maximum…
• Two inclined planes are placed as shown in figure. A block is projected from the Point A…
• A block 'A' takes 2 s to slide down a frictionless incline of 30° and length 'l', kept…
• When a ball is dropped into a lake from a height 4.9 m above the water level, it hits…
• A paratrooper jumps from an aeroplane and opens a parachute after 2 s of free fall and…
• A ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial velocity of 150 m / s. The ratio of…
• Water drops fall from a tap on the floor, 5 m below, at regular intervals of time, the…
• Water drops are falling from a nozzle of a shower onto the floor, from a height of 9.8…
• A ball is dropped from the top of a 100 m high tower on a planet. In the last 1/2s…
• A ball is released from a height h. If t₁ and t₂ be the time required to complete first…

Variable Acceleration

• If the velocity of a body related to displacement x is given by υ = √(5000 + 24x) m/s…
• The velocity of a particle is v = v₀ + gt + Ft². Its position is x = 0 at t = 0; then…
• A particle initially at rest starts moving from reference point x=0 along x-axis, with…
• A particle is moving in one dimension (along x axis) under the action of a variable…
• A particle is moving in a straight line. The variation of position 'x' as a function of…
• The relation between time t and distance x for a moving body is given as t = mx² + nx…
• Two cars P and Q are moving on a road in the same direction. Acceleration of car P…
• An object with mass 500 g moves along x-axis with speed v = 4√x m/s. The force acting on…
• At time t=0 a particle starts travelling from a height 7 z cm in a plane keeping z…
• The instantaneous velocity of a particle moving in a straight line is given as V = α t +…
• The distance x covered by a particle in one dimensional motion varies with time t as x²…
• A particle is projected with velocity v₀ along x-axis. A damping force is acting on the…
• A particle is moving in a straight line such that its velocity is increasing at 5 ms⁻¹…
• A particle starts moving from time t=0 and its coordinate is given as x(t)=4t³-3t A. The…
• A particle moves in a straight line so that its displacement x at any time t is given by…
• A small ball of mass m is thrown upward with velocity u from the ground. The ball…

Motion Graphs

• The velocity-time graph of an object moving along a straight line is shown in the…
• The position-time graphs for two students A and B returning from the school to their…
• Which of the following curves possibly represent one-dimensional motion of a particle?…
• A horse rider covers half the distance with 5 m / s speed. The remaining part of the…
• If the velocity-time graph has the shape AMB, what would be the shape of the…
• The velocity (v) and time (t) graph of a body in a straight line motion is shown in the…
• The position, velocity and acceleration of a particle moving with a constant…
• The velocity (v) versus time (t) plot of a particle is shown in the figure, for a time…
• The velocity (v) - Distance (x) graph is shown in figure. Which graph represents…
• The velocity time graph of a body moving in a straight line is shown in the figure. The…
• The speed verses time graph for a particle is shown in the figure. The distance…
• The velocity-displacement graph describing the motion of bicycle is shown in the figure…
• Given below are two statements Statement I : Area under velocity- time graph gives the…
• The motion of an airplane is represented by velocity-time graph as shown below. The…
• A Tennis ball is released from a height h and after freely falling on a wooden floor it…
• From the v-t graph shown, the ratio of distance to displacement in 25 s of motion is:
• The velocity - displacement graph of a particle is shown in the figure. The acceleration…
• A particle is moving with constant acceleration 'a'. Following graph shows v² versus…
• The displacement x versus time graph is shown below. (A) The average velocity during 0…

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How many Rectilinear Motion questions are there for JEE Main?

PrepWiser has 107 Rectilinear Motion questions for JEE Main, grouped into 5 topics such as Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration, Equations of Motion and Motion Under Gravity.

Are these Rectilinear 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.

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