JEE Physics

Projectile Motion: JEE Questions & Solutions

30 previous-year JEE Physics questions on Projectile Motion, each with a worked step-by-step solution.

Intermediate

Previous-year questions

  1. 01A projectile is thrown upward at an angle 60^° with the horizontal. The speed of the projectile is 20 m/s when its direction of motion is…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  2. 02An object is projected with kinetic energy K from point A at an angle 60^° with the horizontal. The ratio of the difference in kinetic…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  3. 03A bead P is sliding on a frictionless semi-circular string (ACB) and it is at point S at t = 0, and at this instant the horizontal…MCQMediumJEE 2026
  4. 04A boy throws a ball into air at 45^° from the horizontal to land it on a roof of a building of height H. If the ball attains maximum height…MCQEasyJEE 2026
  5. 05A particle is projected at an angle of 30^° from horizontal at a speed of 60 m/s. The height traversed by the particle in the first second…NVAEasyJEE 2025
  6. 06A ball of mass 100 g is projected with velocity 20 m/s at 60^° with horizontal. The decrease in kinetic energy of the ball during the…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  7. 07A ball having kinetic energy KE, is projected at an angle of 60^° from the horizontal. What will be the kinetic energy of the ball at the…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  8. 08Two projectiles are fired with the same initial speed from the same point on the ground at angles of (45^° - α) and (45^° + α),…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  9. 09The maximum speed of a boat in still water is 27 km/h. Now this boat is moving downstream in a river flowing at 9 km/h. A man in the boat…NVAMediumJEE 2025
  10. 10The angle of projection of a particle is measured from the vertical axis as φ and the maximum height reached by the particle is h_m. Here…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  11. 11A particle is projected with velocity u so that its horizontal range is three times the maximum height attained by it. The horizontal range…MCQMediumJEE 2025
  12. 12Two projectiles are fired from the ground with the same initial speeds from the same point at angles (45^° + α) and (45^° - α) with the…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  13. 13A helicopter flying horizontally with a speed of 360 km/h at an altitude of 2 km, drops an object at an instant. The object hits the ground…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  14. 14Two balls with the same mass and initial velocity are projected at different angles in such a way that the maximum height reached by the…MCQEasyJEE 2025
  15. 15A ball rolls off the top of a stairway with horizontal velocity u. The steps are 0.1 m high and 0.1 m wide. The minimum velocity u with…NVAMediumJEE 2024
  16. 16A particle of mass m is projected with a velocity u making an angle of 30^° with the horizontal. The magnitude of the angular momentum of…MCQMediumJEE 2024
  17. 17The maximum vertical height to which a man can throw a ball is 136 m. The maximum horizontal distance up to which he can throw the same…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  18. 18Two objects are projected with the same velocity u but at different angles α and β with the horizontal. If α + β = 90^°, the ratio of…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  19. 19A stone is projected at an angle of 30^° to the horizontal. The ratio of kinetic energy at projection to its kinetic energy at the highest…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  20. 20A particle of mass 100 g is projected at time t = 0 with a speed of 20 ms⁻¹ at an angle 45^° to the horizontal. The magnitude of the…NVAMediumJEE 2023
  21. 21The initial speed of a projectile fired from ground is u. At the highest point during its motion, the speed of the projectile is √5/2u. The…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  22. 22Two bodies are projected from ground with same speeds 40 m/s at two different angles with respect to horizontal. The bodies were found to…NVAEasyJEE 2023
  23. 23A child stands on the edge of the cliff 10 m above the ground and throws a stone horizontally with an initial speed of 5 m/s. Neglecting…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  24. 24For a body projected at an angle with the horizontal from the ground, choose the correct statement.MCQEasyJEE 2023
  25. 25Given below are two statements: Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Assertion A: When a body is projected at an angle of 45^°, its range is…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  26. 26Two projectiles A and B are thrown with initial velocities of 40 m/s and 60 m/s at angles 30^° and 60^° with the horizontal respectively.…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  27. 27The range of a projectile projected at an angle of 15^° with the horizontal is 50 m. If the projectile is projected with the same velocity…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  28. 28Two projectiles are projected at 30^° and 60^° with the horizontal the same speed. The ratio of the maximum height attained by the two…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  29. 29A projectile fired at 30^° to the ground is observed to be at the same height at time 3 s and 5 s after projection, during its flight. The…MCQEasyJEE 2023
  30. 30A projectile is projected at 30^° from horizontal with initial velocity 40 ms⁻¹. The velocity of the projectile at t = 2 s from the start…MCQEasyJEE 2023

Frequently asked questions

Our bank has 30 previous-year JEE Physics questions tagged to Projectile Motion, drawn from JEE papers between 2023 and 2026, including 4 from 2026 alone. Each comes with a full step-by-step solution.

Projectile Motion is rated Intermediate overall for JEE Physics. The PYQs on this page break down as 24 easy, 6 medium.

Of the 30 previous-year questions on Projectile Motion, 25 are multiple-choice (MCQ) and 5 are numerical-value (NVA) questions.

Based on recent paper analysis, Projectile Motion is worth about 2 marks in JEE Main. It sits in Kinematics, a Class 11 Physics chapter.

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