Projectile Motion: JEE Questions & Solutions

A 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…

An object is projected with kinetic energy K from point A at an angle 60^° with the horizontal. The ratio of the difference in kinetic…

A 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…

A 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…

A 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…

A 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…

A 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…

Two projectiles are fired with the same initial speed from the same point on the ground at angles of (45^° - α) and (45^° + α),…

The 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…

The 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…

A particle is projected with velocity u so that its horizontal range is three times the maximum height attained by it. The horizontal range…

Two projectiles are fired from the ground with the same initial speeds from the same point at angles (45^° + α) and (45^° - α) with the…

A 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…

Two balls with the same mass and initial velocity are projected at different angles in such a way that the maximum height reached by the…

A 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…

A 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…

The 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…

Two 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…

A 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…

A 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…

The 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…

Two bodies are projected from ground with same speeds 40 m/s at two different angles with respect to horizontal. The bodies were found to…

A 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…

For a body projected at an angle with the horizontal from the ground, choose the correct statement.

Given below are two statements: Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Assertion A: When a body is projected at an angle of 45^°, its range is…

Two 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.…

The 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…

Two projectiles are projected at 30^° and 60^° with the horizontal the same speed. The ratio of the maximum height attained by the two…

A 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…

A 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…