JEE Physics
Elastic & Inelastic Collisions: JEE Questions & Solutions
11 previous-year JEE Physics questions on Elastic & Inelastic Collisions, each with a worked step-by-step solution.
Previous-year questions
- 01A small bob A of mass m is attached to a massless rigid rod of length 1 m pivoted at point P and kept at an angle of 60^° with vertical. At…MCQMediumJEE 2026
- 02In a perfectly inelastic collision, two spheres made of the same material with masses 15 kg and 25 kg, moving in opposite directions with…MCQMediumJEE 2026
- 03As shown below, bob A of a pendulum having massless string of length R is released from 60^° to the vertical. It hits another bob B of half…MCQMediumJEE 2025
- 04Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Three identical spheres of the…MCQMediumJEE 2025
- 05Consider two blocks A and B of masses m₁ = 10 kg and m₂ = 5 kg that are placed on a frictionless table. The block A moves with a constant…MCQMediumJEE 2025
- 06Consider a disc of mass 5 kg, radius 2 m, rotating with angular velocity of 10 rad/s about an axis perpendicular to the plane of rotation.…NVAEasyJEE 2024
- 07Two discs with moments of inertia I₁ = 4 kg·m² and I₂ = 2 kg·m² about their central axes, rotating with angular speeds 10 rad/s and 4…MCQMediumJEE 2024
- 08A body of mass 1 kg collides head-on elastically with a stationary body of mass 3 kg. After the collision, the smaller body reverses its…NVAMediumJEE 2023
- 09A ball of mass 200 g rests on a vertical post of height 20 m. A bullet of mass 10 g, travelling in horizontal direction, hits the centre of…MCQMediumJEE 2023
- 10A ball is dropped from a height of 20 m. If the coefficient of restitution for the collision between the ball and the floor is 0.5, after…NVAEasyJEE 2023
- 11A particle of mass m moving with velocity v collides with a stationary particle of mass 2m. After collision, they stick together and…MCQEasyJEE 2023
Frequently asked questions
Our bank has 11 previous-year JEE Physics questions tagged to Elastic & Inelastic Collisions, drawn from JEE papers between 2023 and 2026, including 2 from 2026 alone. Each comes with a full step-by-step solution.
Elastic & Inelastic Collisions is rated Advanced overall for JEE Physics. The PYQs on this page break down as 8 medium, 3 easy.
Of the 11 previous-year questions on Elastic & Inelastic Collisions, 8 are multiple-choice (MCQ) and 3 are numerical-value (NVA) questions.
Based on recent paper analysis, Elastic & Inelastic Collisions is worth about 1 mark in JEE Main. It sits in Work, Energy & Power, a Class 11 Physics chapter.
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