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Question 11 Mark
A car is moving at the rate of 40 km/h towards east. Which physical quantity is stated here, speed or velocity?
Answer
Velocity, since it is mentioning the direction of motion along with its speed.
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Question 21 Mark
A child moves a toy car, takes it around and brings it back to the starting point. What is the displacement of the car?
Answer
As the car is brought back to its starting point, the displacement is zero.
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Question 31 Mark
What do you understand by a vector quantity ?
Answer
A physical quantity that needs both magnitude and direction to be described is called a vector quantity.
Examples : Displacement, velocity, acceleration, force and weight.
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Question 41 Mark
What do you understand by oscillatory motion ?
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When an object as a whole moves to and fro about its mean position, it is said to be in oscillatory motion.
Examples : a swing in motion, a moving pendulum, etc.
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Question 51 Mark
Speed and velocity have the same units yet they are different physical quantities. Why?
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Speed does not depend upon direction so it is a scalar quantity whereas velocity depends upon the direction of displacement so it is a vector quantity.
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Question 61 Mark
What do you understand by the term motion ?
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An object is said to be in motion if it changes its position with respect to a certain fixed reference point in its surroundings.
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