JEE Main Kinematics and Laws of Motion questions with solutions
Motion in one and two dimensions, projectiles, Newton laws, friction, constraints and circular motion. 27 questions from our 2016–2025 JEE Main pattern papers, from the Class 11 Physics syllabus. Each has the answer and a full solution.
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JEE Main 2025
JEE Main 2024
- A boat can move at 5 m s^-1 relative to still water. It crosses a river 120 m wide that flows at 3 m s^-1. The crossing time when the boat is steered…
- A particle is projected from a point on a smooth-surfaced incline of inclination 30^° with speed 20 m s^-1, in a direction perpendicular to the…
- A block A of mass 2 kg lies on a smooth horizontal table. A light string tied to A passes over a smooth fixed pulley at the table edge, then goes…
JEE Main 2023
- A small elastic ball is dropped from rest from a height of 20 m above the point where it strikes a smooth fixed plane inclined at 30^° to the…
- A block of mass 2 kg is projected up a rough incline of inclination θ with sin θ=0.6, with an initial speed of 10 m s^-1. The coefficient of kinetic…
- A small bob is attached to a light inextensible string of length 0.5 m and is given a horizontal speed of 6 m s^-1 at the lowest point of its…
JEE Main 2022
- A ball is thrown from the top of a vertical cliff 20 m high with speed 25 m s^-1 at an angle of 37^° above the horizontal (sin 37^°=0.6, g=10 m…
- A block of mass 5 kg rests on a rough plane inclined at 53^° to the horizontal; the coefficient of static friction is 0.5. The minimum horizontal…
- A small ball tied to a string of length L moves in a vertical circle. At the lowest point its speed is u=√(3.5 gL). The string goes slack at some…
JEE Main 2021
JEE Main 2020
- A tower is 80 m high. A stone is dropped from its top and, at the same instant, a second stone is thrown vertically upward from the foot of the…
- A block of mass 2 kg lies on a rough incline of angle 37^° (take sin 37^° = 0.6) with coefficient of friction 0.5. A purely horizontal force F pushes…
- A bob of mass m hangs from a light inextensible string of length L. It is given a horizontal speed √(5gL) at the lowest point. The tension in the…
JEE Main 2019
- A stone is dropped from the top of a tower 80 m high. At the same instant a second stone is thrown vertically upward from the foot of the tower with…
- A ball is dropped from a height of 20 m onto a hard horizontal floor. At each impact the speed just after the bounce is half the speed just before it…
- A car travels on a rough circular road of radius 45 m that is banked at an angle θ with tan θ=0.75. The coefficient of friction between the tyres and…
JEE Main 2018
- A boat can be rowed at 5 m s^-1 in still water across a river of width 200 m flowing at 3 m s^-1. The time taken to cross by the path of shortest…
- A projectile is launched from the foot of a smooth fixed incline of angle 30^° with speed 15 m s^-1, at 30^° above the incline surface (so the…
- A smooth wedge of mass 6 kg with an inclined face at 37^° to the horizontal rests on a smooth horizontal floor. A block of mass 2 kg lies on the…
- A small ball tied to a light inextensible string of length r is whirled in a vertical circle. At the highest point the tension in the string is 2mg.…
JEE Main 2017
JEE Main 2016
- A ball A is dropped from rest from the top of an 80 m tower. One second later a ball B is thrown vertically upward from the ground, directly below…
- A small bead slides without friction on a smooth circular wire hoop of radius 0.5 m kept in a vertical plane. The hoop rotates uniformly about its…
- A block of mass 2 kg rests at one end of a 3 m long plank of mass 4 kg lying on a smooth horizontal floor. The coefficient of friction between block…
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