Time and Motion

The school organised an educational tour for the students. They arranged a bus scheduled to leave for the trip around 8:00 am. The odometer reading of the bus at the start and end of the trip is provided in the table.

What was the average speed of the bus during the trip?

Which of these explains the time period of a simple pendulum?

• The number of oscillations in an hour

• The number of oscillations in one minute

• Time taken to complete one full oscillation

• Time taken by the pendulum to come at rest

A student notices the swing of a pendulum as shown in the image. She notices that the bob of the pendulum starts from position A to C and then back to A in 2 seconds.

What is the time period of the pendulum?

• 0.5 second

• 1 second

• 2 second

• 4 second

The table reads the distance-time data for a moving toy car.

What is likely to be the shape of the plotted distance-time graph?

• Circle

• Square

• Straight Line

• Curved line

A water clock and a sand clock are two examples of ___________ clocks

• modern

• ancient

In a pendulum, the greater the length of the string, the ___________ is the time period.

• lesser

• greater

average speed is measured in __________

• metre per second

• minutes per hour

which of these is not related to a pendulum?

• sundial

• time period

• bob

• string

The fact that the time period of a simple pendulum remains same is used in ............clock

• SUNDIAL

• SIMPLE

• PENDULUM

The smallest time interval that can be measured with commonly available clocks and watches is

• nano second

• second

• minute

• millisecond