Class 9 Chapter 2 Physics Exercise Short Questions PDF New Syllabus

Download Class 9 Chapter 2 Physics Exercise Short Questions PDF for quick revision and exam preparation. This PDF is helpful for 9th class students who want to prepare important exercise short questions according to the new syllabus. Students can use it to revise chapter-wise questions, improve their concepts, and prepare better for school tests and board exams.

Chapter 2 Short Questions: Kinematics

These are the exercise short questions from Chapter 2 of the Class 9 Physics textbook. In this chapter you are expected to be able to state, from memory and in two or three lines:

• Scalars and vectors, with two examples of each.
• Distance against displacement, and speed against velocity.
• Acceleration, its formula and its SI unit.
• The three equations of motion, written correctly.
• Free fall, and the value and direction of g.
• What the slope and the area of a motion graph represent.

Wording That Costs Marks in This Chapter

Short answers in Kinematics are marked on precision rather than length. These are the specific slips that lose marks here:

• Defining velocity without mentioning direction, which is what separates it from speed.
• Saying the area under a velocity-time graph is acceleration rather than distance.
• Giving g without its direction or its unit.

Working Through the Set

Cover the answer, write your own version, then compare. Recognising a correct answer is not the same as producing one, and only writing exposes the difference. Mark yourself as strictly as an examiner would: if the unit is missing, count the mark as lost. Come back to anything you got wrong two days later rather than the same evening.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can displacement be zero when distance is not?

Yes. If you walk right round a circular track and return to your starting point, the distance covered is the full circumference but the displacement is zero, because displacement measures only the straight line from start to finish.

Is this PDF free and based on the new syllabus?

Yes to both. It is free with no sign-up, and it follows the current Class 9 Physics textbook, in which Kinematics is Chapter 2 of nine.

Related Class 9 Physics Resources

For the reasoning answers from the same chapter see the Chapter 2 constructive questions, and test yourself with the Chapter 2 online test. Continue with Chapter 1 and Chapter 3, or sit a full paper from the 25 Class 9 Physics guess papers. Everything else is on the Class 9 Physics page.