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JEE Main · Physics · Motion in a Plane

Horizontal Projection from Height

JEE Main asked Horizontal Projection from Height 4 times in 4 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. It belongs to Projectile Motion, in Motion in a Plane (Physics). The longest wait between two years asking it was 2 years.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
4
in 4 shifts
Years
4 of 8
First asked
2021
last in 2025
Pattern
Comes in cycles
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.

00.10.20’170’200.03’210.03’220’230.05’240.13’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 1 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 1 in 18 shifts · 2025: 1 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20251 of 8
  • 20241 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20221 of 24
  • 20211 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.

  • Displacement of object dropped from moving helicopter
  • Range of body dropped from moving frame

Difficulty

Easy 2Medium 2Hard 0

1 of the 4 questions had a numerical answer.

Every question

All 4 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 7 Apr 2025, Shift 2 · Q29A helicopter flying horizontally with a speed of 360 km/h at an altitude of 2 km, drops an object at an instant. The object hits the…EasySingle correct
  2. 8 Apr 2024, Shift 2 · Q51A body of mass M thrown horizontally with velocity vv from the top of the tower of height H touches the ground at a distance of 100 m…MediumNumerical value
  3. 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1 · Q32A NCC parade is going at a uniform speed of 9 km/h under a mango tree on which a monkey is sitting at a height of 19.6 m. At any…EasySingle correct
  4. 31 Aug 2021, Shift 1 · Q19A helicopter is flying horizontally with a speed 'v' at an altitude 'h' has to drop a food packet for a man on the ground. What is the…MediumSingle correct

Shifts: 31 Aug 2021, Shift 1, 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1, 8 Apr 2024, Shift 2, 7 Apr 2025, Shift 2.

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