NEET UG · Physics · Laws of Motion

Newton's Laws of Motion: NEET previous year questions

10 questions in ten years of NEET, in 9 of 10 papers. Pattern: Every year. Here is how it is asked and which ideas come back.

Asked in 10 years: 10; about 1.0 per paper
Years asked: 9/10; last asked 2025
Chance of a question next paper: 64%; historical rate, how we compute it
Weighted estimate: 0.8; model; history: 1.0 a paper on average, typically 1

Key findings

01
Asked in 9 of 10 papers, 10 questions in all: #82 of 204 topics by ten-year total. Last asked in 2025.
02
89% of its questions since 2018 tested an idea never asked before; none repeated an idea from the year before.
03
The most repeated idea is Impulse of a Bouncing Ball, asked 2 times (2021, 2025), usually as “numerical”.
04
NEET has asked 9 of the 85 ideas in this topic; 72 have never been asked, directly or indirectly.
05
Mostly asked as figure-based (50%); 50% easy, 0% hard, and down from 1.1 to 0.6 questions a paper since 2024.

Questions per year

Up to 2023: 1.1; per paper
Since 2024: 0.6; -0.5
Usual gap: 1.0 yrs; between papers asking it
Swing: ±0.5; questions, year to year

How it is asked

Difficulty, format and skill

Across all 10 questions on Newton's Laws of Motion since 2017.

Difficulty

QUESTIONS

Easy5 · 50%
Medium5 · 50%
Hard0 · 0%

Format

Figure-based · 5 Q50%
Numerical · 4 Q40%
One-line MCQ · 1 Q10%

Skill tested

Calculation · 5 Q50%
Concept · 2 Q20%
Application · 2 Q20%
Multi-step · 1 Q10%

Repeats

New idea, or one asked before?

Each column is a paper. Blue questions tested an idea NEET had not asked before; navy ones went back to an idea from an earlier paper. 2017 is the first paper, so everything in it counts as new.

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Idea asked for the first time
Idea asked in an earlier paper

Coverage of the topic

NEET has asked 9 of the 85 ideas in this topic. 72 have never been asked yet.

972

Asked directly9 · 11%
Touched inside another question4 · 5%
Never asked72 · 85%

Ideas come from Lumi’s syllabus map of NCERT. A never-asked idea is not a safe skip: most new questions come from exactly these.

Drill down

Idea, year, question

Every idea NEET tested in this topic, with its ten papers. Open one to read the questions.

ideaAskedShareYears’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26

Repeated2 · 20%20%2/10
- 2025 · Q10
  A ball of mass 0.5 kg is dropped from a height of 40 m. The ball hits the ground and rises to a height of 10 m. The impulse imparted to…
  mediumNumerical
- 2021 · Q44
  A ball of mass 0.15 kg is dropped from a height 10 m, strikes the ground and rebounds to the same height. The magnitude of impulse…
  easyNumericalNew idea
1 · 10%10%1/10
1 · 10%10%1/10
1 · 10%10%1/10
1 · 10%10%1/10
1 · 10%10%1/10
1 · 10%10%1/10
1 · 10%10%1/10
1 · 10%10%1/10

Squares are the ten papers, 2017 to 2026; darker means more questions. Share is of the level above.

Ideas

Every idea inside this topic

9 different ideas were tested; 1 came more than once. Block on a Smooth Inclined Plane is the foundation for 3 other ideas in the syllabus.

Impulse of a Bouncing Ball2×
numerical
Numerical · 6% next
Contact Force Between Adjacent Blocks1×
numerical
Figure-based · 6% next
Vector Application of F=ma1×
direction of force from change in velocity vector
One-line MCQ · 4% next
Momentum Conservation in Explosions1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 2
Standard Atwood Machine1×
numerical
Figure-based · 4% next · foundation for 1
Block on a Smooth Inclined Plane1×
numerical
Numerical · 4% next · foundation for 3
Equilibrium via Orthogonal Components1×
motion under balanced forces from vector triangle
Figure-based · 4% next
Stationary Block on an Accelerating Wedge1×
condition for block stationary on accelerating wedge
Figure-based · 4% next
Instantaneous Acceleration After Cutting a Spring or String1×
instantaneous acceleration after string cut
Figure-based · 4% next

Idea	Times	Format	Chance next	Foundation for
Impulse of a Bouncing Ballnumerical	2	NumericalCalculation	6%	–
Contact Force Between Adjacent Blocksnumerical	1	Figure-basedCalculation	6%	–
Vector Application of F=madirection of force from change in velocity vector	1	One-line MCQConcept	4%	–
Momentum Conservation in Explosionsnumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	4%	2 ideas
Standard Atwood Machinenumerical	1	Figure-basedCalculation	4%	1 ideas
Block on a Smooth Inclined Planenumerical	1	NumericalCalculation	4%	3 ideas
Equilibrium via Orthogonal Componentsmotion under balanced forces from vector triangle	1	Figure-basedConcept	4%	–
Stationary Block on an Accelerating Wedgecondition for block stationary on accelerating wedge	1	Figure-basedApplication	4%	–
Instantaneous Acceleration After Cutting a Spring or Stringinstantaneous acceleration after string cut	1	Figure-basedApplication	4%	–

Chance next is the historical rate at which an idea with this record came back in the following paper. It is low for every idea, which is why learning the topic beats memorising past questions. All repeated ideas

Every question

Newton's Laws of Motion questions, year by year

The opening words of each question as it appeared in the official paper, with the idea it tested.

NEET 20251 question

Q10
A ball of mass 0.5 kg is dropped from a height of 40 m. The ball hits the ground and rises to a height of 10 m. The impulse imparted to…
Idea: Impulse of a Bouncing Ball
MediumNumerical

NEET 20241 question

Q9
A horizontal force 10 N is applied to a block $A$ as shown in figure. The mass of blocks $A$ and $B$ are 2 kg and 3 kg, respectively. The…
Idea: Contact Force Between Adjacent Blocks
New ideaEasyFigure-based · figure

NEET 20231 question

Q13
A football player is moving southward and suddenly turns eastward with the same speed to avoid an opponent. The force that acts on the…
Idea: Vector Application of F=ma
New ideaMediumOne-line MCQ

NEET 20221 question

Q28
A shell of mass m is at rest initially. It explodes into three fragments having mass in the ratio 2 : 2 : 1. If the fragments having equal…
Idea: Momentum Conservation in Explosions
New ideaMediumNumerical

NEET 20211 question

Q44
A ball of mass 0.15 kg is dropped from a height 10 m, strikes the ground and rebounds to the same height. The magnitude of impulse…
Idea: Impulse of a Bouncing Ball
New ideaEasyNumerical

NEET 20201 question

Q160
Two bodies of mass 4 kg and 6 kg are tied to the ends of a massless string. The string passes over a pulley which is frictionless (see…
Idea: Standard Atwood Machine
New ideaEasyFigure-based · figure

NEET 20192 questions

Q30
When an object is shot from the bottom of a long smooth inclined plane kept at an angle 60° with horizontal, it can travel a distance…
Idea: Block on a Smooth Inclined Plane
New ideaMediumNumerical
Q33
A particle moving with velocity $\vec{V}$ is acted by three forces shown by the vector triangle PQR. The velocity of the particle will :
Idea: Equilibrium via Orthogonal Components
New ideaEasyFigure-based · figure

NEET 20181 question

Q35
A block of mass m is placed on a smooth inclined wedge ABC of inclination $\theta$ as shown in the figure. The wedge is given an…
Idea: Stationary Block on an Accelerating Wedge
New ideaEasyFigure-based · figure

NEET 20171 question

Q36
Two blocks A and B of masses 3m and m respectively are connected by a massless and inextensible string. The whole system is suspended by a…
Idea: Instantaneous Acceleration After Cutting a Spring or String
MediumFigure-based · figure

Questions from the official NEET UG papers published by NTA (CBSE before 2019). Topic and idea tags, counts and notes are Lumi’s.