Leaving Cert Applied Maths: Kinematics & Linear Motion questions

Motion in a straight line: displacement, velocity, acceleration and time, the constant-acceleration equations, vertical motion under gravity, and reading motion graphs.

32 past Applied Maths questions on this topic, spanning 2015 to 2025, grouped by year. Every question opens on the exact page of the official paper, with its marking scheme beside it.

Kinematics & Linear Motion question pack

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2025 · 2 questions

Paper 1 · Q250 marks

differential equations, calculus, air resistance

Paper 1 · Q950 marks

oblique collisions, kinetic energy

2024 · 2 questions

Paper 1 · Q150 marks

matrices, graph theory, minimum spanning tree

Paper 1 · Q550 marks

direct collisions, coefficient of restitution

2023 · 2 questions

Paper 1 · Q150 marks

graph theory, directed graphs, integration by parts

Paper 1 · Q550 marks

friction, connected particles, pulleys

2022 · 1 question

2021 · 1 question

Show 6 earlier years (2015 to 2020)

2020 · 1 question

Q150 marks

coalescing particles

2019 · 2 questions

Q150 marks

friction, inclined plane

Q1050 marks

differential equations, resisted motion

2018 · 1 question

Q150 marks

friction

2017 · 2 questions

Q150 marks

friction, energy

Q1050 marks

differential equations, resisted motion

2016 · 2 questions

Q1050 marks

differential equations, simple harmonic motion

2015 · 2 questions

Q150 marks

relative motion

Q1050 marks

calculus

Kinematics & Linear Motion question pack

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2025 · 3 questions

Paper 1 · Q650 marks

projectiles, vectors

Paper 1 · Q1050 marks

difference equations, second-order recurrence

2024 · 2 questions

Paper 1 · Q450 marks

projectiles, projectile motion

2023 · 1 question

2022 · 1 question

2021 · 2 questions

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2019 · 1 question

2018 · 1 question

2017 · 1 question

2016 · 1 question

2015 · 1 question

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