PHYSICS
1) Which of the following is NOT an effect of applying
force?
A. Change in the speed of motion
B. Change in the mass of an object
C. Change in the shape of an object
D. Change in the direction of motion
2) A table has a mass of 12 kilograms. If it is brought to the
moon where the gravity is 1/6 that of the earth, what will
be its mass?
A. About 13kg
B. Exactly 12 kg
C. Less than 12 kg
D. Exactly 2 kg
3) Roselle carries a ball to the top of a hill. How can the
potential energy of the ball be changed to kinetic energy?
A. By resting the ball on the top of the hill
B. By letting the ball roll down the hill
C. By burning the ball
D. By exposing the ball to sunlight
4) Suppose that a pair of dry cells is the source of energy of
an iPod. What energy transformations take place in an
iPod?
A. From mechanical to electrical to sound energy
B. From electrical to chemical to sound energy
C. From chemical to mechanical to sound energy
D. From chemical to electrical to sound
5) What is the vector counterpart of speed?
A. Acceleration
B. Distance
C. Displacement
D. Velocity
6) An airplane is flying with a speed of 750 kilometers per
hour. How far will the plane travel after 40 minutes?
A. 300 km
B. 500 km
C. 700 km
D. 3000 km
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7) A speeding bus suddenly stops and the
passengers are thrown forward. Which of the
following concepts explains this?
A. Buoyancy
B. Friction
C. Inertia
D. Potential Energy
8) A body in motion having a zero acceleration
means that the body _________
A. is at rest
B. has a constant velocity
C. is closing down
D. has a negative velocity
9) Which of the following statements is NOT true
about frictional force and the normal force?
A. They are always perpendicular.
B. Increasing the normal force increases the
friction force.
C. The normal force is always directed
upward.
D. The friction force is always directed
opposite to the direction of motion.
10) Which of the following statements is NOT true
about the gravitational force between two objects?
A. It is always attractive.
B. It is proportional to the mass of the two
objects.
C. It is proportional to the distance between
the two objects.
D. It is non-contact force.
11) A pitcher throws a baseball straight up and
catches it as it goes down. Which of the following is
NOT true about the energy transformations that occur
in the ball?
A. Kinetic energy is maximum as the ball
starts moving up.
B. Potential energy is maximum at the top of
the balls flight.
C. The balls kinetic energy in going down is
twice as much as its kinetic energy in going
up.
D. Potential energy is maximum as the ball
is caught down.
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12) Which one of the following physical quantities below 17) A large and a small sphere are released at the same
represents a scalar quantity? time from the same height above the ground.
A) The speed of a car travelling at 100 km/h Which of the following quantities associated
B) The acceleration of an object thrown vertically with the spheres will be the same for both after 1
upward second if frictional effects are ignored?
C) The change in momentum of a rubber all bouncing A) Speed
off the floor B) Potential energy
D) The velocity of an airplane flying at 300 km/h on a C) Momentum
bearing 40O D) Kinetic energy
18) A ball is dropped from the top of the building.
Taking air resistance into account, which best
13) Two birds are flying towards each other at the same
describes the speed of the ball while it is moving
speed. If the first bird is flying at a velocity v , downward?
A) It will decrease.
which of the following correctly represents the
B) It will remain constant.
velocity of the second bird? C) It will increase at a steady rate.
A) v D) Its rate of acceleration will decrease until
the ball moves at a constant speed.
B) v
19) What is the acceleration of a car that maintains a
C) 2v
constant velocity of 300 km/h for 20 seconds?
D) 4v A) 15 m/s2
B) 100 m/s2
14) Jeanne starts going to school from her house. First, walk C) 0 m/s2
north on an 800-m road going to a bus stop, and then the D) 20 m/s2
bus takes her 600 m west going to the school. What is
the displacement of Jeanne when she is at school? 20) A frictional force of 700 N exists between the floor
A) 1400 m and the bottom surface of a stationary box.
B) 1044 m Which of the following forces will start the box
C) 1 km moving?
D) 1.44 km A) 700 N
B) 350 N
15) A car travels from point A to point B in four hours, and then C) 650 N
from point B to Point A in six hours. The road between D) 750 N
point A and point B is perfectly straight, and the distance
between the two points is 240 km. What is the average 21) A man pushes the wall with a force of 400 N
speed of the car in the entire trip? directed to the left. Which force correctly describes the
A) 0 km/h force exerted by the wall on the man?
B) 50 km/h A) 400 N to the leftthan 400 N to the left
C) 60 km/h B) 400 N to the right than 400 N to the right
D) 48 km/h C) less
D) greater
16) A couple of students decided to go bicycle riding one day.
22) A force of 540 N is applied on the head of nail
Kyla rides at a speed of 10 km per hour, while Hazels
which has an area of 27 mm2. How much pressure is
average speed is 20 km per hour. After bicycling for
created by this force?
several hours, both Kyla and Hazel came home and
A) 20 Pa
parked their bicycles exactly where they started. Kylas
B) 20 MPa
average velocity for the entire ride is __________.
C) 20 kPa
A) zero
D) 20 mPa
B) lower than Hazels average velocity
C) higher than Hazels average velocity 23) A person lifts a heavy load to a vertical height of 2.0 m in 3
D) impossible to determine without knowing the actual seconds. If the person had done this more slowly in 6
directions in which they biked

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seconds, the work done on the load would have been A) They form an image that is inverted and
__________. virtual
A) twice as great B) They form an image that is larger than the
B) four times as great object
C) the same C) They form an image that is smaller than
D) half as great the image
D) They form an upright image that has the
24) A blade is projected vertically upward and then returns to same size as the image
the ground. Ignoring all frictional forces, which one of
the following statements about the kinetic energy of the 30) A child walks 5.0 meters north, then 4.0 meters
ball is true? east, and finally 2.0 meters south. What is the
magnitude of the resultant displacement of the
A) The kinetic energy is always equal to the potential child after the entire walk?
energy. A) 1.0 m
B) The kinetic energy is always less than the potential B) 5.0 m
energy. C) 3.0 m
C) The kinetic energy is always more than the potential D) 11.0 m
energy.
D) The sum of the kinetic energy and potential energy
is always constant.

25) A person feels lighter in the swimming pool than in air.

Which of the following concepts explains this
observation?
A) Pascals principle
B) Torricellis Principle
C) Bernoullis Equation
D) Archimedes Principle
26) Upon turning the switch on, four identical lamps that are in
series light up. Which statement correctly describes the
brightness of the lamps?
A) the lamps will glow equally bright
B) the fourth lamp will glow dimmest
C) the first lamp will glow brighter than the other lamps
D) None of the above

27) What is the electric power rating of a circuit component that

has a resistance of 300 Ohms across a 120-Volt source?
A) 12 W
B) 48 W
C) 2 kW
D) 36 kW

28) Which among the following is a vector quantity?

A) Weight
B) Speed
C) Volume
D) Energy

29) Plane mirror are used to check how a person looks.

Why are plane mirrors better used for this
purpose than spherical mirrors?

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