1. A 2.0kg mass has 300J of kinetic energy. What is the speed of the mass?

A. 8.7m/ s B. 12m/ s C. 17 m/ s D. 24m/ s

2. A builder lifts eight slabs from the ground on to the back of a lorry 1.5m
high. The total time taken is 48s and each slab weighs 200N. How much
useful power does the builder produce?
A. 50W B. 400W C. 2400W D. 3200W

3. The input power to a lamp is 6.0W. The lamp wastes 2.7J of energy in 3.0s.
What is the efficiency of the lamp?
A. 0.15 B. 0.45 C. 0.55 D. 0.85

4. A lorry of mass 10 000 kg takes 5000kg of sand to the top of a hill 50m high,
unloads the sand and then returns to the bottom of the hill. The
gravitational field strength is 10N/ kg. What is the overall gain in potential
energy?
A. 250000J B. 750000J C. 2500000J D. 7500000J

5. A crane lifts a weight of 1000N through a vertical height of 30m. It uses 60

000J of energy. What is the efficiency of the crane?
A. 20% B. 30% C. 50% D. 200%

6. The efficiency of an electrical generator is 65%. The energy input to the

generator is 12kJ. What is the useful energy output?
A. 4.2kJ B. 5.4kJ C. 7.8kJ D. 780kJ
7. A child of mass 30 kg is moving at a speed of 4.0m/ s when she reaches the
bottom of a slide. What is her kinetic energy?
A. 60J B. 120J C. 240J D. 480J
 8. A child slides down a slide.

The weight of the child is 250N. The height of the slide is 7.0m. The work done
against friction as the child travels down the slide is 1300J. What is the change in
gravitational potential energy and what is the final kinetic energy of the child?

9. A block of weight W rests on a side of area A. The gravitational field

strength is g. What is the pressure exerted on the ground due to the block?
W Wg W
A. WA B. A C. A
D. g

10.A small table weighing 40N stands on four legs, each having an area of
0.001m 2 . What is the pressure of the table on the floor?
A. 400N/m2 B. 1000N/m2 C. 10 000N/m2 D. 40 000N/m2
 11.The diagram shows a simple model of the braking system of a car. A force
of 20N is applied to piston P. As a result, there is a force F on piston Q.

Piston P has an area of 5.0cm2 and piston Q has an area of 25cm2 . What is the
force F?

A. 4.0N B. 20N C. 100N D. 500N

12.The diagrams show liquids in containers. Which column of liquid exerts the
greatest pressure on the base of its container?

13.A block of weight 900N has rectangular faces. The diagram shows the
lengths of the sides.

The block can rest on any of its faces. What is the minimum pressure that the
block can exert on the ground when resting on one of its faces?

A. 900Pa B. 4500Pa C. 6000Pa D. 7500Pa

 14.A brick of weight 80N stands upright on the ground as shown.

What is the pressure it exerts on the ground?

A. 0.080N/ cm2 B. 0.40N/ cm2 C. 0.80N/ cm2 D.

1.6N/ cm2

15.The diagram shows a mercury manometer connected to a gas container.

The density of mercury is 13600kg/ m 3 . The gravitational field strength g is 10N/

kg. What is the pressure difference between the gas in the container and the
atmosphere?

A. 27200Pa B. 40800Pa C. 54400Pa D. 81600Pa

16.A garden table weighs 40N and has a top surface of area 2m2 . It is raining
and the rain produces a pressure of 4N/ m 2 on the table. What is the force
exerted by the table on the ground?
A. 20N B. 32N C. 42N D. 48N
 17.A man pulls a sledge of mass 25kg across level ground with a horizontal
force of 60N. A constant force of friction of 20N acts on the sledge. What is
the acceleration of the sledge?
A. 0.63m/s2 B. 1.6m/ s 2 C. 2.4 m/ s 2 D. 3.2 m/ s 2

18.Four forces act at a point as shown

What is the size of the resultant force?

A. 0N B. 4N C. 6N D. 8N

19.A metal ball of mass 0.30kg and weight 3.0N is held so that it is below the
surface of oil. It experiences an upwards force of 0.30N.

When the ball is released, what is its initial acceleration?

A. 1.0m/ s 2 B. 9.0 m/ s 2 C. 10m/ s 2 D. 11m/ s 2

 20.An apple of mass 0.15kg and weight 1.5N falls from a tree. At one point
during its fall, the air resistance on the apple is 0.60N upwards. What is the
acceleration of the apple at this point?
A. 4.0 m/ s 2 B. 6.0 m/ s 2 C. 10m/ s 2
D. 14m/ s 2

21.In which situation is the resultant force on the body equal to zero?
A. a car turning a corner at constant speed
B. a rock falling freely on the Moon C
C. a train going up a straight hill at constant speed in a straight line D
D. an aircraft accelerating along a runway in a straight line

22.The distance travelled by a car is increasing uniformly as it is driven along a

straight road up a hill.

Which quantity for the car is constant but not zero

A. acceleration B
B. gravitational potential energy C
C. kinetic energy D
D. resultant force

23. A student walks at a constant speed. He takes 100 s to walk 160 paces. The
length of each pace is 0.80 m. How far does the student walk in 50s?
A. 64m B. 80m C. 128m D. 256m

24. A car begins to move. It speeds up until it reaches a constant speed. It

continues to travel at this constant speed for the rest of the journey. What
happens to the acceleration and what happens to the velocity of the car during
the journey?

A. Both the acceleration and the velocity change.

B. Only the acceleration changes.

C. Only the velocity changes.

D. Neither the acceleration nor the velocity changes.

25. An object travels at a constant speed of 10m/ s for 10s. During the next 5s, it
accelerates uniformly to 20m/ s.

What is the total distance travelled by the object?

A. 150m
B. 175m
C. 200m
D. 300m

26. An object falls from rest through the air and the air resistance on it increases.
The object reaches terminal velocity. Which quantity decreases until its terminal
velocity is reached?

A. acceleration B. kinetic energy C. speed D. weight

27. An object falls from rest through the air. Its velocity increases until it reaches
terminal velocity. Which quantity increases until its terminal velocity is reached?

A. acceleration B. air resistance C. resultant force D. weight

28. The speed-time graph for a falling skydiver is shown below. As he falls, the
skydiver spreads out his arms and legs and then opens his parachute. Which part
of the graph shows the skydiver falling with terminal velocity?

29. On the Earth, the gravitational field strength is 10 N/kg. On the Moon, the
gravitational field strength is 1.6 N/kg. If an object has a weight of 50 N on Earth,
what is its weight on the Moon?

A. 1.6 N B. 5.0 N C. 8.0 N D. 80 N

30.Ten identical steel balls, each of mass 27 g, are immersed in a measuring

cylinder containing 20 cm3 of water. The reading of the water level rises to
50 cm3 . What is the density of the steel?
A. 0.90 g/cm3 B. 8.1 g/cm3 C. 9.0 g/cm3 D. 13.5 g/cm3

31.A measuring cylinder contains 118 cm3 of water. When a small object is
fully immersed in the water, the reading goes up to 132cm3 . The object
has a mass of 42g. What is the density of the object?
A. 42 14 g/ cm3 B. 14 42 g/ cm3 C. 118 42 g/ cm3 D. 42132 g/ cm3
 32.A room measures 4.0m × 3.0 m × 2.0m. The density of the air in the room is
1.3kg/ m 3 . What is the mass of air in the room?
A. 0.054kg B. 18kg C. 24kg D. 31kg

33.A block of metal is taken from the Earth to the Moon. Which property of
the block changes?
A. Density B. mass C. volume D. weight

34.A body of mass 10 kg falling freely in the gravitational field close to the
Moon’s surface has an acceleration of 1.6m/ s 2 . What is the gravitational
field strength on the Moon?
A. 0N/ kg B. 1.6N/ kg C. 10N/ kg D. 16N/ kg

35.A car is designed to be stable. To achieve good stability, where is the centre
of mass of the car?
A. above the front wheels B. above the rear wheels

C. as high in the car as possible D. as low in the car as possible

36.A uniform horizontal beam, pivoted at its right-hand end, is in equilibrium.

A force of 60N acts vertically upwards on the beam as shown.

What is the weight of the beam?

A. 36N B. 40N C. 90N D. 100N

 37.A uniform beam is pivoted at its centre. Two weights are placed on the
beam in the positions shown and the beam is balanced by an upward force
F.

What is the size of F?

A. 6N B. 12N C. 30N D. 60N

38.The diagram shows a boy of weight 500N sitting on a see-saw. He sits 2.0m
from the pivot.

What is the force F needed to balance the see-saw?

A. 250N B. 750N C. 1000N D. 3000N

39.What affects the stability of an object?

A. only its base area and the location of its centre of mass
B. only its weight and its base area
C. only the location of its centre of mass
D. only its weight
40.How can you improve your knowledge of physics?
A. Spend more time in physics books.
B. Attend lectures regularly and attentively.
C. Taking extra class on physics.
D. I’m lost.