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2018 OAPT Grade 11 Physics Contest : Answer Key

1. Given the following position-time graph where the y-axis represents the height of an object in meters and the x-axis represents time in seconds, the corresponding
velocity-time graph for the object would be:

A. a horizontal line above the x-axis

B. a horizontal line below the x-axis
C. a positively sloped line with an x-intercept of 3
D. a negatively sloped line with an x-intercept of 0
E. a negatively sloped line with an x-intercept of 3
✓

2. An object is thrown vertically upward with an initial speed of 9.8 m/s.

If it experiences acceleration due to gravity of 9.8 m/s2 [down], what is the object's velocity 1.0 s after it is thrown?

A. 0 m/s
✓ B. 9.8 m/s [down] C. 9.8 m/s [up] D. 19.6 m/s [up] E. 1.0 m/s [up]

3. Alex and Barry wish to conduct a walking challenge. Alex and Barry leave their homes at sunrise, each moving at a constant speed towards the other person’s
home. They pass each other at 11:30 a.m. without stopping.
If Alex arrives at Barry’s house at 3:30 p.m. and Barry arrives at Alex’s house at 8:30 p.m., then when was sunrise?

A. 5:00 a.m. B. 5:30 a.m.

✓ C. 6:00 a.m. D. 6:30 a.m. E. 7:00 a.m.

4. Three identical projectiles are launched from the same point over level ground with initial velocities VA, VB, and VC. The trajectories of the projectiles are shown
below.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are true?

i. projectile C is in the air the longest

ii. all three projectiles have the same impact (final) velocity
iii. VA < VB < VC

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A. i B. ii C. iii
✓ D. i and ii E. i and iii

5. You notice a package on the ground and want to help by kicking it back into its delivery truck. At the time you kick the package with an velocity of 22 m/s at an
angle of 23 degrees above the horizontal, the truck is 8.5 m away and moving with a constant speed of 15 m/s along the flat road.
Find the time for the package to strike the back of the truck.

A. 0.6 s B. 1.8 s C. 1.2 s D. 2.2 s E. 1.6 s

✓

6. The normal force B and gravitational force D acting on a moving object are balanced.
If force C on the object is in the opposite direction (and less than) the magnitude of the force A, which statement about the object’s motion is true?
Assume no additional forces are acting on the object.

A. It could be speeding up or slowing down.

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B. It must be slowing down.
C. It must be speeding up.
D. It could be moving with uniform motion.
E. It could be stationary.

7. A 10 kg aluminum block rests on a flat wood table. The coefficient of static friction between wood and aluminum is 0.31.
What would be the force of static friction if a force of 5.0 N [left] is applied to the block?

A. 5.0 N [right]
✓ B. 30 N [right] C. 25 N [right] D. 35 N [left] E. 0 N

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8. A cat of mass m is sitting at rest on a horizontal table.
Which of the following statements indicates the correct Newton's 3rd Law force pair?

A. The weight of the cat and the gravitational force exerted by the cat on the earth
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B. The gravitational force exerted by the table on the cat and the normal force exerted by the cat on the table
C. The gravitational force exerted by the cat on the earth and the normal force exerted by the table on the cat
D. The weight of the cat and the normal force exerted by the table on the cat
E. Not enough information is given

9. A force is applied to a system of varying masses and massless strings as shown below. The entire system moves to the right with negligible friction.
Rank the magnitude of tensions in increasing order of size.

A. T3 > T2 = T1
B. T3 > T2 > T1
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C. T3 = T2 = T1
D. T1 > T3 > T2
E. T1 > T2 > T3

10. The elevator shown in the figure below is descending with an acceleration of 2 m/s2. The mass of block A is 0.5 kg.
What force is exerted by block A on block B?

A. 1 N [down] B. 2 N [down] C. 3 N [down] D. 4 N [down]

✓ E. 5 N [down]

11. A block of mass m is pushed momentarily along a horizontal surface with an initial speed, v0, meters per second.
If μ is the coefficient of kinetic friction between the mass and the surface, then the block comes to rest after a time:

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A. B.
✓ C. D. E.

12. A car is parked on a hill. The parking brake fails causing the car to start rolling down the hill, with increasing speed. At the bottom of the hill, it rolls for another
30 m before stopping on its own.
Which of the following is the best description of the energy changes that happened for this car-road-earth system?

A. kinetic energy was turned into gravitational potential energy

B. kinetic energy was turned into electromagnetic energy and then into thermal (heat) energy
C. gravitational potential energy was turned into kinetic energy and then into thermal (heat) energy
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D. gravitational potential energy was turned into thermal (heat) energy and then into kinetic energy
E. kinetic energy was turned into gravitational potential energy and then into thermal (heat) energy

13. A child bouncing on a trampoline launches himself upward at an initial speed of 8.0 m/s.
What is his speed when he reaches half his maximum height?
You can ignore air resistance.

A. 2.8 m/s B. 4.0 m/s C. 8.0 m/s D. 5.7 m/s

✓ E. 32 m/s

14. A ball is launched from the same height repeatedly with the same initial speed Vo, but in different directions A, B, and C as shown in the diagram. It reaches the
ground with speeds VA, VB, and VC respectively.
Which of the following is true about these speeds?

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A. VA = VB = VC
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B. VA > VB > VC
C. VA < VB < VC
D. Two of the answers can be correct
E. Not enough information is provided to answer the question

15. A pendulum of length L meters is raised to point P. When the bob of the pendulum reaches point Q, it has lost 10% of its total mechanical energy due to frictional
effects.
What is the speed of the bob at point Q?

A. B.
✓ C. D. E.

16. Microwave A could heat up a cup of water by 20°C in a time of 20 s. Microwave B could heat the same cup of water by 30°C in 10 s.
How many times more efficient is Microwave B than A, assuming they use the same power?

A. 2 times B. 1.5 times C. 4 times D. 5 times E. 3 times

✓

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17. This question was not included in the 2018 contest.

A. B. C. D. E.

18. Two incident pulses are sent toward each other from opposite ends of the same string. At some instant the resultant waveform (below) is seen.
Which were the two incident wave pulses?

A. 1 & 3 B. 2 & 4 C. 2 & 2 D. 1 & 4

✓ E. 3 & 4

19. A grandfather clock, which uses a pendulum to keep time, is running slow.
What could be done to correct this?

A. Increase the mass at the end of the pendulum

B. Decrease the amplitude of the pendulum’s swing
C. Increase the length of the pendulum
D. Decrease the length of the pendulum
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E. Increase the amplitude of the pendulum’s swing

20. A guitar string is stretched as shown from point A to G. Equal intervals are marked off by B, C, D, E and F. Folded pieces of paper are placed in locations D, E
and F. The string is pinched at C and plucked at B.
What will likely happen to the paper pieces?

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A. All of the paper pieces will jump off

B. None of the paper pieces will jump off
C. The paper piece at E jumps off
D. The paper pieces at D and F jump off
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E. The paper piece at E and F jump off

21. A trumpet player was playing in the Santa Claus parade when the temperature was -14°C. A friend recorded the song and put it on YouTube.
When they listened to the recording, the trumpet player noticed that the pitch was:

A. lower than normal because sound travels faster in cold air

B. higher than normal because sound travels faster in cold air
C. lower than normal because sound travels slower in cold air
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D. higher than normal because sound travels slower in cold air
E. the same because temperature does not affect pitch

22. A sonometer is shown in the picture below. It consists of a string held fixed at one end and a hanging mass at the other end in order to create constant tension in a
string. The vibrating length of the string can be varied by moving the little bridge in the middle.
In an experiment with a sonometer, a tuning fork of frequency 256 Hz resonates with a length of string of 25.0 cm. A second tuning fork resonates with a length
of string of 16.0 cm.
Given that the tension of the string in the sonometer remains constant, then what was the frequency of the second tuning fork?

A. 512 Hz B. 164 Hz C. 320 Hz D. 128 Hz E. 400 Hz

✓

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23. A musician wants to create an instrument with strings to play very low notes.
The strings on the instrument should be:

A. short, thin, low tension

B. short, thin, high tension
C. long, thin, high tension
D. short, thick, high tension
E. long, thick, low tension
✓

24. If you rub a balloon in your hair it becomes negatively charged.

Why will this balloon attract a neutral balloon?

A. Neutral charges attract both positive and negative charges.

B. Positive charges attract more strongly than negatives repel.
C. Positive charges will jump from your hair to the neutral balloon.
D. Negative charges will jump from the neutral balloon to your hair.
E. The charged balloon causes a charge separation in the neutral balloon.
✓

25. Two identical conducting spheres are fastened to electrically insulated stands. The charge on one of the spheres is greater than the charge on the other.
Which of the answers best represents the magnitude and direction of the electrostatic forces on each of the charged spheres?
Note: the vectors are drawn to scale.

A. B. C. D. E. None of these diagrams are

correct.

26. Which circuit is not equivalent to the rest?

A. B. C. D. E. All of the circuits are equivalent

to each other.

27. Consider the following circuit diagram in which all bulbs are the same and the cells are the same.
Which statement is correct?

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A. Bulb A is dimmer than bulbs B and C

B. Bulb A is brighter than bulbs B and C
C. All the bulbs have the same brightness
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D. None of the bulbs light up
E. Bulb A will burn out

28. Which of the following statements regarding the series–parallel resistor circuit below is INCORRECT?

i) Among all the resistors, the 3 ohm resistor has the largest current running through it.
ii) The voltage drop across the 4 ohm resistor is twice the voltage drop across the 6 ohm resistor.
iii) The total power dissipated in the circuit is 54 watts.

A. i only
✓ B. ii only C. iii only D. ii and iii only E. i, ii and iii

29. The 2017 Nobel Prize was shared between Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss for "decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation
of gravitational waves".
The detector used laser light to detect incredibly tiny changes in length of its 4-km long tunnels.
It did this by observing changes in the __________ of the light.

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A. refraction B. interference
✓ C. Doppler shift D. dispersion E. frequency

30. This past summer allowed many people in North America an opportunity to view a solar eclipse. This occurs when the Moon gets in between the viewer and the
Sun.
These are rare events because:

A. the Sun is only visible during the day

B. the Sun is so much farther away than the Moon
C. the Moon’s orbit is tilted relative to the Earth’s orbit
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D. the Moon’s orbit is tilted relative to the Sun’s orbit
E. the Moon’s orbit is much smaller than the Earth’s orbit

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