1. A baseball is pitched very fast. Another b.

The small truck

baseball of equal mass is pitched very c. Both have the same momentum
slowly. Which of the following statements
are true? 5. Which of the following is the number of
a. The fast-moving baseball is harder to cycles or vibrations per unit of time?
stop because it has more a. Amplitude c. Frequency
momentum. b. Period d. Revolution
b. The slow-moving baseball is harder to 6. Which has more inertia, a large truck
stop because it has more moving at 60 miles per hour or a large
momentum. truck moving at 20 miles per hour?
c. The fast-moving baseball is easier to a. The fast truck
stop because it has more b. The slow truck
momentum. c. Both have the same inertia
d. The slow-moving baseball is easier to 7. Which has more inertia, a large truck
stop because it has more momentum. moving at 60 miles per hour or a small car
moving at 60 miles per hour?
2. What velocity must a 1340 kg car have in a. The large truck
order to have the same momentum as a b. The small car
2680 kg truck traveling at a velocity of 15 c. Both have the same inertia
m/s to the west?
a. 60 m/s to the west
b. 30 m/s to the west 8. **A 1,000 kg car moving at 10 m/s rear
c. 60 m/s to the east
ends a 500 kg car moving the same
d. 30 m/s to the east
direction at 2 m/s. The cars stick
together afterward. What is the total
3. A 15 kg shopping cart moving at a
momentum of the system after the
velocity of 1m/s collides with a store wall
collision?
and stops. The momentum of the
a. 11,000 kg*m/s
shopping cart
b. 9,000 kg*m/s
a. Increases
c. 12 kg*m/s
b. Remains the same
d. impossible to determine
c. Decreases
d. Is conserved
9. What are the units for momentum?
a. Kg * m/s2
4. Which has more momentum, a large truck
b. Kg * m/s
moving at 60 miles per hour or a small car
c. Kg * m2/s2
moving at 60 miles per hour?
d. Kg * m2/s
a. The large truck

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 a. Air

10. **The law of conservation of b. Water

c. Vacuum
momentum states that
d. steel
a. the total initial momentum of all
objects interacting with one
14. The frequency ranges at which a
another does not equal the total
human can hear are:
final momentum.
a. 0 Hz and 20,000 Hz
b. the total momentum of all objects
b. 100 Hz and 100,000 Hz
interacting with one another is zero.
c. 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz
c. the total momentum of all objects
d. Humans don’t hear frequencies,
interacting with one another
they only hear pitches
remains constant regardless of the
nature of the forces between the
15. A pendulum has a frequency of 0.01
objects.
Hz. What is the pendulum’s period?
a. 100 s
11. **Two skaters stand facing each other.
b. 0.01 s
One skater’s mass is 60 kg, and the c. 50 s
other’s mass is 72 kg. If the skaters d. 200 s
push away from each other without
spinning, 16. What happens to pitch when the
a. the 60 kg skater travels at a lower momentum. frequency of a sound wave increases?
b. their momenta are equal but opposite. a. Pitch decreases when frequency
c. their total momentum doubles. increases.
d. their total momentum decreases. b. Pitch increases when frequency
increases.
12. Which of the following has the greatest c. Pitch and frequency are not
momentum? related.
a. truck with a mass of 2155 kg moving at d. It gets louder.
a velocity of 32 m/s
b. car with a mass of 1110 kg moving at 17. Which of the following is the time it
a velocity of 38 m/s takes to complete a cycle of motion?
c. truck with a mass of 5120 kg moving at a. Amplitude c. Frequency
a velocity of 11 m/s b. Period d. Revolution
d. car with a mass of 1424 kg moving at
a velocity of 43 m/s 18. If the frequency of a wave is
increased, the velocity will _____ and
13. Sound Waves cannot travel in the wavelength will ____.

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 a. Remain the same; increase d. both northward and southward
b. Remain the same; decrease
c. Increase; remain the same
d. Increase; increase

19. How are frequency and period related

23. The wavelength of the wave in the
in waves?
diagram above is given by letter
a. They are directly related.
______.
b. They are inversely related.
c. They both measure the time per
The amplitude of the wave in the
cycle.
diagram above is given by letter _____
d. They both measure the number of
cycles per unit of time.
24. **While playing with some tuning forks

20. Which of the following is the region of a you notice that if you hit one of the

longitudinal wave in which the density tuning forks against a table it makes a

and pressure are greater than normal? high pitched sound. If you want to get

a. crest c. trough a lower pitched sound, which tuning

b. Rarefaction d. Compression fork should you choose and why?

a. You should reach for a bigger

21. In the diagram below, indicate the tuning fork because it will have a

interval that represents one full lower natural frequency.

wavelength. b. You should reach for a bigger

a. A to B c. A to D tuning fork because it will have a

b. A to C d. A to E higher natural frequency.

c. You should reach for a smaller
tuning fork because it will have a
lower natural frequency.
d. You should reach for a smaller
22. A transverse wave is transporting energy
tuning fork because it will have a
from east to west. The particles of the
higher natural frequency.
medium will move_____.
a. Toward the west only
25. A characteristic common to sound
b. both eastward and westward
waves and water waves is that they
c. toward the south only
a. are longitudinal
b. are transverse
c. transfer energy
d. travel in a vacuum

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 b. Destructive interference
c. Constructive diffraction
26. While making waves on a slinky, you
d. Destructive diffraction
make 3 waves per second and notice
that each wave is about 1.5 meters
30. Which is an example of an
long. What is the speed of the waves?
electromagnetic wave?
a. water wave
a. 2 m/s b. S-wave
b. 4.5 m/s c. sound wave
c. 0.5 m/s d. light wave
d. 9 m/s

27. A sound wave with a small amplitude and 31. When no kinetic energy is lost,
a long wavelength would be collision is said to be
a. High pitched and loud
A. inelastic
b. High pitched and quiet
B. perfectly elastic
c. Low pitched and loud C. elastic
d. Low pitched and quiet D. both a and b

32. Inelastic collision is collision in which

kinetic energy is

A. conserved
28. Which of the following is a formula for the B. not conserved
speed of a wave? C. increases
a. v= frequency / wavelength D. decreases
b. v= frequency * wavelength
c. v= time / distance
d. v= time * distance

33. Elastic collision is collision in which

29. **While playing with a slinky, two kinetic energy is
students make waves on opposite
A. conserved
sides of the slinky. They notice that the
B. not conserved
waves seem to cancel out and C. increases
disappear for an instant when the D. decreases
waves overlap. This is an example of
a. Constructive interference

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 34. At the beach, 12 waves pass you in 60 seconds.
a. Calculate the period of the waves.

b. Calculate the frequency of the waves.

35. While outside for gym class, you notice that you hear an echo off the school
building when you shout while standing 60 meters away. You get a
stopwatch and measure that the echo arrives 0.35 seconds after you shout.
What is the speed of sound?

36. How much momentum does a 55 kg alligator swimming at 2.5 meters per
second have?

37. A 15.0 kg medicine ball is thrown at a velocity of 10.0 m/s to a 60.0 kg person
who is a rest on ice. The person catches the ball and immediately slides
across the ice. Assume that momentum is conserved and there is no friction.
Calculate the velocity of the person AND THE BALL.

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 38. A 3 kg cart is moving along when it strikes a 2 kg cart (initially at rest). The
velocity of the two-cart combination after the collision is 4 m/s. Calculate the
velocity of the 3 kg cart before the collision.

39. A 2Kg toy cart moves to the right with a speed of 5m/s while a 10kg toy
moves to the left with 1m/s. The collide and both of them stop.
Is this an elastic or inelastic collision? Use math to prove it.

40. An elastic collision occurs in one dimension, in which a 10 kg block traveling

at 5 m/s collides with a 5 kg block traveling at 3 m/s in the same direction.
What are the velocities of the two blocks immediately after the collision?

What is the Kinetic Energy of the system before the collision? What is the KE after the collision?

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