Saint Paul University Philippines

Tuguegarao City
SCHOOL OF ARTS, SCIENCES, and TEACHER EDUCATION
Physical Science
FINAL Exam
Name: _______________________________________________________ Yr. & Sec.: _______________ Date: ____________

I. Multiple Choice: Choose the best answer by encircling the letter of your of choice.
1. Energy of a body because of its position (e.g., in a gravitational field)
a. Work
b. Power
c. Energy
d. Potential energy
2. Enables a system to do work.
a. Work
b. Power
c. Energy
d. Potential energy
3. Energy of a body that is moving, disregarding any energy due to position.
a. Work
b. Power
c. Energy
d. Kinetic energy
4. Work done per unit time.
a. Work
b. Power
c. Energy
d. Potential energy
5. Force multplied by distance moved by the object upon which the force is acting.
a. Work
b. Power
c. Energy
d. Potential energy
6. Work done on an object is equal to the change in kinetic energy of the object.
a. Work
b. Power
c. Energy
d. Work-energy theorem
7. A device that increases, decreases, or changes the direction of a force.
a. Conservation of energy
b. Machine
c. Conservation of energy for machines
d. Efficiency
8. Energy can not be created or destroyed by any physical entity.
a. Work-energy theorem
b. Conservation of energy
c. Machine
d. Conservation of energy for machines
9. Useful work output divided by total energy (or work) input into a machine.
a. Work-energy theorem
b. Conservation of energy
c. Conservation of energy for machines
d. Efficiency
10. Work output by a machine can not exceed the work input into the machine.
a. Conservation of energy
b. Machine
c. Conservation of energy for machines
d. Efficiency
11. You accelerate. The speed of your car doubles. Which of the following items quadruples as a result?
a. momentum
 b. potential energy
c. acceleration
d. kinetic energy
e. all of these
f. none of these
12. Two railroad cars move towards each other at 10 m/s. They collide and bounce backward at 20 m/s. This event violates
conservation of
a. mass
b. acceleration
c. kinetic energy
d. potential energy
e. collisions
f. none of these
g. all of these
13. A certain car has momentum. It therefore must also have
a. acceleration
b. kinetic energy
c. force
d. potential energy
e. impulse
f. none of these
g. all of these
14. A 100 Newton force is used to push a table by 5 meters. The amount of work done on the table is
a. 5 J
b. 100 J
c. 0 J
d. 500 J
e. 1000 J
15. A meteor moving at 30 m/s collides with a twice-as-massive meteor and sticks to it. After the collision, the combined meteors
have a kinetic energy that is ___ as much as the total kinetic energy before the collision.
a. the same
b. twice
c. one third
d. three quarters
e. two thirds
f. not enough information
16. An oval path that a satellite follows as it orbits the earth.
a. Projectile
b. Parabola
c. Satellite
d. Ellipse
e. Escape speed
17. A projectile must reach this speed to escape the gravitational pull of the earth.
a. Projectile
b. Parabola
c. Satellite
d. Ellipse
e. Escape speed
18. A small body that orbits a larger celestial body; e.g., the moon orbiting the earth.
a. Projectile
b. Parabola
c. Satellite
d. Ellipse
e. Escape speed
19. An object that is moving under the influence of gravity.
a. Projectile
b. Parabola
c. Satellite
d. Ellipse
e. Escape speed
20. A curved path that a projectile follows when under only the influence of gravity (near the earth).
 a. Projectile
b. Parabola
c. Satellite
d. Ellipse
e. Escape speed
21. A ball is thrown horizontally. After it has left the thrower's hand, what is the acceleration that it experiences ?
a. an acceleration of - 1 g horizontally
b. an acceleration of + 1 g horizontally
c. 1 g downward
d. 1 g upward
e. no acceleration
22. A pitcher drops a ball. At the same instant, another ball is thrown at an angle of 5 degrees below the horizontal. Which ball
will hit the ground first ?
a. the dropped ball
b. the thrown ball
c. both reach at the same time
d. the dropped ball turns into a banana and flies away
23. A meteor is captured by earth's gravitational field and goes into elliptical orbit around the earth. Compared to when the
meteor is far from the earth, its speed when it is close to the earth is
a. the same
b. faster
c. slower
d. not enough information
e. depends on whether today is Tuesday or Thursday
24. A student throws a ball horizontally from the top of a 20 meter tall building. The ball hits the ground 20 m from the building.
What was the students pitching speed?
a. 20 m/s
b. 1 m/s
c. 5 m/s
d. 10 m/s
e. not enough information
25. What keeps the moon from falling?
a. earth's gravity is zero near the moon
b. earth's gravity is balanced by the sun's gravity
c. strings, smoke and mirrors
d. magnetic forces
e. electrical forces
f. the moon is falling around the earth
26. A quantity such as mass or speed that has magnitude but no direction.
a. Vector
b. Vector quantity
c. Scalar quantity ===============
d. Resultant
27. A quantity such as weight or velocity that has magnitude as well as direction.
a. Vector
b. Vector quantity ===============
c. Scalar quantity
d. Resultant
28. An arrow drawn to represent a vector quanitity. The length of the arrow is proportional to the magnitude of the vector
quantity.
a. Vector ===============
b. Vector quantity
c. Scalar quantity
d. Resultant
29. The resulting vector when two or more vectors are added.
a. Vector
b. Vector quantity
c. Scalar quantity
d. Resultant ===============
30. A pebble flies up and hits the windshield of a truck travelling at 80 km/hr. The force of the impact is
a. greater on the pebble
 b. lesser on the pebble
c. greater on the pebble than on the windshield, if the pebble shatters
d. greater on the windshield than on the pebble, if the windshield shatters
e. the same on pebble and on the windshield
f. none of the above
31. As a meteor falls towards earth, it is attracted by earth's gravity. What is the reaction to this force?
a. air resistance
b. the meteor's inertia
c. the earth's inertia
d. the earth's gravity
e. earth is attracted by the meteor's gravity
f. the meteor is attracted by all the particles in the universe
g. earth is attracted by all the particles in the universe
32. A person who has a mass of 100 kg is attracted to the earth by a force of about 1000 N. The force with which this person
attracts the earth is
a. zero
b. much smaller
c. 10 N
d. 100 N
e. 500 N
f. 1000 N
g. 2000 N
h. none of the above
33. Two people are in a tug-of-war. Each person pulls the rope with a force of 500 N. What is the tension in the rope?
a. 1000 N
b. zero
c. 250 N
d. 500 N
e. depends on the diameter of the rope
f. none of the above
34. Every force has an equal and opposite reaction. A force and its reaction
a. cancel each other
b. are two interactions
c. are parts of a single interaction
d. have double the effect compared to a force without its reaction
e. none of the above
35. The force of gravity acting on a 100 kg person is ___ compared to the force of gravity on a 1 kg book
a. 4 times larger
b. the same
c. double
d. zero
e. 10 times larger
f. 100 times larger
g. lower
h. none of the above
36. There is only one force acting on an object. For the object to travel at constant velocity, this force must be
a. a constant non-zero value
b. a varying non-zero value
c. a constant zero value
d. a positive value
e. a negative value
f. none of the above
37. An object's mass is increasing while its acceleration is constant. The force applied to the object must
a. be increasing
b. be decreasing
c. stay the same
d. increase and then decrease
e. decrease and then increase
f. none of the above
38. An object is moving in a circle with constant speed. The object has
a. a constant velocity
 b. zero acceleration
c. a constant acceleration
d. zero velocity
e. no forces acting on it
f. no net force acting on
g. changing velocity but constant acceleration
h. changing velocity and acceleration
39. A man weighs 900 N, and is standing with his feet across three bathroom scales so his weight is equally shared among the
three scales. The reading on each scale is
a. 900 N
b. 2700 N
c. 300 N
d. 90 N
e. 30 N
f. none of the above
40. How fast an object is moving, and in what direction.
a. Speed
b. Velocity
c. Acceleration
d. Free fall
41. How fast an object is moving, without consideration of direction.
a. Speed
b. Velocity
c. Acceleration
d. Free fall
42. An object is falling under the influence of gravity, and with no air-resistance.
a. Speed
b. Velocity
c. Acceleration
d. Free fall
43. The rate at which velocity is changing with time.
a. Speed
b. Velocity
c. Acceleration
d. Free fall
44. A freely falling object started from rest. 2 seconds later, its speed is about
a. 5 m/s
b. 10 m/s
c. 15 m/s
d. 20 m/s
e. 25 m/s
f. 30 m/s
g. 35 m/s
45. A base ball is hit straight up into the air at a speed of 20 m/s. How long does it take to reach the high-point in its trajectory.
a. 1/2 seconds
b. 1 second
c. 2 seconds
d. 4 seconds
e. 5 seconds
f. 10 seconds
g. 20 seconds
46. Galileo used inclined planes to ____ the effective acceleration (of a rolling cylinder or ball) compared to earth's gravity
a. increase
b. stop
c. decrease
d. keep the same
e. none of the above
f. all of the above
47. A baseball is hit vertically upward at 30 m/s. One second later its speed is about ____ vertically upward.
a. 30 m/s
b. 35 m/s
 c. 40 m/s
d. 25 m/s
e. 20 m/s
f. 15 m/s
g. 10 m/s
h. 0 m/s
48. A ball is thrown upwards and caught once it comes back down. The speed of the ball as it returns and is caught is ___ if there
is air resistance compared to if there were no air resistance.
a. greater
b. the same
c. double
d. zero
e. infinite
f. lower
g. none of the above
49. If the object is in equilibrium, the sum of all the forces acting on the object is zero.
a. Inertia
b. Force
c. Mechanical Equilibrium
d. Equilibrium rule
50. A push or a pull on an object.
a. Inertia
b. Force
c. Mechanical Equilibrium
d. Equilibrium rule
51. The tendency of objects to resist changes in motion.
a. Inertia
b. Force
c. Mechanical Equilibrium
d. Equilibrium rule
52. An object is in a state where there is no change in motion.
a. Inertia
b. Force
c. Mechanical Equilibrium
d. Equilibrium rule
53. An object falls out of an airplane, and falls freely downward. Its
a. mass increases
b. acceleration increases
c. velocity increases
d. gravity increases
e. mass decreases
f. velocity decreases
g. acceleration decreases
54. You brake suddenly. The passengers in your car lurch forward. This demonstrates
a. gravity
b. mass
c. weight
d. length
e. good driving
f. inertia
g. that a leprechaun was crossing the road
55. A truck is travelling at 10 m/s. A package drops off the truck. Neglecting air resistance, as the package hits the ground, its
horizontal speed is
a. 0 m/s
b. 10 m/s
c. 20 m/s
d. depends on the height of the truck
e. depends on the weight of the package
f. depends on the color of the package
g. 100 m/s
 56. A truck is decelerating. A package is dropped from the midpoint of the ceiling of the truck's storage compartment. The
package hits the floor
a. immediately beneath the midpoint of the ceiling
b. closer to the back of the truck than the midpoint
c. closer to the front of the truck than the midpoint
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
57. A truck is travelling at 10 m/s. A package drops off the truck. Neglecting air resistance, as the package hits the ground, its
horizontal speed is
a. 0 m/s
b. 10 m/s
c. 20 m/s
d. depends on the height of the truck
e. depends on the weight of the package
f. depends on the color of the package
g. 100 m/s
58. A truck is decelerating. A package is dropped from the midpoint of the ceiling of the truck's storage compartment. The
package hits the floor
a. immediately beneath the midpoint of the ceiling
b. closer to the back of the truck than the midpoint
c. closer to the front of the truck than the midpoint
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
59. You tie a rock to a string and whirl it in a horizontal circle. The string breaks. In the absence of gravity, the rock
a. travels in a circle
b. falls in a straight line down to the earth
c. flies in a straight line vertically up into the air
d. travels in a straight line horizontally away from you
e. falls in a parabola to the earth
f. immediately stops moving
60. A freely falling object started from rest. 2 seconds later, its speed is about
a. 5 m/s
b. 10 m/s
c. 15 m/s
d. 20 m/s
e. 25 m/s
II. Problem-Solving and Essay (10 pts each)
1. A person pulls an 80 kg crate 20 m across a level floor using a rope that is 30 degrees above the horizontal. The person
exerts a force of 150 N on the rope. How much work is done.
2. A loaded elevator has a total mass of 3000 kg and it is lifted to a height of 200 m in a time of 1 min. What is the average
power? Express your answer in (a) hp and (b) kW.
3. Assuming a body at rest with a mass of 10 kg is pulled along the ground by force of 75N directed 30 degrees above the
horizontal, the force is applied for 8s, what is the work done by the applied force?
4. A golf ball and a ping-pong ball are dropped in a vacuum chamber. When they have fallen half-way to the bottom, (a)
how do their speeds compare? (b) Their kinetic energies? (c) Their potential energies?(for 10 points)

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