2 Summative Test in General Physics 1: Nueva Vizcaya General Comprehensive High School
2 Summative Test in General Physics 1: Nueva Vizcaya General Comprehensive High School
2 Summative Test in General Physics 1: Nueva Vizcaya General Comprehensive High School
NAME: DATE:
SECTION: SCORE
“Happy PHYSIC-LY Thinking”
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Each question or statement is followed by four choices lettered A, B, C, and D. From these
choices, choose the best that would complete the statement or best answer the question. Write the letter
of your choice on the space provided before each number. Use CAPITAL LETTERS and AVOID
ERASURES.
_____1. Alejandro travels 2 km north, then 3 km east and finally 2 km south. Which statement is TRUE about
Alejandro’s travel? Alejandro’s ___________________.
A. displacement is 2km west of his origin
B. displacement is 3km due east
C. displacement is 7km
D. position is now 3km east of where he started
_____2. Velocity is a measure of ____________________.
A. A change in position during a change in time
B. Displacement during an interval of time
C. The slope of a position-time graph
D. All of the above
_____3. A car accelerates from 0 𝑚/𝑠 to 25 𝑚/𝑠 in 5 seconds. What is the average acceleration of the car?
A. 5 𝑚/𝑠2 C. 50 𝑚/𝑠2
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B. 30 𝑚/𝑠 D. 125 𝑚/𝑠2
_____5. A bicyclist covers 96.56km between 2 pm and 6 pm. What was his average speed?
A. 3.32 𝑚/𝑠 C. 15 𝑚/𝑠
B. 6.71 𝑚/𝑠 D. 45 𝑚/𝑠
_____6. A Honda car takes ten minutes to go from kilometer post 71 to kilometer post 81. A Toyota car takes
fifteen minutes to go from kilometer post 65 to kilometer post 80. Which car has the higher average
speed?
A. The average speeds are the same C. The Honda car
B. The Toyota car D. Neither the Honda nor the Toyota car
_____7. What average speed is required to run 1.61km in 4 minutes?
A. 1.0 𝑚/𝑠 C. 6.71 𝑚/𝑠
B. 3.53 𝑚/𝑠 D. 40 𝑚/s
_____8. The average speed of an object is defined to be _________________.
A. Distance it travels is divided by the time it takes
B. Distance it travels multiplied by the time it takes
C. One-half of the sum of the maximum and the minimum speeds
D. Speed determined over an infinitesimally small time interval
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_____10. If a van requires 30 seconds to accelerate from zero to 90 km per hour, its average acceleration is _
A. 0.08 𝑚/𝑠2 C. 80 𝑚/𝑠2
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B. 0.83 𝑚/𝑠 D. 800 𝑚/𝑠2
_____11. The cheetah is the fastest animal. What is its speed if it travels 112.0 meters in 4 seconds?
A. 10 𝑚/𝑠 C. 28 𝑚/𝑠
B. 15 𝑚/𝑠 D. 32 𝑚/s
______12. How far can a person run in 15 minutes if he or she runs at an average speed of 35 km per hour?
A. 0.01 m C. 0.5 m
B. 0.04 m D. 5 m
______13. Supposed you are at Robinson’s Supermarket and you are pushing your shopping cart 15.6 meters
west across the beverage section in 5.2 seconds. What is the velocity of the shopping cart?
A. 0.33 𝑚/𝑠 West C. 2.1 𝑚/𝑠 West
B. 0.6 𝑚/𝑠 West D. 3 𝑚/s West
_____14. An airplane flying at a velocity of 610 𝑚/𝑠 lands and comes to a complete stop over a 53 second period.
What is the acceleration of the plane?
A. 13 𝑚/𝑠2 C. 13 𝑚/𝑠2
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B. 11.51 𝑚/𝑠 D. 45 𝑚/𝑠2
______15. A seventh-grader moves down the hall at 1.2 𝑚/𝑠 . When he sees a bunch of senior high school
students coming, he begins to run. After 3.2 seconds, he is moving at 3.6 𝑚/𝑠 . What is his acceleration?
A. 0.75 𝑚/𝑠2 C. 3.32 𝑚/𝑠2
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B. 1 𝑚/𝑠 D. 6.73 𝑚/𝑠2
For numbers 21-22: BALL THROWN UPWARD. Brice throws a ball upward
into the air with an initial velocity of 12.0 m/s.
_____22.How long the ball is in the air before it comes down to his hand?
A. 1.3 s C. 2.45 s
B. 2.1 s D. 3.55 s
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For numbers 23-24: BALL THROWN UPWARD AT THE EDGE
OF CLIFF. Brice is standing at the edge of a 70.0 m high
cliff, so the ball can fall to the base of the cliff.
_____23. How long does it take the ball thrown at 20.0 m/s to reach
the base of the cliff?
A. 2.41 m C. 5.62 m
B. 4.33 m D. 6.37 m
A. 6.3s C. 25.11s
B. 13.5s D. 31.45s
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