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Physics Chapter 5 - Test A: Choose The Best Answer From The Options That Follow Each Question

This document contains a 25 question physics test covering work, energy, and power. The multiple choice questions cover topics like the scientific definition of work, scenarios where work is and isn't done, forms of energy like kinetic and potential, and equations like the work-kinetic energy theorem. The short answer and problem questions ask students to calculate work, kinetic energy, and power in various physical situations.

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Physics Chapter 5 - Test A: Choose The Best Answer From The Options That Follow Each Question

This document contains a 25 question physics test covering work, energy, and power. The multiple choice questions cover topics like the scientific definition of work, scenarios where work is and isn't done, forms of energy like kinetic and potential, and equations like the work-kinetic energy theorem. The short answer and problem questions ask students to calculate work, kinetic energy, and power in various physical situations.

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Physics Chapter 5 – Test A

MULTIPLE CHOICE
Choose the best answer from the options that follow each question.

1. In which of the following sentences is work used in the scientific sense of the word?
a. Holding a heavy box requires a lot of work.
b. A scientist works on an experiment in the laboratory.
c. Sam and Rachel pushed hard, but they could do no work on the car.
d. John learned that shoveling snow is hard work.

2. In which of the following sentences is work used in the everyday sense of the word?
a. Lifting a heavy bucket involves doing work on the bucket.
b. The force of friction usually does negative work.
c. Sam and Rachel worked hard pushing the car.
d. Work is a physical quantity.

3. A force does work on an object if a component of the force


a. is perpendicular to the displacement of the object.
b. is parallel to the displacement of the object.
c. perpendicular to the displacement of the object moves the object along a path that returns
the object to its starting position.
d. parallel to the displacement of the object moves the object along a path that returns the
object to its starting position.

4. Work is done when


a. the displacement is not zero.
b. the displacement is zero.
c. the force is zero.
d. the force and displacement are perpendicular.

5. What is the common formula for work?


a. W = F v
b. W = Fd
c. W = Fd2
d. W = F2d

6. In which of the following scenarios is work done?


a. A weightlifter holds a barbell overhead for 2.5 s.
b. A construction worker carries a heavy beam while walking at constant speed along a flat
surface.
c. A car decelerates while traveling on a flat stretch of road.
d. A student holds a spring in a compressed position.

7. In which of the following scenarios is no net work done?


a. A car accelerates down a hill.
b. A car travels at constant speed on a flat road.
c. A car decelerates on a flat road.
d. A car decelerates as it travels up a hill.
8. Which of the following energy forms is associated with an object in motion?
a. potential energy
b. elastic potential energy
c. nonmechanical energy
d. kinetic energy

9. Which of the following energy forms is not involved in hitting a tennis ball?
a. kinetic energy
b. chemical potential energy
c. gravitational potential energy
d. elastic potential energy

10. Which of the following formulas would be used to directly calculate the kinetic energy of a mass
bouncing up and down on a spring?
a.
KE = kx2
b.
KE = - kx2
c.
KE = mv2
d.
KE = - mv2

11. Which of the following equations expresses the work-kinetic energy theorem?
a. MEi = MEf
b. Wnet = PE
c. W = KE
d. Wnet = KE

12. The main difference between kinetic energy and potential energy is that
a. kinetic energy involves position, and potential energy involves motion.
b. kinetic energy involves motion, and potential energy involves position.
c. although both energies involve motion, only kinetic energy involves position.
d. although both energies involve position, only potential energy involves motion.

13. Which form of energy is involved in weighing fruit on a spring scale?


a. kinetic energy
b. nonmechanical energy
c. gravitational potential energy
d. elastic potential energy

14. Gravitational potential energy is always measured in relation to


a. kinetic energy.
b. mechanical energy.
c. total potential energy.
d. a zero level.
15. What are the units for a spring constant?
a. N
b. m
c. N•m
d. N/m

16. Which of the following is a true statement about the conservation of energy?
a. Potential energy is always conserved.
b. Kinetic energy is always conserved.
c. Mechanical energy is always conserved.
d. Total energy is always conserved.

17. Which of the following are examples of conservable quantities?


a. potential energy and length
b. mechanical energy and length
c. mechanical energy and mass
d. kinetic energy and mass

18. Friction converts kinetic energy to


a. mechanical energy.
b. potential energy.
c. nonmechanical energy.
d. total energy.

19. Which of the following is the rate at which work is done?


a. potential energy
b. kinetic energy
c. mechanical energy
d. power

20. A more powerful motor can do


a. more work in a longer time interval.
b. the same work in a shorter time interval.
c. less work in a longer time interval.
d. the same work in a longer time interval.

SHORT ANSWER

21. A car travels at a speed of 25 m/s on a flat stretch of road. The driver must maintain pressure on the
accelerator to keep the car moving at this speed. What is the net work done on the car over a distance
of 250 m?

22. State, in words, the work-kinetic energy theorem.


23. A child does 5.0 J of work on a spring while loading a ball into a spring-loaded toy gun. If mechanical
energy is conserved, what will be the kinetic energy of the ball when it leaves the gun?

PROBLEM

24. How much work is done on a bookshelf being pulled 5.00 m at an angle of 37.0 from the horizontal?
The magnitude of the component of the force that does the work is 43.0 N.

Given
F = 43.0 N
d = 5.00 m

25. What is the average power output of a weightlifter who can lift 250 kg a height of 2.0 m in 2.0 s?

Given
m = 250 kg
d = 2.0 m
t = 2.0 s
g = 9.81 m/s2

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