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Physics Chapter 4 - Test A: Multiple Choice

This document contains a 25 question multiple choice and short answer physics test on forces, motion, and Newton's laws. The test covers topics like identifying forces, drawing and interpreting free-body diagrams, applying Newton's second law in equation form, and calculating net and contact forces. Sample questions ask about the causes of acceleration and changes in an object's motion, units for coefficients of friction, and solving for net and normal contact forces in inclined plane problems.

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Physics Chapter 4 - Test A: Multiple Choice

This document contains a 25 question multiple choice and short answer physics test on forces, motion, and Newton's laws. The test covers topics like identifying forces, drawing and interpreting free-body diagrams, applying Newton's second law in equation form, and calculating net and contact forces. Sample questions ask about the causes of acceleration and changes in an object's motion, units for coefficients of friction, and solving for net and normal contact forces in inclined plane problems.

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Physics Chapter 4 – Test A

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

1. Which of the following is the cause of an acceleration?


a. speed
b. inertia
c. force
d. velocity
2. What causes a moving object to change direction?
a. acceleration
b. velocity
c. inertia
d. force
3. Which of the following forces exists between objects even in the absence of direct physical contact?
a. frictional force
b. fundamental force
c. contact force
d. field force
4. A newton is equivalent to which of the following quantities?
a. kg
b. kg•m/s
c. kg•m/s2
d. kg•(m/s)2
5. The length of a force vector represents the
a. cause of the force.
b. direction of the force.
c. magnitude of the force.
d. type of force.
6. A free-body diagram represents all of the following except
a. the object.
b. forces as vectors.
c. forces exerted by the object.
d. forces exerted on the object.

7. In the free-body diagram shown below, which of the following is the gravitational force acting on the
car?

a. 5800 N
b. 775 N
c. 14 700 N
d. 13 690 N
8. Which of the following is the tendency of an object to maintain its state of motion?
a. acceleration
b. inertia
c. force
d. velocity

9. A crate is released on a frictionless plank inclined at angle with respect to the horizontal. Which of
the following relationships is true? (Assume that the x-axis is parallel to the surface of the incline.)
a. Fy = Fg
b. Fx = 0
c. Fy = Fx
d. none of the above

10. A car goes forward along a level road at constant velocity. The additional force needed to bring the car
into equilibrium is
a. greater than the normal force times the coefficient of static friction.
b. equal to the normal force times the coefficient of static friction.
c. the normal force times the coefficient of kinetic friction.
d. zero

11. If a nonzero net force is acting on an object, then the object is definitely
a. at rest.
b. moving with a constant velocity.
c. being accelerated.
d. losing mass.

12. Which statement about the acceleration of an object is correct?


a. The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net external force acting on the
object and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
b. The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net external force acting on the
object and directly proportional to the mass of the object.
c. The acceleration of an object is inversely proportional to the net external force acting on
the object and inversely proportional to the mass of the object.
d. The acceleration of an object is inversely proportional to the net external force acting on
the object and directly proportional to the mass of the object.

13. Which are simultaneous equal but opposite forces resulting from the interaction of two objects?
a. net external forces
b. field forces
c. gravitational forces
d. action-reaction pairs

14. Newton’s third law of motion involves the interactions of


a. one object and one force.
b. one object and two forces.
c. two objects and one force.
d. two objects and two forces.
15. The magnitude of the gravitational force acting on an object is
a. frictional force.
b. weight.
c. inertia.
d. mass.

16. A measure of the quantity of matter is


a. density.
b. weight.
c. force.
d. mass.

17. A change in the gravitational force acting on an object will affect the object’s
a. mass.
b. coefficient of static friction.
c. weight.
d. inertia.

18. What are the units of the coefficient of friction?


a. N
b. 1/N
c. N2
d. The coefficient of friction has no units.

SHORT ANSWER

19. In a free-body diagram of an object, why are forces exerted by the object not included in the diagram?

20. State Newton’s first law of motion.

21. In the equation form of Newton’s second law, F = ma, what does F represent?

22. What happens to air resistance when an object accelerates?

PROBLEM
23. In a game of tug-of-war, a rope is pulled by a force of 75 N to the left and by a force of 102 N to the
right. What is the magnitude and direction of the net horizontal force on the rope?

Given
F1 = 102 N, to the right
F2 = 75 N, to the left

24. A wagon having a mass of 32 kg is accelerated across a level road at 0.50 m/s2. What net force acts on
the wagon horizontally?

Given
m = 33 kg
a = 0.50 m/s2

25. Basking in the sun, a 1.10-kg lizard lies on a flat rock tilted at an angle of 15.0 with respect to the
horizontal. What is the magnitude of the normal force exerted by the rock on the lizard?

Given
m = 1.10 kg
a = 15.0
g = 9.81 m/s2

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