Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. How many cubic centimeters are there in a cubic meter?

a. 0.1 c. 102
b. 1 d. 106

2. 0.000 345 written in scientific notation

a.  3.45 x 10-4 c.  3.45 x 104
b.  3.45 d.  3.45 x 105

3. Which of these values is greatest?

a. 0.0056 c. 5.6 x 10-2
b. 0.00056 d. 56 x 10-2

4. Tessie measures her bathroom tiles to be 10 in by 8 in. What are the length and width in cm?
a. 20.32 cm by 19.6 cm c. 25.4 cm to 24.5 cm
b. 25.4 cm by 20.32 cm d. 35.4 cm by 12.32 cm

5. The accepted value is 1.43. Which correctly describes this student’s experimental data?

Trial Measurement
1 1.29
2 1.93
3 0.88

a. Accurate but not precise c. Precise but not accurate

b. Both accurate and precise d. Neither accurate nor precise

6. Four students each measured the mass of one 1.43 g sample four times. The results in the data
above indicate that the data collected by reflect the greatest accuracy and precision.
TRIAL 1 TRIAL 2 TRIAL 3 TRIAL 4
Student A 1.43 g 1.52 g 1.47 g 1.42 g
Student B 1.43 g 1.40 g 1.46 g 1.44 g
Student C 1.54 g 1.56 g 1.58 g 1.50 g
Student D 0.86 g 1.24 g 1.52 g 1.42 g

a. Student A b. Student B c. Student C d. Student D

b.
7. In a zoology class, Pedro measured the length of an earthworm using a ruler for three times as part of
the data gathering procedure of his experiment. What type of measurement error might he
commit?
a. calibration error c. random error
b. human error d. systematic error

8. April forgot to calibrate her analytical balance before she measured the mass of her reactants in a
chemistry experiment. She committed 78% percentage error in her measurement. What type of
measurement error did she commit?
a. human error c. random error
b. parallax error d. systematic error

9. Which of the following is an example of a vector quantity?

a. acceleration c. volume
b. mass d. temperature

10. Displacement is a
a. base quantity c. scalar quantity
b. derived quantity d. vector quantity

11. Find the displacement a hiker walks if he travels 9.0 km north, and then turns around and walks 3.0
km south?
a. 0.5 km c. 6.0 km
b. 3.0 km d. 12.0 km

12.  Two vectors A and B are added together to form a vector C.  The relationship between the
magnitudes of the vectors is given by A + B = C.  Which one of the following statements concerning
these vectors is true?
a.  A and B must be displacements
b.  A and B must have equal lengths
c.  A and B must point in opposite directions
d.  A and B point in the same direction

13. A runway dog walks 0.64 km due N. He then runs due W to a hot dog stand. If the magnitude of the
dog’s total displacement vector is 0.91 km, what is the magnitude of the dog’s displacement vector in
the due west direction?
a. 0.27 km b. 0.33 km c. 0.41 km d. 0.52 km
14.  Resolve vector L into components L x and Ly if the length of vector L is 15 m and its reference angle is
200.
      a.  13.9 m, 5.10 m c.  14.1, 5.13 m
      b.  14 m, 5 m d.  14.2, 5.20 m

15. An object moving in the +x direction experiences an acceleration of +5.0 m/s 2. This means the object
a. travels 5.0 m in every second.
b. is traveling at 5.0 m/s.
c. is decreasing its velocity by 5.0 m/s every second.
d. is increasing its velocity by 5.0 m/s every second.

16. You drive 6.0 km at 50 km/h and then another 6.0 km at 90 km/h. Your average speed over the 12
km drive will be
a. greater than 70 km/h.
b. equal to 70 km/h.
c. less than 70 km/h.
d. exactly 38 km/h.

17. Which of the following is correct when the distance of an object covered is directly proportional to
time?
a. constant acceleration c. uniform acceleration
b. constant speed d. zero velocity

18. Which of these is an example of deceleration?

a. a bird taking off for flight
b. a car approaching a red light
c. a roller coaster moving down a steep hill
d. an airplane following a straight flight path

19. The figure below shows a motion diagram. Each dot represents the location of the object during
every one second interval (for a total of six seconds). This motion diagram is an example of constant
velocity?
 a. No c. There is enough information to tell

b. Yes d. Yes, but only for limited time.

20. A car initially traveling north at 5 m/s has a constant acceleration of 2 m/ s2 northward. How far does
the car travel in the first 10 s?
a. 20m c. 100 m
b. 50m d. 150 m

For numbers 21-22

The graph represents the relationship between velocity and time for an object moving in a straight line.
Use this graph to answer questions 21 and 22.

21. Which of the following statements is true?

a. The object speeds up

b. The object slows down
c. The object moves with a constant velocity
d. The object stays at rest

22. What is the velocity of the object at 5 s?

a. 0 m/s c. 5 m/s

b. 3 m/s d. 4 m/s

For numbers 23-25

A stone is thrown from the top of the building with an initial velocity of 20.0 m/s straight upward. The
building is 50.0 m high, and the stone just misses the edge of the roof on its way down.

23. Determine the time at which the stone reaches its maximum height.
a. 2.0 s c. 4.0 s
 b. 3.0 s d. 5.0 s

24. Determine the maximum height of the stone above the rooftop.

a. 1.6 m c. 15.9m
b. 10.6 m d. 20.4 m

25. Determine the time at which the stone returns to the level of the thrower.

a. 4.0 s c. 8.0 s
b. 6.0 s d. 10.0 s

26. Which of the following is the motion of objects moving in two dimensions under the influence of
gravity?

a. Horizontal velocity c. Projectile Motion

b. Mechanics d. Vertical Velocity

27. Which of the following does not exhibit parabolic motion?

a. A baseball thrown to home plate

b. A frog jumping from land into water

c. A flat piece of paper released from a window

d. A baseball thrown to a hoop

28. What is the path of projectile (in the absence of friction)?

a. A wavy line c. A parabola

b. A hyperbola d. none of the above

29. When an object is moving with a uniform circular motion, the centripetal acceleration of the object
a. is circular
 b. is constant
c. is directed toward the center of motion is constant
d. is perpendicular to the plane of motion

30. A stone is thrown horizontally at 15 m/s from the top of a cliff 44 meters high. How far from the base
does the stone hit the ground?

a. 45 m
b. 35 m
c. 3 m
d. 6 m
31. What is the acceleration of a 500-kg tricycle moving at 8 m/s takes a turn around a circle with a
radius of 20 m?

a. 0.4 m/s2
b. 4 m/s2
c. 0.5 m/s2
d. 5 m/s2

32. Which of the following is a noncontact force?

a. Drag Force
b. Gravitational Force
c. Tension Force
d. Unbalanced Force

33. Which force is acting in the opposite direction of the object in motion?

a. Tension
b. Buoyant
c. Friction
d. Normal

34. What is the example of contact force?

a. Rubbing your hands together

b. picking paper clips by magnet
c. falling stone
d. putting near the two bar magnets

35. Which of the following force the following is an example of normal force?

a. book lifted up of the table

b. book place at rest on top of the table
c. book sliding at the table
d. book falls at the edge of the table