STI Senior High School - Carmona

General Physics 1

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Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Unless you are instructed
otherwise, assume that all situations are on Earth at sea level.
1. Speed is ______________. c. the same as the speed it had when thrown upwards.
a. a measure of how fast something is accelerating.
b. always measured in terms of a unit of time divided 9. Suppose an object is in free fall. Each second the
by a unit of distance. object falls
c. the distance covered per unit time. a. the same distance as in the second before.
d. all of the above. b. a larger distance than in the second before.
c. with the same instantaneous speed.
2. One possible unit of speed is d. with the same average speed.
a. kilometers per minute
b. light-years per parsec. 10. When a basketball player jumps to make a shot, once
c. hours per kilometer.
the feet are off the floor, the jumper's acceleration
d. all of the above.
a. varies with body orientation.
b. depends on launch speed.
3. Acceleration is defined as the CHANGE in c. depends on all the above.
a. time it takes to move from one place to another d. is 10 m/s/s.
place.
b. velocity of an object. 11. If a freely falling object were somehow equipped
c. distance divided by the time interval.
with a speedometer, its speed reading would increase
d. velocity divided by the time interval.
each second by
a. about 5 m/s.
4. Suppose you are in a car that is going around a curve. b. about 10 m/s.
The speedometer reads a constant 30 miles per hour. c. about 15 m/s.
Which of the following is true? d. a variable amount.
a. You and the car are accelerating.
b. Your speed is constantly changing. 12. A car starts from rest and after 7 seconds it is
c. Your velocity is constant.
moving at 42 m/s. What is the car’s average
d. Your position is constant.
acceleration?
a. 0.17 m/s2
5. A train travels 6 meters in the first second of travel, 6 b. 1.67 m/s2
meters again during the second second of travel, and 6 c. 6 m/s2
meters again during the third second. Its acceleration is d. 7 m/s2
a. 0 m/s2.
b. 6 m/s2.
13. A ball is thrown straight up. At the top of its path its
c. 12 m/s2.
instantaneous speed is
d. 18 m/s2.
a. 0 m/s.
b. about 5 m/s.
6. As an object falls freely in a vacuum, its c. about 10 m/s.
a. velocity increases. d. about 20 m/s.
b. acceleration increases.
c. both A and B.
14. A ball is thrown straight up at 40 m/s. Half way to
d. none of the above.
its peak, the acceleration of the ball is
a. 0 m/s2.
7. In the absence of air resistance, objects fall at b. about 5 m/s2.
constant c. about 10 m/s2.
a. speed. d. about 20 m/s2.
b. velocity.
c. acceleration.
15. A car accelerates at 3.6 m/s2. Assuming the car starts
d. distances each successive second.
from rest, how much time does it need to accelerate to
a speed of 42.8 m/s?
8. A ball is thrown upwards and caught when it comes a. 3.6 seconds
back down. In the absence of air resistance, the speed b. 23.2 seconds
of the ball when caught would be c. 39.2 seconds
a. less than the speed it had when thrown upwards. d. none of the above
b. more than the speed it had when thrown upwards.
16. Suppose you take a trip that covers 240 km and 23. In a vacuum, a marble starts from rest and falls 32
takes 3 hours to make. Your average speed is m. How long does this take?
a. 40 km/h. a. 32 s c. 3.2 s
b. 60 km/h. b. 6.4 s d. 2.5 s
c. 80 km/h.
d. 100 km/h. 24. Velocity differs from speed in that velocity
a. has no direction. c. has direction.
17. A freely falling object starts from rest. After falling b. has no magnitude. d. has magnitude.
for 3.8 seconds, it will have a speed of about
a. 3.8 m/s. 25. A unit of velocity is
b. 380 m/s. a. meter c. second per meter
c. 72.2 m/s. b. second d. meter per second.
d. 38 m/s.
26. A unit of acceleration is
18. If you drop a feather and a coin at the same time in a. meters per second c. meters
a vacuum tube, which will reach the bottom of the tube b. meters per second d. seconds per meter
first? squared
a. Neither-they will both reach the bottom at the same
time.
27. When a vehicle moves around a corner at constant
b. The coin
speed
c. The feather
a. the velocity is constant. c. the vehicle accelerates.
b. the acceleration is zero. d. the vehicle slows down.
19. If a projectile is fired straight up at a speed of 45
m/s, the total time to return to its starting point is
28. A ball is thrown in the air. At the peak of its flight
about
a. velocity and c. velocity is nonzero and
a. 4.5 seconds. acceleration are zero. acceleration is zero.
b. 9 seconds. b. velocity is zero and d. velocity and
c. 13.5 seconds. acceleration is nonzero. acceleration are
d. 18 seconds. nonzero.

20. Suppose a jumper claims a hang time of 2 seconds. 29. A bicycle is traveling at 10 m/s on a flat road. As it
Then that jumper must be able to jump a vertical reaches a hill, it starts accelerating, eventually reaching
distance of 36 m/s. What is its average speed on the hill?
a. 1 m. a. 18 m/s c. 5 m/s
b. 2 m. b. 23 m/s d. 13 m/s
c. 3 m.
d. 5 m.
30. What is the average acceleration of a car that goes
from 49 kph to 93 kph in 4 seconds?
21. A pencil lies on your desk. If the Earth is moving a. 11 km/hr/s c. 12 km/hr/s
around the sun at a speed of 30 km/s, how fast is the b. 22 km/hr/s d. 36 km/hr/s
pencil moving relative to the desk? How fast is the
pencil moving relative to the sun?
a. 0 km/s; 0 km/s 31. A jet on an aircraft carrier can be launched from rest
b. 0 km/s; 30 km/s to 40 m/s in 2 seconds. What is the acceleration of the
c. 30 km/s; 30 km/s aircraft?
d. There is not enough information to answer these a. 2 m/s/s c. 80 m/s/s
questions. b. 20 m/s/s d. .05 m/s/s

22. Acceleration is defined as 32. A ball is dropped from rest from a height of 38 m. It
a. the rate at which distance is covered reaches the ground 2.8 seconds later. What is the
b. the rate at which an object freely falls from rest average speed of the ball?
c. the rate at which velocity itself changes a. 14 m/s c. 38 m/s
d. the distance an object has fallen b. 2.8 m/s d. 28 m/s
 b. 6 m d. 24 m
33. A ski jumper starts from rest and accelerates down a
ramp at 3.1 m/s/s for 5.6 seconds. What is the final 40. How much time does it take for a car with
speed of the ski jumper? acceleration of 8 m/s/s to go from 62 m/s to 147 m/s?
a. 8.7 m/s c. 1.8 m/s a. 26 s c. 8 s
b. 17.4 m/s d. 21.6 m/s b. 18 s d. 11 s

34. A younger runner gets a 12 m head start in a race. If 41. Which of the following has the most momentum?
the runner’s speed is 3.8 m/s, how far is the runner a. a more massive thing moving slowly
from the starting line after 49 seconds? b. a less massive thing moving slowly
c. a less massive thing moving fast
a. 198 m c. 174 m
d. a more massive thing moving fast
b. 186 m d. 210 m
42. If a big truck is driving down the highway and runs
35. An apple falls for 3.6 seconds before hitting the into an insect, which of the following is NOT true?
ground. How fast is the apple falling at the instant it a. The truck slows down when it hits the insect.
hits the ground? b. They both accelerate at the same rate.
a. 3.6 m/s c. 24 m/s c. They both experience the same force.
b. 18 m/s d. 36 m/s d. They both experience the same change in
momentum.
36. What speed must you toss a ball straight up to have
it come back to you in 7 seconds? 43. Two cars are driving down the street in opposite
a. 7 m/s c. 30 m/s directions. Unfortunately, they run straight into each
b. 21 m/s d. 35 m/s other. What is the change in the total momentum of the
two cars from before they crash to after they crash? One
car is 1,000 kg, and the other car is 1,500 kg. They are
37. If you throw a ball straight up at 24 m/s, how long both going 10 m/s.
will it take to reach its peak? a. 0 kgm/s
a. 1.2 s c. 2.4 s b. 50 kgm/s
b. 4.9 s d. 7.2 s
c. 250 kgm/s
d. 5,000 kgm/s
38. A ball is thrown straight down at 6 m/s. How long
will it take for the rock to reach a velocity of 32 m/s? 44. A 90 kg man is standing still on frictionless ice. His
a. 3.2 s c. 3.8 s friend tosses him a 10 kg ball, which has a horizontal
b. 2.6 s d. 26 s velocity of 20 m/s. After catching the ball, what is the
man's velocity?
39. Starting from rest, a car undergoes constant a. 0 m/s
acceleration of 12 m/s/s. How far does the car travel in b. 1.8 m/s
2 seconds? c. 2 m/s
a. 4 m c. 12 m d. 4.5 m/s

45. How can you increase the linear momentum of something?

46. If a truck has a linear momentum of 10,000 kgm/s, and it is moving at 5 m/s, what is its mass?
a. 2,000 kgm/s
b. 2,000 N
c. 20,000 N
d. 2,000 kg

47. If a big truck is driving down the highway and runs into an insect, which of these is true?
a. The truck applies more force to the insect than the insect applies to the truck.
 b. The insect's momentum changes more than the truck's.
c. The insect accelerates more than the truck.
d. The insect applies a greater impulse to the truck than the truck applies to the insect.

48. Two cars are driving down the street. The one traveling straight west has a momentum of 10,000 kgm/s. The one
traveling straight east has a momentum of 20,000 gm/s. They crash (they always do in physics, you know). What is the
total momentum after the crash?
a. 0 kgm/s
b. 10,000 kgm/s straight east
c. 10,000 kgm/s straight west
d. 30,000 kgm/s straight east

49. When gymnasts vault over the horse and land, they land on a big pad. How does the pad help them?
a. The pad reduces the amount of momentum they have when they land.
b. The pad reduces the change of momentum when they land.
c. The pad reduces the total impulse when they land.
d. The pad increases the time it takes to stop, so the force is less when they land.

50. A 100 kg man is stuck, motionless, in the middle of a frictionless ice pond. Because it's cold, he's wearing a coat. He
wants to get off the pond. Since he has studied physics and knows about conservation of momentum, he decides to throw
his 2 kg coat. If he throws the coat at 25 m/s, what will his speed be?
a. 0 m/s
b. 0.5 m/s
c. 2 m/s
d. 25.5 m/s