2016 BIRBIRSA SECONDARY SCHOOL 1ST SEMESTER PHYSICS 2ND ROUND MODEL EXAMINATION

FOR GRADE 12
Time Allowed 1:30 Maximum Mark = 35%
Direction: The examination contains 35 items. There is only one best answer for each item. Choose the best answer from
the suggested options and write the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided with a pen only.
1. The efficiency of a certain machine is 80%. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the
machine?
A. 20% of the input energy is wasted
B. If the MA of the machine is 4, then its VR is 5.
C. The machine is force multiplier
D. The machine can multiply force and speed at the same time
2. The ideal mechanical advantage of a machine is 6. what will be the actual mechanical advantage of the
machine A. less than 6 B. greater than 6 C. equal to 6 D. indeterminate
3. A board of mass serves as a seesaw for two children, as shown in figure below. Child A has a mass of 30kg and sits 2.5m from
the pivot point, P. At what distance x from the pivot must child B, of mass 25kg, place herself to balance the seesaw?

A 5m B. 3m C. 75cm D. 25cm
4. Two gear wheels with teeth 16 and 64 are combined. If force acts on a 16 teeth gear, then what is the
velocity ratio of the gear system?
A ¼ B. ½ C. 2 D. 4
5. Which of the following machines has largest velocity ratio?

6. The velocity ratio of a frictionless inclined plane is

1 1 1 1
A sin θ B. cos θ C. sin θ+μ cos θ D. cos θ+μ sinθ
7. A screw jack whose handle is 25cm long has a pitch of 3.14cm. 40N force is applied to its handle in order to
raise a load of 1600N. What percent of the input energy is wasted?
A. 20% B. 80% C. 40% D. 60%
8. A see-saw of length 2m is pivoted at its center. At what distance from the pivot (fulcrum) should a 600N
boy sit to balance a 300N girl who is sitting at the opposite end of the see-saw?
A. 0.5m B. 1m C. 1.5m D. 0.25m

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9. A spinning wheel is slowed down by a brake, giving it a constant angular acceleration of -5.6 rad/s 2. During
a 4s time interval, the wheel rotates through 64rad. What is the angular speed of the wheel at the end of the
4s interval? A 44.8rad/s B. 27.2rad/s C. 19.2rad/s D. 4.8rad/s
10. A hypothetical planet has a mass of four times that of the Earth and radius of twice that of the Earth? What
is the acceleration due to gravity on the planet in terms of the acceleration on Earth? The planet has
A. The same acceleration due to gravity as of the earth. C. twice acceleration due to gravity as of the earth
B. Four times acceleration due to gravity as of the earth D. Half times that of the earth
11. If Saturn is on average 9 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, what is this time length of the Saturn in
Earth years? A. 9years B. 5years C. 27years D. 729years
12. Newton’s law of gravitation applies to:
A. Small bodies only. C. Plants only.
B. All bodies irrespective of their size. D. Moon and satellites only
13. According to Newton’s second law of motion, force is that:
A. Has a dimension of momentum multiplied by time.
B. Is the rate of change of doing work
C. Equals to time rate of change in linear – momentum.
D. Is the ability to do mechanical work.
14. A satellite moves at constant speed in a circular orbit about the center of the earth at an altitude half the radius of
the earth above its surface. If g is the gravitational acceleration at the surface of the earth and R its radius,
then what is the speed of the satellite?

A. √
2gR B. √
2 gR
3 C. gR √ D. √ 3 gR
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15. Two blocks of mass m1=10kg and m2=4kg are connected by inextensible string of negligible mass passing
over a movable pulley fixed at a hinge. The system move over an inclined plane of µ k =0.2 making an angle
of 53o to the horizontal as shown in the figure to the right shown below. What is the acceleration of the
system? (sin 53o=0.8 ,cos53o=0.6 and g=10m/s2)

m1
m
A 4m/s2 B. 2 m/s2 C. 10 m/s2 D. 6 m/s2 2

16. Consider a hypothetical planet in our solar system. Whose average distance from the sun is about four times
that of Earth. What is the orbital period of this hypothetical planet?
A. 0.25 years B. 4 years C. 2.5 years D.8 years
17. A block slides down at 37 inclined plane with a constant velocity. What is the coefficient of friction
between the block and the incline?
A. 0.21 B. 0.38 C. 0.75 D. 0.14
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18. A disc with moment of inertia 2kgm changes its angular speed from 3rad/s to 8rad/s by a net torque of 50
Nm. How long will the disc take to change its angular speed?
A. 25sec B. 2.5sec C. 0.2se D. 0.15sec
19. An object of mass 10kg was exerted on by a force of F 1 = (2i + 3j) N, F 2 = (4i - 3j) N and F 3 = (-i + 3j) N.
What was the approximated acceleration of this object?
A. 0.5m/s2 B. 0.36 m/s2 C. 0.6 m/s2 D. 3.4m/s2

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20. Three point masses, each of mass m, are placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle of side L. What is the
moment of inertia of the system about an axis passing through one of the corners say point A perpendicular
to the plane of the triangle?

A. 3mL2 B. 2mL2 C. 1.5mL2 D. 4 mL2

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21. A force F making an angle of 53 with magnitude 20N is applied to a block of mass 2kg that lies on a rough
, horizontal surface as shown in the figure. The coefficient of kinetic friction between the block and surface
is 0.4. What is the magnitude of the acceleration of the block?
A. 10m/s2 F
2
B. 5.2m/s
C. 4m/s2
Block ϴ
D. 2.8m/s2

23. Two blocks are connected by a string of negligible mass passing over a pulley of radius r = 0.2m and
moment of inertia I as shown in the figure. The block on the horizontal frictionless surface is moving
with a constant acceleration a = 2m/s 2. If the pulley axis is frictionless, the string is inextensible and does
not slip on the pulley, what should be the moment of inertia of the pulley?
A. 0.48kg m2 T1
2
B. 0.8kg m 2kg
C. 4 kg m2
D. 8kg m2 T2

3kg
iˆ  3.6 ˆj ) m
24. A 1.5 kg particle moves in the xy-plane with velocity v = (4.2 s . What is its angular momentum

when its position vector is r = (1.5 iˆ + 2.2 ĵ )m to the nearest number?

A. -22k kgm/s2 B. 14.6 k̂ kgm/s2 C. -14.6 k̂ kgm/s2 D. 22 k̂ kgm/s2
ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ
25. Determine the torque due to a force F  2i  3 j  4kN acting at point r  3i  2 j  3k about the origin?
ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ
A. 6i  6 j  12k C. 17i  6 j  13k
ˆ ˆ ˆ
B. i -6j-5k D.  17i  6 j  13k
26. A particle of mass 4kg moves from rest under the action of a constant force of 10N which acts for 2se. What
is the maximum power attained?
A. 25W B. 100W C. 80W D. 60W
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27. A fly wheel is rotating with an angular velocity of 2rad/s and acted by an acceleration of π rad/s2. How long
will it take to complete three revolutions?
A. 0.5  s. B.  s. C. 2  s. D. 4  s2.s
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28. A rope is wrapped many times around a pulley of radius 50cm as shown in the Figure below. How large
angular distance the pulley moves through to raise a bucket to a height of 20m?

A, 10rad B. 40rad C. 64rad D. 400rad

29. A wheel starts from rest and rotates with constant angular acceleration to reach an angular speed of 12rad/s 2
in 3s. What is the magnitude of the angular acceleration of the wheel in rad/s 2 and the angle in radians
through which it rotates in this time interval respectively?
A. 4,18 B. 3,18 C. 18,5 D. 18,4
30. A door is free to rotate about its hinges. A force F is applied normal to the door at a distance x
from the hinges produces an angular acceleration of∝. What angular acceleration is produce if the
same force is applied normal to the door at a distance of 2x from the hinges?
1 1
A ∝ B. 2∝ C. ∝ D. ∝
2 4
31. An automobile moves in a circle of radius 110 meters with a constant speed of 33m/s. What is the
angular velocity of the car about the center of the circle in radians per second?

A 0.3rad/sec B. 0.6 π rad/sec C. 0.3 π rad/sec D. 3.3 π rad/sec

32. Force acting on the particle varies with X, as shown in the figure below. Calculate the work done by the
force as the particle moves from x=o to x=6m.

A. 25J B. 20J C.5J D.10J

33. The rotational analogue of mass is:
A. Moment of inertia. C. angular momentum.
B. Torque D. angular acceleration.
34. Which one of the following quantities is what a body in motion has that a body at rest doesn’t have?
A Inertia B. momentum C. kinetic energy D. B and C
35. Which of the following statements about planetary motion is not true?
A. A planet moves fastest when it is closest to the Sun and slowest when it is furthest from the Sun.
B. Kepler’s laws apply to any celestial body orbiting any other celestial body.
C. Every object in the Universe always attracts every other object by virtue of the quality.
D. The source for the centripetal force in the solar system is the gravitational force of the sun.

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36. A of mass m=3kg block on an inclined plane at a distance of d=5m from a spring (as shown below) is
released from rest. The plane makes an angle of 30 o with the horizontal and the force constant K=144N/m.
If the block compresses the spring 1m, find the friction force acting on the block? (sin30o =0.5)
A. 4N B.5N C.6N D.3N

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