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Unit Test in General Physics

This document contains a 40 question multiple choice unit test on general physics concepts. The test covers topics including: units and conversions, significant figures, vectors, projectile motion, forces, work, energy, momentum, and conservation laws. Students are asked to choose the correct answer from the options provided for each question.

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Unit Test in General Physics

This document contains a 40 question multiple choice unit test on general physics concepts. The test covers topics including: units and conversions, significant figures, vectors, projectile motion, forces, work, energy, momentum, and conservation laws. Students are asked to choose the correct answer from the options provided for each question.

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Dina Mita
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UNIT TEST IN GENERAL PHYSICS

Multiple Choice: Read the following items and choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Convert 633 mL to liters.


a. 0.00633 L c. 0.000633 L
b. 6.33 L d. 0.633 L
2. Which of the following numbers contains the designated CORRECT number of
significant figures?
a. 0.04300 5 significant figures
b. 0.00302 2 significant figures
c. 3.0650 4 significant figures
d. 156000 3 significant figures
3. Which of the following is the definition of a vector?
a. A quantity that has only magnitude.
b. A quantity that has both magnitude and direction.
c. A quantity that has a magnitude, but may or may not have a direction.
d. A quantity that has only a direction.
4. A particular hurricane traveled 678 m at 34.6° north of west before turning into a
tropical storm. Find the northern displacement of the hurricane and the western
displacement of the hurricane.
a. 558 m east, 385 m north
b. 385 m west, 558 m north
c. 558 m west, 358 m north
d. 468 m west, 468 m north
5. Acceleration is defined as the CHANGE in ______________.
a. distance divided by the time interval
b. velocity divided by the time interval
c. time it takes to move from one speed to another
d. time it takes to move from one place to another
6. Which of the following exhibits acceleration?
a. A body at rest
b. A body at uniform speed
c. A body with uniform velocity
d. A body moving with constant speed in a circle
7. What do you call the motion of an object with a constant acceleration?
a. Motion
b. Uniform Motion
c. Constant Motion
d. Uniformly Accelerated Motion
8. Suppose you are in a car that is going around a curve. The speedometer reads a constant
30 km/h. Which of the following is NOT true?
a. Your speed is constant
b. Your velocity is constant
c. You and the car are accelerating
d. Both a and c
9. If you drop a feather and a coin at the same time in a tube filled with air, which will
reach the bottom of the tube first?
a. The coin
b. The feather
c. Neither – they will both reach the bottom at the same time.
d. Cannot be determined
10. Which of the following would not be considered as projectile?
a. A cannonball rolling down a slope.
b. A cannonball thrown through the air.
c. A cannonball rolling off the edge of a table.
d. All of the above.
11. In the absence of air friction, the vertical component of a projectile’s velocity doesn’t
change as the projectile moves.
a. always true
b. always false
c. sometimes true
d. sometimes false
12. At what part of a path does a projectile have minimum speed?
a. when it is thrown
b. half-way to the top
c. at the top of its path
d. when it returns to the ground
13. A projectile is thrown 30o above the horizontal. What happens to its acceleration as it
moves upward?
a. It decreases because its velocity is directed upward
b. It increases because its velocity is directed upward
c. It decreases because its velocity is decreasing
d. It remains the same
14. A plane flying at 70 m/s suddenly stalls. If the acceleration during the stalls is 9.8 m/s2
directly downward, the stall lasts 5.0 s and the plane originally climbing at 25˚ to the
horizontal, what is the velocity after the wall?
a. 66 m/s at 17˚ below the horizontal
b. 80 m/s at 37˚ above the horizontal
c. 80 m/s at 37˚ below the horizontal
d. 66 m/s at 17˚ above the horizontal
15. A ladybug rests at the bottom of a tin can that is being whirled horizontally on the end
of a string. Since like the tin the ladybug can moves in a circle, there must be a force on
it. What exerts this force?
a. gravity
b. your hand
c. the tin can
d. the string
16. If you whirl a tin can on the end of a string and the string suddenly breaks, the tin can
will________________.
a. fly directly toward you.
b. fly directly away from you.
c. spiral away from your hand.
d. fly off tangent to its circular path.
Write “F” if a contact force has been exerted in the situation and “N” if a non-contact force has
been exerted.
17. Pushing a cart
18. Moon’s attraction to Earth causing tides
19. Tissue being attracted to a plastic sheet
20. Kicking a ball
21. Sitting on a chair
22. As a 500 N lady sits on the floor, the floor exerts a force on her equal to______________.
a. 1000 N c. 250 N
b. 500 N d. 50 N
23. An unfortunate bug splatters against the windshield of a moving car. Compared to
the force of the car on the bug, the force of the bug on the car is _____________.
a. larger
b. smaller
c. the same
d. cannot be determined
24. An unfortunate bug splatters against the windshield of a moving car. Compared to
the acceleration of the car on the bug, the acceleration of the bug on the car is
_____________.
a. larger
b. smaller
c. the same
d. cannot be determined
25. An object weighs 30 N on earth. A second object weighs 30 N on the moon. Which has
greater mass?
a. The one on earth
b. The one on the moon
c. They have the same mass
d. Cannot be determined
26. Which has more mass, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of iron?
a. feathers
b. iron
c. They both have the same mass
d. Cannot be determined
27. In which of the following situations is work being done from a scientist’s perspective?
a. a person sitting on the chair c. a person walking with a load on its head
b. a person pushing the wall d. a person lifting a box
28. Which of these equations gives the amount of work done?
a. Work = F/d c. Work = Fd
b. Work = Fgd d. Work = F/t
29. How much work is done in holding a 1-kg object 2 m above the ground?
a. zero c. 9.8
b. 2 d. 19.6
30. How much work was done on an object when a constant force of 20 N pushed it 2 m
away?
a. zero c. 20
b, 10 d. 40
31. In science, which statement correctly describes work?
a. Work is done whenever force is applied.
b. Work is done when you are paid for the effort exerted.
c. Work is done when force applied moves the object through a distance.
d. Work is done when force is applied for a longer time.
32. In which situations shown in the figures below is work done equal to zero?
a. c.

b. d.
33. A force of 25 N is used to slide a 150-N sofa, 5 m across a floor. How much work is
done on the sofa?
a. 0 joule b. 125 joules c. 245 joules d. 750 joules
34. An object lifted to a height of 5 meters gained 1000 J of potential energy. Then, it is
allowed to freely fall. What is its kinetic energy when it hits the ground?
a. zero J c. 5000 J
b. 1000 J d. 50000 J
35. The power in watts when a 400 N weight is lifted to a height of 6 m in 2 minutes is
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40
36. Which of the following is the correct description of momentum?
a. The product of force and time
b. The change in velocity per unit time
c. The product of force and distance
d. The product of mass and velocity
37. Which of the following is the correct unit of momentum?
a. N.m2
b. N/m2
c. N.s
d. N/s2
38. The momentum change of an object is equal to the ______________.
a. force acting on it
b. impulse acting on it
c. velocity change of the object
d. force acting on it times its velocity
39. Which has more momentum, a large truck moving at 30 km/h or a small truck
moving at 30 km/h?
a. large truck
b. small truck
c. Both have the same momentum
d. Cannot be determined
40. Suppose a gun is made of a strong but very light materials. Suppose also that the
bullet is more massive than the gun itself. For such a weapon ________________.
a. the target would be a safer place than where the shooter is located
b. recoil problems would be lessened
c. conservation of energy would not hold
d. conservation of momentum would not hold.

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