Genphysics 2nd Q

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Department of Education
Region 1
School Division of Ilocos Norte
CATAGTAGUEN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
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SECOND QUARTER EXAMINATION IN GENERAL PHYSICS 1

Multiple Choice. Answer the question that follows. Choose the best answer from the given
choices.
Topic: Rotational Equilibrium and Rotational Dynamics
1. When seen from below, the blades of a ceiling fan are seen to be revolving
anticlockwise and their speed is decreasing. Select correct statement about the
directions of its angular velocity and angular acceleration.
a. Angular velocity upwards, angular acceleration downwards
b. Angular velocity downwards, angular acceleration upwards
c. Both angular velocity and angular acceleration upwards
d. Both angular velocity and angular acceleration downwards
2. You exert a force on a friend who is holding a 4.0-m-long rope. Now suppose you exert
the same force on your friend, but the friend is holding an 8.0-m-long rope. How will this
affect the rotational acceleration?
a. It will be quartered b. It will be halved c. It will double d. It will quadruple
3. A person sits on a freely spinning lab stool that has no friction in its axle. When this
person extends her arms,
a. her moment of inertia increases and her angular speed decreases.
b. her moment of inertia decreases and her angular speed increases.
c. her moment of inertia increases and her angular speed increases.
d. her moment of inertia increases and her angular speed remains the same.
4. Which of these objects is in static equilibrium?
GRAVITY
5. The symbol G refers to __________.
a. Acceleration due to gravity c. Potential Energy
b. Gravitational Constant d. Kinetic Energy
6. The Universal Law of Gravitation was formulated by __________.
a. Galileo b. Pascal c. Archimedes d. Newton
7. The symbol Fg is referred as the magnitude of the ___________.
a. Electrical Force c. Rotational Force
b. Gravitational Force d. Magnetic Force
8. What is the value of G (in three significant figures)?
a. 6.67 x 10-11 N m2 / kg c. 9.8 m / s2
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b. 9.11 x 10 kg d. 6.36 x 10-8 N
9. In which of the following cases would you feel weightless?
a. Walking on the moon
b. Falling from an airplane with your parachute open
c. Traveling through space in an accelerating rocket
d. Taking an exam
10. A useful way to describe forces that act a distance is in terms of __________.
a. field b. newtons c. period d. distance
11. If your mass is 75 kg on Earth, what would your mass be on the Moon?
a. 21 kg b. 21 lb c. 75 N d. 75 kg
12. How much GPE does a 10-kg block have if it is lifted 5 m high?
a. 480 J b. 490 J c. 500 J d. 510 J
13. Which of the following is NOT one of Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion?
a. The square of a planet’s period is proportional to its distance from the sun cubed.
b. The area of a planet’s orbital plane is inversely proportional to its speed.
c. A planet sweeps out equal area in an equal time interval.
d. Planets move around the sun in elliptical orbits.
14. He was a Danish astronomer who worked with Kepler. His data collected were used by
Kepler in his laws.
a. Tycho Brahe b. Aristotle c. Archimedes d. None of them
Temperature and Heat

15. Which of the following statement is NOT true about Law of thermodynamics?
a. Heat flows from an object with low temperature to an object with higher temperature
b. An object with higher temperature will gain energies from an object with lower
temperature when they are in direct contact.
c. An object with lower temperature will lose its energies when in direct contact with an
object with a higher temperature.
d. Thermal equilibrium of two objects with different temperature will attain at some point.
16. Why the electric wire that is connecting in the post outside a little bit saggy and not tightly
tied?
a. To make space for the other wires to easily connect
b. So that it will not break once the wire will expand
c. So that it will not hard for the line men to reach it.
d. So that it will not be tangled by the other wires.
17. What is 10℃∈ K ?
a. 280 b. 281 c. 282 d. 283
18. How much heat is needed to raise the temperature of 2 kg of water 5K?
a. 41800J b. 42800 J C. 43800J D. 44800J
19. Why the sand is much hotter compared to water in the beach if they are exposed with the
same source which is the sun?
a. The water has higher specific heat compared to the sand
b. The sand has higher specific heat compared to the water
c. The sand is directly exposed to sun compared to the water
d. The water is directly exposed to sun compared to the sand
Ideal Gases and the Laws of Thermodynamics

20. Which one of the following statements is not consistent with the kinetic-molecular theory
of gases?
a. Individual gas molecules are relatively far apart.
b. The actual volume of the gas molecules themselves is very small compared to the
volume occupied by the gas at ordinary temperatures and pressures.
c. The average kinetic energies of different gases are different at the same
temperature.
d. There is no net gain or loss of the total kinetic (translational) energy in collisions
between gas molecules.
e. The theory explains most of the observed behavior of gases at ordinary
temperatures and pressures.
21. Which statement best describe gases?
a. Gases consist of molecules that have enough spatial separation that the
intermolecular bonding characteristics of liquids and solid is absent.
b. Gases are almost incompressible. In liquids molecules are close to each other.
c. Gases are characterized by structural rigidity and resistance to a force applied to the
surface.
d. Gases are in the state in which matter adapts to the shape of its container but varies
only slightly in volume
22. Which of the following term does not involve in ideal gas law?
a. Pressure b. Volume c. Temperature d. Time
23. Which mathematical formula summarizes the Ideal Gas Law?
a. PV = Dt/r b. PV = ma c. PV = nRT d. PV = mgh
24. A real gas most closely approaches the behavior of an ideal gas under conditions of:
a. high P and low T b. low P and high T c. low P and T d. STP
25. Which of the following statements best describe the first law of thermodynamics?
a. Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or
destroyed.
b. Processes that involve the transfer or conversion of heat energy are irreversible.
c. It is concerned with the limiting behavior of systems as the temperature approaches
absolute zero.
d. The total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time.
26. All the following statements define the second law of thermodynamics except,
a. Processes that involve the transfer or conversion of heat energy are irreversible.
b. The total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease over time.
c. Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or
destroyed.
d. Heat is a form of energy, and thermodynamic processes are therefore subject to the
principle of conservation of energy.
27. Which one of the following definitions best describes the concept of work?
a. the flow of energy from one object or substance to another due to a difference in
temperature
b. the flow of energy from one body to another through uniform molecular motion
c. the force associated with molecular motion
d. the random motion of molecules in a gas at low pressure
28. Consider the following thermodynamic properties.
I) work done on a system
II) heat absorbed
III) entropy
IV) enthalpy
Which of these properties are state functions?
a. I and II only b. I and III only c. I only d. III and IV only
29. Which of the following statements will always apply when a reversible chemical reaction
has attained equilibrium?
a. All reactants will convert to products
b. The reaction proceeds alternately in the forward and reverse directions
c. The Gibbs free energy of the system reaches a minimum
d. The forward reaction will dominate over the reverse reaction.
Periodic Motion
30. At which position is the speed of a particle executing SHM greatest?
a. It's extreme position
b. at its equilibrium position
c. at its maximum displacement
d. somewhere between amplitude and equilibrium position
31. At which position is the acceleration of a particle executing SHM equal to zero?
a. at its extreme position
b. at its equilibrium position
c. at its maximum displacement
d. somewhere between its amplitude and equilibrium position
1 2
32. The total energy of a simple harmonic oscillator is equal to k x .What does x
2
represent?
a. any value
b. amplitude of the oscillator
c. equilibrium position of the oscillator
d. position between the maximum displacement and equilibrium position
33. Which diagram below does not represent a periodic wave?
34. The wavelength of a sinusoidal wave divided by the speed of propagation refers to what
quantity?
a. angular frequency b. frequency c. period d. wave number
Mechanical Waves and Sound
35. The speed of sound wave depends on ______________.

a. pitch b. loudness. c. temperature d. None of the above
36. A fire truck is moving at a fairly high speed, with its siren emitting sound at a specific
pitch. As the fire truck recedes from you which of the following characteristics of the
sound wave from the siren will have a smaller measured value for you than for a fireman
in the truck?
a. frequency and wavelength
b. frequency and intensity
c. wavelength and intensity
d. wavelength and speed
37. Wave pulses travel toward each other along a string as shown below. Rank the
maximum amplitude of the resulting superposition from smallest to largest (in terms of
the resulting superposition of the pulses when their centers are aligned).
a. A, B, C, D b. B, C, D, A
c. C, D, A, B d. D, C, B, A
38. Refer to figure shown in item number 3. Rank the magnitude of the maximum
amplitude of the resulting superposition from smallest to largest.
a. A=B, C=D c. B=C, A=D
b. C=A, D=B d. D=C only
39. A baseball is moving to the right with a speed
of v. At four different positions people have
radar guns pointed at the ball to measure a
Doppler shift in frequency in order to determine
the baseball’s speed, as shown in the diagram
at the right (Note: wave fronts are NOT drawn
to scale). Rank the measured shift in frequency
of the radar beam from lowest to highest based
on the position of the radar gun.
a. 1 < 2 < 4 < 3
b. 3 < 4 < 2 < 1
c. 4 < 2 < 3 < 1
d. 3 < 1 < 2 < 4
40. Which of the following produce sound?
a. soft objects c. radio stations
b. vibrating objects d. objects under pressure
41. Which of the following would be most likely to transmit sound the best?
a. steel in cabinet c. water in the ocean
b. air in your classroom d. water in a swimming pool
42. Resonance occurs when _________________.
a. someone pushes an object.
b. you vibrate an object.
c. somebody hits an object with a hammer.
d. you have applied force to a system to vibrate at its natural frequency.
43. Beats can be heard when two tuning forks ______________.
a. are sounded together
b. would sound along with the same frequency
c. would sound along with almost the same frequency
d. All of the above
44. A sound wave is a _______________.
a. shock wave
b. standing wave
c. transverse wave
d. longitudinal wave
Fluid Mechanics
45. Which of the following is an example of a force?
a. water b. other fluids c. gravity d. mass
46. A fluid can be ______.
a. a gas only b. a liquid only c. a solid or a gas d. a liquid or a gas
47. The velocity of an object is ______.
a. its standard reference point
b. the rate of change of its position
c. the process of speeding it up
d. its change in direction
48. Earth’s gravity pulls you down with a force ______.
a. greater than your weight
b. the size of your feet
c. equal to your weight
d. half your weight
49. Which of the following is NOT the SI unit of pressure?
a. N / m2 b. Pa c. Newton d. Pascal
50. At higher elevations, air pressure is ______.
a. less because there is less air above
b. greater because there is more air below
c. less because gravity is stronger
d. less because the air is moving faster
Prepared: Checked:
MARIFE D. GUADALUPE CLARITA P. DAYACOS

Subject Teacher Head Teacher III
Noted:
JOSEPH ROMEL D. ANDRES

School Principal IV

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Republic of the Philippines

SECOND QUARTER EXAMINATION IN GENERAL PHYSICS 1

Temperature and Heat

Ideal Gases and the Laws of Thermodynamics

Mechanical Waves and Sound

35. The speed of sound wave depends on ______________.

MARIFE D. GUADALUPE CLARITA P. DAYACOS

JOSEPH ROMEL D. ANDRES

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