ETHIOPIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

REMEDIAL PROGRAMME (2022/2023)

PHYSICS EXAMINATION BOOKLET

TIME ALLOWED: 3 hrs.

Name:______________________ ID No:_______ Section:__________

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This booklet consists of three items of different types:

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If it’s necessary, you can use the following given value

Gravity =
Mass of electron

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I. CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER FOR EACH QUESTION
1. The dot product of Vector and is ____________.
A. 8 C. 12
B. 4 D. 24
2. Which one of the following statement is correct?
A. The work done by a non-conservative force on a particle moving between any two
points is independent of the path taken by the particle.
B. The work done by a non-conservative force on a particle moving through any
closed path is zero.
C. The work done by a conservative force on a particle moving through any closed
path is zero.
D. The work done by a conservative force on a particle moving between any two
points is dependent of the path taken by the particle.
3. Which one of the following statement is correct according to transversal wave particle
motion?
A. Particles of the disturbed medium oscillate perpendicular to the direction of wave
motion.
B. Particles of the disturbed medium oscillate parallel to the direction of wave motion.
C. Particles of the disturbed medium oscillate elliptical to the direction of wave
motion.
D. Particles of the disturbed medium oscillate circular to the direction of wave motion.
4. If the speed of sound in air is 300m/s, what is the wave length of sound wave at 500
Hz?
A. 1.7 m C. 17 m
B. 0.6 m D. 6 m
5. A car moving along the x-axis starts from the position when and stops
at when . What the average of velocity during this interval of time?

A. C.
B. D.

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6. Which one of the following statement is correct?
A. An inelastic collision is a collision in which both kinetic energy and linear
momentum are conserved.
B. An inelastic collision a collision in which only kinetic energy is conserved.
C. An elastic collision is a collision in which both kinetic energy and linear
momentum are conserved
D. An elastic collision is a collision in which only kinetic energy is conserved.
7. If and . What is the vector product of the two vectors

A. C.

B. D.
8. Which one of the following is correct according to the relation between coefficient of
volume expansion and coefficient of linear expansion?
A. C.
B. D.
9. Three resistances are connected as figure below. What is the equivalent of the
resistances?

A. 4 Ω C. 8Ω
B. 0.4 Ω D. 0.8 Ω
10. Which one of the following statement is correct?
A. Like charges attract each other and unlike charges repel each other.
B. Unlike charges attract each other and like charges repel each other.
C. Charge is not conserved.
D. Charge is not quantized.

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11. How long will a current of 4 A take to pass 100C of charge?
A. 0.04 s C. 0.25 s
B. 25 s D. 4s
12. Which one of the following statement is correct?
A. Faraday’s Law states that the size of the induced electromotive force is inversely
proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux.
B. Lenz’s Law states that, the direction of the induced electromotive force is always
such as to oppose the change of magnetic flux.
C. Coulomb’s Law which states that, the magnitude of the electrostatic force between
two point charges is inversely proportional to the magnitudes of the two charges.
D. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation states that, every object in the universe
attracts every other object with a force that is inversely proportional to the product
of the masses of the particles.
13. A charge of 10 C is in an electric field of . What is the force acting on the
charge?
A. 50 N C. 2 N
B. 0.5 N D. 15 N
14. According to first law of thermodynamics, which one of the following statement is
correct?
A. The internal energy of the system can be increase when the work is done by the
system and heat added on the system.
B. If the system is an isolated system, the internal energy of the system is not
constant.
C. If the process is an adiabatic process, the internal energy of the system is equal to
the work done by the system.
D. The internal energy of the system can be increase when the work is done on the
system and heat added on the system.
15. Which one of the following statement is incorrect?
A. The magnitude of torque is depending on the size of the force.
B. The magnitude of torque is depending on the moment arm of force.
C. The magnitude of torque is depending on the line of action of force.
D. The magnitude of torque is independent of the line of action of force.

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16. Vector has magnitude of 4 units and makes an angle of 450 with the positive x-axis.

Vector also has the same magnitude of 4 units and directed along the positive x-axis.
Which one of the following statement is correct?
A. The horizontal component of the resultant vector is 2.83 units.
B. The vertical component of the resultant vector is 6.83 units.
C. The magnitude of resultant vector is 7.4 units.
D. The direction of resultant vector is .
17. The SI unit of angular momentum is ______________.
A. N m C. Nms
B. D.
18. According to electric field line properties, which one of the following statement is
NOT correct?
A. The magnitude of charge and the number of field lines are inversely proportional to
each other.
B. The field lines never intersect with each other.
C. The field lines are perpendicular to the surface of the charge.
D. The field strength is proportional to the concentration of the lines.
19. According to Ohm’s law, which one of the following is proportional constant?
A. Voltage C. Resistance
B. Current D. Voltage and current
20. Calculate the increase in length of a 50cm brass road that is heated from C to C.

brass= .
A. C.
B. D.
21. A 10 F capacitor is charged to the voltage which has 6 V. How much energy does it
contain?
A. C.
B. D.
22. The SI unit of angular acceleration is______.
A. C.
B. D.

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23. A flywheel of mass 5 kg consists of a flat uniform disc of radius 2 m. It pivots about the
central axis perpendicular to its plane. What it’s the moment of inertia?
A. C.
B. D.
24. The amount of damping that leads to the oscillator settling back to the stationary state at
the equilibrium position in the shortest possible time is__________.
A. Under damping C. Critical damping
B. Over damping D. Light Damping
25. A block of mass m is initially at rest on a horizontal surface with static coefficient of
frictional force. A horizontal force of F is required to set the block in motion as the
figure below. What is the value of static coefficient of the block?

A. C.

B. D.

26. Two point charges, one of 4 C and the other of 3 C are placed 2 m apart. What is the
force which acts, between them?
A. C.
B. B. D.
27. What is the cause of refraction wave changes in its direction when it passes from one
medium to another medium?
A. Speed C. Amplitude
B. Frequency D. Acceleration
28. Which one of the following is non-contact force?
A. Gravitational force C. Friction force
B. Air resistance force D. Tension force

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29. A 1 kg mass undergoes an acceleration given by . What is the
magnitude and direction of the force?
A. 5 N and C. 5 N and
B. 50 N and D. 50 N and
30. If an electron in copper near the lowest possible temperature has a kinetic energy of
, what is the speed of the an electron?
A. C.
B. D.

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II. FILL IN THE BLANK SPACES WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
31. Unit vector of the given vector is_______________________.
32. ____________________is a disturbance which does not require a material medium for
its propagation.
33. _______________ is the cancelling out of oscillations caused by the superposition of
two waves that are in antiphase.
34. If are connected in a series form. The equivalent capacitance
of the two capacitor is__________________.
35. ___________________is the maximum displacement from the equilibrium position of
the wave.
36. A copper resistor ( ) whose value is 20 Ω at 0 is warmed from that
temperature up to 100 . The resistance of the copper after its hot is____________.
37. If copper cable has cross sectional area of a length of , and resistivity
. The resistance of the cable is _______________________.
38. _______________is defined as the time rate of energy transfer.

39. A force act at a displacement of . The torque produced by the force

is________________.
40. A flywheel spins 100 times each minute. The angular velocity of this flywheel is
_____________________.
41. The strength of magnetic field produced by a current-carrying wire is depends on:
i. ________________________________.
ii. ________________________________.
iii. ________________________________.
42. The strength of magnetic field in a solenoid depends on:
i. ________________________________.
ii. ________________________________.
iii. ________________________________.

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III. WORK OUT ITEM
43. An object which has 2 kg oscillates with simple harmonic motion along the x-axis. Its
position varies with time according to the equation . Where t is in
second and the angle is in radian.
A. Determine the amplitude, frequency, and period of the motion.
B. Calculate the velocity and acceleration of the object at any time t.
C. Determine the maximum position, maximum speed, and maximum acceleration
of the object.
D. Calculate the total energy of an oscillator at a maximum displacement
44. A 1500 kg car is at rest on a frictionless hill inclined at .
A. Sketch a free-body diagram of the car motion.
B. Find the car’s acceleration when it is released and normal force acting on the car.
C. If the hill is 55 m long, what would be the car’s final velocity at the bottom of the
hill?
D. How long will it take for the car to reach the end of the hill?
45. A projectile is fired in such a way that its horizontal range is equal to four times its
maximum height. What is the angle of projection?

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