EXAMINATION IN SCIENCE 9

Multiple Choice. Read each item carefully. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided
before the number.

1. Which of the following composed the two 10. If a stone is horizontally launched at a
linear motions of a projectile? certain height, how do you describe the
A. Horizontal and Circular Motion magnitude of its vertical velocity as it
B. Vertical and Circular Motion approaches the ground?
A. Cannot be determined C. Gradually
C. Horizontal and Vertical Motion
increasing
D. Vertical and Curvilinear Motion
B. Gradually decreasing D. Remains the same
2. What is referred to as an object that is given
11. What force enables objects to reach the
an initial velocity and is then acted solely upon
ground?
by gravitational force?
A. Frictional Force C. Gravitational Force
A. Project C. Target
B. Magnetic Force D. Tension Force
B. Projectile D. Trajectory
12. What is the shape of the trajectory of a
3. What do you call the path followed by a projectile?
projectile? A. Circular C. Hyperbolic
A. Project C. Target B. Elliptical D. Parabolic
B. Projectile D. Trajectory
13. Which of the following composed the two
4. What is the shape of the trajectory of a linear motions of a projectile?
projectile? A. Horizontal and Circular Motion C.
A. Circular C. Hyperbolic Horizontal and Vertical Motion
B. Elliptical D. Parabolic
B. Vertical and Circular Motion D. Vertical and
Curvilinear Motion
5. What force enables objects to fall on to the
ground?
14. What is referred to as an object that is
A. Frictional Force C. Gravitational Force
given an initial velocity and is then acted solely
B. Magnetic Force D. Tension Force upon by gravitational force?
A. Project C. Target
6. If you throw a baseball straight up, what will
its vertical velocity be at the highest point? B. Projectile D. Trajectory
A.0m/s C. 0m/s2
B.9.8m/s D.-9.8m/s2 15. What do you call the path followed by an
object under projectile motion?
7. What is the acceleration of a baseball A. Project C. Target
thrown to the air at an angle of 45 degrees B. Projectile D. Trajectory
with respect to the horizontal as it returns to
the ground? 16. What happens to the vertical velocity of an
A.0m/s C.0m/s2 object as it travels through the air?
B.9.8m/s D.-9.8 m/s2 A. Changes continuously
B. Gradually decreases
8. What happens to the vertical velocity of an C. Gradually increases
object as it travels through the air? D. Remains the same
A. Changes continuously
B. Gradually decreasing 17. What happens to the horizontal velocity of
C. Gradually increasing an object as it travels through the air?
D. Remains the same A. Changes continuously C. Gradually
increases
9. What happens to the horizontal velocity of
B. Gradually decreases D. Remains the same
an object as it travels through the air?
A. Changes continuously
18. If you throw a baseball straight up, what is
B. Gradually decreasing its vertical velocity at the highest point?
C. Gradually increasing A.0m/s C.0m/s2
D. Remains the same B.9.8m/s D.-9.8 m/s2
19. If a stone is horizontally launched at a
certain height, how do you describe the 27. What is the momentum of the two cars
magnitude of its vertical velocity as it after collision if its momentum before collision
approaches the ground? is 50 kgm/s?
A. Changes continuously A. 5 kgm/s
B. Gradually decreasing B. 15 kgm/s
C. Gradually increasing C. 30 kgm/s
D. Remains the same D. 50 kgm/s

20. What is the acceleration of a baseball 28. What type of quantity are momentum and
thrown to the air at an angle of 45 degrees velocity?
with respect to the horizontal as it returns to A. director
the ground? B. reactor
C. scalar
A.0m/s C.0m/s2 D. vector
B.9.8m/s D.-9.8 m/s2
29. What is the unit for momentum?
21. At what axis in the cartesian coordinate A. kg●m/s
system is horizontal motion usually B. N●kg
associated? C. kg●m/s2
a. x-axis D. N●m/s
b. y-axis
c. z-axis 30. What word can best describe the total
d. w-axis momentum in an isolated system?
A. conserved
22. What is the acceleration of a freely-falling B. large
object on earth? C. lost
a. 9.8 m/s2 D. low
b. -9.8 m/s2
c. 6.4 m/s2 31. What is the unit of velocity?
d. Cannot be determined A. kg
B. kg●m/s
23. Which of the following statements BEST C. m/s
shows horizontal motion? D. all of these
a. A bird catching its prey
b. Skateboarding in a U ramp 32. Calculate the momentum of a car, which
c. A cheetah leaping to catch a prey has a mass of 1000 kg and moves with a
velocity of 20 m/s.
d. Running in a 100-yard dash
A. 500 kgm/s
24. Vertical motion is a type of motion that is
B. 10, 020 kgm/s
affected by gravity. Which of the following
C. 20000 kgm/s
satisfies an object moving in vertical motion?
D. 99 980 kgm/s
a. Book on top of a table
b. Chandelier suspended in a ceiling
33. The total momentum of two objects before
c. Ball on the fifth floor of a building collision is 50 kg. m/s. What will be their total
d. Fruit falling from a tree momentum after collision?
A. 50 kg●m/s
25. What do you call the path followed by a B. 175 kg●m/s
projectile? C. 350 kg●m/s
a. Trajectory D. not enough information
b. Tracer For nos. 34&35. Two 0.5 kg balls approach
c. Follow through each other with the same speed of 1.0 m/s.
d. Follow up 34. What is the total momentum of the system
before collision?
26 Which of the following statements describes A. 0
momentum? B.0.50 kg●m/s
A. It is the product of body’s mass and velocity. C. 1.0 kg●m/s
B. It is the product of body’s mass and D.-1.0 kg●m/s
acceleration. 35. If there is no external force acting on the
C. It is the sum of body’s mass and velocity. system, what is the total momentum of the
D. It is the sum of body’s mass and system after collision?
acceleration A. 0
B.0.50 kg●m/s 43. If there is no external force acting on the
C. 1.0 kg●m/s system, what is the total momentum of the
D.-1.0 kg●m/s system after collision?
A. 0
36. Which of the following statements B.0.50 kgm/s
describes momentum? C. 1.0 kgm/s
A. It is the product of body’s mass and velocity. D.-1.0 kg m/s
B. It is the product of body’s mass and
acceleration. 44. Calculate the momentum of a car, which
C. It is the sum of body’s mass and velocity. has a mass of 1000 kg and moves with a
D. It is the sum of body’s mass and velocity of 2 m/s.
acceleration A. 500
B. 1, 002
37. Two billiard balls approach each other at C. 2000
equal speed. If they collide in a perfectly elastic D. 9 980
collision, what would be their velocities after 45. The total momentum of two objects before
collision? collision is 175 kg. m/s. What will be their
A. zero total momentum after collision?
B. same in magnitude and direction A.50 kg m/s
C. same in magnitude but opposite in direction B. 350 kg m/s
D. different in magnitude and opposite in C. 175 kg m/s
direction D. not enough information
38. Two marbles with a total mass of 20 kg 46. Which best describes potential energy?
has an initial momentum of 100 kg m/s. If the A. Energy of motion
marbles stick together after the collision, what B. Energy as heat
is the final velocity of the marbles?
C. Stored energy
A. 5 m/s
B. 80 m/s D. Energy that is doing work
C. 120 m/s
D. 2, 000 m/s 47. What is the energy of a motorcycle moving
down the hill?
39. What is the unit for momentum? A. entirely kinetic
A. kgm/s B. entirely potential
B. Nkg C. entirely gravitational
C. kgm/s2
D. both Kinetic and Potential
D. Nm/s
48. Which of the following are two types of
40. What word can best describe the total
Mechanical Energy? (ME)
momentum in an isolated system?
A. Kinetic and Potential Energy
A. conserved
B. large B. Kinetic and Nuclear Energy
C. lost C. Potential and Chemical Energy
D. low D. Thermal and Kinetic Energy
49. Which example best represents kinetic
41. What is the unit of velocity? energy?
A. kg A. stretched rubber band
B. kg m/s B. glass of milk
C. m/s C. A computer
D. all of these D. A flying kite
For nos. 42 & 43. Two 0.5 kg balls approach
each other with the same speed of 2.0 m/s. 50. Another word for kinetic energy could be
42. What is the total momentum of the system _______ energy.
before collision? A. moving
A. 0 B. safe
B.0.50 kgm/s C. potential
C. 1.0 kgm/s D. stored
D.-1.0 kg m/s