This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Science > Physics Part I > Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Two stones are released from rest at a certain height, one a short time after the other. As they fall, will the difference in their speeds A) Increase over time. B) Decrease over time. C) Stay the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stay the same. 2. Meters per second is the unit for which physics concept? A) Time. B) Distance. C) Acceleration. D) Initial velocity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Initial velocity. 3. As a planet gets farther away from its star, its speed will ..... and its total momentum & total energy will ..... A) Decrease, increase. B) Remain the same, decrease. C) Decrease, remain the same. D) Increase, decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decrease, remain the same. 4. Which of the following quantities is PATH DEPENDENT? A) Distance. B) Displacement. C) Change in position. D) Displacement and change in position because they are the same thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distance. 5. What does the strength of gravity between two objects depend upon? A) Inertia & mass. B) Mass & weight. C) Gravity & inertia. D) Mass & distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mass & distance. 6. A child walks 5 meters north, then 4 meters east, and finally 2 meters south. What is the magnitude of the resultant displacement of the child after the entire walk? A) 5.0 m. B) 1.0 m. C) 11.0 m. D) 3.0 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5.0 m. 7. Which of the following is not a scalar? A) Displacement. B) Speed. C) Volume. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Displacement. 8. Rev/min is equivalent to which of the following? A) 60 rad/s. B) 273 rad/s. C) 2600 rad/s. D) 43.3 rad/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 273 rad/s. 9. Which Branch of Physics is most important when determining how much voltage is produced by a wind turbine? A) Relativity. B) Waves & Wave mechanics. C) Mechanics. D) Electromagnetism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Electromagnetism. 10. A quantity with both magnitude and direction is ..... A) A vector quantity. B) A scalar quantity. C) Not measurable. D) Not possible in physics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A vector quantity. 11. Is defined as the change in position of an object. It is a vector quantity and has a direction and magnitude. A) Width. B) Distance. C) Displacement. D) Lenght. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Displacement. 12. What is displacement? (taking the same example) A) The longest distance between Delhi and Varanasi. B) Shortest distance between Delhi and Varanasi. C) Distance and Displacement are the same. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shortest distance between Delhi and Varanasi. 13. A rotating platform has an angular velocity of $6 \, \text{rad/s}$ $3 \, \text{s}$ A) $-2 \, \text{rad/s}^2$. B) $-6 \, \text{rad/s}^2$. C) $-3 \, \text{rad/s}^2$. D) $-1 \, \text{rad/s}^2$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $-2 \, \text{rad/s}^2$. 14. How does acceleration affect motion in kinematics? A) Acceleration always causes objects to move at a constant speed. B) Acceleration has no effect on motion in kinematics. C) Acceleration only affects the color of the object in motion. D) Acceleration changes the velocity of an object over time, either speeding it up, slowing it down, or changing its direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acceleration changes the velocity of an object over time, either speeding it up, slowing it down, or changing its direction. 15. On an airless planet, an astronaut drops a hammer from rest at a height of 15 m. The hammer hits the ground in 1 s. What is the acceleration due to the gravity on this planet? A) 10 m/s$^{2}$. B) 20 m/s$^{2}$. C) 30 m/s$^{2}$. D) 25 m/s$^{2}$. E) 15 m/s$^{2}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 30 m/s$^{2}$. 16. For a free falling body, initial velocity is A) Infinite. B) One. C) Zero. D) Non zero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zero. 17. A baseball catcher throws a ball vertically upward and catches it in the same spot as it returns to the mitt. At what point in the ball's path does it experience zero velocity and nonzero acceleration at the same time? A) Midway on the way up. B) At the top of its path. C) The instant it leaves the catcher's hand. D) The instant before it arrives in the catcher's mitt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the top of its path. 18. If an object is in free fall for three seconds, how fast will it be falling? A) 39.2 m/s. B) 9.8 m/s. C) 29.4 m/s. D) 19.6 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 29.4 m/s. 19. A boy kicks a football from ground level with an initial velocity of 20 m/s at an angle of 30$^\circ$ above the horizontal. What is the horizontal component of its velocity at the highest point of its trajectory? A) 9.8 m/s. B) 17 m/s. C) 4.9 m/s. D) 8.7 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 17 m/s. 20. A disk starts from rest and rotates with a constant angular acceleration of $2\, \text{rad/s}^2$ A) $10\, \text{rad/s}$. B) $15.8\, \text{rad/s}$. C) $20\, \text{rad/s}$. D) $12.6\, \text{rad/s}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $15.8\, \text{rad/s}$. 21. The physical quantities for which both magnitude and direction. A) Speed. B) Vector Quantity. C) Scalar quantity. D) Acceleration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vector Quantity. 22. A train travels 6 meters in the first second of travel, 6 meters again during the second second of travel, 6 meters again during the third second. What's the train's acceleration? A) 6 m/s$^{2}$. B) 0 m/s$^{2}$. C) 18 m/s$^{2}$. D) 12 m/s$^{2}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0 m/s$^{2}$. 23. What two tools would you need to find the speed of a walker A) Spring scale and ruler. B) Ruler and stop watch. C) Balance scale and thermometer. D) Stop watch only. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ruler and stop watch. 24. A group of scientist dropped a car and a feather in vacuum chamber which of the following are the correct observation? A) The car is faster than the feather. B) The feather is faster than the car. C) They both drop at the same time. D) The feather and the car do not drop at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They both drop at the same time. 25. The unit we use to measure time is ..... A) S. B) M. C) M/s$^{2}$. D) M/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) S. 26. A 80.0 kg passenger i s seated 12 m from the center of the loop of a roller coaster. What centripetal force does the passenger experience when the roller coaster reaches an angular speed of 3.14 rad/s? A) 9500 N. B) 6900 N. C) 118 N. D) 3000 N. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9500 N. 27. The size of the gravitational force between twoobjects depends on their ..... A) Frictional forces. B) Inertia. C) Masses and the distance between them. D) Speed and direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Masses and the distance between them. 28. What is the approximate final velocity of an object that accelerates at a rate of 10 m/s every second, for 10 seconds? A) 5 m/s. B) 100 m/s. C) 1 m/s. D) 10 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 100 m/s. 29. Which of the following describes one-dimensional motion? A) Moving in a straight line. B) Moving in a circular path. C) Moving in a zigzag pattern. D) Moving in all three dimensions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moving in a straight line. 30. If an object has a negative $\omega$ $\tau$ A) Rotating clockwise and speeding up. B) Rotating counterclockwise and speeding up. C) Rotating clockwise and slowing down. D) Rotating counterclockwise and speed up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rotating clockwise and slowing down. 31. 3 m/s north is an example of a(n) ..... A) Speed. B) Velocity. C) Position. D) Acceleration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Velocity. 32. A man is driving a car at a constant velocity of 55 mi/h. If he looks down at his phone for 2.2s how far has the car moved? A) 0.8 miles. B) .033 miles. C) 121 miles. D) 0.5 miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) .033 miles. 33. An object is thrown into the air at 60 m/s, straight up. What is its velocity at the highest point? A) 60. B) -9.8. C) -60. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0. 34. What is the branch of Physics that deals with the study of motion of physical bodies? A) Optics. B) Thermodynamics. C) Mechanics. D) Electromagnetism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mechanics. 35. An ostrich runs 204 meters in 12 seconds. What was the ostrich's velocity? A) 16 m/s. B) 16.9 m/s. C) 17.1 m/s. D) 18 m/s. E) 17 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 17 m/s. 36. What is velocity? A) Speed in a specific direction. B) The quickness of an object. C) Acceleration. D) The location of an object. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speed in a specific direction. 37. An object is thrown into the air at 60 m/s, straight up. What is its acceleration at the highest point? A) 60. B) 0. C) -60. D) -9.8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -9.8. 38. What is the equation for the angular momentum of a point object moving in a straight line? A) $Fr\sin\theta$. B) $mvr$. C) $I\omega$. D) $\tau\Delta t$. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $mvr$. 39. What is the value of acceleration due to gravity? A) 9.81 meters. B) 9.81 meters per second. C) 9.81 meters per second per second. D) 9.81 meters per second squared. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9.81 meters per second squared. 40. A torque of $5\, \text{Nm}$ $0.25\, \text{m}$ A) $5\, \text{N}$. B) $25\, \text{N}$. C) $10\, \text{N}$. D) $20\, \text{N}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $20\, \text{N}$. 41. What would happen to the length of one day if Earth's moment of inertia were to increase? A) The day would be longer. B) The day would be shorter. C) The day would stay the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The day would be longer. 42. Time, in older days, was measured using A) Seconds Pendulum. B) Simple Pendulum. C) Digital clocks. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple Pendulum. 43. A feather is dropped on the moon from a height of 1.40 meters. The acceleration of gravity on the moon is 1.67 m/s$^{2}$. Determine the time for the feather to fall to the surface of the moon.Which number represents time? A) T = 1.40 s. B) T = 1.29 s. C) T = 2.54 s. D) T = 1.67 s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T = 1.29 s. 44. An object is dropped from a height of 80 meters. Assuming no air resistance, how long does it take to reach the ground? (Use $g = 9.8 \, m/s^2$ A) 2 seconds. B) 4 seconds. C) 5 seconds. D) 8 seconds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4 seconds. 45. What is true about the horizontal velocity of a projectile. A) It accelerates at-9.81 m.s2. B) It accelerates at 9.81 m/s2. C) It remains constant. D) It remains at 0 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It remains constant. 46. An object sliding down a frictionless incline will reach the bottom ..... than a rolling object released from the same height. A) With less kinetic energy. B) In more time. C) In less time. D) With more kinetic energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In less time. 47. Write in scientific notation.-318000 A) -3.18 x 10$^{-6}$. B) -3.18 x 10$^{5}$. C) -3.18 x 10$^{-5}$. D) -3.18 x 10$^{6}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -3.18 x 10$^{5}$. 48. Which is a vector? A) Distance. B) Displacement. C) A wrong answer. D) Speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Displacement. 49. Mr. McAliley walks 5 meters forward, then turns around and walks 5 meters backward. What is his distance traveled? A) 10 m. B) 0 m. C) 1 m. D) 7.07 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10 m. 50. Which of the following quantities is PATH INDEPENDENT? A) Distance. B) Displacement. C) Change in position. D) Displacement and change in position because they are the same thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Displacement and change in position because they are the same thing. 51. A man drives his car at 20 m/s for 3 hours how far did he travel in KM A) 390km. B) 60km. C) 216km. D) 140km. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 216km. 52. What is the shortest distance between the start and end point of a journey? A) Accelaration. B) Velocity. C) Displacement. D) Distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Displacement. 53. The position of an object is given by the equation x = 3.0 t2 + 1.5 t + 4.5, where x is in meters and t is in seconds. What is the instantaneous acceleration of the object at t = 3.0 s? A) 9.0 m/s/s. B) 6.0 m/s/s. C) 3.0 m/s/s. D) 19.5 m/s/s. E) 36 m/s/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6.0 m/s/s. 54. What values are always known for a free falling object? A) V$_{i}$ =-9.8 m/s a =-9.8 m/s$^{2}$. B) V$_{i}$ = 0 m/s a =-9.8 m/s$^{2}$. C) V$_{i}$ =-9.8 m/s a = 0 m/s$^{2}$. D) D =-9.8 mv$_{i}$ = 0 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) V$_{i}$ = 0 m/s a =-9.8 m/s$^{2}$. 55. The unit of acceleration is A) M. B) Jouls. C) S. D) (m/s$^{2}$). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (m/s$^{2}$). 56. What is the formula for displacement? A) Final position minus initial position. B) Initial position minus final position. C) Initial position divided by initial position. D) Final position divided by initial position. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Final position minus initial position. 57. True or False:Distance is calculated by final position minus initial position. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 58. One possible unit of speed is A) Miles per hour. B) Light years per century. C) Kilometers per hour. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 59. On the moon, a feather dropped from rest from a height of 2 meters reaches the surface in 1.57 seconds. What is the acceleration of gravity on the moon? A) 2.54 m/s$^{2}$. B) 1.59 m/s$^{2}$. C) 0.616 m/s$^{2}$. D) 1.62 m/s$^{2}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1.62 m/s$^{2}$. 60. A ball is thrown horizontally at 10 m/s. The ball hits the ground 5 s later. From what height was the ball thrown? A) 50 m. B) 150 m. C) 125 m. D) 100 m. E) 75 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 125 m. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 1Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 2Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 3Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 4Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 5Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 6Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 7Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books