Class 11 Physics (Part I) Chapter 2 Kinematics Quiz 3 (60 MCQs)

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1. An object is dropped from a bridge and time to drop is measured. Calculate the height of the bridge.Which equation is best?
2. A fan blade, initially at rest, rotates with a constant acceleration of 0.025 rad/s$^{2}$. What is its angular speed at the instant it goes through an angular displacement of 4.2 rad?
3. How do you choose the correct kinematic equation?
4. A train travels 8 meters in the first second of travel, 8 meters again during the second second of travel, and 8 meters again during the third second. Its acceleration is
5. A quantity that is has magnitude and direction is referred to as a
6. Explain the significance of Galileo's Law in physics.
7. Identify the following quantities as scalar or vector:* the mass of an object* the no. of leaves on a tree * wind velocity
8. To determine the height of a bridge above the water, a person drops a stone and measures the time it takes for it to hit the water. If the time is 2.3 s, what is the height of the bridge?
9. A velocity-time graph shows a line with a constant positive slope. What does this indicate about the object's motion?
10. A scalar is a magnitude .....
11. A 41-kg girl and a 39-kg boy are sitting on a seesaw in equilibrium. If the boy is sitting 0.6 m from the fulcrum, where is the girl sitting?
12. Which Branch of Physics is most important when studying the motion of everyday objects like a car or bowling ball?
13. What will be on the y-axis of a position-time graph?
14. A ball rolls off a building and hits the ground 256 meters away 57 seconds later. What is the initial velocity of the ball?
15. Two motorcycles are riding around a circular track at the same angular velocity. One motorcycle is at a radius of 15 m; and the second is at a radius of 18 m. What is the ratio of their linear speeds, v$_{2}$/v$_{1}$?
16. A llama starting from rest accelerates uniformly at 5 m/s$^{2 }$for 2.6 seconds. What is thellama's final speed in m/s after the acceleration?
17. Acceleration unit
18. It took 3.5 hours for a train to travel the distance between two cities at a velocity of 120 miles/hr. How many miles lie between the two cities?
19. The Road Runner steps off a ledge and drops to the ground in 0.50 seconds. What is the Road Runner's velocity the instant he hits the ground?
20. Which would hit the ground first if dropped from the same height in a vacuum-a feather or a metal bolt?
21. As a marathon runner is running up a hill, her velocity decreases from 6 m/s to 4 m/s for a duration of 10 seconds. What was her acceleration?
22. Ray runs 30 feet north, 30 feet west, and then 30 feet south. What is the distance?
23. A soccer ball is kicked at an angle of 40 degrees from the horizontal with an initial speed of 10 m/s. Find the initial horizontal velocity of the soccer ball.
24. Suppose you are given a position versus time graph. The slope of this graph describes what quantity?
25. Approximately how far can an object fall in 5 seconds?
26. What is the nature of the slope of the acceleration-time graph in non-uniform motion?
27. Which has greater angular speed, a horse near the outside rail of a merry-go-round or a horse near the inside rail?
28. Beau throws a baseball at 23.0 m/s at an angle of 25.0 degrees relative to the ground.If the ball was caught 42.0 m from Beau, the maximum height the ball reached
29. A ball is thrown horizontally with an initial velocity of 20m/s from the top of a tower 60m high. What is the horizontal velocity of the ball just before it reaches the ground?
30. In each of the following cases, determine which car has the greatest acceleration.
31. A rock is dropped off a cliff and strikes the ground with an impact velocity of 30 m/s. How high was the cliff?
32. A spool of thread has an average radius of 1.00 cm. If the spool contains 62.8 m of thread, how many turns of thread are on the spool? "Average radius" allows us to not need to treat the layering of threads on lower layers.
33. If the translational velocity of an object is 3 m/s, and is located a distance of 2 m from the axis of rotation, what is the object's angular velocity?
34. If a car maintains a velocity of 15 m/s for 60 seconds, then how far did the car travel?
35. True or False:Objects moving in a straight line may have angular momentum.
36. The Richmond County sheriff is trying to determine the speed of a car that slid off a 5 m bridge on a rainy night and landed in a ditch. The tire tracks show that the car landed 12.0 m horizontally from the bridge. How fast was the car going when it left the road?
37. A car is moving with a constant velocity of 20 m/s. What can you say about its acceleration?
38. A 0.30m radius automobile tire rotates how many radians after starting from rest and accelerating at a constant 2.0 rad/s$^{2}$ over a 5.0 s interval?
39. Which of the following is an example of a vector quantity?
40. A student launches projectiles with the same velocity but at different angles (0-90$^\circ$) relative to the ground. He measures the range of each projectile. Which angle pairs have the same range?
41. A gyroscope is spinning with an angular velocity of $\omega = 8\, \text{rad/s}$
42. An object moves from P to Q in 10 s with uniform acceleration. velocity at P = 5 m / svelocity at Q = 12 m / sWhat is the acceleration?
43. If a 10kg ball and a 200kg crate were dropped from the top of a building, the acceleration of the crate would be ..... the acceleration of the ball.
44. A car is going 50m/s and accelerates to pass a truck. Five seconds later the car is going 80m/s. Calculate the acceleration of the car
45. Bergen drops a pumpkin from the school roof to demonstrate the acceleration due to gravity. The pumpkin drops for 4 seconds before splatting on the ground. What was the pumpkin's final velocity? (use our class rule for acceleration due to gravity)
46. Which statement about displacement and distance is true?
47. A dog running with an initial speed of 7.5 m/s comes to a stop in 5 seconds. What is the dog's displacement?
48. According to convention, counter-clockwise is always considered the ..... direction when rotating.
49. Which of the following is an example of a velocity?
50. An engineer is designing the runway for an airport. Of the planes that will use the airport, the lowest acceleration rate is likely to be 3 m/s$^{2}$. The takeoff speed for this plane will be 65 m/s. All airplanes will start from rest. Assuming this minimum acceleration, what is the minimum allowed length for the runway?
51. A ball is thrown upward in the air with an initial velocity of 40 m/s. How long does it take to reach back to the point it was thrown from?
52. If a figure skater pulls in her arms during a spin, what happens to her angular velocity?
53. A cat is chasing after a mouse. How long will it take for it to have a final velocity of 6m/s if we assume the initial velocity was 0 m/s and the acceleration is 0.738 m/s2?
54. A solid sphere, solid cylinder, and a hollow pipe all have equal masses and radii. If the three of them are released simultaneously at the top of an inclined plane and do not slip, which one will reach the bottom first?
55. Two bugs ride a turntable which is rotating at a constant rate of 4 rad/s. Bug A is at a radius of 4 cm, while bug B is at a radius of 8 cm. Which of the following is true?
56. The unit we use to measure acceleration is .....
57. Sue runs 400 m to Andy's house, turns around, and runs 400 m back home. What was Sue's displacement?
58. An object with an initial velocity of 15 m/s experiences a constant acceleration for 3 seconds until it reaches 45 m/s. What is the object's acceleration during this time?
59. A car is traveling at an unknown velocity. It accelerates constantly over 5.0 seconds at a rate of 3.0 m/s2 to reach a velocity of 30 m/s. What was the original velocity of the car?
60. The science concerned with describing the interactions of energy, matter, space, and time; it is especially interested in what fundamental mechanisms underlie every phenomenon