Republic of the Philippines BULACAN AGRICULTURAL STATE COLLEGE San Ildefonso, Bulacan LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL

PRETEST in SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 1V

Name: _____________________________________________ Score: ____________________ Yr. & Section: _______________________________________ Mrs. Edna Mae C. David - Cruz DIRECTION: Each question in the test is followed by four choices for an answer. Read each question and decide which the best answer is. Encircle the letter of the best answer. 1 Which one of the following combinations contains one SCALAR and one VECTOR quantity? A. momentum & force B. displacement & acceleration C. potential difference & electric field strength D. resistance & electric current Which one of the following pairs consists of two vector quantities? A. time, acceleration B. velocity, displacement C. electric field strength, charge D. momentum, kinetic energy A boy throws a ball vertically upwards as shown. What is the displacement of the ball when it returns to its starting point? A. 0 m B. 5 m C. 5 m upwards then 5 m downwards D. 10 m

Using a stopwatch, Tom measured the time for a motor car to pass through 2 streetlights. The reading was 1.2 s. If the reaction time of Tom is 0.2 s, what is the maximum possible percentage error of his measurement? A. 8.33% B. 16.7% C. 33.3 % D. 66.7% Which of the following statements is incorrect? A. All scalar quantities have direction. B. All scalar quantities have magnitude. C. All vector quantities have magnitude. D. All vector quantities have direction. One person can run 400m in 55s and another can run the same distance in 58s. If they run together, the distance the faster runner beat the slower runner is A. 21m B. 22 m C. 23 m D. 24 m. Which of the following figure is stable? A.

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Which object has the greatest inertia? A. a 15-kg mass travelling at 5.0 m/s C. a 10.-kg mass travelling at 5.0 m/s Scalar is to vector as A. speed is to velocity C. displacement is to velocity

B. a 10.-kg mass travelling at 10. m/s D. a 5.0-kg mass travelling at 15 m/s

B. displacement is to distance D. speed is to distance

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Which situation describes an object that has no unbalanced force acting on it? A. an apple in free fall B. a satellite orbiting Earth C. a hockey puck moving at constant velocity across ice D. a laboratory cart moving down a frictionless 30.0 incline Balls A and B are thrown vertically upwards and downwards respectively. If their initial speeds are the same, which of the following statements is/are correct when they meet? (1) Their displacements should be the same. (2) Their speeds should be the same. (3) Their accelerations should be the same. A. (1) only B. (3) only C. (1) and (2) only D. (1) and (3) only

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In the following figure, a ball runs on a smooth rail from P to Q.

Which of the following graphs best represents the variation of the distance d travelled by the ball with time t?

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A rock is dropped from a bridge. What happens to the magnitude of the acceleration and the speed of the rock as it falls? [Neglect friction.] A. Both acceleration and speed increase. B. Both acceleration and speed remain the same. C. Acceleration increases and speed decreases. D. Acceleration remains the same and speed increases. Which body is in equilibrium? A. a satellite moving around Earth in a circular orbit B. a cart rolling down a frictionless incline C. an apple falling freely toward the surface of Earth D. a block sliding at constant velocity across a tabletop

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A student is standing in an elevator that is accelerating downward. The force that the student exerts on the floor of the elevator must be A. less than the weight of the student when at rest B. greater than the weight of the student when at rest C. less than the force of the floor on the student D. greater than the force of the floor on the student A heavy ball is suspended as shown. A quick jerk on the lower string will break that string but a slow pull on the lower string will break the upper string. The rst result occurs because: A. the force is too small to move the ball B. action and reaction is operating C. the ball has inertia D. air friction holds the ball back

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A cannon res a projectile as shown. The dashed line shows the trajectory in the absence of gravity; 2 points MNOP correspond to the position of the projectile at one second intervals. If g = 10 m/s , the lengths X,Y,Z are: A. 5 m, 10 m, 15 m B. 5 m, 20 m, 45 m C. 10 m, 40 m, 90 m D. 10 m, 20 m, 30 m

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In the figure below, a cannon-ball has been fired from a cannon

Which of the following figures best shows the direction of the resultant force acting on the cannonball at different time?

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In a drill during basketball practice, a player runs the length of the 30.0-meter court and back. The player does this three times in 60 seconds. The magnitude of the players total displacement after running the drill is A. 0.0 m C. 30.0 m B. 60.0 m D. 180 m

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Four identical projectiles are launched with the same initial speed, v, but at various angles above the level ground. Which diagram represents the initial velocity of the projectile that will have the largest total horizontal displacement? [Neglect air resistance.] A. B. C. D.

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Two forces act concurrently on an object on a horizontal, frictionless surface, as shown in the diagram below. What additional force, when applied to the object, will establish equilibrium?

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B. 4 N toward the right D. 4 N toward the left

The graph below shows the relationship between the speed and elapsed time for an object falling freely from rest near the surface of a planet. What is the total distance the object falls during the first 3.0 seconds? A. 12 m B. 44 m C. 24 m D. 72 m

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As shown in the diagram below, a student standing on the roof of a 50.0-meter-high building kicks a stone at a horizontal speed of 4.00 meters per second. How much time is required for the stone to reach the level ground below? [Neglect friction.] A. 3.19 s B. 10.2 s C. 5.10 s D. 12.5 s

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Four projectiles, A, B, C, and D, were launched from, and returned to, level ground. The data table below shows the initial horizontal speed, initial vertical speed, and time of flight for each projectile.

Which projectile traveled the greatest horizontal distance? [Neglect friction.] A. A B. B C. C D. D 25 A baseball is thrown vertically into the air. The acceleration of the ball at its highest point is: A. zero B. g, down C. g, up D. 2g, down

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Of the following situations, which one is impossible? A. A body having velocity east and acceleration west B. A body having constant velocity and variable acceleration C. A body having zero velocity and non-zero acceleration D. A body having constant acceleration and variable velocity An object is thrown vertically upward at 35 m/s. Taking g = 10 m/s , the velocity of the object 5s later is: A. 7.0 m/s up B. 15 m/s down C. 15 m/s up D. 85 m/s down A heavy wooden block is dragged by a force F along a rough steel plate, as shown below for two possible situations. The magnitude of F is the same for the two situations. The magnitude of the frictional force in (ii), as compared with that in (i) is: A. the same B. greater C. can be less or greater, depending on the magnitude of the applied force. D. less
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A feather and a lead ball are dropped from rest in vacuum on the Moon. The acceleration of the feather is: A. more than that of the lead ball B. the same as that of the lead ball C. less than that of the lead ball D. zero since it oats in a vacuum A picture is to be hung from the ceiling by means of two wires. Order the following arrangements of the wires according to the tension force of wire B, from least to greatest.

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B. III, II, I

C. I and II tie, then III

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The center of mass of the system consisting of Earth, the Sun, and the planet Mars is: A. closer to the Sun than to either of the other bodies B. closer to Earth than to either of the other bodies C. closer to Mars than to either of the other bodies D. at the geometric center of the triangle formed by the three bodies Two carts (A and B), having spring bumpers, collide as shown. Cart A has a mass of 2 kg and is initially moving to the right. Cart B has a mass of 3 kg and is initially stationary. When the separation between the carts is a minimum:

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A. cart B is still at rest B. cart A has come to rest C. the carts have the same momentum D. the kinetic energy of the system is at a minimum 33 Two objects are traveling around dierent circular orbits with constant speed. They both have the same acceleration but object A is traveling twice as fast as object B. The orbit radius for object A is the orbit radius for object B. A. four times B. one-fourth C. one-half D. twice Two automobiles are 150 kilometers apart and traveling toward each other. One automobile is moving at 60 km/h and the other is moving at 40 km/h mph. In how many hours will they meet? A. 2.5 B. 2.0 C. 1.75 D. 1.5 A ball is in free fall. Upward is taken to be the positive direction. The displacement of the ball during a short time interval is: A. positive during ascent and negative during descent B. positive during both ascent and descent C. negative during both ascent and descent D. negative during ascent and positive during descent

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