Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region I
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE I PANGASINAN
Lingayen
BUGALLON INTEGRATED SCHOOL
Bugallon I

SUMMATIVE TEST IN GENERAL PHYSICS 1

Directions: Write the letter of your answer on the space provided before the number. Use capital
letters. Write E if there is no correct answer from the given choices.
1. A man is 6 feet and 2 inches tall. What is his height in meter?
a. 18.8 m b. 1 888 m c. 188.0 m d. 1.88 m
2. A car has a velocity of 60 km/hr. Express it in cm/s?
a. 1.67 cm/s b. 166.67 cm/s c. 1 666.67 cm/s d. 16.67 cm/s
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3. How many significant figures are there in 1.50000 x 10 ?
a. 2 b. 10 c. 4 d. 6
4. Which one of the following is the longest length?
a. 1 mm b. 102 cm c. 104 nm d. 105 µm
5. In scientific notation, the number 0.0000715 should be written as ___________.
a. 7.15 x 105 b. 7.15 x 10-5 c. 7.15 x 10-4 d. 7.15 x 104
6. Bugallon is 10 km by road from Binmaley. How far is this in yard?
a. 10 900 yd b. 9 174.31 yd c. 109 yd d. 0.0109 yd
7. The mass of a sample of a copper nitrate is 3.82 g. A student measures the mass and finds
it to be 3.31 g, 3.12 g, 3.90 g and 3.70 g in the first, second, third and fourth trial,
respectively. Which of the following statements is true for his measurements?
a. They have good accuracy but poor precision.
b. They are neither precise nor accurate.
c. They have poor accuracy but good precision.
d .They have good accuracy and precision.
8. Which of these is true for random errors?
a. They arise due to errors in the measuring instrument used.
b. They are reproducible that are consistently in the same direction.
c. They can be eliminated through repetition and averaging.
d. They can be eliminated by using calibrated equipment.
9. An antelope being chased by a lioness moved 4 km south then 3 km east. What must be
the resultant displacement of the antelope?
a. 5.0 km, 36.80 SE c. 7.0 km, 36.80 SE
b. 5.0 km, 53.130 SE d. 7.0 km, 53.130 SE
10. A displacement vector has a magnitude of 10 m and points at an angle of 180 above the
positive x axis. What is the y scalar component of this vector?
a. 3.09 m b. 9.51 m c. 3.25 m d. 32.36 m
11. A bug crawls 6.18 m along the base of a wall. Upon reaching a corner, the bug’s direction
of travel changes from south to west. The bug then crawls 2.17 m before stopping. What is
the magnitude of the bug’s displacement?
a. 3.83 m b. 4.01 m c. 6.55 m d. 5.79 m
12. Which of the following is a derived formula of Pythagorean Theorem?
a. c2= a2 - b2 b. b2= c2 - a2 c. b2= c2 - b2 d. b2= a2 - c2
13. A student walks 4 blocks south, 4 blocks west, and 4 blocks north. What is the displacement
of the student?
a. 4 blocks west b. 4 blocks south c. 4 blocks north d. 10 blocks east
14. A person travels 10 meters north, 10 meters north, and 10 meters south. What is the total
displacement?
a. 10 m east b. 10 m north c. 15 m east d. 5 m east
15. A runaway cat walks 0.44 km due North. It then runs due west to a hotdog stand. If the
magnitude of the cat’s total displacement vector is 1.91 km, what is the magnitude of the
cat’s displacement vector in the due west direction?
a. 1.27 km b. 1.33 km c. 1.86 km d. 1.96 km
16. A stone is dropped from the roof top of a tall building. The stone reached the ground after
9 s. What is the speed of the stone before it hits the ground?
a. 3.3 m/s b. 14.7 m/s c. 29.4 m/s d. 88.2 m/s
17. A vehicle running at a speed of 40 km/h accelerates for 10 s. What is the acceleration of
the vehicle?
a. 4 m/s2 b. -4m/s2 c. 1.1 m/s2 d. -1.1 m/s2
18. If you take a trip that covers 300 000 m and takes 21 600 seconds to make, your average
speed is _________.
a. 0.14 km/hr b. 100 km/hr c. 50 km/hr d. 240 km/hr
19. In the equation A=KR, if R is quadrupled, ___________.
a. K is also doubled c. K is reduced to one-fourth
b. K is increased four times d. K is reduced to half
20. If you drop a feather and a coin at the same time in a vacuum, which will reach the bottom
of the tube first?
a. Coin c. Feather
b. Neither will reach the bottom d. Both
21. An athlete runs a 400-km dash in 1 hr and 2 seconds. What is his average speed in km/s?
a. 0.45 km/s b. 0.85 km/s c. 0.75 km/s d. 0.11 km/s
22. A ball dropped from a bridge takes 2.48 seconds to reach the water below. How far is the
bridge above water?
a. 19.6 m b. 20.1 m c. 22.5 m d. 30.1 m/s
23. A tennis ball is hit, causing it to move upward from the racket at some angle to the
horizontal before it curves back to the surface in the path of a parabola. While it moves
along this path, what happens to its horizontal speed?
a. remains the same c. decreases
b. increases d. zero
24. At the maximum height, the vertical velocity of a projectile is _____.
a. equal to the initial velocity c. greater than the initial velocity
b. equal to zero d. the same as the horizontal velocity
25. Edmund shot a ball with an initial velocity of 6 m/s at 30° from the horizontal, calculate
the ball’s time of flight?
a. 0.18 s b. 0.61 s c. 3.18 s d. 2.56 s
26. Supposed a ping-pong ball is tossed. When the ball reaches the highest point, which of the
following statements is false?
a. Both its acceleration and vertical velocity are zero.
b. Its horizontal velocity is not zero.
c. Its vertical acceleration is not zero.
d. Its horizontal acceleration is zero.
27. If the speed of an object in uniform circular motion is doubled and the radial distance
remains constant, then the magnitude of the centripetal acceleration increases by what
factor?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 9
28. A ball is swinging in a circle on a string. When the string length is reduced to one-half, at
the same velocity, the force of the string will be ___________.
a. Twice as great c. One-half as much
b. Four time as great d. One-fourth as much
29. Which of the following will not cause a decrease in the centripetal force?
a. Decreasing the mass c. Increasing the radius
b. Decreasing the velocity d. Decreasing the radius
30. Calculate the amount of centripetal force it takes for a softball pitcher to rotate a ball with
a velocity of 5 m/s. The mass of the ball is 0.12 kg and his arm is 0.65 meters long.
a. 1.66 N b. 5.23 N c. 3.55 N d. 4.62 N
31. Which of the following statements is/are true about forces?
I. Forces are vector quantities.
II. Forces are present only when objects don’t interact.
III. Forces cause an object to change its state of motion.
a. I and II b. II and III c. I and III d. I, II, and III
32. The same net force is applied to object A and object B. The observed accelerations of the
two objects are not the same; object A has an acceleration one-third that of object B. Which
of the following is correct?
a. Object A has three times the mass of object B
b. Object A has one-third the mass of object B
c. Object A has a different, less streamlined shape than object B
d. Object A has more friction than object B
33. Newton's third law of motion states that whenever a second object exerts a force on a first
object, ________________.
a. the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on a third object
b. the first object is unaffected by that force
c. the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first object
d. the first object exerts an equal and opposite force on the second object
34. Newton's second law of motion states that an object's acceleration ___________.
a. increases as its mass decreases and as the force acting on it decreases
b. decreases as its mass decreases and as the force acting on it increases
c. increases as its mass increases and as the force acting on it increases
d. decreases as its mass increases and as the force acting on it decreases
35. An object has a mass of 500 kg on earth and the second object has a mass of 500 kg on the
moon. Which has the greater mass?
a. the one on the moon c. the one on the earth
b. masses are the same d. can’t tell
36. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Tension force is transmitted through a string when it is pulled tight by forces acting from
opposite ends.
b. Frictional force is exerted by a compressed or stretched spring upon any object that is
attached to it.
c. Spring force is exerted by a surface as the object moves across it or makes an effort to
move across it.
d. Air resistance acts upon objects as they travel through the water.
37. An object gains 5 Joules of potential energy as it is lifted vertically 2.0 meters. If a second
object with one-half the mass of the first is lifted vertically 2.0 meters, the potential energy
gained by the second object will be ________.
a. 10 J b. 20 J c. 5.0 J d. 2.5 J
38. How much work is done if a man carrying a basket of fruits weighing 45 N goes up a hill
that is 1 meter high?
a. 45 J b. 10 x102 J c. 4.5 x102 J d. 450 x102 J
39. Which has the greatest kinetic energy?
a. 2 g object moving at 3 m/s c. 1 g object moving at 6 m/s
b. 4 kg object moving at 3 m/s d. 6 kg object moving at 1 m/s
40. Fred pushes a wheelbarrow with a 120 N force in 5 m for 2.0 seconds. What is his power?
a. 30-watt b. 1200-watt c. 300-watt d. 6-watt
41. Three people weigh the same as they climb a flight of stairs. Which of them uses the least
power?
a. A person climbs in 30 seconds. c. A person climbs in 20 seconds.
b. A person climbs in 40 seconds. d. They all have the same power.
42. Body B did work on body A. Which statement is correct?
a. Energy of B decreased while energy of A increased.
b. Energy of B increased while energy of A decreased.
c. The energy of both bodies increased.
d. The energy of both bodies decreased.
43. A 70 kg person climbs a 2.0 m high flight of stairs within 8 seconds when he walks; and 2
seconds when he runs up the stairs. What is the power done by the person as he runs up the
stairs?
a. 171.5 J b. 560 J c. 1 372 J d. 686 J
44. A runner with a mass of 50 000 g is moving at a speed of 10 meters per second. What is
the magnitude of the momentum?
a. 5 kg.m/s b. 500 kg.m/s c. 5 000 kg.m/s d. 500 000 kg.m/s
45. A 30-kg cart traveling east with a speed of 8 meters per second collides with a 30-kg cart
traveling west. If both carts come to rest immediately after the collision, what was the speed
of the westbound cart before the collision.
a. 5 m/s b. 6 m/s c. 7 m/s d. 8 m/s
 46. A 1000 kg rocket carrying 12.5 kg of fuel and oxygen rises at a velocity of 305 m/s. If all
the mass of fuel and oxygen is burned to form gases of combustion, what is the downward
velocity of these gases?
a. 20 200 m/s, downward c. 30 500 m/s, downward
b. 24 400 m/s, downward d. 12 200 m/s, downward
47. When the speed of an object is quartered, what will happen to its momentum?
a. It will remain unchanged in accordance with the conservation of momentum.
b. It will also double.
c. It will increase four times.
d. It will be quartered.
48. In order to catch a ball, a baseball player naturally moves his or her hand backward in the
direction of the ball’s motion once the ball contacts the hand. What relationship exists
between the impact force and duration of time?
a. The longer the time, the greater the impact force.
b. No relationship between impact force and duration of time exists.
c. The shorter the time, the greater the impact force.
d. The shorter the time, the lesser the impact force.
49. Which type of collision is described when two objects don’t stick together and move with
common velocity after colliding?
a. elastic b. perfectly inelastic c. nearly elastic d. inelastic
50. For how long should a force of 50 N be applied to change the momentum of an object by
31 kg.m/s?
a. 0.24 s b. 0.15 s c. 0.62 s d. 0.06 s

Prepared by: Checked by: Noted:

JASMIN H. SORIANO ARLENE A. ROSARIO, PhD JONATHAN R. ESTRADA, EdD