Reviewer in General Physics 2 – 4th Quarter

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Stars appears to move from east to west because

a. The earth rotates from west to east.
b. All stars move from east to west.
c. The earth rotates from east to west.
d. The background of the stars moves from west to east.

2. Let a thin capillary tube be replaced with another tube of insufficient length then, we find water
_______.
a. Will overflow
b. Depressed
c. Will not rise.
d. Change its meniscus.

3. Rectifiers are used to convert _________.

a. direct current to Alternating current.
b. alternating current to Direct current
c. high voltage to low voltage
d. low voltage to high voltage

4. Magnetism at the center of a bar magnet is _________.

a. minimum
b. maximum
c. minimum or Maximum
d. zero

5. Point ‘A’ is at a lower electrical potential than point ‘B’. An electron between them on the line joining
them will _____________.
a. move towards A
b. move towards B
c. move at right angles to the line joining A and B
d. remains at rest.

6. A strong permanent magnet is plunged into a coil and left in the coil. What is the effect produced on
the coil after a short time?
a. The coil winding becomes hot.
b. The insulation of the coil burns out.
c. A high voltage is induced.
d. There is no effect.

7. The Law that states that the direction can induced current is such that its own magnetic field opposes
the original change in magnetic flux that induced the current.
a. Law of conservation of energy
b. Faraday’s Law
c. Lenz’s Law
d. all of the above

8. Lenz’s law concerning the direction of an induced current in a conductor by a magnetic field could be a
restatement of?
A. Ampere’s Law B. Ohm’s Law C. Tesla’s Law D. Law of Conservation of Energy
9. To determine the directions of the induced magnetic fields, currents, and emfs the following steps are
observed EXCEPT __________.
a. Make a sketch of the situation for use in visualizing and recording directions.
b. Determine the direction of the magnetic field B.
c. Determine whether the flux is increasing or decreasing.
d. Use LHR-2 to determine the direction of the induced current I that is responsible for the induced
magnetic field B.

10. A permanent magnet is dropped, south pole-down, through a conducting loop as shown. As the
magnet falls toward—and then falls past—the area of the loop, what will be the direction of the current
flow?

a. Clockwise when falling toward, but counterclockwise as falling away.

b. Clockwise when falling toward, and clockwise as falling away.
c. Counterclockwise when falling toward, but clockwise as falling away.
d. Counterclockwise when falling toward, and counterclockwise as falling away.

11. Three polarized are placed such that, the first and the third are mutually perpendicular to
each other. Unpolarized light of intensity Io is incident or first polarized. The intensity of light emerging
from the third polaroid’s is (1/16) of the intensity of incident light. Find the angle between first the angle
between first and second polaroid.
A. α= 24.5o B. α= 25.6o C α= 30.5o D. α= 31.5o

12. For our purposes, it is sufficient to merely say that an electromagnetic wave is a transverse wave that
has both an ___________.
A. electric and a magnetic component
B. sound and magnetic waves
C. electric and wave component
D. sound and electric component

13. The use of two filters, one can completely block all the light that is incident upon the set; this will
only occur if the polarization axes are rotated such that they are:
A. Parallel to each B. perpendicular to each other.
C. Opposite to each other D. near each other

14. What will happen if you hold polarized sunglasses in front of you and rotate them. While looking at
the blue sky, you will see the sky get _____.
A. brighter B. dimmer C. invisible D. brighter and dimmer

15. What happens when two polarizing filters are placed so that their axes of polarization. Are
perpendicular to each other?
A. transmitted light is slightly weaker C. transmitted light is polarized.
B. there is no transmitted light D. transmitted light oscillates in all directions.

16. If a ray of light strikes a pane of glass at 45 degrees to the normal, it __________.
a. passes straight through as if the glass were not there.
b. leaves the glass at a smaller angle to the normal.
c. leaves the glass at a larger angle to the normal.
d. leaves with the same angle as the normal but are deflected to the side.

17. The critical angle for total internal reflection at an air-water interface is approximately 48 degrees. In
which of the following situations will total internal reflection occur?
a. light incident in water at 40 degrees. b. light incident in water at 55 degrees
c. light incident in air at 40 degrees d. light incident in air at 55 degrees

18. The dispersion of light when it passes through a prism shows that __________.
a. the prism contains many narrow, equally spaced slits.
b. all colors in the light are treated the same.
c. different colors have different indices of refraction.
d. the speed of light in a vacuum is constant.

19. For a converging lens, a ray arriving parallel to the optic axis __________.
a. appears to come from the principal focal point.
b. passes through the principal focal point.
c. passes through the "other" focal point.
d. appears to come from the "other" focal point.

20. A converging lens is used to form a sharp image of a candle. If the lower half of the lens is covered by
a piece of paper, _________________.
a. the lower half of the image will disappear.
b. the upper half of the image will disappear.
c. image will become dimmer.
d. image will not change.

21. Which of the following describes Huygens Principle?

a. Every point on a wavefront acts as a source of lots of secondary spherical wavelets, which can
therefore interfere with each other.
b. A wave can produce an interference pattern.
c. The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
d. The speed of light is constant in every direction.

22. What is a monochromatic wave?

a. A wave of a single frequency
b. A wave of double frequency
c. A wave of half frequency
d. A wave of ¾ frequency

23. What are the two types of interference waves?

a. diffraction and construction
b. construction and diffuser
c. constructive and destructive
d. destructive and diffraction

24. From the double-slit, what are the quantities should be measured?
a. Slit separation b. Fringe separation
c. slit-to-screen separation d. all of the above

25. What do you all the interference pattern of light and dark bands on the screen?
a. Graphical pattern b. Line spectrum
c. light spectrum d. fringes
26. Which of the following is NOT a postulate of the special theory of relativity?
A. Relativity Postulate
B. speed of light postulate
C. Energy Postulate
D. Cosmic Speed Limit

27. Which of the following physical properties does NOT change when the speed of objects approaches
the speed of light?
A. length B. mass C. time D. none of the above because all will change.

28. Who were the two American scientists who tried to detect the existence of ether experimentally?
A. Michelson and Newton B. Michelson and Einstein
C. Michelson and Morley D. Michelson and Graham

29. When an object moves at a much greater speed (closer to the speed of light), its mass increases.
A. True B. False C. Sometimes D. None of the above

30. When an object moves at a much greater speed (closer to the speed of light), its length parallel to its
direction of motion will be observed to be shorter.
A. True B. False C. Sometimes D. None of the above