Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION II – CAGAYAN VALLEY
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CAGAYAN
LICERIO ANTIPORDA SR. NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL- MAIN

QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN GENERAL PHYSICS 1

First Semester, SY 2022-2023
“Learn to be independent. Try not to seek answers from others because it means you do not believe in your own
capabilities.”
Name: ______________________________________Year & Strand: _________________ Date: __________________
I. SCIENTIFIC NOTATION, SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS & CONVERSION OF UNITS
A. Directions: Express each digits in its Scientific notation. Write your answer in the space provided. (2 pts each)
1) 12,345,000,000,000  _____________________
2) 245,300,000,000,000,000  _____________________
3) 0.000000000000423  _____________________
4) 0.000010004  _____________________
5) 0.0000001114  _____________________
B. Directions: Indicate the number of significant digits in each item. Write your answer in the space provided.
1) 0.0000000000003005  __________
2) 124,000,000  __________
3) 3.000004  __________
4) 1000.00  __________
5) 23,000.  __________
II. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. Write your answer on the space provided. USE
CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY!
1. In a laboratory experiment, a group of students are tasked to weigh an analyte sample. Suppose the actual mass of
the analyte sample is 5.8 g and the students measured 5.79 g and 5.81 grams. What can you infer about their
measurements?
a. precise c. accurate
b. precise but not accurate d. accurate but not precise
2. Suppose another group of students tried to measure the analyte sample in item number 1 and got measurements of
11.2 g, 11.21g, 10.98 g, respectively. What can infer about their measurements?
a. precise c. accurate
b. precise but not accurate d. accurate but not precise
3. You measured the length of a stick using a vernier caliper for a miniature bridge building project and got the
following values: 806 mm, 810 mm, and 801 mm. What could have been the reason for this?
a. Random error c. Systematic error
b. Percentage error d. Inaccurate error
4. Using a triple beam balance that has been kept for some few years at the laboratory, you measured the mass of a
pebble. The measurement you got was not the same with the measurement of your teacher using a new triple beam
balance? What kind of error is this?
a. Random error c. Systematic error
b. Percentage error d. Inaccurate error
5. The scale reading of a weighing scale is 1 kg. If there are 10 divisions in the scale, what is the smallest value of the
weighing scale?
a. 100 g c. 0.001 g
b. 10 g d. 1000 g
6. Which of these expresses a vector quantity?
a. 20 kg c. 50 m/s
b. 20 kg to the East d. 50 m/s to the West
7. What is the resultant displacement of an ant travelling at 50cm East and 20 cm West?
a. 70 cm East c. 54 cm West
b. 30 cm East d. 30 cm West
8. What is the resultant displacement of a car that travelled 60 km North and decided to go back by 85 km?
a. a. 145 km S b. –15 km S c. 15 km S d. 15 km N
 9. Vector C has the components C = 24 km West and C = and 11.8 km North. What is the component form for vector
x y

C?
a. C = (24 km, 11.8 km) c. C = (11.8 km, 24 km)
b. C = (-24 km, -11.8 km) d. C = (-24 km, 11.8 km)
10. Which of the following can be used to represent the x-component of a vector d = (29.7 m/s , -96.1 m/s )?
2 2

a. a. 29.7m/s N 2
b. 29.7m/s S
2
c. 29.7m/s E
2
d.29.7m/s W
2

11. Jake walks east through a passenger car on a train that moves 10 m/s in the same direction. Jake’s speed relative to the
car is 2 m/s. Jake’s speed relative to an observer at rest outside the train is
a. 2 m/s c. 8 m/s
b. 5 m/s d. 12 m/s
12. Which of the mathematical quantities is described as the rate of change in velocity?
a. Δx = x - x
f i b. a = (Δv/Δt) c. v = (d/Δt) d. None of the above
13. A gazelle travels 2 km in a half hour. What is the gazelle’s average speed?
a. 0.5 km/hr c. 2 km/hr
b. 1 km/hr d. 4 km/hr
14. Which of the following refers to the change in an object’s position ?
a. acceleration c. velocity
b. displacement d. speed
15. Which of the following describes a constant acceleration?
a. A car that changes its velocity by 2.5 m/s every second
b. A jet plane that accelerates by 50 km/h in 5 seconds and slows down by 10 km/h before it lands at the airport
c. A train that moves on a straight rail with constant speed
d. A boat that suddenly changed its direction
16. A vehicle undergoes acceleration when it ____.
a. Gains speed c. Changes direction
b. Decreases speed d. All of the above
17. What does constant acceleration mean?
a. A body changes its velocity in the same amount per second
b. A body starts from rest and accelerates infinitely
c. A body changes its velocity by varying amounts per second
d. A body that moves with constant speed Figure 18.1
18. A boat is travelling in a straight line as illustrated in the graph (Figure 18.1). Which of the
following holds true?
i. Speed increases
ii. Acceleration increases
iii. Speed increases
iv. Acceleration decreases
a. ii and iii c. i and iv
b. ii only d. i only
19. Using Figure 19.1, determine the displacement of the object from 3 to 6 seconds.
a. 60 m c. 90 m
b. 50 m d. 70 m

20. If a falling object gains 10 m/s each second it falls, its acceleration can be expressed as
Figure 19.1
a. 10 m/s/s. c. v = gt.
b. 10 m/s2. d. both A and B.
21. Jake walks east through a passenger car on a train that moves 10 m/s in the same direction. Jake’s speed relative to the car
is 2 m/s. What is Jake’s speed relative to an observer at rest outside the train?
a. 2 m/s c. 8 m/s
b. 5 m/s d. 12 m/s
22. A gazelle travels 2 km in a half hour. What is the gazelle’s average speed?
a. ½ km/h c. 2 km/h
b. 1 km/h d. 4 km/h
23. How do we describe a certain object that has a constant speed in a constant direction?
a. It has a constant velocity c. It has an instantaneous speed
b. It has a constant acceleration d. It has an average velocity
24. Which of the following statements is CORRECT about the horizontal and vertical components of projectile
motion?
a. Each component exerts two separate influences
b. Each component describes the effect of 2 vectors in a direction
c. Each component describes the effect of a single vector in two directions
 d. Each component describes the effect of a single vector in a direction
25. When no air resistance acts on a fast-moving baseball, what happens to its acceleration?
a. downward, g
b. due to a combination of constant horizontal motion and accelerated downward motion
c. opposite to the force of gravity
d. at right angles
26. When a ball is thrown, it exhibits a circular motion as it bounces. What kind of circular motion is this?
a. uniform circular motion c. non-uniform circular motion
b. Linear circular motion d. simple harmonic motion
27. Which of the following statements are true of uniform and non-uniform circular motion?
a. Orbiting satellites and ceiling fans exhibit non-uniform circular motion
b. Non-uniform circular motion denotes a change in speed of the object while uniform acceleration has
constant speed
c. Uniform circular motion covers equal distance
d. Both involves constant acceleration
28. If the acceleration due to earth’s gravity were suddenly doubled, which of the following would NOT happen?
a. A 150-N object would weigh 300 N on a spring scale.
b. A car going up a slope would slow down.
c. A high jumper would be able to jump one-half of the present record
d. Some objects that float on water would sink
29. The Earth moves about 30 km/s relative to the sun. But when you jump upward in front of a wall, the wall doesn’t slam
into you at 30 km/s. A good explanation for why it doesn’t is that
a. The sun’s influence on you is negligible.
b. The air in the room is also moving
c. Both you and the wall are moving at the same speed, before, during, and after your jump
d. The inertia of you and the wall is negligible compared with that of the sun
30. A vehicle undergoes acceleration when it ________.
a. It gains speed c. It changes direction
b. It decreases speed d. All of the above
31. If an object has a mass of 2 kg, what is its weight? (Use g= 9.8 m/s 2)
a. 4.9 N c. 10.0 N
b. 19.6 N d. 7.8 N
32. If a falling object gains 10 m/s each second it falls, how its acceleration can be expressed?
a. 10 m/s/s c. V = gt
b. 10 m/s2 d. Both A and B
33. A rock falls 180 m from a cliff into the ocean. How long is it in free fall?
a. 6 s b. 10 s c. 18 s d. 180 s
34. What does the slope of a speed-versus-time graph represents?
a. distance traveled b. velocity c. acceleration d. air resistance
35. In a vacuum tube, a feather is seen to fall as fast as a coin. This is because
a. gravity doesn’t act in a vacuum c. greater air resistance act on the coin
b. air resistance doesn’t act in a vacuum d. gravity is greater in a vacuum
III. PROBLEM SOLVING:
Direction: Solve for the following problems. Show your complete solution. Use another sheet of paper for the solution.
1. A ball is dropped from rest by a little boy from the window of a three-story apartment. How far has it fallen after
3.5 second? (5 points)
2. An airplane flies westward at a velocity of 220 km/hr. If the wind is blowing southward with a velocity of 20
km/hr, what is the resultant velocity if the airplane? (5 points)
3. A golf ball was hit and projected at an angle of 60 with the horizontal. If the initial velocity of the ball was 50m/s,
calculate the
a) Time the golf ball was in the air
b) Horizontal distance the ball traveled
c) Maximum height the ball reached
4. Suppose an astronaut has a mass of 75 kg and brought him to moon with a gravitational pull that is one-sixth that of
the earth, what will be his weight on the moon?

Prepared by: Checked by:

JENNY VHIE V. TION NIMFA A. ALAGAO

Subject Teacher Secondary School Principal III