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2. What is defined as the distance the light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 second?
A. Yard
B. Feet
C. Meter
D. Inch
30. What refers to the mass which is accelerated at the rate of one foot per second when acted
on by a force of one pound?
A. Slug
B. Erg
C. Dyne
D. BTU
31. The size of some bacteria and living cells is in the order of _______.
A. centimetre
B. millimetre
C. nanometer
D. micrometer
32. The size of the largest atom is in the order of ________.
A. centimeter
B. millimeter
C. nanometer
D. micrometer
41. An electron volt is the energy required by an electron that has been accelerated by a potential
difference of how many volts?
A. 1 volt
B. 0.1 volts
C. 10 volts
D. 0.01 volts
47. The vector product of two parallel or antiparallel vectors is always ______.
A. equal 1
B. greater than 1
C. less than 1
D. equal to 0
49. What refers to physical quantities that are completely specified by just a number and a unit or
physical quantities that have magnitudes only?
A. Scalar quantities
B. Vector product
C. Dot product
D. Vector quantities
50. What refers to physical quantities that have a magnitude and a direction?
A. Scalar quantities
B. Vector quantities
C. Dot product
D. Vector quantities
53. What is an arrowed line whose length is proportional to the magnitude of some vector quantity
and whose direction is that of the quantity?
A. Vector diagram
B. Vector
C. Component
D. Resultant
54. What is scaled drawing of the various forces, velocities or other vector quantities involved in
the motion of a body?
A. Vector diagram
B. Vector
C. Component
D. Resultant
55. The _______ of a moving object is the distance it covers in a time interval divided by the time
interval.
A. acceleration
B. instantaneous speed
C. average speed
D. instantaneous velocity
56. The rate at which velocity changes with time is known as ________.
A. acceleration
B. instantaneous speed
C. average speed
D. instantaneous velocity
57. The work done by the net force on a particle equals the change in the particles kinetic
energy. This statement is known as _________.
A. Law of conservation of energy
B. Work-energy theorem
C. Law of conservation of work
D. Total work theorem
58. The ________ of a particle is equal to the total work that particle can do in the process of
being brought to rest.
A. kinetic energy
B. potential energy
C. total energy
D. mechanical energy
61. What is defined as any influence that can change the velocity of an object?
A. Impulse
B. Force
C. Energy
D. Work
62. What is a measure of the inertia of an object?
A. Density
B. Weight
C. Mass
D. Force
63. What is the property of matter which is the reluctance to change its state of rest or of uniform
motion?
A. Impulse
B. Momentum
C. Inertia
D. Equilibrium
64. If no net force acts on it, an object at rest will remain at rest and an object in motion will
remain in motion at constant velocity. This statement is the _______.
A. first law of motion
B. second law of motion
C. third law of motion
D. dAlemberts principle
65. The net force acting on an object equals the product of the mass and the acceleration of the
object. The direction of the force is the same as that of the acceleration. This statement is the
_______.
A. first law of motion
B. second law of motion
C. third law of motion
D. d Alemberts principle
66. When an object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts on the first a force
of the same magnitude but in the opposite direction. This statement is the _____.
A. first law of motion
B. second law of motion
C. third law of motion
D. dAlemberts principle
67. What refers to the force with which the earth attracts an object?
A. Gravitational pull
B. Mass
C. Weight
D. All of the above
70. What refers to the force between two stationary surfaces in contact that prevents motion
between them?
A. kinetic friction
B. sliding friction
C. starting friction
D. static friction
74. For the same materials in contact, what is TRUE between coefficient of static friction and
coefficient of kinetic friction?
A. Coefficient of static friction is always less than the coefficient of kinetic friction
B. Coefficient of static friction is always equal to the coefficient of kinetic friction
C. Coefficient of static friction is always greater than the coefficient of kinetic friction.
D. Coefficient of static friction may be greater than or less than the coefficient of kinetic friction.
79. When the vector sum of the external forces acting on the system of particles equals zero, the
total linear momentum of the system __________.
A. becomes zero
B. maximizes
C. changes abruptly
D. remains constant
83. What will happen to the kinetic energy if it is a completely inelastic collision?
A. It is conserved.
B. It is lost to maximum value.
C. It is gained from the loss of potential energy.
D. It is lost to minimum value.
84. Coefficient of restitution is the ratio of:
A. relative speed after collision to relative speed before collision
B. relative speed before collision to relative speed after collision
C. relative speed to absolute speed
D. absolute speed to relative speed
88. When the vector sum of the external forces acting on a system of particles equals zero, the
total linear momentum of the system remaining constant. This statement is known as:
A. Law of universal gravitation
B. Law of conservation of impulse
C. Law of conservation of momentum
D. Law of conservation of energy
89. What refers to the product of the force and the time during which a force acts?
A. Impulse
B. Momentum
C. Power
D. Energy
92. What refers to the force perpendicular to the velocity of an object moving along a curve path?
A. Centrifugal force
B. Centripetal force
C. Reverse-effective force
D. Gravitational force
94. What refers to the time needed by an object in uniform circular motion to complete an orbit?
A. path time
B. orbit time
C. revolution
D. period
95. The centripetal acceleration of a particle in uniform motion is _______ to the radius of its path.
A. directly proportional
B. inversely proportional
C. equal
D. not related in any way
96. Gravitation occurs between all objects in the universe by virtue of their ________.
A. mass
B. density
C. weight
D. volume
97. Every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force directly proportional to
the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance separating
them. This statement is known as:
A. Law of conservation of energy
B. Law of universal gravitation
C. Law of conservation of momentum
D. Law of conservation of impulse
98. The gravitational force of the earth on an object varies of the ______ the distance of the
object from the center of the earth.
A. inversely as
B. inversely as the square of
C. directly as
D. directly as the square of
99. A rotating body has kinetic energy. This statement is ________.
A. sometimes true
B. sometimes false
C. always true
D. always false