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PHYSICS

1. Sound waves are examples of which of the following?


a. Transverse wave
b. Semi-transverse wave
c. Longitudinal wave
d. Square wave
2. What is the other term used to describe propagation of sound?
a. Sonic velocity
b. Threshold velocity
c. Mach number
d. Subsonic sound
3. What do you call the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in some
transparent materials?
a. Critical angle
b. Total internal reflection
c. Law of reflection
d. Index of refraction
4. What is the image that does not have light rays coming from the image, but is the result
of our brain’s interpretation of light rays?
a. Real image
b. Phony image
c. Virtual image
d. Imagined image
5. What is a wave?
a. A wavy line that moves through a material.
b. A travelling disturbance that carries energy.
c. The movement of material from one place to another.
d. The electrical signal that curves as it travels.
6. When can an observer on the ground can hear a sonic boom from an airplane travelling
faster than the speed of sound?
a. When the airplane is directly overhead.
b. After the airplane has passed by.
c. As the airplane is approaching.
d. Only when the airplane breaks the sound barriers.
7. Which of the following is a method of propagation?
a. Convection
b. Refraction
c. Conduction
d. Rarefraction
8. Which of the following is the maximum frequency that can be heard by a human ear/
a. 20 kHz
b. 12 kHz
c. 14 kHz
d. 10 kHz
9. Who was the first man to recognize the structure of electromagnetic waves, predicting
that such waves exist simultaneously as high frequency electrical and electromagnetic
waves of the same magnitude?
a. Albert Einstein
b. Oemor Sajor
c. Werner Heisenberg
d. James Clark Maxwell
10. Which is the standard speed of light in a vacuum?
a. 2 x 108 m/s
b. 2 x 109 m/s
c. 3 x 108 m/s
d. 3 x 109 m/s
11. What is the characteristics of a wave that is responsible for what we interpret as pitch?
a. Amplitude
b. Shape
c. Height
d. Frequency
12. Which can’t travel in a vacuum?
a. Radio waves
b. Light waves
c. Sound Wave
d. Short Wave
13. Sound interference is necessary to produce this phenomenon. What is this?
a. Decibels
b. Reverberation
c. Resonance
d. Beats
14. What is a luminous object?
a. An object that gives off a dim blue green light in the dark.
b. An object that produces light of its own by any method.
c. An object that shines by reflected light only.
d. An object that glows only in the absence of light.
15. In the well-known equation, Released Energy=mc2, what is c?
a. Capacitance
b. Velocity of light
c. Plank’s constant
d. Relativity constant
16. What do you call the top points of the wave?
a. Crest
b. Through
c. Frequency
d. Wavelength
17. What movement can a transverse mechanical wave caused to the particles of a material?
a. In a circular motion in the direction the waves is moving.
b. Back and forth in the same direction the wave is moving.
c. Perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving.
d. In a circular motion opposite in the direction the wave is moving.
18. The luminous intensity of the lamp is expressed in
a. Candela
b. Watts
c. Lux
d. Lumens
19. What will happen if an object pivoted at an arbitrary point is struck at its center of
oscillation?
a. There is no reaction force on the pivot.
b. The reaction force on the pivot is a maximum.
c. The object oscillates with a shorter period than it struck anywhere.
d. The object oscillates with a longer period than it struck anywhere.
20. Which band of light wavelengths are too long to be seen by the human eye?
a. Visible
b. Ultraviolet
c. Infrared
d. X-rays
21. The sky appears to be blue when the sun is high in the sky. Why?
a. Red light scattered more than blue.
b. Blue light is scattered more than the other colors.
c. The color of the sky is really blue.
d. Blue is the color of air, water and other fluids in large amounts.
22. The difference of the light emitted from a candle, from an incandescent lamp and from
the sun is basically from the differences of which one?
a. Energy sources
b. Phases of matter
c. Materials
d. Temperature
23. When will atom emits a proton?
a. If one of the electron collides with another of its electrons.
b. If one of its electrons is removed from its atom.
c. If one of its electrons shift to a quantum state of lower energy.
d. If one of its electrons shift to a quantum state of higher energy.
24. How many protons and neutrons are there in the nucleus are present in a Pb nucleus of
atomic mass of 206?
a. P = 92, N = 156
b. P = 85, N = 160
c. P = 82, N = 124
d. P = 90, N = 150
25. Which of the following properties are characteristics of the light waves from a laser?
I. The waves form a narrow beams.
II. All waves have the same frequency.
III. The waves are all in step with one another.
a. I only
b. II only
c. III only
d. I, II, and III
26. Which of the following relates the incident and refracted angles and predicts that the light
will bend toward the normal when it enters an optically denser materials?
a. Shell’s law
b. Huygen’s principle
c. Shannon’s law
d. Doppler’s law
27. What movement can a longitudinal mechanical wave caused to the particles of a
material?
a. Perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving.
b. In a circular motion in the direction the wave is moving.
c. Back and forth in the same direction the wave is moving.
d. In a circular motion opposite in the direction the wave is moving.
28. Which one of the following is NOT in SI unit?
a. Candela
b. Fahrenheit
c. Newton
d. Kilogram
29. How do lights with single frequency called?
a. Intrinsic lights
b. Monochromatic light
c. White light
d. Coherent light
30. Wavelengths of light are often expressed in angstroms. Which one is equivalent to one
(1) angstrom?
a. 10-6 m
b. 10-9 cm
c. 10-10 m
d. 10-10 mm
31. How can the resolving power of a lens be improved?
I. Increase the diameter of the lens.
II. Increase the wavelength of the light used.
III. Increase the brightness of the light used.
a. I only
b. I and II only
c. III only
d. I, II and III only
32. Which one is the universal gas constant?
a. 8.314 J/mol-K
b. 9.567 J/mol-K
c. 7.543 J/mol-K
d. 6.960 J/mol-K
33. Among the physics laws listed below, which one is different?
a. Law of acceleration
b. Law of reaction
c. Law of gravity
d. Law of inertia
34. What is the measure of the lumen output per watt input produces by the light source?
a. Lumen
b. Efficacy
c. Quality factor
d. Coefficient of utilization
35. Max Planck made the revolutionary discovery that the energy of vibrating molecules
involved in blackbody radiation existed only in which of the following?
a. Multiples of certain fixed amounts
b. Amounts that smoothly graded one into the next
c. The same, constant amount of energy in all situations
d. Amounts that were never consistent from one experiment to the next
36. A musical scale is a series of tones known as notes, that sound good when in
combination. What do you call the first note in the scale?
a. Root note
b. Fundamental note
c. Pitch
d. Octave
37. How many nodes and antinodes does the fundamental frequency of a standing wave on a
string has?
a. One node and one antinode
b. One node and two antinodes
c. Two nodes and one antinode
d. Two nodes and two antinodes
38. Which of the following statements is false?
a. Wavelengths of visible light is greater than the wavelengths of microwave.
b. Frequency of ultraviolet is greater than the frequency of infrared.
c. Frequency of radio waves is less than the frequency of infrared waves.
d. Wavelengths of x-rays is greater than the wavelengths of gamma rays.
39. In music, which of the following is used in place of frequency?
a. Beat
b. Tone
c. Pitch
d. Node
40. What is the time required for a vibrating object to complete one full cycle?
a. Frequency
b. Amplitude
c. Period
d. Time constant
41. Which of the following is true about a simple harmonic motion?
I. It is any motion that results in pure tone.
II. It is a vibration with a restoring force equal and opposite to a
displacement.
III. It is a combination of overtones.
a. I only
b. II only
c. II and III only
d. I, II and III only
42. Lux is expressed in
a. Lumens per square meter
b. Lumens per square foot
c. Lumens per square cm
d. Lumens per square mm
43. What type of vibratory motion occurs when there is a restoring force opposite to and
proportional to a displacement?
a. Simple harmonic motion
b. Under damped harmonic motion
c. Over damped harmonic motion
d. Periodic harmonic motion
44. What type of image will be produced if an object is farther from a converging lens than
its focal point?
a. Inverted image
b. The same image
c. Virtual image
d. Refracted image
45. In sound, an interval is defined as a ratio of the frequencies of two pure tones. Which one
is called an octave interval?
a. 1:2
b. 2:3
c. 3:4
d. 4:5
46. It refers to the magnitude of the auditory sensation produced by the sound.
a. Loudness
b. Intensity
c. Pitch
d. Tone
47. Which of the following waves can travel in vacuum?
a. Light waves
b. Sound waves
c. Longitudinal waves
d. Particle waves
48. Which is not a factor involved in the production of the colored patterns exhibited when
white light is incident on a thin film?
I. The varying thickness of the film.
II. The presence of different wavelength in white light.
III. The interference between incident ray and reflected ray.
a. I only
b. I and II only
c. III only
d. I, II and III
49. The period of the pendulum depends on which of the following?
a. Weight
b. Mass
c. Length
d. Speed
50. The extent of displacement of a vibrating tuning fork is related to the resulting sound
wave characteristics. Which one?
a. Frequency
b. Amplitude
c. Wavelength
d. Period
51. The period of a simple harmonic oscillation is dependent to the following except one.
Which one?
a. Mass
b. Amplitude
c. Frequency
d. Force constant
52. Which of the following is true about the energy difference between adjacent energy
levels?
a. It is the same for all quantum numbers.
b. It is smaller for small quantum numbers.
c. It is larger for small quantum numbers.
d. None of these.
53. Which band of light wavelengths are too short to be seen by the human eye?
a. Visible
b. Ultraviolet
c. Infrared
d. X-rays
54. It is the annoying brightness of light sources in person’s normal field of vision.
a. Contracts
b. Diffuseness
c. Reflected glare
d. Direct glare
55. Which one is true about the sound waves?
I. Sound waves travel faster in solids compared to liquids.
II. Sound waves travel faster in liquids compared to gases.
III. Sound waves travels faster in warm air compared to cooler air.
a. I only
b. II only
c. III only
d. I, II and III
56. The photoelectric effect proved to be a problem for a wave model of light. Why?
a. The energy of the ejected electrons varies directly with the intensity of light.
b. The energy of the ejected electrons varies inversely with the intensity of light.
c. The light intensity had no effect on the energy of the ejected electrons.
d. The number of the electrons ejected varies directly with the intensity of light.
57. How do you call the phenomenon whereby a short wavelength photon hitting an atom on
the surface of a substance causes an electron to be ejected?
a. Quantum effect
b. Photoelectric effect
c. Rutherford’s effect
d. Becquerel’s effect
58. The displacement of a vibrating object is measured by which of the following?
a. Period
b. Frequency
c. Amplitude
d. Cycle
59. It measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
a. Rossie scale
b. Richter scale
c. Rossie Forel scale
d. Mercalli scale
60. How many nodes and antinodes does the fundamental frequency of a standing wave in an
air column of an open tube has?
a. One node and one antinode
b. One node and two antinodes
c. Two nodes and one antinodes
d. Two nodes and two antinodes
61. What is the reason why we can see under shaded areas such as under the tree?
a. The light has undergo refraction.
b. The light has undergo incident bending.
c. The light has undergo a change in speed.
d. The light has undergo diffuse relection.
62. This one refers to the number of cycles that a vibrating object moves through during a
time interval of one second. Which one?
a. Alteration
b. Frequency
c. Period
d. Form factor
63. Which of the following characteristic of light must be increased in order for the surface to
emit photoelectrons?
a. Wavelength
b. Luminous intensity
c. Speed
d. Frequency
64. What lens is thicker at its edges and parallel light rays will appear to originate from the
virtual focus?
a. Diverging lens
b. Spherical lens
c. Chromatic lens
d. Converging lens
65. Energy can neither be destroyed nor created. This is law of
a. Conservation of momentum
b. Conservation of energy
c. Conservation of mass
d. None of these
66. Which of the following is known as sympathetic vibration?
a. Beat
b. Overtone
c. Resonance
d. Music
67. What is the difference between an echo and a reverberation?
a. The time interval between the original sound and the reflected sound.
b. The amplitude of the echo is much greater.
c. An echo is a reflected sound while a reverberation is not.
d. Reverberation comes from acoustical speakers while echoes comes from cliffs
and walls.
68. According to the electromagnetic wave model, how does a visible light produced?
a. When an object absorbs electromagnetic radiation.
b. When an electric charge is accelerated
c. When an object is heated to an appropriate temperature
d. When a blackbody is heated to a temperature above absolute zero.
69. Longitudinal mechanical wave will move only through which of the following?
I. Solids
II. Liquids
III. Gases
a. I only
b. II only
c. III only
d. I, II and III
70. The rate of the passage of radiant energy evaluated by reference to the luminous
sensation produced by it is called
a. Luminous flux
b. Luminous radiator
c. Luminous plane
d. Luminosity
71. Before it travels through the earth’s atmosphere, a sunlight is mostly what?
a. Visible light
b. Ultraviolet radiation
c. Infrared radiation
d. Blue light
72. It is the maximum frequency which the human ear can hear.
a. 30,000 Hz
b. 10,000 Hz
c. 40,000 Hz
d. 20,000 Hz
73. Which one is the Planck’s constant?
a. 6.63 x 10-34 J-s
b. 6.42 x 10-32 J-s
c. 7.33 x 10-32 J-s
d. 5.56 x 10-34 J-s
74. How many nodes and antinodes does the fundamental frequency of a standing wave in an
air column of a closed tube has?
a. One node and one antinode
b. One node and two antinodes
c. Two nodes and one antinode
d. Two nodes and two antinodes
75. Piezoelectricity principle is applied in one of the following. Which one?
a. Ultrasound equipment
b. Thermometer
c. Microphone
d. TV sets
76. The polarization behavior of light is best explained by considering light to be which of
the following?
a. Particles
b. Particles with ends or poles
c. Transverse waves
d. Longitudinal waves
77. What color has the shortest wavelength of light?
a. Yellow
b. Green
c. Blue
d. Red
78. When do a pendulum can comes very close to executing simple harmonic motion?
a. Its bob is not too heavy.
b. The supporting string is not too long.
c. The arc to which it swings is not too long.
d. The arc through which it swings is not too large.
79. Which one is considered an efficient transfer of energy that takes place at a natural
frequency?
a. Beats
b. Resonance
c. Doppler effect
d. Reverberation
80. What do you mean by refraction of light?
a. The light wave bends.
b. The light wave reflects.
c. The light wave is distorted.
d. The light wave is amplified.
81. When the light is directed on a metal surface, what happens to the kinetic energy of the
photoelectrons?
a. It varies with the speed of light.
b. It varies with the frequency of light.
c. It varies with the intensity of light.
d. It varies with both the speed and intensity of light.
82. Which one will occur when two waves combine so that one subtracts from the other?
a. Noise
b. Interference
c. Superposition
d. Resonance
83. What type of image will be produced if an object is nearer to a converging lens than a
focal point?
a. Inverted image
b. The same image
c. Virtual image
d. Refracted image
84. Which one is another word for harmonic?
a. Resonance
b. Pitch
c. Loudness
d. Overtone
85. In a vacuum, what characteristic of the proton are the same?
a. Frequency
b. Wavelength
c. Speed
d. Energy
86. An instrument used to measure the intensity of a light source.
a. Illumination meter
b. Photometer
c. Cygnometer
d. Candle meter
87. The period of a vibrating object is related to the frequency. Why?
a. They are directly proportional.
b. They are inversely proportional.
c. They are frequently proportional.
d. None of these since they are not related.
88. Which of the following is the basis of operation of a laser?
a. The interference of the waves
b. The induced emission of the radiation
c. The spontaneous emission of the radiation
d. The recombination of the photons
89. Why x-rays are used to determine crystal structure?
a. Their wavelengths are much shorter than the atomic spacing in crystal
b. Their wavelengths are much longer than the atomic spacing in crystal
c. Their wavelengths are comparable to atomic spacing in crystal
d. Their wavelengths are not much shorter nor much longer than the atomic spacing
in crystal
90. Light moving through a small pinhole does not make a shadow with a distinct, sharp edge
because of which of the following?
a. Refraction
b. Diffraction
c. Polarization
d. Interference
91. If the distance between a sound source and a listener is changing, the frequency heard
will differ from the frequency emitted. If the distance is decreasing, the frequency is
higher and if the distance is increasing, the frequency will be shifted lower. What do you
call this shifting effect?
a. Skin effect
b. Hall’s effect
c. Decibel’s effect
d. Doppler’s effect
92. Which light contains wavelengths of all or nearby colors?
a. White light
b. Laser
c. X-rays
d. Gamma rays
93. Which is the Boltzmann;s constant?
a. 1.56 x 10-23 J/K
b. 1.38 x 10-23 J/K
c. 1.42 x 10-22 J/K
d. 1.23 x 10-22 J/K
94. An instrument for comparing the luminous intensities of two point sources.
a. Quartz fiber electroscope
b. Photometer
c. Foot-candle meter
d. Leaf electroscope
95. When a sound wave goes from air into water, what quantity remains unchanged?
a. Speed
b. Frequency
c. Wavelength
d. Amplitude
96. What lens is thicker at its center and parallel light rays will converge to the focus?
a. Converging lens
b. Diverging lens
c. Optical lens
d. Chromatic lens
97. Transverse mechanical waves will move only through which of the following?
I. Solids
II. Liquids
III. Gases
a. I only
b. II only
c. III only
d. I, II and III only
98. Which of the following can only be explained by a wave model of light?
a. Reflection
b. Refraction
c. Interference
d. Photoelectric effect
99. An audio frequency is said to be within
a. 400 Hz to 40 kHz
b. 20 Hz to 20 kHz
c. 100 Hz to 100 kHz
d. None of these
100. A prism separates the colors of sunlight into a spectrum. Why?
I. Red light is refracted the most, violet the least.
II. Longer wavelengths are refracted more than shorter wavelengths
III. Each wavelengths of light has its own index of refraction
a. I only
b. II and III only
c. III only
d. I, II and III

SOURCE:
2001 Solved Problems Engineering Sciences and Allied Subjects
Jaime R. Tiong, CE Romeo A. Rojas Jr., EE/ECE Roger S. Capote, ME
Key to correction:
1. C 26. A 51. B 76. C
2. A 27. C 52. C 77. C
3. D 28. B 53. B 78. D
4. C 29. B 54. D 79. B
5. B 30. C 55. D 80. A
6. B 31. A 56. C 81. B
7. B 32. A 57. B 82. B
8. A 33. C 58. C 83. C
9. D 34. B 59. B 84. D
10. C 35. A 60. B 85. C
11. D 36. A 61. D 86. B
12. C 37. C 62. B 87. B
13. D 38. A 63. D 88. B
14. B 39. C 64. A 89. C
15. B 40. C 65. B 90. B
16. A 41. B 66. C 91. D
17. C 42. A 67. A 92. A
18. A 43. A 68. C 93. C
19. A 44. A 69. D 94. B
20. C 45. A 70. A 95. B
21. B 46. A 71. C 96. A
22. D 47. A 72. D 97. A
23. C 48. C 73. A 98. C
24. C 49. C 74. A 99. B
25. D 50. B 75. C 100. C

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