TUTORIAL: PHYSICAL QUANTITIES

8. The acceleration of a trolley is 2000 cm s- 2

1. Which one of the following is not a base quantity? This acceleration in S.I. unit is
A Length
B Weight A 0.002
C Current B 0.02
C 0.2
D Time
D 2
E 20
2. Which one of the following is not a base unit?
9. Which one of the following prefixes is less than 1?
A Celcius
B Ampere A Mega
C Kilogram B Desi
C Kilo
D Second
10.
3. Every number can be written in ‘standard form’, Readings
particularly in the cases of 7.2 x 10 5 µm , 7.2 x 10-2 cm
7.2 x 103 mm and 7.2 x 10- 6 km
A very small numbers
B very large numbers
The table above shows the measurement of length for
C very small and very large numbers
four different objects.
4. The standard form for 15200 is
(a) Which reading is the longest?
A 15.2 x 10 2 ....................................................................
B 1.52 x 10 3
C 1.52 x 10 4 (b) Which reading is the shortest?
D 0.152 x 10 -4
E 1.52 x 10 -5 ....................................................................

5. The volume of a metal sphere is 12 cm 3. (c) Arrange the readings according descending
This volume in units of m 3 is order.

A 1.2 x 10 - 2 ....................................................................
B 1.2 x 10 - 3
....................................................................
C 1.2 x 10 - 5
D 1.2 x 10 – 7 (d) Which reading is more than 1 metre?
E 1.2 x 10 - 9
....................................................................
6. The velocity of a car is 108 km h-1.
What is the velocity in units of m s-1? (e) A cube of sides 7.2 x 103 mm. State the
volume of the cube in unit of m3
A 20
B 30
C 50
D 60
E 90

7. The volume of a metal sphere is 12 cm 3.

This volume in units of m 3 is

A 1.2 x 10 - 2
B 1.2 x 10 - 3
C 1.2 x 10 - 5
D 1.2 x 10 – 7
E 1.2 x 10 – 9
TUTORIAL: SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION

1. Which of the following scales is the most suitable to 5. The acceleration, a, of an object is inversely
plot a graph? proportional to the mass, m, of the object under
constant force.
A 1 cm : 3 unit B 1 cm : 5 unit Which of the following graphs describes the
C 1 cm : 6 unit D 1 cm : 8.8 unit relationship between a and m.

2. Which of the following is the best graph ?

6. An experiment is carried out to find the relationship

between mass and acceleration of a trolley on a
3. Which of the following graphs show that y increases wooden runway.
linearly with x? The experiment is repeated by adding the number of
trolleys. The responding variable in this experiment is

A the length of the wooden runway.

B acceleration
C mass

4. Hooke’s law states that applied force F is directly

proportional to the extension x of spring if its elastic
limit is not exceeded. Which of the following graphs
shows the Hooke’s Law? 7. Based on the graph above, what is the gradient of the
graph?

A - 1.5
B - 0.7
C 0.7
D 1.0
E 1.5

10 What is the unit of the gradient of the graph above?

A m
B m2 s
C ms2
D ms- 2