CITI GLOBAL COLLEGE

PRELIMI - PHYSICS
S.Y 2019 – 2020

A. METRIC CONVERSION

1. Convert the following: 5 meters = __________ km

2. Convert the following: 3 grams = __________ milligrams

3. Convert the following: 7 meters = __________ cm

4. Convert the following: 60 milligrams = __________ km

5. Convert the following: 2.5 meters = __________ mm

6. Convert the following: 4.5 centimeters = __________ km

7. Convert the following: 77 meters = __________ dm

8. Convert the following: 37 decimeters = __________mm

9. Convert the following: .002 centimeters = __________ mm

10. Convert the following: 44 millimeters = __________ m

11. Convert the following: 25 kilometers = __________ m

12. Convert the following: 880 meters = __________ cm

13. Convert the following: 9.5 kiloliters = __________ deciliters

14. Convert the following: 66 decimeters = __________ decameters

15. Convert the following: 5 liters = __________ hectoliters

B. THE SIGNIFICANT FIGURES

Determine the number of significant figures in each of the following:

a) 3427 = _______ b) 0.00456 = _______ c) 123,453 = ________

d) 172 = ______ e) 0.000984 = ______ f) 0.502 = ________

g) 3100.0 x 102 = _____ h) 0.0114 x 104 = ________ i) 107.2 = ________

j) 0.0000455 = ______ k) 2205.2 = _______ l) 30.0 x 10-2 = ______

m) 0.982 x 10-3 = _____ n) 0.0473 = _______ o) 650.502 = _______

C. SCALAR AND VECTOR
Find the distance and displacement covered by each of the following problems.
1. Malcolm walks 10 m and then walks 7 m more in the same direction.

2. Malcolm walks 10 m, turns around and then walks 7 m in the opposite direction.

3. Malcolm walks 10 m east and then walks 7 m south.

4. Malcolm walks 10 m east and then walks 7 m south of east.

5. Kimberly walks 4 meters north, 13 meters east and 4 meters south.

D. LINEAR MOTION
Solve each of the following problems.
1. Light from the sun reaches the earth in 498 s. If the sun is 1.494 x 10 11 m from the
earth, how fast (m/s) does light travel in space?

2. A bullet is fired at 660 m/s and strikes a target 200.0 meters away. What is the duration
of the bullet’s flight?

3. What is the average speed (km/h and mi/h)of a runner who completes a 5.00 km race in
20.50 min?

4. What is the velocity of a car traveling north on I-75 if it takes 2 hours to reach
Chattanooga (120 miles)?
5. A car starts from rest and reaches a velocity of 22.0 m/s in 20.0 seconds. What is its
acceleration?

6. How long would the same car, from #10, take to go from 22.0 m/s to 30.0 m/s with the
same acceleration?

7. What is the acceleration of a racing car if its velocity is decreased uniformly from 66 m/s
to 44 m/s during an 11 second period?

8. A spacecraft traveling at 1200 m/s is uniformly accelerated at the rate of 150 m/s2 by
burning its second stage rocket. If the rocket burns for 18 s, what is the final velocity of the
craft?

9. How much time does a car with an acceleration of 2 m/s2 take to go from 10 m/s to 30
m/s?

10. During a 400 meter run at a track meet the runner in lane 1 will start and finish at the
same point. If it takes 58.00 seconds for her to run the race what is her velocity?
 CITI GLOBAL COLLEGE
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
PHYSICS
S.Y 2019 – 2020

1. Differentiate a scalar quantity to vector quantity.

2. How long does it take to hear a thunderclap 6.8 km away if the sound wave moves at 340
m/s?

3. It takes a pulse of light 35 microseconds to travel down a 5.0 km length of fiber optic cable.
How fast does the light move through the cable?

4. When is the magnitude of the displacement equal to the distance travelled?

5. A car drives 22 miles north then drives 14 miles south. What is its displacement?

6. A raven flies south for 120 seconds at a speed of 12 m/s, then flies 0.56 km north in 80
seconds.
a. What is the total distance?

b. What is the total displacement?

c. What is the average speed?

d. What is the average velocity?

7. What is the acceleration of an object that steadily increases its speed from 6.0 m/s to 18.0
m/s over a 2.0 second time interval without changing direction?

8. What is the acceleration of an object that maintains a steady speed of 24.0 m/s for 6.0
seconds without changing direction?

9. A car that is initially moving at 22 m/s hits the brakes and stops in 5.0 seconds. What is the
acceleration?

10. An airplane that is initially moving at 320 m/s accelerates at 3.0 m/s 2 for 20.0 seconds. How
far does it move during that time period and what is its final velocity?

11. The graph below shows the position of an object that is moving along a straight line that
runs north-south with north being the positive direction.
a. How far does the object move during the first
3 seconds?
b. How fast is the object moving at t=1.0 second?
c. What is the velocity at t=1, 4, and 7 seconds?
d. What is the acceleration at t=7 seconds?
e. What is the total displacement?
f. What is the average velocity?