 Q.

The act or process of moving faster or happening more quickly.

answer choices

A. velocity B. speed C. acceleration D. gravitational force

 Question 2

Q. The natural force that causes things to fall toward the earth.

answer choices

A. Normal Force B. Gravitational Force C. Applied Force D. Frictional Force

Q. What is the value of acceleration due to gravity?

answer choices

A. - 9.8 m/s B. 9.8 m/s C. - 9.8 m/s2 D. 9.8 m/s2

 Question 4

Q. What will be the acceleration of a car if it has a constant acceleration?

answer choices

A. zero B. reduced C. increased. D. not determined

MCQ: At surface of the Earth where air friction is negligible, objects fall with the

A. different acceleration
B. same velocity
C. same acceleration
D. same speed

MCQ: From the equations of distance, correct one is

A. Vf = Vi + 2as
B. Vf² = Vi² + as
C. Vf² = Vi² + 2a
D. Vf² = Vi² + 2as

Velocity of the vertically thrown ball with time will be

 A. upwards positive
B. downwards negative
C. upwards negative
D. downwards positive

This set of Engineering Physics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs)
focuses on “Acceleration due to Gravity”.

1. Can earth be regarded as a point object when describing its yearly journey
around the sun?

a) Yes

b) No

View Answer

Answer: a

Explanation: Earth can be regarded as a point object when describing its yearly
journey around the sun because the size of the earth is much smaller than the
distance from the sun.

2. Displacement can be greater than the distance travelled by an object.

a) True

b) False

View Answer

Answer: b

Explanation: The displacement of an object can be either equal to or less than the
distance travelled by the object. This is because displacement is the shortest
distance between the initial and final positions of the object while distance
travelled is the length of the actual path traversed by the object.

3. Under what condition is the average velocity equal to the instantaneous

velocity?

a) Varying velocity

b) Varying speed

c) Constant velocity

d) Constant speed

View Answer

Answer: c

Explanation: When a body moves with a constant velocity, its average velocity
over any time interval is same as instantaneous velocity.

4. How is the speed related to the magnitude of velocity?

a) Greater

b) Lesser

c) Equal

d) Doesn’t vary

View Answer

Answer: a
Explanation: Due to change in direction of motion, the length of the path traversed
by a body is generally greater than the magnitude of its displacement. So the speed
is greater than the magnitude of the velocity.

5. Two balls of different masses (one lighter and one heavier) are thrown vertically
upward with same initial speed. Which one will rise to a greater height?

a) The lighter one

b) The heavier one

c) Neither

d) Both the balls

View Answer

Answer: d

Explanation: Both he balls will rise to the same height. It is because, for a body
moving with given initial velocity and acceleration, the distance covered by the
body does not depend on the mass of the body.

6. When rain falls vertically downwards, the front screen of a moving car gets wet
while the back screen remains dry.

a) True

b) False

View Answer

Answer: a

Explanation: When the rain is falling vertically downwards, the front screen of a
moving car gets wet while back screen remains dry. This is because the rain strikes
the car in the direction of relative velocity of rain with respect to the car.
7. Two trains A and B of length 400m each are moving on two parallel tracks with
a uniform speed of 72km/h in the same direction, with A ahead of B. The driver of
B decides to overtake A and accelerates by 1m/s. If after 50s, the guard of B just
brushes past the driver of A, what is the original distance between them?

a) 50m

b) 150m

c) 125m

d) 1250m

View Answer

Answer: d

Explanation: Let x be the distance between then driver of train A and the guard of
train B. Initially, both trains are moving in the same direction with the same speed
of 72km/h. So relative velocity of B with respect to A = vB-vA = 0. Hence the
train B needs to cover a distance with a= 1m/s, t = 50 s, u = 0

s = ut + 1/2at2 = 1250m.

8. A player throws a ball upwards with an initial speed of 29.4m/s. What is the
direction of acceleration during the upwards motion of the ball?

a) Upwards

b) Diagonal

c) Projectile motion

d) Vertically downwards

View Answer
Answer: d

Explanation: The ball moves under the effect of gravity. The direction of
acceleration due to gravity is always vertically downwards.

9. A particle in one dimensional motion with zero speed may have non-zero
velocity.

a) True

b) False

View Answer

Answer: b

Explanation: Speed is a magnitude of velocity and the magnitude of non-zero

velocity cannot be zero.

10. For a particle in one dimensional motion, which of the following is true?

a) Zero speed at any instant may have zero acceleration at the instant

b) Zero speed may have non-zero velocity

c) Constant speed must have zero acceleration

d) Positive value of acceleration must be speeding up

View Answer

Answer: c

Explanation: When a particle moves with a constant speed in the same direction,
neither the magnitude nor the direction of velocity changes and so acceleration is
zero. In case a particle rebounds instantly with the same speed, its acceleration will
be infinite which is physically not possible.
11. A bullet fired into a fixed target loss half of its velocity after penetrating 3cm.
How much further will it penetrate before coming to rest assuming that it faces
constant resistance in motion?

a) 1.5cm

b) 1cm

c) 3cm

d) 2cm

View Answer

Answer: b

Explanation: If u is initial velocity then v=u/2 s=3cm

As v2-u2=2as
14. When a ball is thrown vertically upwards, at the maximum height ____________

a) The velocity is zero and therefore there is no acceleration acting in the particle

b) The acceleration is present and therefore the velocity is not zero

c) Acceleration depends on the velocity

d) Acceleration is independent of the velocity

View Answer

Answer: d

Explanation: When a ball is thrown vertically upward, at the maximum height the acceleration becomes
independent of the velocity.

15. Tom and Jerry are running forward at the same speed. They are following a rubber ball at a constant
speed v as seen by the thrower. According to Sam, who’s standing on the ground, the speed of the ball is
____________
a) Same as v

b) Greater than v

c) Less than v

d) Zero

View Answer

Answer: b

Explanation: As they are moving in the same direction, the relative velocity of the ball with respect to
Tom or Jerry will be

vB=v+v(Tom or Jerry)

For Sam, the speed of the ball will be greater than v.

MCQ: Only force acting on a bouncing ball is

A. gravity
B. weight of ball
C. friction
D. a and b both

MCQ: A stone is thrown upwards with initial velocity of 20 m s-1, the

height that stone will reach would be

A. 20 m
B. 30 m
C. 40 m
D. 50 m

Answer
MCQ: Projectile will attain its maximum range, if it is fired at an angle of

A. 30°
 B. 47°
C. 90°
D. 45°

Answer
MCQ: Horizontal component of a bouncing ball is

A. affected by gravity
B. unaffected by gravity
C. affected by weight
D. affected by contact force

Answer
MCQ: When ball having a projectile motion is rising up, it

A. decelerates
B. accelerates
C. rises up with constant acceleration
D. acceleration becomes zero

Answer
 Q. A man walks 30 meters South, 25 meters West, 50 meters North, and 15 meters
East in 80 seconds. What was his displacement?
answer choices

35.4 meters NW
22.4 meters SE

119 meters

22.4 meters NW

 Question 2
120 seconds
Q. A man walks 30 meters South, 25 meters West, 50 meters North, and 15 meters
East in 80 seconds. What was his total distance?
answer choices

40 meters
 22.4 meters

30 meters
120 meters

 Question 3
120 seconds
Q. A man walks 30 meters South, 25 meters West, 50 meters North, and 15 meters
East in 80 seconds. What was the average velocity that he traveled?
answer choices

0.44 m/s NW
1.5 m/s SW
1/5 m/s NW
0.28 m/s NW

 Question 4
120 seconds
Q. The result of adding two vectors together is called the?
answer choices

independent vector
resultant vector

directional vector

manipulated vector

 Question 5
120 seconds
Q. Which is an example of a vector quantity?
answer choices

distance
velocity
time

speed

 Question 6
120 seconds
Q. A sailboat moves West across a river 1250 meters at 5 m/s. The boat encounters a
current going South at 7 m/s. How long will it take for the boat to cross the river?
answer choices

250 seconds
 145 seconds

1.4 seconds
179 seconds

 Question 7
120 seconds
Q. A sailboat moves West across a river 1250 meters at 5 m/s. The boat encounters a
current going South at 7 m/s. What is the resultant velocity of the sailboat?
answer choices

2.0 m/s Southwest

8.6 m/s Southwest
8.6 m/s Northwest
12 m/s Southwest

 Question 8
120 seconds
Q. A motorboat with a speed of 5.0 meters per second in still water is headed East. The
motorboat then comes to a river heading South with a speed of 3.3 meters per second.
What is the boat's resulting velocity when the boat enters the flow of the river?
answer choices

3.3 m/s S
5.0 m/s E

6.0 m/s SE
8.3 m/s SE

 Question 9
120 seconds
Q. A motorboat traveling 5 m/s East across a river encounters a current moving 3.5 m/s
South. If it takes the boat 25 seconds to cross the river, how far downstream is the boat
pushed by the current?
answer choices

125 m
62.5 m

139.8 m

312.5 m

 Question 10
120 seconds
Q. A plane at a height of 400 m drops a skydiver and he lands 500 m from the drop
point. How fast is the plane flying?
 answer choices

143 m/s
45 m/s

6.25 m/s

56 m/s

 Question 11
120 seconds
Q. At the instant a ball is thrown horizontally, an identical ball is dropped from the same
height. Which ball hits the ground first? (no air resistance)
answer choices

the horizontally thrown ball

they both hit the ground at the same time

the dropped ball

 Question 12
120 seconds
Q. A student rolls a ball off a cliff that is 45 meters high with a horizontal velocity of 25
m/s. Neglecting air resistance, approximately how far from the base of the cliff does the
ball hit the ground?
answer choices

3.02 m
9.17 m

75.7 m
37.9 m

 Question 13
120 seconds

Q. The diagram represents the path of a car that is driven off a cliff. Neglecting air
resistance, the horizontal component of the velocity at A is _______ the horizontal
component of the velocity at B
answer choices

smaller than
greater than

the same as
can not be determined

 Question 14
 120 seconds

Q. How many seconds does the ball take to reach the ground?
answer choices

0.20 s

2.25 s
4.52 s

5.00 s

 Question 15
120 seconds

Q. A projectile is launched horizontally at a speed of 30 m/s from a platform located a

vertical distance "h" above the ground. The projectile strikes the ground after 2.5 s at
horizontal distance "d" from tehbase of the platform (neglect friction). Calculate the
horizontal distance traveled by the projectile, if the time of flight is 2.5 s.
answer choices

A. 75.0 m
30.6 m
24.5 m

12.0 m

 Question 16
120 seconds

Q. According to the picture, which points is the speed of the projectile the same?
answer choices

B and E

A and E

C. B and D
Both A and E, B and D

 Question 17
120 seconds
Q. In the absence of air resistance, the angle at which a thrown ball will go the farthest
is?
answer choices

60 degrees
45 degrees
 15 degrees

D. 30 degrees

 Question 18
120 seconds
Q. If launched at the same speed, which projectiles shot at the angles below would
travel the same distance?
answer choices

45 degrees and 15 degrees

B. 10 degrees and 60 degrees

30 degrees and 40 degrees
70 degrees and 20 degrees

 Question 19
120 seconds

Q. The cannon fires at 45 degrees with a set velocity. If the angle of the projectile is
raised to 75 degrees, what would happen to the height and range of the projectile's
path?
answer choices

The projectile would travel to a greater height and have a longer range.

B. The projectile would travel to a lower height and have a smaller range.
The projectile would travel to a greater height and have a smaller range.

The projectile would travel to a greater height and have the same range.

 Question 20
120 seconds
Q. A ball is thrown straight upward at 20 m/s. With no air resistance, the ball will return
to the thrower's hand with a speed of?
answer choices

A. 20 m/s

40 m/s
80 m/s

0 m/s

 Question 21
120 seconds

Q. Which graph represents the relationship between the gravitational acceleration of a

falling body and the mass of the body in the absence of air resistance?
 answer choices

a
b

 Question 22
120 seconds
Q. A baseball is dropped from the roof of a tall building, it takes 3.1 seconds to hit the
ground. How tall is the building?
answer choices

A. 15 m

47 m
30 m
94 m

 Question 23
120 seconds
Q. A man drops a hat from 7 meters. What is the speed of the hat when it hits the
ground?
answer choices

5.9 m/s

23.7 m/s
C. 7.0 m/s
11.7 m/s

 Question 24
120 seconds
Q. April kicks a rock off a cliff and it lands in teh river below, 1.4 seconds later. How high
up is the cliff from the river?
answer choices

A. 9.6 meters

7.1 meters
13.72 meters

D. 70 meters

 Question 25
120 seconds
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Q. The picture shows two objects that were dropped and recorded with a stroboscopic
camera. The best explanation for the results is that object A
answer choices

A. has less air resistance

B. was dropped from a greater height

C has a smaller mass

D. accelerated more slowly