NMAT REVIEW 7. A heater absorbs heat and uses it to warm a house.

It
PHYSICS EXERCISE does 140 J of work on the pump and delivers the
SET C remaining 60 J of heat to the house. What is the efficiency
of this engine?
DIRECTIONS: Select the best answer to each of the a. 30 % d. 70 %
following questions and blacken the appropriate space on b. 43 % c. 57 %
your answer sheet.
8. Which of the following colors of visible light has the
1. Fluids exert force. If gas confined in a metallic correct arrangement from lowest to highest energy?
container is transferred to a smaller container, which of a. green, red , violet
the following is most likely to happen to its pressure? b. indigo, orange, yellow
a. the pressure increases c. red, yellow, indigo
b. the pressure decreases d. violet, blue, green
c. the pressure increases only if temperature is increased
d. the pressure decreases only if temperature is decreased 9. If 22.54 J of heat is needed to completely melt 0.35
grams of a substance, what is the latent heat of fusion of
2. Which of these statements about sound is true? the substance?
a. Sound travels faster when its frequency is increased. a. 6.44 x 101 J/kg c. 6.44 x 104 J/kg
b. Sound travels faster when there is less water vapour in b. 7.89 x 10 J/kg
-3 d. 7.89 x 101 J/kg
the air.
c. Sound travels faster when it moves against wind 10. The human heart is powerful and extremely reliable
direction. pump. Each day it takes in and out an average of 7,500 L
d. Sound travels faster through warm air than through of blood. Assume that the work done by the heart is equal
cold air to the work required to lift this amount of blood to a
height of a Filipino woman (1.524 m). The density of
3. When white light strikes an object, the colors reflected blood is 1.05 x 105 kg/m3. How much work does the heart
are red and green. What is the color of the object? do in a day?
a. blue c. magenta a. 1,000 J c. 1.24 x 106 J
b. brown d. yellow 7
b. 1 x 10 J d. 1.18 x 107 J

4. In order to get an upright image, photographic slides 11. An amount of water, which has an initial temperature
must be placed upside down in a slide projector. What of 0oC, is heated to 100oC using 109.79 kJ of heat. The
type of lens must the slide projector have? specific heat of water is 4.19 J/gK. What is the mass of
a. convex c. plane the water?
b. concave d. both a and b a. 70.24 g c. 262 g
b. 80.13 g d. 254 g
5. A light bulb on a block of wood warms the inner surface
of a metal box as shown below. How is heat transferred to 12. The sign of change in entropy (ΔS) for the reaction
the box? C(s) + H2O(l) CO(g) + H2(g) is
a. positive; there is an increase in the number of gas
molecules
I. Conduction b. negative; there is a decrease in the number of gas
II. Convection molecules
III. Radiation c. zero; the gas in the reactant has equal entropy as that
of the products
d. cannot be determined

13. The isotope Cobalt-57 has a half-life of 272 days. How

a. both I and II c. I, II, and III long does it take for this isotope to decay to about one-
b. Both I and III d. Both II and III sixteenth of its original amount?
a. 544 days c. 1,128 days
6. A current-carrying wire creates a magnetic field around b. 1,088 days d. 2,176 days
itself as shown below. In what direction does the current
flow? 14. Three resistors of 2, 3, and 4 are connected in
parallel with a 3-volt battery. A voltmeter is included to
measure the voltage across the 4 resistor. What will the
voltmeter reading be?
a. 0.75 V c. 3.00 V
b. 1.33 V d. 12.0 V

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15. Two pipes with different diameters are connected.
Inside the pipes is flowing water. The velocity of water in
the larger pipe is 5 m/s, while the velocity of the water in
the smaller pipe is thrice as fast as the larger pipe. The
cross-sectional area of the smaller pipe is 0.0625 cm2.
Calculate the radius of the larger pipe.
a. √2.34 𝑐𝑚 c. √1.6 𝑐𝑚
b. √0.24 𝑐𝑚 d. √0.0597 𝑐𝑚
20. A ray of light in the air strikes a transparent medium.
At an angle of 30o with the normal ray and the transmitted
ray is refracted perpendicular to the normal ray, which of
the following is true ?
a. The critical angle of the medium A is less than 30o.
b. The index of refraction of medium A is greater than 1.
c. The index of refraction of medium A is less than 1.
d. The critical angle of the medium A is greater than 30 o

16. A car is travelling at a constant speed when an
ambulance heading towards the same direction passes by.
What does the listener inside the car observe as the
ambulance passes by and leaves it behind?
a. a constant pitch but an increase in the intensity of the
sound
b. a decrease in both pitch and intensity of the siren
c. a constant pitch but a decrease in the intensity of the
sound
d. an increase in both pitch and intensity of the siren
17. Two oppositely charged plates create a uniform
electric field as shown below. In which position between
these plates would an electron have its lowest electric
potential energy?
21. In the visible light spectrum, violet has the shortest
wavelength, about 400 nm. What is its frequency?
a. 1.33 x 106 hertz c. 7.50 x 1014 hertz
b. 1.33 x 10-15 hertz d. 7.50 x 1016 hertz
22. A 20 cm object is placed 15 cm in front of a
converging lens with a focal length of 10 cm. What is the
height and location of the image created by the lens?
a. The image is 10 cm in size and is located 30 cm behind
the lens.
b. The image is 10 cm in size and is located 20 cm behind
the lens.
c. The image is 20 cm in size and is located 20 cm behind
the lens.
d. The image is 40 cm in size and is located 30 cm behind
the lens.

23. The threshold frequency of sodium for the

photoelectric effect corresponds to yellow light. What
happens when bright yellow light is shone on the sodium
metal?
a. The threshold frequency of the sodium metal increases
b. The kinetic energy of the electrons increases.
c. The number of electrons ejected increases.
a. position 1 c. position 3 d. No electrons are released from the metal.
b. position 2 d. position 4
24. If a new battery is installed, so that the voltage
18. Which particle (x) is emitted in this nuclear reaction: between the plates is increased by a factor of 3, how is
the electric field affected?
234 234 a. It decreases by a factor of 9.
𝑇ℎ → 𝑃𝑎 + 𝑥 ?
90 91 b. It increases by a factor of 3.
a. positron c. antineutrino c. It increases by a factor of 9.
b. electron d. alpha particle d. It increases by a factor of 81.

19. Two plane mirrors are placed at a 110o angle with 25. What causes food to cook faster in a pressure cooker
respect to each other. A ray of light is incident upon mirror than in an open pot?
A at an angle of 60o and is reflected toward mirror B. At a. The increased pressure in the cooker allows water to
what angle of reflection does the ray leave the surface of boil much faster at a temperature lower than 100 oC and
mirror B? cooks the food in less time.
b. The tight-fitting lid of the pressure cooker keeps the
cold from entering so that the most of the heat energy
applied is used solely for cooking the food.
c. The tight-fitting lid of the pressure cooker does not
allow the heat to escape, increasing the water pressure,
which in turn increases its temperature and cooks the food
in less time.
d. The increased pressure in the cooker prevents the
water from boiling immediately and raises its temperature
a. 20o c. 50o above 100oC, which cooks the food faster.
b. 40o d. 70o

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26. What is the total current passing through the circuit in
the figure below?

a. 0.25 A c. 0.67 A
b. 1.0 A d. 3.0 A

27. Which of the following does not increase the induced

voltage and current in a coil of wire?
a. moving a magnet through more coils of wire
b. moving more coils of wire around a magnet
c. moving a stronger magnet through the coils of wire
d. moving a magnet more slowly through the coils of wire

28. A particle has the charge -6.40 nC. It is placed in a

uniform electric field and experiences a downward force of
64.32 x 10-9 N. What is the magnitude and direction of the
electric field?
a. 10.05 N/C upward
b. 10.05 N/C downward
c. 10.05 x 10-9 N/C upward
d. 10.05 x 10-9 N/C downward

29. Which of the following is an example of exothermic

process?
a. evaporation of water c. melting solid salts
b. cooking an egg d. nuclear fission

30. A 80-gram sample of aluminium, initially at 60oC, is

placed in contact with 20 grams of aluminium at 30oC.
Assuming no heat is lost to the surroundings, what is the
resulting temperature of the aluminium?
a. 45oC c. 90oC
b. 50 C
o d. 40oC

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