1.

All of the following are base units of the SI system except:

Answer: D
2. The metric prefix for one one-thousandth is
Answer: A
3. When is the average velocity of an object equal to the instantaneous velocity?
Answer: C
4. If the velocity of an object is zero, does it mean that the acceleration is zero? Support your
answer with an example.
Answer: A
5 Suppose that an object is moving with constant acceleration. Make a statement concerning its
motion with respect to time.
Answer: B
6. Two objects are thrown from the top of a tall building. One is thrown up, and the other is
thrown down, both with the same initial speed. What are their speeds when they hit the street?
Answer: C
7. The area under a curve in a velocity versus time graph gives
Answer: C
8. Three forces, each having a magnitude of 30 N, pull on an object in directions that are 120
degrees apart from each other. Make a statement concerning the resultant force.
Answer: A
9. Ignoring air resistance, the horizontal component of a projectile's velocity
Answer: B
10. You are throwing a ball for the second time. If the ball leaves your hand with twice the
velocity it had on your first throw, its horizontal range R (compared to your first serve) would be
Answer: D
11. The acceleration of gravity on the Moon is only one-sixth of that on Earth. If you hit a
baseball on the Moon with the same effort (and at the speed and angle) that you would on Earth,
the ball would land
Answer: C
12. Your motorboat can move at 30 km/h in still water. How much time will it take you to move
12 km downstream, in a river flowing at 6.0 km/h?
Answer: A
13. When you sit on a chair, the resultant force on you is
Answer: A
14. A constant net force acts on an object. Describe the motion of the object.
Answer: A
15. Action-reaction forces
Answer: D
16. A brick and a feather fall to the earth at their respective terminal velocities. Which object
experiences the greater force of air friction?
Answer: B
17. The force that keeps you from sliding on an icy sidewalk is
Answer: C
18. Consider a particle moving with constant speed such that its acceleration of constant
magnitude is always perpendicular to its velocity.
Answer: B
19. What force is needed to make an object move in a circle?
Answer: C
20. A coin of mass m rests on a turntable a distance r from the axis of rotation. The turntable
rotates with a frequency of f. What is the minimum coefficient of static friction between the
turntable and the coin if the coin is not to slip?
Answer: A
21. A car of mass m goes around a banked curve of radius r with speed v. If the road is
frictionless due to ice, the car can still negotiate the curve if the horizontal component of the
normal force on the car from the road is equal in magnitude to
Answer: C
22. A 50-N object was lifted 2.0 m vertically and is being held there. How much work is being
done in holding the box in this position?
Answer: D
23. If the net work done on an object is positive, then the object's kinetic energy
Answer: C
24. Car J moves twice as fast as car K, and car J has half the mass of car K. The kinetic energy of
car J, compared to car K is
Answer: B
25. What is the SI unit of momentum?
Answer: C
26. When a cannon fires a cannonball, the cannon will recoil backward because the
Answer: B
27. A small object collides with a large object and sticks. Which object experiences the larger
magnitude of momentum change?
Answer: C

28. A plane, flying horizontally, releases a bomb, which explodes before hitting the ground.
Neglecting air resistance, the center of mass of the bomb fragments, just after the explosion
Answer: D
29. Angular velocity is expressed in units of
Answer: B
30. Rolling without slipping depends on
Answer: B
31. Consider two uniform solid spheres where one has twice the mass and twice the diameter of
the other. The ratio of the larger moment of inertia to that of the smaller moment of inertia is
Answer: B
32. An ice skater performs a pirouette (a fast spin) by pulling in his outstretched arms close to his
body. What happens to his rotational kinetic energy about the axis of rotation?
Answer: B
33. A cube resting on a horizontal tabletop is in
Answer: C
34. Strain is
Answer: A
35. A mass is hung from identical wires made of aluminum, brass, copper, and steel. Which wire
will stretch the least?
Answer: D
36. Which of the following is not a unit of pressure?
Answer: B
37. When atmospheric pressure changes, what happens to the absolute pressure at the bottom of
a pool?
Answer: C
38. A simple pendulum consists of a mass M attached to a weightless string of length L. For this
system, when undergoing small oscillations
Answer: C
39. What happens to a simple pendulum's frequency if both its length and mass are increased?
Answer: B
40. For a forced vibration, the amplitude of vibration is found to depend on the
Answer: B

41. A block of mass m is sliding up a frictionless incline, as shown above. The block’s initial
velocity is 3 m/s up the plane. What is the component of the weight parallel to
the plane?

Answer: C
42. ball of mass m is spinning about a diameter. If it were instead to make twice as many
rotations per second, what would happen to the ball’s moment of inertia and its angular
momentum?
Answer: E
43. A satellite orbits the moon far from its surface in a circle of radius r. If a second satellite has
a greater speed, yet still needs to maintain a circular orbit around the moon, how should the
second satellite orbit?
Answer: C
44. Which of the following must be true of an object in uniform circular motion?
Answer: C
45. Which of the following is a scalar?
Answer: D
46. Planet X is twice as massive as Earth, but its radius is only half of Earth’s radius. What is the
acceleration due to gravity on Planet X in terms of g, the acceleration due to gravity on Earth?
Answer : E
47. Two identical train cars move toward each other, each with the same speed as the other.
When the train cars collide, they stick together and remain at rest. Which of the following
fundamental physics principles can best be used to explain why the attached cars cannot move
after the collision?
Answer: B
48. A bicycle slows down with an acceleration whose magnitude increases linearly with time.
Which of the following velocity–time graphs could represent the motion of the bicycle?
Answer: E
49. In a carnival ride, people of mass m are whirled in a horizontal circle by a floorless
cylindrical room of radius r, as shown in the diagram above. If the coefficient of friction between
the people and the tube surface is µ, what minimum speed is necessary to keep the people from
sliding down the walls?
Answer: B
50. The force F on a mass is shown above as a function of time t. Which of the following
methods can be used to determine the impulse experienced by the mass?
I. multiplying the average force by tmax
II. calculating the area under the line on the graph
tmax

III. taking the integral ∫ F dt

0
Answer: D

II.
51. Archimedes’ principle
52. power
53. terminal speed
54. elastic collision
55. buoyant force
56. capillarity
57. Pascal’s Principle
58. mechanical advantage
59. steradian
60. fulcrum

III.
61 - 65
- 19.6 m

66 - 70
11.48 m

71 - 75
28.21 m/s

76 - 80
1.4 m/s2
81 - 85
2.72x10-3 m/s2

86 - 90
10 kg m/s

91 - 95
9.60 m/s

96 - 100
2.66 N/m