Revision Tutorial- A2 Physics 5.

A gymnast of mass 40 kg falls vertically

onto a trampoline with a speed of
1. A body is falling freely under gravity. The
and rebounds with the same speed. She is
rate at which the body’s momentum is
in contact with the trampoline for 0.2 s. The
changing is equal to its
average force exerted on the gymnast by
a. Acceleration
the trampoline during this period is
b. kinetic energy
a. 10N
c. potential energy
b. 20N
d. weight
c. 1000N
2. A car, mass m, drives over a circular hump-
d. 2000N
back bridge of radius r with a constant
6. The drum of a washing machine rotates
speed v.
with an angular velocity of . The
time to complete 10 revolutions is
a. 0.85s
b. 1.3s
When it is at the top of the bridge, the force c. 3.7s
on the car from the bridge is given by d. 7.4s
a. 7. Select the row in the table that correctly
b. identifies what happens in an inelastic
c. collision.
d.
3. A car is accelerated from rest. Which graph
correctly shows how the kinetic energy
varies with momentum p?

8. A correct re-statement of the equation

is
a.
b.
c.
d.

4. An inelastic collision is one in which 9. A particle moving in a circular path

a. Momentum is not conserved. completes 8.0 revolutions in 5.0 s. Its

b. Momentum and kinetic energy angular velocity in is

are not conserved. a. 1.6

c. momentum and kinetic energy b. 10

are conserved c. 40

d. Kinetic energy is not conserved. d. 250

10. A racing car of mass 1200 kg travels at 13. A footballer kicks a football from the
around a bend of radius 50 m. penalty spot. A graph of force on the ball
The force on the car necessary for this against time is drawn. The area under the
motion is force-time graph represents
a. N away from the centre of the a. Acceleration
circle b. Change in Kinetic Energy
b. N towards the centre of the c. Change in momentum
circle. d. Displacement
c. N away from the centre of the 14. A pendulum consists of a bob of mass m
circle. and a string of length x. The diagram shows
d. N towards the centre of the the pendulum swinging through the arc of
circle a circle. At the bottom of its swing the
tension in the string is T and the velocity of
11. The picture is of a child’s spinning top. The the bob is v.
spinning top has a diameter of 22 cm and
spins at a rate of 6.5 revolutions per
second. The speed of a point on the outer
edge of the spinning top in is
a. 0.11
b. 0.21
c. 4.5 Which of the following is correct for the
d. 9.0 bob at the bottom of the swing?
12. A model glider of mass 1.5 kg is launched a.
using a large catapult. The glider starts b.
from rest and the graph shows how the c.
force on the glider varies with time
d.
15. A proton accelerates in an electric field and
gains kinetic energy, giving it a change in
momentum ∆p. An alpha particle
accelerates in the same electric field and
gains the same kinetic energy. The
magnitude of the change in momentum of
the alpha particle is given by
a.
The velocity of the glider after 5 s in is
b.
a. 2.4 c.
b. 13 d.
c. 20
d. 27
16. Particle A of mass m has kinetic energy . 21. A particle X has kinetic energy E and
Particle B of mass 3m has kinetic energy momentum p. Another particle Y of the
. The ratio of the momentum of particle same mass as X has a momentum 2p. The
A to the momentum of particle B is given kinetic energy of Y is
by a. 1/2 E
a. b. E
b. c. 2E
c. d. 4E
d. 6
22. The momentum of a particle is p. The
17. A non-relativistic particle of mass m has
kinetic energy of the particle is doubled.
momentum p and kinetic energy Ek .
The momentum is now
Another non-relativistic particle of mass 2m
a.
has momentum . What is the kinetic b. 2p
energy of the second particle? c. 4p
a. d. 8p
b.
23. A student is sitting on the right-hand side
c.
in a bus, facing the direction of travel. The
d.
18. Which of the following is equivalent to the bus goes round a bend to the left. The
unit for energy? student remains in the same position within
a. the bus. The student experiences
b. a. a force to the left and a force to the right.
c. b. a resultant force to the left.
d. c. a resultant force to the right.
19. The area under a force-time graph
d. no resultant force.
represents
a. acceleration.
24. A body, initially at rest, explodes into two
b. change in momentum.
masses and . These masses move
c. displacement.
apart with speeds and respectively.
d. kinetic energy
The ratio is equal to
a.
20. A particle, mass 0.020 kg, is moving with an
b.
angular velocity of 3Srad s–1 around a
circle of radius 0.50 m. The force, in N, c.

responsible for this motion is d.

a. towards the centre
25. A cyclist travels along a straight horizontal
b. away from the centre
road at a steady speed. A net force of 20 N
c. towards the centre
is then applied for 6 s. The change in
d. away from the centre
momentum of the cyclist In is
a. 3.3
b. 26
c. 120
d. 720
26. Two identical spheres of mass m are both
travelling with a speed v towards each
other.
Questions 30 and 31 refer to the following
situation.
A toy aeroplane is being spun around on the
end of a piece of string.

30. Which of the following changes would

The spheres collide head-on. Which of the require an increase in the tension in the
following statements must be true after the string?
collision? a. decreasing the angular velocity of the toy
a. total momentum = 2mv aeroplane
b. total momentum = 0 b. decreasing the mass of the toy aeroplane
c. total kinetic energy = c. decreasing the period of rotation of the
d. total kinetic energy = 0 toy aeroplane
27. The angular speed of the Earth about its d. decreasing the speed of the toy
axis in is, aeroplane
a.
b. 31. The toy aeroplane makes 14 full revolutions
c. in 6s. Which of the following gives the
d. angular velocity of the toy aeroplane
28. The diagram shows a coin on a horizontal
in ?
surface which is rotating at a constant
a.
angular velocity ω Which arrow correctly
b.
shows the direction of the frictional force
c.
on the coin?
d.
32. A ball of mass m with velocity v strikes a
wall perpendicularly and bounces off with
the same speed in the opposite direction.
The collision takes time t. Which of the
following is the mean force acting on the
ball during the collision?
a. mv/t
a. A b. 2mv/t
b. B c. –mv/t
c. C d. -2mv/t
d. D
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29. An electron has a momentum of
. The K.E of the electron is
a.
b.
c.
d.