Quiz 10

Multiple-choice questions on linear and angular motion

1. Angular displacement is measured in:

(a) degrees (b) radians (c) rev/s (d) metres
3π
2. An angle of radians is equivalent to:
4
(a) 270◦ (b) 67.5◦ (c) 135◦ (d) 2.356◦
3. An angle of 120◦ is equivalent to:
2π π 3π 1
(a) rad (b) rad (c) rad (d) rad
3 3 4 3

4. An angle of 2 rad at the centre of a circle subtends an arc length of 40 mm at the circumference of the
circle. The radius of the circle is:
(a) 40π mm (b) 80 mm (c) 20 mm (d) (40/π ) mm
5. A point on a wheel has a constant angular velocity of 3 rad/s. The angle turned through in 15 seconds is:
(a) 45 rad (b) 10π rad (c) 5 rad (d) 90π rad
6. An angular velocity of 60 revolutions per minute is the same as:
(a) (1/2π) rad/s (b) 120π rad/s (c) (30/π ) rad/s (d) 2π rad/s
7. A wheel of radius 15 mm has an angular velocity of 10 rad/s. A point on the rim of the wheel has a linear
velocity of:
(a) 300π mm/s (b) 2/3 mm/s (c) 150 mm/s (d) 1.5 mm/s
8. The shaft of an electric motor is rotating at 20 rad/s and its speed is increased uniformly to 40 rad/s in 5
s. The angular acceleration of the shaft is:
(a) 4000 rad/s2 (b) 4 rad/s2 (c) 160 rad/s2 (d) 12 rad/s2
9. A point on a flywheel of radius 0.5 m has a uniform linear acceleration of 2 m/s2 . Its angular acceleration
is:
(a) 2.5 rad/s2 (b) 0.25 rad/s2 (c) 1 rad/s2 (d) 4 rad/s2
Questions 10–13 refer to the following data. A car accelerates uniformly from 10 m/s to 20 m/s over a
distance of 150 m. The wheels of the car each have a radius of 250 mm.
10. The time the car is accelerating is:
(a) 0.2 s (b) 15 s (c) 10 s (d) 5 s

11. The initial angular velocity of each of the wheels is:

(a) 20 rad/s (b) 40 rad/s (c) 2.5 rad/s (d) 0.04 rad/s

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12. The angular acceleration of each of the wheels is:
(a) 1 rad/s2 (b) 0.25 rad/s2 (c) 400 rad/s2 (d) 4 rad/s2
13. The linear acceleration of a point on each of the wheels is:
(a) 1 m/s2 (b) 4 m/s2 (c) 3 m/s2 (d) 100 m/s2

8. (b) 9. (d) 10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (d) 13. (a)
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (a) 6. (d) 7. (c)

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