SOUTHERN MASBATE ROOSEVELT COLLEGE

Placer, Masbate

2ND MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN GENERAL PHYSICS 1

NAME: ___________________ YEAR & SECTION: ______________ DATE: ___________ SCORE: _______

MULTIPLE CHOICES
DIRECTION: Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before each number. ERASURE MEANS
WRONG.

_______ 1. If a student drops a stone from a cliff of height 30 m and time it takes to reach ground is 2.6 s, then what is the
acceleration due to gravity?
m m m m
A. 9 B. 10 C. 4 D. 8
s2 s2 s2 s2

______ 2. Horizontal component of a bouncing ball is

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

______ 3. When ball having a projectile motion is rising up, it

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

______ 4. The force that one surface exerts on another when the two rub against each other is called
A. gravity. B. inertia. C. friction. D. acceleration.

______ 5. One way to increase acceleration is by

A. decreasing force. C. increasing mass.
B. decreasing mass. D. increasing both force and mass proportionally.

______ 6. According to Newton’s third law of motion, when a hammer strikes and exerts force on a nail, the nail
A. disappears into the wood. C. exerts an equal force back on the hammer.
B. moves at a constant speed. D. creates a friction with the hammer.

______ 7. According to Newton’s second law of motion, the acceleration of an object equals the net force acting on the object
divided by the object’s
A. mass. B. momentum. C. velocity. D. weight.

______ 8. The force that pulls falling objects toward Earth is called
A. air resistance. B. acceleration. C. gravity. D. free fall.

______ 9. Newton’s third law of motion describes

A. net force. B. centripetal forces. C. balanced forces. D. action and reaction forces.

______ 10. The SI unit of force is the

A. meter. B. joule. C. kilogram. D. newton.

______ 11. A force is described as...

A. A push only B. A pull only C. A push or a pull D. None of the above
______ 12. When you slide a box across the floor what force must your push be stronger than?
A. Support force B. Friction force C. Gravity D. Air resistance

______ 13. This test paper is sitting at rest on your desk. Which of the following statements best describes this
situation?
A. There are no forces acting on your paper.
B. Your paper pushes on the desk only.
C. The desk pushes on your paper only
D. The forces acting on the paper are balanced.

_____ 14. Which ball will hit the ground first if you neglect air resistance?

wood ball Plastic ball metal ball

A. Metal first, then plastic, then wood last
B. Wood first , then plastic, then metal last
C. They will all hit at the same time.
D. There is no way to tell.