REVIEWER IN SCIENCE 9

4TH QUARTER

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1. A stone is dropped from a cliff. What is its constant acceleration?
a. 9.8 m/s2 b. 0 m/s2 c. 10 m/s2 d. −9.8 m/s2
____ 2. What path is followed by a soccer ball which is kicked from a height of 1 meter?
a. circular b. linear c. hyperbolic d. parabolic
____ 3. A ball is dropped from a building and hits the ground after 2.5 seconds. What is the final velocity of
the ball just before it hits the ground?
a. 3.9 m/s b. 9.8 /s c. 24.5 m/s d. 61.3 m/s
____ 4. What happens to the horizontal velocity of a projectile as it goes up?
a. It becomes zero. b. It decreases. c. It remains the same. d. It increases
____ 5. Which statement is NOT TRUE to all projectiles?
a. Projectiles always maintain a constant horizontal velocity.
b. Projectiles always experience a constant acceleration along the axis
c. The horizontal and vertical motions are completely dependent of each other.
d. The horizontal and vertical motions are completely independent of each other.
For numbers 6 and 7 refer to the situation below.

A ball is thrown horizontally from a table with velocity of 1.50 m/s.

The ball falls 0.70 meter away from the table’s edge.

____ 6. How high is the table?

a. 1.80 m b. 1.08 m c. 1.10 m d. 1.85 m
____ 7. What is the ball’s velocity just before it hits the floor?
a. 23.5 m/s b. -23.5 m/s c. -4.85 m/s d. 4.85 m/s12.
____ 8. The impulse experienced by a car is equal to the change in its _______________.
a. Velocity b. kinetic energy c. momentum d. potential energy
____ 9. If the speed of a moving object doubles, then what else doubles?
a. Acceleration b. momentum c. kinetic energy d. mass
____ 10. Which has more momentum, a truck moving at 30 km/h or a motorcycle moving at 30 km/h?
a. Truck b. motorcycle c. both d. cannot be determined
____ 11. When a ball is dropped at a certain height, its gravitational potential energy
a. increases b. remains the same c. decreases d. increases and decreases
____ 12. A plane is running on a runway preparing to take off. What is the accelerated motion of the plane?
a. horizontal dimension b. vertical dimension c. both vertical and horizontal dimensions
____ 13. What is the constant acceleration of things thrown from the Earth?
a. 9.8 m/s2 b. 0 m/s2 c. 10 m/s2 d. −9.8 m/s2
____ 14. Which takes more force to catch, a bowling ball or ping pong ball? Assume both are brought to a
stop in 1 second.
a. bowling ball because it has more momentum
b. ping pong ball because it has more momentum
c. both require the same amount of force when catching
____ 15. The total momentum before a collision is ______ the total momentum after collision.
a. equal to b. less than c. more than
____ 16. Which has a greater momentum a semi-truck at rest or a bicycle in motion?
a. truck b. bicycle c. same
____ 17. When a golf club hits a gold ball, the change in momentum of the club is ______ the change in
momentum of the ball.
a. less than b. greater than c. equal to
____ 18. A roller coaster climbs up a hill at 4 m/s and then zips down the hill at 30 m/s. The momentum of
the roller coaster:
a. is greater up the hill than down the hill.
b. is greater down the hill than up the hill.
c. remains the same throughout the ride
____ 19. Which is the best example that something has kinetic energy?
a. a car parked on a steep hill
b. a picture hanging on the wall
c. a tennis ball rolling across the court
____ 20. What are the two factors that affect kinetic energy?
a. mass and velocity b. time and energy c. time and work
____ 21. What is the unit of measurement for kinetic energy?
a. Newton b. kilogram c. Joule
____ 22. Which of the following has the greatest momentum?
a. a tortoise with a mass of 275 kg moving at a velocity of 0.55 m/s
b. a hare with a mass of 2.7 kg moving at a velocity of 7.5 m/s
c. a turtle with a mass of 91 kg moving at a velocity of 1.4 m/s
____ 23. When comparing the momentum of two moving objects, which of the following is correct?
a. The object with the higher velocity will have less momentum if the masses are equal.
b. The more massive object will have less momentum if its velocity is greater.
c. The less massive object will have less momentum if the velocities are the same.
____ 24. Gravitational potential energy depends on the ____ and ____ of the object.
a. height and mass b. height and movement c. mass and movement
____ 25. How is mechanical energy calculated?
kinetic energy
a. force x distance b. c. kinetic energy + potential energy
potential energy

____ 26. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about potential energy?
a. An object’s position affects its potential energy.
b. Potential energy is stored energy.
c. Potential energy only occurs when an object is in motion.
____ 27. A 70 000 g runner has a velocity of 5m/s. His kinetic energy is
a. 875 J b. 1025 J c. 1750 J
____ 28. Which of the following has the greatest kinetic energy?
a. A 20-kg toddler running at 5 m/s
b. A 50-kg toddler running at 30 m/s
c. A 90-kg toddler running at 30 m/s
____ 29. If you throw a baseball straight up, what is its velocity at the highest point?
a. 9.8 m/s2 b. 0 m/s2 c. −9.8 m/s2
____ 30. A soccer ball is kicked with a 36° angle and a velocity of 23 m/s. Find the horizontal component of
the ball’s velocity.
a. 13.51 m/s b. 14.11 m/s c. 18.61 m/s
____ 31. Which of the following influences the motion of a projectile?
a. vertical upward force acting on it b. horizontal force acting on it c. pull of gravity
____ 32. A 5kg mass and a 10 kg mass are launched horizontally from the same height. Which hits the
ground first? (neglect air resistance)
a. they will hit at the same time b. the 5kg mass c. the 10kg mass
____ 33. Which of the following is an example of projectile motion?
a. a bullet being fired from a gun
b. a jet lifting off a runway
c. a space shuttle orbiting Earth
____ 34. Which of the following is the motion of objects moving in two dimensions under the influence of
gravity?
a. horizontal velocity b. projectile motion c. parabola
____ 35. Which of the following is an example of a vector quantity?
a. mass b. volume c. velocity
____ 36. A model rocket flies horizontally off the edge of the cliff at a velocity of 50.0 m/s. If the canyon
below is 100.0 m deep, how far from the edge of the cliff does the model rocket land?
a. 112 m b. 225 m c. 337 m
____ 37. A track star in the long jump goes into the jump at 12 m/s and launches herself at 20.0° above the
horizontal. How long is she in the air before returning to Earth? (g = 9.81 m/s2)
a. 1.5 s b. 0.42 s c. 0.83 s
____ 38. What is true about impulse and momentum?
a. Momentum and impulse are unrelated to each other.
b. Impulse is mass times velocity while momentum is force times time.
c. Momentum is the mass of a substance multiplied by the velocity while impulse is just the change
of momentum.
____ 39. If two objects collide with each other_________________
a. The sum of their momentum after the collision is equal to the sum of their momentums before the
collision.
b. The momentum before the collisions is always greater than the total momentum after the
collision.
c. The object with greater mass always has greater momentum.
____ 40. A 0.2 kg red cue ball rolling at 1.4 m/s elastically collides directly with a 0.2 kg 9- ball at rest.
Which of the following is true?
a. The red cue ball would have a velocity of 0 m/s
b. The 9-ball would have a velocity greater than 2 m/s
c. The red cue ball would have a velocity greater than 1.0 m/s
____ 41. Which of the following is the best example of gravitational potential energy?
a. A basketball sitting on the ground
b. An apple hanging from a tree
c. A soccer ball being kicked across a field
____ 42. A rider on a swing experiences changes in kinetic and potential energy as the swing moves.
Study the diagram below, which shows a swing moving from a high point (A) through two low
points (B and C), and up to a second high point (D). Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. At point A, the energy of the rider and swing is 100% potential energy.
b. As the swing moves toward point B, potential energy decreases, and
kinetic energy increases.
c. As the swing rises toward point C, it begins to lose kinetic energy, and
potential energy increases.
d. At point D, kinetic energy is again 100%.
II. Problem-solving. Show your complete solutions.
1. A 30 gram bullet travels at 300 m/s. How much kinetic energy does it have?

2. A mass of 5 kg is taken from the ground for 5 m uphill on the wedge. The wedge makes an angle
of 30° with the ground. Find the potential energy of the block.

3. What is the velocity of a truck that has a mass of 2568 kg and 4.320 x 105 J of kinetic energy?

4. An 8000 kg truck starts off from rest and reaches a velocity of 18.0 m/s in 6.00 sec.
a. What is the truck’s acceleration?

b. How much momentum does it have after it has reached this final velocity?

5. A golfer hits a ball of mass 45g at a speed of 40 m/s. The golf club is in contact with the ball for
3 s. Compute the average force applied by the club on the ball.

6. A ball is launched into the air by a cannon with an initial velocity of 278 m/s at an angle 57.0°
above the horizontal. Find the ff:
a. horizontal and vertical components of its velocity.
b. time to reach its maximum height

c. time of flight

d. maximum height attained by the object

e. speed at the maximum height

f. range