UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

VISAYAS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND

SCIENCES
DIVISION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

I. Multiple Choices: NOTE (You may use the back part of the questionnaires as your scratch)
1. What is the term used to describe motion of an object in a straight path?
a. linear motion b. circular motion c. oscillatory motion d. curvilinear motion
2. A vector is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction. Among the kinematical quantities below,
which is a vector quantity?
a. Position b. Distance c. Displacement d. Speed
3. An object moves in a uniform motion. By uniform motion it means that the object moves in constant
velocity. Which statement is true about object moving at constant velocity?
a. An object move in constant speed but changes direction. b. An object changes speed but unchanging
direction.
c. An object moves in constant speed and unchanging direction. d. An object moves in a
circular path.
4. Which statement is true about the described kinematical quantity?
a. Displacement is describe by magnitude and direction. b. Speed is describe
by magnitude and direction.
c. Acceleration is describe by magnitude only. d. Velocity and distance are both describe
by magnitude and direction.
5. What is the distance travelled by a toy car if initially it is at x = 3 m and after 4 seconds it has its final
position at x = -10 m?
a. 3 m b. 7 m c. 13 m d. 17 m
6. How far a distance did a car travel when it moves with a constant speed of 35 km/hr for 2
hours? a. 70 km b.150 km c.175 km d.1750 km
7. A car moves with an average speed of 20 m/s for 6 seconds. How far did it
go? a. 112.4 m b.120 m c.124 m d.125 m
8. A car moves with a speed of 35 km/hr for 12 minutes. How far did it go?
a. 3.5 km b.7 km c.14 km d.28 km
9. Which of the following does not describe speed?
a. 36 km/hr b. 10 m/min/sec c. 35 m/s d. 20 cm/s
10. The instantaneous speed of a car can be measured by an instrument called .
a. accelerator b. Speedometer c. Ammeter d. multimeter
11. Which kinematical quantity describe how fast a car moves in a specific direction at each time?
a. average speed b. average distance c. instantaneous velocity d. instantaneous speed
12. An average speed of 90 km/hr is also equal to
a.2.5 m/s b.25 m/s c.250 m/s d.90000 m/s
13. Find the average speed of a truck’s if it travels 320 m in 20 seconds.
a. 16 m/s b. 32 m/s c. 320 m/s d. 3200 m/s
14. What is the distance travelled by the truck in # 13 if it continues to move with the same constant speed in
5 seconds?
a. 64 m b. 80 m c. 160 m d. 640 m
15.Acceleration is one of the vector quantities in kinematics. What is the standard unit for acceleration?
a. m/s2 b.km/h2 c.cm/s2 d.km/min2
16 .A car is moving in a uniform velocity. What is its acceleration?
a .zero b. Uniform c. non-uniform d. negative
17. Which is true about velocity and acceleration when Dindu throws a piece of candy upward?
a. As it moves upward, its velocity increases, while its acceleration changes constantly.
b. As it moves upward, its velocity decreases while its acceleration changes constantly.
c. As it moves upward, its velocity decreases while its acceleration is constant..
d. As it moves upward, its velocity and acceleration are constant.
18. Which vehicle has the greater acceleration: A car whose speed increases from 60 m/s to 65 m/s in
2.5 seconds, or a bicycle that goes from rest to 5 m/s in the same time interval?
a. The car has the greater acceleration.
b. The bicycle has the greater acceleration.
c. The vehicles have the same acceleration.
d. The acceleration of both vehicles cannot be determined because of insufficient data.
19. If a car’s velocity is constant, what is its acceleration?
a. changing b. increasing c. Zero d. constant
20. Which true of an object that has zero acceleration?
a. not moving b. not changing position
c. not changing velocity d. changing speed but not direction
21. Where is the direction of the acceleration of an object that is observed to slow down as it moves eastward?
a. eastward b. westward
c. neither eastward nor westward d. between east and west direction
22. A motorcycle moves a certain distance before it slows down. As the motorcycle slows down it has
a. increasing velocity b. decreasing velocity
c. increasing acceleration d. constant average speed
23. A car moves with an initial speed of 20 km/hr to a final speed of 50 km/hr in 10 seconds. What is its
acceleration?
a. 0.83 m/s2 b.3 m/s2 c.18 m/s2 d.30 m/s2
24. What is the acceleration of a motorbike moving initially at 13 m/s and reaching a final speed of 25 m/s
in the time interval of 15 seconds?
a. 0.8 m/s2 b. 1.7 m/s2 c. 2.5 m/s2 d. 8 m/s2
25. Which statement about an accelerating car is not true?
a. It constantly changes direction b. Its speed is increasing
c. It is moving in a curve path at constant speed. d. It is moving at constant speed.
26.What acceleration does a bus experience when the driver steps on a brakes and the velocity drops from
20 m/s to 10 m/s in a time of 2 seconds?
a. 5 m/s2 b. -5 m/s2 c. 10 m/s2 d. -10m/s2
27.What is the distance travelled by Mateo’s car if the speed increases uniformly from 15 m/s to 45 m/s in 10
seconds?
a. 3 m b. 15 m c. 30 m d. 300 m
28. A car moves with a final speed of 20 m/s with a constant acceleration of 2 m/s2 for 10 seconds. What is the
initial velocity of a car?
a. zero b. 5 m/s c. 15 m/s d. 50 m/s
29. A car moves in a straight line at 40 m/s with an acceleration of 4 m/s2. What is the final speed of the
car after 2 second?
a.16 m/s b.20 m/s c.28 m/s d.80 m/s
30.What is the final speed of a car after moving 2 seconds, from its initial speed of 20 m/s and
accelerates constantly at 4 m/s2
a.8 m/s b.12 m/s c.16 m/s d.28 m/s
31.What is the final speed of a truck 2 seconds after the driver hits the break as the truck approaches a busy
intersection at an initial speed of 20m/s and slows down at 4 m/s2 ?
a. -12 m/s b. 8 m/s c.12 m/s d.16 m/s
32. A car travelling with an initial velocity of 13 m/s accelerates uniformly of 3 m/s2 for 15 seconds. What is its
final velocity car?
a. 5 m/s b. 32 m/s c. 45 m/s d. 58 m/s
33. A van started from rest and accelerates in a straight line at 1.6 m/s2 for 10seconds. What is the final speed
of a van?
a. 13 m/s b. 14 m/s c. 15 m/s d. 16 m/s
34. How far will the car in #33 travel in the given time interval?
a. 16 m b. 75 m c. 80 m d. 160 m
35. How much time did it took Noah to travel a distance of 24 meter in his motorcycle if he started from
rest and accelerates at 3 m/s2 ?
a. 2 s b. 3 s c. 4 s d. 5 s
36. A car started from rest and accelerates at 2 m/s2. If its covers a distance of 16 meter, what is its final
velocity?
a. 4 m/s b. 8 m/s c. 16 m/s d. 32 m/s
37. What is the acceleration and the distance travelled by Dindu’s car if it accelerates uniformly from
a standstill to 60 m/s in 4.0 seconds?
a. a = 5 m/s2, d = 120 m b. a = 120 m/s2 d= 15 m
c. a = 5 m/s2, d = 320 m d. a = 240 m/s2,d = 120 m
38. When the objects falls, the force that acts on it is
a. friction b. gravitational force c. magnetic force d. tension
39. In a free fall, the acceleration of an object is
a. changing in magnitude and directed downward
b. constant in magnitude and directed downward
c. increasing in magnitude and constantly directed downward
d. constant in magnitude and sometime upward or downward
40. When Bugoy threw a tennis ball upward, what is true of its velocity and acceleration as the tennis
ball reaches its maximum height?
a. v= 9.8 m/s ,a= 9.8 m/s2 b. v= 0 m/s, a= 9.8 m/s2
c. v= 0 m/s, a= 0 m/s 2
d. v= 980 m/s ,a= 9.8 m/s2
41. What is true when the stone is dropped from the second floor of a science building that is 7 meters from
the ground?
a. increasing speed and changing acceleration
b. increasing speed and constant acceleration
c. decreasing acceleration and constant speed
d. increasing speed and increasing acceleration
42. Which statement is true about the acceleration of a big rock and a small can when drop down a cliff?
a. The big rock will accelerate at 9.8 m/s2 and the can will accelerate at less than 9.8 m/s2
b. The big rock will accelerate at 9.8 m/s2 and the can will accelerate at more than 9.8 m/s2
c. The big rock will accelerate at 9.8 m/s2 and the can will accelerate at the same magnitude.
d. The big rock will accelerate more than 9.8 m/s2 and the can will accelerate at 9.8 m/s2.
43. What is the initial velocity of a 1- kg ball that is dropped 6 meter from the
ground? a. 0 m/s b. -6 m/s c. 6 m/s d. 9.8 m/s
44. What is the distance travelled by a ball when it is dropped from the top of a building and travels down for
6 seconds?
a. 36 m b. 45 m c. 176 m d. 360 m
45. What is the speed of a cat as it drops to the ground in ½
second? a. 10 m/s b. 2m/s c. 5 m/s
d. 0.5m/s
46. What is the distance travelled by a rock 2 seconds after it is
dropped? a. 10 m b. 20 m c. 30 m d. 40 m

47. What is the velocity of a coin after 3 seconds after it is drop a certain distance from the
ground? a. 10 m/s b. 15 m/s c. 20 m/s d. 30 m/s
48.What is the total time that the coin is in the air when it is thrown upward with an initial velocity of 50 km/hr
and caught at a point where it was released?
a. 2. 83 s b. 1.42 s c. 5.1 s d. 10.2 s
49. What is the maximum height a coin can reach, if it is thrown upward with an initial velocity of
8 m/s(neglect air resistance)?
a. 2 m b. 3.27 m c. 8 m d. 10 m
50. How long a time will it take a pen to reach its highest point when thrown vertically upward with an
initial velocity of 39.2 m/s?
a. 1 s b. 2 s c. 3 s d. 4 s
II. Problem Solving (10 points each)

1. If you used only a keyboard to enter data, how many years would it take to fill up the hard drive in a
computer that can store 1.0 terabytes of data? Assume 40-hour work weeks, and that you can type
180 characters per minute, and that one byte is one keyboard character.

2. A.) Find the scalar dot product and the angle between the vectors B.) Find the Vector cross product ofAxB

3.Three players on a reality TV show are brought to the center of a large, flat field. Each is given a meter
stick, a compass, a calculator, a shovel, and (in a different order for each contestant) the following three
displacements:
𝐴→ − 72.4 m, 32.0° east of north
𝐵→→ − 57.3 m, 36.0° south of west
𝐶→ − 17.8 m due south

The three displacements lead to the point in the field where the keys to a new Porsche are
buried. Two players start measuring immediately, but the winner first calculates where to go.What does
she calculate? (Draw the Graphical representation)

4.A motorcycle stunt rider rides off the edge of a cliff. Just at the edge his velocity is horizontal, with magnitude
9 m/s. Find the motorcycle’s position, distance from the edge of the cliff, and velocity 0.50 s after it leaves the
edge of the cliff.

5.
a.) Please derive the height y and horizontal range x using the four kinematic equations.
b.) What initial angle (0𝑜𝑡𝑜90𝑜) yields to a maximum height y and horizontal range x in a projectile motion.
Please support your answer using the four kinematics equations.

6. Show that the dot product of two vector is just the product of their magnitude and cos θ .