I. Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives.

1. A physics book slides off a horizontal table-top with a speed of 1.1m/s. It strikes the floor in
0.35s. Ignore air resistance. What is the height of the table-top above the floor?
A. 0.8m B. 0.6m C. 2m D.3m
2. Based on Question 1, what is the horizontal distance from the edge of the table to the point
where the book strikes the floor?
A. 0.39m B. 2.14m C. 9.75m D. 6m
3. Based on Question 1, what are the respective values of the horizontal and vertical components
of the book’s velocity just before the book reaches the floor
A. 1.1m/s and 0m/s C. 0 and 1.1m/s
B. 1.1m/s and 1.1m/s D. 1.1m/s and 3.43m/s
4. A daring 510N swimmer dives off a cliff with a running horizontal leap, as shown in Fig. drawn
below. What must her minimum speed be just as she leaves the
top of the cliff so that she will miss the ledge at the bottom,
which is 1.75m wide and 9.00m below the top of the cliff?
A. 1.36m/s C. 1.29m/s
B. 5m/s D. 1.12m/s
5. Two crickets, Chirpy and Milada, jump from the top of a vertical
cliff. Chirpy just drops and reaches the ground in 3.50s, while Milada jumps horizontally with an
initial speed of 95cm/s. How far from the base of the cliff will Milada hit the ground?
A. 1.5m B. 3.10m C. 7.05m D. 3.32m
6. On level ground a shell is fired with an initial velocity of 50m/s at 60° above the horizontal and
feels no appreciable air resistance. What are the horizontal and vertical components of the shell’s
initial velocity?
A. 25m/s and 43.3m/s C. 10m/s and 40m/s
B. 15m/s and 16m/s D. 12m/s and 19m/s
7. Based on Q-6, how long does it take the shell to reach its highest point?
A. 3.5s B. 3.22s C. 4.42s D. 6s
8. Based on Q-6, what is the maximum height above the ground?
A. 87m B. 96m C. 21m D. 44m
9. A major leaguer hits a baseball so that it leaves the bat at a speed of 30m/s and at an angle of
370 above the horizontal. You can ignore air resistance. At what two times is the baseball at a
height of 10m above the point at which it left the bat?
A. t 1=t 2=2.99s C. t 10.68s, t 2=2.99s
B. t 1=0.16s, t 2=4s D. t 1=t 2=2s
10.A man stands on the roof of a 15m-tall building and throws a rock with a velocity of magnitude
30m/s at an angle of 330 above the horizontal. You can ignore air resistance. What is the
maximum height above the roof reached by the rock?
A. 19.6m B. 28.62m C. 13.62m D. 64m
11.Based on Q-14, what is the magnitude of the velocity of the rock just before it strikes the
ground? 23.6m/s B. 25.16m/s C.47.22m/s D. 34.5m/s
12.Based on Q-14, what is the horizontal range from the base of the building to the point where the
rock strikes the ground?
A. 116.4m B. 107.8m C. 131m D. 162m
13.A cannon, located 60m from the base of a vertical 25m tall cliff, shoots a 15kg shell at 43 0 above
the horizontal toward the cliff. What must the minimum muzzle velocity be for the shell to clear the
top of the cliff?
A. 32.64m/s B. 56m/s C. 78m/s D.22.3m/s

14.An airplane is flying with a velocity of 90m/s at an angle of 23 0 above the horizontal. When the
plane is 114m directly above a dog that is standing on level ground, a suitcase drops out of the
luggage compartment. How far from the dog will the suitcase land? You can ignore air resistance.
A. 795m B. 82.85m C. 35.166m D. 107m
15.A grasshopper leaps into the air from the edge of a vertical cliff,
as shown in Fig. drawn below. Use information from the figure
to find the initial speed of the grasshopper
A. 2.4m/s C. 4.3m/s
B. 1.5m/s D. 5m/s
16.Based on Q-19 the height of the cliff.
A. 7.88m C. 4.66m
B. 11m D. 1.4m
17.A snowball rolls off a barn roof that slopes downward at an angle of 40 0 (Fig. drawn below). The
edge of the roof is 14m above the ground, and the snowball has a
speed of 7m/s as it rolls off the roof. Ignore air resistance. How far
from the edge of the barn does the snowball strike the ground if it
doesn’t strike anything else while falling?
A. 1.29m C. 6.93m

B. 4.67m D. 8.00m

18.A rock is thrown from the top of a 20m building at an angle of 53° above the horizontal. If the
horizontal range of the throw is equal to the height of the building, with what speed was the rock
thrown?
A. 18m/s B. 10.8m/s C. 20m/s D. 9.6m/s
19.What is the velocity of the rock just before it strikes the ground?
A. 2m/si^ -6m/s ^j C. 1.50m/si^ +21m/s ^j
B. 10m/si^ +36m/s ^j D. 6.50m/si^ -21.36m/s ^j
20.A projectile, fired with unknown initial velocity, lands 20s later on the side of a hill, 3000m away
horizontally and 450m vertically above its starting point. What is the vertical component of its
initial velocity?
A. 150m/s B. 171m/s C. 193m/s D. 121m/s
21. Based on Q-23, what is the horizontal component of its initial velocity?
A. 150m/s B. 171m/s C. 193m/s D. 121m/s
1 3
22.At of its maximum height, the speed of a projectile is of its initial speed. What was its launch
2 4
angle?
A. 330 B. 420 C. 700 D. 69.30
23. A ball thrown into the air lands 40m away 2.44s later. Find the direction and magnitude of the
initial velocity.
A. 87.40 B. 450 C. 36.10 D. 230
24.A 2.00-m-tall basketball player is standing on the floor 10m from the basket, as in Figure drawn
below. If he shoots the ball at a 40° angle with the
horizontal, at what initial speed must he throw the
basketball so that it goes through the hoop without striking
the backboard? The height of the basket is 3.05m.
A. 27m/s
B. 10.7m/s
C. 14m/s
D. 8.1m/s
25.A projectile is launched with an initial speed of 60m/s at an angle of 30° above the horizontal.
The projectile lands on a hillside 4s later. Neglect air friction. What is the projectile’s velocity at
the highest point of its trajectory?
A. 30m/s B. 52m/s C. 40m/s D. 32m/s
26.Based on Q-28, what is the straight-line distance from where the projectile was launched to
where it hits its target?
A. 41.6m B. 207.84m C. 212m D. 170.4
27.An artillery shell is fired with an initial velocity of 300m/s at 55° above the horizontal. To clear an
avalanche, it explodes on a mountainside 42s after firing. What are the x- and y-coordinates of
the shell where it explodes, relative to its firing point?
A. 7.23km and 2.46km C. 2.46km and 1.68km
B. 7.23km and 1.68km D. 4.5km and 6.24km
28.A brick is thrown upward from the top of a building at an angle of 25° to the horizontal and with
an initial speed of 15m/s. If the brick is in flight for 3s, how tall is the building?
A. 25.08m B. 10.4m C. 6m D. 11m
29.A place-kicker must kick a football from a point 36m (about 40 yards) from the goal. Half the
crowd hopes the ball will clear the crossbar, which is 3.05m high. When kicked, the ball leaves
 the ground with a speed of 20m/s at an angle of 53° to the horizontal. By how much does the ball
clear or fall short of clearing the crossbar?
A. 2.6m B. 0.44m C. 0.89m D. 1.8m
30.A skier launches off a ski jump with a horizontal velocity of 30m/s (and no vertical velocity
component). What are the magnitudes of the horizontal and vertical components of her velocity the
instant before she lands 2s later?
A. v x =19.6m/s and v y=19.6m/s C. v x =30m/s and v y=19.6m/s
B. v x =20 m/s∧v y =10 m/s D. v x =23m/s and v y=15.3m/s
31.An archer shoots an arrow from a height of 1.14m above ground with an initial speed of 47.5m/s
and a launch angle of 35.2° above the horizontal. At what time after the release of the arrow from
the bow will the arrow be flying exactly horizontally?
A. 4s B. 2.79s C. 1.44s D. 5.2s
32.A football player kicks a ball with a speed of 22.4m/s at an angle of 49° above the horizontal
from a distance of 39m from the goalpost. a) By how much does the ball clear or fall short of
clearing the crossbar of the goalpost if that bar is 3.05m high?
A. 10.4m B. 34.4m C. 44.8m D. 7.35m
33.Based on Q-31, what is the vertical velocity of the ball at the time it reaches the goalpost?
A. 9.06m/s, downward C. 16.9m/s, downward
B. 9.06m/s, upward D. 16.9m/s, upward
34.Stones are thrown horizontally with the same velocity from two buildings. One stone lands twice
as far away from its building as the other stone. What is the ratio of the heights of the two
buildings?
1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D.
9 4 3 2
35.A diver running 2.3m/s dives out horizontally from the edge of a vertical cliff and 3s later reaches
the water below. How high was the cliff?
A. 44.145m B. 32m C. 21m D. 52m
36.Based on Q-33, how far from its base did the diver hit the water?
A. 6.9m B. 26m C. 39m D. 70m
37.A tennis player hits a ball 2m above the ground. The ball leaves his racquet with a speed of
20m/s at an angle 50 above the horizontal. The horizontal distance to the net is 7m, and the net is
1m high. By what value does the ball clear the net?
A. 2m B. 1m C. 3m D. 1.05m
38.A ball is thrown toward a cliff of height h with a speed of 30m/s and an angle of 600 above
horizontal. It lands on the edge of the cliff 4s later. How high is the cliff?
A. 34.43m B. 25.4m C. 10m D. 15m
39.Based on Q-36, what was the maximum height of the ball?
A. 20.05m/s B. 30m/s C. 25m/s D. 27m/s
40.Based on Q-36, what is the ball’s impact speed?
A. 41m B. 25.4m C. 34.43m D. 90m
41.A hypothetical planet has a radius 2.3 times that of Earth, but has the same mass. What is the
acceleration due to gravity near its surface?
A. 3.5m/s2 B. 9.81m/s2 C. 10.2m/s2 D. 1.85m/s2
42.A hypothetical planet has a mass 1.8 times that of Earth, but the same radius. What is g near its
surface?
A. 9.81m/s2 B. 13.4m/s2 C. 9.71m/s2 D. 17.66m/s2
43. If you doubled the mass and tripled the radius of a planet, by what factor would g at its surface
change?
1 2 1 1
A. B. C. D.
9 9 4 2
44.Calculate the effective value of g, the acceleration of gravity, at 6400m?
A. 9.81m/s2 B. 9.72m/s2 C. 2.43m/s2 D. 9.0m/s2
45.and (b) 6400km, above the Earth’s surface.(r e =6400km)
A. 8.84m/s2 B. 9.5m/s2 C. 2.43m/s2 D. 9.0m/s2
46. Four 8.5kg spheres are located at the corners of a square of side 0.80m. What is the magnitude
and direction of the gravitational force exerted on one sphere by the other three ?
A. 1.43x10−8N B. 1.7x10−8N C. 1.43x10−8N D. 1.43x10−8N
47.Two objects attract each other gravitationally with a force of 2.5 X 10−10 N when they are 0.25m
apart. Their total mass is 4.00kg. What is their individual mass?
A. 0.06 kg and 3.94kg C. 1.2kg and 3.8kg
B. 0.02 kg∧3.98 kg D. 1.8kg and 3.2kg
48.Calculate the speed of a satellite moving in a stable circular orbit about the Earth at a height of
5800km.(r e =6400km)
A. 2600m/s B. 1300m/s C. 1800m/s D. 2100m/s
49.Planet A and planet B are in circular orbits around a distant star. Planet A is 9 times farther from
vA
the star than is planet B. What is the ratio of their speeds, ?
vB
2 1 4 2
A. B. C. D.
3 3 3 7
50.Calculate the period of a satellite orbiting the Moon, 120km above the Moon’s surface. Ignore
effects of the Earth. The radius of the Moon is 1740km.
A. 2hr B. 4hr C. 5hr D. 8hr
51.Two satellites orbit Earth at altitudes of 5000km and 15,000km. Which satellite is faster, and by
what factor?
A. 3 B. 2.5 C. 1.37 D. 7
52.What is the magnitude and direction of the gravitational field midway between the Earth and
Moon? Ignore effects of the Sun?
A. 4.02x106 m/s2 B. 2.06x106 m/s2 C. 5x106 m/s2 D. 7x106 m/s2
53.A projectile’s launch speed is five times its speed at maximum height. Find launch angle.
A. 450 B. 300 C. 630 D.78.50
54.You throw a ball toward a wall at speed 25m/s and at angle θ =40° above the horizontal (Fig.
drawn below). The wall is distance d 22m from the release point of the
ball. (a) How far above the release point does the ball hit the wall?
A. 9.7m B. 12m C. 21.5m D. 16m
55.Based on Q-48, what are the respective values of horizontal and vertical
components of its velocity as it hits the wall
A. 5.6m/s and 22m/s C. 19.15m/s and 4.5m/s
B. 1.2m/s and 23m/s D. 12.5m/s and 12.5m/s
56.A dart is thrown horizontally with an initial speed of 10m/s toward point P, the bull’s-eye on a
dart board. It hits at point Q on the rim, vertically below P, 0.19s later. (a)What is the distance
PQ?
A. 1.77m B. 7.6m C. 10.2m D. 12m
57.Based on Q-49, How far away from the dart board is the dart released?
A. 1.9m B. 4.3m C. 2.5m D. 4m
58.A projectile is fired into the air from the top of a 200m cliff above a valley (Figure drawn below).
Its initial velocity is 60m/s at 60° above the
horizontal. Where does the projectile land? (Ignore
any effects due to air resistance.)
A. 54m
B. 67m
C. 70m
D. 90m

59.The range of a cannonball fired horizontally from a cliff is equal to the height of the cliff. What is
the direction of the velocity vector of the projectile as it strikes the ground? (Ignore any effects due
to air resistance.)
1 1
A. tan−1(2) B. tan−1( ) C. tan−1(4) D. tan−1( )
2 4
60.A rifle is aimed horizontally at a target 50m away. The bullet hits the target 20cm below the aim
point. What was the bullet’s flight time?
A. 0.2s B. 0.4s C. 0.6 D. 0.8s
61.Based on Q-53, what was the bullet’s speed as it left the barrel?
A. 100m/s B. 124m/s C. 250m/s D. 176m/s
62.A ball is thrown horizontally from the roof of a building 9.0 m tall and lands 9.5 m from the base.
What was the ball’s initial speed?
63.A football is kicked at ground level with a speed of 18.0m/s at an angle of 38.0° to the horizontal.
How much later does it hit the ground?
64.A ball thrown horizontally at 23.7 m/s from the roof of building lands 31.0m from the base of the
building. How high is the building?
65.A baseball is hit with a speed of 27.0 m/s at an angle of 45.0°. It lands on the flat roof of a 13.0-
m-tall nearby building. If the ball was hit when it was 1.0m above the ground, what horizontal
distance does it travel before it lands on the building?
66.At what projection angle will the range of a projectile equal its maximum height?
67.A projectile is fired with an initial speed of 46.6 m/s at an angle of 42.2° above the horizontal on
a long flat firing range. Determine (a) the maximum height reached by the projectile, (b) the total
time in the air, (c) the total horizontal distance covered (that is, the range), and (d) the velocity of
the projectile 1.50 s after firing.
68.An athlete executing a long jump leaves the ground at a 27.0° angle and lands 7.80 m away, (a)
what was the take-off speed? (b) If this speed were increased by just 5.0%, how much longer
would the jump be?
69.A projectile is launched from ground level to the top of a cliff
which is 195 m away and 135 m high (see Fig. drawn
below). If the projectile lands on top of the cliff 6.6 s after it is
fired, find the initial velocity of the projectile (magnitude and
direction). Neglect air resistance.
A. 56
B. 78
C. 89
D. ….

70.A projectile is fired with an initial speed of 30 m/s at an angle of

600 above the horizontal. The object hits the ground 7.5 s later. a.
How much higher or lower is the launch point relative to the point
where the projectile hits the ground? b. To what maximum height
above the launch point does the projectile rise?
71.You are to throw a ball with a speed of 12m/s at a target that is height h = 5m above the level at
which you release the ball (Fig. drawn below). You want the ball’s velocity to be horizontal at the
instant it reaches the target. (a) At what angle above the horizontal must you throw the ball? (b)
What is the horizontal distance from the release point to the target? (c) What is the speed of the
ball just as it reaches the target?

72.A projectile is fired with an initial speed v0 = 30m/s from level ground at a target that is on the
ground, at distance R = 20m, as shown in Fig. drawn
below. What are the (a) least and (b) greatest launch
angles that will allow the projectile to hit the target?

73.A baseball is hit at ground level. The ball reaches its maximum height above ground level 3.0 s
after being hit. Then 2.5 s after reaching its maximum height, the ball barely clears a fence that is
97.5 m from where it was hit. Assume the ground is level. (a) What maximum height above
ground level is reached by the ball? (b) How high is the fence? (c) How far beyond the fence does
the ball strike the ground?
74.At what initial speed must the basketball player in Fig. drawn below throw the ball, at angle θ
=55° above the horizontal, to make the foul shot? The
horizontal distances are d1 =1ft and d2 =14ft, and the
heights are h1 =7ft and h2 =10ft.(1ft=0.3048m)
A. 12m/s
B. 40m/s
C. 60m/s
D. …
75.A ball is shot from the ground into the air. At a height of 9.1m, its velocity is: ⃗v = (7.6i^ + 6.1 ^j ) m/s
with i^ horizontal and ^j upward. (a) To what maximum height does the ball rise? (b) What total
 horizontal distance does the ball travel? What are the (c) magnitude and (d) angle (below the
horizontal) of the ball’s velocity just before it hits the ground?

76.A soccer ball is kicked from the ground with an initial speed of 19.5m/s at an upward angle of
45°.A player 55m away in the direction of the kick starts running to meet the ball at that instant.
What must be his average speed if he is to meet the ball just before it hits the ground?

77.In Fig. drawn below, a ball is thrown leftward from the left edge of the roof, at height h above the
ground. The ball hits the ground 1.50 s later, at distance
d =25m from the building and at angle θ = 60° with the
horizontal. (a) Find h. (Hint: One way is to reverse the
motion, as if on video.) What are the (b) magnitude and
(c) angle relative to the horizontal of the velocity at which
the ball is thrown? (d) Is the angle above or below the
horizontal?
78.A projectile’s launch speed is five times its speed at maximum height. Find launch angle, θ0 .
79.A ball is thrown horizontally from a height of 20m and hits the ground with a speed that is three
times its initial speed. What is the initial speed?
80.At what initial angle θ◦ will the maximum height attained by a projectile be equal to its horizontal
range?
81.A projectile is fired from the ground with an initial velocity v 0= (6i+12j) m/s, see Fig. drawn below.
(a) What are the vertical and horizontal velocity
components after time t =1s? (b) What are the time and
the coordinates of the projectile when it reaches the
highest point? (c) What are the values of the total time of
the projectile’s flight T and the horizontal range R?

82.A long jumper leaves a cliff at θ =450 above the horizontal with an initial speed v◦ and lands 6m
away, see Fig. drawn below. The cliff is at a height h
=2m above sea level. (a) What is the speed of the
jumper? (b) How long will it take him to reach the
water?

83.A ball is launched from the ground with an initial speed v◦ of 40m/s at an angle θ= 600 towards a
cliff of height h, see Fig. drawn below. The ball strikes the cliff after
5 s. Find: (a) the height h of the cliff, (b) the maximum height H, (c)
the speed of impact, and (d) the horizontal distance between the cliff
and the firing point.

84.During volcanic eruptions, pieces of solid rock can be blasted out of a volcano; these projectiles
are called volcanic bombs (Figure drawn below). (a) At
what initial speed would the bomb have to be ejected,
at 350 to the horizontal, from the hole at A in order to
fall at the foot of the volcano at B? (Ignore the effects
of air resistance on the bomb’s travel.) (b) What would
be the time of flight?
85.A fire-fighter, a distance d from a burning building, directs a stream of water from a fire hose at
angle µi above the horizontal, as shown in Figure drawn
below. If the initial speed of the stream is v o, at what
height does the water strike the building?