San Fabian National High School

San Fabian, Pangasinan

UNIT TEST IN GENERAL PHYSICS 2 (GRADE 12)

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I. Directions: Choose the correct answer and write it on separate sheet of paper.
1. What makes a material a good conductor of electricity?
A. The protons are relatively mobile.
B. They have a positive charge; they easily attract electrons.
C. All of their electrons can be completely removed from the nucleus.
D. Some of their electrons are free to roam through the atomic structure.
2. Which of the following groups of materials are considered good conductors?
A. aluminum, copper, gold, silver
B. glass, rubber, ceramic, dry wood
C. glass, rubber, aluminum, ceramic, copper
D. silver, rubber, aluminum, ceramic, wet wood
3. When a negatively charged object is grounded on the water pipe, the pipe…
A. has no effect on the situation.
B. provides a path for neutrons to neutralize the object.
C. provides a path for protons from the earth to neutralize the object.
D. provides a path for the excess electrons on the charged object to the ground so
that the object can become neutral.
4. What is the charge of an object attracted to a negatively charged beach ball?
A. Positive B. Negative C. Either negative or neutral D. Either positive or neutral
5. When a student rubs a beach ball against the lab tabletop the beach ball becomes negatively charged because _______
A. protons left the beach ball.
B. electrons left the beach ball.
C. electrons flowed from the table top to the beach ball due to friction.
D. electrons flowed from the table top to the beach ball because of contact.
6. When a positively charged object is used to charge a neutral conducing sphere by contact, the resulting charges are?
A. Both the sphere and the object are negative
B. Both the sphere and the object are positive
C. The sphere is now neutral and the object is negative
D. The Sphere is now positive and the object is negative
7. Two charges q1 and q2 with a charge of 1C and -4C respectively are placed near each other. What is the direction of the force acted upon
by q1 to q2?
A. towards each other B. Away from each other C. away from q2 D. away from q1
8. Manufacturer of appliances like refrigerator and inverter welding machine are using wire with a larger cross sectional area because
A. It consumes lesser Electricity.
B. It consumes larger amount of electricity.
C. Wire of appliances with a higher electricity consumption tends to heat up because of wire resistance.
D. Wire of appliances with higher electricity consumption must be plugged in directly to an extension wire.
9. Copper is the most abundant type of material used in electrical wiring due to its
A. Higher Conductivity compare to gold
B. Lower energy consumption due to its molecular structure
C. Manufacturers use copper because of its low resistance
D. Manufacturer use copper because it’s low resistance and cheaper price
10. What do you call the process by which electrons are drawn to one side of a neutral conducting object and the opposite side is left with a
positive charge?
A. Deduction C. Charging by friction
B. Polarization D. Charging by induction
11. When charging objects by induction, which of the following must be true?
A. The source loses some of its charge.
B. The objects being charged must be conductors.
C. The objects take on the same charge as its source.
D. A path to ground is not needed when using a positive source
12. A physics student rubs a neutral glass rod with a neutral silk cloth and the silk becomes negatively charged by friction. What can be said
about the glass rod?
A. The glass remained neutral.
B. The glass became charged.
C. The glass became negatively charged.
D. The glass became positively charged
13. In your Balloon bends water experiment, the stream of water behaved differently during each part of the experiment because of
A. Charging by induction
B. Charging by rubbing
C. Water is a negative compound
D. Air inside the Balloon is negatively charged
14. When a positively charged object is used to charge a neutral conducing sphere by contact, the resulting charges are?
A. Both the sphere and the object are positive
B. Both the sphere and the object are negative
C. The sphere is now positive and the object is negative
D. The sphere is now neutral and the object is negative
15. Which quantity is measured in coulomb/ C?
A. Force B. Charge C. Permittivity D. Field strength
16. Which of the following is NOT a factor affecting resistance of a wire?
A. Length B. temperature C. type D. volume
17. The resistance and length of the wire are
A. directly related B. inversely related
C. proportionally related D. not related
18. What factor affecting resistance of a wire is being shown on the figure?

A. length B. type C. temperature D. cross-sectional area

19. This is the conductive property of a wire that measures how strongly the material opposes the flow of electric current through it.
A. charge B. current C. resistivity D. voltage
20. To decrease the resistance of the wire, you should
A. increase the length of the wire
B. increase the diameter of the wire
C. heat up the wire
D. coat the wire with insulator
21. The current-voltage relationship can be represented through a ______________ graph.
A. hyperbola B. linear C. non –linear D. parabolic
22. Not all wires are created equal. Different types have different conductive ability. This property of the wires is known as the______
A. resistivity
B. Conductivity
C. Positive Current
D. Negative Current
23. The ___________ is the cause of why wires of different appliances get hot after some time when plugged in.
A. Voltage
B. resistance
C. Voltage Conductivity
D. Electric current
24. Which material will you use as a dielectric for a capacitor to obtain the lowest amount of capacitance?
A. air B. glass C. mica D. water
25. The circuit with higher resistance will allow less charge to flow.
A. True B. False C. Sometimes D. Not enough information
26. The resistance of a hot conductor in a circuit could
A. increase the length of the conductor
B. increase the thickness of the insulator
C. increase the temperature of the conductor
D. increase the resistance of the conductor
27. If you increase the voltage across a resistor, what will happen to the current? The current will
A. doubled B. decreases C. increases D. stay the same.
28. What is the name of the device used in measuring the voltage, resistance and conductivity of a wire?
A. Parameter B. Ohm Meter C. Multi meter D. Volt meter
29. What is the unit of measurement to measure the opposition to current flow in an electrical circuit?
A. Ampere B. Ohm C. Voltage D. Watt
30. The circuit with lower resistance will allow less charge to flow.
A. True B. False C. Sometimes D. Not enough information