CP Physics 9-Week Practice Exam
Part 1: Multiple Choice
1st Marking Period
TEST # __________
DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PART OF THE TEST
Choose the best answer to each question and write the appropriate letter in the space provided on your
ScanTron answer sheet. Only answers on your ScanTron Answer sheet will be scored.
------------------------------------------1. A vector is a quantity that has magnitude and______________. (direction)
2. A cannonball is launched horizontally from a cliff. If it leaves the barrel of the cannon with a velocity of 75
m/s, how far downrange will the cannonball be 2 seconds later? (150m)
3. A volleyball player jumps up to spike a ball. Once her feet are off the floor, the player’s acceleration ___.
(equals “g”)
𝑚
4. A car accelerates at 4 𝑠2 . Assuming the car starts from rest, how much time does it need to accelerate to a
𝑚
speed of 52 𝑠 ?
(13 seconds)
5. A soup bowl falls off of a table. It takes 0.4 sec to hit the ground. How high was the table? (0.8m)
6. A golf ball and a baseball are dropped at the same time. In the absence of air resistance, which ball has
the greater acceleration?
(both the same)
7. True or False - Physics is the most basic science because ___________________________________.
-It is all about the nature of basic things like forces, energy, and motion (True)
-The ideas of physics extend into more complex sciences (True)
- Underneath biology is chemistry and underneath chemistry is physics (True)
-You can better understand science in general if you understand physics (True)
8. An apple tossed vertically upward rises, reaches its highest point, and then falls back to its starting point.
During this time, the direction of the acceleration of the apple is always ___. (downward)
9. Nine seconds after starting from rest, a car is moving at 45 m/s. What is the car’s average acceleration?
𝑚
(5𝑠2 )
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10. You take a trip that covers 600 km in 8 hours. What was your average speed? (75 km/hr)
11. A ball is thrown straight up. At the top of its path, its acceleration is ___.
(about 10 m/s2)
12. The horizontal component of a projectile’s velocity and the vertical component of the velocity are ___.
(independent of each other)
13. When you look at the speedometer in a moving car, you can see the car’s average speed or
instantaneous speed? (instantaneous speed)
14. A ball is thrown into the air at an angle of 20 degrees above the horizontal and land on a target that is at
the same level as that where the ball started. The ball will also land on the target if it is thrown at an
angle of ___ degrees.
(70 degrees)
15. True or False: Speed is ___.
-Always measured in terms of a unit of distance divided by a unit of time (True)
-A measure of how fast something is moving (True)
-The distance covered per unit of time (True)
16. On the moon, when something falls to the ground, it accelerates while falling. This acceleration is called
𝑚
acceleration due to gravity and is symbolized by the letter “g” and is nearly equal to 1.6𝑠2 . What is the
value of g close to the surface of the Earth?
𝑚
(about 10𝑠2 )
17. What is the resultant vector formed by 12-unit component vector and a 5-unit component vector at right
angles to each other?
(a 13- unit vector)
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18. To test a scientific hypothesis, you would ___. (set up many experiments and look at the results)
19. Acceleration is defined as the CHANGE in ___.
(the velocity divided by the time interval)
20. If you drop a feather and a penny at the same time IN A TUBE FILLED WITH AIR, which will reach the
bottom of the tube first? (the penny)
21. In the absence of air resistance, objects fall at a constant speed or constant acceleration?
(constant acceleration)
22. Eight seconds after starting from rest, a freely falling object will have a speed of about ___.
23. A scalar is a quantity that has ___.
(80m/s)
(magnitude only)
24. True or False: the following steps are a part of the Scientific methoda. recognize the problem (True)
b. make a guess about the answer and predict its consequences (True)
c. repeat the experiments until the answers match the predictions (False)
d. formulate a general rule based on the predictions and experimental outcome (True)
e. perform experiments to test the predictions (True)
25. True or False: the following would be considered a projectilea. A cannonball thrown through the air (True)
b. A cannonball thrown straight up (True)
c. A cannonball rolling off the edge of a cliff (True)
d. A cannonball rolling down a slope (False)
26. The two measurements necessary for calculating average speed are: (distance and time)
27. A car drives a distance of 80 km in a time of 2 hours. Its average speed is: (40 km/h)
28. A block of ice is set in motion across a frozen pond. If ice friction and air resistance are ignored, the force
needed to keep the ice block sliding at constant velocity is: (zero)
29. While an object near the earth’s surface is in free fall, its velocity ___________. (increases)
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30. A heavy object and a light object are dropped at the same time from rest in a vacuum. The heavier
object reaches the ground ______________________. (at the same time as the lighter object)
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