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Grading Period: Second Quarter

Subject and Year Level: General Physics 1 – Grade 12

Directions: 4. The planet Saturn has a mass that

Read each question carefully and write is about 100 times larger than that of
the correct answer in a separate sheet Earth and is about 10 times farther
of paper, or in the answer sheet
from the sun than where Earth is.
provided to you. Do not write anything
on this test questionnaire. Compared to the acceleration of Earth
caused by Sun’s gravitational pull,
1. In considering the moment of how great is the acceleration of Saturn
inertia of a body, it is convenient to due to Sun’s gravitation?
assume as if all its mass were A. 100 times greater
concentrated at a single point from B. 10 times greater
the center of rotation. What is the C. 1/10 as great
term used for this particular D. Equal
distance?
A. Lever arm 5. What do you think will happen to
B. Center of mass you if you were to sit next to a neutron
C. Center of gravity ball, both on a flat surface, of which
D. Radius of gyration weight is half that of the sun?
A. You will levitate.
2. What is the rotational analog of B. Nothing will happen.
mass in linear motion? C. You and the ball will repel
A. Torque each other, and you will be
B. Angular speed thrown out.
C. Moment of inertia D. You will be drawn to the ball
D. Angular momentum as if you are sliding downhill
a mountain.
3. In different cases, angular
momentum is a product of __________. 6. Newton discovered that gravity can
A. Linear inertia and angular be described as __________.
velocity A. an attraction between like
B. rotational inertia and linear electrical charges
velocity B. a spring-like connection
C. rotational inertia and angular between any two masses
velocity C. a force that is independent of
D. linear momentum and the masses of the objects
angular velocity involved
D. a universal attraction
between masses which gets
stronger with distance

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7. How does the gravitational force the C. Always comes to a stop in

Earth exerts on the Sun compare to oscillatory motion
the gravitational force the Sun exerts D. Comes to a stop in different
on the Earth? ways depending on its
A. The gravitational forces are damping ratio
equal.
B. There is no enough 12. Which of the following types of
information to answer the waves refers to the waves that require
question. a medium to travel?
C. The gravitational force of the A. Ocean waves
Sun on the Earth is larger. B. Transverse waves
D. The gravitational force of the C. Mechanical waves
Earth on the Sun is larger. D. Electromagnetic waves

8. In Simple Harmonic Motion, the 13. Which wave in Figure 1 has the
acceleration of a particle is __________. largest frequency?
A. always zero
B. always constant
C. maximum at amplitude
D. maximum at the equilibrium
position

9. Which of the following is NOT a

condition of SHM? Figure 1. Sinusoidal Waves at Varying
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B. The velocity is opposite to (Source:https://quizizz.com/wavelengths)
displacement.
C. The restoring force is A. A only
opposite to displacement. B. C only
D. The acceleration is C. A and C
proportional to displacement. D. B and C

10. A spring-mass system has a mass 14. Which one of the following
of 1 kg, a spring constant of 100 N/m definitions describes the term
and a damping coefficient of 15. How “interference”?
will you describe the system? A. It happens when one wave
A. Undamped travels alone.
B. Overdamped B. It occurs only when two or
C. Underdamped more waves overlap and
D. Critically-damped combine.
C. It occurs when two or more
11. What will happen when a damped waves combine and
harmonic oscillator is perturbed? neutralize each other.
A. Never comes to a stop D. It is observed only when the
B. Always comes to a stop phase difference between the
without oscillating two waves is zero.

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15. What will happen when a 19. How will you describe the
compression interferes with another relationship between area and
compression? pressure?
A. They counteract and A. Directly proportional
diminish. B. Inversely proportional
B. They combine to create a C. Depends on the value of
rarefaction. pressure and area
C. They combine to create a D. No relationship at all
larger compression.
D. They combine but the wave 20. What does the equation Pfluid=pgh
effects remain the same. mean?
A. The greater the depth, h, the
16. What is the formula for density? greater the pressure.
A. density = mass x volume B. The greater the density, rho,
B. density = mass / volume the greater the pressure.
C. density = mass + volume C. The greater the gravitational
D. density = mass – volume field, g, the greater the
pressure.
17. Consider the Figure 2. D. All of the above

21. What is 10 °C in Kelvin?

A. 280K
B. 281K
C. 282K
D. 283K

22. Which of the following represents a

normal body temperature of 98.6 °F in
degrees Celsius?
A. 37°C
B. 72.5°C
Figure 2. Liquid Pressure C. 72.6°C
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9d7a2b51318001a4290f5/weight-mass- D. 370°C
density-pressure-liquid-pressure)
23. What is thermal expansion?
What is the volume of object X? A. Is a decrease in the volume of
A. 10.0 cm3 a material when temperature
B. 15.0 cm3 decreases.
C. 20.0 cm3
B. Is an increase in the volume of
D. 25.0 cm3
a material when temperature
18. What is the SI unit of pressure? increases.
A. Watts C. The transfer of thermal energy
B. Joules between materials by the
C. Pascal collisions of particles.
D. Newton D. The transfer of electric

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potential energy between 28. Which of the following is an

materials by the collisions of example of reversible process?
particles. A. Striking a match
B. Firing a bullet from a gun
24. A material of length 𝐿1 at C. Quickly pouring a hot water
temperature 𝜃1𝐾 is subjected to a into cold water
D. Slowly pouring hot water into
temperature rise of 𝜃𝐾. The coefficient
cold while allowing the
of linear expansion of the material
container to achieve ambient
𝛼𝐾-1. What is the expansion of the
temperature
material?
A. 𝐿1𝛼 29. Based on Figure 3, why does the
B. 𝐿1𝛼(𝜃 - 𝜃1) entropy of a solid, liquid, or gas
C. 𝐿2(1 + 𝛼𝜃) increase as it changes from one state to
D. 𝐿1[1 + 𝛼(𝜃 - 𝜃1)] another?

25. Which of the following laws

accounts for temperature, volume,
pressure, and moles of gas within an
individual system?
A. Boyle’s Law
Figure 3. Solid, Liquid, and Gas Molecules
B. Charles’ Law
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C. Ideal Gas Law b7dee5c9241001c50c371/entropy)
D. Gay-Lussac’s Law
A. Molecules are more reactive
26. The temperature of an ideal gas B. Molecular disorder increases
increases from 20 °C to 40 °C while the C. Molecules are more energetic
pressure stays the same. What
D. Molecular randomness
happens to the volume of the gas?
decreases
A. It doubles
B. It quadruples
C. It slightly increases 30. Which of the following statements
D. It slightly decreases best describes the 2nd Law of
Thermodynamics?
27. Which of the following conditions A. Energy can neither be created
results if there is an addition of heat at nor destroyed.
constant pressure to a gas? B. The internal energy of the
A. Raising its volume only universe is constant.
B. Raising its temperature and C. At absolute zero, the entropy
pressure of the perfect crystal is
C. Raising its pressure and doing considered to be zero.
external work
D. When an isolated system
D. Raising its temperature and
undergoes a spontaneous
doing external work

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change, the entropy of the 34. At which point on the roller coaster
system will increase. in Figure 5 is the gravitational
potential energy the greatest?
31. A uniform rod with a mass of 2 kg
and a length of 2.0 m is pivoted about
an axis perpendicular to the rod and
50 cm from its left end. What is its
rotational inertia about this axis?
A. 2.57 kg·m2
B. 2.17 kg·m2
C. 1.17 kg·m2
D. 0.67 kg·m2

32. A 50-N force is applied at the end Figure 5. Kinetic and Potential Energy in a
of the wrench handle that is 24-cm Roller Coaster
long. The force is applied in a direction (Source: https://rme.sharylandisd.org/)
perpendicular to the handle, as shown
in Figure 4. What is the torque applied A. W
to the nut by the wrench? B. X
C. Y
D. Z

35. Which oscillating systems have a

period that depends on mass?
A. Spring systems
B. Pendulum systems
C. Both spring and pendulum
systems
Figure 4. Wrench D. Neither pendulum nor spring
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A. 6 N· m 36. What causes sound when you

B. 12 N· m pluck the string of a guitar?
C. 26 N· m A. Tuning machines
D. 120 N· m B. Vibrations of the string
C. Sound hole in the middle of
33. An object is being pushed with a
constant velocity of 5 ms-1 along a the guitar
horizontal floor. What is the net force D. Frets or metal strips along
acting on the object? the length of the neck
A. 0 N
B. 0.5 N 37. The weight of the car is 2.6 x 106
C. 5 N kg. The ratio between master piston
D. 50 N to slave piston is 1:15. What is the
force exerted on the master piston?
A. 1.3 x 106 N

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B. 1.3 x 107 N A. 0.175 m3

C. 3.0 x 106 N B. 5.72 m3
D. 3.0 x 107 N C. 12.1 m3
D. 264000 m3
38. Which of the following statements
is NOT true about the laws of 41. By applying force, where would be
thermodynamics? the easiest way to open a heavy door?
A. Heat flows from an object with A. Near the hinges
B. At the top of the door
low temperature to an object
C. In the middle of the door
with higher temperature. D. At the edge of the door far
B. Thermal equilibrium of two from the hinges
objects with different
temperatures will attain at 42. Suppose that a pendulum has a
some point. period of 4.0 s at Earth’s surface. If the
pendulum is taken to the moon, where
C. An object with a lower
the acceleration due to gravity is much
temperature will lose its less than on Earth, will the
energies when in direct pendulum’s period increase, decrease,
contact with an object with a or stay the same?
higher temperature. A. Increase
D. An object with a higher B. Decrease
temperature will gain energy C. Stay the same
D. Need more information
from an object with a lower
temperature when they are in 43. A standing wave experiment is
direct contact. performed to determine the speed of
waves in a rope. The standing wave
39. What is the area enclosed by the pattern, as shown in Figure 6, is
PV graph of a complete heat engine established in the rope. The rope
cycle? makes 90.0 complete vibrational
A. Equals the heat intake per cycles in exactly one minute. What is
cycle the speed of the wave?
B. Equals the heat output per
cycle
C. Equals the work done on the
engine per cycle
D. Equals the work done by the
engine per cycle Figure 6. Standing Wave
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40. A gas expands and does 215 J of
work on a piston. The gas exerts a A. 3.0 m/s
pressure of 1230 Pa on the piston. B. 6.0 m/s
What is the change in volume of the C. 9.0 m/s
gas? D. 12.0 m/s

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44. What can you tell about the object's its heat capacity. The heat capacity of
motion illustrated in Figure 7? any particular material, on the other
hand, may be determined under a
variety of circumstances, including
constant pressure and volume. How
would the heat capacity for material at
constant volume differ from the heat
capacity for that same material at
Figure 7. Wave pattern created by a constant pressure?
moving object at wave speed A. The heat capacity at constant
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025b35c3478001aacc7e8/doppler-effect) capacity at constant
pressure.
A. Moving to the West (left)
B. The heat capacity at constant
B. Moving to the North (up)
volume is greater than the
C. Moving to the East (right)
heat capacity at constant
D. Moving to the South (down)
pressure.
45. How did you manage to create a C. The heat capacity at constant
steel float and a plastic sink? pressure is greater than the
A. There's nothing I can do. heat capacity at constant
B. Remove the mass of the steel volume.
C. Adding the mass to the D. There is no way to tell; the
plastic relative values of the
constant volume and
D. Change the shape and the
constant pressure heat
surface area capacities depend on the
material under
46. Considering Bernoulli's Principle, consideration.
what do you think will happen if you set
a shower curtain next to running 48. What is the density of carbon
water? dioxide in km/m3 at 27 °C at 100 kPa?
A. Curtains stays the same A. 1.76
B. Water gets the curtain wet B. 2.76
C. Curtain goes in toward the C. 3.76
D. 4.76
shower
D. Curtain goes outward from 49. The ideal heat engine operates
the shower between two temperatures of 600 K and
900 K. What is the efficiency of the
47. The quantity of heat that must be engine?
applied to a material in order to raise A. 33%
its temperature by 10 °C is known as B. 50%

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C. 80%
D. 100%

50. At high temperatures, calcium

carbonate can thermally decompose to
form calcium oxide and carbon dioxide.
At normal temperatures on Earth, this
process does not occur; this, once
again, is related to the 2nd Law of
Thermodynamics.

Prove that this reaction is non-

spontaneous by calculating ΔS
universe at 25 °C.
A. ΔS universe =+200 J/K.mol
B. ΔS universe =-400 J/K.mol
C. ΔS universe =-235.2 J/K.mol
D. ΔS universe =+22 J/K.mol

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