1. What is the standard unit of mass?  A. Candela  C.

N/m2
 B. Lumens  D. watt/m2
 A. Kilogram  C. Lux 12. What is the unit of potential
 B. Pound  D. Candlepower difference?
 C. Gram 7. What is the unit of relative intensity?
 D. Newton  A. Watt
2. What is defined as the distance the light  A. Pa  B. Coulomb
travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458  B. N-m  C. Volt
second?  C. C.N-m/s  D. Weber
 D. Unitless 13. Which of the following is equivalent to
 A. Yard 8. What is the SI unit of pressure? a volt?
 B. Feet
 C. Meter  A. Pa  A. watt/coulomb
 D. Inch  B. N-m  B. joule/coulomb
3. What is the SI unit of work?  C. N/m  C. joule/watt
 D. N-m/s  D. watt/joule
 A. Newton 9. Which one is equivalent of the unit 14. One election volt is equivalent to
 B. Watt “Pascal‟? _______ joules.
 C. Newton-Second
 D. Joule  A. N/nm2  A. 1.6 x 10^-17
4. What is the SI unit of power?  B. N/m2  B. 1.6 x 10^-18
 C. N/m  C. 1.6 x 10 ^-19
 A. Newton  D. D.N/nm  D. 1.6 x 10^-20
 B. Watt 10. The pressure of 1 bar is equivalent to 15. What is the unit of capacitance?
 C. Newton-Second how many pascals?
 D. Joule  A. Farad
5. What is the SI unit of temperature?  A. 1,000,000  B. Weber
 B. 100,000  C. Coulomb
 A. Fahrenheit  C. 10,000  D. Gauss
 B. Kelvin  D. D.1000 16. Which of the following is equivalent to
 C. Celsius 11. What is the SI unit of intensity? the unit “farad”?
 D. Rankine
6. What is the SI unit of luminous  A. Joule/m2  A. coulomb/volt
intensity?  B. kg/m2  B. joule/volt
 C. joule/coulomb 22. What is the unit of luminous flux? 27. Footcandle is equivalent to which
 D. coulomb/joule combination of units?
17. What is the unit of electric current?  A. Candela
 B. Lumen  A. lumen/cm2
 A. Volt  C. Lux  B. lumen/ft2
 B. Watt  D. Footcandle  C. lumen/m2
 C. Ampere 23. Which of the following is equivalent to  D. lumen/in2
 D. Coulomb the unit “candela”? 28. How many dynes are there in one
18. Which of the following is equivalent to newton?
the unit “ampere”?  A. lumen/m2
 B. footcandle/steradian  A. 10,000
 A. joule/second  C. lux/steradian  B. 100,000
 B. volt/second  D. lumen/steradian  C. 1,000,000
 C. coulomb/second 24. What is the unit of luminous  D. D.1000
 D. watt/second efficiency? 29. What is an elemental unit of energy?
19. What is the unit of resistance?
 A. lumen/watt  A. Quartz
 A. Ohm  B. lumen/volt  B. Quark
 B. Watt  C. lumen/ampere  C. Photon
 C. Volt  D. lumen/coulomb  D. Quantum
 D. Ampere 25. What is the unit of illumination? 30. What refers to the mass which is
20. Ohm is equivalent to which of the accelerated at the rate of one foot per
following?  A. Lux second when acted on by a force of one
 B. Lumen pound?
 A. coulomb/ampere  C. Candela
 B. watt/ampere  D. Lumen/watt  A. Slug
 C. volt/ampere 26. Lux is equivalent to which combination  B. Erg
 D. joule/ampere of units?  C. Dyne
21. What is the unit of luminous intensity?  D. BTU
 A. lumen/cm2 31. The size of some bacteria and living
 A. Footcandle  B. lumen/ft2 cells is in the order of _______.
 B. Lumen  C. lumen/m2
 C. Candela  D. lumen/in2  A. centimetre
 D. Lux  B. millimetre
 C. nanometer  B. 746  A. 1 volt
 D. micrometer  C. 33,000  B. 0.1 volts
32. The size of the largest atom is in the  D. 250  C. 10 volts
order of ________. 37. The “kilowatt-hour” is a unit of  D. 0.01 volts
_______. 42. What is a vector with a magnitude of
 A. centimeter one and with no unit?
 B. millimeter  A. work
 C. nanometer  B. energy  A. Single vector
 D. micrometer  C. power  B. Unit vector
33. The mass of a grain of salt is in the  D. work or energy  C. Dot vector
order of _______. 38. The “kilowatt-hour” is a unit of  D. Scalar vector
_______. 43. What is the purpose of a unit vector?
 A. milligram
 B. gram  A. work  A. To describe the direction in space
 C. microgram  B. energy  B. To indicate a magnitude without
 D. nanogram  C. power reference to direction
34. Which one is equivalent to the unit  D. work or energy  C. To serve as comparison with other
„joule‟? 39. The English unit “slug” is a unit of vectors
_______.  D. To set a standard among vectors
 A. Newton-second 44. What is another term for a scalar
 B. Newton-meter  A. mass product of two vectors?
 C. Newton-meter per second  B. weight
 D. Newton-meter per second squared  C. force  A. Cross product
35. Which one is equivalent to the unit  D. energy  B. Vector product
“watt”? 40. How is sound intensity measured?  C. Dot product
 D. Plus product
 A. Newton-second  A. In beats 45. What is another term for vector
 B. Newton-meter  B. In decibels product of two vectors?
 C. Newton-meter per second  C. In phons
 D. Newton-meter per second squared  D. In sones  A. Cross product
36. One horsepower is equivalent to how 41. An electron volt is the energy required  B. Vector product
many watts? by an electron that has been accelerated  C. Dot product
by a potential difference of how many  D. Plus product
 A. 550 volts?
46. The scalar product of two  B. Vector quantities 55. The _______ of a moving object is the
perpendicular vectors is always _______.  C. Dot product distance it covers in a time interval divided
 D. Vector quantities by the time interval.
 A. equal to 1 51. Which is NOT a vector quantity?
 B. greater than 1  A. acceleration
 C. less than 1  A. Displacement  B. instantaneous speed
 D. equal to 0  B. Velocity  C. average speed
47. The vector product of two parallel or  C. Acceleration  D. instantaneous velocity
antiparallel vectors is always ______.  D. Time 56. The rate at which velocity changes
52. Which is NOT a fundamental physical with time is known as ________.
 A. equal 1 quantity of mechanics?
 B. greater than 1  A. acceleration
 C. less than 1  A. Length  B. instantaneous speed
 D. equal to 0  B. Mass  C. average speed
48. The vector product of any vector with  C. Volume  D. instantaneous velocity
itself is ______.  D. Time 57. “The work done by the net force on a
53. What is an arrowed line whose length particle equals the change in the particle‟s
 A. equal to 1 is proportional to the magnitude of some kinetic energy.” This statement is known
 B. greater than 1 vector quantity and whose direction is that as _________.
 C. less than 1 of the quantity?
 D. equal to 0  A. Law of conservation of energy
49. What refers to physical quantities that  A. Vector diagram  B. Work-energy theorem
are completely specified by just a number  B. Vector  C. Law of conservation of work
and a unit or physical quantities that have  C. Component  D. Total work theorem
magnitudes only?  D. Resultant 58. The ________ of a particle is equal to
54. What is scaled drawing of the various the total work that particle can do in the
 A. Scalar quantities forces, velocities or other vector quantities process of being brought to rest.
 B. Vector product involved in the motion of a body?
 C. Dot product  A. kinetic energy
 D. Vector quantities  A. Vector diagram  B. potential energy
50. What refers to physical quantities that  B. Vector  C. total energy
have a magnitude and a direction?  C. Component  D. mechanical energy
 D. Resultant 59. Work is defined as the product of:
 A. Scalar quantities
 A. Force and displacement 64. “If no net force acts on it, an object at  B. Mass
 B. Force and time rest will remain at rest and an object in  C. Weight
 C. Displacement and time motion will remain in motion at constant  D. All of the above
 D. Power and time velocity”. This statement is the _______. 68. How many kilograms are there in 1
60. What is defined as the time rate at slug?
which work is done?  A. first law of motion
 B. second law of motion  A. 11.9
 A. impulse  C. third law of motion  B. 12.5
 B. Momentum  D. d‟Alembert‟s principle  C. 13.2
 C. Power 65. “The net force acting on an object  D. D.14.6
 D. Energy equals the product of the mass and the 69. What refers to an actual force that
61. What is defined as any influence that acceleration of the object. The direction of arises to oppose relative motion between
can change the velocity of an object? the force is the same as that of the contracting surfaces?
acceleration”. This statement is the
 A. Impulse _______.  A. Action force
 B. Force  B. Reaction force
 C. Energy  A. first law of motion  C. Friction
 D. Work  B. second law of motion  D. Drag
62. What is a measure of the inertia of an  C. third law of motion 70. What refers to the force between two
object?  D. d‟ Alembert‟s principle stationary surfaces in contact that
66. “When an object exerts a force on prevents motion between them?
 A. Density another object, the second object exerts
 B. Weight on the first a force of the same magnitude  A. kinetic friction
 C. Mass but in the opposite direction”. This  B. sliding friction
 D. Force statement is the _____.  C. starting friction
63. What is the property of matter which is  D. static friction
the reluctance to change its state of rest  A. first law of motion 71. What is the maximum value of the
or of uniform motion?  B. second law of motion static friction?
 C. third law of motion
 A. Impulse  D. d‟Alembert‟s principle  A. Starting friction
 B. Momentum 67. What refers to the force with which the  B. Sliding friction
 C. Inertia earth attracts an object?  C. Kinetic friction
 D. Equilibrium  D. Dynamic friction
 A. Gravitational pull
72. What is TRUE between kinetic friction
and static friction?
 A. Kinetic friction is always to static
friction
 B. Kinetic friction is always less than
static friction
 C. Kinetic friction is always greater
than static friction
 D. Kinetic friction is equal to or greater
than static friction
73. What is another term for kinetic
friction?
 A. Dynamic friction
 B. Starting friction
 C. Sliding friction
 D. All of the above
74. For the same materials in contact,
what is TRUE between coefficient of static
friction and coefficient of kinetic friction?
 A. Coefficient of static friction is
always less than the coefficient of
kinetic friction
 B. Coefficient of static friction is
always equal to the coefficient of
kinetic friction
 C. Coefficient of static friction is
always greater than the coefficient of
kinetic friction.
 D. Coefficient of static friction may be
greater than or less than the
coefficient of kinetic friction.
75. Efficiency of a machine is the ratio of:
 A. power output to power input
 B. power input to power output
 C. total work done to total energy
 D. total energy to total power
76. What is the energy something
possesses by virtue of its motion?
 A. Kinetic energy
 B. Potential energy
 C. Rest energy
 D. Mechanical energy
77. What is the energy something
possesses by virtue of its mass?
 A. Kinetic energy
 B. Potential energy
 C. Rest energy
 D. Mechanical energy
78. What is the energy something
possesses by virtue of its position?
 A. Kinetic energy
 B. Potential energy
 C. Rest energy
 D. Mechanical energy
79. When the vector sum of the external
forces acting on the system of particles
equals zero, the total linear momentum of
the system __________.
 A. becomes zero
 B. maximizes
 C. changes abruptly
 D. remains constant
80. What is conserved in an elastic
collision?
 A. Kinetic energy
 B. Potential energy
 C. Rest energy
 D. Mechanical energy
81. In elastic collision, kinetic energy is
conserved. This statement is:
 A. true
 B. false
 C. is either true or false, depending
upon the colliding bodies
 D. is either true or false, depending on
the impact of two colliding bodies
82. When can we say that a collision is a
completely inelastic collision?
 A. When the kinetic energy lost is
minimum.
 B. When the kinetic energy is
conserved.
 C. When the two colliding objects stick
together after impact.
 D. When the two colliding objects will
separate after impact.
83. What will happen to the kinetic energy
if it is a completely inelastic collision?
 A. It is conserved.
 B. It is lost to maximum value.
 C. It is gained from the loss of
potential energy.
 D. It is lost to minimum value.
84. Coefficient of restitution is the ratio of:
 A. relative speed after collision to
relative speed before collision
 B. relative speed before collision to
relative speed after collision
 C. relative speed to absolute speed
 D. absolute speed to relative speed
85. What is the coefficient of restitution for
a perfectly elastic collision?
 A. 0
 B. 1
 C. Less than 1
 D. Greater than 1
86. What is the coefficient of restitution for
a perfectly inelastic collision?
 A. 0
 B. 1
 C. Less than 1
 D. Greater than 1
87. The coefficient of restitution always
applies _______.
 A. to only one of the colliding objects
 B. to neither of the colliding objects
 C. jointly to the colliding objects
 D. to the bigger colliding object
88. “When the vector sum of the external
forces acting on a system of particles
equals zero, the total linear momentum of
the system remaining constant.” This
statement is known as:
 A. Law of universal gravitation
 B. Law of conservation of impulse
 C. Law of conservation of momentum
 D. Law of conservation of energy
89. What refers to the product of the force
and the time during which a force acts?
 A. Impulse
 B. Momentum
 C. Power
 D. Energy
90. Momentum is the product of:
 A. mass and time
 B. velocity and mass
 C. force and time
 D. force and mass
91. The coefficient of restitution always
applies _________.
 A. to only one of the colliding objects
 B. to neither of the colliding
 C. jointly to the colliding objects
 D. to the bigger colliding object
92. What refers to the force perpendicular
to the velocity of an object moving along a
curve path?
 A. Centrifugal force
 B. Centripetal force
 C. Reverse-effective force
 D. Gravitational force
93. The centripetal force is:
 A. directed away from the center of
the curvature of the path
 B. directed toward the center of
curvature of the path
 C. tangent to the curvature of the path
 D. either directed away or toward the
center of curvature of the path
94. What refers to the time needed by an
object in uniform circular motion to
complete an orbit?
 A. path time
 B. orbit time
 C. revolution
 D. period
95. The centripetal acceleration of a
particle in uniform motion is _______ to
the radius of its path.
 A. directly proportional
 B. inversely proportional
 C. equal
 D. not related in any way
96. Gravitation occurs between all objects
in the universe by virtue of their
________.
 A. mass
 B. density
 C. weight
 D. volume
97. “Every object in the universe attracts
every other object with a force directly
proportional to the product of their masses
and inversely proportional to the square of
the distance separating them”. This
statement is known as:
 A. Law of conservation of energy
 B. Law of universal gravitation
 C. Law of conservation of momentum
 D. Law of conservation of impulse
98. The gravitational force of the earth on
an object varies of the ______ the
distance of the object from the center of
the earth.
 A. inversely as
 B. inversely as the square of
 C. directly as
 D. directly as the square of
99. A rotating body has kinetic energy.
This statement is ________.
 A. sometimes true
 B. sometimes false
 C. always true
 D. always false
100. What type of energy is usually
transmitted by rotary motion?
 A. Kinetic energy
 B. Potential energy
 C. Mechanical energy
 D. Rest energy
101. Angular momentum is the product of
________.
 A. moment of inertia and linear speed
 B. moment of area and angular speed
 C. moment of inertia and angular
speed
 D. moment of area and angular speed
102. “When the sum of the external
torques acting on a system of particles is
zero, the total angular momentum of the
system remains constant “. This statement
is known as:
 A. Conservation of energy
 B. Conservation of impulse
 C. Conservation of linear momentum
 D. Conservation of angular momentum
103. What particles will experience
tangential acceleration?
 A. Those particles whose angular
speed changes
 B. Those particles whose angular
speed remains constant
 C. All particles
 D. Those particles whose angular
speed is zero.
104. The _________ of a body about a
given axis is the rotational analog of mass
of the body is distributed about the axis.
 A. moment of mass
 B. moment of area
 C. moment of inertia
 D. torque
105. The _______ of a force about a
particular axis is the product of the
magnitude of the force and the
perpendicular distance from the line of
action of the force to the axis.
 A. inertia
 B. mass moment
 C. torque
 D. moment
106. When the forces that act on an object
have a vector sum of zero, the object is
said to be in _______.
 A. unstable equilibrium
 B. stable equilibrium
 C. rotational equilibrium
 D. translational equilibrium
107. Which of the following is an example
of a neutral equilibrium?
 A. A cone balanced on its apex.
 B. A cone balanced on its base.
 C. A cone on its side.
 D. A cone balanced on the
circumference of its base.
108. Which of the following is an example
of a stable equilibrium?
 A. A cone balanced on its apex.
 B. A cone balanced on its base.
 C. A cone on its side.
 D. A cone balanced on the
circumference of its base.
109. A device that transmits force or
torque is called _______.
 A. mechanical tool
 B. machine
 C. axle
 D. wedge
110. If a cone is balanced on its apex, it
illustrates what type of equilibrium?
 A. stable equilibrium
 B. neutral equilibrium
 C. unstable equilibrium
 D. translational equilibrium
111. When the net torque acting on an
object is zero, the object is in _______.
 A. unstable equilibrium
 B. stable equilibrium
 C. rotational equilibrium
 D. translational equilibrium
112. Which of the following is NOT a basic
machine?
 A. lever
 B. incline plane
 C. hydraulic press
 D. wedge
113. Where is the center of gravity of an
object located?
 A. It is always inside the object. 118. What is another term for specific
 B. It is always outside the object. gravity?
 C. It is always at its geometric center.
 D. It may sometimes be inside the  A. Density
object and sometimes outside the  B. Weight density
object.  C. Relative density
114. What is defined as the mass per unit  D. Viscosity
volume? 119. What is the average pressure of the
earth‟s atmosphere at sea level?
 A. Density
 B. Weight density  A. 1.042 bar
 C. Relative density  B. 1.021 bar
 D. Specific density  C. 1.013 bar
115. What is defined as the weight per  D. 1.037 bar
unit volume? 120. “An external pressure exerted on a
fluid is transmitted uniformly throughout
 A. Density the volume of the fluid”. This statement is
 B. Weight density known as ________.
 C. Relative density
 D. Specific density  A. Bernoulli‟s energy theorem
116. All are values of the density of water  B. Pascal‟s principle
except one. Which one?  C. Archimedes principle
 D. Torricelli‟s theorem
 A. 1000 kg/m3 121. The hydraulic press is an instrument
 B. 62.4 lb/ft3 which uses one of the following theorems.
 C. 10 g/cm3 Which one?
 D. 9.81 kN/m3
117. The __________ of a substance is its  A. Bernoulli‟s energy theorem
density relative to that of water?  B. Pascal‟s principle
 C. Archimedes principle
 A. density  D. Reynold‟s principle
 B. weight density 122. The hydrometer is an instrument
 C. viscosity which uses one of the following theorems.
 D. specific gravity Which one?
 A. Bernoulli‟s energy theorem
 B. Pascal‟s principle
 C. Archimedes principle
 D. Reynold‟s principle
123. The hydrometer is an instrument
used to measure __________.
 A. pressure of a liquid
 B. density of a liquid
 C. Reynold‟s number
 D. viscosity of liquid
124. The maximum displacement of an
object undergoing harmonic motion on
either side of its equilibrium position is
called the _________ of the motion.
 A. frequency
 B. oscillation
 C. period
 D. amplitude
125. What quantity is often used in
describing harmonic motion?
 A. Amplitude
 B. Frequency
 C. Period
 D. Oscillation
126. The period of the simple harmonic
motion is _______ its amplitude.
 A. directly proportional to
 B. inversely proportional to
 C. equal to
 D. independent of
127. What refers to an oscillatory motion  C. Wave
that occurs whenever a restoring force  D. Beat
acts on a body in the opposite direction to 131. What occurs when periodic impulses
its displacement from its equilibrium are applied to a system and frequency
position, with the magnitude of the equal to one of its natural frequencies of
restoring force proportional to the oscillation?
magnitude of the displacement?
 A. Beat
 A. Damped harmonic motion  B. Resonance
 B. Pendulum  C. Doppler effect
 C. Simple harmonic motion  D. Shock wave
 D. Damped harmonic oscillation 132. What refers to a shell of high
128. In a damped harmonic oscillator, pressure produced by the motion of an
what reduces the amplitude of the object whose speed exceeds that of
vibrations? sound?
 A. Force  A. Shock wave
 B. Period  B. Mach wave
 C. Frequency  C. Beat wave
 D. Friction  D. Sonic wave
129. The _________ of a pivotal object is 133. What refers to the change in
that point at which it can be struck without frequency of a wave when there is relative
producing a reaction force on its pivot. motion between its source and an
observer?
 A. center of gravity
 B. center of oscillation  A. Superposition principle
 C. axis of oscillation  B. Shock effect
 D. center of mass  C. Doppler effect
130. What is a longitudinal wave  D. Wave motion
phenomenon that results in periodic 134. What occur when the individual
pressure variations? particles of a medium vibrate back and
forth in the direction in which the waves
 A. Sound travel?
 B. Resonance
 A. Longitudinal waves
 B. Transverse waves
 C. Wave motions
 D. Shock waves
135. Infrasound refers to sounds whose
frequencies are below _________.
 A. 20 Hz
 B. 30 Hz
 C. 40 Hz
 D. 50 Hz
136. Ultrasound refers to sounds whose
frequencies are above __________.
 A. 10,000 Hz
 B. 20,000 Hz
 C. 30,000 Hz
 D. 40,000 Hz
137. What occur when the individual
particles of a medium vibrate from side to
side perpendicular to the direction in which
the waves travel?
 A. Longitudinal waves
 B. Transverse waves
 C. Wave motions
 D. Shock waves
138. “When two or more waves of the
same mature travel just a given point at
the same time, the amplitude at the point
is the sum of the amplitude of the
individual waves”. This statement is known
as ________.
 A. Mach principle  D. 0.01 W/m2
 B. Doppler principle 143. For a 1kHz sound wave to be audible,
 C. Principle of superposition it must have a minimum intensity of
 D. Wave motion principle ______ W/m2?
139. What occurs when the resulting
composite wave has amplitude greater  A. 10^-10
than that of either of the original waves?  B. 10^-11
 C. 10^-12
 A. Local interference  D. 10^-13
 B. Ordinary interference 144. How many decibels should a sound to
 C. Constructive interference be barely audible?
 D. Destructive interference
140. What occurs when the resulting  A. 0
composite wave has amplitude less than  B. 1
that of either of the original waves?  C. 0.1
 D. 1.5
 A. Local interference 145. The ratio of a speed of an object and
 B. Ordinary interference the speed of sound is called the
 C. Constructive interference _________.
 D. Destructive interference
141. The rate at which a wave of any kind  A. Wave factor
carries energy per unit cross-sectional  B. Supersonic number
area is called ________.  C. Sonic number
 D. Mach number
 A. beats 146. “The net electric charge in an isolated
 B. frequency system remains constant”. This statement
 C. gain is known as ________.
 D. intensity
142. At what intensity will sound wave  A. Principle of conservation of
starts to damage the ear of humans. attraction
 B. Principle of conservation of charge
 A. 10 W/m2  C. Coulomb‟s law
 B. 0.1 W/m2  D. Principle of superconductivity
 C. 1 W/m2
147. “The force one charge exerts on
another is directly proportional to the
magnitudes of the charges and inversely
proportional to the square of the distance
between them”. This statement is known
as ________.
 A. Coulomb‟s law
 B. Kirchhoff‟s law
 C. Lenz‟s law
 D. Faraday‟s law
148. What refers to a region of space at
every point of which an appropriate test
object would experience a force?
 A. Energy field
 B. Electric field
 C. magnetic field
 D. Force field
149. The _________ of an electric field is
the electric potential energy per unit
volume associated with it.
 A. capacitance
 B. polar energy
 C. energy density
 D. dielectric distance
150. What is the ratio between the charge
on either plates of a capacitor and the
potential difference between the plates?
 A. Resistance
 B. Inductance
 C. Capacitance
 D. Potential difference  A. 1 candela
151. What refers to the measure of how  B. 1 flux
effective a material is in reducing an  C. 1 lumen
electric field set up across a sample of it?  D. All of the above
156. What unit is defined in terms of the
 A. Electronegativity light emitted by a small pool of platinum at
 B. Potential difference its melting point?
 C. Dielectric constant
 D. Energy density  A. Footcandle
152. The potential difference across a  B. Candela
battery, a generator or other source of  C. Lux
electric energy when it is not connected to  D. Lumen
any external circuit is called its ________. 157. What refers to the total amount of
visible light given off by a light source?
 A. electromechanical force
 B. electrostatic force  A. Luminous intensity
 C. electromotive force  B. Luminous flux
 D. internal resistance  C. Luminous efficiency
153. What is defined as the luminous flux  D. Illumination
per unit area? 158. Lumen is defined as the luminous flux
that falls on each square meter of a sphere
 A. Luminous intensity 1 meter in radius at whose center is a
 B. Luminous efficiency ________ light source that radiates
 C. Illumination equally well in all directions.
 D. Lumen
154. What refers to the brightness of a  A. 0.1 candela
light source?  B. 1.0 candela
 C. 10 candela
 A. Luminous intensity  D. 100 candela
 B. Illumination 159. What is the total luminous flux
 C. Luminous flux radiated by a 1 candela source?
 D. Luminous efficiency
155. What is the approximate luminous  A. 2π lm
intensity of a candle?  B. 4π lm
 C. 8π lm
 D. π lm
160. What refers to the luminous flux
emitted by a light source per watt of
power input?
 A. Luminous factor
 B. Luminous efficiency
 C. Luminous intensity
 D. Illumination
161. What coating material is used in the
inside of the fluorescent lamp which emits
visible light when it is excited by an
ultraviolet radiation?
 A. Mercury
 B. Inert gas
 C. Phosphor
 D. Argon
162. What refers to the ratio between the
speed of light in free space and its speed
in a particular medium?
 A. Index of refection
 B. Total internal reflection
 C. Index of dispersion
 D. Index of refraction
163. “The ratio of the sines of the angles
of incidence and refraction is equal to the
ratio of the speeds of light in the two
media”. This statement is known as
________.
 A. Huygen‟s principle
 B. Snell‟s law 167. What refers to the effect when a
 C. Maxwell‟s hypothesis beam containing more than one frequency
 D. Doppler‟s effect is split into a corresponding number of
164. Light ray that passes at an angle different beams when it is refracted?
from one medium to another is deflected
at the surface between the two media.  A. Flux
What is this phenomenon called?  B. Refraction
 C. Reflection
 A. Dispersion  D. Dispersion
 B. Reflection 168. What refers to the band of colors that
 C. Refraction emerges from the prism?
 D. Incidence
165. “Every point on the wavefront can be  A. Spectrum
considered as a source of secondary  B. Luminance
wavelets that spread out in all directions  C. Facet
with the wave speed of the medium. The  D. Reflection
wavefront at any time is the envelope of 169. What is the index of refraction of air?
these wavelets”. This statement is known
as ________.  A. 1.3
 B. 1.03
 A. Huygen‟s principle  C. 1.003
 B. Snell‟s law  D. 1.0003
 C. Maxwell‟s hypothesis 170. What is the index of refraction of
 D. Doppler‟s effect water?
166. What is an imaginary surface the
joins points where all the waves from a  A. 1.33
source are in the same phase of  B. 1.63
oscillation?  C. 1.43
 D. 1.53
 A. Gamma ray 171. What type of lens deviates parallel
 B. Wavefront light outward as though it originated at a
 C. Electromagnetic wave single virtual focal point?
 D. Microwave
 A. Magnifying lens
 B. Convergent lens 176. If the linear magnification of an 180. What lens is commonly used to
 C. Divergent lens optical system is less than one, it means correct nearsightedness?
 D. Microscopic lens that:
172. What type of lens bring parallel light  A. Magnifying lens
to a single real focal point?  A. the image and the object are of the  B. Convergent lens
same size  C. Divergent lens
 A. Magnifying lens  B. the image is larger than the object  D. Microscopic lens
 B. Convergent lens  C. the image is smaller than the object 181. What lens is commonly used to
 C. Divergent lens  D. the image may be larger or smaller correct farsightedness?
 D. Microscopic lens than the object
173. Which one best describes the 177. A camera usually uses what type of  A. Magnifying lens
meniscus lens? lens to form an image on a light-sensitive  B. Convergent lens
photographic film?  C. Divergent lens
 A. It has only concave surfaces.  D. Microscopic lens
 B. It has only convex surfaces.  A. Magnifying lens 182. What is a defect of vision caused by
 C. it has no concave surface and no  B. Convergent lens the cornea having different curvatures in
convex surface.  C. Divergent lens different planes?
 D. It has one concave surface and one  D. Microscopic lens
convex surface 178. One of the common defects of vision  A. Astigmatism
174. What is the distance from a lens to its is _______ commonly known as  B. Myopia
focal point called? nearsightedness.  C. Hyperopia
 D. Presbyopia
 A. Focal index  A. hyporopia 183. In telescopes, what refers to the ratio
 B. Focal factor  B. hyperopia between the angles subtended at the eye
 C. Focal length  C. myopia by the image and the angle subtended at
 D. All of the above  D. minorpia the eye by the object seen directly?
175. In optical system, what refers to the 179. One of the common defects of vision
ratio of the image height to the object is ______ commonly known as  A. Magnifying power
height? farsightedness.  B. Linear magnification
 C. Angular magnification
 A. Linear magnification  A. hyporopia  D. Object magnification
 B. Object magnification  B. hyperopia 184. What type of mirror that curves
 C. Image magnification  C. myopia inward its center and converges parallel
 D. Height magnification  D. minorpia light to a single real focal point?
 A. Convex mirror  A. directly proportional  C. X-rays
 B. Concave mirror  B. inversely proportional  D. De Broglie waves
 C. Spherical mirror  C. equal 193. What refers to the increase in the
 D. Chromatic mirror  D. not related to measured mass of an object when it is
185. What type of mirror that curves 189. What refers to the ability of waves to moving relative to an observer?
outward toward its center and diverges bend around the edges of obstacles in
parallel light as though the reflected light their paths?  A. Exclusion principle
came from a single virtual focal point  B. Quantum theory of mass
behind the mirror?  A. Coherence  C. State of mass
 B. Reflection  D. Relativity of mass
 A. Convex mirror  C. Refraction 194. What device is used for producing a
 B. Concave mirror  D. Diffraction narrow, monochromatic, coherent beam of
 C. Spherical mirror 190. What refers to a series of parallel slits light?
 D. Chromatic mirror that produces a spectrum through the
186. What refers to an artificially made interference of light that is diffracted?  A. Spectral device
polarizing material that transmits light  B. Prism
with only a single plane of polarization?  A. Diffraction grating  C. Fiber optic
 B. Polarization  D. Laser
 A. Quartz  C. Coherent waves 195. What consists of various wavelengths
 B. Fiber optic  D. Reflection of light emitted by an excited substance?
 C. Polaroid 191. The emission of electrons from a
 D. Tounnaline metal surface when light shines on it is  A. Excited spectrum
187. In optical system, what refers to its called _______.  B. Light spectrum
ability to produce separate images of  C. Absorption spectrum
nearby objects?  A. Absorption effect  D. Emission spectrum
 B. Spectrum emission 196. What consists of various wavelengths
 A. Coherent power  C. Quantum effect of light absorbed by a substance when
 B. Brewster‟s power  D. Photoelectric effect white light is passed through it?
 C. Polarization power 192. What are high-frequency
 D. Resolving power electromagnetic waves emitted when fast  A. Excited spectrum
188. The resolving power of an equal electrons impinge on matter?  B. Light spectrum
system is _________ the objective lens of  C. Absorption spectrum
the optical system?  A. Beta rays  D. Emission spectrum
 B. Alpha rays
197. Every electron has a certain amount to fall at a constant velocity. What is thus  D. Aerodynamic force
of angular momentum called its constant velocity called? 206. What instrument is used to measure
_________. blood pressure of human beings?
 A. Instantaneous velocity
 A. spin  B. Free-falling body  A. Stropomanometer
 B. shell  C. Gravitational velocity  B. Pumpmanometer
 C. state  D. Terminal velocity  C. Electromanometer
 D. quantum number 202. The first law of motion is also known  D. Sphygmomanometer
198. What is the distance from a lens to its as ___________. 207. What do light, radiowaves,
focal point called? microwaves and X-rays have in common?
 A. Law of acceleration
 A. Focal index  B. Law of inertia  A. These waves were predicted by only
 B. Focal factor  C. Law of interaction one person, James Maxwell.
 C. Focal length  D. Law of momentum  B. These do not need a medium to
 D. All of the above 203. The second law of motion is also travel in.
199. What does LASER stands for? known as _________.  C. These waves are all mechanical
waves.
 A. Light amplification by spectral  A. Law of acceleration  D. These waves are all serendipitous
emission of radiation  B. Law of inertia discoveries.
 B. Light amplification by state  C. Law of interaction 208. Who predicted the existence of
emission of radiation  D. Law of momentum electromagnetic waves in 1865?
 C. Light amplification by stimulated 204. The third law of motion is also known
emission of radiation as __________.  A. Roentgen
 D. Light amplification by saturated  B. Maxwell
emission of radiation  A. Law of acceleration  C. Tesla
200. A free falling object is acted upon by  B. Law of inertia  D. Doppler
which of the following?  C. Law of interaction 209. What is the velocity of light in meters
 D. Law of momentum per second?
 A. Weight of the body 205. Air exerts force that is opposite to the
 B. Air resistance and gravitational pull car‟s motion. What is this force called?  A. 3 x 10^6
 C. Gravitational pull  B. 3 x 10^9
 D. Air resistance  A. Reverse effective force  C. 3 x 10^7
201. If the forces acting on a falling body  B. Terminal force  D. 3 x 10^8
balance one another, the body continues  C. Drag force
210. What is the sound level of the  C. Loudness 219. At what intensity level will a noise be
threshold of pain?  D. Timbre considered pollutant in the environment?
215. How can loudness of sound be
 A. 100 dB increased?  A. Above 50 dB
 B. 110 dB  B. Above 100 dB
 C. 120 dB  A. By increasing the energy of sound  C. Above 120 dB
 D. 130 dB  B. By preventing sound waves to  D. Above 150 dB
211. What is the intensity in W/m2 of the spread in different directions. 220. The velocity of sound in air increases
threshold of pain?  C. By collecting and focusing sound by how many m/s for every 1ºC increase
waves at the receiving end. in temperature?
 A. 1  D. All of the choices.
 B. 10 216. Which of the following is dependent  A. 0.2
 C. 0.1 upon the frequency of sound vibrations?  B. 0.4
 D. 0.01  C. 0.6
212. What is the intensity of the threshold  A. Timbre  D. 0.8
of hearing in W/m2?  B. Loudness 221. Why is sound wave travel faster in
 C. Intensity water than in air?
 A. 10^-12  D. Pitch
 B. 10^-10 217. The “Doppler effect” is named after  A. Because water has greater density
 C. 10^-8 which scientist? than air.
 D. 10^-6  B. Because water has greater bulk
213. What refers to a measure of the  A. Christopher Jacques Doppler modulus than air.
energy of sound?  B. Christian Jacques Doppler  C. Because water has more in terms of
 C. Christopher Jason Doppler number of molecules than air.
 A. Intensity  D. Christian Johann Doppler  D. Because water has more in volume
 B. Loudness 218. When a person tells you that the than air.
 C. Pitch pitch of your voice is high, he is referring 222. What will happen to the wavelength if
 D. Sone to _________. the velocity and frequency of a wave are
214. What refers to the sensation in the both reduced to one-half?
ear which depends on the energy in the  A. the intensity of your voice
sound wave?  B. the number of sound waves you are  A. It will double.
sending out per second  B. It will reduce in half.
 A. Pitch  C. the loudness of your voice  C. It will quadruple.
 B. Intensity  D. the equality of your voice  D. It will remain the same.
223. Which of the following statements is  B. Maxwell  A. 350 – 700
TRUE?  C. Hertz  B. 350 – 800
 D. Huygens  C. 300 – 700
 A. A high-frequency sound has high 227. Which of the following has the  D. 300 – 800
pitch. smallest wavelength band? 232. What terms is used to describe the
 B. A high-frequency sound has low angular opening of a sphere that encloses
pitch.  A. Blue the mirror?
 C. A high-frequency sound has low  B. Indigo
energy.  C. Green  A. Angle of curvature
 D. A high-frequency sound has low  D. Yellow  B. Focal point
pitch and low energy. 228. What color has the longest  C. Aperture
224. What part of the human ear where wavelength?  D. Vertex
sound energy is converted into electrical 233. What makes the sun visible even
energy?  A. Orange before it is in the line with the horizon?
 B. Red
 A. Ear drum  C. Yellow  A. Diffraction
 B. Cochlea  D. Green  B. Reflection
 C. Tympanum 229. What color has the shortest  C. Refraction
 D. Ear canal wavelength?  D. Diffusion
225. In which medium do sound waves 234. When the white light is passed
travel the faster?  A. Indigo through a prism, the different lights are
 B. Violet bent to varying degrees and are dispersed
 A. Liquids  C. Blue into different colors. Which of these colors
 B. Solids  D. Green bends the most?
 C. Gases 230. What is the wavelength band of
 D. Vacuum orange?  A. Violet
226. Who provide evidence that light and  B. Red
electromagnetic waves have the same  A. 550 nm – 600 nm  C. Orange
nature and that they travel at the same  B. 600 nm – 650 nm  D. Green
speed and exhibit the same properties  C. 650 nm – 700 nm 235. When the white light is passed
such as refraction, reflection and  D. 500 nm – 550 nm through a prism, the different lights are
interference? 231. What is the wavelength band in bent to varying degrees and are dispersed
nanometer of visible light? into different colors. Which of these colors
 A. Townes bends the least?
 A. Violet
 B. Red
 C. Orange
 D. Green
236. The formation of rainbow in the sky is
due to _______.
 A. diffraction
 B. reflection
 C. refraction
 D. diffusion
237. What refers to the defect in lenses
which causes unequal refraction of the
different colors?
 A. Chromatic diffraction
 B. Chromatic polarization
 C. Chromatic aberration
 D. Chromatic dispersion
238. What property of a light wave is
determined by its wavelength?
 A. Color
 B. Shape
 C. Size
 D. Density
239. What is diffraction?
 A. It is the scattering of white light
behind an obstruction.
 B. It is the separation of white light
into its component colors.
 C. It is the merging of component
colors into white light.
 D. It is the absorption of white light in  C. Microwave
the atmosphere.  D. Mechanical wave
240. What is dispersion? 244. What refers to the band of colors
produced when sunlight passes through a
 A. It is the scattering of white light prism?
behind an obstruction.
 B. It is the separation of white light  A. Light spectrum
into its component colors.  B. Solar spectrum
 C. It is the merging of component  C. White spectrum
colors into white light.  D. Visible spectrum
 D. It is the absorption of white light in 245. What refers to the property of some
the atmosphere media to transmit light wave in a diffused
241. What are primary colors? matter to make objects behind them
undistinguishable?
 A. Blue, Red and White
 B. Light colors  A. Lucidity
 C. Colors which when combined  B. Limpidity
produce white light  C. Transparent
 D. Blue, Red and Green  D. Translucent
242. What device used to measure 246. What refers to the invisible
atmospheric pressure and is consists of a electromagnetic waves shorter than the
glass tube sealed at one end filled with visible violet wave but longer than the
mercury and a slide with a vernier scale? Roentgen ray?
 A. Bourdon gage  A. Beta ray
 B. Aneroid barometer  B. Ultraviolet light
 C. Mercury barometer  C. Alpha ray
 D. Manometer  D. X-ray
243. A wave that needs a material 247. What refers to the part of the shadow
medium through which it can travel as it from which all light is excluded?
transfers energy?
 A. Footprint
 A. Electromagnetic wave  B. Lumbra
 B. Radiowave  C. Umbra
 D. Sunspot 252. It refers to matter that do not have 256. It is a product of the weathering of
248. The range of the projectile is: definite form or structure. complex silicates, particularly of feldspars
which are abundant minerals.
 A. directly proportional to the  a. Amorphous
gravitational acceleration  b. Morphous  a. clay
 B. directly proportional to the square  c. Transient  b. chalk
of the velocity  d. Extrinsic  c. pyrite
 C. directly proportional to the velocity 253. Three grams of sulphur dissolved in  d.diamond
 D. inversely proportional to the 200 g of naphthalene C10H8, was found 257. Electrons occupy all the orbitals of a
velocity decreasing the freezing point of the given subshell singly before pairing begins.
249. What instrument is used to measure solvent to 0.72 ⁰C. Find the molecular These unpaired electrons have parallel
humidity of air? weight of the solute. (Kf C10H8 = 6.9 spins. This is known as:
⁰C/molar)
 A. Hydrometer  a. Building Up Principle
 B. Hygrometer  a. 351.16 g/mole  b. Aufbau Principle
 C. Lactometer  b. 115.32 g/mole  c. Hund‟s rule
 D. Radiometer  c. 135.61 g/mole  d.David‟s rule
250. It explains combustion as a result of  d. 151.23 g/mole 258. This law states that at constant
loss of a substance. 254. Substance having a pH level less than temperature the volume of a sample of
7 gas varies inversely with the pressure.
 a. Phlogiston
 b. Roasting  a. acid  a. Avogadro‟s Law
 c. Reduction  b. base  b. Boyle‟s Law
 d. Fission  c. salt  c. Charle‟s Law
251. The volume of a definite quantity of  d. hydrate  d. Gay-Lussac‟s Law
dry gas is inversely proportional to the 255. It is the enthalpy change associated 259. It is the scattering of light by colloidal
pressure provided the temperature with the condensation of gaseous positive particles
remains constant. and negative ion into a crystal.
 a. Mott Scaterring
 a. Charles‟ Law  a Raoult‟s Law  b. Tyndall Effect
 b. Boyle‟s Law  b. Lattice Energy  c. Rayleigh Scattering
 c. Gay-Lussac‟s Law  c. Enthalpy Of Solution  d. Wolf Effect
 d. Dalton‟s Law  d. Partition Coefficient
260. Consider H3AsO3, Arsenic acid  B. luminous efficiency  D. the refracted energy is absorbed
(H=1.01,As=74.9,O=16.0).How many  C. luminous intensity within a thick layer and converted to
mole is 1kg of H3AsO3?  D. illumination heat
265. Brightness is the same as 269. In translucent material,
 a. 7.94 moles __________.
 b. 6.94 moles  A. light is able to pass through
 c. 5.94 moles  A. luminous emittance  B. the refracted energy is absorbed
 d. 8.94 moles  B. luminous efficiency within a very thin layer and converted
261. It is customary to indicate accuracy  C. luminous intensity to heat
by using a certain numbers of figures or  D. illumination  C. light is partially absorbed
digits. 266. What is a monochromatic light?  D. the reflected energy is absorbed
within a thick layer and converted to
 a. atomic mass unit  A. Light with only one color heat
 b. International system  B. Light with only one wavelength 270. In transparent material,
 c. significant figures  C. Light with only one color and one
 d. supplementary units wavelength  A. light is able to pass through
262. It is required for organic compounds.  D. Light with many colors  B. the refracted energy is absorbed
267. What is a three-dimensional image of within a very thin layer and converted
 a. hydrogen an object illuminated by a broad band of to heat
 b. oxygen coherent light?  C. light is partially absorbed
 c. boron  D. the refracted energy is absorbed
 d. carbon  A. Hologram within a thick layer and converted to
263. At what temperature reading do the  B. Polygram heat
Celsius scale and the Fahrenheit scale  C. Opaque image 271. The ratio of the speeds of light in two
have the same temperature?  D. Translucent image different media is known as ________.
268. In opaque material,
 A. – 40  A. index of refraction
 B. – 30  A. light is able to pass through  B. index of diffraction
 C. – 20  B. the reflected energy is absorbed  C. relative index of refraction
 D. – 25 within a very thin layer and converted  D. index of diffusion
264. The _______ of the source is the to heat 272. What occurs when two waves
luminous flux per unit area of the source.  C. light is partially absorbed combine so that one subtracts from the
other?
 A. luminous emittance
 A. Interference
 B. Superposition
 C. Reinforcement
 D. Polarization
273. What type of waves is produced in
the stem when tuning fork?
 A. Transverse wave
 B. Longitudinal wave
 C. Neither transverse wave nor
longitudinal wave
 D. Both transverse wave and
longitudinal wave
274. The moment of inertia of an object is
dependent on which of the following?
 A. The object‟s size and shape
 B. The object‟s mass
 C. The location of the axis of rotation
 D. All of the above
275. Which of the following statements
about center of gravity is TRUE?
 A. It may be outside the object
 B. It is always at its geometrical
center
 C. It is always in the interior of the
object
 D. It is sometimes arbitrary
276. A diatomic scale is a musical scale
build up of how many major chords?
 A. 2
 B. 3
 C. 4
 D. 5
277. A chromatic scale is a diatomic scale
with how many added half tones?
 A. 2
 B. 3
 C. 4
 D. 5
278. What refers to two colors which
combine to form white light?
 A. Complementary colors
 B. Secondary colors
 C. Primary colors
 D. Elementary colors
279. A spectrum consisting of a wide
range of unseparated wavelength is called
________.
 A. visible spectrum
 B. continuous spectrum
 C. emission spectrum
 D. discontinuous spectrum
280. What refers to the emission of
electrons from a heated metal in a
vacuum?
 A. Geiger effect
 B. Edison effect
 C. Eddy current
 D. Fraunhofer effect
281. The six colors of which sunlight is
composed are called __________.
 A. secondary colors
 B. primary colors
 C. complementary colors
 D. elementary colors
282. A spectrum formed by the dispersion
of light from an incandescent solid, liquid
and gas is
called ________.
 A. visible spectrum
 B. continuous spectrum
 C. emission spectrum
 D. discontinuous spectrum
283. What is the type of force which binds
the protons and neutrons together in the
nucleus of an atom?
 A. Drag force
 B. Bind force
 C. Exchange force
 D. Intact force
284. The “f” number of the lens is the
ration of the:
 A. focal length of the lens to the
effective aperture
 B. effective aperture to the focal
length of the lens
 C. magnifying power of lens to
effective aperture
 D. effective aperture to magnifying
power of the lens
285. What refers to the length of time
during which half of a given number of
radioactive nuclei will disintegrate?
 A. active life
 B. half cycle
 C. half life
 D. half period
286. What refers to the lowest pitch
produced by a musical tone source?
 A. Treble
 B. Bass
 C. Octave
 D. Fundamental
287. What is an electromagnetic radiation
of very short wavelength emitted from the
nucleus of a radioactive atom?
 A. Beta ray
 B. Alpha ray
 C. Gamma ray
 D. X-ray
288. What is an instrumental used to
detect and measure radioactivity?
 A. Edison counter
 B. Radioactive counter
 C. Fraunhofer counter
 D. Geiger effect
289. What refers to the fundamentals and
the tones whose frequencies are whole
number multiples of the fundamentals?
 A. Harmony
 B. Beats
 C. Treble and bass
 D. Harmonics
290. A spectrum consisting of
monochromatic slit images having
wavelengths characteristic of the atoms
parent is called __________.
 A. line spectrum
 B. continuous spectrum
 C. slit spectrum
 D. image spectrum
291. What is an instrument used to
determine the mass of atomic particles?
 A. Mass indicator
 B. Mass spectrograph
 C. Mass counter
 D. Mass technograph
292. What is a nucleon?
 A. A proton in the nucleus of an atom.
 B. An electron in the nucleus of an
atom.
 C. A neutron in the nucleus of an
atom.
 D. A proton or a neutron of an atom.
293. What is a glass bottle used to
determine the specific gravity of liquids?
 A. Beaker
 B. Flask
 C. Pyonometer
 D. Graduated cylinder
294. What is an instrument used to
determine the angle of rotation of the
plane of polarized light?
 A. Polariscope
 B. Polarimeter
 C. Polargraph
 D. Polagraph
295. What refers to the property of sound
waves which depends on the number of
harmonics present and on their
prominence?
 A. Pitch
 B. Quality
 C. Harmonic
 D. Fundamental
296. What refers to the failure of one set
of color receptors in the eye to be
stimulated?
 A. Retinal failure
 B. Retinal fatigue
 C. Pupil imperfection
 D. Astigmatism
297. The theory that the retina of the eye
is provided with three sets of receptors,
each of which is sensitive to one of the
three primary colors is known as
___________.
 A. True color vision theory
 B. Young – Helmholtz color vision 301. The wavelength of a source wave in a  C. 10 N
theory certain material as measured is 18 cm.  D. 40 N
 C. Primary vision theory The frequency of the wave is 1900 Hz. 305. A piano string with a length of 1.17 m
 D. Young – Huygen primary vision Compute the speed of sound wave? and a mass of 21.0 g in under tension of
theory 6.4 x 103 N, what is the fundamental
298. What is a probable explanation for  A. 342 m/s frequency?
observe phenomena which is supported by  B. 400 m/s
abundant data?  C. 542 m/s  A. 225 Hz
 D. 300 m/s  B. 187 Hz
 A. Theory 302. A horizontal cord 5 m long has a  C. 255 Hz
 B. Hypothesis mass of 2.5 grams. What must be the  D. 290 Hz
 C. Axiom tension in the cord if the wavelength of a 306. A rope 4 ft long weighs 0.7 lb. A blow
 D. Conclusion 120 Hz wave on it is to be 50 cm? on the rope produces a transverse wave.
299. A tempered scale is a musical scale Determine the velocity of the wave
with _______ equal frequency ratio  A. 1.50 N considering that the tension is 40 lb.
intervals between the successive notes of  B. 1.80 N
an octave.  C. 2.50 N  A. 75.8 ft/s
 D. 4.30 N  B. 95.7 ft/s
 A. 9 303. A 3-m string is driven by a 240 Hz  C. 78.5 ft/s
 B. 10 vibrator at its end. Determine the speed of  D. 85.8 ft/s
 C. 11 transverse waves on the string if it 307. What is the relative intensity level of
 D. 1 resonates four segments? sound in decibels it its intensity is 3 x 10-7
300. What is unifying theory applicable to W/cm2?
the divergent phenomena of light which  A. 340 m/s
assumes that the transfer of energy  B. 360 m/s  A. 94.8
between light and matter occurs only in  C. 430 m/s  B. 78.7
discrete quantities proportional to the  D. 420 m/s  C. 80.5
frequency of the energy transferred? 304. A guitar string 30 cm long resonates  D. 75.4
in its fundamental to a frequency of 250 308. A wave has pressure amplitude of 5
 A. Quantum theory Hz. What is the tension in the string if 80 dynes/cm^2 and a velocity of 35.7 m/s,
 B. Radioactive theory cm of the string “weighs” 0.80 grams? what is the absolute intensity considering
 C. Nuclear energy that 0.001293gm/cm?
 D. Quark energy  A. 20 N
 B. 30 N  A. 1.27 x 10^-8 W/cm2
 B. 1.47 x 10^-8 W/cm2  C. 11.87 s  A. 26°
 C. 3.27 x 10^-8 W/cm2  D. 17.54 s  B. 20°
 D. 2.71 x 10^-8 W/cm2 312. What is the speed of sound in neon  C. 22°
309. A train blowing its whistle at 750 Hz gas at temperature of 25°C considering  D. 28°
approaches a station at the rate of 35mph. that the molecular mass if this gas is 316. It was found out that the speed of
What frequency is heard by a man 20.18 kg/mol? Neon is monoatomic. Use k light in water is 75% of its speed in
standing at the station considering the = 1.67 vacuum. What is the index of refraction of
velocity of sound in air 1100 ft/s? water?
 A. 543.7 m/s
 A. 739.7 Hz  B. 478.6 m/s  A. 1.46
 B. 857.4 Hz  C. 321.7 m/s  B. 1.33
 C. 716.4 Hz  D. 447.5 m/s  C. 1.26
 D. 786.7 Hz 313. What is the wavelength of yellow  D. 1.67
310. Two cars A and B are traveling light whose frequency is 5 x 1014 Hz? 317. A glass plate is 0.6 cm thick and has
toward each other at speeds of 45km/hr a refractive index of 1.55. Compute how
and 70 km/hr respectively. If A blowing its  A. 800 mm long will it take for a pulse of light to pass
horn, what is the relative pitch heard by a  B. 200 mm through the plate?
passenger in B, considering that the  C. 600 mm
velocity of sound is 344 m/s  D. 700 mm  A. 4.41 x 10-12 s
314. What is the angle of refraction of light  B. 3.11 x 10-11 s
 A. 1.043 as a beam of parallel light enters a block  C. 1.34 x 10-12 s
 B. 1.021 of ice at angle of incidence of 30°? The  D. 2.34 x 10-11 s
 C. 1.096 index of refraction of ice is 1.31 and that 318. A light passes from glass to water. If
 D. 1.078 of air is 1.0. the index of refraction for glass is 1.54 and
311. An explosion occurs at a distance of 5 for water is 1.33, compute the critical
km from the observer. How long after the  A. 45° angle for this light to pass the glass.
explosion does a person hear if the  B. 30°
temperature is 18°C? Note: the speed of  C. 22°  A. 59.7°
sound at STP (standard temperature and  D. 26°  B. 45.8°
pressure) is 332 m/s and changes by 0.6 315. A light ray is incident at an angle of  C. 67.4°
m/s for every 1 °C change in temperature. 45° on one side of a glass plate of index of  D. 50.9°
refraction 1.6. Find the angle at which the 319. A light source emits a total luminous
 A. 14.58 s ray emerges from the other side of the flux of 1000 lumens and distributed
 B. 12.45 s plate. uniformly over 25% of a sphere. What is
the luminous intensity at 2.5-meter
distance?
 A. 413 cd
 B. 243 cd
 C. 134 cd
 D. 318 cd
320. A light bulb emits a total luminous
flux of 1700 lumens, distributed uniformly
over a hemisphere. What is the
illuminance at a distance of 2 meters?
 A. 67.65 lm/m2
 B. 35.70 lm/m2
 C. 59.87 lm/m2
 D. 23.56 lm/m2
321. A light bulb is used to light a bunker
10 ft below. A chair sits on the floor of the
bunker 3 feet from a spot directly below
the bulb. What is the illumination on the
floor around the chair if the luminous
intensity is 150 candles?
 A. 2.38 footcandles
 B. 2.43 footcandles
 C. 3.87 footcandles
 D. 1.38 footcandles
322. A light ray passing through air and
strikes a glass surface at an angle of 55°
from the normal surface. What is the angle
between the reflected light and the
surface?
 A. 55°
 B. 25°
 C. 35°
 D. 45°
323. A converging lens of focal length 20
cm is placed 37 cm in front of a screen. At
what distance that the object be placed so
that its image appears on the screen?
 A. 43.5 cm
 B. 35.7 cm
 C. 27.6 cm
 D. 50.7 cm
324. In what positions will a converging
lens of focal length 10 cm from an image
of luminous object on a screen located 50
cm from the object?
 A. 11.52 cm and 38.48 cm from the
object
 B. 10 cm and 40 cm from the object
 C. 13.82 cm and 36.18 cm from the
object
 D. 12.56 cm and 37.44 cm from the
object
325. A lens has a convex surface of radius
17 cm and a concave surface of radius 38
cm and is made of glass of refractive index
1.55. Calculate the focal length of the lens
and classify the type of lens whether
diverging or converging?
 A. 55.93 cm converging lens
 B. 57.45 cm diverging lens
 C. 55.93 cm diverging lens
 D. 57.45 cm converging lens
326. A double convex lens has faces of
radii 16 and 18 cm. When an object is 20
cm from the lens, a real image is formed
30 cm from the lens. What is the focal
length of the lens?
 A. 11 cm
 B. 10 cm
 C. 12 cm
 D. 14 cm
327. A double convex lens has faces of
radii 22 and 24 cm. When an object is 30
cm from the lens, a real image is formed
45 cm from the lens. Compute the
refractive index of the lens material
 A. 1.64
 B. 1.32
 C. 1.21
 D. 1.76
328. A 50 watt incandescent lamp has a
mean spherical luminous intensity of 66.5
candelas. Compute the total luminous flux
radiated by the lamp?
 A. 842 lm
 B. 457 lm
 C. 786 lm
 D. 987 lm
329. A 250 W light source has a mean
spherical luminous intensity of 87.5
candelas. Compute the luminous intensity
of the lamp?
 A. 4.7 lm/s between the axis of the analyzer and the 10^-13 J and mass of electron is 9.11 x
 B. 4.4 lm/s initial amplitude of the beam? 10^-31 kg.
 C. 2.0 lm/s
 D. 1.7 lm/s  A. 65.73°  A. 0.512 MeV
330. Compute the illumination on a  B. 76.27°  B. 0.987 MeV
surface 5 ft distance from a 100-cd source  C. 73.22°  C. 0.345 MeV
if the surface makes an angle of 18° with  D. 67.54°  D. 0.675 MeV
the rays? 334. An observer sees a spaceship, 337. What is the frequency of photon
measured 100 m long when at rest. He having energy of 2 eV?
 A. 1.67 lm/ft2 passed by in uniform motion with the
 B. 1.50 lm/ft2 speed of 0.5 c. While the observer is  A. 560 THz
 C. 1.24 lm/ft2 watching the spaceship, a time of 2 s  B. 300 THz
 D. 2.13 lm/ft2 elapses on a clock on board the ship, what  C. 250 THz
331. Estimate the distance for which a 30- is the length of the moving spaceship?  D. 480 THz
cd lamp provide the same illumination as a 338. A red light passes an empty space.
standard lamp of 80-cd placed 17 ft from  A. 82 m What is the momentum of a single photon
the screen?  B. 85 m of red light whose frequency is 400 x 1012
 C. 83 m HZ?
 A. 9.76 ft  D. 87 m
 B. 8.5 ft 335. The captain of a spacecraft send a  A. 8.8 x 10 -28 kg m/s
 C. 12.7 ft pulse of light towards earth and then  B. 7.6 x 10 -28 kg m/s
 D. 10.41 ft exactly 1 min. later (as measured by the  C. 5.4 x 10 -28 kg m/s
332. A Plano-convex lens has a focal clock on the spacecraft), sends a second  D. 6.5 x 10 -28 kg m/s
length of 35 cm and an index of refraction pulse. An observer on earth sees the 339. The eye can detect as little as 1 x
1.53. Find the radius of the convex second pulse arrive 4 minutes after the 10^-18 J of electromagnetic energy. How
surface. first. What is the velocity of the spacecraft many photons of orange light whose
relative to the earth? wavelength is 600 nm present in the
 A. 18.55 cm energy?
 B. 15.78 cm  A. 0.987c
 C. 20.78 cm  B. 0.968c  A. 5
 D. 17.55 cm  C. 0.954c  B. 4
333. If a beam of polarized light has one-  D. 0.953c  C. 3
twelfth of its initial intensity after passing 336. What is the rest energy of electron  D. 1
through an analyzer, what is the angle equivalent to its rest mass? 1Mev = 1.60 x
340. What is the speed of sound through  A. 240.5 dB  A. 4.02 m
compressed water (100 kPa) if its volume  B. 170.4 dB  B. 3.86 m
decreased by 0.005% of its original  C. 120.8 dB  C. 3.79 m
volume?  D. 134.5 dB  D. 4.21 m
344. Compute the ratio of the intensities 348. A floodlight emitting 25,000 candelas
 A. 1414 m/s of sounds if one is 12 times louder than in the center of its beam is aimed at 50°
 B. 1250 m/s the other? to a point on the ground 20 meters away.
 C. 1130 m/s The illumination of the point in flux is:
 D. 1200 m/s  A. 13.47 dB
341. What is the bulk modulus of steel if  B. 15.85 dB  A. 54.12
the sound waves traveled at approximately  C. 18.76 dB  B. 62.5
5900 m/s? Note: the density of steel is  D. 14.54 dB  C. 31.25
7900 kg/m3 345. An automobile moving at 30 m/s is  D. 625
approaching a building whistle with a 349. Compute the speed of sound in neon
 A. 2.75 x 1011 Pa frequency of 500 Hz. If the speed of sound gas at 27°C of molecular mass 20.18
 B. 1.25 x 1011 Pa in air is 340 m/s what is the apparent kg/kmol and k of 1.67.
 C. 1.15 x 1011 Pa frequency of the whistle heard by the
 D. 2.45 x 1011 Pa driver?  A. 454 m/s
342. A certain loud speaker has a circular  B. 564 m/s
opening with a diameter of 15 cm. Assume  A. 459 Hz  C. 356 m/s
that the sound it emits is uniform and  B. 458 Hz  D. 434 m/s
outward through this entire opening. How  C. 457 Hz 350. A magnifying glass has a lens with an
much power is being radiated by the  D. 456 Hz index of refraction 5.4 and radii of
loudspeaker if the sound intensity at 346. What is the mass of electron traveling curvature of 2.95 feet and 4.27 feet for
opening is 150µW/m^2? at half the speed of light? the two faces. What is the magnification of
the lens when it is held 2.36 inches from
 A. 1.77 µW  A. 1.05 x 10-30 kg an object being viewed?
 B. 1.87 µW  B. 2.31 x 10-30 kg
 C. 2.65 µW  C. 1.56 x 10-31 kg  A. 1.6
 D. 3.41 µW  D. 1.61 x 10-31 kg  B. 2.78
343. Sound intensity that reaches 1.2 347. A medium unshaded lamp hangs 8 m  C. 2.16
W/m2 is painful to human ear. How many directly above the table. To what distance  D. 1.98
decibels is 1.2 W/m2? should it be lowered to increase the 351. “At any point along a streamline in an
illumination to 4.45 times its former value? ideal fluid in steady flow, the sum of the
pressure, the potential energy per unit
volume and the kinetic energy per unit
volume have the same value.” The concept
is known as
 A. Bernoulli‟s Energy Principles
 B. Fluid theorem
 C. Pascal‟s theorem
 D. Hydraulic theorem
352. The work done by all forces except
the gravitational force is always equal to
the one of the system.
 A. Total mechanical energy
 B. Total potential energy
 C. Total kinetic energy
 D. Total momentum
353. When the two waves of the same
frequency, speed and amplitude traveling
in opposite directions are superimposed,
 A. the phase difference is always zero
 B. distractive waves are produced
 C. standing waves are produced
 D. constructive interference always
results to zero
354. According to this law, “The force
between two charges varies directly as the
magnitude of each charge and inversely as
the square of the distance between them.”
 A. Law of Universal Gravitation
 B. Newton‟s Law
 C. Inverse Square Law
 D. Coulomb‟s Law
355. It describes the luminous flux
incidence per unit area and is expressed in
lumens per square meter.
 A. Illuminance
 B. Luminance
 C. Luminous Intensity
 D. Radiance
356. The fluid pressure is the same in all
directions. This is known as
 A. Pascal‟s Principle
 B. Bernoulli‟s Theorem
 C. Ideal Fluid Principle
 D. Archimedes Principle
357. The amount of heat needed to
change solid to liquid is
 A. condensation
 B. cold fusion
 C. latent heat of fusion
 D. solid fusion
358. At the boiling point of liquid, the
vapor pressure
 A. is equal to external pressure on the
surface of the liquid
 B. is greater than the atmospheric
pressure
 C. is less than the atmospheric
pressure
 D. can have any value
359. Which of the following thermometers
is best suited for measuring a temperature
of nearly 1500oC?
 A. Gas thermometer
 B. Platinum resistance thermometer
 C. Thermo couple thermometer
 D. Mercury thermometer
360. The energy stored in a starched
elastic material such as spring is
 A. Mechanical energy
 B. Elastic potential energy
 C. Internal energy
 D. Kinetic energy
361. In physics, if LF and LV are the latent
heat of fusion and vaporization,
respectively, which of the following
equations apply in determining the amount
of energy needed to freeze a liquid?
 A. Q = -mif
 B. Q = -miv
 C. Q = mif
 D. Q = miv
362. Which of the following is true? The
density of water
 A. Is maximum at 4oC
 B. Decreases as the temperature is
increased
 C. Is minimum at 4oC
 D. Increases with temperature
363. When the pitch of a note is raised
then, its
 A. frequency decreases
 B. wavelength is increased
 C. frequency increases
 D. None of the above is true
364. Cohesion is the attraction between
like
 A. atom
 B. element
 C. compound
 D. molecule
365. The quality known as specific heat is
based on:
 A. the increase in temperature due to
induction
 B. the heat needed for one pound of
water to boil
 C. the heat needed to increase the
temperature to one gram of a
substance one degree Celsius
 D. the amount of heat required to melt
one kg of lead
366. On decreasing the pressure, the
boiling point of water will
 A. increase
 B. remain unaffected
 C. decrease
 D. may increase/decrease depending
on the pressure
367. When sugar is added to water, its  A. They transmit the energy
boiling point  B. They are propagated as a series of
compressions and the rare fractions
 A. increases  C. They travel faster in air than in
 B. remains unaffected solids
 C. decreases  D. They produce interference
 D. Any of the above is possible 372. Sound waves in air are
368. Which one of the following processes
of heat transfer requires the presence of a  A. longitudinal
fluid?  B. neither longitudinal nor transverse
 C. transverse
 A. conduction  D. stationary
 B. convection 373. Normal range of the frequency of
 C. radiation sound, which the human beings can hear,
 D. none of the above is
369. When salt is added to water, its
boiling point  A. Less than 20 Hz
 B. More than 25,000 Hz
 A. increases  C. 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz
 B. decreases  D. All of these
 C. remains unaffected 374. The loudness of sound depends upon
 D. may increase/decrease depending its
on the pressure
370. Which one of the following  A. Wavelength
propagates with the same speed as speed  B. Frequency
of light?  C. Amplitude
 D. All of the above
 A. The sound waves 375. Sound above the frequency of 20,000
 B. The heat waves Hz is called
 C. The shock waves
 D. The Beta rays  A. Supersonic sound
371. Which of the following is not true  B. Intrasonic sound
about sound waves?  C. Hypersonic sound
 D. Ultrasonic sound
376. The surface of the thermos flask is  B. specific mass  C. pyrometer
silvered for minimizing heat transfer by  C. density  D. hydrometer
what process?  D. temperature 384. When the temperature of an ideal gas
380. The amount of heat which is is increased at constant pressure,
 A. conduction absorbed during the change of state of a
 B. radiation substance without rise in its temperature  A. the potential energy of molecules
 C. convection is called its increases
 D. vaporization  B. the potential energy of molecules
377. Water starts boiling when  A. Specific heat decreases
 B. Latent heat  C. the kinetic energy of molecules
 A. Its temperature reaches 100oC  C. Thermal conductivity increases
 B. Its vapor pressure equals 76cm of  D. Water equivalent  D. the kinetic energy of molecules
mercury 381. The scientist who systematically decreases
 C. Its saturated vapor pressure equals demonstrated the equivalence of 385. The root mean square speed of the
the external pressure on its surface mechanical energy and heat was molecules of a gas is
 D. Its saturated vapor pressure is less
than the atmospheric pressure  A. Joule  A. independent of its pressure P
378. 500 gm of water at 4oC occupies a  B. Boltzmann  B. directly proportional to square root
certain volume V. Which of the following  C. Faraday of P
statements is correct?  D. Kelvin  C. directly proportional to the square
382. On a sunny day at the beach, the of its temperature T
 A. It will weigh less than one pound of sand gets so hot and the water stays  D. proportional to T
water at 0oC relatively cool is due to the difference in of 386. At what temperature do both the
 B. It will weigh more than 500 gm of water and sand. centigrade and Fahrenheit thermometers
water at 0oC show the same reading?
 C. Its volume will decrease when its  A. density
temperature is lowered  B. specific heat  A. -38oC
 D. Its volume will increase when its  C. depth  B. -40oC
temperature is lowered or raised  D. thermal conductivity  C. -42oC
379. Heat will flow from one body to 383. The instrument, which measures  D. -50oC
another in thermal contact with it, when temperature by radiation, is called 387. A mercury thermometer is
they differ in constructed at
 A. thermopile
 A. mass  B. thermometer  A. room temperature
 B. a temperature higher than the
maximum range of the thermometer
 C. a temperature lower than the
minimum range of the thermometer
 D. atmospheric pressure
388. The boiling point of water on plains is
100oC. At hills it will be
 A. 100oC
 B. Less than 100oC
 C. More than 100oC
 D. May be any of the above
389. It is hotter over the top of a fire than
at the same distance on the sides because
of:
 A. convection of heat
 B. conduction of heat
 C. radiation of heat
 D. convection, conduction and
radiation of heat
390. The density of water is
 A. same at all temperature
 B. maximum at 4oC
 C. minimum at 4oC
 D. maximum at 0oC
391. When a substance is heated, its
 A. molecules move more slowly
 B. molecules move more rapidly
 C. there is no change in the speed of
its molecules
 D. its temperature always increases
392. When common salt is sprinkled on ice
the temperature of ice
 A. increases
 B. decreases
 C. remains unchanged
 D. none of these
393. The minimum temperature which can
be measured with a mercury thermometer
is
 A. 0oC
 B. -273oC
 C. -39oC
 D. -143oC
394. A wave in which the particles of the
material move up and down as the waves
goes from left is called a
 A. Longitudinal wave
 B. Transverse wave
 C. Standing wave
 D. None of these
395. When waves go from one place to
another they transport
 A. Energy and matter
 B. Wavelength and matter
 C. Frequency only
 D. Energy only
396. The phenomenon of damping results
in decrease in
 A. frequency
 B. velocity
 C. wavelength
 D. amplitude
397. Echo is formed as a result of
 A. refraction of sound
 B. diffraction of sound
 C. interference of sound
 D. reflection of sound
398. The characteristic of sound which
enables us to distinguish two musical
notes having the same frequency and
loudness is called
 A. pitch
 B. intensity
 C. timber
 D. decibel
399. Which of the following could be a
longitudinal wave?
 A. electromagnetic waves
 B. a sound wave in air
 C. a water wave
 D. waves on vibrating string
400. A Decibel is a
 A. musical instrument
 B. highest frequency emitted by a
tuning fork
 C. a measure of intensity level
 D. a measure of clarity of sound
401. A ball is thrown vertically upward
with an initial velocity of 3 m/s from a
window of a tall bldg. The ball strikes the
ground level 4 seconds later. Determine
the height of window above the ground.
 a) 66.331 m.
 b) 66.450 m.
 c) 67.239 m.
 d) 67.492 m.
402. A stone was dropped freely from a
balloon at a height of 190 m. above the
ground. The balloon is moving upward at a
speed of 30 m/s. Determine the velocity of
the stone as it hits the ground.
 a) 69.03 m/s
 b) 68.03 m/s
 c) 67.30 m/s
 d) 69.23 m/s
403. A ball is thrown vertically at a speed
of 20 m/s from a bldg. 100 m. above the
ground. Find the velocity and position of
the stone above the ground after 5
seconds.
 a) 4.67 m, 48.30 m/s
 b) 4.54 m, 47.68 m/s
 c) 5, 43 m, 47.69 m/s
 d) 5.68 m, 48.20 m/s
404. A ball is thrown vertically at a speed
of 30 m/s from the top of a tower 200 m.
Determine the velocity of the stone and
the time that it strikes the ground.
 a) 1 1.50 sec, 65.80 m/s
 b) 1 1.45 sec, 66.59 m/s
 c) 10.30 sec, 67.21 m/s
 d) 10.14 sec, 69.45 m/s
405. A ball is thrown vertically with a
velocity of 20 m/s. from the top of a bldg.
100 m. high. Find the velocity of the stone
at a height of 40 m. above the ground.
 a) 39.71 m/s
 b) 40.23 m/s
 c) 39.88 m/s
 d) 39.68 m/s
406. A projectile is fired from the top of a
cliff 92 m. high with a velocity of 430 m/s
directed 45º to the horizontal. Find the
range on the horizontal plane through the
base of the cliff.
 a) 18.959 km.
 b) 23.408 km.
 c) 15.273 km.
 d) .20.365 km.
407. A stone is thrown outward, at an
angle of 30º with the horizontal as shown
in the drawing, into the river from a cliff
that is 120 meters above the water level
at a velocity of 36 kilometers per hour . At
what height above the water level will the
stone start to fall?
 a) 121.27 m.
 b) 189.29m.
 c) 1 1 1.38 m.
 d) 152.22 m.
408. A stone was thrown upward at an
angle of 60º with the horizontal and a
resultant vertical speed of 100.0 meters
per second. If gravity decelerates the
speed at 9.8 meters/sec², what is the
actual speed of the stone, in meters per
second, 10.0 seconds later, in the direction
it was thrown?
 a) 57.77 m/s
 b) 64.22 m/s
 c) 60.35 m/s
 d) 67.23 m/s
409. A projectile is launched at 45º to the
horizontal on a level ground at a speed of
60 m/s. Neglecting air resistance, what is
the range of the projectile?
 a) 366.86 m.
 b) 355.29 m.
 c) 663.24 m.
 d) 386.66 m.
410. A ball thrown at an angle of 30º with
the horizontal from a point60 m. from the
edge of a vertical cliff 48 m. high. The ball
just misses the edge of the cliff. Determine
the initial velocity of the ball and the
distance beyond the cliff where the ball
strikes the ground.
 a) 28.4 m/sec; 32.6 m.
 b) 26.1 m/sec; 46.9 m.
 c) 27.5 m/sec; 56.5m
 d) 31.1m/sec; 43.2m
411. A block passes a point 4 m from the
edge of a table with a velocity of 5 m/sec.
It slides off the edge of the table which is
5 m. high and strikes the floor 3 m from
the edge of the table. What was the
coefficient of friction between the block
and the table?
 a) 0.65
 b) 1.04.
 c) 0.21.
 d) 0.1 1
412. A ball is shot at a ground level at an
angle of 60 degrees with the horizontal
with an initial velocity of 10 m/sec. Which
of the following most nearly gives the
maximum height (h) attained by the ball?
 a) 2.47 m
 b) 3.29 m
 c) 4.61 m
 d) 3.82 m
413. A stone is thrown upward at an angle
of 30º with the horizontal. It lands 60 m.
measured horizontally and 2 m. below
measured vertically from its point of
release. Determine the initial velocity of
the stone in m/s.
 a) 27.35
 b) 28.35
 c) 25.35
 d) 26.35
414. A projectile is fired with a muzzle  a) 188.21m/s
velocity of 300 m/s from a gun aimed  b) 154.34m/s
upward at an angle of 20º with the  c) 215.53 m/s
horizontal, from the top of a building 30m.  d) 198.37 m/s
high above a level ground. With what 418. A projectile has a velocity of 200m/s
velocity will it hit the ground in m/s? acting at an angle of 20º with the
horizontal. How long will it take for the
 a) 300.98 projectile to hit the ground surface?
 b) 310.96
 c) 320.96  a) 13.95 sec.
 d) 330.96  b) 15.75 sec.
415. A projectile leaves a velocity of 50  c) 10.1 1 sec
m/s at an angle of 30 with the horizontal.  d) 24.23sec.
Find the maximum height that it could 419. A stone is thrown upward at an angle
reach? of 20º with the horizontal from the top of
a tower 30 m. high and hits the ground at
 a) 31.86 a distance of 5976.4 m. horizontally from
 b) 41.26 the base of the tower. Find the time of
 c) 28.46 flight of the stone until it hits the ground.
 d) 51.26
416. A ball is shot at a ground level at  a) 21.20 sec.
angle of 60 degrees with the horizontal  b) 22.20 sec
with an initial velocity of 100 m/s.  c) 19.39 sec.
Determine the height of the ball after 2  d) 24.15 sec.
sec. 420. A projectile is fired upward at an
angle of 20ºwith the horizontal from the
 a) 162.46 m. top of a tower 30 m. high above a level
 b) 153.59 m. ground. Find the range on the horizontal
 c) 175.48 m. plane will the ball hit the ground after
 d) 186.42 m. 20.20 seconds.
417. A ball is shot at an average speed of
200 m/sat an angle of 20º with the  a) 5386.30 m.
horizontal. What would be the velocity of  b) 5642.22 m.
the ball after 8 sec.?  c) 5415.37 m.
 d) 6329.33 m.
421. A projectile leaves a velocity of 50
m/s at an angle of 30º with the horizontal.
Find the time it would take for the
projectile to reach the maximum height.
 a) 2.55 sec.
 b) 2.60 sec.
 c) 3.10 sec.
 d) 2.89 sec.
422. A baseball is thrown from a horizontal
plane following a parabolic path with an
initial velocity of 100 m/s at an angle of
30º above the horizontal. How far from the
throwing point will the ball attain its
original level?
 a) 890 m.
 b) 884 m.
 c) 883 m.
 d) 875 m.
23. A shot is fired at an angle of 45º with
the horizontal and a velocity of 300 fps.
Calculate, to the nearest, the range of the
projectile.
 a) 3500 ft.
 b) 1200 ft.
 c) 4000 ft.
 d) 934 yds.
424. Three crates with masses A = 45.2
kg, B = 22.8 kg and C = 34.3 kg and are
placed with B along a horizontal
frictionless surface. Find the force exerted
by B and C by pushing the crates to the
right with an acceleration of 1.32 m/sec².
 a) 45.3 kN
 b) 54.2 KN
 c) 43.2kN
 d) 38.7kN
425. Three blocks A, Band Care placed on
a horizontal frictionless surface and are
connected by chords between A, Band C.
determine the tension between block B
and C when a horizontal tensile force is
applied at C equal to 6.5 N. Masses of the
blocks are A = 1.2 kg, B = 2.4 kg and C =
3.1 kg.
 a) 3.50 N
 b) 4.21 N
 c) 3.89 N
 d) 4.65 N
426. A constant force P = 750 N acts on
the body shown during only the first 6 m.
of its motion starting from rest. If u =
0.20, find the velocity of the body after it
has moved a total distance of 9m.
 a) 3.93 m/sec²
 b) 4.73 m/sec²
 c) 2.32 m/sec²
 d) 3.1 1 m/sec²
427. A weight of 9 kN is initially suspended
on a 150 m. long cable. The cable weighs
0.002 kN/m. If the weight is then raised
100 m. How much work is done in Joules?
 a) 915000
 b) 938700
 c) 951000
 d) 905100
428. What is the kinetic energy of a 4000
lb. automobile which is moving at 44 fps.
 a.) 1.21 x 105 ft-lb.
 b.) 2.1 x 105 ft-lb.
 c) 1.8 x 105 ft-lb
 d) 1.12 x 105 ft-lb.
429. A box slides from rest from point
Adown a plane inclined 30º, to the
horizontal. After reaching the bottom of
the plane, the box moves on horizontal
floor at a distance 2 m before coming to
rest. If the coefficient of friction between
the box and plane and between the box
and floor is k = 0.40, what is the distance
of point “A” from the intersection of plane
and the floor?
 a) 7.24 m
 b) 5.21 m
 c) 4.75 m
 d) 9.52 m
430. A 400 N block slides on a horizontal
plane by applying a horizontal force of 200
N and reaches a velocity of 20 m/s in a
distance of 30 m. from rest. Compute the
coefficient of friction between the floor and
the block.
 a) 0.18
 b) 0.24  a) 20m  a) 350 kg-m2/sec
 c) 0.31  b) 1 1m  b) 320 J
 d) 0.40  c) 14 m  c) 350 N-m
431. A car weighing 40 tons is switched to  d) 18m  d) 294 J
a 2 percent upgrade with a velocity of 30 434. A 1000 N block on a leveled surface 437. A car weighing 40 tons is switched to
mph. If the train resistance is 10 lb/ton, is attached to250 N block hanging on the a 2% upgrade with a velocity of 30 mph. if
how far up the grade will it go? pulley. The pulley is 3 m away from the the car is then allowed to run back, what
first block. If the first block started at rest velocity will it have at the foot of the
 a) 1124 ft. on slope and moves towards the right. What is the grade?
 b) 2014 ft. on slope velocity of block B as it touches the
 c) 1203 ft. on slope ground? How far will the block A travel  a) 37fps
 d) 1402 ft on slope along the horizontal surface if the  b) 31fps
432. A car weighing 10 KN is towed along coefficient of friction between block A and  c) 43 fps
a horizontal road surface at a uniform the surface is .20? Assume pulley to be  d) 34 fps
velocity of 80kph. The towing cable is frictionless. 438. A 200 ton train is accelerated from
parallel with the road surface. The road is rest to a velocity of 30 mph on a level
straight and smooth. When the car is at  a) 1.44 m track. How much useful work was done?
the foot of an incline as shown having an  b) 2.55 m
elevation of 30 m, the towing cable was  c) 5.22 m  a) 12024845 ft-lbs
suddenly cut. At what elevation in the  d) 3.25 m  b) 13827217 ft-lbs
inclined road will the car stop in its upward 435. A 500 N block on a n incline plane  c) 11038738 ft-lbs
motion? with an angle of 30º has move 3 m up the  d) 10287846 ft-lbs
incline plane due to 600 N force applied. 439. A drop hammer weighing 40 KN is
 a) 55.16 m Find the velocity of the block when it dropped freely and drives a concrete pile
 b) 60.24 m returns to its initial position. 150 mm into the ground. The velocity of
 c) 51.43 m the drop hammer at impact is6m/sec.
 d) 49.62 m  a) 8.6 m/s what is the average resistance of the soil
433. A wooden block starting from rest,  b) 5.6 m/s in KN?
slides 6 m down a 45º slope, then 3 m  c) 6.4 m/s
along a level surface and then up a 30º  d) 7.1 m/s  a) 542.4
incline until it comes to rest again. If the 436. A 10 Kg block is raised vertically 3  b) 489.3
coefficient of friction is 0.15 for all surfaces meters. What is the change in potential  c) 384.6
of contact, compute the total distance energy? Answer in SI units closest to:  d) 248.7
traveled.
440. A force of 200 lbf acts on a block at grade with a velocity increasing from 30 446. A 16-16 wire cable 100 ft. long is
an angle of 28º with respect to the kph to 50 kph in a distance of 500 meters. stretched between two poles under tension
horizontal. The block is pushed 2 feet Determine the horse power developed by of 500 lb. If the cable is struck at one end,
horizontally. What is the work done by this the train. how long will it take for the wave to travel
force? to the far end and return?
 a) 5.394 kW
 a) 320 J  b) 5.120 kW  a) 0.63 s
 b) 480 J  c) 4.486 kW  b) 0.64 s
 c) 540 J  d) 4.591 kW  c) 0.65 s
 d) 215 J 444. An elevator has an empty weight of  d) 0.66 s
441. A 50 Kg object strikes the 5160 N. It is design to carry a maximum 447. Assume that young modulus for silver
unscratched spring attached to a vertical load of 20 passengers from the ground is 77.5 G N/m2. If it has density 10.5×103
wall having a spring constant of 20 KN/m. floor to the 25th floor of the building in a kg/m3, how fast does sound travel
Find the maximum deflection of the spring. time of 18 seconds. Assuming the average through the silver?
The velocity of the object before it strikes weight of a passenger to be 710 N and the
the spring is 40 m/s. distance between floors to be 3.5 m, what  a) 2600m/s
is the minimum constant power needed for  b) 2700m/s
 a) 1 m the elevator motor?  c) 1600 m/s
 b) 2 m  d) 1700m/s
 c) 3 m  a) 94.3 kW 448. The speed of a compressional wave in
 d) 4 m  b) 85.5 kW silver, specific gravity 10.5, is 2610 m/s.
442. To push a 25 Kg crate up a 27º  c) 97.4 kW compute y for silver.
incline plane, a worker exerts a force of  d) 77.6 kW
120 N, parallel to the incline. As the crates 445. A piano string is 80 cm long and  a) 71.6 G N/m2
slides 3.6m, how much is the work done weighs 5 N. if the string is stretched by a  b) 76G N/m2
on the crate by the worker and by the force of 500 N. what is the speed of the  c) 7.16 G N/m2
force of gravity. wave set up when the hammer strikes the  d) 716 GN/m2
string? 449. Two waves whose frequencies are
 a) 400 J 500 and 511 per second travel out from a
 b) 420 J  a) 26m/s common point. Find their difference in
 c) 380 J  b) 27m/s phase after 1.40 s.
 d) 350 J  c) 28 m/s
443. A train weighing 12,000 KN is  d) 30m/s  a) 143°
accelerated at a constant rate up a 2%  b) 144°
 c) 145°  a. Angular Velocity 458. To curve; bending occurs when a
 d) 146°  b. Acceleration straight material becomes curved; one
450. A copper has a density of 9 g/cm3  c. Angular Acceleration side squeezes together in compression,
and a bulk modulus of 120 G N/m2. What  d. none of the above and the other side stretches apart in
is the speed of a wave through it? 454. What is a physical quantity tension.
expressing the size of a part of a surface?
 a) 3600 m/s  a. Tension
 b) 6300 m/s  a. Lever  b. Brace
 c) 6030 m/s  b. Area  c. Buckle
 d) 1460 m/s  c. Measurement  d. none of the above
451. The time rate of change of velocity.  d. Bend 459. Is mechanics applied to biology
Since velocity is a directed or vector 455. The rate of change of angular (Fung). This includes research and analysis
quantity involving both magnitude and displacement with respect to time. of the mechanics of living organisms and
direction, a velocity may change by a the application of engineering principles to
change of magnitude (speed) or by a  a. Angular Velocity and from biological systems.
change of direction or both.  b. Load
 c. Instantaneous  a. Biomechanics
 a. Gravitation  d. Brittle  b. engineering mechanics
 b. invariant mass 456. A rigid, usually horizontal, structural  c. mechanics
 c. Acceleration element  d. none of the above
 d. none of the above 460. A structural support;
452. The closeness of an indication or  a. Beam Bridge
reading of a measurement device to the  b. Force  a. Brittle
actual value of the quantity being  c. Core  b. Cable
measured. Usually expressed as ± percent  d. Beam  c. Brace
of full scale output or reading. 457. A simple type of bridge, composed of  d. Cantilever
horizontal beams supported by vertical 461. Characteristic of a material that fails
 a. Accuracy posts without warning; brittle materials do not
 b. Compression stretch or shorten before failing.
 c. Chemical Equilibrium  a. Beam
 d. Distance  b. Brace  a. Beam
453. The rate of change of angular velocity  c. Beam Bridge  b. Brace
with respect to time.  d. Buckle  c. Beam Bridge
 d. Brittle
462. To bend under compression. 466. A pressing force that squeezes a deformed elastically (i.e. non-
material together. permanently) when a force is applied to it.
 a. Brittle
 b. compression  a. force  a. modulus of elasticity
 c. bend  b. Compression  b. fluid power
 d. Buckle  c. steel  c. Hydraulics
463. A structural element formed from  d. modulus  d. Gravitation
steel wire bound in strands; the 467. Central region of a skyscraper; 471. A profession in which acknowledge of
suspending element in abridge; the usually houses elevator and stairwell. math and natural science is applied to
supporting element in some dome roofs. develop ways to utilize the materials and
 a. Core forces of nature for the benefit of all
 a. Beam  b. physical constant human beings.
 b. Cable  c. gravitational attraction
 c. Brace  d. dimension  a. Mechanics
 d. Compression 468. To change shape  b. Engineering Mechanics
464. A projecting structure supported only  c. Engineering
at one end, like a shelf bracket or a diving  a. dimension  d. None of the above
board.  b. deform 472. A condition in which all acting
 c. deformation influences are canceled by others,
 a. Cantilever  d. instantaneous resulting in a stable, balanced, or
 b. Equilibrium 469. Is a numerical description of how far unchanging system.
 c. Cable apart objects are at any given moment in
 d. Irreversible time. In physics or everyday discussion,  a. Chemical Equilibrium
465. A condition in which a chemical distance may refer to a physical length, a  b. Equilibrium
reaction is occurring at equal rates in its period of time, or estimation based on  c. invariant mass
forward and reverse directions, so that the other criteria. In mathematics, distance  d. Gravitation
concentrations of the reacting substances must meet more rigorous criteria. 473. The capacity to do work or cause
do not change with time. physical change; energy, strength, or
 a. Force active power: the force of an explosion.
 a. Chemical Equilibrium  b. Distance
 b. Equilibrium  c. mass  a. Inertia
 c. force  d. deformation  b. Quantity
 d. Pile 470. Is the mathematical description of an  c. Lever
object or substance‟s tendency to be  d. Force
474. Is a natural phenomenon by which all  a. Hydraulics
objects with mass attract each other? In  b. physical body
everyday life, gravitation is most  c. fluid power
commonly thought of as the agency that  d. momentum
gives objects weight. 478. The tendency of a body to resist
acceleration; the tendency of a body at
 a. gravitational attraction rest to remain at rest or of a body in
 b. universal gravitation straight line motion to stay in motion in a
 c. Gravitation straight line unless acted on by an outside
 d. mass force.
475. Is a physical constant involved in the
calculation of the gravitational attraction  a. Inertia
between objects with mass? It appears in  b. energy
Newton‟s law of universal gravitation and  c. force
in Einstein‟s theory of general relativity.  d. none of the above
479. Occurring or completed without
 a. gravitational attraction perceptible delay
 b. universal gravitation
 c. Gravitation  a. volume
 d. gravitational constant  b. Shear
476. Is the measurement of vertical  c. Instantaneous
distance, but has two meanings in  d. none of the above
common use. It can either indicate how 480. Is the same for all frames of
"tall" something is, or how "high up" it is. reference? A mass for a particle is m in the
equation
 a. magnitude  a. mass
 b. Height  b. invariant mass
 c. distance  c. force
 d. none of the above  d. all of the above
477. Is a topic of science and engineering 481. That cannot be revoked or undone.
dealing with the mechanical properties of
liquids. Hydraulics is part of the more  a. measurement
general discipline of fluid power.  b. Irreversible
 c. base unit
 d. none of the above
482. A device connecting two or more
adjacent parts of a structure; a roller joint
allows adjacent parts to move controllably
past one another; a rigid joint prevents
adjacent parts from moving or rotating
past one another.
 a. energy
 b. velocity
 c. force-field
 d. joint
483. Is the base unit of mass in the
International System of Units (known also
by its French-language initials “SI”).
 a. mass
 b. measurement
 c. weight
 d. kilogram
484. Is the long dimension of any object?
The length of a thing is the distance
between its ends, its linear extent as
measured from end to end.
 a. distance
 b. rigid
 c. free body
 d. length
485. A simple machine consisting of a rigid
bar pivoted on a fixed point and used to
transmit force, as in raising or moving a
weight at one end by pushing down on the
other.
 a. Inertia  c. weight  b. physical body
 b. Quantity  d. kilogram  c. fluid power
 c. Lever 489. Is commonly defined as the  d. momentum
 d. Force substance of which physical objects are 493. The three laws proposed by Sir Isaac
486. Weight distribution throughout a composed, not counting the contribution of Newton to define the concept of a force
structure; loads caused by wind, various energy or force-fields, which are and describe motion, used as the basis of
earthquakes, and gravity, for example, not usually considered to be matter per se. classical mechanics.
affect how weight is distributed throughout
a structure.  a. mass  a. law of inertia
 b. magnitude  b. Newton‟s Law of Motion
 a. Angular Velocity  c. matter  c. Newton‟s Law
 b. Load  d. none of the above  d. none of the above
 c. Instantaneous 490. Science of the action of forces on 494. A long, round pole of wood, concrete,
 d. Brittle material bodies. It forms a central part of or steel driven into the soil by pile drivers
487. A property by which it can be large or all physical science and engineering.
smaller than other objects of the same  a. Chemical Equilibrium
kind; in technical terms, an ordering of the  a. engineering mechanics  b. Equilibrium
class of objects.  b. mechanics  c. force
 c. mechanism  d. Pile
 a. magnitude  d. none of the above 495. Is a collection of masses, taken to be
 b. Height 491. Is the estimation of the magnitude of one. For example, a cricket ball can be
 c. distance some attribute of an object, such as its considered an object but the ball also
 d. none of the above length or weight, relative to a unit of consists of many particles.
488. Is a fundamental concept in physics, measurement?
roughly corresponding to the intuitive idea  a. Hydraulics
of "how much matter there is in an  a. mass  b. physical body
object". Mass is a central concept of  b. measurement  c. fluid power
classical mechanics and related subjects,  c. weight  d. momentum
and there are several definitions of mass  d. kilogram 496. Is a kind of property which exists as
within the framework of relativistic 492. Is the product of the mass and magnitude or multitude?
kinematics. velocity of an object? Motion – The act or
process of changing position or place.  a. magnitude
 a. mass  b. fluid power
 b. measurement  a. Hydraulics  c. quantity
 d. none of the above  b. tensile stress
497. Ability to resist deformation when  c. shear
subjected to a load; the measure of a  d. none of the above
structure‟s ability not to change shape
when subjected to a load.

 a. distance
 b. rigid
 c. free body
 d. length
498. Is the effort to understand, or to
understand better, how nature works, with
observable physical evidence as the basis
of that understanding.

 a. physics
 b. science
 c. physical evidence
 d. load
499. A force that causes parts of a
material to slide past one another in
opposite directions.

 a. force
 b. stress
 c. shear
 d. momentum
500. Is a stress state where the stress is
parallel or tangential to a face of the
material, as opposed to normal stress
when the stress is perpendicular to the
face.

 a. shear stress