SAN QUINTIN HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.
San Quintin, Pangasinan
SECOND HALF EXAMINATION IN PHYSICS 12
(For STEM 12)
A.Y. 2019-2020
Name: _________________________________________
Grade and Section: _______________________________
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE (40 points). Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter before each number.
_____1. If a baseball and cannon ball are dropped from
the same height at the same time in a vacuum, which ball
will hit the ground first?
a. The cannonball
b. The baseball
c. The balls land at the same time
d. The ball with the larger volume
_____2. If an action force is a cue ball (white) hitting a
billiard ball (various color) when playing pool then the
reaction force is
a. Exerted on the table
b. Exerted on all the other billiard balls
c. Not present
d. Exerted by the billiard ball on the cue ball
_____3. A crumpled piece of paper hits the group before
a flat sheet of paper because
a. The acceleration of gravity is grater on the
crumpled paper
b. There is more air resistance against the flat
paper
c. The crumpled paper is more massive
d. The crumpled paper is less massive
_____4. According to newton’s first law of motion, a
moving object that is not acted on by an unbalanced
force will
a. Remain in motion
b. Eventually come to a stop
c. Change its momentum
d. Accelerates
_____5. An ice skater at rest pushes against a sled at
rest, causing both the skater and sled to move away from
each other with different acceleration. This is an
example best described by
a. Newton’s first law of motion for objects at rest
b. Newton’s first law of motion for objects at motion
c. Newton’s second law of motion
d. Newton’s third law of motion
_____6. A sled sliding on a flat icy surface with a
constant velocity is best described by
a. Newton’s first law of motion for objects at rest
b. Newton’s first law of motion for objects in motion
c. Newton’s second law of motion
d. Newton’s third law of motion
_____7. Which of the following explains the difference
between speed and velocity?
a. One has motion and the other does not
b. One has direction and the other does not
c. One involves time and the other does not
d. One involves acceleration and the other does not
_____8. The gravitational pull is grater between two
objects that
a. Have greater masses
b. Have rougher surfaces
c. Are farther apart
d. Are moving at a greater speed
_____9. Dividing the total distance travelled by the total
time is how to calculate
a. Average speed
b. Average velocity
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c. Average acceleration
d. Average motion
_____10. A hiker’s velocity begins at 1.8m/s uphill and
changes to 1.5m/s uphill. How do you know that the
hiker has a negative acceleration?
a. His direction changes
b. His direction was unchanged
c. His speed increased
d. His speed decreased
_____11. A 4.00 kg ball is traveling at 5.00 m/s and
strikes a wall. The 4.00 kg ball bounces off the wall with
a velocity of 4.0 m/s. the change is momentum of the
ball is
a. 8.0 kg m/s c. 30 kg m/s
b. 13 kg m/s d. 36 kg m/s
_____12. A machine gun fires 60.0-gram bullets at 6
bullets a second. If the velocity of the bullets is 600 m/s,
then the average forces on the machine gun is
a. 67.0 N c. 109 N
b. 75.0 N d. 216 N
_____13. A rifle fires a bullet. Immediately after the
bullets is fired, which of the following is NOT true?
a. The rifle and the bullet have the same magnitude
of momentum
b. The force on the rifle due to the bullet and the
force on the bullet due to the rifle have the same
magnitude
c. The impulse on the rifle due to the bullet and the
impulse on the bullet due to the rifle have the
same magnitude
d. The rifle and the bullet do not have the same
kinetic energy the rifle and the bullet have the
same kinetic energy
_____14. A 140 gram baseball with a velocity of 25.0
m/s is hit by a baseball bat and leaves at 30.0 m/s in the
opposite direction. If the ball was in contact with the bat
for 12.0 m/s, what is the average force on the ball?
a. 750 N c. 482 N
b. 642 N d. 366 N
_____15. Two objects of equal mass hit a wall with the
same velocity. They both rebound with the same
velocity. Both objects experience the same momentum
change but one experiences twice the force as the other.
Which of the following statements is true?
a. The contact times between the object and the wall
of one is twice the contact time of the other.
b. The contact time between the object and the wall
of one is equal to the contact time of the other.
c. The contact time between the object and the wall
of one is one-half the contact time of the other.
d. The change in the kinetic energy is the same for
the two objects
_____16. A rocket with a mass of 500 grams is launched
straight up. It achieves a velocity of 20.0 m/s in 2.00
second. The average thrust force of the engines on the
rocket is
a. 7.50 N c. 13.5 N
b. 9.90 N d. 20.0 N
 _____17. When comparing the momentum of two 4. Find the applied force which makes 10 m/s change in the
moving object, which of the following is correct? velocity of the box in 5s if the mass of the box is 4kg.
a. The object with the higher velocity will have
less momentum if the masses are equal
b. The more massive object will have less 5. What is the impulse imparted by a rocket that exerts 10N
momentum if its velocity is greater for 2s?
c. The less massive object will have less
momentum if the velocities are the same
d. The more massive object will have less 6. What is the momentum of 25kg cannon shell going 500
momentum if the velocities are the same m/s?
_____18. A roller coaster climbs up a hill at 4 m/s and
then zips down the hill at 30 m/s. the momentum of the
roller coaster 7. A rocket engine burns 3kg of fuel per second. The
a. Is greater up the hill than down the hill exhaust gas velocity is 600 m/s.
b. Is greater down the hill than up the hill a. What is the exhaust of the engine?
c. Remains the same throughout the ride b. What time must it burn to impart an impulse of
d. Is zero throughout the ride 12,000 Ns?
_____19. A rubber ball moving at a speed of 5 m/s hit a c. How much fuel will it burn to do this?
flat wall and returned to the thrower at 5 m/s. the
magnitude of the momentum of the rubber ball
a. Increased c. remains the same
b. Decreased d. was not conserved
_____20. The change in an object’s momentum is equal
to
a. The product of the mass of the object and the
time interval “There is no one better than you to take this challenge on”
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c. The time interval divided by the next external
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d. The next internal force divided by the time Prepared by:
interval
II. MATCHING TYPE (20 Points)-Match column
A with B. Write the letter of the correct answer on the Mr. ROLDAN M. ORMILLA
Science Teacher/Grade 10-D Adviser
blank before each number.
Column A Column B
____1. Momentum a. m ⸳ a
____2. Impulse b. m1 ⸳ ∆v1= m2 ⸳ ∆v2 Checked by:
____3. Range of Projectile c. F ⸳ t= m ⸳ ∆v
𝑚1𝑟1+𝑚2𝑟2
____4. Maximum Height of Projectile d.
𝑚1+𝑚2
____5. Time at half of Projectile e. ∆vy / ay Ms. ERLINDA A. CARIÑO
____6. Total time of Projectile f. 2(∆vy / ay) Science Coordinator/Cashier
____7. Impulse-Momentum Theory g. dy=voyt + ½ ayt2
____8. Center of Mass h. m ⸳ ∆v
____9. Weight i. dx=voxt
____10. Conservation of Momentum j. ↊=r ⸳ F
k. F ⸳ t
III. PROBLEM SOLVING (50 points): Read each
problem carefully and answer on a separate sheet
of paper. Be sure to show your complete solution.

1. A rock is thrown with an initial velocity of 30 m/s

along the vertical and 40 m/s along the horizontal.
a. What is the maximum height?
b. What is the time of the half of flight?
c. What is the total time of flight?
d. What is the range of projectile?

2. Find the center of mass (relative to (0,0)) for the

spheres with the following masses and locations:
m1 = 5kg, (1,1) m2 = 10 kg, (3,1)
m3 = 15kg, (1,6) m4 = 20 kg, (3,6)

3. A mass of 4 kg is moving at a speed of 10 m/s on a

frictionless surface. It collides with a 3 kg mass
moving in the same direction at 5 m/s. what is the
final velocity of the system after the collision?