This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Physics > Physics – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Physics Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The units of capacitance are A) Coulombs/volt. B) Henry/wb. C) Ohms. D) Volts/coulomb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coulombs/volt. 2. When a body falls in viscous medium, its velocity first increases and finally becomes constant. The constant velocity is called A) Viscous Force. B) Terminal Velocity. C) Critical Velocity. D) Streamline Flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terminal Velocity. 3. Physics, aside from being a natural science, is also an experimental science. Experiment usually involves the use of ..... by which it generally uses numbers in describing the results of that particular experiment. A) Measurement. B) Units. C) Vectors. D) Physics Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Measurement. 4. A car parked on a hill starts to coast down the hill, accelerating from rest at a constant rate of 0.45 m/s2. How fast will the car be moving after 7.0 s? A) 6.97.15 m/s. B) 7.81 m/s. C) 3.15 m/s. D) 5.07 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3.15 m/s. 5. When a ray of light enters from denser medium to rare medium it bends A) Away from normal. B) Towards normal. C) Perpendicular to normal. D) Parallel to normal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Away from normal. 6. Darth Vader lost his control of the "force" so he had no choice but to push Luke Skywalker with a horizontal applied force of 55 N. If he was able to do a 275-J work on Luke, how far will Luke be after the push? A) 55 m. B) Zero. C) 15, 125 m. D) 5 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5 m. 7. What happens to the gravitational force if both of the masses of the two objects interacting gravitationally are doubled? A) It is quadrupled. B) It becomes zero. C) It is doubled. D) It stays the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is quadrupled. 8. Which of the following affects the launched of the projectile motion? A) Angle. B) Force. C) Object. D) Gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Force. 9. Point A is at a lower electrical potential than point B. An electron between them on the line joining them will A) Remain at rest. B) Move towards A. C) Move towards B. D) Move at right angles to the line joining A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Move towards B. 10. It is a state in which heat transfer between two thermal conductors can no longer happen after reaching equal temperatures. A) Thermal Conduction. B) Thermal Euphoria. C) Thermal Instability. D) Thermal Equilibrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thermal Equilibrium. 11. What happens to the force between two charged objects if you triple the magnitude of one charge? A) 9X. B) 3X. C) 1/9X. D) 1/3X. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3X. 12. -capability of an electric field to permeate through a vacuum. A) Dielectric Strength. B) Permittivity of free space. C) Capacitors. D) Capacitance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Permittivity of free space. 13. What is known as the moment of force? A) Tweety. B) Toruq. C) Torq. D) Torque. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Torque. 14. If tight scissors have an efficiency of 50%, half of your work is wasted due to A) Output force. B) Friction. C) Changes in direction. D) Input force. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Friction. 15. How much wood do you need to a form a triangular garden frame if one side of the frame has a length of 11 ft, and the other two sides are 2 feet longer than the first side? A) 35 ft. B) 36 ft. C) 37 ft. D) 33 ft. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 37 ft. 16. An aeroplane is flying horizontally with a velocity of 600 km/h and at a height of 1960 m. When it is vertically at a point A on the ground a bomb is released from it. The bomb strikes the ground at p A) 0.33 km. B) 1200 m. C) 33 km. D) 3.33 km. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3.33 km. 17. Impulse is the product of ..... and the time interval during which the force acts. A) Momentum. B) Force. C) Interia. D) Mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Force. 18. After a bowling ball has fallen for 1 second, approximately how fast is it going, vertically? A) 0. B) 1 m/s. C) 19.6 m/s. D) 9.8 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9.8 m/s. 19. How to add vectors graphically? A) Put them tip to tail. B) Put them in line. C) Put them tip to tip. D) Put them tail to tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Put them in line. 20. A runway dog walks 0.64 km due N. He then runs due W to a hot dog stand. If the magnitude of the dog's total displacement vector is 0.91 km, what is the magnitude of the dog's displacement vector in the due west direction? A) 0.52 km. B) 0.41 km. C) 0.33 km. D) 0.27 km. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.33 km. 21. A coin was thrown vertically upwards and it rose to a length of 10 metres. What was the time taken by the body to reach the highest point? A) 3s. B) 2s. C) 1.4s. D) 1.43s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1.43s. 22. What does q measure? A) The distance between the two charged objects. B) The amount of charge carried by the object. C) The amount of force between two charged objects. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The amount of charge carried by the object. 23. Einstein got the Nobel prize for? A) Photo-electric effect. B) Theory of Relativity. C) Radio activity. D) Polarisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photo-electric effect. 24. At what point is the projectile's vertical velocity equal to zero? A) On the way down. B) The lowest point. C) On the way up. D) The highest point. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The highest point. 25. What is 78.5 rounded to one significant figure? A) 78.5. B) 80.1. C) 80. D) 79. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 80. 26. What is the unit for electrostatic charge? A) Meters. B) Joules. C) Newtons. D) Coulombs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coulombs. 27. Out of the following, which is not emitted by radioactive substance? A) Electrons. B) Alpha particles. C) Electromagnetic radiations. D) Neutrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neutrons. 28. An attractive force exists between which two particles? A) Two neutrons. B) An electron and a neutron. C) An electron and a proton. D) Two electrons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An electron and a proton. 29. A 931-g object is attached to a spring with spring constant of 587 N/m and is undergoing simple harmonic motion. What is the object's horizontal displacement if the spring force is 50 N? A) 0.9 m. B) -0.09 m. C) -0.9 m. D) 0.09 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -0.09 m. 30. A policeman traveling 19.5 m/s spots a speeder ahead, so he accelerates his vehicle at a steady rate of 1.81 m/s2 for 3.2 s, at which time he catches up with the speeder. What distance does the police car cover in that time? A) 71.67 m. B) 35.98 m. C) 91.02 m. D) 56.32 m. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 71.67 m. 31. $ V=\ VmSin\omega t$ is the wave equation for A) Sinusoidal fuction. B) Cosine fuction. C) Tan function. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sinusoidal fuction. 32. If no external force acts on a system of bodies, the total linear momentum of the system of bodies remains constant. Which law states this? A) Principle of conservation of linear momentum. B) Newton first law. C) Newton third law. D) Newton second law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Principle of conservation of linear momentum. 33. A hacky sack is thrown up into the air with an initial velocity 3 m/s. What is the hang time of the hacky sack if it returns to the same point from which it was thrown? A) 3.26 seconds. B) 0.3 seconds. C) 0.61 seconds. D) 1.2 seconds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.61 seconds. 34. In the expression $ \frac{A}{B \cdot C}$, A has 5 significant figures, B has 2 significant figures, and C has 3 significant figures. How many significant figures does the quotient have? A) 2. B) 4. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 35. What will be the effect on gravitational acceleration if the earth suddenly stops its rotation? A) It will reduce at the poles. B) It will increase at the poles. C) It will decrease at the equator. D) It will increase at the equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It will increase at the poles. 36. What material partiallyopposes a capacitor's electric field but can increase capacitance and preventthe capacitor's plates from touching? A) Capacitor. B) Conductor. C) Dielectric. D) Condenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dielectric. 37. A cyclist rides 300 m up a slope in 50 s. She then rides down the slope in 25 s. What is her average speed for the whole journey? A) 8.0 m / s. B) 4.0 m / s. C) 9.0 m / s. D) 16 m / s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8.0 m / s. 38. Light from the star, Alpha Centauri, which is nearest to the earth after the sun, reaches the earth in A) 4.2 years. B) 42 years. C) 42 seconds. D) 4.2 seconds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4.2 years. 39. After some rather exhausting counting (and a rather tall tale), a physics teacher determines that a very small sample of an object contains 8.25749 x 1017 protons and 5.26 x 1014 electrons; the charge on this object is ..... Coulombs. A) 0.1320. B) 0.00132. C) 0.132. D) 0.0132. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.132. 40. UNIT OF FORCE IS A) JOULE. B) KELVIN. C) COULOMB. D) NEWTON. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NEWTON. 41. A device can produce sound with a frequency range of 20 Hz-20 kHz(20 000 Hz). What is the most appropriate for the device? A) Infrared device. B) Ultrasonic device. C) Ultraviolet device. D) Infrasonic device. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ultrasonic device. 42. If we have more oxygen in air what will happen? A) It causes fire. B) It causes water. C) It will be comfortable for us since we have lot of oxygen to breath. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It causes fire. 43. What is the correct formula to find the resultant force? A) Change in momentum/ time. B) Change in velocity/time. C) Change in mass/ time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change in momentum/ time. 44. At what temperature a body will not radiate any heat energy? A) 100$^ \circ$C. B) 273$^ \circ$C. C) 0$^ \circ$C. D) -273$^ \circ$C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -273$^ \circ$C. 45. Two football players with mass 75 kg and 100 kg run directly toward each other with speeds of 6 m/s and 8 m/s respectively. If they grab each other as they collide, the combined speed of the two players just after the collision would be A) 3.4 m/s. B) 7.1 m/s. C) 2 m/s. D) 4.6 m/s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 m/s. 46. Light is a form of A) Water. B) Heat. C) Energy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Energy. 47. Suitable impurities are added to a semiconductor depending on its use. This is done in order to A) Increase its life. B) Increase its electrical resistivity. C) Increase its electrical conductivity. D) Enable it to withstand higher voltages. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase its electrical conductivity. 48. Which of the following is equivalent to half a meter? A) 50 cm. B) 100 mm. C) 500 cm. D) 10 mm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 50 cm. 49. How much work input is required to lower (not drop) a 120 pound weight from the top of a 3 foot table to the floor A) 120 pounds of force. B) 360 foot-pounds. C) 40 foot-pounds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 360 foot-pounds. 50. Ohmic conductor among the following is ..... A) Constantum. B) Transistor. C) Electrolyte. D) Thermal value. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Constantum. 51. Only one part of moon can be seen from earth because..... A) The period of rotation and revolution are equal. B) Only one part reflects light. C) It does not rotate. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The period of rotation and revolution are equal. 52. Blisters are formed more rapidly by the steam of boiling water in comparision to boiling water itself because ..... A) Stream has latent heat. B) Temperature of the stream is higher. C) Stream enters the body pores rapidly. D) Stream is a gas and rapidly covers the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stream has latent heat. 53. Which will weigh the least? A) 98 parts of dry air and 2 parts of water vapor. B) 35 parts of dry air and 65 parts of water vapor. C) 50 parts of dry air and 50 parts of water vapor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 35 parts of dry air and 65 parts of water vapor. 54. Wood is an example of A) Semiconductors. B) Conductors. C) Insulators. D) Superconductors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Insulators. 55. What law describes how acceleration, mass and net force are related? A) Fourth. B) First. C) Second. D) Third. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Second. 56. Determine the quantity and type of charge on an object that has 3.62 x 1012 more protons than electrons. A) -5.8 x 107 Coulombs. B) 5.8 x 107 Coulombs. C) 5.8 x 10-7 Coulombs. D) -5.8 x 10-7 Coulombs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5.8 x 10-7 Coulombs. 57. A weight-lifter raises a 2000 N weight through a vertical height of 2.0 m in 0.80 s.What useful power does he develop in doing this? A) 800 W. B) 4000 W. C) 5000 W. D) 3200 W. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5000 W. 58. Which statement is correct about a bottle of water? A) Its mass at the North Pole is different from its mass at the Equator. B) Its mass is measured in newtons. C) Its weight and mass are the same thing. D) Its weight is one of the forces acting on it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Its weight is one of the forces acting on it. 59. What happens to the force between two charged objects when you double the distance between them? A) It is cut by 1/4. B) It quadruples. C) It doubles. D) It is cut in half. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is cut by 1/4. 60. Capacitors which all are connected to the same source of potential. A) Capacitors. B) Capacitance. C) Capacitance in Parallel. D) Capacitance in Series. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capacitance in Parallel. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesPhysics Quiz 1Physics Quiz 2Physics Quiz 3Physics Quiz 4Physics Quiz 5Physics Quiz 6Physics Quiz 7Physics Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books