Physics Quiz 36 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the unit for electrostatic charge?
2. Out of the following, which is not emitted by radioactive substance?
3. An attractive force exists between which two particles?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. $ V=\ VmSin\omega t$ is the wave equation for
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. What will be the effect on gravitational acceleration if the earth suddenly stops its rotation?
11. What material partiallyopposes a capacitor's electric field but can increase capacitance and preventthe capacitor's plates from touching?
12. 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?
13. Light from the star, Alpha Centauri, which is nearest to the earth after the sun, reaches the earth in
14. 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.
15. UNIT OF FORCE IS
16. 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?
17. If we have more oxygen in air what will happen?
18. What is the correct formula to find the resultant force?
19. At what temperature a body will not radiate any heat energy?
20. 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