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Academic- Academic-Clinic.com Clinic.com Clinic.com The achiever’s guide to academic life and beyond... Website: http://academic-clinic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/academic.clinic Twitter: http://twitter.com/acadclinic College entrance exam and science high school entrance test tips. Conquer UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, PSHS-NCE, and other entrance tests. Science IV - 1 - Feel free to pass this on to your friends, but please don’t post it online. Discuss UPCAT and other college entrance exam questions and answers at Academic-Clinic’s Facebook Page. We encourage you to answer the questions we post there and actively participate in the discussions on our wall. For UPCAT, ACET, DLSUCET and USTET tips, tricks, news and other college entrance exam information, visit the Academic-Clinic website. Tell your friends and classmates to come find and join us. The more, the merrier. Good luck! SCIENCE PROFICIENCY (Physics) BEGIN HERE: 1. A vector is a quantity with both magnitude and direction. Which of the following is not a vector? a. displacement c. speed b. force d. acceleration 2. A moving object possesses acceleration if a change in a velocity is observed. Which of the following does not illustrate acceleration? a. A cart moving downhill on a mountain slope b. A ball thrown upwards c. A book on the table d. A car running along a curve 3. Newton (N) is the metric standard unit of force. This is defined to be _______. a. kg/L c. kg·m/s2 b. kg·m2 d. kg·m/s 4. Dante walks 0.5 Km north. Starting from the same point, Richie walks 1.2 Km east. What would be the distance separating the two boys? a. 0.7 Km c. 1.1 Km b. 0.9 Km d. 1.3 Km 5. A rally driver has 5 seconds to stop his car which traveling at a speed of 20 m/s. What is his average acceleration? a. 4 m/s2 c. 1 m/s2 b. 3 m/s2 d. 0.25 m/s2 Directions: For each statement or question, choose the letter of the word or expression that, of those given, best completes or answers the question. Then on your answer sheet, blacken the circle that corresponds to your final answer. Notes: ► Calculators of any kind are not permitted. All numbers used are real numbers.
Academic- Academic-Clinic.com Clinic.com Clinic.com The achiever’s guide to academic life and beyond... Website: http://academic-clinic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/academic.clinic Twitter: http://twitter.com/acadclinic College entrance exam and science high school entrance test tips. Conquer UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, PSHS-NCE, and other entrance tests. Science IV - 2 - Feel free to pass this on to your friends, but please don’t post it online. Discuss UPCAT and other college entrance exam questions and answers at Academic-Clinic’s Facebook Page. We encourage you to answer the questions we post there and actively participate in the discussions on our wall. For UPCAT, ACET, DLSUCET and USTET tips, tricks, news and other college entrance exam information, visit the Academic-Clinic website. Tell your friends and classmates to come find and join us. The more, the merrier. Good luck! 6. What force is needed to make a 2 kg rock accelerate at 0.5 m/s2 ? a. 1 N c. 3 N b. 2 N d. 4 N 7. Which of the following statement/s is/are TRUE? I. Statics involves the study of the forces acting on a body that is at rest or is moving in a straight line with constant speed. II. Dynamics is the study of forces acting on a body that are in equilibrium. III. Statics is the branch of mechanics that studies the forces that affect the motion of an object. a. I only c. III only b. II only d. I and II only 8. What is the study under dynamics which deals with the space-time relationship in bodies that are in motion? a. Mechanics c. kinematics b. Static d. kinetics 9. What is the centripetal force acting on a 100 kg car negotiating a circular curve of radius 60 meters at a speed of 30 m/s? a. 15 KN c. 30 KN b. 25 KN d. 45 KN 10. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” If a baseball player hits a ball with a bat – and the “action” is said to be the impact of the bat against the ball – what is its “opposite reaction?” a. The grip of the player’s hand on the bat. b. The air resistance on the ball. c. The force of the ball against the bat. d. Muscular effort in the player’s arm. 11. A block weighing 200 N lies on a plane inclined 20o with the horizontal. What force tends to pull the block down the plane? a. F = (200)(sin 20o ) b. F = (200)(cos 20o ) c. F = 0 sin 20 200 d. F = 0 cos 20 200
Academic- Academic-Clinic.com Clinic.com Clinic.com The achiever’s guide to academic life and beyond... Website: http://academic-clinic.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/academic.clinic Twitter: http://twitter.com/acadclinic College entrance exam and science high school entrance test tips. Conquer UPCAT, ACET, USTET, DLSUCET, PSHS-NCE, and other entrance tests. Science IV - 3 - Feel free to pass this on to your friends, but please don’t post it online. Discuss UPCAT and other college entrance exam questions and answers at Academic-Clinic’s Facebook Page. We encourage you to answer the questions we post there and actively participate in the discussions on our wall. For UPCAT, ACET, DLSUCET and USTET tips, tricks, news and other college entrance exam information, visit the Academic-Clinic website. Tell your friends and classmates to come find and join us. The more, the merrier. Good luck! 12. If speed is defined as the quantitative measure of the change of an object’s position over a certain amount of time, what is said to be the speed of an object at any particular moment? a. average speed b. ordinary speed c. uniform speed d. instantaneous speed 13. The movement of a body launched in space without its motive power, and travels freely under the action of gravity and air resistance alone is called _____________. a. rectilinear motion b. uniform circular motion c. projectile motion d. horizontal motion For numbers 14 -15, refer to the figures below. The following are distance and time readings of a traveling car. a. b. c. d. 14. Which illustrates the car at rest? 15. Which illustrates traveling at constant velocity? 16. Newton’s First Law of motion is called the Law of Inertia. Which of the following does not illustrate Inertia? a. A tanker in full speed turning it engine in reverse an hour before reaching the port. b. A train slowing down before reaching the station. c. A ball falling from an airplane. d. A man on a bus being “pushed” backward when the bus starts moving. M E T E R S SECONDS M E T E R S SECONDS M E T E R S SECONDS M E T E R S SECONDS