IPS Review (Ch8-Ch14)

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IPS Review (Ch8-Ch14)

• 2nd Semester (Physics)

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If you jog for 1 hour and travel 10km, 10km/h
describes your____

1. momentum
2. average speed
3. displacement
4. acceleration

CHAPTER 8
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___________ is speed in a certain direction.

1. acceleration
2. Friction
3. Momentum
4. Velocity

CHAPTER 8
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Which of the following objects is not
accelerating?

1. A ball being juggled
2. A woman walking at 2.5 m/s along a straight road
3. a satellite circling Earth
4. A braking cyclist

CHAPTER 8
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The Newton is a measure of _____.

1. Mass
2. Length
3. Force
4. Acceleration

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_____ is a force that opposes the motion between
two objects in contact with each other.

1. Motion
2. Friction
3. Acceleration
4. Velocity

CHAPTER 8
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Automobile seat belts are necessary for safety
because of a passengers____.

1. Inertia
2. Weight
3. Speed
4. gravity

CHAPTER 8
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The winner of the shot-put event in the Olympics
is the person who best uses

1. Newtons first law
2. Newtons second law
3. Air resistance
4. The law of gravity

CHAPTER 8
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An example involving action-reaction forces is
_____.

1. Air escaping from a toy balloon
2. A rocket traveling through the air
3. A ball bouncing off a wall
4. All of the above

CHAPTER 8
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_____ is defined as force acting over a distance.

1. power
2. Energy
3. Work
4. Potential energy

CHAPTER 9
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The quantity that measures how much a machine
multiplies force is called

1. Mechanical advantage
2. Leverage
3. Efficiency
4. Power

CHAPTER 9
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Scissors are an example of ____.

1. A lever
2. A wedge
3. A wheel and axle
4. A compound machine

CHAPTER 9
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The unit that measures 1 J of work done each
second is the ____.

1. Power
2. Newton
3. Watt
4. Mechanical advantage

CHAPTER 9
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Joules could be used to measure

1. The work done in lifting a bowling ball
2. The potential energy of a bowling ball held in
   the air
3. The kinetic energy of a rolling bowling ball
4. All of the above

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Which of the following situations does not
involve potential energy being changed into
kinetic energy?

1. An apple falling from a tree
2. Shooting a dart from a spring-loaded gun
3. Pulling back on the string of a bow
4. A creek flowing downstream

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______ is determined by both mass and velocity.

1. work
2. Power
3. Potential energy
4. Momentum
5. Kinetic energy

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Energy that does not involve the large-scale
motion or position of objects in a system is
called ____.

1. Potential energy
2. Mechanical energy
3. Non-mechanical energy
4. Conserved energy

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The law of conservation of energy states that
_____.

1. The energy of a system is always decreasing
2. No machine is 100 percent efficient
3. Energy is neither lost nor created
4. Earth has limited energy resources

CHAPTER 9
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Waves that need a medium in which to travel are
called _____.

1. Longitudinal waves
2. Transverse waves
3. Mechanical waves
4. All of the above

CHAPTER 11
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Most waves are caused by ____.

1. Velocity
2. Amplitude
3. A vibration
4. Earthquakes

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For which type of waves do particles in the
medium vibrate perpendicularly to the direction
in which the waves are traveling?

1. Transverse waves
2. Longitudinal waves
3. P waves
4. None of the above

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A sound wave is an example of _____.

1. An electromagnetic wave
2. A transverse wave
3. A longitudinal wave
4. A surface wave

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In an ocean wave, the molecules of water _____.

1. Move perpendicularly to the direction of wave
   travel
2. Move parallel to the direction of wave travel
3. Move in circles
4. Dont move at all

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Half the vertical distance between the crest and
trough of a wave is called the _______.

1. frequency
2. crest
3. wavelength
4. amplitude

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The number of waves passing a given point each
second is called the_________

1. frequency
2. Wave speed
3. wavelength
4. amplitude

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The Doppler effect of a passing siren results
from an apparent change in_____

1. loudness
2. Wave speed
3. frequency
4. interference

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The combining of waves as they meet is known
as____

1. A crest
2. noise
3. interference
4. The Doppler effect

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Wave bends when they pass through an opening.
This is called________

1. interference
2. diffraction
3. refraction
4. The Doppler effect

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All sound waves are___

1. Longitudinal waves
2. Transverse waves
3. Electromagnetic waves
4. Standing waves

CHAPTER 12
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The speed of sound depends on______

1. The temp. of the medium
2. The density of the medium
3. How well the particles of the medium transfer
   energy
4. All of the above

CHAPTER 12
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A sonar device can use the echoes of ultra-sound
under water to find the________

1. Speed of sound
2. Depth of the water
3. Temperature of the water
4. Height of the waves on a surface

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During a thunderstorm, you see lightning before
you hear thunder because_____

1. The thunder occurs after the lightning
2. The thunder is farther away than the lightning
3. Sound travels faster than light
4. Light travels faster than sound

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The speed of light_____

1. Depends on the medium
2. Is faster in a vacuum
3. Is the fastest speed in the universe
4. All of the above

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Which of the following forms of light has the
most energy?

1. X rays
2. microwaves
3. Infrared light
4. Ultraviolet light

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Light can be modeled as_____

1. Electromagnetic waves
2. A stream of particles called photons
3. Rays that travel in straight lines
4. All of the above

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The energy of light is proportional to____

1. amplitude
2. wavelength
3. frequency
4. The speed of light

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A flat mirror forms an image that is___

1. Smaller than the object
2. Larger than the object
3. virtual
4. real

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Which of the following wavelengths of visible
light bends the most when passing through a prism?

1. red
2. yellow
3. Green
4. blue

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Which of the following particles is electrically
neutral?

1. A proton
2. An electron
3. A hydrogen atom
4. A hydrogen ion

CHAPTER 13
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Which of the following is not an example of
charging by friction?

1. Sliding over a plastic-covered car seat
2. Scraping food from a metal bowl with a metal
   spoon
3. Walking across a woolen carpet
4. Brushing dry hair with a plastic comb

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The electric force force between two objects
depends on all of the following except______.

1. The distance between the objects
2. The electric charge of the first object
3. How the two objects became electrically charged
4. The electric charge of the second object

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A positive charge placed in the electric field of
a second positive charge will ______

1. Experience a repulsive force
2. Accelerate away from the second positive charge
3. Have greater electrical potential energy when
   near the second charge than when farther away
4. All of the above

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An electric current does not exist in ______.

1. A closed circuit
2. A series circuit
3. A parallel circuit
4. An open circuit

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Which of the following schematic diagrams
represent circuits that cannot have current in
them as drawn.

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. B D
6. A B
7. C D

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Which of the following can help prevent a circuit
from overloading?

1. A fuse
2. A switch
3. A circuit breaker
4. Both A C

CHAPTER 13
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A 1.5 V battery is connected to a small light
bulb with a resistance of 3.5 O. What is the
current in the bulb?

1. 0.5 A
2. 1.3 A
3. 2.3 A
4. 0.43 A

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The current in a resistor is 0.50 A when
connected across a voltage of 120 V. What is the
resistance?

1. .004 O
2. 240 O
3. 500 O
4. .056 O

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If the poles of two magnets repel each other,
_____

1. Both poles must be south poles
2. Both poles must be north poles
3. One pole is a south pole and the other is a north
   pole
4. The poles are the same type

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The part of the magnet where the magnetic field
and forces are strongest is called a magnetic ____

1. field
2. pole
3. attraction
4. repulsion

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An objects ability to generate a magnetic field
depends on its ____

1. size
2. location
3. composition
4. direction

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A straight current-carrying wire produces ______

1. An electric field
2. A magnetic field
3. Beams of white light
4. All of the above

CHAPTER 14
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An electric motor uses an electromagnet to change
_____

1. Mechanical energy to electrical energy
2. Magnetic fields in the motor
3. Magnetic poles in the motor
4. Electrical energy to mechanical energy

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An electric generator is a device that converts
_____.

1. Nuclear energy to electrical energy
2. Wind energy to electrical energy
3. Energy from burning coal to electrical energy
4. All of the above

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Rubbing (in one direction) an otherwise
non-magnetic metal with a magnet results in _____

1. The material falling apart
2. The domains to be randomly oriented
3. All of the domains to align
4. Most of the domains to align

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When 10,000 V of current across power lines is
changed to 120 V which comes out of wall sockets,
the current must pass through a __

1. resistor
2. Step-up transformer
3. Step-down transformer
4. Circuit breaker

CHAPTER 14