Free Printable Physics Midterm

1.

What is the strongest of the four fundamental forces?

a)

Strong Nuclear

b)

Weak Nuclear

c)

Gravitational

d)

Electromagnetic

2.

In what direction is the motion of friction represented?

a)

Same as motion

b)

Opposite to motion

c)

Perpendicular to motion

d)

Sine of motion

3.

What is the product of mass and velocity?

a)

Kinetic energy

b)

Momentum

c)

Impact

d)

Impulse

4.

What is the rate of doing work?

a)

Energy

b)

Power

c)

Efficiency

d)

Advantage

5.

What is the attraction of molecules to other molecules and the walls of the container that causes a resistance in flow?

a)

Laminar

b)

Viscocity

c)

Friction

d)

Adhesion

6.

What is the energy an object acquires when it is exposed to a force?

a)

Kinetic

b)

Potential

c)

Translational

d)

Circular

7.

What is motion about an internal axis?

a)

Circular

b)

Angular

c)

Rotary

d)

Gyroscopic

8.

In what type of collision is kinetic energy conserved?

a)

Completely inelastic

b)

inelastic

c)

elastic

d)

plastic

9.

What is the rate of change in angular displacement called?

a)

Angular acceleration

b)

Angular velocity

c)

Angular momentum

d)

Centripetal acceleration

10.

What is the heavy spinning disk used by many machines to conserve angular momentum?

a)

Gyroscope

b)

Flywheel

c)

Gyrowheel

d)

Inertial body

11.

Who wrote Principia?

a)

Newton

b)

Galileo

c)

Archimedes

d)

Pascal

12.

How many radians are in one circle?

a)

$2\pi$

b)

$\pi$

c)

$\cos\theta$

d)

$\sin\theta$

13.

What is Avogadro's number?

a)

$6.022\ x\ 10^{23}$

b)

$6.022\ x\ 10^{22}$

c)

$6.022\ x\ 10^{-22}$

d)

$6.022\ x\ 10^{\pi}$

14.

What is the point beyond which a stretched object will not return to its original length?

a)

Breaking point

b)

Tensile strength

c)

Elastic limit

d)

Proportional limit

15.

What type of force occurs when the work being done on a moving object is only dependent upon initial and final locations?

a)

Conservative

b)

Liberal

c)

Libertarian

d)

Greenpeace

16.

What is the product of force and radius?

a)

Torque

b)

Inertia

c)

Equilibrium

d)

Angular velocity

17.

What is defined as the capacity to do work?

a)

Power

b)

Energy

c)

Inertia

d)

Matter

18.

What is any solid object that can rotate about a fixed axis?

a)

Gyroscope

b)

Flywheel

c)

Disk

d)

Globe

19.

What is the linear distance from one point to another along a circular path?

a)

Linear displacement

b)

Circular distance

c)

Arc length

d)

Radian

20.

What is the ratio of mass to volume?

a)

Inertia

b)

Density

c)

Momentum

d)

Weight

21.

What is an angle that subtends an arc equal to the radius of the circle?

a)

Radial

b)

Circle

c)

Radian

d)

Pi

22.

What type of collision occurs when kinetic energy is not conserved?

a)

Inelastic

b)

Elastic

c)

Liberal

d)

Completely elastic

23.

What states that if a system is isolated from nonconservative forces, the total mechanical energy must be constant?

a)

Conservation of motion

b)

Conservation of mechanical energy

c)

Conservation of matter and energy

d)

Conservation of mass

24.

How is the amount of rotation in a rotating body measured?

a)

Angular displacement

b)

Angular acceleration

c)

Centripetal force

d)

Linear displacement

25.

What is the change in momentum affected by a force?

a)

Impact

b)

Impulse

c)

Displacement

d)

Acceleration

26.

What is higher in value, AMA or IMA?

a)

AMA

b)

IMA

27.

What remains constant when the net forces acting on a system is zero?

a)

Momentum

b)

Velocity

c)

Displacement

d)

Distance

28.

What occurs when the sum of clockwise torques equals the sum of counterclockwise torques?

a)

Rotational equilibrium

b)

Translational equilibrium

c)

Moment Equilibrium

d)

Inertial equilibrium

29.

What object has a higher rotational inertia?

a)

Disk

b)

Ring

c)

Sphere

30.

What is an object's resistance to change in rotary motion?

a)

Centrifugal force

b)

Centripetal force

c)

Rotational inertia

d)

Friction

31.

What type of collision occurs when two colliding objects stick together?

a)

Completely inelastic

b)

Inelastic

c)

Elastic

d)

Completely elastic

32.

What symbol represents angular velocity?

a)

x

b)

$\omega$

c)

$\tau$

d)

$\beta$

33.

What symbol represents torque?

a)

$\alpha$

b)

$\pi$

c)

$\theta$

d)

$\tau$

34.

What symbol represents coefficient of friction?

a)

$\theta$

b)

$\Delta$

c)

$\mu$

d)

$\omega$

35.

What is the symbol for displacement?

a)

A

b)

V

c)

m

d)

d

36.

What is the symbol for density?

a)

$\rho$

b)

$\pi$

c)

$\alpha$

d)

$\mu$

37.

What symbol represents time?

a)

t

b)

T

c)

$\tau$

d)

s

38.

What symbol represents temperature?

a)

t

b)

T

c)

$\tau$

d)

F

39.

What symbol represents the universal gas constant?

a)

r

b)

R

c)

x

d)

G

40.

What symbol represents angular acceleration

a)

$\alpha$

b)

a

c)

A

d)

Fa

41.

What symbol represents rotational inertia?

a)

i

b)

I

c)

$\phi$

d)

$\psi$

42.

What is the formula for the law of torque?

a)

W = 1/2 mv_f² - 1/2 mv_i²

b)

KE = 1/2mv²

c)

$\tau=I\alpha$

d)

$\alpha=\frac{\Delta\omega}{t}$

43.

What is the formula for the work-energy theorem

a)

W = 1/2mv_f²-1/2mv_i²

b)

KE = 1/2mv²

c)

$KE=\frac{1}{2}mv^2+\frac{1}{2}I\omega^2$

d)

$\alpha=\frac{\Delta\omega}{t}$

44.

What formula determines angular acceleration?

a)

a=v/t

b)

v=d/t

c)

$\alpha=\frac{\Delta\omega}{t}$

d)

$\tau=I\alpha$

Physics Midterm

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