1. AL- FARUK SECONDARY SCHOOL
MONTLY EXAM FORM FOUR
16TH OCT,2014
NAME:_____________________________________________________NO________
Part one : Multiple choice questions
1. The displacement of an object from a fixed point is the distance moved by the object
a. in a particular interval of time
b. in a particular direction
c. at a constant speed
d. at a constant velocity
2. A car accelerates from rest at 5ms-2 for 0.5 minute. The final velocity of the car is
a. 150ms-1
b. 5.5ms-1
c. 10ms-1
d. 2.5ms-1
3. When we say that an object is being accelerated, we mean that
a. it is at rest,
b. it is moving,
c. it is either at a state of rest or a state of constant velocity,
4. What must change when a body is accelerating?
a) the force acting on the body
b) mass of the body
c) speed of the body
d) velocity of the body
5. Which of the following is a vector?
a. area
b. volume
c. density
d. force
6. Which of the following quantity must be changing if an object is moving at constant
acceleration?
a) The velocity of the body
b) The direction of the body
c) The speed of the body
d) The acceleration of the body
7. The graph shows how the velocity of an object changes with time. The object is
2. a) Moving with constant velocity
b) Moving with increasing velocity
c) Moving with uniform acceleration
d) Moving with decreasing acceleration
8. The graph below shows how the displacement of a car changes with time. Which of the
following is true regarding the motion of the car?
a) The speed of the car is decreasing
b) The velocity of the car is decreasing
c) The acceleration of the car is zero
d) The displacement of the car is changing at constant rate
9. The graph on below shows how the displacement time graph of an object varies with time.
Which of the velocity-time graph below illustrate the same movement of the object
a)
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3. 10. __________ describes how fast something is going, whereas, _______ describes how fast
something is going and in a certain direction.
a) speed, velocity
b) brate, speed
c) crate, velocity
d) speed, acceleration
part two: structural questions
1. From rest, a car accelerated at 8 m/s2 for 10 seconds.
a) What is the position of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
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b) What is the velocity of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
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2. With an initial velocity of 20 km/h, a car accelerated at 8 m/s2 for 10 seconds.
a) What is the position of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
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b) What is the velocity of the car at the end of the 10 seconds?
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3. A train brakes from 40 m/s to a stop over a distance of 100 m.
a) what is the acceleration of the train?
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b) How much time does it take the train to stop?
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4. Students, investigating motion down an inclined plane, measure the speed of a steel ball at
one second intervals after the ball starts to roll from rest down one such plane:
time in s 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00
speed in m/s 0.00 0.60 1.20 1.80
a) calculate the average acceleration over the first 3.00 s
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b) calculate the average speed over the first 3.00 s
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c) What was the distance travelled by the ball in the first 3.00 s?
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d) How do the numbers in the table show that the acceleration was constant?
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5. A bus travels in a straight line from one station to another, the graph below shows how the
velocity of the bus varies with time over the whole journey?
12
40
m/s
2 16
s
6. Using the graph determine
a. The acceleration of the bus the first two second?
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b. Maximum velocity attained by the train?
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c. The time which the train is retarding?
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d. The total distance between the two stations?
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e. The average velocity?
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