FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY

(FU)
PRELIM EXAMINATION
FORENSIC BALLISTICS (CRIMTICS 3A)

Name:_________________________________ Course & year Level: ____________

Date: ______________ Score: ______________

Multiple Choices: Below are questions accompanied with different options. One of the
options is the correct answer. Select and encircle the letter that best corresponds the
correct answer.

1. Allan bought a firearm and instantly tested it in a firing range. Upon firing the gun
he noticed its intense recoil. What gadget should Allan buy in order to reduce the
recoil of his firearm in every firing?

a. Muzzle Brake or Compensator

b. Silencer
c. Metal Fowling
d. Gyroscopic Stabilizer

2. To impart a motion or rotation of a bullet during its passage inside the barrel, to
insure gyroscopic stability in its flight, the firearm manufacturer should engrave ___
inside the barrel.

a. Rifling
b. Metal Fowling
c. Silencer
d. Lands

3. The person who invented the gun powder in 1248.

a. Roger Bacon
b. James Forsyth
c. Van Amverg
d. Philip O. Gravelle

4. The rifling that is located inside the barrel of a gun is a combination of:

a. Lands and grooves

b. Lands and lower lands
c. Twist and pitch
d. Grooves and twist
5. This refers to the investigation and identification of firearms by means of
ammunitions fired from the submitted suspected firearms.
a. Forensic ballistics
b. Interior Ballistics
c. External Ballistics
d. Terminal Ballistics

For questions on numbers 6 to 10, determine in which branch of ballistics do the following
scenarios belong. Select your answer below and write it on a given space after the number.
a. Interior/Internal Ballistics
b. Exterior/External Ballistics
c. Terminal Ballistics
d. Forensic Ballistics

6. The firing pin strikes the primer. ______

7. The bullet leaves from the muzzle of the firearm.______
8. The bullet experiences a downward reaction towards earth center due to its
weight.___
9. The bullet enters at the body of the target.____
10. The investigator collects evidences at the crime scene._____
11. The forensic firearms examiner prepares a Ballistic Report for Court
Presentation.____
12. The investigator collects shells and fired bullets at the crime scene._____
13. Ignition of priming mixture._____
14. The engraving of the cylindrical surface of the bullet inside the barrel.______
15. The bullet hits the target._______

16. Shotgun and Musket are two examples of a:

a. Rifled Bore Firearm
b. Smooth Bore Firearm
c. Artillery
d. Repeating Firearm

17. These are those types of firearms wherein the bore is cut longitudinally with a
number of spiral grooves, from the breech end to the muzzle end of the barrel.

a. Rifled Bore Firearm

b. Smooth Bore Firearm
c. Artillery
d. Repeating Firearm

18. These firearms propel projectile more than one inch in diameter. Best examples of
this are, cannon, mortar, and bazooka.
a. Artillery
b. Small Arms
c. Smooth Bore Firearm
d. None of the above

19. Are those firearms designed to fire only one shot for every loading which have to be
reloaded for each shot.

a. Single shot firearm

b. Repeating firearm
c. Automatic firearm
d. Bolt Action Type Firearm

20. Firearms designed to fire several rounds of cartridges in one loading. It is divided
into two parts mainly; automatic and hand operated firearm.

a. Single shot firearm

b. Repeating firearm
c. Automatic firearms
d. Bolt Action Type
21. It is the study of the motion and traits of the projectile while still inside the gun
barrel, this covers from the time the firearm is loaded with the cartridge, the
explosion and the movement of the bullet towards the muzzle end of the gun.

a. Interior/Internal Ballistics
b. Exterior/External Ballistics
c. Terminal Ballistics
d. Forensic Ballistics

22. It is the study of the motion and traits of the projectile after it has left from the
muzzle of the gun, which includes the condition of the bullets movement, and flight
up to the target.

a. Interior/ Internal Ballistics

b. External/Exterior Ballistics
c. Terminal Ballistics
d. Forensic Ballistics

23. It is a very sensitive chemical compound located inside the primer cup. It is
composed of different ingredients which served as initiator and fuel.

a. Priming mixture
b. Anvil
c. Bullet
d. Primer Cup

24. The failure of the cartridge to explode after the firing pin strikes the primer is called:

a. Misfire
b. Hang fire
c. Unfire
d. No fire

25. It is a delayed explosion in seconds after the firing pin blow or hits the primer.
a. Misfire
b. Hang fire
c. No fire
d. Ceasefire

26. A sound or noise created at the muzzle end of the gun. This is caused by the sudden
exit of the heated gas coming in contact with air in the surrounding atmosphere at
the muzzle end.
a. Muzzle energy
b. Muzzle Velocity
c. Muzzle Blast
d. Trajectory

27. The curved path in the horizontal flight of the bullet, which usually occurred a few
meters away from the muzzle of the firearm.
a. Muzzle energy
b. Muzzle Velocity
c. Trajectory
d. Muzzle Blast
 28. The resistance encountered by the bullet in flight, which is early experienced by the
bullet few meters away from the muzzle of the gun. It is also called as aerodynamic
drag.
a. Velocity
b. Terminal Energy
c. Penetration
d. Air resistance

29. This refers to the speed of the bullet upon striking or hitting the target, which is
expressed in foot per second or meters per second.
a. Terminal energy
b. Terminal Velocity
c. Terminal penetration
d. Terminal Ballistics
30. This includes rifles, muskets, carbines, shotguns, pistols, revolvers, and all other
deadly weapons from which bullets, ball shots, shells, or other missiles may be
discharge by means of gunpowder or other explosives.
a. Firarm
b. Firearm
c. Ferearm
d. Fiream
31. Any of various powder used in firearms as propellant:
a. Primer
b. Priming mixture
c. Gunpowder
d. Bullet
32. He designed the submachine gun in 1920 which was named after him.
a. John Thompson.
b. Carl Walter
c. Col. Calvin Goddard
d. Smith
33. Designed the machinery for making colt firearms.
a. Elisha King Root.
b. Smith
c. John Thompson
d. Col. Calvin H. Goddard
34. He was the one who developed the pinfire cartridge
a. Le Faucheux.
b. Elisha King Root.
c. Col. Calvin H. Goddard
d. John Thompson
35. He discovered the percussion system.
a. Alexander John Forsyth
b. Col Calvin H. Goddard
c. Elisha King Root
d. John Thompson

IV. Essay. Write your answer in any vacant spaces below the questions.

1. Explain the four branches of ballistics. (15 points)

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