FINALS EXAMINATION

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
1st SEMESTER S.Y. 2018-2019
NAME: ___________________________________________ SCORE:_______
GRADE AND SECTION: ____________________________ DATE: ________

DIRECTIONS: Read each statement carefully. Write the letter that best answers the question or completes the
statement. Write E if the answer is not in the choices.
1. Who supported the idea of Heliocentrism by A. A-B B. B-C C. C-D D. all of the
observing that the planet Venus had different phases? above
A. Brahe B. Kepler C. Pytolemy D. Galileo
2. The model of the universe, shown BELOW was 8. At which point/s does the object start moving from
proposed by __________. rest?
A. Brahe B. Kepler C. Pytolemy D. Galileo A. A-B B. B-C C. C-D D. all of the
above

9. Can an object's velocity change direction when its

acceleration is constant? Support your answer with
an example.
A. No, this is not possible because it is always speeding
up.
B. Yes, this is possible, and a car that starts from rest,
speeds up, slows to a stop, and then backs up is an
3. Which law/s of planetary motion explains the shape example.
of a planet’s orbit? C. No, this is not possible because it is always speeding
A. 1st Law B. 2nd Law C. 3rd Law D. Both A & B up or always slowing down, but it can never turn around.
D. Yes, this is possible, and a rock thrown straight up is
4. Speed is defined as an example.
A. The change of distance with respect to time
B. The rate of change of distance 10. In the absence of air resistance, if an object were to
C. Distance moved per unit time free fall, which of the following statements is true?
A. Its velocity could never exceed 10 m/s.
D. All of above
B. It would fall under constant speed.
C. The acceleration is constant
5. Which of the following is a unit of acceleration? D. The acceleration is zero
A. m-s2 B. kg/s2 C. m/s2 D. cm/s–1
11. A football, a hockey puck, and a tennis ball all fall
6. An object starts with a speed of 10 m/s and down in the absence of air resistance. Which of the
accelerates at – 2 m/s2. How much time will pass until following is true about their acceleration?
it comes to rest? A. The acceleration of the football is greater than the
A. 2 s B. 4 s C. 5 s D. 10 s other two
For 7-8 Observe the d-t graph BELOW. B. The acceleration of the hockey puck is greater than the
other two
C. The acceleration of the tennis ball is greater than the
other two
D. They all fall down with the same constant acceleration

12. A ball is thrown straight up from

point A, reaches
a maximum height at point B, and then
falls back to point C, as illustrated by
7. At which instance/s does the object start moving in the picture
the opposite direction?

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Which of the following is true about the direction the C. force due to friction between you and the floor
ball’s velocity and acceleration between A and B? D. there is not a force leading to your fall

19. The momentum for any object is calculated by

______.
A. dividing mass by velocity
A. C. B. multiplying mass by velocity
C. multiplying mass by acceleration
D. dividing force by acceleration
B. D.
20. Which object has the greatest momentum?
A. an 18-wheeler truck at rest
B. an Average mass person walking
C. a sports car driving on the highway
13. In the absence of an external force, a moving D. a baseball thrown by a professional pitcher
object will ________.
A. stop immediately 21. Two identical billiard balls are moving at a
B. slow down and eventually come to a stop constant speed of 3.5 m/s on the pool table. Which
C. go faster and faster. among the statements below is ALWAYS TRUE about
D. move with constant velocity. their state of motion?
A. The momenta of the balls are the same since both
14. The acceleration of an object is inversely have the same mass and speed.
proportional to _________. B. The momenta of the balls are the same since both
A. the net force acting on it have the same mass and velocity.
B. its position C. The momenta of each ball are the same since both are
C. its velocity moving at the same direction.
D. its mass D. The momenta of each ball are not the same since we
are not sure about their directions.
15. Two cars collide head-on. At every moment during
the collision, the magnitude of the force the first car 22. Which is TRUE for two objects experiencing an
exerts on the second is exactly equal to the magnitude inelastic collision?
of the force the second car exerts on the first. This is A. momentum is conserved but not kinetic energy
an example of _________. B. kinetic energy is conserved but not momentum
A. Newton's first law C. momentum and kinetic energy are both conserved
B. Newton's second law D. neither momentum nor kinetic energy is conserved
C. Newton's third law
D. Newton's law of universal gravitation 23. Conservation of momentum in collisions means
________.
16. If you blow up a balloon, and then release it, the A. that the total kinetic energy of the objects that collided
balloon will fly away. This is an illustration of is conserved
__________. B. that the total momentum of the objects that collided is
A. Newton's first law conserved
B. Newton's second law C. that the kinetic energy of each object is conserved
C. Newton's third law D. that the momentum of each object is conserved
D. Newton's law of universal gravitation
24. Two objects are attracted to each other by a
17. When an object is released from rest and falls in gravitational force F. If the distance between the
the absence of a force, which of the following is TRUE objects is doubled, what is the new gravitational force
concerning its motion? between the objects in terms of F?
A. Neither its acceleration nor its velocity is constant.
B. Both its acceleration and its velocity are constant.
C. Its velocity is constant.
D. Its acceleration is constant.

18. You are standing in a moving bus, facing forward,

and you suddenly fall forward as the bus comes to an
A. 4F B.16F C. 1/9F D. 1/4 F
immediate stop. What force caused you to fall
forward?
25. Two objects are attracted to each other by a
A. gravity
gravitational force F. If one mass is doubled and the
B. inertia
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other is tripled without changing the distance, what is B. gamma ray, x-ray, radio wave, visible light
the new gravitational force between the objects in C. microwave, x-ray, gamma ray, infrared ray
terms of F? D. ultraviolet rays, x-ray, microwave, infrared ray
A. 4F B. 9F C. 6F D. 1/6 F
26. Which of the following correctly paired the
astronomer and his contribution? 34. Suppose you are wearing a blue shirt. When you
A. Eudoxus – geocentric theory look at the mirror, you observe that the color of your
B. Johannes Kepler – craters of the moon shirt in the image is also blue. What does this tell you
C. Nicolaus Copernicus – heliocentric universe about the frequency of the incident ray compared to
D. Pythagoras – Earth’s circumference the frequency of the reflected ray?
A. The frequency of light remains the same.
27. Which one of the following statements about the B. The frequency of the incident ray is greater than that of
Copernican model is FALSE? the reflected ray.
A. It was more accurate than the Ptolemaic system in C. The frequency of the reflected ray is greater than that
predicting planetary motions. of the incident ray.
B. Relative planetary distances could be deduced from it.
D. It cannot be determined.
C. Relative planetary speeds could be determined from it.
D. Retrograde motion could be easily explained by it.
35. When the angle of incidence exceeds the critical
28. Which of the following is a statement of Kepler’s angle, the incident light is reflected back into the
first law? material from which it has come. This phenomenon is
A. Planets move in perfect circles with the Sun at the called ____.
center. A. interference C. refraction
B. Planets move along an elliptical path with the Sun at B. diffraction D. total internal reflection
the center
C. Planets move along an elliptical path with the Sun at 36. The colored bands observed in soap bubbles or in
one of the foci the film on the surface of oily water are examples of
D. Planets move along an elliptical path with the Earth at ____.
one of the foci A. interference C. reflection
B. diffraction D. refraction
29. Which statement is TRUE about Galileo Galilei?
A. He invented the telescope. 37. A ray of light strikes a mirror. The angle formed
B. He proposed that Earth rotates on its own axis. by the incident ray and the reflected ray measures 900.
C. He believed that the Sun was the center of the What are the measurements of the angle of incidence
universe. and the angle of reflection?
D. He was the first astronomer to observe the moons A. 00 B. 450 C. 900 D. 1000
around Jupiter.
38. What happens to the speed of light ray when it
30. Which of the following does NOT describe moves from water into air?
Claudius Ptolemy? A. It slows down. C. It remains the same.
A. wrote books summarizing the astronomical knowledge B. It speeds up. D. It cannot be determined.
of earlier cultures
B. proposed the geocentric theory 39. An object starts with a speed of 10 m/s and
C. theorized that the motion of the Sun and the other accelerates at – 2 m/s2. How much time will pass until
planets can be described by epicycles, deferent, and the it comes to rest?
eccentric positions A. 2 s B. 4 s C. 5 s D. 10 s
D. was the first to detect stellar parallax.
40. What color/s of light are transmitted by a blue
31. Negative acceleration for an object moving object?
towards the right means that object is moving with A. blue C. white
_________. B. yellow D. all colors, except blue
A. increasing speed C. uniform speed
B. decreasing speed D. constant speed 41. Interference is a property of
A. light waves C. water waves
32. Positive acceleration for an object moving towards B. sound waves D. all of the above
the right means that object is moving with _________.
A. increasing speed C. uniform speed 42. An object is placed between F and 2F of a
B. decreasing speed D. constant speed diverging lens. The image will be located
A. between F and 2F C. Farther than 2F
33. Which electromagnetic waves are arranged in B. between the lens and F D. Both A and B
increasing frequency?
A. radio wave, visible light, x-ray, gamma ray
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43. A survivor from a ship wreck sees an image of a
fish in the water. To catch it with his spear, he must 49. A passenger train travels east at high speed. One
A. aim above the image of the fish. passenger is located at the east side of one car, another
B. aim below the image of the fish. is located in the west side of that car. In the train’s
C. aim at the image of the fish. frame, these two passengers glance up at the same
D. aim behind the fish. time. In the earth’s frame,
A. they glance up simultaneously.
44. Light will not pass through a pair of polarizing B. the passenger at the east side glances up first.
lenses when their axes are C. the passenger at the west side glances up first.
A. parallel. D. the passengers glance sideways.
B. perpendicular.
C. 45 degrees to each other.
D. all of the above. 50. Ignore the rotation of the earth. Which clock ticks
more slowly?
45. Light travels from medium X into medium Y. A. The one on the top of a mountain.
Medium Y has a higher index of refraction. Consider B. The one at the bottom of that same mountain.
each statement below, which statement/s is/are C. They tick at the same rate.
correct? D. Cannot be determined from the information given.
I – The light travels faster in X.
II – The light will bend towards the normal.
III – The light will speed up. Prepared By: Reviewed By:
IV – The light will bend away from the normal.
A. I C. I and II
B. II D. III and IV Mrs. Felines M. Vijandre Ms. Ana Rose R. Alvaro
Master Teacher I Focal Person, SHS

46. As a beam of light passes by the sun and heads

toward earth, Noted by::
A. light is reflected away from the earth.
B. the mass of the sun deflects the motion of the beam of
light. Mrs. Flerida P. Velez
C. the sun absorbs the light. Assistant to the Principal,SHS
D. the massive sun warps space-time, causing the light to
bend slightly.
Approved By:

47. Einstein Theory of General Relativity states that

A. the speed of light is constant. Dr. Christopher J. Delino
B. Physics for accelerated and non-accelerated frames are Principal I
not the same.
C. gravity and acceleration are equivalent.
D. physics for nonmoving and moving frames are not the
same.

48. James travels at high speed from the Earth to the

star Alpha Centauri, four light years away. In James’s
frame
A. the trip takes more time than it does in the Earth’s
frame.
B. James travels to Alpha Centauri over a length that is
shorter than four light years.
C. clocks on Earth and on Alpha Centauri are
synchronized.
D. Alpha Centauri travels to James over a length that is
shorter than four light years.