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HL - Space, Time & Motion

25 MCQ from 2025 Question Bank Space, Time & Motion (all topics)

DP IB HL Physics Quiz

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1. The Sankey diagram below shows the energy degraded at different stages of a nuclear power plant.

Which of the following sections corresponds to the stage with the highest energy degradation?

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2. A projectile is fired with a launch angle α above the horizontal and an initial velocity of 40 m s^ towards a cliff that rises 300 m above the plane of projection. The cliff is 120 m from the launch point.

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Assuming that air resistance has no effect on the motion, then the time of flight taken by the projectile to reach the plane of the cliff, is given by;

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3. A lead ball is dropped from a height of 12 above the ground. Assuming that air resistance is negligible, which of the following expressions best describes the total energy of the ball when it is at a height of 3m above the ground in terms of its kinetic energy (E) and gravitational potential energy (E)?

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4. Observations of muon decay can be used as evidence of

I. Time dilation
II. Length contraction
III. Absolute simultaneity

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5. An object sits on a rotating horizontal disc. The disc rotates from rest with uniform angular acceleration . After time  the object slides off of the disc.

What is the linear speed of the object at this time?

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6. An object moves  east, then  north.

What is the magnitude of the total displacement of this object?

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7. A block of wood is placed on a rough inclined surface. Which of the diagrams below correctly represents the forces acting on the block when it is at rest?

A. B.
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C. D.
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8. An object moves in a circular path of radius  with angular displacement of  in .

What is the linear speed of the object?

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9. Which of the following is not a suitable SI unit of energy?

 

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10. A wheel rotates from rest with uniform angular acceleration. After , it makes 5 revolutions per second.

What is the angular displacement of the wheel during this time?

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11. Two trucks X and Y are pulling a car out of thick mud along a straight path. The only other horizontal force acting on the car is a drag force opposite to the direction of motion. The diagram shows the direction of the force applied by truck  and the direction of motion of the car.

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Which of the following vectors shows the direction of the force applied by truck ?

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12. A spring of negligible mass and length of lo is attached to a fixed point. When the spring is extended by an external force , the length of the spring increases to . The graph shows how the length of the spring varies with the tension in spring. The tension in the spring is equal to , where k is a constant and  is the extension of the spring.

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What are the gradient and y-intercept of the graph?

 Gradient  y-intercept
 A. 1k l
 B. 1/k lo
 C. k lo
 D. 1/k Δl

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13. A rocket ejects hot gas in space in a direction opposite to its travelling direction. What is correct for the magnitude of the momentum and the kinetic energy of the rocket?

 Momentum  Kinetic Energy
A. Conserved Conserved
B. Increased Conserved
C. Conserved Increased
D. Increased Increased

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14. The graph shows the variation with time t of the velocity  of a car traveling along a straight and level road.

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What time does it take for the car to travel a distance of 31.5 m from t = 0?

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15. Two eggs of equal mass fall from the same height onto a padded floor. One of them is broken while the other one bounces upwards intact. The time of collision is the same for both. Which of the following correctly describes the egg that exerts more force on the floor and the reason?

 

 

Egg exerting more force Reason
A. Broken Greater change in momentum
B. Bounces Less change in momentum
C. Broken Less change in momentum
D. Bounces Greater change in momentum

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16. The figure below shows Sankey's diagram for a small thermal plant. What is the efficiency of the system?

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17. A coin is tossed vertically upwards from a height of 1.5m. What is the maximum height reached above the ground if the coin was projected with an initial velocity of 3.0 ? (Take g=10 ms^−2)

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18. A car of mass m and a truck of mass  travelling in opposite directions collide and stick together. The speeds of the car and the truck just before the crash are  and  respectively. What is their speed after the collision?

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19. The graph shows the variation of velocity  with time  of a car.

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Which of the following can be deduced from the graph?

I. Displacement
II. Acceleration
III. Change in velocity

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20. A box is pulled up a slope inclined at 30° to the horizontal by a force of . The angle between the direction of  and the plane of the incline is also 30°.

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The box is pulled a distance of d up along the slope. What is the work done by F on the box?

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21. A ball is projected with an initial speed of  making an angle of  with the horizontal as shown.

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Which expression gives the vertical component of the velocity vector?

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22. A jet aircraft is performing a “loop-the-loop” stunt in which it moves in a vertical circular path as shown in the diagram.

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Which of the following represents the free body diagram of the pilot at the top of the loop?

A. B.
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C. D.
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23. A mass is attached to the mirror of a car by a string. As the car accelerates to the left, the string makes an angle with the vertical as shown in the diagram below.

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Which of the following shows the correct free-body diagram that represents the forces acting on this mass when it is accelerating?

A. B.
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C. D.
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24. A builder uses a block and tackle pulley system to lift a bundle of materials of mass 15 kg to the top of a building of height 6 m in 9 s. What is the power delivered to the bundle?

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25. Two cyclists,  and , start riding their bicycles from the same point. Cyclist  moves northwards with a speed of  relative to the ground, and cyclist  moves westwards with a speed of  relative to the ground.

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The magnitude of the velocity of the Cyclist  relative to the Cyclist  is

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