0%

HL - Space, Time & Motion

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

DP IB HL Physics Quiz

1 / 25

1. 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

2 / 25

2. An airplane in straight level flight experiences a lift force  that is proportional to the speed of the plane and is perpendicular to the axis of the wings and as shown in diagram.

PH0630

 

On a banked turn at the same speed, the wings make an angle  with the horizontal.

Which of the following gives the centripetal force on the airplane?

3 / 25

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

PH0142c

4 / 25

4. 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)?

5 / 25

5. 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

6 / 25

6. A ball is projected in an environment where air resistance can be ignored.

PH0545

Which graph shows the variation of the resultant force  acting on the ball with the height  of the object?

A. B.
PH0545a PH0545b
C. D.
PH0545c PH0545d

7 / 25

7. Which of the following is a vector quantity?

 

8 / 25

8. Which of the following units is not a unit of power?

 

9 / 25

9. A basketball is launched at an angle and undergoes projectile motion. Air resistance is negligible. Which of the following is correct for the direction of its velocity vector and its acceleration vector at the highest point of its trajectory?

Direction of velocity vector Direction of acceleration vector
A. horizontal no acceleration
B. no velocity no acceleration
C. no velocity downward
D. horizontal downward

10 / 25

10. The take off speed of a passenger aircraft is 75.0 . A plane starts from rest and accelerates at a steady rate of 1.25 . Which of the following correctly states the minimum duration of taxiing, and the minimum length of the runway needed for the take off?

11 / 25

11. The diagram below shows a tennis ball of mass  striking a wall with an initial velocity, u, and rebounding with velocity . A second, softer ball of the same mass strikes the wall with the same speed but rebounds with a slower rebound speed.

PH0124

Which of the following statements is correct about the magnitudes of the impulse and change in momentum applied to the second ball compared to the first?

Impulse Change in momentum
A. Greater Smaller
B. Smaller Greater
C. Greater Greater
D. Smaller Smaller

12 / 25

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

PH0495

Which expression gives the vertical component of the velocity vector?

13 / 25

13. 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)

14 / 25

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

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

15 / 25

15. 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.

PH0721aa

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

16 / 25

16. A box of mass m is pulled across a horizontal surface with a force  as shown in the diagram. The coefficient of dynamic friction between the box and the surface is µ. What is the energy transferred to thermal energy while a box is moved by a distance of ?

PH0283-1

17 / 25

17. 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°.

PH0571

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

18 / 25

18. A football player bounced the ball off their head as shown while diving sideways

PH0146-1

Which of the following gives a Newton’s Third Law pair of forces that applies to this situation?

 Force 1  Force 2
A. Force of the ball on the player Force of the ball on the earth
B. Force of the player on the earth Force of the ball on the player
C. Force of the earth on the ball Force of the ball on the earth
D. Force of the earth on the player Force of the player on the ball

19 / 25

19. A ball rolls horizontally off the edge of the top of a cliff. It hits the ground at a distance 2.0 from the base of the cliff with a vertical speed of 20. What is the height of the cliff?

20 / 25

20. A pilot intends to fly a plane from point  to point . Due to strong winds, she points the nose of the plane in the direction shown by the vector . Which of the choices below best represents the direction of the wind encountered by the plane?

PH0259-1

A. B.
PH0259A PH0259B
C. D.
PH0259C PH0259D

21 / 25

21. A student throws a ball with an initial velocity in the horizontal direction. Air resistance is negligible. At t=2.0 s, the ball has travelled a distance x in the horizontal direction and a distance  in the vertical direction.

What are the horizontal and vertical distances covered at t=1.0 s, in terms of x and ?

Horizontal distance Vertical distance
A. x/2 y/4
B. x/2 y/2
C. x/4 y/2
D. x/4 y/4

22 / 25

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

PH0081

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

23 / 25

23. 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?

PH0139

24 / 25

24. An object moves  east, then  north.

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

25 / 25

25. 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.

PH0036

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

Your score is

0%