1. Which of the following is a vector quantity?

2. A lead ball is dropped from a height of 12$m$ 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 (Ek) and gravitational potential energy (Ep)?

3. An object sits on a rotating horizontal disc. The disc rotates from rest with uniform angular acceleration $\alpha$. After time $t$ the object slides off of the disc.

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

4. A car of mass $m$ and a truck of mass $3m$ travelling in opposite directions collide and stick together. The speeds of the car and the truck just before the crash are $2v$ and $v$ respectively. What is their speed after the collision?

5. 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.

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

A.			B.
C.			D.

6. A ball of mass $m$ is falling vertically through the air. The drag force acting on the ball is given by kv^2 where $k$ is constant and $v$ is the speed of the ball. What is the maximum speed reached by the ball?

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

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

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

8. The take off speed of a passenger aircraft is 75.0 ms^−1. A plane starts from rest and accelerates at a steady rate of 1.25 ms^−2. Which of the following correctly states the minimum duration of taxiing, and the minimum length of the runway needed for the take off?

9. An object of mass M on a string moves in a circle of radius r at a constant speed.

Which of the following statements is true about the motion of the object:

• I.  The resultant work done on the object is zero.
• II.  The velocity of the object is constant.
• III.  The object is accelerating

10. A box is pulled by a child with a horizontal force of 5 N. The box moves a horizontal distance of 4$m$ in a time of 2$s$. The average power delivered by the child to the box is

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

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

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

A.			B.
C.			D.

13. A ball rolls horizontally off the edge of the top of a cliff. It hits the ground at a distance 2.0$m$ from the base of the cliff with a vertical speed of 20ms^−1. What is the height of the cliff?

14. As a truck is brought to rest, the brakes apply a force of 5.1×10^3 N. Which answer best describes the magnitude of the change in momentum of the truck if the brakes are applied for 3.0 $s$?

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?

16. A spring with spring constant $k$ is extended by a distance x.

The uncertainty of $k$ is 2% and that of $x$ is 3%.

What is the uncertainty of the potential energy stored in the spring?

17. 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?

18. The graph below shows the variation of the resultant force $F$ acting on a box with time $t$.

The box starts to move from rest. Which of the following graphs shows the variation of the momentum $p$ of the box with time $t$?

A.			B.
C.			D.

19. A wheel rotates from rest with uniform angular acceleration. After $16s$, it makes 5 revolutions per second.

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

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

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

A.			B.
C.			D.

21. The diagram below shows a car of mass m descending a slope. The car, initially at rest, covers a distance of $27m$ in $3.0s$.

The magnitude of the acceleration is given by

22. A stone attached to one end of a rod rotates in a vertical circle at a constant speed. Two positions of the stone at two different instants, X and Y, are shown in the diagram below.

In the table below, which row is correct for the centripetal force acting on the stone at X and Y?

23. 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?

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

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

25. Two cyclists, $A$ and $B$, start riding their bicycles from the same point. Cyclist $A$ moves northwards with a speed of $4v$ relative to the ground, and cyclist $B$ moves westwards with a speed of $3v$ relative to the ground.

The magnitude of the velocity of the Cyclist $A$ relative to the Cyclist $B$ is