TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE

PHILIPPINES
PHYSICS COMPETENCY EXAM
NAME_____________________STUDENT
NO._________
DIRECTIONS: PROVIDE THE COMPLETE
SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS.
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A car travels 100 miles to city A in 2 hours, and then

travels 200 miles to city B in 3 hours. What is the
average speed of the car for the trip?
A. 45 mph
C. 60 mph

B. 80 mph
D. NOTG
The position of a particle moving along the x-axis is
given by x(t) = t2-t+8, where x is in units of feet, and
t is in seconds. Find the velocity of the particle when
t is 5 seconds.
A. 9 ft/sec
C. 5 ft/sec
B. 11 ft/sec
D. NOTG
3. If a particles position is given by the expression x(t)
= 3.4t3-5.4t meters, what is the acceleration of the
particle after 5 second?
A. 65 m/s2
C. 60 m/s2
2
B. 102 m/s
D. NOTG
4. A car starts from rest and moves with a constant
acceleration of 6 m/s2. What is the speed of the car
after 4 seconds?
A. 24 m/s
C. 35 m/s
B. 30 m/s
D. NOTG
5. A car starts from rest and has a constant acceleration
of 3ft/s2. What is the average velocity during the first
10 seconds of motion?
A. 30 ft/s
C. 15 ft/s
B. 20 ft/s
D. NOTG
6. A truck increases its speed uniformly from 13km/hr
to 50 km/hr in 25 seconds. What is the acceleration of
the truck?
A. 0.536 m/s2
C. 0.156 m/s2
2
B. 0.411 m/s
D. NOTG
7. A bicycle moves with a constant deceleration of
2ft/s2. If the initial velocity of the bike was 10 ft/s,
how far does it travel in 3 seconds?
A. 35 ft
C. 53 ft
B. 21 ft
D. NOTG
8. A ball is dropped from a height of 60 meters above
the ground. How long does it take to hit the ground?
A. 2.5 sec
C. 3.5 sec
B. 1.5 sec
D. NOTG
9. A man driving a car at 45 mph suddenly sees an
object in the road 60 feet ahead. What constant
deceleration is required to stop the car in this
distance?
A. 43.3 ft/s2
C. 36.3 ft/s2
2
B. 23.2 ft/s
D. NOTG
10. A ball is thrown vertically upward with an initial
speed of 80 ft/sec. How long will it take for the ball
to return to the thrower?
A. 4.97 sec
C. 1.36 sec
B. 10.56 sec
D. NOTG
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11. A projectile is launched upward from level ground at

an angle of 60 with the horizontal. It has an initial
velocity of 45 m/s. How long will it take before the
projectile hits the ground?
A. 7.94 s
C. 10.3 s
B. 5.36 s
D. NOTG
12. A man standing at a window 5 meters tall watches a
falling ball pass by the window in 0.3 seconds. From
how high above the top of the window was the ball
released?
A. 11.8 m
C. 30.36 m
B. 20.6 m
D. NOTG
13. A car starting from rest moves with a constant
acceleration of 10 mi/hr2 for 1 hour, then decelerates
at a constant 5 mi/hr2 until it comes to a stop. How far
has it travelled?
A. 20 mi
C. 15 mi
B. 30 mi
D. NOTG
14. A stream flows at 3 mph. At what angle upstream
should a boat travelling at 8 mph be launched in
order to reach the shore directly opposite to the
launch point?
A. 4
C. 10
B. 22
D. NOTG
15. A 3 kg block is moving at a speed of 5m/s. What is
the force required to bring the block to a stop in
0.0008 seconds?
A. 54 kN
C. 18.8 kN
B. 4.4 kN
D. NOTG
16. An object is launched at 45 to the horizontal on level
ground. What is the range of the projectile if its initial
velocity is 180 ft/sec?
A. 1000 ft
C. 117.35 ft
B. 45.60 ft
D. NOTG
17. A projectile leaves a velocity of 50 m/s at an angle of
30 with the horizontal. Find the maximum height
that it could reach?
A. 31.86 m
C. 17.26 m
B. 25.90 m
D. NOTG
18. A plane dropped a bomb at an elevation of 1000
meters from the ground intended to hit the target at an
elevation of 200 meters from the ground. if the plane
was flying at a velocity of 300 km/hr, at what
distance from the target must the bomb be dropped to
it the target?
A. 2100.5 m
C. 3153.8 m
B. 1064.2 m
D. NOTG
19. A car of mass 1000 slugs accelerates in 10 seconds
from rest at a constant rate to a speed of 20 ft/sec.
What is the resultant force on the car due to this
acceleration?
A. 1000 lbf
C. 3000 lbf
B. 2000 lbf
D. NOTG
20. A ball is dropped onto a solid floor from an initial
height, h0. If the coefficient of restitution is 0.90, how
high will the ball rebound?
A. 0.81h0
C. 0.45h0
B. 1.80h0
D. NOTG
21. A 16 grams mass is moving at 30cm/s while a 4 gram
mass is moving in an opposite direction at 50 cm/s.
they collide head on and stick together. their velocity
after collision is

A. 0.14 cm/s
C. 0.45 cm/s
B. 0.28 cm/s
D. NOTG
22. A 60 ton rail car moving at 1 mi/hr is instantaneously
coupled to a stationary 40 ton rail car. What is the
speed of the coupled car?
A. 0.9 mph
C. 0.6 mph
B. 0.1 mph
D. NOTG

23. A 10 g block slides with a velocity of 20 cm/s on a

smooth level surface and makes a collision with a
30g block moving in the opposite direction with a
velocity of 10 cm/s. if the collision is perfectly
elastic, what is the velocity of the 30 g block after the
collision?
A. 10 cm/s
C. 30 cm/s
B. 5 cm/s
D. NOTG
24. A 60 ton rail car moving at 1 mi/hr is coupled to a
second stationary car. if the velocity of the two cars
after coupling is 1 ft/s and the coupling is completed
in 0.5 second, what is the average impulsive force on
the 60 ton rail car?
A. 3478.51 lbf
C. 2648.35 lbf
B. 9863.32 lbf
D. NOTG
25. The voltage drop across a device is 50 volts, and the
current drawn is 30 A. The power rating of this
device is?
A. 1 h
C. 5.02 hp
B. 2.01 hp
D. NOTG
26. A charge of 0.75 coulombs passes through a wire
every 15 seconds. What is the current in the wire?
A. 0.05 A
C. 11.25 A
B. 0.03 A
D. NOTG
27. What is the speed of light through a glass whose
index of refraction is 1.33?
A. 3.11x108 m/s
C. 2.26x108 m/s
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B. 1.29x10 m/s
D. NOTG
28. What is the index of refraction of a material if the
speed of light through the material is 2.37x108 m/s?
A. 1.35
C. 1.27
B. 1.56
D. NOTG
29. An object 6 centimeters high is placed 12 centimeters
away from a concave mirror whose focal length is 36
centimeters. What is the height of the image?
A. 5 cm
C. 9 cm
B. 3 cm
D. NOTG
30. A magnifying glass has a plastic lens with an index of
refraction of 5.4 and radii of curvature of 2.95 feet
and 4.27 feet for the two faces. What is the
magnification of the lens when it is held 2.36 inches
from an object being viewed?
A. 1.98
C. 1.12
B. 1.53
D. NOTG
31. What is the photon energy associated with green-blue
light of wavelength 500 nanometers?
A. 2x10-19 J
C. 4x10-19 J
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B. 6x10 J
D. NOTG

32. A stationary observer hears a siren approaching. the

siren has a sound frequency of 700 Hz, and is
approaching the observer at 50 mph. what is the
frequency heard by the observer? assume the velocity
of sound of air is 1087 ft/sec.
A. 120 Hz
C. 512 Hz
B. 750 Hz
D. NOTG
33. Three forces 20, 30, 40 N respectively are in
equilibrium. Find the largest angle they make with
each other?
A. 104.48
C. 234.48
B. 14.48
D. NOTG
34. Two forces of 20 unit and 30 units act at right angle.
What is the magnitude of the resultant force?
A. 20 units
C. 36 units
B. 15 units
D. NOTG
35. What is the magnitude of the resultant force of the
two forces 200 N at 20 and 400 at 144?
A. 350 N
C. 332.5 N
B. 201 N
D. NOTG
36. A 100 kg weight rest on a 30 incline plane.
Neglecting friction, how much pull must one exert to
bring the weight up the plane?
A. 50 kg
C. 75 kg
B. 100 kg
D. NOTG
37. A block weighing 500 kN rest on a ramp inclined at
25 with the horizontal. The force tending to move
the block down the ramp is
A. 235 kN
C. 105 kN
B. 211 kN
D. NOTG
38. A man exerts a maximum pull of 1000 N but wishes
to lift a new stone door his cave weighing 20000 N.
If he uses a lever, how much closer must the fulcrum
be to the stone than to his hand?
A. 10 times nearer
C. 15 times
nearer
B. 20 times nearer
D. NOTG
39. A beam rests on a fulcrum, 1.2m from one end. A
weight of 350 kg is suspended from this end causing
the beam to balance. If the weight of 350 kg is
suspended on the opposite end of the beam, it is
necessary to suspend 1000 kg weight on the first end
in order to balance. Find the length of the beam.
A. 2.48 m
C. 3.43 m
B. 2.45 m
D. NOTG
40. A 40 kg block is resting on an inclined plane making
an angle of 20 from the horizontal. if the coefficient
of friction is 0.60, determine the force parallel to the
incline that must be applied to cause impending
motion down the plane.
A. 87 N
C. 54 N
B. 23 N
D. NOTG
41. A 250 lb block is initially at rest on a flat surface that
is inclined at 30. if the coefficient of kinetic friction
is 0.30 and the coefficient of static friction is 0.40,
find the force required to start the block moving up
the plane.
A. 120 lb
C. 351 lb
B. 212 lb
D. NOTG

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COMPETENCY EXAM
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A 200 lb man hangs from the middle of a tightly

stretched rope so that the angle between the rope and
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the horizontal direction is
. Calculate the tension
of the rope?
a. 1104 lb
b. 1147 lb
c. 1205 lb
d. 1250 lb
Two men lift the ends of a 20ft beam weighing 200 lb
onto their shoulder. Both men are of the same height
so that the beam is carried horizontally, but one is
much stronger and wishes to bear 50% more of the
weight than his mate. How far from the end of the
beam should he put his shoulder?
a. 1.5 ft
b. 2 ft
c. 2.75 ft
d. 3.33 ft
A 20 kg child and 30 g child sit at the opposite ends
od4-m seesaw that is pivoted at its center. How many
meters from the 20 kg child should another 20-kg
child sit in order to balance the seesaw?
a. 0.5 m
b. 0.75 m
c. 1.0 m
d. 1.25 m
A door 7 ft high and 3 ft wide has hinges at the top
and bottom of one edge. Each hinge supports half of
the 40-lb weight of the door. Find the horizontal
components of the door exerted on each hinge.
a. 8.6 lb
b. 9.6 lb
c. 10.6 lb
d. 11.6 lb
An automobile traveling at a speed of 30 mph
accelerates uniformly to a speed of 60 mph 10
seconds. How far does the automobile travel during
the time of acceleration?
a. 330 ft
b. 440 ft
c. 550 ft
d. 660 ft
During a takeoff roll, a jumbo jet is accelerating at
4m/s2. If it requires 40 s to reach takeoff speed,
determine the takeoff speed?
a. 160 m/s
b. 180 m/s
c. 200 m/s
d. 220m/s
The turntable of a record player is accelerated from
rest to a speed of 33.3 rpm in 2 seconds. What is the
angular acceleration in radian per second square?
a. 1.54
b. 1.64

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c. 1.74
d. 1.84
A man standing on a roof of a building 30 m high
throws a ball vertically downward with an initial
velocity of 5m/s. What is the velocity of the ball as it
strikes the ground?
a. 20.76 m/s
b. 22/76 m/s
c. 24.76 m/s
d. 26.76 m/s
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A shell is fired at an angle
above the horizontal
at a velocity of 300 m/s. What is the time of flight?
a. 39 s
b. 41 s
c. 43 s
d. 45 s
A rifle with a muzzle velocity of 200m/s is fired with
its barrel horizontal at a height of 1.5 m above the
ground. How far away from the rifle does the bullet
strike the ground?
a. 100 m
b. 110 m
c. 120 m
d. 130 m
A 60-g tennis ball approaches a racket at 15m/s,is in
contact with the racket for 0.005 s, and rebounds at
20m/s.Find the average force that the racket exerted
on the ball?
a. 420 N
b. 450 N
c. 480 N
d. 510N
An empty truck whose mass is 2000 kg has a
maximum acceleration of 1m/s2. What is the
maximum acceleration be when it carries load of
1000 kg?
a. 0.5m/s2
b. 0.67 m/s
c. 0.75 m/s
d. 1m/s2
A weight of 50 lb and another of 30lb are suspended
by a rope on either side of a frictionless pulley. What
is the acceleration of each weight?
a.8 ft/s
b. 9 ft/s2
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c.10 ft/s
d. 12 ft/ s2
A 3200lb car is slowed down uniformly from
60mphto 15 mph along a level road by a force
of1100lb. How far does it travel while being slowed
down?
a. 330 ft
b. 440 ft
c. 50 ft
d. 660 ft
A 500 kg bucket is raised and lowered in a vertical
mine shaft using a cable. Determine the upward force
exerted by the cable when the upward acceleration is
4 m/2.
a. 4900N
b. 5900 N
c. 6900 N
d. 790N
What is the acceleration at a point on a rim of a
flywheel0.90 m in diameter, turning at a rate 120 mph
a. 5700 m/s
b. 6200 m/s
s
c. 6600 m/
d. 7100 m/s
A train whose speed is60 mph rounds a curve whose
radius of curvature is 484 ft. What is the acceleration
in ft/s?
a. 12
b. 13.5
c. 15
d. 16
What is the minimum coefficient of static friction
required of a curvature car traveling at 60 kph to
make a level turn 40m in radius?
a. 0.65
b. 0.68
c. 0.71
d. 0.75

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and a certain concrete road is 0.99 when the road is
dry and 0.7 when the road is wet. If the car can safely
make a certain turn at 50kph an dry day, what is the
maximum velocity on a rainy day?
a. 35 kph
b. 37.5khh
c. 40 kph
d. 42 kph
20. A 10-g bullet has a velocity of 600m/swhen it leaves
the barrel of a riffle. If the barrel is 60 m long, find
the average force on the shell while it is no barrel?
a. 3000 N
b. 3500 N
c. 4000 N
d. 4500 N
21. A rubber ball is dropped on a floor from a height of 5
m. If the coefficient of restitutions is 0.7, find the
height of the which ball rebounds?
a. 2.45 m
b. 2.75 m
c. 3.25 m
d. 3.5 m
22. A 40 kg skater traveling at 4 m/s overtakes a 60 kg
skater traveling at 2 m/s in the same direction and
collides with him. If the two skaters remain in
contact, what is their final velocity?
a. 2.4 m/s
b. 2.65 m/s
c. 2.8 m/s
d. 3 m/s
23. A 5 kg rifle fires a 15 g bullet at a muzzle velocity of
600 m/s. Find the recoil velocity of the rifle.
a. 1.8 m/s
b. 2.25 m/s
c. 2.5 m/s
d. 3 m/s
24. A 200 g of water is mixed to 300 g of alcohol whose
density is 790kg/ m3. Calculate the specific gravity of
the total mixture.
a. 0.675
b. 0.862
c. 0.912
d. 1.0
25. A 72 kg man jumps off a raft whose base area is 4 m 2
floating in a freshwater lake. By how much does the
raft rise?
a. 1.8 cm
b. 2.0 cm
c. 2.25cm
d. 2.5 cm
26. The density of ice is 920 kg/m 3 and that of seawater
is 1030 kg/m3. What percentage of the volume of an
iceberg is submerged?
a. 11%
b. 15 %
c. 85 %
d. 89 %
27. A steel beam in a bridge extends 25 m across a small
stream. What is the change in length from the winter,
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when the temperature is
C, to the summer when
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it is
C. The coefficient of linear expansion of
C
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steel is 12x10 /
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a. 17mm
b. 19 mm
c. 21mm
d. 23 mm
20 C
28. At
, an aluminum rod and a copper rod have
the same lengths f 1.85m. To what temperature must
they be heated to differ in length by 0.02 cm? The
coefficient of linear expansion of aluminum and
C
C
copper are is 16.8 x10-6 /
and 24x10-6
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respectively.

18 C
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29. 5 kg of water at
is poured on a block of ice at
0C
. How much ice melts?
a. 1 kg
b. 1.5 kg
c. 2 kg
d. 2.5 kg
20 C
30. A total of 0.8 kg of water at
is placed in 1 kW
electric kettle. How long a time is needed to raise the
100 C
temperature of water to
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a. 3.5 min
b. 4.5 min
c. 5.5 min
d. 6.5 min
90 C
31. In preparing a tea, 600 g of water at
is poured
into 200 g china pot whose specific heat capacity is
C
20 C
840J/kg
and temperature of
. What is the
final temperature of water?
81 .6C
83 .6C
a.
b.
85 .6C
87 .6C
c.
d.
0.5C
32. Two charges, one of +
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and the other of

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How far apart are they?
a. 3 mm
b. 4 mm
c. 30 mm
d. 40 mm
A 12 V storage battery is being charged at a rate of
15C/s. how much power is being used to charge the
battery?
a. 150 W
b. 180 W
c. 210 W
d. 240 W
A 100 ohm and 200 ohm resistor are connected in
series with a 40 V power source. How much power is
dissipated by the 100 ohm resistor?
a. 1.78W
b. 2.25W
c. 3.28W
d. 3.55W
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A wire has a resistance of 30 ohm at
C. What is
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the resistance at
C assuming that the temperature
20
coefficient of resistance is 0.00385 at
C?
a. 33.93 ohms
b. 34.93 ohms
c. 35.93 ohms
d. 36.93 ohms
A wire has a resistance of 5 ohms. What will be the
resistance of another wire of the same material three
times as long and half the cross sectional area?
a. 30 ohms
b. 25 ohms
c. 28 ohms
d. 60 ohms
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be drawn if the circuit is connected across a 200 V, 60

Hz supply?
a. 0.15 A
b. 0.23 A
c. 0.31 A
d. 0.47 A
Five 1.5 V cells are connected in series. If the internal
resistance of each cell is 0.25 ohm, what external
resistance will produce a current of 2 A through the
cells?
a. 1.75 ohms
b. 2.25 ohms
c. 2.5 ohms
d. 3 ohms
Find the length in meters of a simple pendulum
whose period is 2 seconds?
a. 0.8
b. 1.0
c. 1.2
d. 1.5
A 100 g object is suspended from a spring whose
force constant is 50N/m. What is its frequency?
a. 3.56Hz
b. 4.56 Hz
c. 5.56 Hz
d. 6.56 Hz
How many times more intense is a 50 dB sound than
a 40 dB sound?
a. 1.25
b. 10
c. 100
d. 1000
Calculate the fundamental frequency of vibration of
the A-string of a violin, whose mass is 0.30 g and
length is 33 cm and is stretched under a tension of
77N?
a. 220 Hz
b. 310 Hz
c. 390 Hz
d. 440 Hz
The siren of a fire engine has a frequency of 500 Hz.
If the fire engine approaches a stationary car at
20m/s, what frequency does a person in a car hear?
a. 471 Hz
b. 500 Hz
c. 531 Hz
d. 565 Hz
The siren of a stationary fire engine has frequency of
50o Hz. If a car drives away from it at 20m/s, what
frequency does a person in the car hear?
a. 471 Hz
b. 500 Hz
c. 531 Hz
d. 565 Hz

45. The index of refraction of diamond is 2.42. What is

the velocity of light in the diamond in m/s?
a. 1.24 x 108
b. 1.24 x 108
c. 3 x 108
d. 7.28 x 108
46. A beam of light in air falls on a glass surface of an
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angle of incidence of
.If the angle of refraction in
12 .4
the glass is
, what is the index of refraction of
the glass?
a. 1.5
b. 1.59
c. 1.66
d. 1.72
47. The water in the swimming pool is 2m deep. How
deep does it appear to be someone looking down it if
the index of refraction of water is 1.33?
a. 1.33 m
b. 1.5 m
c. 1.75 m
d. 2 m
48. A doughnut 3 inches in diameter is places 24 inches
from a converging lens whose focal length is 16
inches. What is the size of the image?
a. 4 in
b. 6 in
c. 3 in
d. 5 in
49. A planoconcave lens has one plane surface and one
concave surface. If the planoconcave lens of focal
length of 10cmis to be ground from optical glass of
index of reaction, find the radius of curvature of the
surface.
a. 5 cm
b. 10 cm
c. 5cm
d. 10 cm
50. Glycerin has an index of reaction of 1.47. Find the
focal length in glycerin of a lens made of flint
glass(n= 1.63) whose focal length in air is 10 cm.
a. 11 cm
b. 23cm
c. 39 cm
d. 58