Problems:

1. The process of decomposing a substance by means of electric current

a. electrification
b. electrochemistry
c. thermochemistry
d. electrolysis
2. A substance which changes the speed of a chemical reaction without itself
being changed is called
a. reactant
b. additive
c. product
d. catalyst
3. The transfer of the solvent molecules through a semi-permeable membrane
to equalize the solute concentration on both sides of the s-membrane.
a. osmotic pressure
b. transformation
c. osmosis
d. evacuation
4. The type of solution containing enough solute that that its solvent can hold
at a given temperature and pressure.
a. unsaturated
b. supersaturated
c. dilute
d. saturated
5. A solution that contains a large amount of solute in proportion to the solvent
a. unsaturated
b. supersaturated
c. dilute
d. saturated
6. A uniform mixture consisting of solute and solvent.
a. compound
b. solution
c. mixture
d. colloids
7. It states the actual number of each type of atom in a molecule.
a. empirical formula
b. molecular formula
c. atomic formula
d. formula one
8. It is the atomic weight of a substance in grams.
a. atoms
b. isotopes
c. mole
d. composition
9. It is the sum of the proton and neutron.
a. atomic number
b. mass number
c. atomic radius
d. electron number
10. This substance is a good conductor of heat and electric current.
a. metalloids b. non-metals c. metals d. inert gases
11. Avogadros number is equivalent to
a. 6.023x10E23
b. 6.023 c. 0.082057
d. 0.73
12. The ratio of the number of moles per liter of a solution.
a. molarity
b. molality
c. normality
d. mole fraction
13. Sum of the atomic weights of all atoms present in the formula unit
a. atomic weight
b. molecular weight
c. empirical weight
d. nuclear weight
14. A form of matter which cannot be separated into two or more other forms of
matter except by means of a chemical process.
a. pure substance
b. solution
c. mixture
d. none of these
15. Matter which has a fixed volume but no definite shape.
a. solid
b. liquid
c. gas d. all of these
16. Determine the molecular weight of cane sugar C12H22O11.
a. 432g/mole
b. 342g/mole
c. 60g/mole
d. none of these
17. A sample of gas occupies 1.6 li at 1.25 atm. What is its volume at
760mmHg at the same temperature?

a. 1.06li
b. 1.6 li
c. 2 li
d. 1.2 li
18. Calculate the volume at which a 5.46 li of gas at 100 C will occupy at 0 C at
the same pressure?
a. 3 li
b. 4 li
c. 5 li
d. 6 li
19. How much 58% NaCl solution is needed to provide 150 g of pure salt?
a. 295g
b. 952g
c. 59g
d. 592g
20. It represents a list of elements which are arranged according to their atomic
numbers.
a. periodic formula
b. periodic table
c. table of formula
d. none of these
21. A car changes its speed from 80mph to 50mph in a distance of 1,800 ft.
Determine its acceleration if the change in speed is uniformly?
a.
1.89
ft/sec2
b.
1.93 ft/sec2
c.
2.1 ft/sec2
d.
2.33ft/sec2
22. A ball is dropped from a helicopter 500m above the ground. If the helicopter is
rising at 15m/sec, find the position of the bag 8 seconds after being released.
a.
306.08m
b.
193.6m
c.
500m
d.
693.6m
23. A fighter plane in level flight travels at a velocity of 450mph at an altitude of
6,000 ft. If it drops a bomb at that altitude, the velocity of the bomb upon impact will
be
a.
618mph
b.
450mph
c.
423
mph
d.
873mph
24. If a ball is dropped from a height of 150ft above the ground, how long will it take
to hit the ground?
a.
1.05sec
b.
3.05sec
c.
9.31 sec
d.
2.16 sec
25. A 10,000 kg truck accelerates from rest with a constant forward tractive force of
1,800N and a constant drag force of 250N. The time taken by the truck to move by a
distance of 2.5m is
a.
6.85sec
b.
8.65sec
c.
5.68sec
d.
5sec
26. A ball rolling at an initial velocity of 3m/sec rolls along a level floor with a
coefficient of rolling friction of 0.0092. What will be the distance traveled before
coming to a stop?

a. 20m
b. 30m
c. 40m
d. 50m
27. A wheel of radius 40cm rotates on a stationary axle. If the tangential acceleration
is 1.88m/sec2, what will be its final velocity 20seconds after uniformly speeded up
from rest?
a. 900 rpm
b. 1000rpm
c. 1100rpm
d. 1200rpm
28. A spring with elastance of 100N/m is hung vertically. A mass attached to its end
displaces by 5cm from its previous position. If the same mass is attached to another
spring and produces a displacement of 6cm, what will be its elastance?
a. 120N/m
b. 83.33N/m
c. 91.3N/m
d. 109N/m
29. What is the frequency of oscillation of a 25gram body suspended to a string of
elastance k = 0.44N/m
a. 0.66 Hz
b. 0.33 Hz
c. 1.2 Hz
d. 2.8Hz
30. The horn of a stationary car has a frequency of 500Hz, a truck passes away
from it at 72kph. What frequency does the person in the car hears now if the velocity
of sound in air is 340/sec?
a. 470Hz
b. 450Hz
c. 525Hz
d. 550Hz
31. A light ray in air is incident on a glass surface at an angle of 30 o from the normal.
If the angle between the refracted light ray and the normal is 25 o, what is the index
of refraction of the glass?
a. 1.183
b. 1.088
c. 1.4
d. 0.85
32. The index of refraction of a material is 1.27. What will be the speed of light
passing through it?
a. 3x108m/s
b. 2.37x108 m/s
c. 2.75x108 m/s
d. 3.2x108 m/s
33. An object placed 10cm away from a concave mirror with focal length of 30cm will
produce
a. a real image 20cm in front of the mirror
b.
a virtual image 25cm behind the
mirror
c.
a virtual image 15cm behind the mirror
d.
a real image 6cm in front of the mirror
34. At what speed must a particle move in order to double its mass?

a. 2.6x108 m/s
b. 2.7x108 m/s
c. 2.8x108 m/s
d. 2.9x108 m/s
35 How much matter converted entirely to energy will produce 25 million kWh?
a.
1 gram
b.
1kg
c.
1 ton
d.
1000 tons
36. Under force to voltage analogy, charge is analogous to
a. displacement
b. velocity
c. acceleration
d. force
37. Under force to current analogy, damping is analogous to
a. capacitance
b. conductance
c. inductance
d. resistance
38. A control system with less damping will have
a. greater overshoot
b. less overshoot
c. mimimum overshoot
d. maximum overshoot
39. A control system with very little gain will have
a. greater overshoot
b. less overshoot
c. zero overshoot
d. maximum overshoot
40. A control system with very high gain will be
a. insensitive
b. very much sensitive
c. greater overshoot
d. none of these
41. A collection of components connected or related in such a manner as to control
itself or another system.
a. control system
b. open system
c. closed system
d. none of these
42. A control system where some portion of the output is brought back to some
portions of the input
a. open-loop
b. closed loop
c. feedback
d. both a and b
43. A pictorial representation showing the cause and effect relationship between the
input and output of a physical system.
a. block diagram
b. signal flow graph
c. transfer function

d. transmittance
44.. The ratio of the output and input in Laplace Transfom where all initial conditions
are set equal to zero.
a. block diagram
b. signal flow graph
c. transfer function
d. transmittance
45. A component of the total response which should approach zero as time
approaches infinity.
a. forced
b. transient
c. steady-state
d. none of these
46. The ability of a material to withstand load without failure
a. stress
b. strain
c. strength
d. power
47. Stress that would cause failure.
a. yield
b. ultimate
c. design
d. allowable
48. A steel tie rod on the bridge must be made to withstand a pull of 5,000lbs. Find
the diameter of the rod assuming a factor of safety of 5 and ultimate stress of
64,000lbs/in2.
a. 0.71in
b. 0.75in
c. 0.84in
d. 0.94in
49. A pressure vessel in which the ratio of the wall thickness to the inside diameter is
less than 0.07.
a. thick wall
b. thin-wall
c. great-wall
d. none of these
50. Liquid whose pressure is higher than the saturation pressure at the given
pressure.
a. sub-cooled
b. super-cooled
c. compressed
d. none of these
51. A constant pressure process.
a. isothermal
b. isobaric
c. isovolumic
d. isentropic
52. The entropy of a substance of absolute zero temperature is zero.
a. first law of thermodynamics
b. second law of thermodynamics

c. third law of thermodynamics

d. Zeroths law
53. Measure of randomness of the molecules of the molecules of a substance.
a. heat
b. entropy
c. enthalpy
d. energy
54. The study of heat and work and those properties of substance that bear a
relation to heat and work.
a. thermostatics
b. thermodynamics
c. thermochemistry
d. mechanics
55. One atmospheric pressure is not equivalent to
a. 101.325kPa
b. 76cm of H20
c. 14.7psi
d. 760 torr
56. What is the process that has no heat transfer?
a. reversible
b. isothermal
c. polytropic
d. adiabatic
57. A movement of particles by which energy is transferred from one place to
another.
a. optics
b. waves
c. speed
d. radiation
58. The heat energy of a substance is ____ specific heat.
a. directly proportional to its
b. inversely proportional to its
c. directly proportional to the square of its
d. none of these
59. Plancks constant has a value of
a. 1.6 x 10 E-19 Coul
b. 6.23 x 10 E23 particles
c. 6.63 x 10-34 J-s
d. none of these
60. The energy of a quantum of electromagnetic radiation is _____ the frequency of
the radiation.
a. directly proportional to
b. inversely proportional to
c. proportional to the square of
d. none of these
61. Photons and electrons were neither waves nor particles, but something more
complex than either is called.
a. wave- particle duality

b. wave theory of light

c. particle theory of light
d. Bohrs principle of Complementarity
62. Light is a
a. wave
b. particle
c. both a and b
d. none of these
63 A type of error indicating the small difference in the output readings of an
instrument when the same quantity is measured a number of times.
a. systematic error
b. span error
c. zero error
d. random error
64. Of the following errors given, one is not a form of instrument error
a. zero error
b. span error
c. hysteresis
d. systematic error
65 A system where parameters cannot be represented as a single-lumped
parameter.
a. distributed-system
b. lumped-parameter system
c. deterministic system
d. homogenous system