PHY101 Past Questions

Q1. A car is moving at a speed of 100kmh-1 what will be the distance covered after 20 seconds?  

5.6m  

5.7m  

555.6m 

 55.56m 

Q2. If a force of 40N acting in the direction due East and a force of 30N is acting in the direction due North. Then the magnitude of the resultant forces will be  

40N  

30N  

20N  

50N 

Q3. Which of the following is a vector quantity?  

distance  

speed 

 temperature  

displacement 

Q4. When a body accelerates in motion it means that its  

path is linear  

velocity is uniform  

velocity changes continously 

 None of these 

Q5. A Scalar quantity has only  

direction 

 velocity  

magnitude

  time 

Q6. A car that takes 2hrs to travel from kaduna to kagoro along a winding road over a distance of 200km is said to have an average speed of  

100km/hr  

10km/hr  

1000km/hr  

10,000km/hr 

Q7. If you run on a winding path from point A to point B and travel a distance of 240m in 20sec then your average speed is 

 6m/s  

12m/s  

16m/s  

20m/s 

Q8. In a circular motion which of the following quantities is constant  

velocity 

 time 

 mass 

 acceleration 

Q9. The result of the cross product of two vectors is a  

scalar 

 zero quantity

 determinant  

vector 

Q10. The dimension of coefficient of linear expansion is 

 K 

 degrees 

 Lxdegrees 

 L