General Physics Worksheet (2026GC.

1. A hydraulic lift has a small piston of area A1=0.02 m2 and a large piston of area A2=1 m2. If a
force of 400 N is applied on the smaller piston, what is the load that can be lifted by the larger
piston (neglecting friction and assuming incompressible fluid)?

A. 5 N B. 1000 N C. 20,000 N D. 10,000 N

2. A particle is located on the x axis at and a particle

is on the x axis at . Find the center of mass of this two–particle system.

A) C)

B) D)

3. A man pushes a wall and fails to displace it. He does

A. positive but not maximum work C. negative work
B. no work at all D. maximum work
4. A hydraulic jack has an input piston of area 0.050 m2 and an output piston of area 0.80 m2.
How much force on the input piston is required to lift a car weighing 1.2 x 103 N?

A. 50 N B. 75 N C. 150N D. 100 N

5. Which of the following statements about pressure in a fluid at rest is true?

A. Pressure in a fluid acts only in the vertical direction.

B. Pressure at a point in a fluid is the same in all directions.
C. Pressure in a fluid depends only on the shape of the container.
D. Pressure decreases linearly with depth in a liquid.

6. Which one of the following elastic modulus is the measure of the resistance of solids or
liquids to change in their volume?

A. Shear modulus B. Young’s modulus C. Bulk modulus

7. First law of thermodynamics states about:

A. entropy B. temperature C. heat D. Energy

8. A cylindrical tank is filled with water up to a height of 3 m. What is the pressure at the bottom
of the tank due to the water column?
(Take ρwater=1000 kg/m3 and g=9.8 m/s2)
 A. 29,400 Pa B. 4900 Pa C. 24,500 Pa D. 49,000 Pa

9. An object is completely submerged in a liquid. The buoyant force acting on the object depends
on:

A. The weight of the object.

B. The volume of the liquid displaced by the object.
C. The shape of the object.
D. The depth at which the object is placed

10. A solid cube of side 0.5 m is completely submerged in water. Find the buoyant force on it.
(Take ρwater=1000 kg/m3 and g=9.8 m/s2)

A. 0.098 N B. 1225 N C. 1200 N D. 980 N

11. What is the momentum of a 1000 kg car traveling at 20 m/s?

A. 2000kgm/s B. 20000kgm/s C. 50kgm/s D. 200kgm/s

12. The continuity equation is a statement of the conservation of what quantity

for an incompressible fluid?

A) Energy B) Momentum C) Mass D) Pressure

13. A horizontal pipe narrows from a radius of 0.250 m to 0.100 m. If the speed of the water in
the pipe is 1.00 m/s in the larger-radius pipe, what is the speed in the smaller pipe?

A. 4.50 m/s B. 2.50 m/s C. 3.75 m/s D. 6.25 m/s

14. Water flows through a horizontal pipe that narrows from a diameter of 4 cm to 2 cm. If the
speed of water in the wider section is 2 m/s, what is its speed in the narrower section?

A. 1 m/s B. 8 m/s C. 4 m/s D. 10 m/s

15. According to Bernoulli’s equation, which of the following statements is true for a
streamline flow of an ideal fluid?

A. Pressure energy, kinetic energy, and potential energy of the fluid remain constant
individually.
B. The sum of pressure energy, kinetic energy, and potential energy per unit volume
remains constant.
C. The total energy of the fluid decreases as velocity increases.
D. Bernoulli’s principle applies only to viscous fluids.

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17. Which expression is correct for all planets based on Kepler’s 3rd law:

A. = cons B. =cons C. = cons D. = cons

18. Which of the following comparison is scientifically true?

A. One liter and five liters of pure water has equal volume of space

B. One liter and five liters of pure water has equal density.

C. One liter of pure water has less density than five liters of pure water

D. all are true

19. Determine the change in momentum of a 150 kg object if a force of 250 N is applied to it for
5 seconds.

A. 1250 kgm/s B. 7500kgm/s C. 50kgm/s D.750kgm/s

20. Four containers of different shape are all filled to the same height with the same liquid.
Which is true about the fluid pressure at the bottom of each container?
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A) Pressure depends on the container's shape

B) Pressure is greatest in the container C.
C) Pressure is the same in all containers A,B,C and D.
D) Pressure is greatest in the narrowest container D.

21. “A planet moves fast when they are closer to the sun and slow when they are far away from
the sun”. this statement is:

A. Kepler’s 1st law C. Kepler’s 2nd law

B. Kepler’s 3rd law D. Universal Gravitational Law

22. When you are lifting an object up by an applied force which one is true about work done?

A. negative work is done by applied force.

B. positive work is done by force of gravity
C. no work is done by force of gravity
D. negative work is done by force of gravity.

23. Which of the following statements correctly describes the Zeroth Law of
Thermodynamics?

A. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

B. Heat always flows from a colder body to a hotter body.
C. If two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third system, they are in thermal
equilibrium with each other.
D. The total entropy of an isolated system always increases.

24. Temperature is a measure of:

A) The total kinetic energy of all molecules in a substance.

B) The average kinetic energy of the random translational motion of molecules.
C) The total heat energy contained in an object.
D) The amount of thermal expansion a material will undergo.

25. A measures the resistance of a solid to a change in its length is:

 A. shear modulus B. bulk modulus C. young modulus D. none

26. What is the most accurate definition of fluid mechanics?

a) The study of forces that cause objects to move through water.

b) The branch of physics concerned with the behavior of gases and liquids at rest or in motion.
c) The engineering discipline focused solely on the design of pumps and pipes.
d) The analysis of stresses and strains within solid materials under load.

27. A sample of liquid has a specific gravity of [Link] is the density of this sample liquid?

A. 1000kg/m3 B. 85 kg/m3 C. 850 kg/m3 D. 8500 kg/m3

28. A gas absorbs 500 J of heat from its surroundings and does 200 J of work is done by the
surroundings. What is the change in internal energy of the gas?

A. 300J B. 700J C. -700J D. 500J

29. A gas is compressed at a constant pressure of 0.800 atm from 9.00 L to 2.00 L. In the
process, 400 J of energy leaves the gas by heat. { 1atm=1.103×10-5pa and 1L=1×10-3m3}
(a) What is the work done on the gas?
A. -567.28J B. 567.28J C.167J D. -167J

(b) What is the change in its internal energy?

A. -567.28J B. 567.28J C.167J D. -167J