APPLIED PHYSICS

1. It is a branch of Physics that is concerned with the study of forces and torques and their effect on motion.
a. Dynamics
b. Kinematics
c. Kinetic Energy
d. Continuum
2. What prefix refers to 10 to the negative 18th power?
A. atto
B. femto
C. pico
D. nano
3. An electron strikes the screen of a cathode ray tube with a velocity of 10 to the 9 th power cm/sec. Compute
the kinetic energy in ergs. The mass of electron is 9x10 to the negative 31 power kg.
A. 4.6 x 10-11
B. 4.5 x 10-10
C. 4.7 x 10-9
D. 4.4 x 10-8
4. Suppose you run on a straight tract that will cover one mile in exactly 4 minutes. What do you think your
average speed in mi/hr, ft/sec and cm/sec?
A. 15, 22 & 672
B. 14, 22 & 671
C. 15, 23 & 671
D. 15, 22 & 671
5. A with a length of 10 units makes an angle of 30 deg. with B a length of 6 units. Find the value of the
difference A – B, by parallelogram method.
a. 5.66 units
b. 4.34 units
c. 6.25 units
d. 4.43 units
6. Two 10-lb weights are suspended at opposite ends of a rope which passes over a light frictionless pulley.
The pulley is attached to a chain which goes to the ceiling. What is the tension in the chain?
a. 20 lbs
b. 10 lbs
c. 5 lbs
d. 30 lbs
7. An electron strikes the screen of a cathode ray tube with a velocity of 10 to the 9th power cm/sec. Compute
the kinetic energy in ergs. The mass of electron is 9 x 10 to the negative 31 power kg.
A. 4.6 x 10 11
B. 4.5 x 10 10
C. 4.7 x 10 9
D. 4.4 x 10 8
8. A plane wall is 2 m high by 3 m wide and is 20 cm thick. It is made of a material which has thermal
conductivity of 0.5 W/m-K temperature difference is 60 deg. C. on two large faces. Find the heat flux.
a. 150 W/m2
b. 115 W/m2
c. 145 W/m2
d. 160 W/m2
9. What wavelength must electromagnetic radiation have if a photon in the beam is to have the same
momentum as an electron moving with a speed if 2 x 105 m/sec?
A. 36.41 A
B. 3.641 A
C. 0.364 A
D. 364.1 A
10. The siren of a stationary fire engine has a frequency of 500 Hz, a car drives away from it at 20 m/sec. What
frequency does the person in the car hears now ? take velocity of sound in still air 343 m/sec.
a. 471 Hz
b. 531 Hz
c. 445 Hz
d. 500 Hz
11. What will be the mass of an electron moving with a speed of 5 x109 cm/sec?
a. 10 x10 to –30 power (gram)
b. 9.24 x10 to –28 power (gram)
c. 15 x10 to –15 power (gram)
d. 12 x10 to –12 power (gram)
12. The electron emitted from a hot filament is accelerated in an electric field until their velocity is 5 x10 to the
positive 9th. power cm/sec. Find the wavelength in Angstrom?
A. 0.660
B. 0.146
C. 0.153
D. 0.009
13. Find the speed of sound in 32 degrees F water if the compressibility is 3.4 x 10 -6 psi-1?
A. 4,674 ft/sec
B. 4,764 ft/sec
C. 4,564 ft/sec
D. 4,456 ft/sec
14. A horizontal cord 6 m long has a mass of 3.5 grams. What must be the tension in the cord if the wavelength
of a 120 Hz wave on it is to be 60 cm?
A. 3.02 N
B. 1.51 N
C. 2.30 N
D. 5.11 N
15. Loudness of Sound is proportional to the square of ___________.
A. Intensity
B. Vibration
C. Amplitude
D. Frequency
16. Materials that emit light in the absence of high heat and continue to emit light after the energy source has
been removed are called…
A. Phosphoresecent
B. Fluorescent
C. Semiconductor-Lase Diodes
D. Light-Emitting Diodes
17. What is the critical angle for a light passing from diamond to air if the index of refraction of diamond is 2.42?
A. 33 degrees
B. 24 degrees
C. 21 degrees
D. 28 degrees
18. How far is the object from the image formed by a converging lens of focal length 50 cm, if the real image
formed is 2 times larger that the object?
A. 75 cm
B. 150 cm
C. 225 cm
D. 100 cm
19. A magnifying glass has a lens with an index of refraction 5.4 and radii of curvatures of 2.95 ft and 4.27 ft for
the two faces. What is the magnification of the lens when it held 2.36 inches from the object being viewed?
A. 1.75
B. 2.75
C. 1.98
D. 2.98
20. What is the rest energy of an electron whose rest mass is 9.11 x 10-31 kg?
A. 0.512 MeV
B. 0.987 MeV
C. 0.345 MeV
D. 0.675 MeV
21. At what speed must a particle move in order to double its mass?
A. 3 x 108 m/sec
B. 1.5 x 108 m/sec
C. 2.6 x 108 m/sec
D. 2 x 108 m/sec
 22. Which of the following electromagnetic waves has the maximum frequency?
A. alpha rays
B. gamma rays
C. beta rays
D. infrared
23. When a solid has a crystalline structure, the atoms arranged in repeating structures called:
A. lattice
B. Unit Cell
C. Crystal
D. Magnetic Domain
24. What is the first coordination number for a Body Centered Cubic (BCC) crystal structure?
A. 12
B. 6
C. 4
D. 8
25. In radioactive decay, the emission of an electron is characteristic of:
A. Alpha Decay
B. Beta Decay
C. Gamma Decay
D. X-rays

26. Modern Physics theories state that the proton and neutron are made up of these fundamental particles.
A. Photons
B. Quarks
C. Muons
D. Neutrinos
27. In what form does energy travel between cellphones?
A. Electromagnetic Radiation or Radio Waves
B. Electrostatic Energy
C. Sound Waves
D. Electricity
28. Einstein theorized that light could be described not only as waves but also as fundamental principles called
what?
A. Photons
B. Quarks
C. Leptons
D. Gluons
29. A 0.25 hp motor is used to lift a load at the rate of 5 cm/s. How great a load can it lift at this constant speed?
A. 381 kg
B. 350 kg
C. 421 kg
D. 400 kg
30. G, as the Universal Gravitational Constant, was measured experimentally by:
A. Newton
B. Cavendish
C. Copernicus
D. Kepler

SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
31. Lenz’s law is an example of the law of conservation of which one of the following?
A. Mass
B. Charge
C. Momentum
D. Energy
32. Copper has an atomic radius of 0.128 nm, an FCC structure and an atomic weight of 63.5 g/mol. What is the
density in g/cm3?
A. 7.87
B. 8.89
C. 13.55
D. 10.49
33. The radius of curvature of the mirror of an object is 6 cm in front of a concave mirror with a focal length of 4
cm is _________.
A. 4 cm
B. 6 cm
C. 8 cm
D. 12 cm
34. What is the frequency of the second harmonic of a 0.52 m long closed organ pipe at a temperature of 20 deg.
Celsius?
A. 660 hz
B. 330 hz
C. 990 hz
D. None of the above
35. How much energy is consumed if a 100 Watt light bulb is operated for 10 minutes?
A. 10 kJ
B. 20 kJ
C. 30 kJ
D. 60 kJ
36. A person sees a lightning bolt in the distanceand tries to guess the distance to the bolt based on the time
between the flash and the thunder. What general time span should she use?
A. 1 second equals 1 mile
B. 5 seconds equal 1 mile
C. 10 seconds equal 1 mile
D. 20 seconds equal 1 mile
37. A point P is 0.5 meter from a point charge of 5x10-8 Coulomb. The intensity of the electric field at point P is
most nearly
A. 2.5 x 10-8 N/C
B. 2.5 x 101 N/C
C. 9.0 x 102 N/C
D. 1.8 x 103 N/C
38. Two forces have magnitudes of 11 Newtons and 5 Newtons. The magnitude of their sum could not be equal
to which of the following values?
A. 16 Newtons
B. 5 Newtons
C. 9 Newtons
D. 7 Newtons
39. A standing wave is formed on a tightly stretched string. The distance between a node and an antinode is:
A. 1/8 wavelength
B. ¼ wavelength
C. ½ wavelength
D. 1 wavelength

40. If 10 Joules of energy are required to move 5 Coulombs of charge between two points, the potential
difference between the two points is equal to how many volts?
A. 2 Volts
B. 50 Volts
C. 15 Volts
D. 5 Volts

41. A 10 volt battery connected to a capacitor delivers a charge of 0.5 Coulombs. The capacitance of the
capacitor is…
A. 2 x 10-2 Farads
B. 5 x 10-2 Farads
C. 2 Farads
D. 5 Farads
42. When a ball is suspended from a spring, the spring stretches by 8 cm. What is the frequency of the ball if it
oscillates up and down?
A. 2.86 Hz
B. 2.36 Hz
C. 1.46 Hz
 D. 1.76 Hz
43. What is the speed of sound if the temperature is 10 degrees Celsius?
A. 331 m/s
B. 337 m/s
C. 343 m/s
D. 3 x 108 m/s
44. The intensity level of one sound is 5dB above another one. The ratio of the intensity of the first to the second
is
A. 1.6/1
B. 3.2/1
C. 5/1
D. 10/1
45. The intensity of one sound is 5 times the intensity of the second. What is the difference in the intensity level?
A. 0.7 dB
B. 5 dB
C. 7 dB
D. 10 dB
46. Using a wheel and axle, a 500 N load can be raised by a force of 60 N applied on the rim of the wheel. What
is the efficiency of the machine if the radii of the wheel and axle are 80 cm and 5 cm respectively?
A. 50 %
B. 52 %
C. 54 %
D. 56 %
47. An apple can provide a person about 20 kJ of work. To what height can a 50-kg man climb if he eats one
apple?
A. 36.8 m
B. 40.8 m
C. 42.6 m
D. 38.6 m
48. The captain of a spacecraft send a pulse of light toward earth and then exactly 1 minute later( as measured
by the clock on the spacecraft), sends a second pulse. An observer on Earth sees the second pulse arrive 4
minutes after the first. What is the velocity of the space craft relative to the earth?
A. 0.987 c
B. 0.968 c
C. 0.954 c
D. 0.943c
49. A certain radioactive isotope was found to have an initial amount of 100 grams. Assuming that its half-life is
5000 years, how long will the original amount be reduced to ¼ of its value?
A. 10000 years
B. 50000 years
C. 2500 years
D. 15000 years
50. At what height above the surface of the earth will your weight be half your weight on the surface of the Earth?
Radius of Earth is 3960 miles.
A. 5600 miles
B. 3600 miles
C. 1640 miles
D. 1460 miles