Model Questions for Scientific Assistant (IMD) Exam (Paper-2) PHYSICS - Set 12

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1. If you kick a football so that the force of your kick passes through its center of gravity. As it flies through the air, the football will

a. not move
b. rotate clockwise
c. rotate counter-clockwise
d. not rotate

2. As you slow down your car, the rotational speed of your tires is halved. The linear speed of a bug sitting at the edge of your tire will

a. double
b. quadruple
c. stay the same
d. be halved

3. During an ice age, the polar ice caps grow in size and the water-level drops in the oceans all around the earth. This redistribution of mass will cause the earth’s day to become

a. longer
b. shorter
c. stay the same
d. the earth will stop rotating

4. Tides due to sun and moon partially cancel each other, resulting in lower high tides.

a. Law of universal gravitation
b. Inverse-square law
c. Weightlessness
d. Neap tide

5. In free fall, an object appears to experience no weight.

a. Law of universal gravitation
b. Inverse-square law
c. Weightlessness
d. Spring tide

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6. Tides due to sun and moon reinforce each other, resulting in higher high tides.

a. Law of universal gravitation
b. Inverse-square law
c. Weightlessness
d. Spring tide

7. Intensity or force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

a. Law of universal gravitation
b. Inverse-square law
c. Weightlessness
d. Spring tide

8. The region of gravitational influence around a massive object. Other objects within this region feel a force of attraction towards the massive object.

a. Law of universal gravitation
b. Inverse-square law
c. Weightlessness
d. Spring tide

9. Two objects attract each other with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the distance between the objects.

a. Law of universal gravitation
b. Inverse-square law
c. Weightlessness
d. Spring tide

10. A big explosion that is believed to have resulted in the expanding universe. The origin or creation event of the universe.

a. Law of universal gravitation
b. Big bang
c. Spring tide
d. Neap tide

Answers

1. (d) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (d) 5. (c) 6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (*) 9. (a) 10. (b)

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