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June 3, 2009

1. The “real fundamental particles” of motor is required to lift 800 lbs in 40

matter. seconds through a distance of 40
a. Atom feet?
b. Electron a. 58 hp
c. Proton b. 48 hp
d. Lepton and quarks c. 50 hp
d. 56 hp
2. This varies when number of
neutrons varies. 8. Whenever a net force acts on a
a. Isotopes body, it produces acceleration in the
b. Nuclides direction of the resultant force, and
c. Binding energy acceleration that is directly
d. None of these proportional to the mass of the body.
This theory is popularly known as:
3. Uses 1 molecule + 1 electron. a. Faraday’s Law of Forces
a. Molecular + dot b. Newton’s second Law of Motion
b. Compound c. Hooke’s Law if equilibrium
c. Substance d. Newton’s First Law of Motion
d. Isotope
9. An automobile accelerates at a
4. Change in volume constant rate of 15 mi/hr to 45 mi/hr
a. Glitch in 15 seconds, while traveling in a
b. Variation straight line. What is the average
c. Voluminous acceleration?
d. Transformation a. 2 ft/s
b. 2.12 ft/s
5. When safeguarding of human lives c. 2.39 ft/s
in involved, the Philippines d. 2.93 ft/s
Electronics Code requires that: 10. A 50 kg block of wood rest on the
a. communication companies top of the smooth plane whose
should wait for the revision of length is 3 m and whose altitude is
the code. 0.8 m. How long will it take for the
b. Communication companies block to slide to the bottom of the
should update its practices plane when released?
as soon as possible a. 1.52 sec
c. In case of an accident, b. 2.51 sec
communication companies c. 2.41 sec
may invoke the provision of d. 2.14 sec
his code to bail them out
d. Communication companies may 11. According to this law, “the force
not follow the provision of the between two charges varies directly
code as the magnitude of each charge
and inversely as the square of the
6. A person may offer his services as distance between them.”
an ECE provided that he is a. Law of Universal Gravitation
________. b. Newton’s Law
a. a graduate ECE c. Coulomb’s Law
b. an ECE practitioner with ten d. Inverse Square Law
years experience
c. holding a valid registration as 12. To maximize the horizontal range of
ECE issued by PRC the projectile, which of the following
d. a permanent resident for at least applies?
3 years a. Maximize velocity
b. Maximize the angle of elevation
7. The time required by an elevator to and velocity
lift a weight varies directly with the c. Maximize the angle of elevation
weight and the distance through d. The tangent function of the angle
which it is to be lifted and inversely of trajectory must be equal to
as the power of the motor. If it takes one.
30 seconds for a 10-hp motor to lift
100 lbs through 50 feet, what size of
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13. A boat can travel 8 mi/hr instill water. curve as drawn is called the ___
What is its velocity with respect to corresponding to that point.
the shore if it heads 350 East of a. Residual
North in a current that moves 3 mi/hr b. Dual
west? c. Gradient
a. 8.963 mph d. Tangent
b. 4.556 mph
c. 6.743 mph 20. A process in which heat is absorbed
d. 5.4 mph is called __________
a. Exothermic
14. A horizontal force of 80, 000 N is b. Endothermic
applied unto a 120 ton load in 10 c. Mesothermic
seconds. Find its acceleration. d. Isothermic
a. 0.67 m/s2
b. 0.75m/s2 21. The economic principle that
c. 1.05 m/s2 “Investment will accentuate
d. 1.35 m/s2 economic booms and depressions”
i.e. the cycle of: depression,
15. Pedro runs with a speed of 20 kph. expansion, progress and recession,
Five minutes later, Mario started is called ___ principle.
running to catch Pedro in 20 a. Vicissitude
minutes. Find the velocity of Mario. b. Accelerator
a. 22.5 kph c. Pareto Optimality
b. 25 kph d. Diminishing Returns
c. 27.5 kph
d. 30 kph 22. In statics, _____ is a framework
composed of members joined at
16. What is the change in potential their ends to form a rigid structure.
energy of 50 kg block in an inclined a. Lever
frictionless plane from a point 20 m b. Joists
from the ground to appoint 3 m from c. Purlins
the ground? d. Truss
a. 7338.5 J
b. 8338.5 J 23. ___ is an imaginary fluid which was
c. 9338.5 J thought to permeate all space
d. 5338.5 J through which light waves were
assumed to propagate and the
17. ______ is the process of migration existence of such medium was
of fine particles of solid suspended disproved through the
in liquid to the anode or cathode Michelson-Morley Experiments.
when an electric field is applied to a) Ether
the suspension. b) Elixir
a) Anaphoresis c) Albedo
b) Cataphoresis d) Bingham Fluid
c) Electroporesis
d) Electrolysis 24. In a building structure, if at least one
of its individual members is a multi-
18. The SI unit of LUMINOUS force member, it is called a/ an
INTENSITY in a given direction of a ___________.
source emitting monochromatically a. Truss
at 540 terahertz with a radiant b. Arch
intensity in that direction equal to 1 / c. Bridge
683 Watt per Steradian. d. Frame
a) Stilb
b) Candela 25. A measure of the reflecting power of
c) Amagat a non-luminous object, such as a
d) Blondel planet or a natural satellite or a
surface feature on such a body.
19. The difference between the a. Albedo
observed value of the function and b. Illuminance
the computed value, the vertical c. Irradiance
distance from the plotted point to the d. Chrominance
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b. Rate of Return
26. ____ is a definite amount of matter c. Nominal Rate
whose parts are fixed in position d. Yield
relative to one another.
a. Deformable Body 33. If a long iron cylinder is made to
b. Solid Body rotate at very high speed about its
c. Ideal Fluid longitudinal axis, a slight magnetism
d. Rigid Body is developed proportional to the
angular speed of rotation. This
27. A unit of volume often used in the magnetization is called ____
study of the equations of state of a) Barnet Effect
gases, the molar volume of a gas at b) Degaussing
0oC and one atmosphere. c) Curie Effect
a. Torr d) Hysteresis
b. Amagat
c. Pascal 34. ____ Scale is a scale used in
d. Blondel meteorology in which successive
values of wind velocities are
28. The ratio of interest payment to the assigned numbers ranging from zero
principal for a given unit of time and (calm) to twelve (hurricane) to
is expressed as percentage of the indicate wind forces.
principal. a) Rossi - Forrel
a. Interest b) Richter
b. Interest Rate c) Beaufort
c. Investment d) Buy-Ballot’s
d. Rate of Return
35. A substance which remains rigid
29. According to this law: “In any gas under a shear stress until the
whose volume and mass are kept magnitude of the stress exceeds the
constant, the same rise in yield stress, whereupon, the
temperature produces the same substance flows like a Newtonian
increase of pressure. Fluid.
a) Dalton’s Law a. Ether
b) Amonton’s Law b. Albedo
c) Charle’s Law c. Bingham Fluid
d) Boyle’s Law d. Plastic

30. _____ method is a method of 36. A C.G.S. unit of current equivalent to

depreciation whereby the amount to ten (10) amperes is the _________.
recover is spread over the estimated a) Savart
life of the asset in terms of the b) Biot
periods or units of output. c) Lenz
a. Sum of Years Digit d) Gauss
b. Matheson
c. Straight Line 37. A metric unit of LUMINANCE
d. Declining Balance equivalent to the emission of a
uniform diffuser at a rate of one
31. The study of projectiles and the lumen per square meter.
extent to which their trajectories are a. Blondel
affected by shape, propulsion b. Candela
systems, gravity, temperature and c. Stilb
wind. d. Candle Power
a. Ballistics
b. Astrionics 38. According to_____law, “In a
c. Cybernetics magnetic circuit, the reluctance is
d. Cryogenics the ratio of the magnetomotive force
to the magnetic flux.
32. ______ is the interest rate at which a. Lenz’s
the present worth of the cash flow on b. Ampere’s
a project or the interest earned by an c. Bosanquet’s
investment is zero. d. Biot-Savart
a. Effective Rate
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39. The quantity of heat required to raise components particularly those with
the temperature of one pound of common power supply and is done
water by a degree Fahrenheit. by using a series inductance or
a. Joule shunt capacitance. This process is
b. BTU called ___
c. Calorie a) Degaussing
d. Celsius b) Rectification
c) Inversion
40. “When a beam of light is reflected d) Decoupling
from a surface, polarization may
occur and the sum of angles of 46. ____ is a unit of lens power and is
incidence and refraction at maximum equal to the reciprocal of focal length
polarization is a right angle”. This expressed in meters.
statement is popularly called: ____ a) Steradian
Law. b) Dioptre
a) Brillouin’s c) Acceptance
b) Malus d) Aperture Number
c) Brewster’s
d) Raman’s 47. According to _______Law: “The
product of the atomic weight and
41. The variation in width of the optical specific heat of a solid element
energy gap of certain (atomic heat) is constant for all
semiconductors with the amount of elements.” This constant is about
doping is called _______ effect. 6.4.
a. Burnstein a. Gitna and Laki’s
b. Brattain b. Dulong and Petit’s
c. Fleming c. Duane-Hunt’s
d. Bardeen d. Carnot-Clausium’s

42. _______ is a method of depreciation 48. The quantity of electricity that is

where a fixed sum of money is required to liberate or deposit one
regularly deposited at compound gram-equivalent of an iron,
interest in a real or imaginary fund in equivalent to 96,490 coulombs.
order to accumulate an amount a. Farad
equal to the total depreciation of an b. Faraday
asset at the end of the asset’s c. Statcoulombs
estimated life. d. Biot
a) Sinking Fund
b) Double Declining Balance 49. The SI unit of absorbed dose of
c) SYD ionizing radiation equal to the energy
d) Straight Line in Joules absorbed by one kilogram
of irradiated material.
43. The bluish light emitted by a beam of a) Sievert
a high-energy charged particles b) Gray
passing through a transparent c) Curie
medium at a speed faster than light d) Roentgen
in that given medium.
a. Cherenkov Radiation 50. According to Hubble’s Law: “The
b. Tesla Effect ratio of velocity to distance of
c. Corona Discharge galaxies in the universe is a const2nt
d. Roentgen Effect whose reciprocal is the time
calculated to have elapsed since the
44. ___ is a surface which can be collapsed state of the universe
generated by moving a straight line existed.” This constant, called
called rulings or generators. “Hubble Time” is equal to ___
a. Ruled Surface a) One Light Year
b. Rough Surface b) 1.9x 1010 years
c. Quadric Surface c) 9.46 x 1015 hours
d. Cylinder d) 5.88 x 1012 sec
45. The removal from a circuit or circuit
51. _____ is a unit of luminance equal to
element of any unwanted AC
the luminance of a surface that emits
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one lumen per square centimeter. planes of its bases.

a) Stilb a) Altitude
b) Lambert b) Azimuth
c) Candela c) Element
d) Lux d) Sector

52. According to _____ : “If a plane 58. A car’s brake system exerts 3000
polarized beam of light is allowed to Newtons. It will take ______
fall on a polarizer, the intensity of the seconds before the car stops from a
transmitted beam is proportional to velocity of 30 meters per second.
the square of the cosine of the angle a) 10
between the plane of polarization of b) 15
the incident light and the plane of c) 5
polarization that would be required d) 2
for total transmission of the beam.”
a) Malus Law 59 A mothballed nuclear power plant at
b) Maxwell’s Law Chernobyll operates at an output of
c) Corpuscular Theory 100 megawatts daily. This reactor
d) Newton’s Law required a mass of_____ kilograms
of nuclear fuel.
53. is a CGS unit of viscosity equal to a) 0.96 x 10-5
the tangential force per unit are (in b) 9.6 x 10-5
dynes per square centimeter) c) 0.0096 x 10-5
required to maintain unit difference d) 9.6 x 10-5
in a fluid one centimeter apart.
a) Erg 60. A Landing Ship (LST) BRP LANAO
b) Poise DEL NORTE of the Philippine Navy
c) Slug used during the “Battle of Leyte
d) Hooke GulP’ Golden Anniversary was
drifting at a speed of two knots away
54. The ratio of reflected light to the from the shoreline. The ship’s drift
incident light on a surface is called speed in kilometers per hour is___
___ a) 3.704
a) SWR b) 7.304
b) Reflectance c) 3.407
c) Reflectivity d) 1.852
d) Irradiance
e) Illuminance 61. While chasing Cheetah and Jane,
Tarzan was swinging in the vines
55. In the FPS system, a mass that somewhere in the remote jungles of
moves with an acceleration of one Africa at a maximum height of seven
foot per second squared when a (7) feet and a minimum height of
force of one pound acts on it is three (3) feet above the ground.
expressed in terms of ______. What was Tarzan’s maximum
a) Poundal velocity?
b) Slugs a) 32 ft/sec
c) Dynes b) 18 ft/sec
d) Ergs c) 16 ft/sec
d) 12 ft/sec
56. The SI unit of magnetic flux density
equal to one weber per square 62. Pegasus, the most trusted horse of
meter is the Zeus, exerts one Horse Power to
a) Gauss pull his “Chariot of Fire” at a force
b) Oersted equivalent to 300 Newtons. The
c) Maxwell chariot’s speed in meters per second
d) Tesla is ____
a) 250
57. A right prism is a prism whose lateral b) 0.25
edges are perpendicular to its c) 25
bases; its lateral faces are d) 2.5
rectangles. A _____ of a prism is the
perpendicular distance between the 63. ____ is a unit of pressure or stress
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resulting from a force of one Newton 69. ____ is the distribution of the initial
acting uniformly over an area of one cost by periodic changes to
square meter. operation as in depreciation or the
a) Pascal reduction of a debt by either periodic
b) Torr or irregular prearranged program.
c) Stoke a) Annuity
d) Poise b) Perpetuity
c) Capital Recovery
64. The “The Long March” rocket used d) Amortization
in launching the Philippine satellite
“Aguila” whose expanding gases 70. A 20 kilogram mortar projectile has a
leaves the rocket at 3 kilometers per velocity of 600 meters per second.
second sulting from oxidation of The shell acquired the velocity in a
solid propellants at a rate of 30 mortar barrel 3 meters long. The
kilograms per second. The thrust average force against the shell as it
force developed by the launcher was fired was ____ KiloNewtons.
rocket is about ____ Newtons. a) 2400
a) 9x108 b) 3600
b) 9x109 c) 1200
c) 9x103 d) 600
d) 9x104
71. An aluminum cube, 10 centimeters
65. A unit of distance used in astronomy on a side, is subjected to a shearing
equivalent to 3.08572 x 1013 force of (10)6 Newtons. The top of
kilometers. the cube is displaced 0.03
a) Light -year centimeters with respect to the
b) Parsec bottom. Its shear modulus is ____
c) Furlong Gigapascals.
d) Fathom a) 44
b) 33
66. A member of the Philippine Navy c) 11
Seals under the PN Special Warfare d) 22
Group searching for survivors of the
ill-fated vessel, MIV Dona Paz, 72. A unit of heat which is equal to 1.055
directs a beam of light at the surface joule is the ___
of the sea at an angle of incidence of a. BTU
40 degrees. Assuming a refractive b. Calorie
index of 1.33 for water, the angle of c. Therm
refraction is ___ degrees. d. Torr
a) 58.75
b) 49.75 73. In measuring pressure, 1 millimeter
c) 39.75 of mercury is equivalent to a unit
d) 29.75 called __
a) Pascal
67. _____ is a unit of length equal to b) Psi
1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the c) Torr
orange-red light radiated by the d) Therm
isotope Krypton-86 atom, as
measured in vacuum. Angstrom 74. A 60 gram bullet moving with a
a. Barn speed of 500 meters per second
b. Meter strikes a 5 kilogram block moving in
c. Fathom the same direction with a speed of
d. Furlong 30 meters per second. The resultant
speed of the bullet and the block is
68. ___ factor is mathematical ____ meters/second, assuming the
expression also known as the bullet to be embedded in the block.
present value of the annuity. a) 53.6
a. Present Worth b) 63.5
b. Load c) 35.6
c. Power d) 65.3
d. Demand
75. A ball rebounds vertically from a
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horizontal floor to a height of 20 enemy encampment under “Ka

meters. On the next rebound, it Migo” as an aftermath of the
reaches a height of 14 meters. The infamous “Marihatag Massacre”. The
coefficient of restitution between the projectile’s initial velocity is 300
ball and the floor was___ m/sec and takes off at an angle 30o
a. 0.483 with the horizontal. At what distance
b. 0.837 (in kilometers) from the cannon tube
c. 19.8 will the projectile strike the ground?
d. 16.565 Neglect air resistance, Magnus
Force, Corioli’s Effect, wind shear
76. A flywheel 1.2 meters in diameter and other atmospheric factors.
accelerates uniformly from rest to a) 7.96
2000 rpm in 20 seconds. The b) 9.76
angular acceleration is ____ radians c) 6.79
per second. d) 7.69
a) 14.50
b) 10.45 82. A 60 gram bullet was fired
c) 15.40 horizontally into a 50 kilogram
d) 41.5 sandbag suspended on a rope, 900
mm long. It was calculated from the
observed angle θ, that the bag with
77. How much heat energy will be the bullet embedded in it swings to a
required to heat 100 grams of height of 30 mm. The speed of the
copper from 100C to 100 0C if its bullet as it entered the bag was ___
specific heat is 385 Joule / kg-0K? meters per second.
a) 4.37 kJoule a) 460
b) 3.47 kJoule b) 604
c) 7.34 kJoule c) 640
d) 4.73 kJoule d) 406

78. ______ is the duration of 83. Find the nominal rate which if
9,192,631,770 periods of the converted quarterly could be used
radiation corresponding to the instead of 15% compounded
transition between the two hyperfine semiannually.
levels of the ground state of Cesium- a) 14.37 %
133. b) 14.73 %
a) Hour c) 14.93 %
b) Second d) 15.56 %
c) Minute
d) Microsecond 84. A vertical stone column 12.5 feet
e) Light-year high has an elliptical base with the
major axis twice the length of the
79. A unit of potential difference minor axis. If the stone weighs 160
equivalent to 299.7930 volts is the pounds per cubic foot, the area of
____ the largest axial or longitudinal
a. Statvolt section of the column is ____ square
b. Abvolt feet when the column’s total weight
c. Kilovolt was found to be 12,400 pounds.
d. Gamma a) 46.698
b) 49.668
80. One bar of pressure is equivalent to c) 48.669
____ Pascals. d) 64.968
a) 1 X 105
b) 29.53 85. If money is worth 8%, determine the
c) 101325 present value of a perpetuity of
d) 133.3224 P1,000 payable annually, with the
first payment due at the end of five
81. At Andap Valley at the vicinity of (5) years.
Marihatag, Surigao del Sur, the a) P 9,187.87
Army Artillery Battalion placed on b) P 9,178.87
special mission, fired a 155 mm c) P 9,272.64
howitzer against a heavily fortified d) P 9,272.46
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c) Plastic Deformation
86. In eight years, the amount of P d) Dendritic Collision
2,825 at 5% interest compounded
quarterly will 92. Mr. J. Reyes borrowed money from
be _________. the bank. He received from the bank
a) P 4,166.77 P1842 and promised to pay P2000
b) P 4,397.86 at the end of 10 months. Determine
c) P 4,188.86 the simple interest.
d) P 4,203.97 a. 15.7%
b. 16.1%
87. According to _____ theorem: “The c. 10.29%
velocity of outflow of a liquid from an d. 19.45%
orifice is equal to the square root of
twice the product of the height of the 93. You loan from a firm an amount of
liquid above the opening and the P100, 000 with a rate of simple
acceleration due to gravity” or in interest of 20%, but the interest was
equation form: v = √(2) (g) (h) deducted from the loan at the time
a) Bernoulli’s the money was borrowed. If at the
b) Torricelli’s end of one year, you have to pay the
c) Pascal’s full amount of P100, 000, what is the
d) Archimedes actual rate of interest?
a. 18.8%
88. ____ ratio test is a generalized ratio b. 25%
test or a method of showing if a c. 27.5%
series is convergent or divergent, d. 30%
where the absolute value of the ratio
of each term to the one before it is 94. A VOM has a current selling price of
taken as |(Un+1) Un|. P400. If it’s selling price is expected
a) D “A lembert’s to decline at the rate of 10% per
b) Brinell’s annum due to obsolescence. What
c) De Morgan’s will be its selling price after 5 years?
d) Kruskal-Wallis a. P236.20
b. P200.00
89. The AFP RSBS donated some “seed c. P213.10
money” to generate additional funds d. P245.50
for the AFP Provident Trust Fund
Scholarship program supporting the 95. A man expects to receive P20 000 in
educational needs of beneficiaries of 10 yrs. How much is that money
soldiers killed in action. How long worth now considering interest at 6%
will it take for this amount to triple compounded quarterly?
itself if it is deposited at AFPSLAI a. P12 698.65
compounded at 8% annually? b. P11 025.25
a. 14.3 years c. P17 567.95
b. 41.3 years d. P15 678.45
c. 31.4 years
d. 3.41 years 96. A man wants to make 14% nominal
interest compounded semi-annually
90. A share in the profits of a company on a bond investment. How should
paid to shareholders, the rate of that man be willing to pay now for a
which is declared at the company’ s 12%- P10 000 bond, that will mature
annual general meeting and will in 10 yrs and pays interest semi-
reflect the preceding year’s profit. annually?
a. Common Stock a. P2, 584.19
b. Preferred Stock b. P3, 118.05
c. Dividend c. P8. 940.60
d. ROI d. P867.82

91. ____ refers to a collision of two 97. If you borrowed money from friend
bodies for which the restitution with simple interest of 12%, find the
coefficient is equal to one. present worth of P50 000, which is
a) Elastic Collision due at the end of 7 months.
b) Inelastic Collision a. P46 200
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b. P44 893 99. Maria sold a pen for P600 at 25%

c. P46 729 loss. Find the loss or gain if she sold
d. P45 789 it for P640.
a. 20%
98. This occurs in a situation where a b. 30%
commodity or service is supplied by c. 15%
a number of vendors and there is d. 10%
nothing to prevent additional
vendors entering the market. 100. How much must the paid-up
a. elastic demand capital be of an authorized company
b. perfect competition stock of P2M?
c. monopoly a. P62 500
d. oligopoly b. P100 000
c. P125 000
d. P200 000
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ANSWERS 36. B Biot

1. D Lepton and quarks 37. A Blondel
2. A isotopes 38. C Bosanquet’s
3. A molecular + dot 39. B BTU
4. A glitch 40. C Brewster’s
5. B communication 41. A Burnstein
companies should update its 42. A Sinking Fund
practices as soon as possible 43. A Cherenkov Radiation
6. C holding a valid 44. A Ruled Surface
registration as ECE issued by 45. D Decoupling
PRC 46. D Aperture Number
7. B, t = k Wd/P; k = tP/Wd 47. B Dulong and Petit’s
(tP/Wd)1 = (tP/Wd)2 48. B Faraday
30(10)/100(50) = 40P/800(40) 49. B Gray
P = 48hp 50. B 1.9x 1010 years
8. B 51. B Lambert
9. D 2.93 ft/sec2 NOTE: The following are the
10. A 1.51 secs definitions of the units used in
11. C Optics:
12. D
* CANDELA - the SI unit of
13. C
luminous intensity equal to 1/683
VR = resultant speed of boat by
watt per steradian.
cosine law:
* LUX - the SI unit of illumination
VR = 32 +82 – 2(3)8 c0s 550
intensity equal to 1 lumen per
VR = 6.743 mph
square meter.
14. A
* LUMEN - the SI unit of luminous
m = mass
flux equal to the light emitted per
m = 120 matric ton = 120000 kg
second in a cone of one
F = ma
steradian solid angle by a point
80000 = 120000 a
source of one candela.
a = 0.67 m/s2
*NIT - the SI unit of luminance
15. B
equal to one candela per square
S1 = S2
meter.
v1t1 = v2t2
* STILB - An old metric unit of
20(25) = v2(20)
LUMINANCE equivalent to one
v2 = 25kph
candela per square centimeter
16. B
52. A Malus Law
∆PE = work done on the block 53. C Slug
∆PE = force x distance 54. B Reflectance
force = w = mg = 50(9.81) = 55. B Slugs
490.5 N 56. D Tesla
∆PE = 490.5 x 20 – 30) 57. A Altitude
∆PE = 8338.5 joules 58. A 10
17. C. Electroporesis lmpulse = Momentum; 3000(t) =
18. B Candela 1000(30) or t = 10 seconds
19. A Residual
20. B Endothermic 59. D 9.6 x 10-5
21. B Accelerator According to Einstein’s energy
22. D Truss equation: E = m(c)2 or m = E/(c)2
23. A Ether and 1 watt = 1 joule/ sec
24. D Frame m = [(100 x 106 Joule /sec/day)
25. A Albedo (86400 sec/day)] / [3 x 108 m/sec2]
26. D Rigid Body m = 9.6 x 10-5 kilograms
27. B Amagat 60. A 3.704
28. B Interest Rate 61. C 16 ft/sec
29. B Amonton’s Law By law of conservation of energy:
30. C Straight Line Potential Energy = Kinetic Energy
31. A Ballistics (m)(g)(∆h) = (1/2) (m)(v)2 or v =
32. B Rate of Return √(2)(g)(h) = √(2)(32)(4) = 16 feet
33. A Barnet Effect /second
34. C Beaufort 62. D 2.5
35. C Bingham Fluid 1 HP = 746 watts or joule/ sec;
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* Power = Work / Time = [Force x 79. A Statvolt

Distance] / (Time) = Force x NOTE: 1 Abvolt = 1 x 10-8 volt;
Velocity; 1 Lambda = 1 x 10-9 cubic meter
63. A Pascal (It is a unit of volume)
64. D 9x104 80. A 1 X 105
Force = (Mass)(Acceleration) = 81. A 7.96
(Mass) (Velocity) / (Time) Resolve the initial velocity into Vx
and Vy components. Then: Vx =
Thrust Force = (30 kg/sec)( 3 x
V Cos 30o = 260 m/sec;
103m / sec) = 9 x 104 Newtons
Vy = Vsin 30o = 150 m/sec. Let
65. B Parsec
Sy = Vertical displacement and t
NOTE: 1 light-year = 9.46055 x
= time for projectile to hit the
1012 kilometers
ground.
66. A 58.75
Solve for time (t) using vertical
By Snell’s Law: (n1) (Sinθ1) = (n2)
motion. The
(Sinθ2)
projectile is at its initial level at
1.33 Sin40o = (1) Sin θ2; or Sin θ2
the end of its flight (Sy = 0).
0.855; Therefore: θ2 = Arcsin
Then, Sy = 0 = (150)(t) + (1/2)(-
0.855 = 58.75 degrees
9.81)(t)2, from which t = 30.6
67. C Fathom
seconds.
68. A Present Worth
Considering horizontal motion
69. D Amortization
alone;
70. C 1200
X = (Vx)(t)= (260)(30.6) = 7960
The work expended by the powder
meters
on the shell in the mortar equals
X = 7.96 kilometers..
the Kinetic energy of the moving
82. C 640
shell. Since W = (F)(s) =
Let V1 = Speed of bullet before
(1/2)(m)(v)2 then (F)(3) =
impact; V2 = Speed of (Bag +
(1/2)(20)(600)2 or F = 1200
Bullet) after impact
kilonewtons.
Then V2 = √(20(g)(h) =√
71. B 33
(2)(9.8)(0.03) = 0.767 meter /
Shearing Stress = Tangential
second
Force / Face Area = 106 N /
*Momentum Before Impact =
(0.1m)2 = 108 Pascals
Momentum After Impact
Shearing Strain = Displacement /
Altitude = 0.03 cm / 10 cm = 0.003 (0.06 kg)(V1) + 0 = [(0.06 + 50)
kg]
Shearing Modulus = Stress / Strain
[0.767 m/sec] = 38.39602;
=
Then: V1 = 38.399602/0.06 =
108 Pascal /0.003 = 33 x 109
639.934 m / sec
Pascals
83. B 14.73 %
72. C Therm
Let I = Annual Effective Rate; At
73. C Torr
n = 2;
74. C 35.6
I = [1+ (in/m)]m - 1 = [1 +
Momentum Before Impact =
(0.15/2)2 - 1 = 0.155625
Momentum After Impact (0.06 kg)(
0.155625 = [1 + (in/ 4)]4 - 1;
500 m/sec) + (5 kg)(30 m/sec) =
Extracting the fourth root from
(0.06 + 5)(v); or V= 180 / 5.06 =
both sides:
35.6 meters / sec
1.036822 = 1 + (in/ 4) in=
75. B 0.837
4(0.036822) = 0.14728 or
76. B 10.45
approximately 14.73 %
The wheel starts from rest, Hence:
compounded quarterly.
ωo =0. ω = ωo + α (t). 2000 rpm =
84. B 49.668
[(2000 rev)(60 sec/min)] / [2 (π)
Let a and b be the major and
rad / rev] = 209 radians / second α
minor axes, respectively.
=[ω-ωo] / t = [(209-0) rad / sec]/
Then, b = a /2; The area of
20sec = 10.45 rad / sec2
the ellipse is given by the
77. B 3.47 kJoule
formula: B = (π)(a)(b) =
Heat Required = (Mass)(Specific
(π)(a)(a/2) = [(π)(a)2 ] / (2).
Heat)(Temperature Change)
The Volume of the column is
Q = (0.1 kg)(385 J/kg-oK)(100-10) given by V = (B) (h), then: V
= 3.47 kiloJoule = {[(π) (a)2 ] / ( 2)} (12.5 ft) =
78. B Second 12,400 ft3/ (160 pound /cubic
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feet). D = semi-annual dividend

Solving for a: D = rp
a = √[(12,400)(2)] / D = 0.06 (10000)
[(160)(12.5π)] = √3.947 = D = P600
1.9867 ft; Then the Axial Investment = income
Area = FP = FA + 10000
A = (2a)(h) A = P(1+ 0.07)20=600[(1+0.07)20
(2)(1.9867)(12.5) = –1/0.07] + 10 000
A = 49.6675 square feet. P = P8940.60
85. A P 9,187.87 97. C
P = R / I = 1000 / 0.08 = P F = P + Pin
12,500.00; P = 12,500 / F = P(1 + in)
(1.08)4 = P 9,187.87 50000 = P[1 + 0.12(7/12 yr)]
86. D P 4,203.97 P = P 46729
F = P(1 + i)n = P2,825[ 1 + 98. B, perfect condition
(0.05 / 4)](8)(4) = P 4,203.97 99. A, 20%
87. B Torricelli’s Let: M= marked price
88. A D “A lembert’s P600 = 0.75M
89. A 14.3 years M = 800
F = P(1 + 0.08)n and for the At P640 selling price,
amount to triple, F = 3P = %loss = 1 – 640/800
P(1 + 0.08)n; canceling P % loss = 0.20 = 20%
from both sides; 3 = (1.08)n ; 100. C,
Therefore: Log 3 = n Log subscribed Capital = 4 x paid-up
1.08 or n = Log 3 / Log 1.08 capital
= 14.275 years Authorized Capital = 4 x subscribed
90. C Dividend capital
91. A Elastic Collision Authorized Capital = 16 x paid-up
92. C, capital
For simple interest, Paid-up capital = P125 000
F = P + Pin
F = P(1 + in)
2000 = 1842(1 + I 10/12 yrs)
I = 10.29%
93. B,
P = 100000 – 20% (100000)
P = 80000
I = 20% (100000) = 20000
I = actual interest rate
I = actual interest rate
I = i/P actual = 20000 / 80000
I = 25%
94. A,
F = F = P(1 + I)n
F = 400[1 + ( -0.10)5
F = P236.20
95. B
I = 6% compounded quarterly
I = 6%/4 = 1.5% per quarter
compounded quarterly
N = 10 yrs = 40 quarters
F = P(1 +I)n
20000 = P(1 + I)40
P = P11025.25
96. C
I = 14% compounded semi-annually
I = 14%/2 = 7% per semi-annual
compounded semi-annually
N = 10yrs = 20 semi-annuals
R = bond paying rate
R = 12%
R = 12%/2 = 6% per semi-annual