IGCSE Cambridge (CIE) Physics 15 mins 15 questions

Multiple Choice Questions

Motion
Speed & Velocity / Acceleration / Distance-Time Graphs / Speed-Time Graphs /
Calculating Acceleration from Speed-Time Graphs / Freefall

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Easy Questions
1 Which distance-time graph shows an object moving with constant speed?

(1 mark)

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2 Which speed-time graph shows an object moving with a constant speed?

(1 mark)

3 In which section of the graph is the most distance covered?

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 (1 mark)

4 What is the speed of a bowling ball which travels down a 30 m lane in 2.5 seconds?

A. 75 miles per hour

B. 75 metres per second
C. 12 metres per second
D. 12 miles per hour
(1 mark)

5 A BASE jumper, initially at rest, falls from the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
Air resistance is not ignored.

Which graph represents their motion as they approach terminal velocity?

(1 mark)

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Medium Questions
1 A car travels along a clear 10.0 km section of motorway in 6.0 minutes. It then drives
through 3.0 km of roadworks in 3.0 minutes.

Which calculation will give the correct average speed for the journey?

3.0
A. = 1.00 km/min
3.0
10. 0
B. = 1.67 km/min
6.0
C. 1 . 67 + 1 . 00 = 2.67 km/min
13. 0
D. = 1.44 km/min
9.0
(1 mark)

2 The graph shows the journey undertaken by a car.

Which equation correctly gives the distance travelled by the car?

6.5 × 8.0
A. = 26m
2

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 B. 6 . 5 × 8 . 0 = 52 m
6.5
C. = 0 . 81 m
8.0
8.0
D. = 1.2 m
6.5
(1 mark)

3 During a Go Karting race, a car does 8 laps of a 300 m course. It takes 4.0 minutes to
complete the race.

What was the average speed of the Go Kart?

A. 75 m/s
B. 10 m/s
C. 1.25 m/s
D. 600 m/s
(1 mark)

4 Extended tier only

A charged particle is accelerated when passing through an electric field.

What is the acceleration of the particle at 0.4 s?

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 A. 2.0 × 103 m/s2
B. 2.5 m/s2
C. 2.5 × 10−3 m/s2
D. 2.0 × 10−3 m/s2
(1 mark)

5 Four speed-time graphs have axes with the same scales. Each large square has a height
of 1 m/s and width of 1 s.

Which graph shows the greatest distance covered?

(1 mark)

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Hard Questions
1 Extended tier only

A cannonball is dropped from a three story building.

Which row of the table correctly describes both the speed and the acceleration of the
cannonball as it falls?

You can ignore air resistance for this question.

Speed Acceleration

A constant constant

B increasing constant

C increasing increasing

D constant increasing

(1 mark)

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2 The graph shows the motion of a motorbike.

What is the distance travelled by the motorbike while it is moving at a constant speed?

A. 150 m
B. 50 m
C. 300 m
D. 750 m
(1 mark)

3 A helicopter flies the route shown below.

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 It stops at point I for 30 minutes to pick up some cargo.

The total time the helicopter takes between taking off from H and landing at L is 4.0
hours.

Calculate the average speed of the helicopter when it is flying.

A. 55.6 km/h
B. 250 km/h
C. 62.5 km/h
D. 71.4 km/h
(1 mark)

4 A man claps in a forest. There is nobody around to hear the sound.

However, there is a very flat cliff face some distance away, and the man hears an echo
from the clap 0.84 s later.

The speed of sound in air is 343 m/s.

How far away was the man from the cliff?

A. 408 m
B. 288 m
C. 144 m
D. 204 m
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5 Extended tier only

The graph shows the speed-time graph of a cyclist moving in a straight line.

What is the acceleration of the cyclist at a time of 20 seconds?

A. 0.5 m/s2
B. -0.5 m/s2
C. 0 m/s2
D. 11.5 m/s2
(1 mark)

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