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MCAT Physics Questions – Overall Diagnostic Test (Basics) – Easy to Hard

MCAT Physics Questions – Overall Diagnostic Test (Basics) – Easy to Hard

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A car accelerates uniformly from rest at a rate of \(3.0 \, \text{m/s}^2.\) How far does it travel in \(4\) seconds?

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A ball is thrown vertically upward with a velocity of \(20 \, \text{m/s}.\) How long does it take to reach its highest point?

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A projectile is launched with an initial velocity of \(15 \, \text{m/s}\) at an angle of \(30^\circ\) to the horizontal. What is the horizontal range of the projectile? Assume no air resistance.

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A \(5 \, \text{kg}\) object is acted upon by a net force of \(20 \, \text{N}.\) What is its acceleration?

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A \(10 \, \text{kg}\) box is pulled with a force of \(50 \, \text{N}\) on a frictionless surface. What is the acceleration of the box?

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A car travels around a circular track of radius \(50 \, \text{m}\) at a constant speed of \(20 \, \text{m/s}.\) What is the centripetal acceleration of the car?

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A \(2.0 \, \text{kg}\) object is lifted vertically to a height of \(5.0 \, \text{m}.\) What is the work done on the object by the lifting force? Assume \(g = 9.8 \, \text{m/s}^2\).

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A roller coaster starts at a height of \(20 \, \text{m}\) with an initial velocity of \(5.0 \, \text{m/s}.\) What is its velocity at the bottom of the hill? Ignore air resistance. (\(g = 9.8 \, \text{m/s}^2\))

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A \(10 \, \text{kg}\) box is dragged with a constant speed by a force of \(50 \, \text{N}\) over \(4.0 \, \text{m}\). What is the power output if the motion takes \(5.0\) seconds?

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A \(3.0 \, \text{kg}\) ball moving at \(4.0 \, \text{m/s}\) collides with a \(2.0 \, \text{kg}\) ball at rest. After the collision, the \(3.0 \, \text{kg}\) ball moves at \(2.0 \, \text{m/s}\). What is the velocity of the \(2.0 \, \text{kg}\) ball after the collision? Assume a perfectly elastic collision.

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Two cars of masses \(1500 \, \text{kg}\) and \(1000 \, \text{kg}\) collide head-on. The \(1500 \, \text{kg}\) car is moving at \(20 \, \text{m/s}\) and comes to rest after the collision. If the \(1000 \, \text{kg}\) car was initially at rest, what is its velocity after the collision?

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Two objects collide inelastically, sticking together after the collision. Object 1 has mass \(3.0 \, \text{kg}\) and velocity \(5.0 \, \text{m/s}\), and object 2 has mass \(2.0 \, \text{kg}\) and velocity \(-3.0 \, \text{m/s}\). What is their combined velocity after the collision?

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A block attached to a spring oscillates with a period of \(2.0 \, \text{s}.\) If the spring constant is \(50 \, \text{N/m}\), what is the mass of the block?

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A simple pendulum has a length of \(1.5 \, \text{m}.\) What is its period on Earth (\(g = 9.8 \, \text{m/s}^2\))?

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What is the total energy of a mass-spring system with mass \(0.5 \, \text{kg}\) oscillating at an amplitude of \(0.2 \, \text{m}\) and spring constant \(200 \, \text{N/m}?\)

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A wave has a wavelength of \(0.5 \, \text{m}\) and a frequency of \(200 \, \text{Hz}.\) What is its speed?

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What happens to the wavelength of a wave when it passes into a medium where its speed decreases?

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Two sound waves with slightly different frequencies are played together. What phenomenon will be observed?

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A sound wave has a frequency of \(256 \, \text{Hz}\). If the speed of sound is \(343 \, \text{m/s}\), what is its wavelength?

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A pipe closed at one end has a fundamental frequency of \(440 \, \text{Hz}.\) What is the length of the pipe? (\(v = 343 \, \text{m/s}\))

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The Doppler effect occurs when:

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Two charges \(q_1 = +3 \times 10^{-6} \, \text{C}\) and \(q_2 = -2 \times 10^{-6} \, \text{C}\) are separated by \(0.5 \, \text{m}.\) What is the force between them? (\(k = 9 \times 10^9 \, \text{N} \cdot \text{m}^2/\text{C}^2\))

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What is the electric potential at a distance of \(0.2 \, \text{m}\) from a point charge of \(+5 \times 10^{-6} \, \text{C}?\) (\(k = 9 \times 10^9 \, \text{N} \cdot \text{m}^2/\text{C}^2\))

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An electric field of magnitude \(500 \, \text{N/C}\) acts on a charge of \(-2 \times 10^{-6} \, \text{C}.\) What is the force on the charge?

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A resistor with resistance \(4 \, \Omega\) is connected to a \(12 \, \text{V}\) battery. What is the current through the resistor?

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Two resistors of \(6 \, \Omega\) and \(3 \, \Omega\) are connected in series. What is their equivalent resistance?

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A parallel circuit has two branches: one with a \(4 \, \Omega\) resistor and the other with a \(6 \, \Omega\) resistor. What is the equivalent resistance?

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A proton moving with velocity \(v\) enters a magnetic field \(B\). What is the force on the proton when it is moving parallel to the magnetic field?

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A magnetic field of \(0.2 \, \text{T}\) induces an EMF in a coil of \(100 \, \text{turns}\) when the flux changes by \(0.5 \, \text{Wb}\) in \(2 \, \text{s}\). What is the EMF?

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An electron enters a region with a magnetic field of \(0.1 \, \text{T}\) and velocity of \(2 \times 10^6 \, \text{m/s}\). If the angle between \(v\) and \(B\) is \(90^\circ\), what is the magnetic force? (\(q_e = -1.6 \times 10^{-19} \, \text{C}\))

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A \(500 \, \text{g}\) piece of aluminum (\(c = 900 \, \text{J/kg} \cdot \degree \text{C}\)) is heated from \(25 \, \degree \text{C}\) to \(75 \, \degree \text{C}\). How much heat is required?

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Which of the following is an example of heat transfer by convection?

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A metal bar \(1.5 \, \text{m}\) long experiences a temperature increase of \(100 \, \degree \text{C}\), causing it to expand by \(1.2 \, \text{mm}\). What is the coefficient of linear expansion?

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Which statement best describes the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics?

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A heat engine takes in \(200 \, \text{J}\) of heat and does \(50 \, \text{J}\) of work. What is the efficiency of the engine?

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Which of the following is a statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

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What is the energy of a photon emitted when an electron transitions from the \(n=3\) to \(n=2\) energy level in a hydrogen atom? (\(E_n = -13.6 \, \text{eV}/n^2\))

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Which type of radioactive decay emits a helium nucleus?

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Calculate the binding energy per nucleon of a helium-4 nucleus with mass defect \(\Delta m = 0.0304 \, \text{u}\). (\(1 \, \text{u} = 931 \, \text{MeV/c}^2\))

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In the photoelectric effect, which property of light determines the kinetic energy of emitted electrons?

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Which of the following best describes wave-particle duality?

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What is the threshold frequency for a metal with a work function of \(3.2 \, \text{eV}\)? (\(h = 4.14 \times 10^{-15} \, \text{eV} \cdot \text{s}\))

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What is the pressure exerted by a column of water \(10 \, \text{m}\) high? (\(\rho = 1000 \, \text{kg/m}^3, \ g = 9.8 \, \text{m/s}^2\))

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A spherical object with a density of \(500 \, \text{kg/m}^3\) and volume \(0.01 \, \text{m}^3\) is submerged in water (\(\rho = 1000 \, \text{kg/m}^3\)). What is the buoyant force acting on it? (\(g = 9.8 \, \text{m/s}^2\))

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According to the continuity equation, if the cross-sectional area of a pipe decreases, what happens to the fluid velocity?

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In laminar flow, which factor primarily determines the resistance to flow in a pipe?

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Which phenomenon explains the rise of liquid in a narrow tube against gravity?

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What is the relationship between surface tension and the radius of curvature of a liquid drop?

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