Kinematics MCQs for grade 9
Multiple Choice Questions
- The average speed of a bus is 20 ms-1, how far can it travel in 10 s?
A. 100 m | B. 200 m | C. 150 m | D. 250 m |
- A truck accelerates uniformly from 15 ms-1 to 20 ms-1 in 5 s. What is the acceleration of the truck?
A. 2 ms-2 | B. 1.5 ms-2 | C. 1 ms-2 | D. 2.5 ms-2 |
- A car moving along a straight line at 20 ms-1 undergoes an acceleration of 4 ms-2. After 2 s, its speed will be
A. 28 ms-1 | B. 16 ms-1 | C. 12 ms-1 | D. 8 ms-1 |
- A bird begins to accelerate at a constant 0.3 ms-2 for 3 s. Its change in velocity is
A. 0.9 m/s | B. 1.5 m/s | C. 1.95 m/s | D. 2.4 m/s |
- A car is going backwards at 5 m/s. After 10 s of uniform acceleration, the car is going forward at 10 m/s. The acceleration is
A. 0.5 ms-2 | B. 0.75 ms-2 | C. 1.5 ms-2 | D. 5 ms-2 |
- The slope of distance-time graph represents
A. acceleration | B. change in acceleration | C. speed | D. distance |
- The area under a speed-time graph
A. acceleration | B. change in acceleration | C. distance | D. velocity |
- A student riding his cycle on a straight flat road covers one block every 7 seconds. If each block is 100 m long, he is traveling at
A. constant speed | B. constant velocity | C. 10 m/s | D. both A and B |
- You drop a rock from a bridge to the river below. When the rock has fallen 4 m, you drop a second rock. As the rocks continue their free fall, their separation
A. increases | B. decreases | C. stay the same | D. none |