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If you drop an object,it will accelerate downward at a rate of 9.8 meters per second per second.If you instead throw it downwards,its acceleration (in the absence of air resistance) will be


A) less than 9.8 meters per second per second.
B) 9) 8 meters per second per second.
C) greater than 9.8 meters per second per second.

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If a car accelerates from rest at 2 meters per second per second,its speed 3 seconds later will be about


A) 2 m/s.
B) 3 m/s.
C) 4 m/s.
D) 6 m/s.

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Someone standing at the edge of a cliff throws one ball straight up and another ball straight down at the same initial speed.Neglecting air resistance,the ball to hit the ground below the cliff with the greater speed will be


A) the one thrown upward.
B) the one thrown downward.
C) neither -- they will both hit with the same speed.

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An apple falls from a tree and hits the ground 5 meters below.It hits the ground with a speed of about


A) 5 m/s.
B) 10 m/s.
C) 15 m/s.
D) 20 m/s.
E) not enough information given to estimate

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An apple falls from a tree and hits the ground 5 meters below.It hits the ground with a speed of about


A) 5 m/s.
B) 10 m/s.
C) 15 m/s.
D) 20 m/s.
E) not enough information given to estimate

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While a car travels around a circular track at a constant speed,its


A) acceleration is zero.
B) velocity is zero.
C) inertia is zero.
D) none of the above

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It takes 6 seconds for a stone to fall to the bottom of a mine shaft.How deep is the shaft?


A) about 60 m
B) about 120 m
C) about 180 m
D) more than 200 m

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Disregarding air resistance,objects fall with constant


A) velocity.
B) speed.
C) acceleration.
D) distances each successive second.

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The muzzle velocity of a bullet fired from a new rifle is 100 m/s.Neglecting air resistance,at the end of one second a bullet fired straight up into the air will have traveled a distance of


A) (100 - 4.9) m.
B) (100 + 4.9) m.
C) 100 m.
D) 4) 9 m.
E) none of these

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If a projectile is fired straight up at a speed of 10 m/s,the time it takes to reach the top of its path is about


A) 1 second.
B) 2 seconds.
C) 10 seconds.
D) not enough information to estimate

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An object at rest near the surface of a distant planet starts to fall freely.If the acceleration there is twice that of the Earth,its speed one second later would be


A) 10 m/s.
B) 20 m/s.
C) 30 m/s.
D) 40 m/s.

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At one instant an object in free fall is moving downward at 50 meters per second.One second later its speed should be about


A) 25 m/s.
B) 50 m/s.
C) 55 m/s.
D) 60 m/s.
E) 100 m/s.

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An object covers a distance of 8 meters in the first second of travel,another 8 meters during the next second,and 8 meters again during the third second.Its acceleration in meters per second per second is approximately


A) 0)
B) 5)
C) 8)
D) 24.

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In each second of fall,the distance a freely falling object will fall is


A) about 5 m.
B) about 10 m.
C) the same,but not 5 m or 10 m.
D) increasing.
E) none of these

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If an object moves with constant acceleration,its velocity must


A) be constant also.
B) change by the same amount each second.
C) change by varying amounts depending on its speed.
D) always decrease.

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