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OAK INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, BENIN

FIRST TERM EXAMINATION 2024/2025
AP PHYSICS 1
Name: ………………………Class: Grade 11 Date: ………Time: 2 HOURS

PART A
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
INSTRUCTION: Choose the option that best answers the questions
1. Which of the following situations is not B. 2.0 m/s2 downward
possible? C. 5.3 m/s2 upward
A. A body has an instantaneous velocity of zero D. 5.3 m/s2 downward
and non-zero acceleration.
B. A body travels with a positive velocity and a 5. A tennis ball approaches a tennis racket at 32
positive acceleration m/s. The tennis ball rebounds in the opposite
direction at 24 m/s. The ball is in contact with the
C. A body travels with a positive velocity and
racket for .1 s. What is the acceleration of the ball
a negative acceleration. while it is in contact with the racket?
D. A body travels with a constant velocity and A. 280 m/s2
a time-varying acceleration. B. 80 m/s2
C. 560 m/s2
D. 154 m/s2
2. Starting from rest, a particle is accelerated at a
constant rate of 5.0 m/s2. Which one of the
following statements accurately describes the
6. A fighter jet lands on an aircraft carrier at a
motion of this particle?
velocity of 𝑣. The jet requires a distance, D, to
A. The particle travels 5.0 m during each second.
stop on the aircraft carrier. How long does it take
B. The particle has a constant speed of 5.0 m/s.
the jet to stop after it lands?
C. The velocity of the particle increases by 5.0 𝐷
m/s during each second. A.
2𝑣
D. The acceleration of the particle increases by 𝐷2
B.
5.0 m/s2 during each second. 2𝑉
𝐷
C.
𝑣
3. A fast Ilama walks 12 km north, then 16 km east. 2𝐷
D.
The journey takes him 2 hours. Determine the 𝑣
Ilama’s average velocity.
7. Johan just goes and his physics textbook in the
A. 14 km/h air at speed 𝑣. Wow, what a rebel. He finds that
B. 28 km/h the book reaches a maximum height of 𝐻. How
C. 20 km/h high would the book go if he instead were able
D. 10 km/h to throw the book upwards with a speed of 4𝑣?
A. 8H
4. An elevator is moving upwards with a speed of B. 4H
11 m/s. Three seconds later, the elevator is still C. H
moving upward, but its speed has been reduced D. 16H
to 5.0 m/s. What is the average acceleration of
the elevator during the 3.0 s interval? 8. In order to train to fight Vegeta, Goku trains on
A. 2.0 m/s2 upward King Kai’s planet, a planet with ten times
Earth’s gravity; meaning the planet has an
 acceleration due to gravity of 10𝑔. Goku drops D. Case 2, because the toy travels for a longer
a dragon ball on King Kai’s planet (which has time.
10 times gravity) and the dragon ball falls a
height of H in one second. How long would the 12. The graph below shows the velocity 𝑣 as a
same dragon ball fall in 1 second on Earth? function of time 𝑡 for a 1.0 kg object traveling in
A. H a straight line. Which of the following correctly
B. 10H ranks the displacement. ∆𝑥 for the three labeled
𝐻
C. 100 segment of the object’s motion?
𝐻
D. 10

9. An object is initially at the origin. The object

changes its position to the right by 4 units. The
object then changes its position to the left by 3
units. Which of the following correctly indicates
the magnitude of the object’s change in position
and provides a valid justification?
A. 1 unit, because in one dimension vectors
with opposite directions have opposite signs.
B. 1 unit, because the magnitude of the
difference of two vectors is always equal to
the difference between the magnitude of the A. ∆𝑥3 > ∆𝑥2 > ∆𝑥1 > 0
vectors. B. (∆𝑥1 = ∆𝑥3 ) > ∆𝑥2 > 0
C. 7 unit, because the magnitude of the sum of C. ∆𝑥1 = ∆𝑥2 = ∆𝑥3 > 0
two vectors is always equal to the sum of the D. (∆𝑥1 = ∆𝑥3 ) > 0 > ∆𝑥2
magnitudes of the vectors
D. 7 units, because the object moves a distance 13. The graph provided is a velocity vs. time graph
of 4 units followed by a distance of 3 units. for a moving object. Which of the following is
true about the speed of the object during the
10. A 1.5 kg cart starts from rest and then time interval from 0 to 6 s.
accelerates at a constant rate of 2 m/s2 to the
right for 5 s. The displacement of the cart over
this time interval is most nearly
A. 3 m
B. 10 m
C. 15 m
D. 25 m

11. A spring-loaded toy is launched straight upward

from the surface of a table. In Case 1, the toy is
caught at the instant that it reaches its highest
point and held at rest. In Case 2, the toy is
allowed to rise, then fall back to the table. In A. It increases during the entire interval
which case is the magnitude of the average B. It remains the same
velocity of the toy’s free-fall motion the C. It first increases and then decreases
greatest? D. It first decreases and then increases
A. Case 1, because the toy travels for less time
B. Case 1, because the toy has a greater 14. An object on a straight, horizontal track with an
displacement initial positive velocity undergoes a constant
C. Case 2, because the toy travels a greater acceleration of −5𝑚/𝑠 2 for 4 seconds. Which
distance of the following is the change in velocity of the
object during this interval?
 A. −20 𝑚/𝑠 D. It cannot be determined without knowing the
B. −5 𝑚/𝑠 distance traveled by the cars.
C. −1.2 𝑚/𝑠
D. 0 𝑚/𝑠 17.

15.

A cart moves along a horizontal, one –

dimensional track according to the position –
time graph shown, where positive position
values represent locations to the right of the
origin. Which of the following statements
correctly describes the car’s instantaneous
velocity at time 5 s?
A. The cart is moving left with speed 1.0 cm/s
B. The cart is moving right with speed 1.0 cm/s
C. The cart is moving left with speed 0.5 cm/s The graphs represent the speed of a ball thrown
D. The cart is moving right with speed 0.5 cm/s downward as a function of time near the surface
of two planets. Which of the following correctly
16. relates the acceleration 𝑎1 of the ball near the
surface of Planet 1 and the acceleration 𝑎2 of
the ball near the surface of Planet 2?
A. 𝑎1 > 𝑎2 > 0
B. 𝑎2 > 𝑎1 > 0
C. (𝑎1 = 𝑎2 ) > 0
D. 𝑎1 = 𝑎2 = 0

Car A is traveling to the right at a constant 18.

velocity 𝑣𝐴 . At time 𝑡 = 0, it passes Car B,
which is at rest. At the same time (𝑡 = 0), Car
B begins to accelerate with a constant
acceleration of magnitude 𝑎𝐵 , as shown in
Figure 1. Car B has a velocity of 𝑣𝐵 when it
reaches the same position as Car A at time 𝑡 =
𝑡𝑓 , as shown in Figure 2. Which of the
following, if any, is an expression for the time it
takes for Car B to catch up to Car A?
𝑣
A. 𝑎𝐴
𝐵
2𝑣𝐴
A car starts from position 𝑥 = 0 at time 𝑡 = 0
B. and drives along a straight track. The graph
𝑎𝐵
2𝑣𝐴 2 shows the position of the car as a function of 𝑡 2 .
C. 𝑎𝐵
 Which of the following statements correctly 𝑣𝑖2 −𝑣𝑓2
B. + 𝑥𝑖
describes the motion of the car? 2𝑎
𝑣𝑓2 −𝑣𝑖2
A. The car moves with constant speed, C. − 𝑥𝑖
momentarily stops, and then moves again 2𝑎
𝑣𝑖2 −𝑣𝑓2
with the same speed. D. − 𝑥𝑖
2𝑎
B. The car is speeding up at a constant rate,
then continues to speed up but at a slower
rate. 20.
C. The car moves with constant speed, then it
quickly slows down to a different constant
speed.
D. The car is speeding up at a constant rate,
then slows down at a constant rate.

19. A car on a straight track is at position 𝑥𝑖 and has

initial speed 𝑣𝑖 when it begins to slow down
with constant acceleration of magnitude 𝑎.
When the car reaches position 𝑥𝑓 it has speed Given the graph of the velocity vs. time of a
penguin flying due south for the winter. At what
𝑣𝑓 . Which of the following is a correct
point did the penguin stop its forward motion?
expression for 𝑥𝑓 ? A. A
𝑣𝑓2 −𝑣𝑖2
A. + 𝑥𝑖 B. B
2𝑎
C. C
D. D

PART B
FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS
INSTRUCTION: You must show all steps required to arrive at the correct answer for the problems below,
including any diagrams

1. Ball A is thrown directly upwards out a window. Ball B is dropped out the same window.
a) Sketch a graph of the velocity vs. time for
i. ball A and
ii. ball B

b) A student claims “Both balls have the same acceleration so they both hit the ground going at the same
speed”. What, if anything is wrong with the student’s statement? Explain why the student is correct or
incorrect. Justify your answer in a single sentence.

2. Rather than studying for physics, Brian decides to throw a stapler upwards at an initial speed of 30 m/s.
a) Find the time(s) when the stapler is 30 feet above Brian.
b) As the stapler is traveling downwards, it hits the roof of the Jupiter lighthouse, which is 25 m above the
ground. Find the speed with which the stapler hits the roof.
c) (i) At what part of its path does the stapler have its minimum velocity? No justification needed.
(ii) At what part of its path does the stapler have its minimum speed? No justification needed.
d) Suppose that Brian had instead thrown the stapler up at 60 m/s, double the speed from before.
i. How would the time in which the stapler is in the air compare (increase/decrease/remain the
same)? Briefly justify your answer
ii. How would the displacement of the stapler compare (increase/decrease/remain the same)?
Briefly justify your answer.
3. The displacement vs. time for a Panda is given in the graph beside.

a) What is the average speed of the Panda in the 10 seconds?

b) Draw a velocity time graph for the Panda’s motion
c) Use the graphs to answer the following questions:
i) Determine an interval when the Panda is at rest
ii) During which interval is the speed of the Panda a maxi-
mum
iii) Determine an interval when the Panda has a non – zero
acceleration.