50+ Gk MCQs About Physics: Unit, Dimension, Motion…

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The standard used for measuring a physical quantity is called unit.

Units are of 2 types:
  1. Fundamental Unit
  2. Derived Unit
1. What is the SI unit of light year?

A) Intensity of Light

B) Decibel

C) Distance

D) Time

Answer: C) Distance

2. What is the SI unit of luminous intensity?

A) Watt

B) Lux

C) Candela

D) Lumen

Answer: C) Candela

3. Newton is equal to?

A) 1 kg m/s2

B) 1 kg m/s-2

C) 1 kg m/s-1

D) 1 kg m/s1

Answer: A) 1 kg m/s2

4. 1 pound is equal to how many ounces?

A) 20

B) 12

C) 18

D) 16

Answer: D) 16

5. The rate of change of momentum of a body is equal to?

A) Impulse

B) Force

C) Power

D) Energy

Answer: B) Force

6. Negative acceleration is in the opposite direction of?

A) Force

B) Distance

C) Velocity

D) Momentum

Answer: C) Velocity

7. Which one of the following is a scalar quantity?

A) Gravity

B) Mass

C) Weight

D) Momentum

Answer: B) Mass

8. 1 Horsepower is equal to how many watts?

A) 750

B) 780

C) 746

D) 700

Answer: C) 746

9. Distance of star is measured in?

A) Light Year

B) Cosmic Kilometer

C) Seller Mile

D) Galactic Unit

Answer: A) Light Year

10. Which instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure?

A) Thermometer

B) Hygrometer

C) Anemometer

D) Barometer

Answer: D) Barometer

11. What is the point of lever which does not move called?

A) Core

B) Fulcrum

C) Load

D) Effort

Answer: B) Fulcrum

12. What type of energy is possessed by a stretched rubber band?

A) Thermal Energy

B) Kinetic Energy

C) Potential Energy

D) Chemical Energy

Answer: C) Potential Energy

13. When a bullet is fired from a gun, its potential energy is converted into?

A) Chemical Energy

B) Heat Energy

C) Mechanical Energy

D) Kinetic Energy

Answer: D) Kinetic Energy

14. The energy possessed by a body due to its change in position or shape is called?

A) Potential Energy

B) Chemical Energy

C) Nuclear Energy

D) Kinetic Energy

Answer: A) Potential Energy

15. A geostationary satellite has an orbital period of?

A) 24 Hours

B) 12 Hours

C) 6 Hours

D) 3 Hours

Answer: A) 24 Hours

16. Soap bubble attains spherical shape due to?

A) Viscosity

B) Surface Tension

C) Pressure

D) Inertia

Answer: B) Surface Tension

17. What is the SI unit of Power?

A) Watt

B) Work

C) Electricity

D) Current

Answer: A) Watt

18. If some object is weighed when submerged in water, what will happen to its weight compared to its weight in air?

A) Increase

B) Decrease

C) Remain exactly the same

D) Increase or decrease cannot be predicted

Answer: B) Decrease

19. When pure water boils vigorously, the bubbles that rise to the surface are composed primarily of what?

A) Air

B) Hydrogen

C) Hydrogen and Oxygen

D) Water Vapor

Answer: D) Water Vapor

20. Bernoulli’s theorem is based on the conservation of?

A) Mass

B) Momentum

C) Conservation of Energy

D) Static Fluid Pressure

Answer: Conservation of Energy

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21. Bernoulli’s theorem is applicable to?

A) Flow of Liquids

B) Viscosity

C) Surface Tension

D) All of the Above

Answer: A) Flow of Liquids

22. Which physicists explained the existence of Booyant force?

A) Archimedes

B) Blaise Pascal

C) Charles Augustine

D) Issac Newton

Answer: A) Archimedes

23. An ideal liquid flows through a horizontal tube of variable diameter. The pressure is lowest where the?

A) Velocity is highest

B) Velocity is lowest

C) Diameter is largest

D) None of these

Answer: A) Velocity is highest

24. Which of the following physicists explained the existence of Booyant force?

A) Archimedes

B) Blaise Pascal

C) Charles Augustine de Coulomb

D) Isaac Newton

Answer: A) Archimedes

25. If the earth stops rotating, then the value of gravity will be?

A) Increase

B) Decrease

C) Remain Constant

D) Become Zero

Answer: A) Increase

26. The velocity of raindrop attains constant value because of?

A) Surface Tension

B) Upthrust of Air

C) Viscous Force Exerted by Air

D) Air Currents

Answer: C) Viscous force exerted by air

27. The terminal velocity of a small sized spherical body of radius falling in a viscous liquid is proportional to?

A) 1/2

B) 1

C) r2

D) 2

Answer: C) r2

28. The velocity of wind is measured by?

A) Barometer

B) Anemometer

C) Hydrometer

D) Manometer

Answer: B) Anemometer

29. When the terminal velocity is reached, the acceleration of a body moving through a viscous medium is?

A) Zero

B) Positive

C) Negative

D) None of these

Answer: A) Zero

30. If temperature rises, the coefficient of viscosity of liquid will be?

A) Decreases

C) Remains unchanged

B) Increases

D) None of these

Answer: A) Decreases

31. A small and a large raindrop are falling through air then?

A) The large drop moves faster

B) The small drop moves faster

C) Both moves with same speed

D) None of the above

Answer: A) The large drop moves faster

32. The weight of the body at the center of the earth is?

A) Infinite

B) Zero

C) Double of Current weight

D) None of the Above

Answer: B) Zero

33. When some detergent is added to water, the surface tension?

A) Increases

B) Decreases

C) Remains unaffected

D) None of these

Answer: B) Decreases

34. If a liquid wets a solid surface, the angle of contact is?

A) 0°

B) 90°

C) Less than 90°

D) Greater than 90°

Answer: C) Less than 90°

35. A liquid will not wet the surface of solid if the angle of contact is?

A) Acute Angle

B) Obtuse Angle

C) Zero

D) π/2

Answer: B) Obtuse Angle

36. The tendency of liquid drop to contract and occupy minimum area due to?

A) Surface Tension

B) Vapor Pressure

C) Density

D) Viscosity

Answer: A) Surface Tension

37. The angle of contact of a liquid with a solid does not depend on?

A) The angle of the inclination of the solid surface to the liquid surface

B) The nature of the liquid and the solid

C) The medium which exists above the free surface of the liquid

D) None of these

Answer: A) The angle of the inclination of the solid surface to the liquid surface

38. Density is the ratio of?

A) Mass X Volume

B) Volume / Mass

C) Mass + Volume

D) Mass / Volume

Answer: D) Mass / Volume

39. When the temperature increases, the angle of contact of a liquid?

A) Increases

B) Decreases

C) Remain The Same

D) None of These

Answer: B) Decreases

40. Two capillary tubes of different diameters are dipped in water. The rise of water is?

A) Greater in the tube of smaller diameter

B) Greater in the tube of larger diameter

C) Same in both tubes

D) None of these

Answer: A) Greater in the tube of smaller diameter

41. Which principle involved in the absorption of water by soil?

A) Condensation

B) Capillary action

C) Principle of absorption

D) Suction action

Answer: B) Capillary action

42. When there are no external forces the shape of a liquid drop is determined by?

A) surface tension of the liquid

B) Density of the liquid

C) Viscosity of air

D) Temperature of air

Answer: A) surface tension of the liquid

43. Insects can move on the surface of water without sinking due to?

A) Dynamic lift

B) Viscosity of water

C) Surface tension of water

D) None of the above

Answer: C) Surface tension of water

44. Meniscus of mercury in a capillary is?

A) Concave

B) Convex

C) Plane

D) Infinite

Answer: B) Convex

45. With the rise of temperature, the surface tension of a liquid is?

A) Increases

B) Decreases

C) Remains unchanged

D) None of these

Answer: B) Decreases

46. What is the dimensional formula for universal gravitational?

A) M²

B) Convex

C) M-1L3T-2

D) Cylindrical

Answer: C) M-1L3T-2

47. A student measures certain lengths using a meter scale having least count equal to 1 mm. Which one of the following measurements is more precise?

A) 0.50 mm

B) 29.07 cm

C) 0.925 m

D) 910 mm

Answer: C) 0.925 m

48. Water drops do not stick to the oily surface due to?

A) Lack of adhesive force

B) Surface tension

C) Cannot mix each other

D) Water is lighter than oil

Answer: A) Lack of adhesive force

49. Newton’s first law is also called as?

A) Law of Moments

B) Law of Inertia

C) Law of Momentum

D) Law of Energy

Answer: B) Law of Inertia

50. If an object moves at a non-zero constant acceleration for a certain interval of time, then the distance it covers in that time?

A) Depends on its initial velocity.

B) Is independent of its initial velocity.

C) Increases linearly with time.

D) Depends on its initial displacement.

Answer: A) Depends on its initial velocity.

51. Fat can be separated from milk in a cream separator because of?

A) Cohesive Force

B) Gravitational Force

C) Centripetal Force

D) Centrifugal Force

Answer: D) Centrifugal Force

52. A liquid drop tends to assume a spherical shape because of?

A) Surface Tension

B) Viscous Force

C) Gravitational Force

D) Elastic Force

Answer: A) Surface Tension

53. Creation of something from nothing is against the law of?

A) Conservation of Momentum

B) Conservation of Mass-Energy

C) Multiple Proportions

D) Constant Proportions

Answer: B) Conservation of Mass-Energy

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