Physics JAMB, WAEC, NECO AND NABTEB Official Past Questions

64

A body of mass 25kg, moving at 3ms-1 on a rough horizontal floor is at rest after sliding through a distance of 2.50m on the floor. Calculate the co-efficient of sliding friction. [g = 10.0ms-2]

  • A. 0.09
  • B. 0.18
  • C. 0.36
  • D. 0.54
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65

The friction which exists between two layers of liquid in relative motion is called

  • A. capillarity
  • B. surface tension
  • C. viscosity
  • D. cohension
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66

Which of the following statements about a spring balance and/or a chemical balance is not correct?

  • A. the chemical balance operates on the principle of moments
  • B. the sprin balance operates on Hooke's law
  • C. either may be used to measure the weight of a substance
  • D. the reading of a spring balance changes over the surface of the earth, while that of the chemical balance remaind constant
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67

Each of the following physical quantities is classified as a vector or a scalar quantity. Which of the classifications is correct?

  • A. electric potential (Vector)
  • B. momentum (scalar)
  • C. gravitational field intensity (scalar)
  • D. magnetic flux density (vector)
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68

Which of the following phenomena is the practical evidence for the existence of the continual motion of molecules?

  • A. Translational motion
  • B. rotational motion
  • C. brownian motion
  • D. oscillatory motion
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