MCQ TEST
Subject: Physics
Q1. Motion along a straight line is called:
a) Curvilinear motion
b) Rotational motion
c) Rectilinear motion
d) Oscillatory motion
Q2. Which of the following is an example of oscillatory motion?
a) Car on a highway
b) Clock pendulum
c) Earth around the Sun
d) Bullet fired from a gun
Q3. Motion along a curved path is known as:
a) Rectilinear motion
b) Oscillatory motion
c) Curvilinear motion
d) Vibratory motion
Q4. The hands of a clock exhibit which type of motion?
a) Rectilinear
b) Rotational
c) Translational
d) Oscillatory
Q5. If an object covers unequal distances in equal time intervals, it is said to be in:
a) Uniform motion
b) Non-uniform motion
c) Circular motion
d) Vibratory motion
Q6. Which of the following is an example of translational motion?
a) Spinning top
b) Swinging pendulum
c) Car moving on a straight road
d) Rotating wheel
Q7. In which type of motion does the object move back and forth around a fixed
position?
a) Circular motion
b) Rotational motion
c) Oscillatory motion
d) Uniform motion
Q8. A satellite revolving around the Earth is an example of:
a) Oscillatory motion
b) Curvilinear motion
c) Rotational motion
d) Translational motion
Q9. Which motion is not associated with direction?
a) Velocity
b) Displacement
c) Speed
d) Acceleration
Q10. A fan rotating about its axis is an example of:
a) Translational motion
b) Oscillatory motion
c) Rotational motion
d) Rectilinear motion
Q11. What is the position of an object?
a) The total length of the path it travels
b) The direction in which it moves
c) The location of the object from a reference point
d) The force acting on the object
Q12. Displacement is:
a) Always equal to distance
b) The total path length
c) The change in position in a particular direction
d) A scalar quantity
Q13. Distance is always:
a) Zero
b) Positive or negative
c) Less than displacement
d) Greater than or equal to displacement
Q14. Which of the following quantities is a vector?
a) Distance
b) Speed
c) Displacement
d) Mass
Q15. When can the distance and displacement of a moving object be the same?
a) When the object moves in a zigzag path
b) When the object returns to the starting point
c) When the object moves in a straight line in one direction
d) Never
Q16. Displacement becomes zero when:
a) Distance is maximum
b) Object moves in a straight line
c) Object returns to the initial position
d) Object is at rest
Q17. The SI unit of displacement is:
a) Second
b) Kilogram
c) Metre
d) Newton
Q18. Displacement can be zero even when:
a) Distance is also zero
b) The object has not moved
c) The object returns to the starting point
d) The object moves in a straight line
Q19. Which of the following is always true for distance?
a) It is equal to displacement
b) It is a vector
c) It is always positive
d) It is always zero at the end of motion
Q20. If an object moves in a circular path and comes back to the starting point, its
displacement is:
a) Equal to the circumference
b) Greater than distance
c) Equal to radius
d) Zero
Q21. Displacement depends on:
a) Only the total distance covered
b) The path taken
c) The initial and final positions
d) The time taken
Q22. If an object moves in a zigzag path from one point to another, then:
a) Distance is less than displacement
b) Distance is more than displacement
c) Both are equal
d) Displacement is always zero
Q23. Which statement is false about displacement?
a) It has both magnitude and direction
b) It can be zero
c) It can be greater than distance
d) It is a vector quantity
Q24. What changes when the direction of motion changes but speed remains the
same?
a) Distance
b) Position only
c) Displacement
d) Both distance and displacement
Q25. Distance and displacement will be equal when the path is:
a) Circular
b) Curved
c) Straight and in one direction
d) Zigzag
Q26. Displacement gives information about:
a) How much ground is covered
b) Direction only
c) Position change and direction
d) Time taken
Q27. A person walks around a park and comes back to the starting point. Which is
true?
a) Distance = Displacement
b) Displacement is zero
c) Distance is zero
d) Both are zero
