Practice physics class test — Year 2: kinematics and motion graphs.
15 questions drawn at random from a bank of 25, on the block of the programme your teacher is finishing: every attempt is a different test. No penalty for wrong answers, so answer even if you are not sure. At the end you receive by email the correct answer to every question and your weak topics — with an account you see them straight away here on the page. The step-by-step solution unlocks with your first lesson.
A class test is the written test an Italian high-school class sits after each block of the programme; this practice version is multiple choice.
Note on school types. At the liceo scientifico kinematics falls between January and March of Year 2; at the classical, languages and human-sciences high schools it is the first mechanics block of Year 3, with the same programme.
Test in ItalianThe questions of this simulator are in Italian, as in the real exam.
Programme covered by the test
- Distance travelled, displacement and average speed
- Equation of motion for uniform motion in a straight line
- Meeting and chasing between two moving bodies
- Distance-time graphs: the slope is the velocity
- Velocity-time graphs: the area is the displacement
- Uniformly accelerated motion and the time-free equation
- Reaction distance and braking distance
- Free fall and vertical launch
Two worked examples from the test
Un treno regionale percorre un tratto rettilineo alla velocità costante di km/h.
Qual è la sua velocità espressa in metri al secondo?
Solution
- Per passare da km/h a m/s si divide per 3,6 (si moltiplica per 3,6 nel passaggio inverso).
- m/s.
- Controllo di coerenza: il numero espresso in m/s deve sempre risultare più piccolo di quello in km/h.
- Chi moltiplica per ottiene m/s, un valore del tutto assurdo per un treno.
Un furgone percorre i primi km di un tragitto alla velocità costante di km/h e i successivi km alla velocità costante di km/h.
Qual è la velocità media sull'intero tragitto?
Solution
- La velocità media è il rapporto fra spazio totale e tempo totale, mai la media delle due velocità.
- Tempi dei due tratti: h e h.
- Quindi
- La media aritmetica km/h è sbagliata: il furgone impiega più tempo nel tratto lento, che perciò pesa di più.
In the online practice test you will find 13 more questions like these; the correct answer to every question arrives by email.
Prefer paper? Download the test as a PDF (15 questions, 4 pages · 91 KB, ready to print). You receive the solutions by email after taking it online.
Download the PDFWhat a physics test on kinematics and graphs looks like
Equations of motion to write and compare (two bodies meeting or one chasing the other), distance-time and velocity-time graphs to read, uniformly accelerated motion with the time-free equation and a free fall or a vertical launch.
The mistake that costs the grade
Reading the wrong graph: in the distance-time graph the slope is the velocity, in the velocity-time graph the area is the displacement. In a vertical launch, changing the sign of g halfway through the exercise instead of choosing one at the start and keeping it.
How to use this practice test
Take it once cold, without revising and with the timer on: it is there to show you where you stand, not to look good. Then look at your weak topics, revise only those — usually two or three, not the whole chapter — and retake it after a few days. The 15 questions are drawn from a bank of 25, so the second attempt is not the same test and the scores are genuinely comparable.
Is the score not enough?
See which topics lost you the most marks, then read the typical physics mistakes in high school — or we look at your results together: the diagnostic is free.