HESI Practice Test 1 Physics

Which parameter is always a vector?

Which statement about an object undergoing projectile motion is true? (Assume ideal conditions with no friction.)

Which statement about velocity and acceleration is correct?

A man applies a force to a wall by pushing on it. What does the wall do in response?

Which situation best illustrates Newton’s first law of motion?

Which explanation best describes why individuals restrained on a spinning theme-park ride feel like they are being forced outward from the center of rotation?

A ball undergoing projectile motion loses horizontal velocity as it travels. Which factor best explains this deceleration?

Which of the following can be a result of friction on a moving object?

Which of the following best explains why a block on a sloped surface remains stationary rather than sliding down the surface?

Children on a turning bus feel a centrifugal force to the west. What is the direction of the centripetal force?

If a green laser hits a mirror at a 65° angle to the normal, at what angle will it reflect?

Which statement about a magnesium ion is correct?

Which of the following creates electromagnetic waves?

Which type of wave is mechanical?

A reporter on the scene of an approaching hurricane notes that a pier has on one of its piles a large vertical ruler marked in feet. She uses it to measure ocean waves as they approach shore, finding that the waves are reaching as high as 12 feet and as low as 3 feet. What is the peak-to-peak amplitude of these waves?

What did Newton hypothesize when he watched the apple fall to the ground?

How is an airbag useful in car accidents?

The impulse on an object is equal to the change in _____ that it causes.

A volleyball of mass of 2.2 kg leaves the server’s hand at 27 m/s. As the ball crosses above the 2.24m high net, what kind(s) of energy does the ball possess?

What characteristic of a force-time graph represents impulse?

Region X and region Y are approximately the same size, but the magnetic flux through region X is much higher. Which statement about these regions is correct?

A physicist is accelerating ions in a vacuum chamber to examine their behavior. Considering only effects produced by the ions, which of the following will be absent?

Which term best describes a material that allows electric current to flow freely through it?

Which situation is impossible?

In a certain circuit, three wires connect at a node. If one of those wires carries 3 amps into the node and another carries 1 amp out of the node, what current does the third wire carry?