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The document contains 12 multiple choice questions covering various physics concepts including: 1. Scalars and vectors (questions 1, 9, 11) 2. Density, mass, and volume (questions 2, 6, 7) 3. Speed, velocity, and acceleration (questions 4b, 8, 10) 3. Average speed (question 12) The questions assess understanding of fundamental physics quantities, relationships, and calculations.

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O Level Past Paper

The document contains 12 multiple choice questions covering various physics concepts including: 1. Scalars and vectors (questions 1, 9, 11) 2. Density, mass, and volume (questions 2, 6, 7) 3. Speed, velocity, and acceleration (questions 4b, 8, 10) 3. Average speed (question 12) The questions assess understanding of fundamental physics quantities, relationships, and calculations.

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1. Which list contains only scalar quantities?

A. acceleration, displacement, velocity


B. distance, force, speed
C. force, length, time
D. length, mass, speed
1. A box has an internal volume of 1000 cm 3 . When a solid object is placed in
the closed box, the volume of air in the box is 520 cm 3 .
The density of the object is 8.00g/ cm3 .

What is the mass of the object?


A. 60.0g B. 3840g C. 4160g D.
8000g
2. The following statements are about motion.
1. A plane flies due East for 600km.
2. A runners average speed in a race around a track is 5m/ s.
3. A snail crawls at 3mm/ s in a straight line towards a lettuce.
3. A tourist travels 500km on a journey.
Which statements describe vector quantities?
A .1 and 2 B.1 and 3 C. 2 and 3 D.2 and 4

4. Fig. 1.1 shows a cricket ball as it comes into contact with a cricket bat.

The cricket ball has a mass of 0.16 kg and it hits the bat with a speed of 25 m / s. After
being in contact with the bat for 0.0013 s, the ball rebounds with a speed of 22 m/ s in
the direction exactly opposite to its original direction.
(a). State the difference between speed and velocity.
(b) Calculate
(i) the change in velocity of the cricket ball,
(ii) the average acceleration of the ball whilst it is in contact with the bat,
(iii) the average force exerted on the ball by the bat.
5. Fig. 9.1 shows a car braking on a road and coming to rest.
(a) Explain what is meant by
(i) the thinking distance,
(ii) the braking distance.
(b) An engineer conducts a test on the car and finds that the braking distance
is greater when the car is fully loaded than when it is unloaded.
(i) Apart from the road conditions, state what must be kept the same
in the test.
(ii) Explain why the car has a greater braking distance when fully
loaded.
(c) State and explain how one road condition affects the braking distance of
the car. Use ideas about friction in your answer.
(d) Explain how wider tyres affect the pressure of the car on the surface of
the road.
(e) The car has a total mass of 900 kg and is travelling at 20 m / s. At time t
= 0, the driver sees an accident ahead. He applies the brakes at t = 0.60
s to stop the car. After the brakes are applied, the car comes to rest in a
further 4.0 s.
(i) Calculate the deceleration of the car as it brakes.
(ii) Calculate the braking force acting on the car.
(iii) On Fig. 9.2, draw a speed-time graph for the car as it brakes

(iv) State how your graph in (iii) can be used to find the total distance
travelled by the car.
6. The figure shows a boy moving a water container in a wheelbarrow.
The container has a volume of 0.15 m3 and is filled with water of density
1000 kg / m3
(a) Calculate the mass of water in the container when it is full.
(b) It is harder to stop the wheelbarrow when the container is full than
when it is empty. Explain this.
7. Paper is sold in packets labelled 80g/ m2 . This means that a sheet of
paper of area 10000cm2 has a mass of 80 g. The thickness of each sheet
is 0.11mm.
What is the density of the paper?
A 0.073g/ cm3 B 0.088g/ cm3 C 0.73g/ cm3 D 0.88g/
cm3
8. A car is stationary at a set of traffic lights. When the lights turn green, the
car begins to move and continues to speed up until it reaches the
maximum speed allowed. It continues to travel at this constant speed for
the rest of the journey. What happens to the acceleration and to the
velocity of the car during this journey?
A. Both the acceleration and the velocity change.
B. Only the acceleration changes.
C. Only the velocity changes.
D. Neither the acceleration nor the velocity changes.
9. Which pair of quantities includes one scalar and one vector?
A. mass time B. temperature time

C temperature velocity D velocity weight

10. A quantity is quoted as having a value of 6.2ms. In what units is it


measured?
A. metres B. metres per second C . microseconds D . milliseconds
11. Which statement about scalars and vectors is correct?
A. scalar has direction but no size B. A scalar has size but
no direction.

C. A vector has direction but no size. D. A vector has size


but no direction.

12. A car takes 1 hour to travel 100 km along a main road and then
hour to travel 20 km along a side road.
What is the average speed of the car for the whole journey?
A 60km/ h B 70km/ h C 80km/ h
D 100km/ h

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