1. A plumber needs to measure the internal diameter of a gas pipe as accurately as possible.

Which instrument should be used?

A measuring tape B metre rule C micrometer D vernier calipers

2. The diagram shows part of a vernier scale .

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6 7
cm
l I I I I
I I I I
I I I I
I I I I
I I
I I
0
I
· What is the reading on the vernier scale?

A 10.45 cm B 10.00 cm C 9.55 cm D 9.50 cm

3. A car is brought to rest in 5 s from a speed of 20 m / s.

What is the deceleration of the car?

2 2
A 0.25 m I s2 B 4 m /s2 C 25 m I s D 100 m / s

4. The speed-time graph shows the movement of a car.

speed

00 time

What does the shaded area of the graph represent?

B the average speed of the car
A the average acceleration of the car

C the total distance travelled by the car D the average velocity of the car
I 5. Which of the following is the SI unit of mass?

A kilogram B milligram Cgram Dnewton

6. Which of the following is the SI unit of length.

A centimetre B kilometre C metre D miles

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7. A student uses a stopwatch to measure time to run a distance of200m and obtains 22.98
seconds.

What is the accuracy of the stopwatch used?

AO.Ols B O.ls C 1.0s D 1.ls

8. What is the average speed of a car which travels 400 m in 20 seconds.

A 0.05 mis B 20 mis C 420 mis D 8 000 mis

9. Which of the following is the correct accuracy of a triple beam balance?

A 0.001 g B0.01 g CO.lg D 1g

10. Which of the following instruments is used to measure length?

A measuring cylinder B micrometer C stopwatch D triple beam balance ·

 SECTIONB

1. (a) Complete the following table about fundamental physical quantities.

Fundamental quantity SI units

Length

second
Mass

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(b) Name the following measuring instruments and the quantities they measure.

cn,3
100
0
80
70
60
50

30
20
10

Instrument 1 Instrument 2

Name Quantity measured

Instrument 1

Instrument 2

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2. A student in Selebi-Phikwe Senior wanted to find out the period of a pendulum.She

performed an experiment with a simple pendulum and a stop watch. She decided to
measure the time for 10 oscillations for the same length of the pendulum two times.

Fig 2.1 and Fig 2.2 show the appearance of the stopwatch for the first attempt and
second attempt respectively.

miJ} i:ec 1/100s min sec 1/100s

0 : 13 65 0: 13 55

Fig 2.1 Fig 2.2

(a)State the time recorded by the stopwatch in the first attempt in seconds.

time= .... . . .. .. ... ......... . . [l]

(b) Calculate,

(i) the average time from two measurements.

average time = .. ..... .... ... ....... ... ..[2]

(ii) the period of the pendulum.

period= . . ... ... ... ... ... .... ... ... . ... .. [2]

(c) Explain why the student repeated the experiment.

........ ... .. ..... ........ .... ......... .... ... ...... ..... ... ..... ..... ... .. ... ... ...... ... ............... ......(1)

(d) Name one type of error which occurs in the measurement of time using the stopwatch.

............................ ....... ... . ... .. . .. ... ······· ... ······. ··············· .. ····················· .. [1]
3 A technician in a mine laboratory places two identical blocks of gold on an electronic
balance and notices that their combined mass is 480.4 g.

(a) Define the following terms :

mass ... ········· .................................................................................... , ....... .

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......... .. . .. .. . .. . . . . . . ............................................................................... (1)

weight ......................................................................................................
............ .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................................................................... (1)

(b) Calculate,

(i) the mass of one block.

mass = ........................... kg · (3)

(ii) the weight of one block.

weight= ........................... N [2]

4(a) Define the following terms ;

distance: ...........................................................................................................................

························································································································[1]
displace~ent: ...... ................................................................................ .

......................... .. . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. ... . . .. . . (1]

velocity: ...................................................................................... .

··········································································· ...................... [1)

(b) Calculate the average speed of an athlete who runs 800 m in 90s.

average speed=........................ [3}

2
(a) A body starts from rest and moves with a uniform acceleration of2 m/s in a
straight line.
After how long will the body be 144 m from its starting point?

time= ............... ··················· (2)

5 Fig 5.1 shows the speed- time graph for a motor cycle travelling along a straight road.
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• / \
speed ( mis)
V \
/ \
/ \
I/ \
time (s)
Fig 5.1

(a)Describe the motion of the motor cycle between the following times;

(i) 0 and 10 seconds ·

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(ii) 10 to 20 seconds : ··························································

(iii) 20 to 25 seconds : [3]

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(b) Calculate:

(i)the acceleration of the motor cycle during the first 10 seconds.

acceleration = ..................... ..................... [2]

(ii)the total distance travelled by the motor cycle in 25 s.

total distance = .......... •. ••. •••••••••.. ••.... •. •••.. [2]

, (c)A bus travels at a constant speed of25 mis for 5 seconds.The driver applies the brakes and

it comes to rest with uniform retardation(deceleration) in a further 8 seconds.

Sketch a speed-time graph for the motion of the bus on the grid below. [4]