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LIST OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS

Universal gravitational constant G 6.67 x 10-" Nm² kg ²

Acceleration due to gravity 9.81 ms

1Atmosphere atm 1.00 x 10Nm
Boltzmann's constant 1.38 x 10- JK-1
Density of water
P 1.00 x 10 kg m
Specific heat capacity of water C, 4200 Jkg' K
Specific latent heat of fusion of ice 3.34 x 10° J kg
L
Specific latent heat of vaporization of water
L, 2.26 x 10° J kg!
Avogadro's constant N 6.02 x 10 per mole
Molar gas constant
R 8.31 J K mo!
Stefan-Boltzmann's constant 5.67 x 0 W m²K4
Speed of light in free space (vacuum)
3.00 x 10 ms
Speed of sound in air
340 m s!
Planck's constant
6.626 x104 Js
Triple point temperature
T, 273.16 K
1tonne
1000 kg

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Item 1 refers to the following quantities 5.

and their base units. A tennis ball is given a
of 8m s' when it is hithorizontal velocity
at a height 1.8 m
P: kg m above the ground. The ball is in the air for
Q: kg ms
R: kg m's (A) 0.37 s
(B) 0.61s
(C) 2.98 s
1 What quantity does represent? (D) 8.89 s

(A) Force
(B) Speed 6 Avan of mass 2500 kg
(C) Distance at 60 km hr
travelling due south
(D) Acceleration
collides with a car of mass
1500 kg travelling due
north at 80 km hr.
If the two vehicles fuse on
impact, what
is the final velocity and direction of the
2. Which group of physicalquantities contains vehicles?
only vectors?
(A) 7.5 km hr' due south
(A) Velocity Time (B) 7.5 km hr' due north
(B Mass
Distance (C) 82.5 kmn hr due south
Speed Energy
(C) Displacement Force (D) 82.5 km hr due north
Power
(D) Momentum
AccelerationForce 7. A metal case is dropped out of a hovering
3. Mary is on her way to New York and wants helicopter and plummets 80 m before
to ensure that her suitcase does NOT hitting the ground. What is the velocity of
exceed the case just before it hits the
the 50 kg limit. She stands on the
scale and ground?
finds her mass is 55 kg + 1 kg. She then (A) 0.0 ms-!
lifts her suitcase and the mass changes to (B) 8.2 m s!
104 kg 1kg. What is the mass of her (C) 28.0 ms!
suitcase?
(D) 39.6 m s!
(A) 49 kg ± 1 kg
(B) 49 kg ± 2 kg 8. In an inelastic collision between two
(C) 50 kg ± 1 kg bodies, which quantity remains constant?
(D) SI kg + 2 kg
(A) Momentum of cach body
4. Which of the (B) Kinetic energy of each body
dimensions of ing units gives the (C) Total momentum of the system
universal gravitational (D) Total kinetic energy of the system
constant, G?

(A) m s2
(B) kg m²s!
(C) kg' m' s²
(D) kg- ml _-!

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9. An object of mass 400 g is

attached to a Item 12 refers to the following graph which
string. The mass is set in circular motion
such that it moves in the shows the velocity of a small ball bearing
with a radius of 0.77 m. horizontal plane travelling through ameasuring cylinder of
glycerine.
What is the anticipated
the object if it takes 16 acceleration
of
s to complete
20 revolutions?

(A) 19.5 m s
(B) 47.5 m s
(C) 56.7 m s²
(D) 74.0 m s

10. Which of the

following statements
describes the motion of a geostationary 12. The points labelled X and Y
represent
satellite? respectively
(A) Its acceleration is zero. (A) force and acceleration
(B) It moves with the same velocity as (B) terminal velocity and acceleration
the earth. (C) acceleration and terminal velocity
(C) Its angular velocity is equal to that (D) uniform velocity and displacement
of the earth.
(D) geographical location changes
as the earth rotates. Item 13 refers to the following diagram
which shows a bus of mass 2000 kg
travelling down a hill of vertical height
11. A rocket in gravity-free space is 50 m.
5.0 x 10° kg of fuel Iper second. The burning
exhaust
gases are expelled at 8.0 x 10 ms relative (2000 kg
to the rocket, whose mass is 2.0 x 10 kg at Lo
that time. What is the rocket's
acceleration?
(A) 10 ms2
(B) 20 m s² 50 m
(C) 400 m s
(D) 2500 mn s
X

13. Assuming there is no energy loss, what is

the speed of the bus at point X?

(A) 11.0 m s-!

(B) 15.7 m s!
(C) 22.2 ms!
(D) 31.3 ms!

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14 A truck is moving at a speed of 40 m s 17. Which of the following graphs represents
but the engine is only producing 20
kWof abody undergoing critical damping?
useful power. What is the driving force
produced by the engine?
(A) Amplitude
(A) 500 N
(B) 800 N
(C) S00 kN
(D) 800 KN
Time
15. Two cars that have the same kinetic
travel with a velocity of V, and V,. energy
If the
mass of the first car is twice the mass of Amplitude
(B)
the second car, which of the
following
expressions represents the velocity of the
first car?

(A) 2V,

(B)
2
(C) Amplitude
(C)

(D)
2
Time

16. The displacement of a particle

undergoing
simple harmonic motion is given by (D) Ampiltude
x=8 sin 0.4 nt.

The frequency of oscillation of the particle

is Time

(A) 0.2 Hz
(B) 0.4 Hz
(C) 5.0 Hz
(D) 8.0 Hz

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18. Which ofthe following graphs BEST represents the

energy, E,, kinetic energy. E, , and displacement ofarelationship
particle
between total energy, E,. potential
moving in a straight line with simple
harmonic motion?

(A) (C)
Energy Energy

-E,
E,
Displacement Displacement
(B) (D)
Energy
Energy
E
E,

E,
Displacement Displacement

19. Stationary waves are produced by superimposing progressive waves of frequency 500 Hz.
Successive nodes are separated by a distance of 2 m. What is the speed of the progressive waves?
(A) 125 m s
(B) 250 m s
(C) 1000 ms
(D) 2000 ms

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20. Two sources of water waves, X and Y,

generate waves which are of identical
21. Which of the following statements is NOT
true about a progressive wave?
frequency but out of phase by 180°. The
waves from Xare of amplitude S m and the (A) It consists of one wave
waves from Yare of amplitude 3 m. moving in
a single direction.
Which of the following graphs (B) It appears to travel from one point
correctly to another.
describes the oscillation ofa particle which (C)
is equidistant from Xand Y? Energy is not transferred along the
wave.
(D) It consists of crests and troughs.
Displacement(m)
22. Abeam of monochromatic light is incident
(A) normally on a diffraction grating having
Time 500 lines per millimetre. If the second
order of diffraction is found at 30° to the
normal, what is the wavelength of light
used?

Displacement(m) (A 480 nm
(B 500 nm
(C) S60 nm
(B
(D) 600 nm

Displacement(m)
2

(C)
Time

Displacement(m)

(D)
Time

(
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23 The following displacement-position graph represents a stationary wave at two different instants.

Displacement

Position

The distance PQ represents half the

(A) period
(B) velocity
(C) amplitude
(D) wavelength

24. Which of the following statements is NOT 26. Which of the following statements is NOT
true about polarization? true about sound?

(A) Transverse waves can be polarized. (A) Noise is an unintended or unwanted

(B) Longitudinal waves can be polar sound.
ized. (B) Noise is determined by the pitch of
(C) Polaroids only allow vibrations in sound.
one direction to pass through (C) Loudness is determined by the
them.
intensity of sound.
(D Polarization is used to differentiate (D Loudness is a subjective sensation
between transverse and longitu and is dependent on the listener.
dinal waves.

25 The wavelength of a yellow light source

is 5.89 x 10 m. What is the separation
of the yellow fringes formed on a screen
1.8 m from a double slit with a spacing of
0.2 mm?

(A) 0.2 mm
(B) 1.6 mm
(C) 2.9 mm
(D) 5.3 mm

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Item 27 refers to the following diagram 30 The near point ofa defective eye is 30 cm
which shows a snapshot of a rope as a
transverse wave passes along it from left from the eye. The normal near point is
25 cm from the eye. The focal length of
to right. the lens needed to correct this defect is

(A) 5 cm
(B) 25 cm
(C) 30 cm
(D) 150 cm
27. Which of the following sets of arrOws
correctly shows the directions of the motion
of points X, Y and Z on the rope? 31. A resistance thermometer has a resistance
of 35.00 Q at the ice point, 42.54 Q at the
X Y Z steam point and 37.57 2 when immersed
in a boiling liquid. What is the
(A) at which the liquid is boiling? temperature
(B)
(A) 34.35 °C
(B) 65.60 C
(C)
(C) 152.32 °C
(D) 291.12 °C
(D)

32. Which of the following instruments is

28. As light travelling in air enters a medium,
its speed changes to 2.4 x 10 ms. The
MOST Ssuitable for measuring a rapidly
refractive index of the medium is changing temperature?

(A) 0.60
(A) Thermocouple
(B) Resistance thermometer
(B) 0.80
(C) Alcohol-in-glass thermometer
(C) 1.25
(D)
(D) Mercury-in-glass thermometer
1.50

29. A student's range of hearing is from

33. Which of the following statements is/are
40 Hz to 15 kHZ. What is the SHORTEST true about matter?
wavelength of sound that she can hear if the
speed of sound in air is 330 ms1?
Whilst substance is melting. its
temperature remains constant.
(AY
The triple point ofa substance has
0.022 m
(B a constant value.
0.045 m
(C 8.25 m
The boiling point of a liquid does
(D) 22.0 m
not depend on the pressure ofthe
surroundings.
(A) I only
(B) I and Il only
(C) Iland Il only
(D) 1, II and III

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34. The equation which defines the relationship between the heat capacity and specific heat capacity
of an object is
(A) Specific heat capacity =heat capacity
mass

(B) Heat capacity = Specific heat capacity

mass

(C) Mass = heat capacity x specific heat capacity

(D) Specific heat capacity = nass² x heat capacity

35. Water falls from a height of 500 m. What 37

A small black sphere has an absolute
is the rise in temperature of the water at the
bottom, ifall the energy gained is converted
temperature, T,. It is hung in the centre of
an enclosure whose walls are at a higher
to internal energy in the water? absolute temperature, T,. The net rate of
gain of thermal energy by the sphere is
(A) 0.19 K proportional to
(B) 0.24 K
(C) 0.49 K (A) (T
(D) 1.17 K
(B) (T,y
(C) (TJ- (T)
36.
(D) (T,-T)"
Metals are generally better thermal
conductors than non-metals because
38 A contractor builds an office window of
(A) they contain free electrons height 150 cm and width 200 cm with a
(B) they contain more electrons glass pane of thickness 0.5 cm. The tem
(C) their molecules are closer together perature difference across the glassis 15K
(D their molecules are less firmly and the thermal conductivity of the glass is
bonded 0.65 W m-' K-. What is the heat energy
per second conducted through the window?
(A) 1.63 kW
(B) 5.85 kW
(C) 163 W
(D) 585 W

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Item 39 refers to the following diagram showing the

A-+B+C+D’A. P-V graph for a gas undergoing a cycle from
(x 10)

PIPa

B
1.6

0.8

0.4

1.4 1.6 2.0

V/m
(x 10)
39 How much work is done on the gas during the process
C’D?
(A) 0.16 J
(B) 1.6J
(C) 6.4 J
(D) 8.0 J

40. In the kinetic theory of an ideal gas, which of the following

assumptions is NOT corect?
(A) The molecules have negligible attraction for each other.
(B) The duration of a collision is
(C) The volume of the molecules is
negligible
compared with the timne between the collisions.
negligible compared with the volume in
(D) The molecules have negligible
momentum change on collision with thewhich they move.
container walls.
41. Helium gas is kept in a container at a
0.92 kg m', what is the root mean squarepressure of 1.7 x 10 Pa. If the density of helium is
speed of the helium atoms?
(A) 248 m s!
(B) 330 m s!
(C) 430 m s-!
(D) 745 m s-!

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Item 42 refers to the following graph which shows the force newtons, F, required for the
extension in millimetres, E, of a material.

F(N)

E(mm)
42. According to the graph, which of the following statements is/are true?

The graph represents the extension of a metal.

The graph represents the extension of rubber.
Plastic deformation is predominant.
(A) I only
(B) Ilonly
(C) Iand III only
(D) II and III only

43. In the equation for the first law of thermodynamics, AU =Q+ W. Which of the following pairs
of phrases is true of Q and W?

(A) Heat lost by the system Work done on the system

(B) Heat lost by the system Work done by the system
(C) Heat supplied to the system Work done by the system
(D) Heat supplied to the system Work done on the system

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Item 44 refers to the following force-extension graph for a stretched wire. OX represents the
region where elastic deformation oOccurs.

Force/N

120

90

60

30

40 60 80 Extension/um

44. What is the strain energy stored in the wire for an extension of 40 um?

(A) 1.2 uJ
(B) 2.4 J
(C) 1.2 mJ
(D) 2.4 mJ

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Item 45 refers to the following forceextension graph of two different wires.

FIN
70

60

50

40

30

20

10

2 4 6
Elmm

45. What is the difference in energy stored between the two wires when extended 6 mm?

(A) 0.06 J
(B) 0.12 J
(C 0.18 J
(D 0.30 J

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