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Section A
Answer ALL questions. This section carries 60 marks.

Question A1

A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 15.5 m s-1. If air

resistance is assumed to be negligible:

i. Determine the maximum height above the thrower’s hand reached

by the ball. [2]

ii. Determine the time for the ball to reach its maximum height. [2]

iii. The ground is 1.20 m below the height at which the ball is released.
Determine the velocity of the ball when it hits the ground. [2]

Question A2

i. State Newton’s 2nd law of motion. [2]

ii. A ball of mass 0.260 kg is thrown towards a child who is holding a

wooden bat. The ball is travelling in a horizontal direction at a speed
of 6.85 m s-1 when the child hits the ball back in the opposite
direction at a speed of 7.64 m s-1. The ball is in contact with the bat
for 125 ms.

I Determine the change in momentum of the ball. [2]

II Determine the average force on the bat during the contact with
the ball. [2]

Question A3

A car of mass 895 kg, moving at 20.2 m s-1 is in collision with a lorry of mass
3740 kg moving in the opposite direction at 15.4 m s-1. The two vehicles stick
together in the collision.

i. Determine the common velocity of the vehicles immediately after [3]

the collision.

ii. Determine the loss in kinetic energy as a result of the collision. [3]

iii. What has happened to the “lost” kinetic energy. [1]

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Question A4

A child A of mass 35.0 kg sits 1.20 m from one end of a uniform beam of
mass 8.95 kg and length 4.60 m. The beam is balanced on a single support
as shown below. Child B of mass 40.5 kg sits 0.85 m from the other end of
the beam which is balanced in a horizontal position.

i. Determine the upwards force provided by the support. [2]

ii. Determine the distance y between the support and the centre of the
beam. [4]

Question A5

A simple pendulum is made by attaching a lead bob of mass 0.150 kg to a

piece of thin string.

i. Determine the length of the pendulum when it is moving with S.H.M.

and has a time period of 0.895 s. [2]

ii. When the pendulum bob is released it has an amplitude of 12.0 mm

and it moves with simple harmonic motion. Sketch a graph to show
how the kinetic energy, potential energy and total energy all vary
with time over a full cycle of the S.H.M. (Show the energy on the y
axis and displacement on the x axis). [3]

iii. Determine the maximum value of the pendulum bob’s kinetic energy
when the amplitude is 12.0 mm. [3]

Question A6

One end of a 1.85 m length of uniform brass wire is attached to a rigid

support and the wire is stretched by applying a force of 35.0 N to the other
end. As a result the wire increases in length by 0.780 mm.

i. Determine the strain in the wire. [2]

ii. Determine the cross sectional area of the wire if Young’s modulus for
brass is 1.00 x 1011 Pa. [2]

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Question A7

i. Define the internal energy of a closed system. [2]

ii. At what temperature will this closed system have its minimum
internal energy? [1]

Question A8

A 9 µF capacitor is charged to a p.d. of 12.0 V.

i. Determine the quantity of charge stored on the plates of the

capacitor. [2]

ii. Determine the energy stored on the plates of the capacitor. [2]

iii. When a second capacitor is connected in series with the 9 µF

capacitor and the capacitor combination is charged to a p.d. of
12.0 V, the total energy stored is 4.50 x 10-4 J. Determine the value
of the second capacitor. [3]

Question A9

a) Sketch a graph to show how the amplitude of a forced oscillation changes [2]
near to its natural frequency.

b) A spiral spring is suspended from its top end so that it hangs vertically
downwards. A 0.150 kg mass is attached to the bottom end of the spring
and this causes the spring to extend by 24.5 mm.

i. Determine the spring constant, k. [2]

ii. Determine the resonant frequency of vibration of the mass on the [2]
spring.

Question A10

A cell of e.m.f. 1.62 V is connected across a 5.0 resistor and a current of

0.310 A flows through the resistor and the cell.

i. Determine the internal resistance of the cell. [2]

ii. When a 2.00 m length of uniform resistance wire is connected in

parallel with the 5.0 resistor, the current through the cell increases
to 0.456 A.

I Determine the resistance of the wire. [3]

II Determine the resistivity of the wire if its diameter is

0.310 mm. [2]

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Section B
Answer 2 questions. This section carries 40 marks.
Question B1

a) i. Define specific heat capacity. [2]

ii. Sketch a graph of temperature (y axis) against time (x axis) to

represent the temperature of a block of ice, starting at -5 ºC
which is heated at a constant rate until it becomes steam at
105 ºC. Indicate the approximate transition temperature on the
temperature axis of the graph if the experiment is done at
standard atmospheric pressure. [6]

iii. A block of copper of mass 0.150 kg at a temperature of 20.5 ºC is

carefully lowered into an insulated cylinder of liquid oxygen at its
boiling point of -183 ºC. Determine the mass of oxygen that is
vaporised if the process is 100% efficient.

Specific latent heat of vaporization of oxygen = 24.4 x 104 J kg-1

Specific heat capacity of copper = 385 J kg-1 K-1 [3]

b) A cylinder of volume 0.146 m3 contains 3.60 moles of oxygen gas at a

temperature of 20.5 ºC.

i. Determine the pressure of the gas in the cylinder, assuming it

behaves as an ideal gas. [2]

ii. Determine the number of oxygen molecules in the cylinder. [2]

iii. Determine the volume the gas would occupy at s.t.p.

(1.01 x 105 Pa and 0 ºC) [2]

iv. Oxygen is a diatomic molecule. Its relative atomic mass is 16.

Determine the density of oxygen at s.t.p. [3]

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Question B2

a) Define the moment of a force about a point. [2]

b) A uniform ladder 3.50 m long and of mass 25.0 kg is leaning against a

smooth vertical wall. The lower end of the ladder rests 1.20 m from the
wall on rough ground.

N
F

i. Determine the normal force, N of the ground on the ladder. [2]

ii. Determine the horizontal force, F of the ground on the ladder. [3]

iii. Determine

I The magnitude of the resultant force of the ground on the

bottom of the ladder. [2]

II The direction of this resultant force on the bottom of the

ladder. [2]

c) i. Define the work done by a force. [2]

ii. A car of mass 920 kg is parked on a hill of constant gradient. The

brakes on the car are released and the car starts to move down
the hill. The car reaches a speed of 10.0 m s-1 after travelling
70.0 m down the hill. The car loses 1.85 x 105 J of potential
energy during this time.

I Determine the vertical distance moved by the car. [2]

II Determine the kinetic energy gained by the car. [2]

III Determine the average resistive force acting on the car during
this journey. [3]

Section B continues on the following page.

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Question B3

a) A length of nichrome resistance wire is connected across the output of a

power supply which is adjusted to deliver a constant current of 0.500 A
through the wire. A voltmeter is connected to each end of the wire to
determine the p.d. across it. The procedure is repeated for different
lengths of the wire, always keeping the current at 0.500 A. The
following readings are obtained:

Length of 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60

wire/m
Voltage/V 0.695 1.41 2.01 2.83 3.55 4.10

Resistance/

i. Copy and complete the table in your answer booklet with the values
of the resistance. [2]

ii. Using the graph paper provided, plot a graph of resistance on the y
axis against length of wire on the x axis. [4]

iii. Determine the gradient of the graph. [2]

iv. A micrometer is used to measure the diameter of the resistance

wire at various positions along its length. The following readings
are obtained:

0.314 mm, 0.315 mm, 0.316 mm, 0.315 mm

I Determine the average diameter of the wire. [1]

II Using this average value and that of the gradient of the graph,
determine the resistivity of the nichrome wire. [2]

b) Consider the circuit shown below.

I I

Use Kirchhoff’s laws to determine the magnitude of the 3 currents, I1, I2

and I3. [9]

This is the end of the test.

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