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SECTION A

1. A small steel ball falls from rest through a distance of 3 m. When calculating the time of fall, air
resistance can be ignored because
A. air is less dense than steel.
B. air resistance increases with the speed of the ball.
C. the air is not moving.
D. air resistance is much less than the weight of the ball.

2. Which of the following contains three scalar quantities?

3. The graph shows the variation with time t of the velocity v of an object moving along a straight
line

Which graph shows the variation with time t of the acceleration a of the object?
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4. Two identical metal spheres are held above the ground as shown.

The separation between them is small compared to their distance above the ground. When the
spheres are released, the separation of the spheres will
A. remain constant.
B. decrease continuously.
C. increase continuously.
D. increase initially and then remain constant.

‘ 5. An object is falling, in air, towards the Earth’s surface. What changes occur in the acceleration
and in the velocity of the object as it approaches terminal velocity?

6. Two unequal masses M and m are joined by a light inextensible string. The string passes over a
light frictionless pulley as shown.

The masses accelerate when released.

Which diagram is the correct free-body diagram for the two masses?
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7. What is the condition for an object to be in translational equilibrium?

A. The forces acting upwards are equal to the forces acting downwards.
B. The object must be at rest.
C. The object must be moving at constant speed.
D. There is no resultant force on the object in any direction.

8. A ball of mass M hits a wall at speed V normal to the wall. It rebounds with speed v normal to the
wall as shown below.

What is the magnitude of the change in momentum of the ball and the direction of the force
that the wall exerts on the ball?
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9. A rocket is fired vertically into the air. When the rocket reaches its maximum height, the rocket
explodes. What change, if any, occurs in the momentum and in the kinetic energy of the rocket
during the explosion?

10. A box of weight W is moved at constant velocity v along a horizontal floor. There is a constant
frictional force F between the box and the floor. What is the power required to move the box
through a distance s?
A. Fs
B. Fv
C. Ws
D. Wv

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11. The mass of an elephant is 10 kg. The mass of a mouse is 10 kg. What is the ratio mass of the
elephant/mass of the mouse ?

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A. 10

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B. 10

6
C. 10

8
D. 10
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12. An archer aims five arrows at the centre of a target. The arrows strike the target as shown
below.

Which of the following describes the aim of the archer?

A. Accurate and precise

B. Accurate but not precise

C. Precise but not accurate

D. Neither accurate nor precise

13. The graph below shows how velocity v varies with time t for a ball thrown vertically upwards
from the Earth’s surface.

The shaded area is equal to the

A. displacement.

B. final velocity.

C. change in velocity.

D. acceleration.

14. Two identical balls are dropped from a tall building, one a few seconds after the other. Air
resistance is not negligible. As the balls fall, the distance between the balls will

A. decrease.

B. increase.

C. increase then remain constant.

D. remain constant.
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15. Which of the following is always true for an object moving in a straight line at constant speed?

A. No forces act on the object.

B. No resultant force acts on the object.

C. The momentum of the object is zero.

D. No work is being done on the object.

16. A person of weight 600 N is standing on a weighing scale in a lift (elevator). The lift is accelerating

upwards at 1.0 m s–2. Which of the following is the reading on the scale?

A. 0 N

B. 540 N

C. 600 N

D. 660 N

17. An object, initially at rest, travels a distance d in a time t at a constant acceleration. What is the

time taken for the object to travel 16d from rest at the same acceleration?

A. 16t

B. 8t

C. 4t

D. 2t
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18. An object of mass m is connected via a frictionless pulley to an object of mass M, where M > m.

M rests on a horizontal frictionless surface.

What is the acceleration of the system?

A.mg/(M + m)

B. (M+ m)g/m

C. gm/M

D. Zero

19. A ball of mass 0.40 kg travels horizontally and strikes a vertical wall with a speed of 5.0 m s–1.

It rebounds horizontally with a speed of 3.0 m s–1. The ball is in contact with the wall for a time

of 0.20 s.

What is the average magnitude of the force exerted by the ball on the wall?

A. 0.16 N

B. 0.64 N

C. 4 N

D. 16 N
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20. An object is thrown horizontally from the edge of a high crater on the Moon. The Moon has

no atmosphere. Which of the following describes the changes, if any, to the horizontal and
vertical components of the velocity of the object?

21. The current, I, through a resistor is measured with a digital ammeter to be 0.10 A.

The uncertainty in the calculated value of I2 will be

A. 1 %.

B. 2 %.

C. 5 %.

D. 20 %.

22. A skydiver of mass 80 kg falls vertically with a constant speed of 50 m s–1. The upward force acting on
the skydiver is approximately

A. 0 N.

B. 80 N.

C. 800 N.

D. 4000 N.

23. A wooden block is sliding down an inclined plane at constant speed. The magnitude of the frictional
force between the block and the plane is equal to

A . zero.

B. the magnitude of the weight of the block.

C .the magnitude of the component of weight of the block parallel to the plane.

D .the magnitude of the component of the normal reaction parallel to the plane
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24. Stephen pushes two boxes P and Q, that stay in contact, along a rough table, with a force F
of 30 N.
Box P has a mass of 2.0 kg and box Q has a mass of 4.0 kg. Both boxes move with constant
speed.

The resultant force on box Q is

A. 0 N.

B. 5.0 N.

C. 15 N.

D. 30 N.
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25. A pump extracts water from a well of depth h at a constant rate of R kg s . What is the power
required to raise the water?

R
A. gh

B. Rgh

Rg
C. h

hg
D. R
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SECTION 1B

1. This question is about electrical resistance.

The graph shows the variation with temperature T of the resistance R of an electrical
component.

(a) A student hypothesizes that the resistance is inversely proportional to the temperature.
Use data from the graph to show whether the hypothesis is supported. [3]
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(b) A second student suggests that the relationship is of the form

where a and b are constants.

The student plots the graph below. Error bars have been included for the sake of clarity.
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(i) Explain how the graph drawn could be used as evidence to support the student’s
suggestion. [2]

Use the graph to determine the constants a and b. [4]

a

b.

iii. Using your answers to (b)(ii), determine a value for the resistance of the component at a
temperature of 260 K. [2]
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2. A student measures the refractive index of the glass of a microscope slide. He uses a travelling
microscope to determine the position x1 of a mark on a sheet of paper.
He then places the slide over the mark and finds the position x2 of the image of the mark when
viewed through the slide. Finally, he uses the microscope to determine the position x 3 of the top
of the slide.

The table shows the average results of a large number of repeated measurements.

(a) The refractive index of the glass from which the slide is made is given by

Determine
(i) the refractive index of the glass to the correct number of significant figures, ignoring any
uncertainty. [1]
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(ii) the uncertainty of the value calculated in (a)(i). [3]

(b) After the experiment, the student finds that the travelling microscope is badly adjusted
so that the measurement of each position is too large by 0.05 mm.
(i) State the name of this type of error. [1]

(ii) Outline the effect that the error in (b)(i) will have on the calculated value of the refractive
index of the glass. [2]

(c) After correcting the adjustment of the travelling microscope, the student repeats the
experiment using a glass block 10 times thicker than the original microscope slide.
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Explain the change, if any, to the calculated result for the refractive index and its
uncertainty. [2]