MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS.

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1. Which Quantity is measured in Newton?
a) Density.
b) Energy
c) Pressure
d) Weight.
2. An astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft experiences a force due to gravity. This force is less than
when she is on the earth surface. Compared with being on Earths surface how do her mass and
weight change when she goes into orbit?
a. Mass Decrease & Weight Decrease.
b. Mass Decreased & Weight Unchanged.
c. Mass Unchanged & Weight Decreased.
d. Mass & Weight unchanged.
3. An experiment is carried out to measure the extension of a rubber band for different loads. The
results are shown below.
Load
0
1.0
2.0
3.0
Length/cm
15.2
16.2
18.6
Extension/cm 0
1.0
2.1
3.4

4.

5.

6.

7.

Find out the missing figure

a) 17.2
b) 17.3
c) 17.4
d) 17.6
Which energy resource is used to boil water to generate electricity?
a. Nuclear Fission.
b. Hydroelectricity.
c. Solar Power.
d. Waves.
A circuit is set up to check the resistance of a resistor. If the ammeter reading is 2.0 A and the
voltmeter reading is 3.0 volts what is the resistance of that resistor?
a. 0.67 Ohm.
b. 1.5 Ohm.
c. 5.0 Ohm.
d. 6 Ohm.
A student uses a length of wire as a resistor. He makes a second resistor from the same
material. To be certain of making a second resistor of higher resistance, he should use a piece of
wire that is
a. Longer and thicker.
b. Longer and thinner.
c. Shorter and thicker.
d. Shorter and thinner.
A particular nuclide has the symbol 37
17 what is true for atoms of this nuclide?
a. 17 nucleons in the nucleus.
b. 17 protons in the nucleus.
c. 37 electrons in the nucleus.
d. 37 neutrons in the nucleus.

8. A powder contains 400mg of a radioactive isotope that emits alpha particles. If the half-life is 5
days then what mass will be left after 10 days?
a. 0 mg.
b. 40 mg.
c. 100 mg.
d. 200 mg.
9. X, Y and Z are three different types of radiation. Z can penetrate through 2 mm of plastic 10 mm
of Aluminum but stopped by 50 mm of lead. Whereas X can penetrate plastic but gets blocked
by Aluminum and Y cant even penetrate the plastic. Which row in the table identifies X,Y and Z?
X
Y
Z
A
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
B
Beta
Alpha
Gamma
C
Beta
Gamma
Alpha
D
Gamma
Alpha
Beta
10. Ammeter and Voltmeter should be always connected in parallel to the resistor present in the
circuit. Is that statement correct?
a. Correct for Both.
b. Correct for voltmeter but not for ammeter.
c. Correct for Ammeter but not for voltmeter.
d. Incorrect for both.

SHORT ANSWER AND NUMERICAL QUESTIONS (90 Marks)

1. Fill up the table below,
Properties

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SI UNIT

Density

a)

Pressure

b)

Charge

c)

Potential Difference

d)

Efficiency

e)

2. The Graph shows how the speed of a car changes as it enters and leaves the town.

a. Calculate the distance between the start and the end of the town. (3)
b. Find out the acceleration between C and D.
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c. Show that the deceleration has the same exact value as the acceleration by using the
value from the graph.
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3. A plastic rod is rubbed with a cloth and becomes positively charged. After charging, the rod is
held close to the suspended table-tennis ball shown below. The table-tennis ball is covered with
metal paint and is uncharged.

a) Describe what happens to the charges in the metal paint on the ball as the
positively charged rod is brought close to the ball.
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b) The ball is attracted towards the charged rod. Explain why this happens, given
that the ball is uncharged
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4. State two main sources of energy and give at least 4 examples of each of them.
5. Define the followings,

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a. Radioactive Isotopes.
b. Radioactive Half-life.
c. Boiling Point and Inter-molecular Bond.
d. Evaporating Point.
e. Latent Heat.
6. Calculate the pressure generated by an ordinary shoe heel (person of mass 40 kg, heel 5 cm X 5
cm), and elephant (of mass 500 kg, foot of 20 cm diameter) and a high heeled shoe (person of
mass 40 kg, heel of area 0.5 square centimeter). Which ones will damage a wooden floor that
starts to yield at a pressure of 4000 KPa?
(Note: to convert 2 to 2 you need to divide by 10000).
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7. The pressure gauge on a submarine in a river was reading 100 KPa when it was at the surface. If
a sailor notices that the gauge is now reading 250 KPa, how deep is he? How would the answer
change if he were diving in seawater that is slightly denser than fresh water?
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8. If a rotor blade of a helicopter is spinning at a speed of 200 m/s and the engine flywheel rotating
at 375 m/s, find out the centrifugal force produced by both of them. The diameter of the rotor
blade is 10 meter and the diameter of the flywheel is 0.8 meter. The mass of the blade is 188 kg
and the flywheel is 340 kg.
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400 N is at A, Tom of weight 540
9. The see-saw in the diagram balances when Shani of weight 320
700 N is
at B and Harry of weight W is at C. Find W.
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10. State what energy transfers occur in a

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a. Hairdryer
b. a refrigerator
c. an audio system
11. An escalator carries 60 people of average mass 70 kg to a height of 5 m in one minute. Find the
11. If an elevator carries 20 people with an average mass of 50 kg up to 20 meters. Find out the power needed to do
to do this.
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suchpower
lifting. needed
(G = 10 m/s2)
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12. Calculate the k.e. of a
a) 1 kg trolley travelling at 2 m/s,
b) a 2 g (0.002 kg) bullet travelling at 400 m/s,
c) a 500 kg car travelling at 72 km/h.

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13. Find out the followings,

a. What is the velocity of an object of mass 1 kg which has 200 J of k.e?
b. Calculate the p.e. of a 5 kg mass when it is
i. 3 m
ii. 6 m,

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above the ground. (g = 10 N/kg)

14. Draw the Nuclear Fission reaction with proper labelling.

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15. A bicycle pump contains 50 cm3 of air at 17 C and at 1.0 atmosphere pressure. Find the
pressure when the air is compressed to 10 3 and its temperature rises to 27 C. (5)

16. A p.d. of 24 V from a battery is applied to the network of resistors in circuit below

a. What is the combined resistance of the 6 and 12 resistors in parallel?

b. What is the current in the Circuit
8 resistor?
?
17. Find out the value of currents in the following circuits

220 V

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