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Revision Paper -Semester 1 (Paper 1)

Choose the best option:- [1 mark each]

1. A student has a measuring cylinder containing water and also has a balance.
Which of these could she use to find the volume of a small metal sphere? She has no other
apparatus.
A either the measuring cylinder containing water or the balance
B the measuring cylinder containing water only
C the balance only
D neither the measuring cylinder nor the balance

2. A student investigates a pendulum.

He measures the time for the pendulum to complete 20 oscillations. He repeats the
experiment three more times. The readings are shown.

What is the average period of the pendulum?

A 0.88 s B 0.92 s C 17.6 s D 18.4 s

3 . A train begins a journey from a station and travels 60 km in a time of 20 minutes.

What is the average speed of the train?

A 3.0 m / s B 5.0 m / s C 50 m / s D 60 m / s

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4. An astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft experiences a force due to gravity. This force is less

than when she is on the Earth’s surface. Compared with being on the Earth’s surface, how do

her mass and her weight change when she goes into orbit?

5. Four balls with different masses are dropped from the heights shown.

Air resistance may be ignored.

Which ball has the smallest average speed?

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6 . An object is travelling in a straight line. The diagram is the speed-time graph for the object.

At which labelled point is the object accelerating at a changing rate?

7 .The graph shows how the speed of a car varies during part of its journey.

What is the value of the car’s acceleration between 6 s and 10 s?

A 0.50 m / s2 B 0.80 m / s2 C 1.25 m / s2 D 1.50 m / s2

8. Which statement about an object moving in a straight line through air is correct?

A When it accelerates, the resultant force acting on it is zero.

B When it moves at a steady speed, the air resistance acting on it is zero.

C When it moves at a steady speed, the resultant force acting on it is zero.

D When it moves, there is a resultant force acting on it.

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9 . A spring which obeys Hooke’s Law has an unstretched length of 10 cm.A load of 20N is hung
from the spring. The new length of the spring is 36 cm.

What is the spring constant k of the spring?

A 0.56N/ cm B 0.77N/ cm C 1.3N/ cm D 1.8N/ cm

10. A rectangular metal block is 20 cm long. The cross-sectional area of the block is 25 cm2 .

The mass of the block is 4000 g. What is the density of the metal?

A 0.13 g/cm3 B 0.32 g/cm3 C 8.0 g/cm3 D 2000 g/cm3

11. This question is about four methods used to produce electrical energy.

Which method has a correct description?

12. A child pushes a toy car along a horizontal surface and then releases it.

As the car slows down, what is the main energy transfer?

A from chemical to thermal

B from chemical to kinetic

C from kinetic to gravitational (potential)

D from kinetic to thermal

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13 . A horizontal metal plate of area 0.50 m2 lies at the bottom of a lake at a depth of 40 m.

The density of water is 1000 kg/ m3 and the gravitational field strength g is 10 N/ kg.

What is the downward force acting on the plate due to the water?

A 20 kN B 80 kN C 200 kN D 800 kN

14. In a small hydroelectric power scheme, 800 kg of water drops through a vertical height of

2.2 m every second. The electrical output is 10.6 kW. What is the efficiency of the scheme?

A 0.60% B 17% C 60% D 75%

15. An object moves at constant speed in the circular path shown.

Which statement about the acceleration of the object when it is at point P is correct?

A The acceleration is in the direction of arrow X.

B The acceleration is in the direction of arrow Y.

C The acceleration is in the direction of arrow Z.

D The object is not accelerating.

16. The power input to an electric motor is 400 W. The efficiency of the motor is 85%. How much
power is wasted?

A 60W B 85W C 340W D 470W

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17.The diagram shows four blocks of different metals. Each block has a mass of 12g. Which metal
has the largest density?

18. Which diagram shows an athlete exerting least pressure on the ground?

19 .Four different liquids are poured into four containers. The diagrams show the depth and the

density of liquid in each container. In which container is the pressure on its base the greatest?

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20. A thermometer has graduations which start at –10 °C and end at 110 °C.

What is the lower fixed point and what is the upper fixed point of the Celsius scale?

21. A man who weighs 540 N stands with both feet on the ground. The area of contact between
one foot and the ground is 0.015 m2. What is the pressure exerted on the floor by the man?

A 1800 N/m2 B 3600 N/m2 C 18000N/m2 D 36000N/m2

22. A student blows air through a liquid using a straw. This causes the liquid to evaporate

quickly and therefore to cool. Which statement explains why the remaining liquid cools?

A Slower-moving molecules are carried away by the air bubbles.

B The air molecules conduct heat from the liquid.

C The air sets up convection currents in the liquid.

D The molecules with most energy leave the liquid.

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23. Four campers are warming their food on a fire.

They use different rods, each of the same dimensions, to hold their food near the fire.

Which material is the best choice to prevent their hands from getting too hot?

A aluminium B copper C steel D wood

24. A sealed gas cylinder is left outside on a hot, sunny day. What happens to the average

speed of the gas molecules and to the pressure of the gas in the cylinder as the temperature

of the gas rises?

25. A submarine is 20 m below the surface of the sea. The pressure due to the water at this

depth is P. On another day, the submarine is 26 m below the surface of fresh water.

The density of sea water is 1.3 times the density of fresh water. What is the pressure due to

the fresh water at a depth of 26m?

A 1.3P B P C 1.3P D 1.7P

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26. A block of copper has a mass of 2.0kg. The block of copper absorbs 12 ,000J thermal

energy. The specific heat capacity of copper is 385 J /(kg°C). What is the temperature rise

of the copper?

A 15.6 °C B 31.2 °C C 46.8 °C D 62.4 °C

27. Liquid evaporates from a beaker.

What happens to the temperature of the remaining liquid and how does this temperature

change affect the rate of evaporation?

28. A teacher demonstrates an experiment to a class. A boiling tube is filled with water and

some ice cubes are trapped at the bottom of the tube. The teacher then heats the boiling

tube in the position shown until the water at the top boils.

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The ice does not melt. What does this demonstrate?

A Water is a good conductor of thermal energy.

B Water is a good convector of thermal energy.

C Water is a poor conductor of thermal energy.

D Water is a poor convector of thermal energy.

29. A 1 kg block of aluminium requires more thermal energy to raise its temperature by 1 °C

than a 1 kg block of copper requires. Why is this?

A Aluminium is a better conductor of thermal energy than copper.

B Aluminium is a poorer conductor of thermal energy than copper.

C Aluminium has a higher specific heat capacity than copper.

D Aluminium has a lower specific heat capacity than copper

30. Both boiling and evaporation involve a change of state from liquid to gas.

Which row gives the correct difference between boiling and evaporation?

31. A block of aluminium of mass 2.0 kg has an initial temperature of 20 0

C. It absorbs 7300 J

of thermal energy. The specific heat capacity of aluminium is 913 J /(kg o C).

What is the final temperature of the aluminium block?

A 40C B 80C C 240C D 280 C

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32. A mass of 0.20 kg of a substance is initially solid. It is heated at a steady rate of 500 W. The

graph shows how the temperature of the substance changes with time.

What is the specific latent heat of fusion of the substance?

A 20000J / kg B 30000J / kg C 500000J / kg D 750000J / kg

33 . At –39°C, liquid mercury solidifies without a change of temperature. Which row shows

whether the mercury absorbs or releases energy and what happens to the bonds between

the mercury atoms?

34 .A block of iron of mass M is heated and gains 10 kJ of internal energy. The temperature of

the block rises by θ °C. A second block of iron of mass 2M is heated and gains 5.0 kJ of

internal energy. What is the temperature rise of the second block in °C?

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35 .Two metal cans are identical, except that one has a shiny silver outer surface and the other

has a dull black outer surface. They each have 300 g of water at 80 °C sealed inside them.

They are both in a vacuum, in the darkness of outer space.

How does the temperature of the water in each one change?

A Neither one will cool down.

B The water in the black can cools more slowly than that in the shiny can.

C The water in the shiny can cools more slowly than that in the black can.

D They both cool down at the same rate.

36. A metal cup has a plastic lining. The cup is filled with hot water and held by a hand.

Which statement about the transfer of thermal energy from the water to the hand is correct?

A In the plastic, no energy is transferred directly between adjacent molecules.

B In the plastic, fast moving molecules interact with free electrons, making the electrons
move very quickly.

C In the metal, energy is transferred only by electrons.

D In the metal, energy is transferred by electrons and by vibrations of the lattice.

37. Which statement about convection is not correct?

A It enables water in a pan on a cooker to get evenly heated.

B It happens in liquids and gases.

C It means that heat rises.

D It occurs because the density of a fluid decreases when it is heated.

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38. The metal lid on a glass jar is difficult to unscrew. The jar is placed in a warm oven until the

jar and the lid reach the same temperature. The lid is now easily unscrewed. Which property

accounts for this?

A thermal capacity of the jar

B thermal capacity of the lid

C thermal conduction

D thermal expansion

39. Four objects, made of the same material and having the same mass, are at the same

temperature. The objects have different surfaces and different surface areas.

Which object emits infra-red radiation at the greatest rate?

40. 5.0g of water at 25°C is dropped onto a large block of ice at 0°C. The water cools to 0°C

and some of the ice melts. Assume that all the energy lost by the water is gained by the ice.

What is the mass of ice that melts? The specific heat capacity of water is 4.2J /(g°C). The

specific latent heat of fusion of ice is 340J /g.

A 0.062g B 0.087g C 1.5g D 10g

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