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WORKSHEET No.1
Unit 1.1 Physical Quantities and
Measurements techniques

Student’s Name:
Grade: 8 Section:
Subject: Physics Date:
SECTION A
Q1. Multiple Choice Questions.
1. The diagram shows a stopwatch, originally set at 00:00.
When a car was first seen, the stop-start button was pressed. When the car passed the observer,
the stopwatch showed 01:06.

How long did the car take to reach the observer?

A. 1.06 seconds
B. 6 seconds
C. 66 seconds
D. 106 seconds
2. A glass tank contains some water.
The length QR and the width RS of the tank are known.
What other distance needs to be measured in order to be able to calculate the volume of the
water?

A. ST
B. SV
C. TU
D. TV
3. How many km (kilometers) are there in in one mm (millimeter).
A. 1000
B. 0.001
C. 0.0001
D. 0.01

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 4. The diagram shows a measuring cylinder.

Which unit would be most suitable for its scale?

A mm2
B mm3
C cm2
D cm3
5. A piece of cotton is measured between two points on a ruler.

When the length of cotton is wound closely around a cylinder, it goes round four times.

What is the distance once round the pen?

A 8mm
B 0.825cm
C 3.3 cm
D 33mm
6. How long is pencil?

A. 4 cm
B. 5 cm
C. 3 cm
D. 1 cm

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 7. A decorator wishes to calculate the area of a bathroom tile so that he can estimate the
amount of adhesive that he needs to buy.
What must he use?
A. a measuring cylinder only
B. a ruler only
C. a measuring cylinder and a clock only
D. a measuring cylinder and a ruler only
8. A measuring cylinder contains some water. When a stone is put in the water, the level rises.

What is the volume of the stone?

A. 50 cm3
B. 25 cm3
C. 75 cm3
D. 125 cm3
9. The diagram shows a thick-walled tube. The thickness of the wall is 2 mm.

What is the internal diameter d of the tube?

A. 0.4 cm
B. 1.6 cm
C. 2 cm
D. 1.2 cm
10. A student uses a stopwatch to time a runner running around a circular track. The runner
runs two laps (twice around the track). The diagrams show the reading on the stopwatch
when the runner starts running, at the end of the first lap, and at the end of the second lap.

What is the time taken for the runner to run the second lap?
A. 0 min 50 s
B. 1 min 10 s
C. 1 min 13 s
D. 2 min 03 s

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11. Drops of water are dripping steadily from a tap (faucet). The diagram shows a measuring
cylinder
which has collected 120 drops of water.

How many drops in total will have been collected when the measuring cylinder reads 10 cm3?
A. 48
B. 60
C. 180
D. 300
12. A student wishes to measure accurately the volume of approximately 40 cm3 of water. She
has
two measuring cylinders, a larger one that can hold 100 cm3, and a smaller one that can hold
50 cm3. The water forms a meniscus where it touches the glass.

Which cylinder should the student use and which water level should she use to ensure an
accurate result? cylinder water level
A. larger one bottom of meniscus
B. larger one top of meniscus
C. smaller one bottom of meniscus
D. smaller one top of meniscus
13. A digital stop-clock measures time in minutes and seconds.
The stop-clock reads 00:50 when it is started (i.e. 00 minutes 50 seconds).
It reads 02:10 when it is stopped.
What is the shortest possible time that has elapsed between starting and stopping the
stop-clock?
A. 1 minute 20 seconds
B. 2 minutes 00 seconds
C. 2 minutes 10 seconds
D. 3 minutes 00 seconds
14. A pendulum is set in motion and timed. The time measured for 20 complete swings is 30 s.
What is the time for one complete swing of the pendulum?
A. 0.67 s
B. 0.75 s
C. 1.5 s
D. 3.0 s
15. A student measures the volume of a small irregularly-shaped stone.
Which apparatus must be used?
A. a measuring cylinder containing water and a ruler only
B. measuring cylinder containing water only
C. an empty measuring cylinder and a ruler only
D. a ruler only

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16. Which one is the correct way of reading volume of the liquid in a measuring cylinder?

A. C
B. A
C. B
D. Both A and C
17. As surface tension of mercury (Hg) is more than water, from fig below we have concave and
convex meniscus, select the correct option:

A. Meniscus in fig A not belongs to water but in fig B

B. Meniscus in fig B is concave and belongs to water because surface tension of water is less
than the adhesion force
C. Meniscus in fig A is concave and belongs to mercury
D. Meniscus in fig B is convex belongs to mercury because surface tension of mercury is more
than adhesion force.
18. Length of floor is 20 meter and width is 10 meter and we need to place tiles over there
having dimension of 10 cm by 10 cm, how many tiles will be there?

A. 20,000 tiles
B. 2000 tiles
C. 100 tiles
D. 300 tiles

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19. How many blocks of ice cream each 10 cm x 10 cm x 4 cm can be stored in the
compartment of a freezer measuring 40cm x 40cm x 40cm.

A. 40 blocks of ice
B. 160 blocks of ice
C. 400 blocks
D. 64,000 blocks
20. Mass of empty beaker is 20 g and the mass of beaker having water is 140 g, what is the
mass of water only in a beaker.

A. 0.12 kg
B. 0.14 kg
C. 0.16 kg
D. 0.18 kg

21. The diagram shows a measuring cylinder.

Which unit would be most suitable for its scale?

A mm2
B mm3
C cm2
D cm3

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 SECTION B

1. A person winds some thread tightly 4 times round the length of a meter rule and cuts the
ends off level with the left-hand end of the rule, as shown in Fig.

(a) To the nearest meter, what is the length of the thread?

………................... m

(b) Is the actual length of thread slightly greater or slightly less than your answer to (a)?
Tick one box and give your reason.

Slightly greater slightly less

Reason: ...................................................................................................................

...............................................................................................................................

2. The clock on a public building has a bell that strikes each hour so that people who cannot
see the clock can know what hour of the day it is.
At precisely 6 o’clock, the clock starts to strike. It strikes 6 times.
At the first strike of the bell, a man’s wrist-watch is as shown in Fig. 1.1.

When the bell strikes for the sixth time, the wrist-watch is as shown in Fig. 1.2.

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 (a) Calculate the time interval between the 1st strike and the 6th strike.

time interval = ……………… s

(b) Calculate the time interval between one strike and the next.

time interval = ………………s

(c) At precisely 11 o’clock, the clock starts to strike.
Calculate the time interval between the 1st strike and the 11th strike.

time interval = …………s

3.(a) A measuring cylinder contains 100 cm3 of water. 20 cm3 of the water is poured into a
beaker. On Fig. 1.1, mark the level of the water left in the cylinder.

(b) A rule, calibrated in cm, is placed alongside the measuring cylinder, as shown in Fig. 1.2.

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(i) What is the length of the measuring cylinder, from zero up to the 100 cm3 mark?
.................................................................................................................................

(ii) The volume of a cylinder is found using the equation

volume = cross-sectional area × length.
Calculate the cross-sectional area of the measuring cylinder.

cross-sectional area = .................................

4. A schoolteacher is concerned about the large number of vehicles passing along the busy
road next to the school. He decides to make a measurement to find the number of vehicles
per minute. Using the school clock he notes the following readings.

appearance of clock at beginning of investigation

appearance of clock at end of investigation

vehicles counted travelling left to right = 472

vehicles counted travelling right to left = 228

(a) Calculate the time for which the schoolteacher was counting vehicles.
Counting time = ......................................... min

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(b) Calculate the total number of vehicles passing the school per minute.
Vehicles

Vehicles per minute = ................................................

5. Five identical steel balls are measured with a rule graduated in cm, as shown in Fig. 1.1.

(a) Use Fig. 1.1 to find the diameter of one ball.

Diameter of ball = .......................................... cm

(b) What instrument would be used to measure the mass of a ball?

…………….....................................................................................................................
..............

(c) Another ball has a volume of 9.0 cm3 and a mass of 72 g.

Calculate the density of this ball.

` Density = .................................................

Q6. Fig. 1.1 shows a measuring cylinder containing water.

Fig. 1.2 shows the same measuring cylinder after stone A has been lowered into it on a fine
string.

(a) Calculate the volume of stone A.

volume = ………………………………………….......................... cm3

(b) The mass of stone A is measured as 40.5 g.

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Calculate the density of the rock from which stone A was formed.
density = ……………………….................................

(c) Stone B, from the same rock as stone A, has a larger volume.
Stone A is removed from the water and replaced by stone B. The measurements are then
repeated.
Which of the values in the experiment will be different when using stone B?
Tick boxes alongside any of the quantities that will have changed.

60.4 cm3

40.5 g

Density

7. A student carries out an experiment to find the density of water, using a method that is
slightly different from normal. In his method, he starts with a measuring cylinder containing
some water, and then adds more water to that already in the measuring cylinder.
His experiment is illustrated in Fig. 2.1.

The readings he obtains are as follows:

reading 1 53 cm3
reading 2 84 cm3
reading 3 205 g
reading 4 238 g

Calculate
(a) the volume of the added water,
Volume = ......................................... cm 3

(b) the mass of the added water,

Mass = ............................................. g

(c) the density of water, stating clearly the equation you are using.

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 Density = ............................................... g /
3
cm

8. Some students observe drops of water falling from a tap that leaks, as shown in Fig.

(a) The students measure the time for 50 drops to fall from the tap. The time for 50 drops to fall is
20 s.
Calculate the average time between two drops falling.
average time = ..................................................... s
(b) The students collect some drops of water.
(i) The students measure the volume of the water they collect.
State the term for the equipment that is suitable for measuring the volume accurately.
………………....................................................................................................................................

ii) In a similar experiment, another student collects 0.21 kg of water.

Calculate the weight of this water.
Weight of water = .................................................... N

9. A Perspex container has a 6cm square base and contains water to a

height of 7 cm as shown in fig.

a. What is the volume of water?

Volume--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cm3

b. A stone is lowered into the water so as to be completely covered and water rises to a height
of
9 cm. What is the volume of stone?

Volume of stone……..………………………………………………………………………………..
cm3

10. a. Name the basic units of length, mass, time.

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 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
….

b. What is difference between two measurements of the same object with values of 3.4
and 3.42?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………

c. Write expressions for

(i) the area of a circle,
(ii) the volume of a sphere,
(iii) the volume of cylinder

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
…….

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