Leonora Secondary School

Physics – Gowkarran Lall

Name: ___________________ Date: __________
Class: Form ___ Time: 2 hr 30 minutes.
Good luck

INSTRUCTIONS:

Answer all questions in the space provided. The maximum marks are in the square brackets when
greater than 1 .Please remember that you are to write legibly and unambiguously. All working is to be
done in the spaces provided in the question paper and graph and, if necessary, in the empty space after
the end of the questions. Answers are to be given to the number of significant figures of the least
accurately expressed input.
Computers and calculators are allowed.

1. Measure the length and breadth of the rectangle below with your ruler and fill up the
table of values for length and breadth in mm in row 1, cm in row 2 and m in row 3. You
will lose a mark for each unit you fail to put in correctly. [ 12]
Calculate the area in appropriate units and place each in the last column. [6]

Rectangle

LENGHT BREADTH AREA

1
2
3

2. How much time in days, hours, minutes and seconds has elapsed from Monday
16: 10:00 to Friday 08:50:00 of the same week? [3]

3. A block of granite stone was weighted on an electronic scale and found to have a mass
of 1844.1 g. The block of granite was then carefully lowered into a vessel filled to the
brim with water. All the overflowing water was carefully collected and was measured to
be 683 cm3.
Calculate the density of the block of granite.
 a. In gcm-3 [ 3]

b. In kgm-3 [4]

QUESTION 4

I. State the principle of conservation of energy. [2]

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II. Define the term ‘potential energy ‘ [1]

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III. Give one example of a body possessing potential energy. [1]

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IV. Define the term ‘kinetic energy ‘ [1]

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b) At a football match between two college teams, the referee ordered a free kick. The ball of
mass 1.5 kg was placed at rest. The kick was about to be taken by an eager footballer.

I. What was the potential energy of the ball just before the kick was taken? [1]
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C) The footballer kicked the ball and it was caught by the opposing goalkeeper, 4 meters above
the ground. The ball was travelling at 10ms-2.

I. Calculate the potential energy of the ball just before it was caught. [3]
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ii. Calculate the kinetic energy of the ball just before it was caught. [3]
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iii. Does the fact that heat is lost when work is done against friction violate the law of
conservation of energy? Justify your answer [2]
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iv. After the ball was caught, what was the kinetic energy converted into? [ 2]
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QUESTION 5

I. Define velocity ratio and mechanical advantage [ 2]

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II. A common windlass is used to raise a 480 N load of earth from an excavation by the
application of an effort of 200N at right angles to the handle and crank. If the handle is
33 cm from the axis and the radius of the axle is 11 cm, find
A. The Velocity ratio

B. The Mechanical Advantage

III. What do you understand by the efficiency of a machine?
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IV. A driving gear wheel having 25 teeth engages with a second wheel with 100 teeth. A
third wheel with 30 teeth on the same shaft as the second, engages with the fourth
having 60 teeth. Find
a. The total velocity ratio ; [ 3]

b. The mechanical advantage of the gear of the system if its efficiency is 85 %. [ 4]

Question 6

A racing cyclist gets his wheel to rotate at 450 rpm (revolutions per minute)

a. What is that revolutions per second? [2]

b. What is that in Hz? [ 1]

c. If the radius of the wheel is 25.46 cm. calculate the circumference of the wheel. ( π =
3.142) [ 3]
 d. When the rider rides one revolution of the wheels, the bicycle travels a distance equal
to the circumference of the wheel. How far does he ride in one second? [ 3]

e. What is therefore his speed in ms-1? [ 1]

f. What is therefore his speed in km/h? [ 2]

Question 7

a. What is pressure? [1]

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b. State the two laws of pressure [ 4]
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c. State the formula to calculate pressure in static fluid, stating what each letter designates
in the equation. [ 2]

d. What is absolute pressure? [1]

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e. What is gauge pressure? [ 1]

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f. State two factors on which the pressure of liquid depends [2]

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Question 8

i. A student investigating a relationship between an extension and a force for a

spring of original length 60.0 cm obtained the results seen in the table below

Mass , m/g Force, F/N Final length of Extension,

spring, l/cm e/cm
20.0 60.5
40.0 61.0
60.0 61.5
80.0 62.0
100.0 62.4
120.0 63.0

a. Complete the table by calculating the force, F, and the extension, e, of the
spring. { use acceleration due to gravity = 10 N/kg } [ 4]
b. Plot a graph of extension against force on graph paper provided [ 10]
c. From your graph , calculate the slope, S [4]

d. The spring constant is related to the slope of the graph as follows

Spring constant = 1/s
Calculate the spring constant [2]

e. Draw a labeled diagram showing the apparatus as used in this investigation.

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f. With aid of dotted, use your graph to
i. Determine the force which would cause an extension of 1.8 cm [2]
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ii. Estimate the extension of the spring if a force of 1.3 N is applied [2]
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g. If a student continues to take readings, a point may be reached where

proportionally no longer exists.
Name this point [1]

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 Question 9

a. Explain what is meant by the terms ‘velocity’ and ‘acceleration’. [3]

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A b C
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Figure 1.

Figure 1 above shows a car at A moving towards C with a constant velocity of 30 m/s. As
the car passes A, the driver sees an obstruction in the road at C. Due to the reaction
time of the driver, the car travels a distance of 27m, at the same velocity ,before the
brakes are applied at B the car now decelerates uniformly and comes to a halt at C ,
which is 54m from B.

I. Calculate the reaction time of the driver [2]

ii. The car takes 3.6 s to travel from B to C. in the space below, Draw a velocity – time graph to
represent the motion of the car between A to C. [8]
(Question is to be done graph paper provided)

iii. What is the average speed of the car between B and C? [2]
iv. If the mass of the car is 750 kg. Find the braking force that slows the car between B and C.

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BONUS QUESTION
Question 10
Convert:
 10,000 milliseconds in seconds
 2000 km in meters
 O.002 g in microgram

Express in significant Figures

 2000
 0.00234
 3833.33
 0.000 000 02
 123455.789

End of Examination