NESTO COLLEGE, ERELU, OYO

THIRD TERMINAL EXAMINATION 2013/2014

SUBJECT: PHYSICS CLASS: SSS III Time: 3hrs
Answer all questions in this section, all question carry equal marks
1. Which of the following is not a vector quantity? (A) momentum (B) force (C) velocity
(D) temperature
2. Which of the following is not a consequence of force field? (A) weight
(B) surface tension (C) gravitational pull (D) electric field
3. A boy pull a nail from the wall with a sting tied to the nail from the wall with a string tied
to the nail, the string is inclined at an angle 60 to the wall if the tension in the string is 4N.
What is the effective force used in pulling the nail (A) 2N (B)
4.
v
u

t
the diagram represent the trajectory of a projectile with an initial velocity U, if g is the
acceleration of free fall, the time taken to reach the maximum height is?
(A) Using
5. 12m

30O

10N
from the diagram calculate the moment of a force of 10N about a point P(A)60Nm (B) 60
6. which of the following is used to determine the relative density of the acid in the car
battery (A) hypsometer (B) manometer (C) hydrometer (D) spectrometer
7. A block of material of volume 20cm3 is suspended from a spring balance with half the
volume of the block immersed in water. What is the reading of the spring balance?
(Density of water=1.0g/cm3 (A)8g (B)25g (C)30g (D)40g
8. A piece of cork which is floating on water is acted upon by the force of
(A) Weight and density (B) Weight and upthrost (C) upthrust and viscosity
(D) Upthrust onl

9.

(A) X and Y are in stable equilibrium (B) Y and Z are in neutral equilibrium
(C) X is in unstable equilibrium (D) Y is in neutral equilibrium
10. A stone tied to a string is made to revolve in a horizontal circle of radius 4m with an
angular speed for 2radii per second. With what tangential velocity will the stone move off
the circle if the string cuts? (A) 16.0m/s (B) 8.0M/s (C) 6.0m/s (D) 2.0m/s
 The motion of the prongs of a sounding tuning fork is (A) random
(B) translational (C) rotational (D) vibratory
11. Which of the following is a derived unit? (A) meter (B) coulomb (C) ampere (D) kilogram
12. An engine raises 100kg of motor through a height of 60m in 20s. What is the power of
the engine? (take g=10m/s2) (A) 120.000w (B) 3000w (C) 300w (D) 1200W
13. A thermometer has its stem marked in millimeter instead of degree Celsius. The lower
fixed point is 30mm and the upper fixed point is 180mm. calculate the temperature in
degree Celsius when the thermometer reads 45mm (A) 67.5 OC (B) 30.0OC (C) 35.0 OC
(D) 10.0 OC
14. Which of the following surface will radiate heat energy best? (A) red (B) Black (C) white
(D) blue
15. Which of the following statement is NOT correct (A) the boiling point of a liquid is not
affected by impurities (B) evaporation takes place only at all temperature (C) boiling
takes place throughout the volume of a liquid
(D) evaporation takes place only at the surface of the liquid
16. Water in an open container boils at a lower temperature when heated at the top of a
mountain the (A) relative humidity is higher than that of sea level (B) rays of sun add
more heat to water (C) temperature is lower than that of sea level
(D) pressure is more than that at sea level
17. Which of the following substance is not a good conductor of electricity
(A) human body (B) glass (C) aluminium (D) earth
18. Calculate the heat require to vaporize 50g of water initially at 80 OC if the specific heat
capacity of water is 4.2Jg-1k-1 (specific latent heat of vaporization of water is 2260Jg -1)
(A) 533000J (B) 230200J (C) 1172003J (D) 4200J
19. A block of ice at its melting point is left on a table in the atmosphere and it is observed to
melt gradually which of the following statements is true about the melting process (A) the
ice block absorbs heat from the atmosphere and its temperature remains constant as it
melt (B) the reaction force of the table on the ice breaks the ice into water molecule
(C) the ice block absorbs heat from the atmosphere and its temperature rise (D) the
atmosphere absorb heat from the ice block and its temperature falls
20. All the heat generated by a current of 2A passing through a 6Ω resistor for 25s is use to
evaporate 5g of a liquid at its boiling point. What is the specific latent heat of the liquid?
(A) 605Jg-1 (B) 120J-1 (C) 300J-1 (D) 360J-1
21. A positive charged sphere is suspended inside a hollow CAN placed on an insulating
base. If the CAN is momentarily earthed and the charged sphere is then withdraw, which
of the following diagrams best represents the charges?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

+ - - + - - - - - + + - + +
+ - - + - - - - - + + - + +
+ - - + - - - - - + + - + +
+ - - + - - - - - + + - + +
22. Which of this following instrument can be used to compare the relative magnitude of
charge on two given bodies? (A) ebonite rod (B) proof planes
(C) electrophorus (D) gold leaf electroscope
23. Which of the following is the current dimension for pressure (A) ML-1T
(B) ML-1 T-1 (C) ML-1T-2 (D) ML-2 T-2
24. A bus traveling at 15m/s accelerate uniformly at 4m/s2 What is the distance covered in
10s (A) 150m (B) 170 (C) 350m (D) 600m
25. A ball is dropped and it hit the floor at a point A. it rebound upward to a point B. while
moving from A to B its (A) kinetic energy is increasing (B) potential energy is increasing
(C) potential energy is decreasing (D) kinetic energy remains constant
26. An object of mass 2kg moving with a velocity of 3m/s collide, head on with another
object of mass 1kg moving in the direction with a velocity of 4m/s. if the collision is
inelastic what is their common velocity. (A) 0.6m/s (B) 0.67 m/s (C) 2.00m/s (D) 3.33m/s
27. A constant force of 5N acts for 5seconds in a mass of 5kg initially at rest. Calculate the
final momentum (A) 125kgm/s (B) 25kgm/s (C) 15kgm/s
(D) 5kgm/s
28. When taking a penalty kick a footballer applied a force of 30.0N for a period of 0.05s if
the mass of the ball is 0.075kg. Calculate the speed with which the ball moves off.
(A) 4.50m/s (B) 11.25m/s (C) 20m/s (D) 45.0m/s
29. A body of mass 100kg moving with a velocity 10.0m/s collides with a wall. If after the
collision it moves with a velocity of 2.0m/s in the opposite direction. Calculate the change
in momentum (A) 0.8Ns (B) 1.2Ns (C) 12.0Ns (D) 80.0Ns
30. A bullet of mass 8g leave a gun of mass 2000g with a velocity 100km/h the recoil
velocity of the gun is (A) 10km/h (B) 0.8km/h (C) 0.4km/h (D) 0.0km/h
31. A force of 12.0N acts on a body for 2s. the momentum change of the body is (A) 6.0Ns
(B) 10.0Ns (C) 25.0Ns (D) 144Ns
32. Which of the following materials is not magnetic (A) copper (B) iron (C) cobalt (D)
33. A plane inclined at an angle of 30O to the horizontal has efficiency 60%. The force
parallel to the plane required to push a load of 120N uniformly up the plane is (A) 60N
(B) 100N (C) 120N (D) 200N
34. in any of machine
I V.R is usually greater than the M.A
II The efficiency is the ratio of M.A to the V.R
III V.R is independent of friction
V Which of the above is correct?
(A) I and II only (B) II only (C) I and III (D) all of the above
35. Giving the length of an inclined plane is 8m. Its higher end is 2m above the ground.
What is its V.R? (A) 0.25 (B) 1.3 (C) 4.0 (D) 3.0
36. A driving gear having 25 teeth’s with 100 teethes in a machine. What is its V.R (A) 0.25
(B) 1.25 (C) 2.0 (D) 4.0
37. A load is pulled upon inclined plane length L so that the load is raised through a vertical
height h. The distance through the load is overcome is (A) L+h (B) h (C) L (D) L+h
38. Which of these is correct about the efficiency of a machine (A) Ef =V.R/M.A x 100%
(B) Ef = input/output x 100% (C) Ef =load distance/effort x 100%
(D)Ef = M.A/V.R x 100%
39. A thermometer with an arbitrary scale s of equal division register -30OS at the ice point
+90OS at the stem point. What is the temperature corresponding to 60 OS (A) 25.0OC
(B) 50.0 OC (C) 66.0 OC (D) 75.0 OC
40. Which of the following thermometer relies on the fact that if there is a temperature
difference between two junction or two dissimilar metal. Then an e.m.f is develop which
is dependent upo this temperature difference
(A) thermoelectric thermometer (B) Platinum resistance thermometer
(C) Maximum-Minimum thermometer (D) Renault’s thermometer
41. By conversion 50O on the Fahrenheit scale is (A) 212 O (B) 122 O (C) 106 O
(D) 53 O
42. An object is heated from 30 OC to 57 O C the increase on the temperature scale is
(A) 27k (B) 81k (C) 246k (D) 300k
43. The ice and team points on an ungraduated thermometer are found to be 150m apart.
What temperature is recorded in OC when the length of the moving there is 50mm above
the ice point mark (A) 33.3 (B) 75.2 (C) 100 (D) 300
44. A tap supply water at 25 OC while another supplies water at 82 OC. if a man wishes to
bath with water at 40 OC the ratio of the mass of hot water to that of cold water is (A) 123
(B) 321 (C) 327 (D) 723
 45. When an athlete perspires after running (A) evaporation occurs and help to cool the
body (B) Convection cools the body (C) Heat is conducted away from the body (D) the
body absorbs cools from the surrounding air
46. How much heat energy is required to change 8kg of ice to water at 0 OC (Specific Latent
heat of fusion of ice is 2.26 x 10 O Jkg-1) (A) 2264J (B) 42003J (C) 46043J (D) 54200J
47. The temperature rise resulting from a water fall which is 120m high is (A) 0.50 OC
(B) 0.29OC (C) 0.820 O C (D) 1.20 O C
48. A 60w electric heater is used to heat 120g of water in a calorimeter from 25 O C to 100 O
C. taking the S.H.C of water as 4200Jkg/c and neglect heat gain by the calorimeter the
heat energy gain by the water is (A) 12.6kg (B) 50.4kg
(C) 37.8kg (D) 130.2kg
49. Calculate the time for which the current flowed in the question above
(A) 5.25mins (B) 10.5mins (C) 12.1mins (D) 7mins
50. The equation PXVYTZ= Constant is Boyl’s law if (A) x=0, y=0, z=1 (B) x=1, y=1, z=0
(C) x=1, y=0, z=0 (D) x=1, y=1, z=1
51. A fixed mass of gas of volume 600cm3 at a temperature of 27OC is cooled at constant
pressure to a temperate of 0OC what is the change in volume (A) 54cm3 (B) 273 cm3
(C) 300 cm3 (D) 540 cm3
52. A mass of gas occupies 20 cm3 at 5OC and 760mmHg pressure what is its volume at
30OC and 800mmHg pressure (A) 41.4 cm3 (B) 20.7 cm3 (C) 80 cm3 (D) 50 cm3
53. The volume of a fixed mass of gas at constant pressure increase by 1/275 at its volume.
This referred to as (A) Boyle’s law (B) Charle’s law (C) Dalton’s law (D) Avogadros law
54. A fixed mass of gas volume V1 and maintained at a pressure P1 has a volume V2 when its
pressure is change to P2 at a constant temperature. Which of the following relationship
between P1V1P2V2 is correct (A) P1 V2=P2 V1 (B) P1P2= V1V2 (C) P1/P2=V2/V1
(D) P1/P2=V1/V2
55. 150cm3 of a gas is collected at 20OC and 755mmHg pressure the volume of the gas at
S.T.P is (A) 100.0cm3 (B) 138.8cm3 (C) 170.0cm3 (D) 760.0cm3
56. The volume of a certain mass of a gas at 20 OC and 100cm3 , keeping the pressure
constant the temperature at which the volume will be 200cm3 is
(A) 40OC (B) 80 OC (C) 313 OC (D) 113 OC
57. The molar gas constant is the same for all gases because at the same pressure and
temperature equal volume of gasses have the same as (A) Density (B) Mass
(C) Average kinetic (D) number of molecules
58. When the absolute temperature of a gas change from T1 to T2 its pressure and volume
are each found to be exactly double. Which of the following correct express the
relationship between T1 and T2 ? (A) T2 =1/4T1 (B) T2=1/2T1
(C) T2=4T1 (D) T2=2T1
59. The magnitude of the force required to make an object of mass m move with speed v in
a circular path of radius r is given by the expression ( A) MC/V
(B) Mr2/V (C) MV2/r (D) MV/r2

Answer three question from part I and four questions from part II
SECTION B
(1)a State two objects each used in sports and warfare which man considered as projectiles
b. The horizontal range R. of a projectile is given by the expression R= U2 sin2θ
g
Where θ is the angle of projectile, g is the acceleration due to gravity, U is the initial velocity. At
what value of θ will R be maximum?
(2)a. What is surface tension?
b. State two methods by which surface tension of a liquid can be reduced
(3)a Explain diffusion
b. State the factor that can affect the rate of diffusion
(4)a. A wire is gradually stretched until it snaps. Sketch a load extension graph for the wire and
on the graph indicate the
i. Elastic limit
ii. Yield point
iii. Maximum load
iv. Breaking point
(5)a. Distinguish between the forces of adhesion and cohesion
b. Give one example each of the forces of adhesion and cohesion.
PART II
(6)a. Define upper fixed point and lower fixed point as used in thermometry
b. The electrical resistances of the element in a platinum resistance thermometer at 100 OC, 0 OC
and room temperature are 75.000, 63.000 and 64.992Ω respectively. Use these data to
determine the room temperature
c.i State Boyle’s law
ii. A uniform capillary tube, closed at one end contained dry air trapped by a thread of mercury
8.5X10-2 in long. When the tube was held horizontally, the length of the air column was 5.0 x 10 -
2m. When it was held vertically with the closed end downward the length was 4.5x10 -2m

Determine the value of the atmospheric pressure [g=10m/s2 density of mercury =1.3x104kgm-3]
7.a Define the term linear momentum
ii. State the law of conservation of linear momentum
b. A ball P of mass 0.25kg loses one-third of its velocity when it make a head on collision with an
identical ball Q at rest. After the collision, Q moves off with P. calculate the initial velocity of P
c.i State Newton’s second law of motion and show from the law that F=ma
ii. A body of mass 0.1kg dropped from a height of 8m unto a hard floor bounces back to a height
of 2m. Calculate the change of momentum. If the body is in contact with the floor for 0.1sec.
What is the force exerted on the body? G=10m/s2
8a.i Define the boiling point of a substance
ii. What are the effect of an increase in pressure on the boiling and melting point of water?
b. Heat is supplied at a steady rate of 800Jper minutes to 100g of a solid substance in an
insulated container. The temperature of the substance first rises steadily from -5OC to 25 OC in
3minutes, and remains constant at 25 OC for 35 minutes. It again rises steadily to 175 OC at a
rate of 6 degree per minutes and remains constant at 175 OC for another 2minutes during which
the mass decreases by 2g
i. Use the information above to sketch the temperature variations of the substance with time also
calculate for the substance its. ii. Specific heat capacity iii. Specific latent heat of fusion iv.
Specific latent heat of vaporization
9a. define the terms: Mechanical advantage, velocity ratio and efficiency as applied to a machine
(ii) define the equation connecting the terms (iii) explain why efficiency of a machine is usually
less than 100% (iv) Draw a diagram of a box of mass 70kg using an inclined plane of effective
length 5m onto a platform 2.5m high at uniform speed. If the frictional force between the box and
the plane is 100N, draw the diagram of all the forces acting on the box when in motion and
calculate (i) minimum effort applied in pulling up the box (ii) velocity ratio of the plane (iii)
mechanical advantage of the plane (iv) Efficiency of the plane (v) Energy lost in the system (vi)
Work output of the man (vii) Total power developed by the man given that the time taken to raise
the box unto the platform is 50s [g=10m/s2]
10.a Explain what is meant by acceleration of free fall due to gravity
bi. State two reasons why g varies on the surface of the earth
ii. Explain the experiment to determine the acceleration of free fall due to gravity
c. A stone is projected upwards at an angle of 30O to the horizontal from the top of a tower of
height 100m and it hits the ground at a point Q. if the initial velocity of projection is 100mm/s.
Calculate the (i) Maximum height of the stone above the ground
(ii) Time it takes to reach this height (iii) Time of flight
(iv) Horizontal distance from the foot of the tower to the point Q [Neglect air resistance and take
g=10m/s2]