QUESTIONS

1. A rectangular block of wood has dimensions 240mm x 20.5cm x 0.040m. Calculate its volume in cm3 .
2. Ten identical lengths of wire are laid closely side-by-side. Their combined width is measured and found
to be 14.2mm. Calculate
- the radius of a single wire
- the volume in mm3 of a single wire if its length is 10.0cm (volume of a cylinder = πr2h)
3. The volume of a piece of wood (which floats in water) can be measured as shown. Write a brief
paragraph to describe the procedure. State the volume of the wood.

4. Calculate the density of mercury if 500 cm^3 has a mass f 6.60kg. Give your answer in g/cm^3.
5. A steel block has a mass of 40 g. It is in the form o a cube. Each edge of the cube is 1.74cm long.
Calculate the density of the steel.
6. A student measures the density of a piece of steel. She uses the method of displacement to and find its
volume. Her measurements are shown in the diagram. Calculate the volume of the steel and its density.

7. Many television sets show 25 images, called ‘frames’, each second. What is the time interval between
one frame and the next ?
8. A pendulum is timed, first for 20 swings and then for 50 swing:
- time for 20 swings = 17.4 s
- time for 50 swings = 43.2 s
Calculate the average time per swing in each case. The answers are slightly different. Suggest some
possible experimental reasons for this.
9. If you measured the distance travelled by a snail in inches and the time it took in minutes, what would
be the units of its speed?
10. Which of the following could not be a unit of speed?
km/h, s/m, mph, m/s , ms
11. Information about three cars travelling on a motorway is shown.
A. Which car is moving the fastest?
B. Which car is moving the slowest ?

Vehicle Distance travelled / km Time taken/ minutes

Car A 80 50

Car B 72 50

Car C 85 50
12. An aircraft travels 1000m in 4.0s. What is its speed?
13. A car travels 150 km in 2.0 hours. WHat is its speed? (Show the correct units.)
14. An interplanetary spacecraft is moving at 20 000m/s. How far will it travel in one day? (Give your
answer in km.)
15. How long will it take a coach travelling at 90km/h to travel at 300 km along a highway?
16. Draw a speed time graph to show the following motion. A car accelerates uniformly from rest 5s. Then
it travels at a steady speed of 6m/s for 5s.
17. On your graph, shade the area that show the distance travelled by the car in 10s.
18. Calculate the distance travelled in this time.
19. Which of the following could not be a unit of acceleration ?
km/s2, mph/s, km/s, m/s2
20. A car sets off traffic lights. It reaches at a speed of 27m/s in 18s. What is its acceleration ?
21. A train initially moving at 12m/s, speeds up to 36m/s in 120s. What is its acceleration ?
22. A car travels for 10s at a steady speed of 20m/s along a straight road. The traffic lights ahead change to
red and the car slows down with a constant deceleration, so that it halts after a further 8s.
- Draw a speed-time graph to represent the car’s motion during the 18s described.
- Use the graph to deduce the car’s deceleration as it slows down.
- Use the graph to deduce how far the car travels during the 18s described.
23. The diagram shows three objects that are moving. A force acts on each object. For each, say how its
movement will change.
A→ ←B \C (slanting force)
24. A book is weighed on Earth. It is found to have a mass of 1kg. So the weight on the Earth is 10N. What
can you say about its mass and its weight if you take it:
- to the moon, where gravity is weaker than on Earth ?
- to Jupiter where gravity is stronger ?
25. An astronaut has a mass of 90kg.
- Calculate her weight on the surface of the Earth.
- The astronaut travels to mars, where gravity is weaker. The acceleration of free fall on the surface of
Mars has a value g = 3.7m/s2. Calculate her weight on Mars.
26. What force is needed to give a car mass 600 kg an acceleration of 2.5 m/s2 ?
27. A stone of mass 0.20 kg falls with an acceleration of 10.0 m/s2. How big is the force that causes this
acceleration?
28. What acceleration is produced by a force of 2000 N acting on a person of mass 80 kg ?
29. One way to find the mass of an object is to measure its acceleration when a force acts on it. If a force of
80N causes a box to accelerate at 0.10m/s2, what is the mass of the box ?
30. Calculate the momentum of a car of mass 600 kg moving at 25 m/s.
31. A force of 20 N acts on a rocket fro 350s, causing the rocket’s velocity to increase
- Calculate the impulse of the force
- By how much does the rocket’s momentum increase ?
32. Three different forces are shown pulling on a heavy trapdoor. Which force will have the biggest
turning effect? Explain your Answer.

33. A small tree can survive a gentle breeze but it may be blown over by a high wind. Explain why a tall
tree is more likely to blow over than a short tree.

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36. Use the ideas of stability and centre of mass to explain the following. a) Double-decker buses have
heavy weights attached to their undersides. b)The crane has a heavy concrete block attached to one
end of its arms, and others placed around its base.
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38. A piece of elastic cord is 80cm long. When it is stretched, its length increases to 102 cm. What is its
extension?
39. The table shows the result of an experiment to stretch an elastic cord. Copy and complete the table and
draw a graph to represent this data.

Load /N Length /mm Extension /mm

0.0 50 0

1.0 54

2.0 58

3.0 62
 4.0 66

5.0 70

6.0 73

7.0 75

8.0 76
40. A spring requires a load of 2.5N to increase its length by 4.0 cm. The spring obeys Hooke’s Law. What
load will give it an extension of 12 cm?
41. A spring has an unstretched length of 12.0 cm. It's spring constant k is 8.0N/cm. What load is needed to
stretch the spring to a length of 15.0 cm?
42. The results of an experiment to stretch a spring are shown in table. Use the results to plot an
extension-load graph. On your graph, mark the limit of proportionality and state the value of the load
at that point.
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Load/N Length/m

0.0 0.800

2.0 0.815

4.0 0.830

6.0 0.845

8.0 0.860

10.0 0.880

12.0 0.905
44. Name an instrument that is used to measure:
a) Atmospheric Pressure
b) Differences in pressure

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47. Write down an equation that defines pressure.
48. What is the SI unit of pressure?

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50. What pressure is exerted by a force of 40000 N acting on 2.0 cm2 ?

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52. A water tank holds water to a depth of 80 cm. What is the Pressure on the bottom of the tank?
(Density of Water= 1000kg/m3)
53. The diagram shows a tank that is filled with oil. The density of the oil is 920 kg/m3.

- Calculate the volume of the tank from the dimensions shown in the diagram.
- Calculate the weight of the oil in the tank.
- The pressure on the bottom of the tank is caused by the weight of the oil. Calculate the pressure using
p = f/a
- Now calculate the pressure using p=hpg . Did you find the same answer ?
54. What name is give to the energy of a moving object ?
55. The sun is a very hot object. Name 2 forms of energy that arrive at the Earth from the Sun.
56. What form of energy is stored by a stretched spring ?
57. What do the letter g.p.e. Stand for? How can a object be given g.p.e ?
58. Name a device that transforms electrical energy to sound energy. (It may also produce thermal (heat)
energy).
59. Name 3 forms of energy that are given out by television set.
60. Give an example or material that stored energy in kinetic energy, Gravitational potential energy,
 Chemical energy, Nuclear energy, Strain (elastic) energy and Internal energy.
61. What energy conversions are going n in the following? In each case, write an equation to represent the
conversion.
- Coal is burned to heat a room and to provide a supply of hot water.
- A student uses an electrical lamp while she is doing her homework.
- A hairdryer is connected into main electricity supply. It blows hot air at the user’s wet hair. T whirrs
as it does so.
62. A light bulb is supplied with 100J of energy each second.
- How many joules of energy leave the bulb each second in the form of heat and light?
- If 10J of energy leave the lamp each second in the form of light, how many joules leave each second in
the form of heat ?
63. - What is the most common form of waste energy ?
- Name another form in which energy is often wasted.
64. Why is it important not to waste energy ? Give three reasons.
65. A coal-fired power station produces 100MJ of electrical energy when it is supplied with 400 MJ of
energy from its fuel Calculate its efficiency.
66. A lamp is 10% efficient How much electrical energy must be supplied to the lamp each second if it
produces 20 J of light energy per second?
67. In the following examples, is the object's; g.pe. Increasing, decreasing or remaining constant ?
- an apple falls from a tree
- an aircraft flies horizontally at a height of 9000m.
68. A girl of weight 500N climbs on top of a 2.0m high wall. By how much does her g.p.e increase ?
69. A stone of weight 1.0N falls downwards. Its g.p.e decreases by 100J. How far has it fallen ?
70. What does v represent in the formula k.e. = ½ mv2
71. How much k.e. Is stored by a 1.0Kg ball moving at 1.0m/s?
72. A runner of mass 80 kg is moving at 8.0m/s. Calculate her kinetic energy ?
73. Which has more k.e. A 2.0 g bee flying at 1.0m/s or a 1.0 g wasp flying at 2.0m/s ?
74. Explain why wind and wave power could not be relied on to provide a country’s entire electricity
supply.
75. A solar cell (photocell) produces electricity when the sun shines. Which energy conversion is going on
here ?
76. When a wave travels across sea, the water moves up and down. What 2 forms of energy does a wave
have ?
77. - Name 3 fossil fuels
- name 3 non-fossil fuels
78. What energy conversion is happening when charcoal is used as the fuel for barbecue ?
79. What energy conversion happens when a nuclear power station uses uranium fuel to produce
electricity ?
80. Explain whether the following energy sources are renewable or nonrenewable :
- uranium-fuelled nuclear power
- wave power
81. Name 3 energy resources for which the original energy source is not radiation from the sun.
82. Which requires more work, lifting a 10kg sack of coal or lifting a 15kg bag of feathers?
83. Which force does work when a ball rolls down a slope ?
84. In what unit do we measure the work done by a force ?
85. A fast- moving car has 0.5MJ of kinetic energy. The driver brakes and the car comes to a halt. How
much work is done by the force provided by the brakes ?
86. How much work is done by a force of 1.0N moving through 1.0m ?
87. How much work is done by a force of 5.0N moving through 2.0m ?
88. Which does more work, a force of 500N moving through 10m or a force of 100N moving through 40m?
89. A steel ball of weight 50N hangs at a height 5.0m above ground, on the end of chain 2.0m in length.
How much work is done on the ball by gravity and by the tension in the chain ?
90. Your neighbour is lifting bricks and placing them on top of a wall. He lifts them slowly, one at a time.
State 2 ways in which he could increase his power (the rate at which he is transferring energy to the
bricks)
91. - How many watts are there in kilowatt ?
92. How many watts are there in a megawatt?
93. It is estimated that the human brain has a power requirement of 40W. How many joules is that per
second ?
94. A light bulb transfers 1000 J of energy in 10s. What is its power ?
95. An electric motor transfers 100 J in 8.0s. If it then transfers the same amount of energy in 6.0 S, has its
power increased or decreased ?
96. Which of the following materials can sound travel through : wood, air , water ?
97. When a woodwind instrument such as flute produces a nte, what part of it vibrates ?
98. Sound takes about 3 ms to travel 1 m.
- How long will it take to travel from the center of a cricket pitch to spectators who are 200m away ?
- What fraction of a second is this ?
99. Which travels faster, light or sound ? Describe one observation that supports your answer.
100. What happens to the pitch of the sound if its frequency is increased ?
101.What happens to the loudness of a sound if its amplitude decreases ?
102. - What is the appropriate frequency range of human hearing ?
- how does this change with age?
103. What is meant by ultrasound ?
104. Sketch the trace you would expect to see on an oscilloscope screen, produced by a pure note.
On your diagram, indicate the distance that corresponds to the period T of the vibration .
105. Sound A has a period of 0.010s ; Sound B has a period of 0.020s.
- Which has greater frequency ?
- Whill will sound more high-pitched ?
106. WHy is it impossible for sounds to travel through a vacuum ?
107. How could you convince a small child, that when you speak , it is not necessary for air to travel
from your mouth to the ear of the listener ?
108. What is the difference between a compression and rarefaction in a sound wave ? illustrate your
answer with a sketch.
109. Describe the motion of molecules of water as a ripple moves across the surface of water in a
ripple tank .
110. Draw a diagram to show what is meant by amplitude of wave /
111. How could you find the wavelength of the ripples ?
112.If 10 waves occupy 15.0 cm, what is their wavelength ?
113. - If 100 sound waves reach your ear per second. What is its frequency ?
- What is their period /
114.Are sound waves transverse or longitudinal ?
115. Write down an equation relating speed, frequency and wavelength of a wave. Indicate the SI units of
each quantity.
116. If 10 waves pass a point each second and their wavelength is 30 m, what is their speed ?
117. All sound waves travel with the same speed in air. Which has higher frequency, a sound wave of
wavelength 2.0m or one with wavelength 1.0m ?
118.Which have the longer wavelength, radio waves of frequency 90Mhz or 100Mhz ?
119. Light slows down when it enters water from air.
- what happens to its speed ?
- What happens to its wavelength ?
- What happens to its frequency ?
120. Draw a diagram to show what happens to plane waves when they strike a flat reflector placed at
45 degree to their direction of travel.
121.How can the speed of ripples in a ripple tank be changed ?
122. What is observed when ripples pass through a ga in a barrier ?
123. What can you say about the width of the gap if it is to produce the greatest diffraction effect ?
124. Draw a diagram to show how a series of parallel straight wavefronts are altered as they pass
through a gap of whose width is equal to the wavelength of the waves.
125. What colours are next to green in a spectrum ?
126. Draw a diagram to show how white light can be dispersed into a spectrum using a glass prism.
127. Why are some colours of light more strongly refracted than others when they enter glass ?
128. Which has the longer wavelength - red light or violet light ?
Which has greater frequency ?
129. Which has longer wavelength, red light or infrared radiation ?
Which has greater frequency ?
130. Which travels faster in empty space, violet light or red light ?
Which travels faster in glass ?
131. Name 2 types of electromagnetic radiation that can be used for cooking food.
132. Explain how radio wave, microwaves and infrared radiation might all play a part when yu watch
a television show.