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The diagram shows an enlarged drawing of the end of a metre rule. It is being used to measure the length of a small feather. What is the length of the feather?
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The graph shows how the speed of a van changes with time for part of its journey. In which labelled section is the van decelerating?
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A large stone is dropped from a bridge into a river. Air resistance can be ignored.
Which row describes the acceleration and the speed of the stone as it falls?
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A cup contains hot liquid. Some of the liquid evaporates. What happens to the mass and what happens to the weight of the liquid in the cup? [Table_1]
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A boy throws a stone. The stone leaves the boy’s hand and moves vertically upwards. Air resistance can be ignored.
How should the force on the stone be described just after the stone leaves the boy’s hand?
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The diagrams show the dimensions and masses of four regular solid objects. The objects are made from different metals.
Which metal has the greatest density?
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A car travels along a straight road. The speed-time graph for this journey is shown.
During which labelled part of the journey is the resultant force on the car zero?
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The diagrams show four objects A, B, C, and D. The center of mass M of each object is marked on the diagrams.
Which object is not in equilibrium?
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A skier walks from the bottom of a ski slope to the top and gains 10000 J of gravitational potential energy.
She skis down the slope. At the bottom of the slope, her kinetic energy is 2000 J.
How much energy is dissipated in overcoming friction and air resistance as the skier moves down the slope?
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Which energy source is one that is used to boil water to make steam in power stations?
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In a factory, two men X and Y try to move identical heavy boxes P and Q.
Man X tries to push box P along the floor. The box does not move because an object is in the way.
Man Y lifts box Q from the floor onto a shelf.
Which man does the most work on the box, and which box gains the most energy?
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A T-shaped girder is placed on the ground in position X. It is then turned over to position Y.
What happens to the force on the ground and what happens to the pressure on the ground?
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The diagram shows a simple mercury barometer.
The atmospheric pressure increases. Which distance increases?
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A liquid is evaporating. The liquid is not boiling.
Which statement about the liquid is correct?
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The diagram shows a quantity of gas enclosed in a cylinder by a piston.
The piston is moved to the left or to the right. The temperature of the gas is kept constant.
Which row describes the effect of moving the piston slowly in the direction shown in the table?
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Which statement describes what happens as ice at 0°C starts to melt to become water?
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What is meant by the \textit{fixed points} of the scale of a liquid-in-glass thermometer?
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A liquid at room temperature fills a flask and a glass tube to level X.
The flask is now placed in ice, and the liquid level in the tube falls to level Y.
Why does the level fall?
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A rod is made half of glass and half of copper. Four pins A, B, C, and D are attached to the rod by wax. The rod is heated in the centre as shown.
The pins fall off when the wax melts.
Which pin falls off first?
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Which row shows the natures of light waves, sound waves and X-rays? [Table_1]
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Radio waves are received at a house at the bottom of a hill.
The waves reach the house because the hill has caused them to be
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The diagram shows a ray of light in air incident on a glass block. Some of the light is refracted, and some of the light is reflected. Two angles $p$ and $q$ are marked on the diagram.
Which row gives the angle of incidence and shows whether the ray undergoes total internal reflection?
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Visible light has a frequency of approximately $5.0 \times 10^{14}$ Hz. M and N are two other types of electromagnetic radiation. The frequency of M is $5.0 \times 10^6$ Hz. The frequency of N is $5.0 \times 10^{15}$ Hz. Which types of radiation are M and N?[Table_1]
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What is the approximate range of hearing of a healthy human ear?
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A singer sings two notes. The first note is louder and lower in pitch than the second note. Which statement about the two notes is correct?
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Two nickel bars are placed close to the N-pole of a bar magnet. The nickel bars become magnetised.
Which row states the pole induced at P, the pole induced at Q, and the type of magnetic force between P and Q?
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A student wishes to make a permanent magnet. She has an iron rod and a steel rod.
Which rod should she use to make the permanent magnet, and is this rod a hard magnetic material or a soft magnetic material?
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Two meters are connected in a circuit to measure the current in a component and the potential difference across the component.
Which meters are used and how are they connected to the component?
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A wire has a certain electrical resistance.
The diameter and length of the wire may be changed.
Which pair of changes must cause the resistance of the wire to increase?
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P and Q are the circuit symbols for two electrical components.
Which components are represented by P and by Q?
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The diagram shows two resistors connected in a circuit.
What could be the combined resistance of this arrangement of resistors?
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The diagram shows part of a circuit used to switch street lamps on and off automatically. In the evening it gets dark. Which row shows the effect on the resistance of the light-dependent resistor (LDR) and on the potential difference (p.d.) across it?
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A domestic circuit includes a 30A fuse. This protects the wiring if there is too much current in the circuit. In which wire is the 30A fuse positioned, and what does it do when it operates? [Table_1]
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A strong electromagnet is used to attract pins.
What happens when the current in the coil is halved?
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The diagram shows a transformer.
The input voltage is 240V.
What is the output voltage?
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A neutral atom consists of electrons orbiting a nucleus. The nucleus contains protons and neutrons.
Which statement about the atom must be correct?
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Below are the symbols for five different nuclides.
$$ \begin{align*} ^{35}_{17}\text{X} & \text{ nuclide 1} \\ ^{37}_{17}\text{X} & \text{ nuclide 2} \\ ^{38}_{18}\text{X} & \text{ nuclide 3} \\ ^{81}_{35}\text{X} & \text{ nuclide 4} \\ ^{81}_{37}\text{X} & \text{ nuclide 5} \end{align*} $$
Which two nuclides are isotopes of the same element?
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Which row describes the nature and a property of all β-particles?
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The graph shows how the decay rate of a radioactive source changes with time. What will be the activity at 8 days?
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