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The graph shows how the distance travelled by a vehicle changes with time.
Which row describes the speed of the vehicle in each section of the graph?
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A stone falls freely from the top of a cliff. Air resistance may be ignored. Which graph shows how the acceleration of the stone varies with time as it falls?
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The speed-time graph for an object is shown.
Below are four statements about the acceleration of the object.
Which statement is correct?
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An object tends to keep moving with the same speed and in the same direction due to a certain property.
The object also has weight due to the action of a field.
What is the name of the property, and what is the name of the field?
[Table] property | field
A | mass | electric
B | mass | gravitational
C | volume | electric
D | volume | gravitational
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A student uses a measuring cylinder and a balance to find the density of oil. The diagram shows the arrangement used.
Which calculation gives the density of the oil?
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An object travels in a circular path at constant speed. Which statement about the object is correct?
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The diagrams show a spring and a graph of the length of the spring against the load applied to it.
What is the extension of the spring when a load of 40N is applied to it?
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A girl of mass 50 kg runs at 6.0 m/s. What is her momentum?
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Which list contains only vector quantities?
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Electricity can be generated using different energy resources.
Which energy resource is used to generate electricity without needing any moving parts?
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A lamp has a power input of 5.0 W. It wastes 1.0 W of power heating the surroundings.
What is the efficiency of the lamp?
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A pendulum bob swings along the path WXYZ and back again.
Resistive forces can be ignored.
Which statement describes the total energy of the bob?
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The equation used to find the pressure caused by a liquid can be written as $p = h \times Y \times Z$ where $p$ is the pressure and $h$ is the depth of the liquid.
Which row gives the quantities $Y$ and $Z$?
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The diagram shows a gas that is trapped in a cylinder by a piston. The volume of the gas is 120 cm$^3$ and the pressure of the gas is $P$.
The piston is moved slowly to the left so that the volume of the gas is reduced to 30 cm$^3$. The temperature of the gas does not change.
What is the new pressure of the trapped gas?
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A piece of melting ice at 0°C and a beaker of boiling water are both in a laboratory. The laboratory is at 20°C.
What is happening to the temperature of the melting ice and what is happening to the temperature of the boiling water?
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A puddle of water is formed after a rain shower on a windy day.
Which statement explains the effect of the wind on the rate of evaporation of the water in the puddle?
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A copper container of mass 0.20 kg contains 0.10 kg of water.
The specific heat capacity of copper is 385 J/(kg°C) and the specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/(kg°C).
How much energy, in joules, is needed to raise the temperature of the copper container and the water by 10°C?
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On a very cold day, a boy puts one hand on the metal handlebars of his bicycle. He puts the other hand on the rubber hand grip.
The metal feels colder than the rubber hand grip, although they are both at the same temperature.
Why is this?
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The diagrams show four spherical objects of the same colour and same type of surface. Two of the objects are small and two are large. Two of the objects are at the same high temperature and two are at the same low temperature.
Which object emits infra-red radiation at the greatest rate?
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Which wave has an amplitude equal to half its wavelength?
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Which diagram shows what happens when plane waves pass the edge of the object shown?
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An image is formed by a plane mirror. A second image is formed by a lens used as a magnifying glass.
Which row states the nature of each of these images?
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The diagram shows light passing from air into glass. Two angles $p$ and $q$ are marked.
Which pair of equations can both be used to calculate the refractive index $n$ of the glass?
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Which part of the electromagnetic spectrum is used to send television signals from a satellite to Earth?
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A girl notices that, when she shouts into a cave, she hears an echo. Which wave property causes the echo?
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Which property of a sound wave affects the loudness of the sound?
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In two separate experiments, a magnet is brought near to an unmagnetised iron bar. This causes the bar to become magnetised.
Which magnetic pole is induced at X and at Y?
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A student suggests three methods for demagnetising a piece of steel.
1. placing it in an east-west direction and hammering it hard
2. placing it in an east-west direction and heating it until red hot
3. removing it slowly from a coil carrying alternating current
Which of the methods will demagnetise the piece of steel?
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The diagram shows a lamp in a circuit.
Which change to the circuit would increase the current in the lamp?
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The diagram shows a circuit.
The reading on the ammeter is 12A.
How much charge passes through the ammeter in 2.0 minutes?
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A copper wire has a resistance of 2.0Ω.
A second copper wire is twice as long as the first wire, and its diameter is twice the diameter of the first wire.
What is the resistance of the second wire?
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Which combination of resistors in parallel has an effective resistance of 0.50Ω?
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In the circuit shown, the voltmeter reads 2.0 V. A charge of 5.0 C passes through the resistor in a certain time.
How much energy is supplied to the resistor in this time?
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Two NAND gates are connected together as shown.
The arrangement acts like a single logic gate. What is the name of this single logic gate?
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An electric kettle has a metal casing. The cable for the kettle contains a wire that is connected to the earth pin of the plug. Which danger does this guard against?
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An electric current can produce a heating effect and a magnetic effect.
Which row shows the effect that a relay uses and one application of a relay?
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What happens in the process of nuclear fission?
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A $\beta$-particle enters a uniform magnetic field directed out of the page.
In which direction is the $\beta$-particle deflected by the field?
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The radioactive nucleus $^{214}_{83}\text{Bi}$ decays to another nucleus by the emission of a $\beta$-particle.
What is the proton number and what is the nucleon number of the nucleus formed by this decay?
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Radioactive source S emits $\alpha$-particles, $\beta$-particles and $\gamma$-rays. A detector is placed 5 cm away from S. A thin sheet of paper is placed as shown in the diagram.
Which emissions from the source can be detected?
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