Variant 1 May/June 2016

1. A student wishes to check the upper and the lower fixed points on a Celsius scale thermometer.

2. The diagram shows a simple mercury barometer.

The atmospheric pressure increases.
Which distance increases?

3. A reading is taken every 10 minutes of the number of emissions per second from a radioactive
source. The table shows the readings.

What is the half-life of the source?

4. Two runners take part in a race.

The graph shows how the speed of each runner changes with time

What does the graph show about the runners at time t ?

5. Which row shows the natures of light waves, sound waves and X-rays?

6. A cell is connected to a lamp, as shown.

A charge of 4.0C flows through the lamp in 2.0s.
What is the direction of the electron flow in the lamp and what is the current in the lamp?

7. A diver under water uses breathing apparatus at a depth where the pressure is 1.25 × 10⁵Pa.

A bubble of gas breathed out by the diver has a volume of 20 cm³ when it is released. The bubble moves upwards to the surface of the water.
At the surface of the water, the atmospheric pressure is 1.00 × 10⁵Pa.
The temperature of the water is the same at all depths.
What is the volume of this bubble when it reaches the surface?

8. Which statement about evaporation is correct?

9. Two otherwise identical cars, one black and one white, are at the same initial temperature. The
cars are left in bright sunshine and their temperatures increase. During the night their temperatures decrease.
Which car shows the greater rate of temperature increase and which car shows the greater rate of temperature decrease?

10. A beaker contains 0.500 kg of water at a temperature of 3.0°C. The beaker is heated, and the internal energy of the water increases by 21.0 kJ.
The specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J/(kg°C).
What is the temperature of the water after it has been heated?

11. The diagram shows a combination of logic gates.

Input P is at a logic state 0 (low) and input Q is at a logic state 1 (high).
What are the logic states at output X and at output Y?

12. The diagram shows light travelling from air into glass.
Four angles v, w, x and y are shown.

13. A liquid is heated in a beaker.

The density of the liquid changes as its temperature increases. This causes energy to be transferred throughout the liquid.
How does the density change and what is this energy transfer process?

14. An object of mass 50kg accelerates from a velocity of 2.0 m/s to a velocity of 10 m/s in the same direction.
What is the impulse provided to cause this acceleration?

15. A scalar quantity has

16. Energy is released in some nuclear reactions.
Which nuclear reaction takes place in a nuclear power station, and which nuclear reaction takes place in the Sun?

17. 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?

18. The four circuits shown all include an a.c. power supply, two diodes and a lamp.
In which circuit is there a rectified current in the lamp?

19. The diagram shows a transformer.

The input voltage is 240 V.
What is the output voltage?

20. A force acts on an object and causes the object to move a certain distance, in the same direction as the force.
Which row represents a situation in which the largest amount of work is done on the object by the force?

21. A strong electromagnet is used to attract pins.

What happens when the current in the coil is halved?

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23. A sound wave travels through air as a series of compressions and rarefactions.
Which row correctly compares the air pressure in a compression and the air pressure in a rarefaction to the air pressure nearby where there is no sound wave?

24. The diagrams show three uniform beams P, Q and R, each pivoted at its centre.
The two forces acting on each beam are also shown.

Which beams rotate clockwise?

25. The speed-time graph shown is for a car moving in a straight line.

26. A negatively charged rod is held close to one side of a metal sphere. The other side of the sphere is earthed.
Which diagram shows the distribution of charge on the metal sphere?

27. The diagrams show four current-voltage graphs.
Which two graphs show the characteristics of an ohmic resistor and of a filament lamp?

28. The arrangement shown is used to check whether the flour inside a cardboard packet is above a certain level. If it is above this level, the flour absorbs the radiation from the source so that it doesn’t reach the detector.

Which type of radiation is suitable to use?

29. A sound wave has a certain amplitude and a certain frequency.
A second sound wave is quieter and lower in pitch than the first sound wave.
The second wave has

30. The diagram shows a converging lens forming an image of an object.

Which statement about the image is correct?

31. A lorry of mass 4000kg is travelling at a speed of 4.0 m/s.
A car has a mass of 1000kg. The kinetic energy of the car is equal to the kinetic energy of the lorry.
What is the speed of the car?

32. 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.

33. A satellite orbits the Earth above the atmosphere at a constant speed.
The diagram shows the satellite at one point in its circular orbit around the Earth.
Which labelled arrow shows the direction of the resultant force on the satellite at the position shown?

34. The diagram shows a shaded area where the direction of a magnetic field is into the page.
A beam of β-particles enters the field as shown

In which direction is the beam of β-particles deflected as they enter the magnetic field?

35. What is an electric field?

A a region around a wire carrying an electric current in which a compass needle experiences a
force

B a region in which an electric charge experiences a force

C a region in which an electric charge is attracted by the Earth’s gravity

D a region through which electromagnetic radiation is passing

36. 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?

37. A substance loses thermal energy (heat) to the surroundings at a steady rate.
The graph shows how the temperature of the substance changes with time.

What could the portion PQ of the graph represent?

38. A certain element has several isotopes.
Which statement about these isotopes is correct?

39. Sound waves of frequency 2.0 kHz travel through a substance at a speed of 800 m/s.
What is the wavelength of the waves?

40. 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?