Get Fit Physics: Spring Holidays 2012

Have a go at these questions. Follow the plan I have given you so that your study workload will not be too much. 1) A search helicopter flies 300km due east from its base then 400km due south. The complete journey takes 5 hours. Find the helicopter`s a) Displacement from its base. b) Average speed c) Average velocity 3) A car travelling at a velocity of 12ms-1 accelerates at 3ms-2 for a distance of 200m. Calculate the velocity of the car at the end of the 200m 2) A student measures the acceleration of gravity. She records the following results in ms-2 9.72, 9.83, 10.52, 9.67 and 9.82 Calculate a) The mean value of the acceleration b) The random error in the measurements

4) The acceleration time graph of a moving object is shown below

5) An aerosol can has an internal pressure of 200kPa at a temperature of 20C. Find the internal pressure when the temperature is raised to 75C

Draw the corresponding velocity time graph for the moving object`s acceleration. 7) Using the kinetic model of gases explain what happens to the pressure of a gas inside a sealed container if the gas is heated and its temperature increases.

6) Find the time it takes for a sandwich to fall to the ground from the Leaning Tower of Pisa which is 55 metres high. Assume no air resistance 8) A motion sensor draws a graph from the data of a cart that accelerates from rest at 4ms-2 for 2 seconds and then its acceleration changes to -2ms-2 for 2 seconds a) Sketch the velocity time graph of the cart for the four seconds of its journey. b) Find the displacement of the cart after its 4 second journey.

9) A footballer kicks a ball towards a brick wall 26 metres away with a velocity of 20 ms-1 at an angle of 30O to the horizontal. a) Calculate the horizontal and vertical components of the ball`s velocity b) Find the time it takes for the ball to reach the wall. c) How high up the wall will the ball strike?

26m

10) Calculate the work done ( energy transferred ) when a 5 Coulomb charge is moved between the electric plates shown

11) A cuboid of solid carbon dioxide has a volume of 2.5 cm3. When heated it changes completely into a gas. Calculate the volume of carbon dioxide gas produced

200V

350V

12) Four identical resistors of 2 are connected as shown. Calculate the total resistance of each combination.

13) The electric circuit shown has two 8 ohm resistors in parallel connected in series with a 16 ohm resistor and a 12 volt dc supply with negligible internal resistance. a) Calculate the total resistance of the circuit. b) Find the current in the circuit. c) Find the pd across the 16 resistor

12V

8 16

14) A container full of air has a mass of 370.58g. Some of the air is squeezed out of the container into an upturned flask. The volume of squeezed out air equals 1687cm3. The mass of the container is measured again and found to have a mass of 368.72g. Calculate the density of the air in g/cm3.

15) A battery has an emf of 12 volts and an internal resistance of 1.5 ohms. a) Explain what is meant by an emf of 12 V b) Find the short circuit current which would flow if the terminals of the battery were connected by a piece of copper wire.

16) Calculate the refractive index of the material shown: 20O

15O

17) Two identical speakers are connected to the same signal generator. At position P the second minimum is heard from the central maximum. Find the wavelength of the sound. P 2.00m 2.60m

18) A force of 36N is applied to two boxes on a frictionless table. a) What is the acceleration of both boxes? b) What force does the 4kg box give to the 8kg box? c) What size of force does the 8kg block exert on the 4kg block? 36N 4kg 8kg

19) A 5kg parcel accelerates down a slope of angle 30O to the horizontal. The parcel has a frictional force of 4.5 N acting on it. a) Calculate the component of the parcel`s weight acting parallel to the slope b) Find the unbalanced force acting on the parcel and its acceleration.
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20) An AC supply is connected to an oscilloscope. The settings for the volts/division and the time base are shown on the controls. a) Find the peak voltage of the AC supply. b) Find the rms voltage of the AC supply c) Show that the frequency of the AC supply is 50 Hz.

Volt/div 5

ms/div

21) A laser beam is passed through a diffraction grating which has 500 lines per millimetre. A second order maximum fringe is found at an angle of 41O from the central maximum.

41O Laser grating a) Calculate the wavelength of laser light used. b) What two changes to the above set up would make the interference dots move further apart?

22) Light of frequency 5.08 x 1014 Hz ejects photoelectrons with a maximum kinetic energy of 4.5 x 10-20 Joules from a metal`s surface. a) Calculate the work function of the metal b) What effect on the photoelectron`s maximum kinetic energy would doubling the irradiance of the light make.

23) The irradiance of a point source of light at a distance of 10cm is 64 Wm-2 Calculate the irradiance when the distance from the point source of light is increased to 40cm

24) Find the total pressure which acts on the top surface of submarine which is at a depth of 300m in sea water which has a density of 1,200kgm-3

Atmospheric pressure at the surface is equal to 1 x 105 Pa.

25) Write down the equivalent units for the following: a) Joule per coulomb b) N m c) N/m2 d) Coulomb per volt e) Coulomb per second

26) The graph shows the force which acted on an object of mass 2kg over a time of 4 seconds. Initially the object was at rest before the force was applied. a) b) c) d) Calculate the change of momentum from the graph The final velocity of the object. Calculate the impulse given to the object. Find the average force given to the object.

27) An electron of charge 1.67 x 10-19C passes through a potential difference of 6kV before it hits a radar screen. a) Calculate the kinetic energy of the electron just before it strikes the screen. b) If the mass of the electron is 9.11 x 10-31kg find its speed just before it strikes the screen.

28) A car of mass 1000kg travelling at 8ms-1 crashes into a stationary car of mass 800 kg. a) If both cars stick together after the crash find the velocity of the combined cars immediately after the crash. b) Show by calculation that the crash is inelastic.

29) A student built an electric circuit to find the internal resistance of an electric cell. She obtained the graph of terminal potential difference against current taken from the cell. a) Draw the circuit the student built. b) Find the emf of the cell from the graph c) Calculate the internal resistance from the graph d) Find the short circuit current from the cell. e) What is meant by the short circuit current?

30) A ship is pulled by two tug boats as shown in the diagram below 40kN 30O 30O 40kN Calculate by scale drawing the resultant force acting on the ship due to the two tug boats. 32) A student builds the circuit shown to study the charging of a capacitor through a resistor. a) What is the initial current when the switch is closed? b) What is the initial pd across the capacitor when A the switch is just closed. c) What is the energy stored in the capacitor when the pd across the resistor is 2.5V?

31) A football is inflated with air at pressure 1.9 x 105Pa at a temperature of 17C a) The ball is left in the sunshine till the temperature of the air increases to 40C. Find the new air pressure inside the ball b) Explain the rise in pressure using the kinetic theory of gases.

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33) The refractive index for the glass prism is 1.53 for blue light and 1.51 for red light. White light is shone through the prism. a) Which colour, blue or red, travels faster through the prism. Justify your answer. 30O b) If P and Q represent the ends of the visible spectrum which letter represents the red part. c) Calculate angle xO. d) The prism is replaced by a grating write down the two main differences which appear on the screen between the prism and grating.

xO P Q

34) An electron makes a transition from energy level EO to E2 by absorbing the energy of a photon of light. E2=- 2.5x10 J a) Calculate the wavelength of the photon. E1= -3.0x10-19J EO= -4.5 x 10-19J
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35) A ball is kicked into the air. At a certain time in its flight the velocity vectors are shown. 30ms-1 40ms-1 Calculate the ball`s speed at this instant.

36) The graph shows the velocity time graph of a trolley which is pushed up a slope with initial velocity 4ms-1 a) Calculate the distance the trolley went up the slope. b) Draw an acceleration time graph for the trolley`s motion up to 7s c) Explain what happens at 4 seconds into the trolley`s journey.

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A student builds an opmap as shown. a. Which mode is the opamp working in? b. Calculate the output voltage given the two input voltages shown.

38.

In each of these nuclear reactions find the missing values in these nuclear reactions

a. b.

39.

A technician builds a Wheatstone bridge circuit. a. Explain why the voltmeter reading is zero. b. The 72 resistor is changed to 74 Calculate the reading on the voltmeter after the change

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The circuit below contains a capacitor, lamp ammeter and variable ac source. a. When the frequency of the supply is 30Hz the ammeter reads 0.8A What would be the current reading if frequency of the supply is doubled?

Planning Chart for Spring Break Study

Date Monday 2nd April Tuesday 3th April Wednesday 4th April Thursday 5th April Saturday 7th April Tuesday 10th April Wednesday 11th April Thursday 12th April Friday 13th April Saturday 14th April Sunday15th April Questions to do 1,2 ,3,4 5,6,7 8,9,10 11,12,13 14,15,16 17,18,19,20 21,22,23,24 25,26,27,28 29,30,31,32 33,34,35,36 37,38,39,40 Confident/Not confident

Tips
Set aside a half hour each day. Have your notebooks there to revise and look up how to do the questions. Be prepared to write down which questions you want Mr Mallon to go over. Use my website www.helpmyphysics.co.uk or Edmodo to ask if you are stuck. Answers and some selected solutions will be published on the website/blog. This fortnight is vital to use your time wisely. This is the time when you can win your Higher Physics pass. Dont study for long periods. Break up the day with the rest of your subjects taking regular breaks and adding rewards to yourself if you finish tasks. Best of luck from Mr Mallon. I wish you all the best for your Spring Break Study.