CATHOLIC ARCHIODIOCESE OF ARUSHA

ST. THERESA OF THE CHILD JESUS SECONDARY SCHOOL

FORM III HOLIDAY PACKAGE (11st may 2020)
PHYSICS

INSTRUCTION
Answer all questions

1. (a) State the Archimedes principle.

(b) Outline the steps to be followed in finding relative density of a body using
Archimedes principle.
2. (a) State the Pascal’s principle of pressure transmission.
(b) Using Pascal’s principle of pressure, Show how Effort, Load and radii of the pistons
of a hydraulic press relate.
(c) A hydraulic press with radii 0.014m and 0.007m in the large and small pistons
respectively is used to raise a 2t car so that it can be repaired. What effort is needed?
3. (a) What is inertia?
(b) What causes inertia?
(c) State the Law of inertia.
(d) Give reasons for the following;
(i) Car seat belts are made to stretch.
(ii) Inertia can kill you.
4. (a) Define the term Momentum.
(b) State the principle of conservation of linear momentum.
(c) A 12t truck moving with a velocity of 2m/s hits a 2t car parked along the side of the
road. If the velocity of the truck reduced by 0.5m/s, determine the velocity of the car after
impact.
5(a) what is meant by refraction of light?
(b)Mention the three points to be considered when drawing a ray diagram to form the
image in lens.
(c)Mention any four effects of refraction of light.
(d) A container of radius 0.007m is filled with 5 Liters of water. A coin is then dropped
to the bottom. At what depth will the coin look, if the refractive index of water is
?
6. (a)Mass and weight of an object were determined while on the earth and then when on the
moon. Suggest the reason of variation shown by any one of the two quantities.
(b) An object was totally immersed in liquid contained in a vessel.
(i) Identify the two opposing forces acting on the object.
(ii) Write an equation showing, how the two forces in (i) above can be used to find the
relative density of object.
7. (a) A block of metal has got density of 2700kg/m3 and volume 0.04m3. Calculate;
(i) The mass of the block.
(ii) The apparent weight when the block is immersed in Liquid of density 1200kg/m 3 .
(b) An alloy of copper and tin has density 7.62g/cm3. and volume 100cm3. The densities of
copper and tin are 8.9g/cm3 and 7.3g/cm3 respectively. What mass of each metal are there in
the alloy?
8. (a) State the parallelogram law of forces.
(b)(i) Distinguish between absolute velocity and relative velocity.
(ii) Wind is blowing 30° west of north at 20 km/hour. A bird is flying in the wind and its
velocity relative to the ground is 90 km/hour at 75° west of north. Calculate the
velocity and direction of the bird.