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AGA KHAN SCHOOLS, SOUTH

ANSWER
First Term Examination, November 2020
Subject: Physics
KEY
Class IX (Science Group)
Paper I (B)

Time allowed:60 Minutes Marks:40

Instructions:
1. Read each question carefully.
2. Answer the questions on the separate answer sheet provided. Do NOT write your answers on the
question paper.
3. In each question there are four choices A, B, C, and D. Choose ONE. On the
answer grid black out the box for your choice with a pencil as shown below.

4. If you want to change your answer, ERASE the first answer completely with a rubber, before blacking
out a new box.
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1. Which one of the following groups of physical quantities consist only of scalars?

A. acceleration, force, velocity

B. acceleration, mass, speed
C. force, time, velocity
D. mass, speed, time

2. The diagram shows part of a vernier scale. What is the reading on the vernier scale?

A. 6.50 cm
B. 6.55 cm
C. 7.00 cm
D. 7.45 cm

3. A student has been asked to determine, as accurately as possible, the volume of a piece of wire.
The wire is about 80cm long and about 0.2cm in diameter. Which measuring instruments should
the student use?

Option A
4. Which one of the following statements is the correct about force and velocity?

A. Force and velocity are scalars.

B. Force and velocity are vectors.
C. Force is a scalar, velocity is a vector.
D. Force is a vector, velocity is a scalar.

5. A student studies some equations.

power = work / time

force = mass × acceleration
velocity = displacement/ time

How many vector quantities are included in the equations?

A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

6. In an experiment, a ball is rolled down a curved track that is about half a meter long.
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Which measuring device should be used to measure the length accurately?

A. meter ruler
B. micrometer
C. measuring tape
D. vernier calipers

7. Power is measured in watts. What is the correct symbol for millions of watts?

A. mw B
B. Mw
C. MW
D. mW

8. Velocity is given by the change in displacement divided by the change in time. How many vector
quantities appear in this statement?

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

9. A micrometer is used to measure the diameter of a uniform wire. What should be done to obtain
an accurate answer?

A. Find the reading and add or subtract the zero error.

B. Make the micrometer horizontal.
C. Subtract the fixed scale reading from the rotating scale reading.
D. Subtract the rotating scale reading from the fixed scale reading.

10. The diagram shows a stopwatch. What is the reading shown on the stopwatch?

A. 30.6s
B. 33.0s
C. 36.0s
D. 36.6s

11. Which property of a body resists change from a state of rest or of motion?
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A. density
B. mass
C. volume
D. weight

12. A student produces some revision notes on gravity, mass, and weight. Which one of the following
statements is not correct?

A. gravitational field is a region in which a mass experiences a gravitational force.

B. Gravitational field strength has the unit of N/ kg.
C. Mass is a measure of the amount of matter.
D. Mass is equal to weight multiplied by gravitational field strength.

13. A car accelerates from rest at 5ms-2 for 0.5 minute. The final velocity of the car is

A. 150ms-1
B. 5.5ms-1
C. 10ms-1
D. 2.5ms-1

14. When the brakes of a bicycle were applied, the bicycle was brought to rest from 4ms-1 in 2
minutes. What is the acceleration of the bicycle?

A. -1/30 ms-2
B. 1/30 ms-2
C. -2ms-2
D. 2ms-2

15. An object has been falling freely from rest for 3 s. The maximum velocity of the object is

A. 30ms-1
B. 3.3ms-1
C. 10ms-1
D. 13ms-1

16. A trolley runs down a slope with constant acceleration a due to a forward force F acting on it in a
direction along the slope. This force F is proportional to its mass. The mass of the trolley is now
doubled, and the trolley is allowed to run down the same slope. In both cases, effects of friction
and air resistance are negligible.
Which one of the following statements is correct for the second experiment?

A. The acceleration is 10 a
B. The acceleration is -0.5 a
C. The acceleration is a
D. The acceleration is 2 a

17. A tow truck pulls a broken-down car of mass 1000kg and moves at a constant velocity of 9m/s
along a horizontal road. It is known that the frictional force acting on the car is 500N. Find the
tension in the cable connecting the truck and the car.
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A. 0N
B. 500N
C. 9000N
D. 10500N

18. A ball is thrown vertically upwards into the air with an initial velocity of 5.0m/s. It takes 2.0s to
reach the maximum height where it comes to rest momentarily. What is the acceleration of the
ball at the maximum height of its path?

A. 0m/s2
B. -2.5m/s2
C. -10m/s2
D. 12.5m/s2

19. In the absence of air resistance, what happens to the acceleration of a ball being thrown into the
air, as it rises to greater heights?

A. Remains constant
B. Increases
C. Decreases
D. Becomes zero

20.  A ball is thrown vertically upwards off a cliff at a speed of 23m s−123m s−1. It falls to the
bottom of the cliff after 10 seconds. What is the height of the cliff? (g=10m s−2)

A. 130m
B. 199m
C. 267m
D. 137m

21. Why is it harder for the boy in Image B to get down the hill?

A. Mot
ion
B. Fric
tion
C. Wo
rk
D. Dis
plac
ement

22. When a cat sleeps on a table, the net force on it is

A. zero

B. directed upward
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C. directed downward

D. directed in the horizontal direction

23. A person just supports a mass of 20kg suspended from a rope. What is the resultant force acting
on the mass?

A. 0N
B. 10N
C. 20N
D. 200N

24. The diagram shows a motorcyclist leaning over in order to move around a corner, which force

causes him to move around the corner? Option A

25. Given the FBD, which of the following must be

true?

A. The frictional force must be accelerating the system to the left.

B. The box must be accelerating to the right.
C. The box must be moving to the right.
D. The FBD is incorrectly drawn. This situation is not possible

26. If a body is taken to the surface of the moon, then which of the following physical
quantities of the body will change?
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A. Mass
B. Length
C. Weight
D. Density

27. A 5 kg object and a 10 kg object collide. Which object receives more force during the collision?

A. 5kg object
B. 10 kg object
C. They receive the same amount of force from each other.
D. 0N

28. When the body does not change its position with respect to its surrounding, then the body is in

A. rest
B. motion
C. momentum
D. force

29. Your heart pumps 80 g of blood with each beat. The blood starts from rest and reaches a speed of
0.60 m/s in the aorta. If each beat takes 0.16 s, the average force exerted on the blood is

A. 3.0 x 102 N
B. 0.22 N
C. 0.30 N
D. 0.16 N

30. When a bucket full of water is rapidly whirled in a vertical circular path as shown in the

given diagram, then water in the bucket

A. falls out at once.

B. remains fully in it. Bucket of Water
C. leaks out gradually.
D. reduces to half in quantity.

String

31. At time t 1, a stone is dropped from a stationary balloon. The stone reaches terminal velocity at
time t 2. Which row gives the acceleration of the stone at time t1 and at time t2?

Acceleration at t1 Acceleration at t2

A 0 0
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B 10 0

C 0 10

D 10 10

32. If a body of mass 10 kg is moving with a velocity of 20 m/s, then its momentum will be

A. 2 Ns
B. 10 Ns
C. 30 Ns
D. 200 Ns

33. Magnitudes of forces are measured in Newtons. What is a Newton equal to?

A. kg x m/s
B. kg
C. kg x m
D. kg x m/s2

34. If the initial velocity, acceleration, and time of motion of a body are given which equation can be
used for calculating the distance travelled?

A. S= Vt
B. S= Vit+1/2at2
C. Vf= Vi+at
D. 2as=Vf 2-Vi2

35. If the maximum moment of force on a door is 10 Nm by an applied force of 2.25N, then the
distance of handle from hinge (pivot)is

A. 0.225 m.
B. 4.444 m.
C. 12.250 m.
D. 22.500 m.
36. The diagram shows a boy of weight 500N
sitting on a seesaw. He sits 2.0m from the
pivot.
What is the force F needed to balance the
sea-saw?

A. 250 N
B. 750 N
C. 1000 N
D. 3000 N

37. The unit of friction is:

A. N/m
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B. Kg/m
C. Kg m/s
D. N

38. The diagram shows the cross-section of different glasses.

Which one is the least stable when filled with a liquid?

Option B
39. Some containers are made from thin glass.
Which empty container is most stable?

Option A
40. Two equal but opposite parallel forces acting at different points on a body would form a

A. torque
B. couple
C. moment arm
D. line of action