1. Choose the correct answer from the followings.

( Just write the number and the letter of correct answer).

(4marks)
(i) If the work done in 1s is 550 ft-lb, the power is _____.
A.1 W B.1 ft-lbs-1 C.1 hp
(ii) A sensitive device to measure the pressure relative to atmospheric pressure is a _____.
A.barometer B.hydrometer C.manometer
(iii)_____ is the transfer of heat through a material medium without the medium moving.
A.Conduction B.Convection C.Radiation
(iv) The distance between a node and a nearest antinode is equal to _____ of the wavelength.
1 1
A. B. C.twice
2 4
2. Match the followings. (Just write the number and the letter of correct answer.)
(i) Force per unit area A. power
(ii) Force per unit positive charge B. pressure
(iii) Reciprocal of focal length C. electric field
intensity
(iv)The product of force and velocity D. power of lens
3. A machine of high power should be used if a lot of work has to be done quickly. True or False? The
loaded cab of an elevator has a mass of 3.0×103 kg and moves 210 m up the staff in 30 s at constant
speed. At what average rate does the cable do work on the cab? (4marks)
4. The total mass of gas, that fills a meterological balloon, is 50 kg. The balloon string is tied to a post
fixed to earth. Find the tension in the string if the volume of the balloon is 110 m3 and air density is 1.3
kgm-3. (g=9.8 ms-2) (4marks)
5. Define temperature gradient. The sun is radiation energy at a rate of 56.85 MWm . Assuming that the
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sun is emitting energy as a black body, find the temperature of the surface of the sun. (4marks)
6. Are sound waves transverse or longitudinal waves? Are they mechanical or electromagnetic waves? Can
they travel through vaccum? Can they travel faster than light? (4marks)
7. Define refractive index in terms of velocity of light. A ray of light in water has wavelength of 442 nm.
What is the wavelength of that ray while passing through ice? (4marks)
8. Draw a diverging lens and state the properties of this image. (4marks)
9. Distinguish between electric field intensity and electric potential at a point in an electric field. (4marks)
Section (B)
Answer any FOUR questions
10. (a)Which is more advantages : to pay wages according to the amount of work done or according to
power? What are the units of power larger that watt? A machine with a velocity ratio of 8 requires
1000J of work to raise a load of 400 N through a vertical distance of 2 m. Find the efficiency and
mechanical advantage of the machine.
(b)Define (i) the density of a substance (ii) atmospheric pressure. Where and why does nose bleeding
occur? The weight of a block of unknown volume is 10 N. The apparent weight is only 8 N when it is
immersed in water. Find the density of the block. (16marks)
11. (a)Define heat conduction. How does a blanket wrapped round your body keep you warm on a cold day.
A person walking generates heat at the rate of 0.07 W. If the surface area of the body is 1.5m2 and heat
is to be generated 3 cm below the skin, find the temperature difference between the skin and interior of
the body if the heat is to be conducted through the skin? (K = 5 x 10-5 Wm-1K-1)
(b)What are noise exposure limits? Define antinodes. Find the frequencies of the first three harmonics of
a string of length 1.4 m. The velocity of the wave in it is 140 ms-1. (16marks)
12. (a)State the laws of reflection. Explain the statement “the refractive index of ice is 1.31”. Can an object
move with a velocity grater than the velocity of light? A ray of light in air is incident on the surface of a
glass slab 4 cm, thick at 60. If travels into the air from the other side of the slab. If the refractive index
of the glass is 1.5, find the lateral displacement between the incident ray and the emergent ray.
 (b)Define focus and focal length of a concave lens. Is this focus real or virtual? Explain. The virtual
image of an object is formed 24 cm form a lens of focal length 8 cm. Find the new object distance to
obtain a real image of the same size as the virtual image obtained previously? (16marks)
13. (a)Define non-uniform electric field and uniform electric field. Give examples for each. Compare the
gravitational and electric forces between two electrons. (G=6.6×10-11 Nm2kg-2, K=9×109Nm2C-2,
me=9.1×10-31kg, qe=1.6×10-19C)
(b)Define electric potential. What is its unit? Why is electric potential a scalar quantity? Two point
charges of +40 µC and -20 µC are 1 m apart. Find the electric potential at P midway between the two
charges. Find the work done in bringing a charge +2 µC from infinity to P. (16marks)
14. (a)(i)The rate of doing work for the first worker is twice that of the second worker. The working hours
per day of the second is two and a half times that of the first. Who is a better worker? (ii) Find the
critical angle of a liquid of refractive index 1.32. Find the refractive index of diamond of critical angle
24˙27̍.
(b)(i)The areas of the positions of a hydraulic press are 2 in2 and 10 in2. How much effort should be
applied on the small piston to produced an upward thrust of 500 lb on the larger position? (ii) An object
3 cm tall is 30 cm from a convex lens of focal length 20 cm. Find the size of the image and the image
distance. If the object is moved 5 cm closer to the lens how far does the image move? (16marks)
15. (a) Draw a diagram of the following sentences. A kettle containing water is on an operating electric
stove. Mark a point A where the heat is conducted to water. Mark a point B where the heat convection is
occurring. Mark a point C where heat is radiating. Mark a point D where an insulator ought to be used.
A charge +1.5 µC is 0.2 m away form another charge +3 µC. Where is the electric field intensity
midway between them.
(b)(i)Derive the expression of the first harmonic of resonance frequencies for a closed organ pipe. (ii)
Two charges of +1.0 µC and -4.0 µC are 2 m apart in air. Determine the electric field intensity midway
between them. (16marks)
(or)
15. (a) Why is Coulomb’s Law also called inverse square law? How far apart are two electrons if the
electrical force between them is equal to the weight of an electron? (g=10ms-2)
(b)Define Snell’s Law. Draw a ray diagram showing the object O, the image 1. The real depth and the
apparent depth when viewed from a less dense medium. The angle of a glass prism is 60˙ and the angle
of minimum deviation is 39˙. Find the refractive index of glass. (16marks)