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HOLY INFANT SECONDARY EVENING SCHOOL MELEN – YAOUNDE

580 PHYSICS 1 CAMEROON GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION
PREMOCK
NOV. 2022 ORDINARY LEVEL
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One and a half hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Read the following instructions carefully before you start answering the questions in this paper. Make sure
you have a soft HB pencil and an eraser for this examination.
1. USE A SOFT HB PENCIL THROUGHOUT THIS EXAMINATION
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4. Fill the information required in the space above.
5. Fill in the information required in the spaces provided on the answer sheet using your HB pencil:
Candidate Name and Number, Centre Number and Name.
Take care you do not crease or fold the answer sheet or make any marks on it other than those asked for
in these instructions.
How to answer the questions in this examination
6. Answer all the 50 questions in the Examination. All questions carry equal marks.
7. Calculators are allowed.
8. Each question has four suggested answers: A, B, C, and D. Decide on which answer is best. Find the
number of the question on the Answer Sheet and draw a horizontal line across the letter to join the
square brackets for the corresponding answer you have chosen. For example, if C is your correct
answer, mark C as shown: [ A] [B] [C] [D]
9. Mark only one answer for each question. If you mark more than one answer, you will score a zero for
that question. If you change your mind about an answer, erase the first mark carefully, then mark your
new answer.
10. Avoid spending too much time on any question. If you find a question difficult, move on to the next
question. You can come back to this later.
11. Do all rough work in this booklet using, where necessary, the blank spaces in the question booklet
12. At the end of the examination, the invigilator shall collect the answer sheets first, and then the
question booklets. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LEAVE THE EXAMINATION HALL WITH IT.
You may find the following constants useful
- Acceleration of free fall, g = 10 m s-2
- The speed of light in a vacuum = 3 x 108 m s-1
- The charge on an electron = 1.6 x 10-19 C
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Section 1 (Forty Two Questions) _____________________________________________

Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements 7. Which of the graphs in figure 1 below shows how the
in this section is followed by four suggested answers. Select frequency (f) of a vibrating string varies with the
the best answer for each question. reciprocal of the vibrating length (ℓ)?
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f f f f
Questions 1 – 42
1. Which of the following are all scalar quantities?
A. Displacement, moment
B. Momentum, work 1/ℓ 1/ℓ 1/ℓ 1/ℓ
C. Force, pressure A. B. C. D.
D. Work, pressure Figure 1
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2. A physical quantity that is described as a measure of the 8. Which of the following is a practical situation that can
resistance of a body to a change in its state of motion is be explained by Newton’s 2nd law of motion?
the ... A. Eggs are packed in soft shock-absorbing boxes so
A. acceleration. that they do not get cracked during transportation.
B. inertia. B. A book lying on a table will continue lying there if
C. Newton’s Second Law of Motion. no resultant force acts on it.
D. Newton’s Third Law of Motion. C. When a gun is fired, the gun jerks backwards.
3. Boron-10 is bombarded with a neutron to produce D. A passenger jerks backwards when his car suddenly
lithium-7 and a particle X according to the following moves forward.
nuclear equation. _____________________________________________
10 1 7 A 9. Identify the quantity that is correctly paired to its unit.
5B + 0n → 3Li + ZX
By determining the values of A and Z, it can be deduced Quantity Unit
that X is A. Frequency Hertz
A. an alpha particle B. Charge Coulomb
B. a beta particle C. Force newton
C. a gamma ray D. Power Watt
D. a proton _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________ 10. The diagram below shows a cricket player moving his
4. In a vacuum, all electromagnetic waves have the same hands downwards from position 1 to 2 to 3 while
A. amplitude catching a ball.
B. frequency
C. speed
D. wavelength
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5. A polythene rod is rubbed with a piece of dry cloth. The
net charged on the rod and that on the cloth is

Polythene rod Cloth

A. positive negative
B. positive neutral
C. negative positive Which ONE of the following statements CORRECTLY
D. negative neutral explains why the cricket player moves his hands
_____________________________________________ downwards?
A. The impulse on the ball is decreased.
6. How much heat energy is needed to raise the B. The change in momentum of the ball is increased.
temperature of a block copper of mass 0.4 kg from 20 C. The change in momentum of the ball is decreased.
o
C to 35 oC given that the specific heat capacity of copper D. The time it takes to change the momentum of the
is 400 J kg-1 K-1? ball is increased.
A. 66.7 J
B. 2400 J
C. 5600 J
D. 8800 J
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11. Light travels from air to a medium M as shown in figure 16. Which of the following electromagnetic waves is
2 below. correctly matched to one of its uses?
30o Electromagnetic Use
wave
M A. Gamma rays Treatment of skin disorder
Air B. Infra-red rays Heating
C. Ultra-violet rays In remote controls
50o Figure 2 D. X-ray Communication
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The refractive index of medium M is 17. Which of the following quantities is given by the area
A. 0.6 under the speed-time graph of a body?
B. 0.7 A. Acceleration
C. 1.5 B. Distance moved
D. 1.7 C. Impulse
_____________________________________________ D. Velocity
12. Which of the following pairs of quantities consist of a _____________________________________________
scalar and a vector quantity? 18. A small stone and a feather are both dropped
A. Moment, work done. simultaneously from the same height. The stone hits the
B. Power, mass. ground first because
C. Force, momentum A. it has a larger mass than the feather.
D. Energy, pressure B. it has a greater acceleration than the feather.
_____________________________________________ C. it is denser than the feather.
13. John’s electricity bill for the month of May shows that D. air resistance acts more on the feather than the
he has used 20 KWh of electricity. The 20 KWh stone.
represents
19. Which of the graphs in figure 4 shows how the force
A. electric charge
(F) used in stretching a copper wire varies with the
B. electric potential
extension (e) produced? (The elastic limit is not
C. electrical energy
exceeded)
D. electrical power
_____________________________________________ F F F F
14. An object is placed 20 cm from a diverging lens of focal
length 10 cm. The image formed is
A. real, inverted and magnified e e e e
B. virtual, erect and magnified
A B. C. D.
C. real, inverted and diminished
Figure 4
D. virtual, erect and diminished
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20. The rate of decay of a radioactive substance depends on
15. Figure 3 shows 2 charged bodies P and Q placed closed
A. the number of undecayed nuclides.
to each other.
B. the chemical reactions of the sample.
+++ __ C. the temperature of the sample.
+++ __ D. the half-life of the substance.
Q 21. The quality of a note depends on its
P A. wavelength
Figure 3
Which of the following statements is true of P and Q? B. overtones
A. The force between P and Q is repulsion. C. harmonics
B. The size of the force between P and Q can be D. frequency
increased by causing Q to instead be positively 22. Figure 5 shows a network of 3 identical resistors.
charged.
C. The size of the force between P and Q can be 4Ω 4Ω
increased by reducing the distance separating the A
4Ω Figure 5
two bodies. 6A
D. Electrons will flow from P to Q if the two bodies
are linked by a conducting wire.
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If the current supplied by the battery is 6 A, then the _____________________________________________

reading of the ammeter is 29. Given that the density of air in a room of dimensions 5
A. 2 A m by 5 m by 20 m is 1.3 kg m-3, the mass of air in the
B. 3 A room is
C. 4 A A. 0.026 kg
D. 6 A B. 260 kg
23. A body X is brought near a positively charged body Y C. 385 kg
and an attraction is noticed. The charge of X is D. 650 kg
A. negative or zero 30. Which of the following constitutes a pair of renewable
B. positive or zero energy sources?
C. negative A. Oil, natural gas
D. positive B. Sun, wind
24. The form of energy that is transferred from one place to C. Wood, tides
another when there a temperature difference is D. Kerosene, coal
A. electrical energy 31. A body whose velocity changes by equal amounts in
B. thermal energy equal successive time intervals is said to have a constant
C. nuclear energy A. acceleration
D. potential energy B. displacement
25. The mode of heat energy transfer that involves the bulk C. velocity
movement of particles of a fluid is D. speed
A. radiation 32. An object of mass 4 kg moving with a velocity of 5
B. evaporation m s-1 to the right collides with another object of mass 6
C. conduction kg moving with a velocity of 2 m s-1 to the left. After the
D. convection collision, the two objects stick together and move with a
26. Figure 6 shows a conductor, through which a current I common velocity of
is flowing, lying between 2 magnetic poles. A. 0.8 m s-1 to the left
B. 0.8 m s-1 to the right
C. 3.2 m s-1 to the left
N I S
D. 3.2 m s-1 to the right
33. Which of the following wave properties accounts for
Figure 6 the formation of the rainbow?
The strength of the force exerted on the conductor can A. Diffraction
be increased by B. Interference
A. moving the magnetic poles closer to each other. C. Reflection
B. interchanging the magnetic poles D. Refraction
C. using a thicker conductor 34. Which of the following reasons explains why a
D. reversing the direction of the current voltmeter is always connected in parallel to a circuit
27. Which of the following features makes a clinical component?
thermometer different from a normal laboratory liquid- A. The voltmeter has a very high resistance
in-glass thermometer? B. So that no current is drawn from the circuit
A. It has a short stem C. Because it measures the p.d across the component
B. Its thermometric liquid is mercury D. So that it should be very sensitive
C. Its capillary tube is thicker 35. Two forces of 25 N and 15 N respectively are applied
D. It has a constriction to a box of 5 kg lying on a horizontal smooth surface as
28. Which of the graphs in figure 7 below shows how the shown in figure 8.
number of undecayed nuclides in a radioactive sample Box
(N) varies with time (t)? 25 N
15 N 5 kg
N N N N Figure 8
Smooth surface

The acceleration of the box is

A. 2 m s-2 to the right
t t t t B. 2 m s-2 to the left
A. B. C. D. C. 8 m s-2 to the right
Figure 7 D. 8 m s-2 to the left
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36. A soldier trying to walk across a swampy area finds 42. The inertia of a body depends on its
himself sinking while his colleague of the same weight A. mass
who decides to crawl on his stomach has no problem. B. speed
This is because C. temperature
A. pressure increases with depth D. volume
B. larger surface area reduces the force exerted _____________________________________________
C. pressure is smaller when the surface area is larger Section 2 (Eight Questions)
D. the enemies do not see the crawling soldier Directions: These group of questions deal with practical
37. Which of the following is NOT a source of emf? situations. Each situation is followed by a set of
A. The mains supply questions. Select the best answer for each
B. A car battery question.
C. A transformer _____________________________________________
D. A thermocouple Questions 43 – 46
38. A pond 9 m deep appears to be only 6 m deep when Figure 11 shows water wavefronts passing through a
viewed vertically from above. The speed of light in the narrow gap in a barrier in a ripple tank.
water in the pond is
A. 0.67 m s-1
B. 1.5 m s-1
C. 2 x 108 m s-1
D. 4.5 x 108 m s-1
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39. Radiation from a radioactive source S move through a
magnetic field directed into the page as shown in figure
9. 43. Which property of waves explains the above
Field into page phenomenon?
A. Refract ion
S B. Polarization
C. Diffraction
Figure 9 D. Reflection
Motion of radiation 44. This pattern observed depends on the
Which of the following is the possible radiation? A. frequency of the waves.
A. Alpha particle only B. wavelength of the waves.
B. Beta particle only C. speed of the waves.
C. Gamma rays only D. amplitude of the waves
D. Could be any of the three 45. If the gap is widened,
_____________________________________________ A. the wavefronts will disappear.
40. Which of the graphs in figure 10 shows how the B. plane wavefronts will appear.
velocity (v) of a body undergoing free fall near the C. wave fronts curve better.
earth’s surface varies with the time (t) of fall? D. the pattern remains the same.
v v v v 46. This phenomenon explains why
A. A rain bows form in the sky after rain
B. interference occurs in waves
t t t t C. light is emitted in different directions form its
source
A. B. C. D. D. sounds can be heard around corners
Figure 10
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41. Which of the following laws or principles explains the
functioning of a beam balance?
A. Hooke’s law
B. Newton’s 1st law of motion
C. The principle of moments
D. The principle of conservation of linear momentum
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Questions 47 – 50 A. 0
Figure 12 shows a simple machine used at a building site. B. 1
C. 4
D. 3
49. If a minimum effort of 20 N is needed to lift a maximum
load of 80 N, then the mechanical advantage of the
machine is
A. 4
B. ¼
C. 60
D. 100
50. The name of the force the builder is applying is called
A. load
B. effort
C. friction
D. weight
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Figure 12 STOP
GO BACK AND CHECK YOUR WORK

47. The machine being used in figure 12 is a

A. lever
B. hydraulic jack
C. pulley system
D. ramp
48. The velocity ratio of the machine is
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