The Apple International School, Dubai

Term 2 Major Assessment – March 2023

Physics (CS)
Name: _____________________________________ Marks: 100
Year : 10 Section:___ Time : 2 Hours
Date : 17 .03.2023 Invigilator’s signature ____________

INSTRUCTIONS:
 Spend the first five minutes to read the complete Question Paper.
 Write neatly and legibly and attempt all questions.
 Use of white ink is not allowed; a line across is sufficient to strike out.
 Revise your answers before submission.
 This booklet contains 27 Pages.

Component MCQ Theory ATP

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 SECTION A- Multiple Choice questions ( 10 Marks)

• There are 10 questions on this section. Each question carries one mark.
• Answer all questions.
• For each question there are four possible answers A, B, C and D.
• Choose the one you consider correct and circle your choice

1. Which property of an object is a consequence of the effect of a gravitational field acting on it?

A. density B. mass C. volume D. weight

2. The speed of sound in air is 330 m / s.

How do the speeds of sound in concrete and water compare with this speed?

3. An observer stands at the finish line of a 100 m race. He wants to time the winner’s run. He starts
his

stop-watch as soon as he sees the smoke from the starting gun instead of when he hears the bang.

What is the reason for doing this?

A. Light travels much faster than sound.

B. There is a risk he might respond to an echo from a wall.

C. Humans react slower to sound than to light.

D. Humans react more quickly to sound than to light.

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 4. A fire alarm is not loud enough and the pitch is too low. An engineer adjusts the alarm so that it
produces a louder note of a higher pitch.
What effect does this have on the amplitude and on the frequency of the sound?

5. A geologist places a small rock on the left-hand pan of a balance. The two pans are level as shown
when masses with a total weight of 23 N are placed on the right-hand pan. Take the weight of 1.0
kg to be 10 N.

What is the mass of the small rock?

A. 0.023Kg B. 2.3 Kg C. 23 Kg D. 230 Kg

6. What is ultrasound?

A. sound waves that are so loud that they damage human hearing

B. sound waves that are too high-pitched for humans to hear

C. sound waves that are too low-pitched for humans to hear

D. sound waves that are too quiet for humans to hear

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 7. Which arrow on the graph shows the amplitude of the wave?

8. A lorry of mass 4000 kg is travelling at a speed of 4.0 m / s.

A car has a mass of 1000 kg. The kinetic energy of the car is equal to the kinetic energy of the lorry.

What is the speed of the car?

A. 2.0 m/s B. 4.0 m/s C. 8.0 m/s D. 16.0 m/s

9. A radio transmitter broadcasts at a frequency of 200 kHz.

What is the wavelength of these radio waves?

A. 6.7 x 10-7 m B. 1.5m C. 1.5 x 103 m D. 1.5 x 106 m

10. A student draws a diagram to illustrate the different sections of a longitudinal wave.

Which labelled section is a rarefaction?

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 SECTION B- Theory ( 17 Marks)
1. Fig.1 shows a small submarine submerged below the surface of the sea

Fig.1
The density of sea water is 1030 kg/m3.
(a) Calculate the pressure due to the sea water on the top of the submarine when it is 3.0 x 103 m

below the surface.

Pressure = …………………………………….…[2]

(b) The submarine emits a pulse of sound to detect other objects in the sea. The speed of sound in

sea water is 1500m/s. An echo is received with a time delay of 0.50s after the original sound is

emitted.

(i) Calculate the distance between the submarine and the other object.

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 Distance = ………………………[3]

(ii) Another pulse of sound is emitted through the air when the submarine is on the surface.
An echo is received from a second object that is in the air. This echo is received 0.50s after
the pulse of sound is emitted.
Compare the distance of the second object from the submarine with the distance
calculated in (b)(i ).
Tick one ( ) box. Give a reason for your answer.

Reason: ……………………………………………………………………[1]

[Total:6]

2. Circle one value from the list which is the speed of sound in water.

15 m/s 150 m/s 1500m/s 15000m/s 150 000 m/s 1500 000 m/s [1]

(b) The wavelength of sound wave in water is 12cm.

Calculate the frequency of this sound wave using your value from (a).

frequency = …………………………………….[3]

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 (c) Tick ( ) four statements in the list below that are false for a sound wave that is audible to a

healthy human ear.

[Total: 7]

3. The weight of an object is 4.0N on a planet where the acceleration of free fall is 8.7 m/s2 .

Calculate the mass of the object.

Mass = ………………………………… [2]

(c) A student has an object with a mass of 5.0 Kg.

Calculate the weight of the object.

weight of object = …………………………………...N [2]

[Total : 4]

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 SECTION C- Alternative to Practical ( 6 Marks)

1. A student investigates a pendulum. Fig. 1.1 and Fig. 1.2 show some of the apparatus used.

(a) The student adjusts the length of the pendulum until the distance d, measured to the
centre of the bob, is 50.0 cm. State one precaution that you would take to obtain the
length of 50.0 cm as accurately as possible.

………………………………………………………………………………………

……………………………………………………………………………………[1]

(b) The student displaces the bob slightly and releases it so that it swings. Fig. 1.2
shows one complete oscillation of the pendulum.

(i) He measures the time t for 20 complete oscillations. The time t is

shown on the stopwatch in Fig. 1.3.

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 In the first row of Table 1.1, record the time t shown in Fig. 1.3.

(i) Calculate, and record in Table 1.1, the period T of the pendulum. The period is

the time is the time for one complete oscillation. [1]

(ii) Calculate T2 . Record its value in Table 1.1. [1]

(c) The student repeats the procedure in (b) using d = 60.0cm, 70.0cm, 80.0cm and
100.0cm. The readings are shown in Table 1.1.

Plot a graph of T2 /s2 (y-axis) against d / cm (x-axis). You do not need to start your
axes at the origin (0,0).

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 [3]

[Total: 6]

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