Gan Eng Seng School Sec 3 Exp Physics

Weighted Assessment 1

Topics : Physical Quantities & Units, Light

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Name : __________________________ ( ) Total Mark :

Class : ____________ Duration : 50 minutes

Date : 06/03/2023 Parent’s signature:

1 Ethan needs to measure the diameter of a golf ball for his Physics project.
(a) State the apparatus he should use to measure the golf ball accurately.

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(b) State and explain the steps he should take to ensure this measurement is
accurate.

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2 Complete the table below.

Physical Quantity SI unit Symbol

Mass kilogram kg

Temperature

Amount of matter

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3 Fig. 3.1 shows a shipping container suspended by two ropes passing over two
pulleys. The container has a weight of 15 000 N.

20°
T1
60°
T2

Fig. 3.1

Using a scaled diagram, determine the forces acting in the ropes, T1 and T2.

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T1 = …………………….. [1]

T2 = …………………….. [1]

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4 Sri was using a stop-watch to measure the velocity of Jacob as he was running half a
200 m round track. The stopwatch shows 20 s and Sri claimed that Jacob’s velocity was
5 m/s. Jacob said that Sri was wrong.

(a) State what is meant by vector quantity.

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(b) Explain clearly why is Sri incorrect.

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(c) Calculate the correct velocity that Jacob ran.

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5 Brayden is standing in front of a mirror mounted on the wall and observes the image of an
object as shown in Fig. 5.

Wall

Brayden
X

Image of object

X
X

Fig. 5

(a) State what is virtual image.

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(b) State two other characteristics of the image that Brayden is seeing.

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(c) Draw the location of object in Fig. 5 and mark accurately the position of X. [2]

(d) Draw rays to show clearly in Fig. 5 how Brayden could see the image of X through
a mirror mounted on the wall. Indicate clearly the minimum length of the mirror on
the wall. Label the mirror PQ. [3]

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6 A ray of light was shone through a glass block as shown in Fig. 6. The angle it made with
the glass block was 20o and the ray bends 30o as shown in Fig. 6.

P Q

30o

20o
60o

Fig. 6

(a) State what is refractive index.

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(b) Calculate the refractive index of the glass block.

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(c) Calculate the speed of the light in the glass block.

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6 (d) Calculate the critical angle of the glass block.

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(e) State clearly with reason what happens as the light ray hits the surface PQ. Show
clearly your working in the space provided.

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7 Farren was using the following set-up in Fig. 7.1 to investigate the focal length of the
lens.

Fig. 7.1

He collected several readings of object distance, u and image distance, v and recorded
in Table 7.

u / cm v / cm 1/u / cm-1 1/v / cm-1

20.0 62.5

30.0 30.8

40.0 24.1

50.0 21.3

60.0 19.8

Table 7

(a) Complete the calculation of 1/u and 1/v in Table 7. [2]

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(b) Using the graph provided in Fig. 7.2, plot a graph of 1/u against 1/v.

Draw the line of best fit. [4]

Fig. 7.2

(c) The Y-intercept of the graph in Fig. 7.2 gives the inverse of the focal length of the
lens.
Using the graph in Fig. 7.2, calculate the focal length of the lens.

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