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APRIL
PHYSICS 2 HOLIDAY EXAMINATION –
2023
FORM SIX

062 PHYSICS 2 FORM SIX

TIME: 2:30 HOURS APRIL 2023

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. This paper consists of six (6) questions.
2. Answer five (5) questions.
3. Each question carries twenty (20) marks.
4. Marks allocation has been indicated on each section
5. Cellular phones and any other unauthorized materials are not allowed in an
examination room
6. Mathematical tables and non-programmable calculators may be used
7. Write your examination number on every page of your answer sheet
8. The following information may be useful.
a) Acceleration due to gravity g = 9.8m / s 2
b) Density of water = 103 𝑘𝑔𝑚−3
c) Permeability of free space 𝜇0 = 4𝜋 × 10−7 𝐻𝑚−1
d) Permittivity of free space 𝜀0 = 8.854 × 10−12 𝐹𝑚−1
e) Relative permittivity of air 𝜀𝑟 = 1
f) Speed of sound in air 𝑉 = 340𝑚/𝑠𝑒𝑐
g) Atmospheric pressure = 1.01 × 105 𝑁/𝑚2
h) Young’s modulus of aluminium = 7 × 1010 𝑁/𝑚2
i) Young’s modulus of steel = 2.0 × 1011 𝑁/𝑚2
j) Young’s modulus of rubber = 6 × 108 𝑁/𝑚2
k) Surface tension of soap solution 𝛾 = 2.5 × 10−2 𝑁𝑚−1
l) Density of mercury = 13.6 × 103 𝑘𝑔𝑚−3

1. a) i) State two importance of Reynolds number. (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

ii) Write down three forms of Bernoulli’s equation. (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

b) A cylindrical tank of 10cm in radius rests on platform 5m high. Initially, the

tank was filled with water to a height (h) of 5m. If the plug of area 10−4 𝑚2 is
removed by an orifice on the side of the tank at the bottom,
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 i. Calculate the initial speed with which water flows from the orifice.
(04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
ii. Calculate the speed with which water strikes the ground.
(03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

c) i) Why two streamlines cannot cross each other? (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

ii) Calculate the speed at which the velocity lends of streamline of water is
equal to 0.50m of Hg. (04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

d) What is flow meter? (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

2. a) Define the following terms as used in waves

i. Amplitude. (01 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘)
ii. Frequency. (01 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘)
iii. Phase angle (01 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘)
iv. Phase difference. (01 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘)

b) A stretched string is observed to vibrate with a frequency of 40 cycles per

second in its fundamental mode, when the supports are 0.6m apart. The
amplitude of the note is 0.3m. If the string has a mass of 3 × 10−2 𝑘𝑔,
calculate;
i. The velocity of propagation of the transverse wave in string.
(03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
ii. The tension in the string. (03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

c) Show how the following factors affecting the velocity of sound waves in air.
i. Temperature (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
ii. Density. (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

d) Calculate the radius of curvature of plane convex lens used to produce

Newton’s rings with a flat glass plate. If the diameter of the 10th dark ring is
4.48cm viewed by normally reflected light of wavelength 5 × 10−3 𝑚, what
is the diameter of the 20th bright ring?

(06 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

3. a) i) State Hooke’s law of elasticity. (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

ii) A uniform steel wire of length 4m and area of cross section 3 × 10−6 𝑚2 is
extended 1mm. Calculate the energy stored in the wire, if the elastic limit is
not exceeded.

(03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
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 b) A rubber cord of a catapult has a cross-sectional area of 2𝑚𝑚2 and an initial
length of 0.2m is stretched to 0.24m to fire a small object of mass 10g.
Assuming that the elastic limit is not exceeded, calculate the initial velocity
of the object when it is released.

(04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

c) i) Mention three evidences that proves that there is surface tension in water
surfaces.

(03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

ii) Calculate the work done against surface tension forces in blowing a soap
bubble of 1cm in diameter. (04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

d) Estimate the radius of a single droplet when the rain drop of radius 0.5 mm
strikes the surface and breaks to 125 droplets of equal size. (04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

4. a) i) What is time constant of a capacitor? (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

ii) Find the force of attraction between plates of a parallel plate capacitor of
effective area 2.5 × 10−4 𝑚2 when stores a charge of 3𝜇𝐶. (04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

b) i) What is dielectric material? (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

ii) A parallel air plate capacitor is charged to a p.d of 300V and then
connected in parallel with another capacitor of equal dimension but with
ebonite as a dielectric. The p.d is found to be 75V, calculate the dielectric
constant of the ebonite. (04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

c) The belt of a Vann De Graff generator is of width 10−2 𝑚 and travels at a

speed of 12𝑚/𝑠𝑒𝑐. The charge delivery on the belt is 3 × 10−5 𝐶𝑚−1 . The
generator is connected to a resistor of4 × 1010 Ω. Determine;
i. The maximum steady current that can be drawn from the generator.
(02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
ii. The maximum potential difference across the resistor. (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
iii. Power of the motor to drive the belt. (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

5. a) i) State Ampere’s law. (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

ii) Derive an expression for magnetic flux density B along thin solenoid.
(04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

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 b) Two identical wires R and S lie parallel in a horizontal plane, the axis being
0.1m apart. A current of 10A flows in R and in the opposite direction to a
current of 30A flows in S. Neglecting the effect of the earth’s magnetic flux
density, calculate the magnitude of B at a point P in the plane of the wire, if P
is;
i. Midway between R and S. (03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
ii. 0.05m from R and 0.15m from S. (03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

c) i) What is self inductance of a solenoid? (01 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘)

ii) Derive the expression for the energy stored in an inductor. (03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

d) The self inductance of a coil of 500 turns is 0.25H. If 60% of the flux is
linked with a second coil of 10,000 turns, calculate the mutual inductance
between the two coils.

(04 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

6. a) What are the main two differences between Rutherford’s and Bohr’s model
of an atom.

(03 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

b) Hydrogen atom in its ground state is excited by means of monochromatic

radiation of wavelength 975Å. How many different lines are possible in the
resulting spectrum? Calculate the longest wavelength amongst them,
assuming the ionization energy of hydrogen atom is 13.6eV.
(07 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

c) What is the power output of a 92 𝑈 235 reactor if it takes 30days to fuse up

2kg of fuel and if each fission gives 185MeV of usable energy? 𝑁𝐴 =
6.02 × 1026 per kilomole.

(06 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

d) i) Why is a neutron most effective as a bullet in nuclear reaction?

(02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)
ii) What is nuclear reactor? (02 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑠)

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