FORM TP 2007254 4. _t AFFIX SEAL HERE_# 8] testcope02238010 : MAY/JUNE2007 CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION PHYSICS Unit2-Paper 01 90 minutes 05 JUNE 2007 (p.m.) READ THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY Inaddition to this test booklet, you should have ananswersheet. Each item in thistest has foursuggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Readeachitem youare about to answerand decide which choice is best. ‘Onyouranswer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below. Sample Item Which ofthe following listsone scalar quality andone vector quantity? (A) mass: temperature Sample Answer (B) momentum : pressure (© fore: velocity ®e@00 (D) potential energy: volt The best answerto thisitem is “momentum : pressure”, so answer space (B) has been blackened, Ifyou wantto change your answer, be sure to erase your oldanswer completely and fill in yournew choice. When youaretoldto begin, tum the page and work as quickly andas carefully asyoucan. Ifyou cannot answeran item, omit itand goontothenextone. Youcancome back tothe harder item later. Your score will bethe total number of correct answers. ‘Youmay doany rough workin this booklet. igures are notnecessarily drawnto scale. ‘The use ofnon-programmablecalculatorsisallowed, Thistestconsistsof45 items. You will have 90 minutestoanswerthem. Donotbeconcered thatthe answer sheet provides spaces for more answers han thereareitemsin thistest DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO. Copyright ©2006 Caribbean Examinations Council®. Allriohtsreserved, 4 nanwasxuay 4LIST OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS" Speed of light in free space Permeability of free space Permittivity of free space Elementary charge ‘The Planck constant Unified atomic mass constant Rest mass of electron Rest mass of proton Acceleration due to gravity 1 Atmosphere Avogadro’s number 02238010/C 2007 Aum Na 3.00 x 10° ms? 4n x 107 H mt 885 x 10? Pmt 1.60.x 10°C 6.63 x 104 Fs 1.66 x 1077 kg 9.11 x 10°! kg 1.67 x 1077 kg 9.81 ms? 1.00 x 10° Nm? 6.02 x 10” per mole GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEAn electric field exists betwicen charged parallel plates, Which graph shows how the electric field strength varies along the line OP? E (A) o P E @) ; o P z © o P E ©) o P A.unit equivalent to I voltis » @) 1c @®) wee © 1sat @) 1 Wat Accireuitis set up as shown in the diagram, ‘What happens to the readings on the ammeter and volmeter ifthe resistance ofthe variable resistor is increased? Ammeter | Volmeter (A)} Increase Increase (B)/ Decrease | Decrease ©} Increase No change No change | No change A wite of diameter 1.0 mm is carrying a Current of 1.5 A. The charge carriers are slectrons and the net drift velocity of the slectrons is 0.5 mm s!. ‘The number of Conduction electrons per unit volume in the conductor is A) 96x10" m () 24x 10% ms ©) 6.0x 10% m ©) 95x 10% meWhich of the following shows' the IV characteristic of a filament lamp? if 78 <> v ®) cs . v © ie 6. A cell of internal resistance r is connected to a load of resistance R. The efficiency of such an arrangement is found from the expression ‘energy dissipated in the load energy dissipated in the complete circuit Which expression represents the efficiency in this case? Oe ® & R © gs - o & Kirchoff’s Laws are derived from the laws of conservation. On which conservation laws do they depend? 1h @) : (02238010/C2007 Kirchoff’s Kirchoff's Ast law 2nd law (A)| mass. ‘current (B)| current energy (| charge current @) charge energy lee _ GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.“5. In the diagram below, a potential difference 10. Which arrangement of four similar capacitors ‘of 600V is applied between two parallel metal has the HIGHEST effective capacitance? plates, X and Y, 5mm apart, °* What is the magnitude and direction of the “a” 4 k electric field at point P? | t 7 x ®) 4 ot ite I 4 Smm op (C) k | © _ y plate 600 V @) (A) 12x10 NC.X>Y (B) 1.2x10NC;Y>X 1. A wire, 1.00 m long and of uniform cross- (C) 1.2.x 10°NC1;X > Y sectional area 2.00 mm, has a resistance of (Dd) 12x 10°NC5Y—>X 052 ‘What is the resistivity of the wire material? 9. In which resistor below is the GREATEST wer dissipated? (A) 1.0x10°Qm - (B) 10x10°Qm 19 © 2.0x10°Om A ha iy ©) 31x10%0%m B 4A 22 a a a 82 p 1&5 84 :12. 1B. 14. Gs The force acting per unit current length i the (A) electric field strength’ ’ (B) magnetic flux density (©) electric potential (D) potential difference Two wires X and Y, each of the same length and material are connected in series to a battery. The diameter of X is twice that of Y. ‘What fraction of the total potential difference is across X? (A) 020 (B) 02s (©) 033 () 0.50 ‘The diagram below represents a simple relay. When a current I flows in the solenoid, the two pieces of soft iron materials PQ and RO become magnetized. Which combination BEST illustrates the polarities at the ends P, Q, R and 0? { Peet neni @pN oN SS lm] Nn os oN os @©|s s N oN | @)S oN Ss oN 02238010/C2007 15. 16, The diagram shows a piece of wire 0.5 m long moving with a speed of 3.0 m s" perpendicular to a magnetic field of field strength 1.5 mT. What is the e.m.f, induced across the ends of the wire? x x] x kx ome x xX x xX x x x/> xx x x x x xX x (A) 45x10°V (B)2.25x10°V (©) 75x10°V (D) 225x10°V ‘The MAJORITY charge carriers in an n-type material are (A) protons (B) electrons ©) holes () neutrons GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE17. The circuits below contain diodes, cell, 18. A direct current ({) dissipates power in a resistors and an ammeter. In which cireuit resistor (R). A sinusoidal alternating current will the ammeter register a current? issipates the same power in another resistor of one quarter the value . What is the rans. y ie value of the alternating current? “ 1 : @ § RK @) (4) ©) va . Jy ®) iF ©) 24 w 19. An ideal transformer has'N, turns in its Kt secondary coil andN, turns in its primary coil. ‘The alternating voltages in the secondary and {>——4 primary coils are V, and V, respectively and the alternating currents in the secondary and primary coils are I, and I, respectively. © Which of the following relationships is correct? A N, Vy, i. ee A “ ®¥y Dt = awe a N,V N, Ny, ©) ie Ms © NY, N, _ Vp A oy ee BOON TATHENEYT DARE20. Which one of the circuits below will give'a [tem 21 refers to the following figure. full-wave rectified current through the load Rinthe direction shown? , +10v Ss LDR “ AC 2 : supply A VOR R oy ® 21. The potential divider in the figure above is formed from a light dependent resistor (LDR) ACS and a resistor (R). supply VOR ‘The LDR has a resistance of 5 000 9 in the dark and 50 in bright light. - ‘The potential at A changes from near zero in the dark to 8 V in bright light. ac & ‘The value of the resistor R is supply Ur (a) 1252 (B) 150Q © 2002 (D) 200000 © ac & 22, The figure shows an op-amp used as a supply comparator. Ue + 6V The open loop voltage gain of the op-amp is 3x 10* and the voltage of the power supply is +6. The MINIMUM input voltage (V,) which will cause saturation is (A) £20pv @) £30qv © +40pv ©) £180pv GOON TO THE NEXT PAGE 02238010/C2007-9- 23. Which of the following is NOT an advantage Item 25 refers tothe following diagram, of using negative feedback in an op-amp? - (A) The gains predictable and constant. . 40K0 (B) Feedback reduces distortion of the output. 10k2 (C) Bandwidth is increased. Input 2 I~ (D) Feedback increases the gain, voltage y eaten v voltage = % 24. ‘Which diagram shows the circuit for a non- inverting amplifier? 25, ‘The gain of the op-amp circuit in the diagram. A e—P above is — TYour (A) -4 7 (B) - 0.25 (c) +025 ®) (D) +S - "Your © Poe @ P¥ourItem 26 refers to the following figures. 20Ko 27 Wy, +H is 0.04 1 Figure 2 26. The sinusoidal altemating voltage shown in Figure 2s applied tothe input of the op-amp shown in Figure 1. The voltage of the power supply is £10V. Which one of the following graphs correctly shows output voltage with time? 28 A wry, +5 is fons s @) WM, 48 s 004 29, 5 © Wh, +10! is fos -10 wo %N, +101 ts 004 +10. 02238010/C2007 Ttem 27 refers to the following diagram, ‘The circuit is equivalent to (A) an AND gate (B) a NAND gate (C) an OR gate (D) an XOR gate Item 28 refers to the following diagram. D- sD > Which one of the following combinations gives the correct output from EACH of the gates shown above? x oY 2 @ 0 0 0 ® 1 1 1 (tro 41 Xo ® 1 0 1 How many inputs and outputs does a half adder have? INPUTS OUTPUTS. @ 2 2 @) 2 1 © 1 2 @) 3 2 GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE=i. 30. Choose the response which will BEST 32, _ATLY, station broadcasts at a rate 200 kW complete the following statement. and frequency 200 MHz. How many photons , are emitted every second? [A flip-flop has two output states, . (A) 15x 10% (A) one stable and one unstable. It @) 15x10" remains in the stable state until a © 15x10" trigger pulse switches it to the ©) 15x10" unstable, (B) both of which are unstable. It switches from one state toanother 33. A work function of a metal is the after a short interval. (©) _ one stable and one unstable. It (A) cut-off wavelength of electro- remains in the unstable state for a magnetic radiation for that metal, short time and then switches to the above which no photoelectrons are stable state. emitted (D) both of which are stable. It remains (8) minimum energy of electro-magnetic in either state until a trigger pulse radiation needed for a sends it to the other. photoelectron to be produced from the metal ~ (©) __ threshold frequency of electro- 31. Which ofthe following phenomena led to the magnetic radiation required, below discovery of the particle nature of which no photoelectrons are electromagnetic radiation? emitted from the metal (D) the maximum kinetic energy of (A) Interference photoelectrons emitted from the (B) Reflection metal surface when electro- (C) Polarisation magnetic radiation of a given (D) Photoelectric Effect frequency is used 34. Themaximum wavelength of electromagnetic, radiation that causes emission of photoelectrons from a metal, X, is 600 nm. ‘What is the work function of X? (A) 3.32x 10°F ®) 530x110") © 3.98x 10") @) 248x105-12- 35. The figure below shows an energy'level 37 diagram fora hydrogen atom. Es __ -0.54eV Ey __ -0.8sev E, -Lsev Ey “3.4eV & -13.6eV An electron moves from one energy state to another with the production of a photon of frequency 2.46 x 10 Hz. Which energy transition accounts for this? (A) E;> Ep ®) Es Es © Be (D) E+E ltem_36 refers to the following diagram. Intensity Wavelength 36, This graph iflustrates the x-ray spectrum from a given x-ray tube. What do X, Y and Z represent? om x Y Zz (A) | K=series L—series | Continuous Line spectrum | Line spectrum | spectrum B) [L— series Continuous | K- series Line spectrum | spectrum. | Line spectrum | (© | K-series Continuous | L— series Line spectrum | spectrum Line spectrum (B) [Continuous [K—series | L—series spectrum Line spectrum | Line spectrum (02238010/C2007 Pis the momentum of a particle and 2 is its wavelength. For which of the following graphs would the gradient be equal to the Planck's constant? “a ? a a ® Kh r a ©. x P a (D) The results of the Geiger - Marsden a - particle scattering experiment provides evidence for (A) quantum theory (B) size of the nucleus © existence of neutrons D) radioactive decay GOON TO THE NEXT PAGE-B- 39. Thediagram shows the set up fora Millikan's oil drop experiment. SPRAYED VARIABLE ,, DC SUPPLY ‘MICROSCOPE EYE Avariable voltage, V, is applied between the plates X and Y, which are separated by a distance, d. The microscope is focussed on a charged oil drop of mass, m, which is held stationary between the plates. If q is the charge on the oil drop, which of the following expressions s correct? (a) (®) © @) 40. The diagram represents the relationship between binding energy per nucleon and mass number. W, X, ¥ and Z are different elements. Mass number Which of the following statements is true of nuclear stability? (A) Z could undergo nuclear fission to become more stable (8) W and X could undergo nuclear : fission to become more stable. (©) Wand ¥ could undergo nuclear fusion to become more stable. (D) —_Z could undergo nuclear fusion to become more stable. 41. 42. Which of the following graphs shows the correct relationship between the energy evolved, E, and the mass coverted, Am, ina nuclear reaction? «a = @) F +> aM © FF aM ow F +> AM ‘What is the energy equivalent of the atomic ‘mass unit, u? (A) 1.49 x 1095 (B) 498x107 (C) 553x107) @) 512x105-14- 43. Atoms undergo redioactive decay because , (A) the number of protons inthe nucleus is greater than the number of neutrons (B) _ theirnuclei are unstable (C) they are heated under high pressure (D) the number of electrons is greater than the number of protons in the atom 44. ‘The diagram below shows the paths of two types of radioactive emissions, P and Q, ina Uniform magnetic field, which is directed into the page. What are P and Q? = LS es box ae eet et ae et containing XX XX radioactive P Q (A) alpha beta @®) beta alpha (©) beta gamma (D) alpha gamma 45, A radioactive nuclide is represented by the symbol 3§ P. It decays into a nuclide of clement Q by beta decay. Q then decays into a nuclide of element R by alpha decay and releases gamma radiation. What symbol represents nuclide R? @ GR @) XR © RR @ FR IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS TEST. 02238010/0 2007