NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL

END OF TERM 2 2016

S.5 PHYSICS
INSTRUCTIONS

Answer all questions in section A and only three (3) from section B.
Do not divide your pages in halves
Time allowed is 3 hours.
Assume where necessary:
Acceleration due to gravity
= 9.81 ms-2
Electron charge, e
= 1.6 x 10-19C
Electron mass, m
= 9.11 x 10-31 kg
Plancks constant, h
= 6.6 x 10-34Js
Speed of light in vacuum, c
= 3.0 x 108m/s
Avogadros number, NA
= 6.02 X 1023 mol-1
Gas constant, R
= 8.31 Jmol-1K-1
Faradays constant, F
= 9.649 x 104Cmol-1
Permittivity of vacuum, o
= 8.854 x 10-12 Fm-1

SECTION A (Attempt all questions)

1. A ball has a constant angular acceleration of 0.35 rad/s2. If the ball has an initial velocity
of 3.0 rad/s,
a. What is its angular displacement after 20 seconds?

(2 marks)

b. What is the angular speed of the ball after 20 seconds?

(2 marks)

2. a. What is meant by dimensions of a physical quantity?

b. Show that the equation

(1 mark)

F=mr 2 is dimensionally consistent. Where F is the

centripetal force, m is the mass, r is the radius of the circular path and is the
angular velocity.

(3 marks)

3. a. Is acceleration a vector quantity, scalar quantity or both? Explain your answer.

b. An 18 year-old runner can complete a 10.0 km course with an average speed of 4.39
m/s. A 50 year-old runner can cover the same distance with an average speed of 4.27
m/s. How much later (in seconds) should the young runner start in order to finish the
course at the same time?
(4 marks)

4. a. When is a moving body said to have zero acceleration?

(0.5 mark)

b. Three forces act on an object as shown below.

F1=21.0 N
300

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F2 =15.0 N

F3
What must be the magnitude and the direction of the third force,

F3 such that the

vector sum of the three force is 0 N?

(3 marks)

5. A hot air balloonist, rising vertically with constant velocity of magnitude 5 m/s releases a
sandbag at an instant when the balloon is at 40 m above the ground. After it is releases,
the sandbag is in free fall. Calculate the position and the speed of the sandbag at a time
equal to 0.25 seconds.
(4 marks)
6. A rigid beam with negligible weight is hinged to a wall and held horizontally by a string
as shown in the diagrams below.
The 200 N weight is moved to the midpoint of the beam.

T
30o

(b)
200 N

Calculate the magnitude and direction of the reaction of the wall on the beam.(4 marks)
7. (a) (i) What is the role of a non-zero net torque?
(1 mark)
(ii) State the law of conservation of angular momentum.
(1 mark)
(b) A mass of 0.8 kg at the end of the rope 0.5 m long is whirled round in a horizontal
circle at an angular speed of 10 rad/s. What is the angular momentum about the
center?
(2 marks)
8. A uniform ladder L and weight W. rests with upper end against a smooth wall at angle
and the bottom end against a rough ground whose co-efficient of friction is 0.8.
Show that the maximum value of for the ladder to stay in place is
) =58

= tan-1(2

(4marks)

.
9. A childs toy car of mass 0.99kg rests at the bottom of a smooth slope as shown below.

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Stone
ms= 0.01 kg
200 m/s

Height, h

Car

A stone of mass 0.01kg is fired horizontally at a velocity of 200m/s into a car and
sticks inside it (assume air resistance is negligible).
(i) Name the type of collision.
(0.5mks)
(ii) To what height h, above its initial position will the car rise?
(3.5mks)
(iii) If the slope were rough would the car rise higher or lower in (ii) above? (0.5mks)
10. The diagram below shows a small block of mass 2 kg able to move on rough plane
inclined at 30 to the horizontal. The block is attached by means of light string
passing over a smooth pulley at the top of the plane to a particle 4 kg hanging freely. The
co-efficient of friction between the block and the planes is 0.2. The system is released
from rest with 2 kg block at the bottom of the plane. Calculate
a. The acceleration of the 2 kg block.
(2 marks)
b. The tension in the string.
(2 marks)

2 kg block
4 kg block
0

30

11. A sphere of weight 20N and radius 15cm rests against a smooth vertical wall. The sphere
is supported in this position by a string of length 10cm attached to a point on the sphere
and to a point on the wall as shown as shown below.

10cm

15c
m

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(a) Copy the diagram and show the forces acting on the sphere

(1 mark)

(b) Calculate the reaction on the sphere due to the wall

(1.5 mks)

(c) Find the tension in the string.

(1.5 mks)

SECTION B (Attempt only three questions)

12. A solid cylinder, which has a mass of 2.0 kg and a radius of 40.0 cm, is rolling without
sliding along a horizontal surface with a velocity of 10.0 m/s when the cylinder
encounters an inclined plane which meets the horizontal at an angle of 30.0o.
a. What is the angular velocity of this cylinder?
(1 mark)
b. What is the linear kinetic energy of this cylinder?
(1 mark)
c. What is the angular kinetic energy of this cylinder?
(2 marks)
d. What is the total kinetic energy of this cylinder?
(1 mark)
e. How far up this incline will the cylinder roll before it comes to stop?
(2 marks)
f. How long will it take for this cylinder to come to stop?
(1 mark)
g. What will be the linear acceleration of this cylinder as it rolls up the incline? (1 mk)
h. What will be the angular acceleration of this cylinder as it rolls up the incline? (1mk)
i. What will be the net torque acting on this cylinder as it rolls up the incline? (1mk)
13. a. When is a body said to be in mechanical equilibrium?

(2 marks)

b. A weight, W attached to two strings which pass over smooth at the same level and
support weights P, Q at their free ends as s. Prove that in equilibrium position, (8 mk)
sin =

( W 2+ P2Q2)
2

Q
W

13 (a) What do you understand by the following terms as applied to projectiles?

(i)
Vertical projection
(0.5 mrks)
(ii)
Trajectory
(0.5 mrks)
(iii)
Time of flight
(0.5 mrks)
(b) A pencil is accidentally knocked off the edge of a horizontal desk. The height of the
desk is 64.8 cm and the pencil hits the floor a horizontal distance 32.4 cm for the
edge of the desk. What was the speed of the pencil as it left the desk?
(2.5 mrks)
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(c) A pebble is thrown from the top of a cliff 50 m high with a velocity of 100 m/s at an
angle of 600. Find;
i) The maximum height attained from the ground.
(1 mark)
ii) The time taken to hit the ground.
(2 marks)
iii) The velocity with which it hits the ground.
(2 marks)
iv) How far from the foot of the cliff does the pebble hit the ground? (1 mark)

14. (a) i. State the law of conservation of linear momentum.

ii. Distinguish between elastic collision and inelastic collision

(1 mark)
(1 mark)

(b) An object A of mass m moving with a velocity of 10 m/s collides with a stationary
object B of equal mass m. After the collision, A moves a velocity U at an angle 300 to
its original direction and B moves with a velocity V at an angle of 900 to the direction
of U as shown below.
U
A
A

10 m/s

30

(i)
(ii)

Calculate the velocities U and V

Determine whether the collision was elastic or not.

(4 marks)
(1 mark)

(c) Consider two particles of masses m1 and m2 moving with initial velocities u1 and
u2 along the same straight line. The two particles collide head-on and then leave
the collision site with different velocities, v 1 and v 2 . If the collision is elastic,
show that
i)

ii)

v 1=
v 2=

m 1m 2
2m 2
u1 +
u
m 1+ m2
m1 +m 2 2

) ( )
) ( )

m2m1
2m1
u 2+
u
m1+ m2
m1 +m2 1

(2 marks)

(1 mark)

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