Name: _________________________( ) Class: ______ Date: ___________

1 (a) A heater is used to heat up a beaker full of water.

beaker

water

heater

(i) Sketch on the diagram, how is heat transferred in the beaker.

(ii) Hence, explain fully how the heat is transferred from the heater to
boil the water thoroughly.

(b) A piece of paper pinned directly under a table lamp seemed to be ‘lifted
up’ after the lamp is turned on as shown.

The original position of The position of paper after

paper before the lamp is the lamp is turned on
turned on

table lamp

Explain this observation.

2 Jason conducts the following experiment.
He prepared two jars and placed them at an equal distance from an infrared
lamp. He filled up jar A with carbon dioxide.

(a) Why are the two jars placed at an equal distance from the infrared lamp?

(b) State the independent and dependent variable in the experiment.

Independent variable: _______________________________________
Dependent variable: ________________________________________

(c) By what process does the heat from the lamp reach the air inside the two
jars?

(d) How should the jars be painted if we want the jars to be better absorbers
of heat radiation?

(e) The temperature in jar A increases faster than that in jar B. What does
this tell you about carbon dioxide?

3. The diagram on the right shows a solar heater. Water travels continuously around
the copper pipe. The slanted part of the copper pipe is on the roof of a building. It is
placed in a box with a glass cover.
(a) The base of the solar panel is lined with mirrors which reflect the Sun’s
rays onto the copper pipe.
(i) By what process, conduction, convection or radiation, does heat
from the Sun reach the solar panel?

(ii) Should the water pipe in the solar panel be painted white or black?
Explain why.

(iii) The water pipe in the solar panel is arranged in a zigzag manner.
Suggest one advantage of this arrangement.

(b) Explain why cold water is fed into the bottom of the hot water storage
tank and the heated water exits from the top of the tank.

(c) Explain why the solar panel is included in the water heater system even
though there is a boiler.