PHYSICS TEST 1

FORM SIX
1. (a) (i) By the method of dimensional analysis, derive the relation:
1
s=ut+ a t 2
2
Where the letters have their usual meanings.
(ii) By using dimension prove that 1J =107 ergs.
(b) (i) The value of the acceleration due to gravity is 980cms-2. What will be its value, if
the unit of length is kilometre and that of time is minute? Hint: use dimension
(ii) Check the correctness of the relation:
rρg
h=
2 S cos θ
where h is height, r is radius, ρ is density, S is surface tension and g is
acceleration due to gravity.
(c) Write down the dimensional formula of mass if velocity of light c, Plank’s constant h
and gravitational constant G are chosen as basic quantities.

2. (a) (i) which of the following is most accurate and why? 20.0g, 0.0002g or 2.0g.

(ii) In the formula shown below, which quantity should be measured more accurate
and why?

L
T =2 π
√ g

(b) (i) Given the formula below;

xlnx
P= y
e
x= 10± 1.5 and y=15 ±0.5, calculate the percentage error of P.

(ii) A person takes 10 observations in an experiment. If he repeats the same experiment

by taking 50 observations, how is the probable error affected?
(c) Time for 20 oscillations of a pendulum is measured as t1= 39.6s; t2= 39.9s and
t3=39.5s. What is the precision in the measurements? What is the accuracy of the
measurement? Hint: express your answers in seconds not percentages form.

3.(i) While firing, one has to aim a little above the target and not exactly on the

target. Why?
 (ii) Prove that a gun will shoot three times as high when its angle of elevation is 60° as
when it is 30°but will carry the same horizontal di s t an ce .

4. A ball rolls off the top of a stairway with a horizontal velocity u m/s. If the steps are h
metres high and b metres wide, show that the ball will hit the edge of the nth step if;
2 h u2
n= .
g b2

5. (a)List down three assumptions in deriving the equation of the projectile

motion.

(b) A stone is projected horizontally from the top of the building 54m high at a
velocity of 30m/s at the same time instant stone B is projected from the bottom of
the building with velocity of 15m/s at an angle of 60° to the horizontal. Find;

(i) The height above the ground where the stones collide.

(ii) The horizontal distance from the building where the collision occurs.

6. A ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity of 33m/s from a point 65°(with
respect to the horizontal) on the side of hill slopes upward uniformly at an angle of 28°

(i) At what distance up the slope does the ball strike?

(ii) Calculate the time of flight of the ball.

7. (a) What is pseudo force? Give one example of this force.

(b) Give three practical applications of motion in a vertical circle.

(c) Explain, why the pilot of the aero plane does not fall down, while looping the loop>

8. (a) A body of heavy mass is suspended by a string of length 50cm. The body revolves along
a horizontal circle of radius 25cm, keeping the string always taut. Find the angular
speed of the body.

(b) In a circus, a motor cyclist goes round a vertical circle inside a spherical cage of radius
4.5m. Calculate the minimum and maximum speed of the motor cyclist inside the cage.

9. (a) (i) What is meant by communication satellite? Give one of its uses.
(ii) State the conditions under which the satellite moves in parabolic path and in
 elliptical orbit.

(b) A body is raised to a height of 1600km above the earth’s surface and projected
with a horizontal velocity of 6km/s. Will it revolves around the earth as a satellite?

10. (i) Show that the orbital velocity of the satellite close to the surface of the earth of radius
πGρ
R and mean density ρ is given by v=2 R
√ 3
(ii) Calculate the escape velocity of a body at a height 2000km from the surface of the
earth.

Prepared by Mr.Editon A and Bryson G