CITY GOVERNMEMT OF ADDIS ABABA EDUCATION 2011

BUREAU PHYSICS MODEL EXAM I FOR GRADE 8 E.C

There are four alternatives given in each question. Choose the correct answer from
the given alternatives and encircle your choice on the separate answer sheet
provided
1. Which of the following represents fundamental physical quantities?

A. Time, Electric current, density

B. Temperature, volume, luminous intensity

C. Amount of substance, length, Temperature

D. Work, force, Time

2. A train traveled from one city to another in a time of 1 hour and 25 minutes. How many
seconds did the train take to cover the distance between the cities?

A. 5100 s B. 3625 s C. 125 s D. 85 s

3. The motion of the wheels of a moving bicycle is an example of

A. curvilinear motion B Rotary Motion C. Rectilinear motion D. Vibration

4. A boy runs around a rectangular field of sides 40m by 30m as shown below.

A B
40m

30m
D C

If he walks from A to D along path ABCD then the magnitude of his displacement will be

A. 140m B. 80m C.70 m D.30m

5. A train starting from rest, travels with a constant acceleration of 3 m/s2, what is its speed after
a second?

A. 3m/s B. 6 m/s C.12 m/s D. 27 m/s

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6. Which of the following cannot take place as a result of the action of a force?

A. change of speed

B. change of direction of motion C. change of mass

D. change of shape

7. If a car traveling along a level road suddenly, the driver takes brake to a stop, the passengers
will be thrown forward. This phenomenon is explained by

A. Newton’s third law of motion

B. Newton’s first law of motion

C. The law of conservation of energy

D. The law of conservation of momentum.

8. A 50 kg block is placed on a rough horizontal surface. If the maximum static frictional force
between the block and the surface is 147 N, what is the coefficient of static friction between
the block and the surface? (g=9.8 m/s2)

A. 0.30 B.0.20 C. 0.15 D. 0.10

9. A woman lifted a load of 20 kg through a vertical height of 2m. What is the work done by the
woman? (g=9.8m/s2)

A. 135 J B. 256J C.392J D.450J

10. The physical quantity that represents the time rate of conversation of energy is

A. mechanical energy C. work

B. power D. Force

11. The bob of a pendulum is pulled aside to point A and then released as Shawn below.

D
A C
B
If it oscillates along path ABCD, at what position will the bob have both kinetic and potential
energies?

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 A. at B B. at D C. at A D. at C

12. If a simple machine is used to raise a large load by means of a small effort, then the machine
serves as

A. a force multiplier

B. a distance multiplier

C. a energy multiplier

D. a power multiplier

13. The inclined plane shown below has a length of 10 m and height of 5m.

h=5m

What is the effort required to move the 20 kg mass up the plane at a constant speed? (g= 9.8m/s2)

A. 20 N B. 98N C. 196N D.200N

14. An unknown temperature scale has as ice point of 10o and steam point of 130o. If the
temperature of an object in this scale is 34o, what is it in Celsius scale whose ice point is 0o c
and steam point is 100oc?

A. 10oc B. 15oc C. 20oc D. 35oc

15. Which one of the following cannot be the effect of heating a body?

A. change of temperature of the body

B. increase in size of the body

C. change of state of the body

D. Decrease in kinetic energy of its particles

16. One of the following is correct about the process of boiling. Which one is it?

A. It takes place at any temperature

B. It takes place throughout the liquid

C. It has a cooling effect

D. It is a surface phenomenon
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17. In which of the following does sound travel with the greatest speed?

A. Vacuum B. water C. air D. metal

18. Taking the speed of sound in air to be 340m/s, what is the minimum distance between the
source of sound and a wall from which echo can be heard?

A. 10m B. 17m C. 21m D. 34m.

19. If an object is attracted by a magnet, what can you conclude about the object? The object is

A. either a magnet or a magnetic substance

B. either a plastic or a non-magnetic substance

C. A non-magnetic substance

D. A plastic substance

20. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of magnetic lines of forces?

A. They are closed lines.

B. They run from South pole to North pole outside the magnet

C. They are closer where the magnetic field is stronger

D. They never cross each other.

21. A rod is held near the plates (without touching) of a positively charged electroscope. If the
divergence of the leaves of the electroscope increased, then the rod is

A. Insulator B. conductor C. positively changed D. negatively changed

22. Which one of the following is equal to 1 ampere?

A. 1 Joule x second C. 1 coulomb x second

B. 1 Joule/second D. 1 coulomb/second

23. Suppose you have three charged balls A, B and C. If ball B is repelled by ball A and attracted
by ball C, then the sign of charges on ball A, ball B and ball C, are, respectively.

A. Positive, negative and negative

B. Positive, positive and negative

C. Negative, positive and negative

D. Negative, negative and negative

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24. A cubical box has each of its sides of 8 cm long. A match box has length of 4cm, width of
2cm and height of 2cm. How many match boxes can be placed in the cubical box?

A. 32 B. 25 C. 18 D. 16

25. A measuring cylinder is filled with water up to the 30 cm3 mark. When an irregular shaped
body of mass 32 g is dropped in the cylinder, the level of the water raised to the 50 cm3
mark, what is the density of the body?

A. 0.4g/cm3 B. 0.64g/cm3 C. 1.06 g/cm3 D. 1.6g/cm3

26. Which of the following is the dimension of momentum?

A. [MLT] B. ] C. ] D.

27. One of the following forces arises between two objects only when the bodies are incontact?

A. Frictional force C. Electrostatic force

B. Gravitational force D. Magnetic force

28. A particle travels along a straight line with a constant speed for 20s. In the next 20 s, the
particle travels in opposite direction back to the starting point.

Which of the following displacement versus time graphs represents the motion of the
particle?

A. s (m) B. s(m)

t(s)

20 40 20 40 t(s)

S(m) S(m)

C.

D.

20 40 t(s) 20 40 t(s)

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29. The area under the velocity versus time graph of the motion of a body is

A. the acceleration

B. the average velocity

C. the distance travels

D. the total time taken

30. One of the following does not affect the pressure of a liquid in a container? Which one is it?

A. Base area of the container

B. The height of the liquid column

C. The density of the liquid

D. Acceleration due to gravity

31. A hydraulic press is the application of

A. Newton’s second law of motion

B. The law of conservation of energy

C. Pascal’s principle

D. The law of conservation of momentum

32. An instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure is

A. Barometer

B. Thermometer

C. Beam balance

D. Graduated cylinder

33. With regard to radiation of heat a white cloth is

A. a good absorber and a good emitter of radiation

B. a poor absorber and a good emitter of radiation
C. a good absorber and a good reflector of radiation
D. a poor absorber and a good reflector of radiation

34. The temperature of a lead ball of mass 500g of is raised from 20oc to120 oc . What is the
amount of heat supplied to the lead? Specific heat capacity of lead=130 J/kg.oc

A. 6500J B. 130J C. 8000J D. 9540J

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35. Four identical bulbs are connected in parallel to each other across a voltage source. If each of
the bulbs has resistance R, then the total resistance of the circuit will be

A. 1/4R B. R C.2R D.4R

36. Which of the following is correct about the relationship between the units volt, ohm and
ampere?

A. Volt= ampere ÷ohm

B. Ampere=(volt)2 x ohm

C. Ohm= volt ÷ampere

D. Volt=ohm x (ampere)2

37. A conducting wire has length ℓ and cross sectional area A. Which of the following will
increase the resistance of the wire?

A. Increasing A and decreasing ℓ.

B. Increasing both A and ℓ by the same factor.

C. Decreasing A and increasing ℓ.

D. Decreasing both A and ℓ by the same factor.

38. Two resistors of R1= 30 and R2=60 are connected in a circuit as shown below.

R1

A R2
I V

If V= 9v, what is the reading of the ammeter?

A. 0.45A B. 1A C.3A D. 9A

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39. A derive that converts electrical energy in to mechanical energy is

A. Electromagnet C. Electric generator

B. Transformer D. Electric motor

40. A current carrying wire is held perpendicular to a horizontal card board a, b and c as shown.

a b

Compass p

d C

If a compass is placed at point P, in which one of the following directions will the North pole of
the compass needle point?

A. N B. N C. N D. N

41. Which of the following is not correct about a voltmeter and an ammeter?

A. A voltmeter is connected in parallel to a resistor

B. An ammeter is connected in series to a resistor

C. A voltmeter measures total resistance.

D. An ammeter measures electric current.

42. The image of an object formed by a pinhole camera is

A. erect B. inverted

C. same size as the object D. larger in size than the object

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43. Light ray falls on the surface of a mirror at an angle of 25o with the mirror as sown.

25o

What is the angle between the normal line and the reflected ray?

A. 25o B. 50o C.65o D. 13o

44. A candle is placed at the center of curvature of a concave mirror. The image of the candle
will be

A. larger in size than the object

B. of the same size as the object

C. erect

D. virtual

45. Light ray traveling in air falls on the surface of water of an angle with the normal. As the ray
refracts in to the water.

A. it bends toward the normal.

B. it bends away from the normal.

C. its speed increases.

D. its speed remains the same.