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End of topic test 1

Physics 5054
Paper 1& 2 Theory

Friday 16th October 2020

Additional materials:

Calculators (non programmable)

Time: 2 hours

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PAPER2

There are twelve (11) questions in this paper.

Section A
FOR EXAMINER'S USE
Answer all questions
Paper 1
Write your answers in the spaces provided on the question paper.
Section B Paper 2
Answer all questions. Section A
Write your answers in your own separate answer sheets. At the end sectinon B9
of the examination, fasten your answer sheets securely to the
B10
question paper
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The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part
question.

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This paper consists of 12 printed pages
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PAPER ONE

For each question there are four possible answers: A, B, C and D. Choose the one you
consider correct and record your choice by putting (X) on it.

1. A 2 kg mass of copper is heated for 40 s by a heater that produces 100J/s.

The specific heat capacity of copper is 400 J/(kg K).
What is the rise in temperature?
A. 5 K
B. 10 K
C. 20 K
D. 50 K
2. In an experiment to find the specific heat capacity of a metal, it is found that 5200 J is
needed to
raise the temperature of a 2kg block by 20°C.
What value for the specific heat capacity is given by these results?
A. 130J/ (kg°C)
B. 520J/ (kg°C)
C. 52 000J / (kg°C)
D. 104 000J /(kg°C)
3. What is the definition of heat capacity?
A. the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of an object through 1°C
B. the quantity of heat required to convert an object from solid to liquid without a change
in temperature
C. the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1kg of a substance through
1°C
D. the quantity of heat required to change 1 kg of a substance from solid to liquid
without a change in temperature

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4. An ice pack is used to cool 0.25kg of water. The specific heat capacity of water is 4.2kJ /
(kg°C).

How much thermal energy (heat) must the ice pack extract from the water to
reduce the water temperature by 15°C?
A. 0.070KJ
B. 1.1kJ
C. 16kJ
D. 250kJ
5. A block of metal has a mass of 2.0 kg. It’s specific heat capacity is 800 J/
(kg °C).
The block is supplied with 2400 J of energy.
What is the rise in temperature?
A. 0.17 °C
B. 0.67 °C
C. 1.5 °C
D. 6.0 °C
6. What is the name given to the amount of energy needed to turn 1 kg of water at 100 °C
into steam at 100 °C?
A. heat capacity
B. latent heat
C. specific heat capacity
D. specific latent heat
7. Some ice cubes are taken from a deep-freeze and placed in a metal container. The
container is heated at a constant rate and readings of temperature and time are taken.
The results are recorded on a graph.
Which temperature corresponds to 0°C?

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8. A pupil adds 37g of ice at 0°C to 100g of water at 30°C. The final temperature of the
water and melted ice is 0°C. No heat is lost to, or gained from, the surroundings.
The specific heat capacity of water is 4.2J /(g°C).
What is the specific latent heat of ice?
A. 47J /g
B. 341J/ g
C. 4700J / g
D. 12600J / g
9. An ice-cube has of mass of 7.50g. The ice-cube is at 0°C.
Heat from the surroundings reaches the ice-cube at an average rate of 1.25J / s.
How long does it take for all of the ice to melt?
(specific latent heat of fusion of ice = 333J/ g)
A. 35.5s
B. 55.5s
C. 2000s
D. 3120s
10. A boiling liquid absorbs thermal energy (heat) at a rate of 450W. The specific latent heat
of vaporisation is 2.7 x 106 J/kg.
How much liquid is vapourised?
A. 1.5g
B. 11.0g
C. 90.0g
D. 5400.0g

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PAPER TWO
SECTION A
Answer all questions

1. A beaker contains 60 g of a hot substance, initially in the liquid state. Fig. 4.1 shows how
the temperature of the substance changes with time t as it cools in a laboratory.

Figure 1.1
(a) Use Fig. 4.1 to determine the melting point of the substance. [1]
(b) The specific heat capacity of the liquid is 1.7 J / (g °C). Calculate the loss of
thermal energy (heat) from the liquid between t = 0 and t = 20 s [2]
(c) Between points A and B on Fig. 4.1, the temperature is constant as the
substance changes from liquid to solid
(i) Explain why the temperature stays constant, even though thermal
energy is lost by the substance. [2]
(ii) Describe the change in the arrangement of the molecules as the
substance changes from a liquid to a solid. [2]

2. The boiling point of nitrogen is –196 °C.

Liquid nitrogen, below its boiling point, is stored in a vacuum flask, as shown in Fig.
2.1.

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Figure 2.0
The liquid nitrogen reaches –196 °C, its boiling point. A small piece of metal at
20 °C is lowered slowly into the liquid nitrogen.
The specific heat capacity of the metal is 0.39 J / (g °C).
The specific latent heat of vaporisation of nitrogen is 200 J / g.
Calculate
(a) the thermal energy (heat) lost from the metal as it cools, [3]
(b) the mass of nitrogen that boils away. [2]
3. Liquid air contains a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen.
The boiling point of nitrogen is –196 °C and the boiling point of oxygen is –183 °C. A
sample of liquid air in a beaker is allowed to warm up slowly.
Fig. 3.1 shows how the reading of a thermometer in the beaker varies with time t.

Figure 3.1

(a) Describe the two changes of state that occur and state when they occur. [3]

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(b) The liquid air contains 200 g of liquid oxygen and 800 g of liquid nitrogen.
The specific heat capacity of liquid oxygen is 1.7 J / (g °C) and the specific
heat capacity of liquid nitrogen is 2.0 J / (g °C).
Calculate the thermal energy needed to warm the liquid from –205 °C to -196
°C.
State the formula that you use in your calculation. [4]
4. The mass of air in a classroom is 500 kg.
(a) Define what is meant by specific heat capacity. [2]
(b) At the start of the day the temperature of the air in the classroom is 18 °C.
Calculate the energy needed to raise the temperature of the air in the
classroom from 18 °C to 30 °C. The specific heat capacity of air is 970 J/(kg
°C).
State clearly the formula that you use in your calculation. [3]
5. How much heat is required to convert 2 g of ice at -6 °C into steam at 100 °C?
Use the following data.
Specific heat capacity of ice= 2100 J/(kg °C)
Specific heat capacity of water= 4200 J/(kg °C)
Specific latent heat of ice= 336000 J/kg
Specific latent heat of steam= 2260000 J/kg [6]
6. 0.2 kg of ice at 0 °C is mixed with 500g of water at 25 °C. What is the resulting
temperature?
Use the following data.
Specific heat capacity of ice= 2100 J/(kg °C)
Specific heat capacity of water= 4200 J/(kg °C)
Specific latent heat of ice= 336000 J/kg
[5]

7. A 2 kW (2000 W) electric heater supplies heat to a 0.5 kg copper containing 1kg.

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water. Calculate the time taken to raise the temperature by 10 °C.

Specific heat capacity of water= 4200 J/(kg °C)
Specific heat capacity of copper= 400 J/(kg °C)
[4]
8. Fig. 8.1 shows apparatus to measure the specific latent heat of fusion of water.
In this question, you may ignore heat transfer to the ice from the room.

Figure 8.1
The heater is switched on and water drips into the beaker at a constant rate.
In 2.0 minutes, 31 g of water drips into the beaker. The power of the
heater is 85 W.
(a) Calculate the amount of electrical energy supplied to the heater in 2.0 minutes. [2]
(b) Use your answer to (a) to calculate the specific latent heat of fusion of water. [2]
(c) In another experiment using the same heater, ice colder than 0 °C is used.
State why less water drips into the beaker in 2.0 minutes. [1]

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SECTION B

9. Fig. 9.1 shows an electric boiler in a school kitchen

Figure 9.1
The boiler contains 35 kg of water at 22 °C. The specific heat capacity of
water is 4200 J / (kg °C).
(a) (i) Calculate the thermal energy (heat) needed to raise the temperature of the water
from 22 °C to its boiling point. [3]
(ii) The water in the boiler is heated with a 2600 W immersion heater. Calculate the
minimum time for the heater to bring the water to its boiling point. [2]
(iii) Suggest one reason why the actual time is greater than the time calculated in (ii)
[1]
(b) (i) The immersion heater is placed in the water at the bottom of the boiler. Explain in
detail how this ensures that the thermal energy (heat) is transferred throughout the
water. [4]
(ii) The boiler is made of steel and has two large plastic handles. When the water is
boiling, the steel surface at X is hot while the plastic handle at Y is cool. Explain why.
[2]
(c) Before the water reaches boiling point, water vapour is seen escaping from the
boiler.
(i) State the name of the process that produces this water vapour. [1]
(ii) State two differences between this process and boiling [2]

10. Fig.10.1 shows a refrigerator.

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Figure 10.1
Inside the pipes in the ice-box, a liquid boils and takes in latent heat. The gas
condenses in the pipes at the back of the refrigerator and thermal energy (heat)
leaves through the black metal fins.
(a) (i) Explain how the ice box at the top of the refrigerator keeps the whole of the food
compartment cool.
(iii) Explain why the fins are black.
[4]
(b) A plastic ice tray has 16 sections filled with water. When placed in the ice box, the water
freezes to form ice cubes. Each section contains a mass of 20 g of water that is initially
completely liquid at a temperature of 0 °C. The specific latent heat of fusion of ice
is 330 J/g.
(i) Calculate the amount of energy that must be taken from the tray of water to
enable all the water in the tray to become ice at 0 °C.
(ii) State why the heat capacity of the plastic tray does not affect the answer to (i).
(iii) The ice box takes energy from the water at a rate of 30 W. Estimate the time
taken for all the water in the tray to become ice. [6]

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