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PREMIER EDUCATION SOCIETY’S

TRINITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (IGCSE – A LEVEL)
MOCK TEST – I

Prepared on the basis of Model paper of:

Cambridge IGCSE
Cambridge Assessment International Education

PHYSICS

Paper 4 Theory (Extended)

0625/04

5TH OCTOBER 2020

1 hour 15 minutes

Candidates answer on the Question Paper.

No Additional materials are required.

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use an HB pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid.

Answer all questions.

Electronic calculators may be used.

You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if you do not use appropriate
units.
Take the weight of 1.0 kg to be 10N(acceleration of free fall = 10m/s2)
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [] at the end of each question or part
question.

This document consists of 11 printed pages.

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1. A train of mass 5.6 × 105 kg is at rest in a station.
At time t = 0 s, a resultant force acts on the train and it starts to accelerate
forwards. Fig. is the distance-time graph for the train for the first 120 s.

(a) (i) Use Fig. to determine:

1. the average speed of the train during the 120 s

average speed = _________________________________ [1]

2. the speed of the train at time t = 100 s.

speed = _____________________________ [2]

(ii) Describe how the acceleration of the train at time t = 100 s differs from the
acceleration at time t = 20 s.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(b) (i) The initial acceleration of the train is 0.75 m / s .
2

Calculate the resultant force that acts on the train at this time.

resultant force = __________________________ [2]

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(ii) At time t = 120 s, the train begins to decelerate.
State what is meant by deceleration.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
[Total: 8]
2. (a) State two properties of an object that may be changed by the action of forces.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(b) A chest expander is a piece of equipment used by athletes in a gym. Fig. 2.1
shows a chest expander that consists of five identical springs connected in
parallel between two handles.

Each spring has an unstretched length of 0.63 m.

Two athletes are stretching the chest expander by pulling on the two handles in
opposite directions.
(i) The springs obey Hooke’s law.
Explain what is meant by this statement.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(ii) Each athlete pulls the handle towards himself with a force of 1300 N.
1. State the tension in each spring.

tension = ____________________________ [1]

2. The chest expander stretches and each spring is now 0.94 m long.
Calculate the spring constant k of each spring.

k = ____________________________ [2]
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(iii) State the energy changes taking place as the two athletes use their
muscles to stretch the chest expander.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
[Total: 9]
3. Fig. shows a shooting competition, where air rifles fire soft metal pellets at
distant targets.

When an air rifle is fired, it exerts an impulse of 0.019 N s on the pellet.

(a) Define impulse.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
(b) The pellet has a mass of 1.1 × 10 kg.–4

Determine:
(i) the speed with which the pellet leaves the rifle

speed = ____________________________ [2]

(ii) the kinetic energy of the pellet as it leaves the rifle.

kinetic energy = __________________________ [3]

(c) The pellet melts when it strikes the target.
Describe how the molecular structure of the liquid metal differs from that of the
solid metal.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [3]
[Total: 9]
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4. (a) (i) In the space below, draw a labelled diagram of the structure of a
thermocouple thermometer. Include the device from which a reading is taken.

[3]
(ii) A thermocouple thermometer is used to measure the temperature of the
flame of a small candle.
State two reasons why the thermocouple thermometer is suitable for this
application.

1._____________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

2._____________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(b) State and explain any effect on the sensitivity of a liquid-in-glass thermometer
of:
(i) reducing the diameter of the capillary tube

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(ii) increasing the volume of the liquid-filled bulb.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
[Total: 9]
5. (a) Fig. shows a syringe containing 100 cm3 of air at atmospheric pressure.
Atmospheric pressure is 1.0 × 105 Pa.
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The open end of the syringe is sealed and the piston is pushed inwards until the
air occupies a volume of 40 cm3. The temperature of the air remains constant.
Calculate the new pressure of the air in the syringe.

air pressure = .____________________________ [2]

(b) A syringe is used to transfer smokey air from above a flame to a small glass
container. Extremely small solid smoke particles are suspended in the air in the
container. The container is brightly illuminated from the side and viewed
through a microscope
(i) The movement of the suspended smoke particles is called Brownian motion.
Describe this Brownian motion.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(ii) Explain what causes the motion of the smoke particles.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(c) In the space below, sketch a diagram to represent the molecular structure
of a solid. Show the molecules as small circles of equal sizes.

[2]
[Total: 8]
6. Water at a temperature of 16 0 C enters an ice-making machine and emerges
as ice cubes at a temperature of –5 0C. The melting point of ice is 0 0 C.
(a) Calculate the total energy removed from 1.0 kg of water as it cools from 16 °C,
changes into ice, and then cools to –5 0C.

energy = __________________________ [3]

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(b) Using ideas about molecules,

(i) explain why energy is needed to change ice into water,

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
(ii) suggest why less energy is needed to change ice into water than to change
the same mass of water into steam.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [1]

[Total: 5]
7. The fluorescent tube shown in Fig. 5.1 converts electrical energy into light more
efficiently than a filament lamp.

In the gas inside the tube, both light and ultra-violet radiation are produced.
There is a fluorescent coating on the inside surface of the tube.
(a) Explain the purpose of the fluorescent coating.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(b) State the name of one region of the electromagnetic spectrum with
wavelengths shorter than ultra-violet radiation.

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
(c) The ultra-violet radiation inside the tube has a wavelength of 3.6 × 10 –7
m.
Calculate the frequency of the ultra-violet radiation.
(speed of light = 3.0 × 108 m / s)

frequency = ____________________________ [2]

[Total: 5]
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8. Light enters a glass fiber from air at an angle of incidence of 620. The angle of
refraction in the glass is 360
(a) The speed of light in air is 3.0 × 108 m / s.
Determine the speed of light in the glass fiber.

speed = ___________________________ [4]

(b) Describe how glass fibers are used in communications technology

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [3]
[Total: 7]
9. (a) A wire carrying a current in a magnetic field experiences a force due to the
current. On Fig., insert the words current, field and force in the boxes to
show the relative directions of the current, the magnetic field and the force.

[1]
(b) Fig. shows a current-carrying coil ABCD in a magnetic field.

The moment is increased by using a stronger magnetic field.

State two other ways to increase the moment.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
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(c) Fig. shows a rotating magnet in an alternating current generator that is used to
power a lamp.

The generators at a power station produce a voltage of 25 000 V. This voltage

is stepped up to 400 000 V by a transformer for long-distance transmission on
overhead power lines. The voltage is later stepped down to 240 V.
(i) State and explain why the voltage is stepped up for long-distance
transmission.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
(ii) Calculate the ratio of the number of turns in the primary coil of the step-up
transformer to the number of turns in its secondary coil.

ratio = _________________________________ [1]

(iii) State one advantage and one disadvantage of using thicker wire in the
overhead power lines.

advantage: _________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________

disadvantage: _________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [2]
[Total: 8]
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11. Fig. shows a sphere that is negatively charged. The sphere is attached to a
plastic stand.

(a) On Fig., draw arrows to indicate the pattern and direction of the electric field in
the region surrounding the sphere. [2]
(b) A smaller, uncharged metal sphere S is suspended by a plastic thread and
brought close to the negatively charged sphere. Fig. shows the two spheres.

(i) By drawing on Fig., indicate the distribution of charge on S. [2]

(ii) State what happens to S.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
[Total: 5]
12. An atom of one isotope of sodium contains 11 protons, 13 neutrons and 11
electrons.
(a) (i) State the nucleon number (mass number) of this isotope.

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
(ii) Explain why the number of protons is equal to the number of electrons in a
neutral atom

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
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(b) At the start of an experiment, the count rate due to a sample of this isotope of
sodium is found to be 1200 counts per minute. This is shown on Fig. 11.1 by a
point plotted at time t = 0.
The half-life of this isotope is 15 hours.
(i) On Fig. draw a smooth line to show how the count rate is expected to
change between t = 0 and t = 30 hours. [3]

(ii) Explain why readings taken in an actual experiment may not follow a
smooth line.

_______________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________ [1]
(iii) Determine the count rate due to this isotope 30 hours before the start of
the experiment

count rate = ___________________________ [1]

[Total: 7]
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