PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (ES), JEDDAH

MOCK EXAMINATION 2020-21

CANDIDATE NAME: STUDENT ID: Grade: Y9-…….

PHYSICS 0625/41
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Paper 4 Structured Questions March 2021
1 hour 15 minutes
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it on the printed copies as well.
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Take pictures of each loose sheets very carefully and clearly.
Upload the pictures in a single PDF file and turn it in within the 2 7
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TYPED EXAM PAPERS will NOT be accepted.
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At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely 5 6

together and keep it safe to be submitted to the school
afterwards. 6 4

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Answer all questions.
Electronic calculators may be used. 8 10
You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if you do
not use appropriate units. 9 6
Take the weight of 1 kg to be 10 N (i.e. acceleration of
free fall = 10 m / s2). 10 8

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G.Total 80
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This document consists of 17 printed pages including the cover page.

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1 A laboratory technician has ten pieces of plastic, all cut from the same thin sheet.

The technician wishes to find the thickness of a piece of plastic as accurately as possible.

(a) Name the instrument that should be used.

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(b) Describe how the instrument should be used to find the thickness.

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2 A student wishes to find the volume of a piece of wood of irregular shape. Her experiment requires
the use of a small brass object of mass 400 g.

(a) Calculate the volume of the brass object. The density of brass is 9.0 g / cm3.

volume = ...........................................................[2]

(b) To find the volume of the piece of wood, the student has a measuring cylinder, a supply of
water and the brass object in (a). The piece of wood and the brass object are small enough to
be placed in the measuring cylinder.

(i) The piece of wood does not sink in water.

Suggest why.

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(ii) Describe what the student does to find the volume of the piece of wood, stating the
measurements that she makes and any calculations required.

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[Total: 7]
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3 Fig. 3.1 shows the speed/time graph for a car travelling along a straight road.

The graph shows how the speed of the car changes as the car passes through a small
town.

35

D
30
speed
m/s
A
25

enters leaves
20 town town
here here

15

B C

10

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
time / s

Fig. 3.1

(a) Describe what happens to the speed of the car

(i) between B and C, .....................................................................................................

(ii) between C and D. .....................................................................................................

(iii) between A and B, .....................................................................................................

[1]
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(b) Calculate the distance between the start of the town and the end of the town.

distance = ................................................ [3]

(c) Calculate the acceleration of the car between C and D.

acceleration = ................................................ [3]

(d) State how the graph shows that the deceleration of the car has the same numerical
value as its acceleration.

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[Total: 8]
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4 (a) An object is moving in a straight line at constant speed. A resultant force begins to act upon
the object.

State the ways in which the force may change the motion of the object.

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(b) State one other effect a force could have on the object.

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(c) The mass of a car is 1800 kg. The car, initially at rest, is moved along a level road by a
resultant force of 4000 N. The car reaches a speed of 28 m / s.

(i) Calculate the average acceleration of the car.

acceleration = ...........................................................[2]

(ii) Calculate the time for which the force is applied.

time = ...........................................................[2]

(iii) State the name of a force which opposes the motion of the car.

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[Total: 8]
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5 Fig. 5.1 shows the load-extension graphs for two springs, A and B.

25
load / N
20
spring A
15
spring B
10

0
0 10 20 30 40
extension / mm

Fig. 5.1

(a) Determine the extension of spring A for a load of 10 N.

extension = .................................................. mm [1]

(b) State which spring is easier to stretch and give a reason for your answer.

spring ........................................................................................................................................

reason .......................................................................................................................................

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(c) A different spring is suspended from the edge of a bench, as shown in Fig. 5.2.

bench

spring
19.7
cm pin

43.9
cm

metre rule load = 6.0 N

100 cm mark 100 cm mark

Fig. 5.2 Fig. 5.3

With no load on the spring, the pin points to 19.7 cm on the metre rule, as shown in Fig. 5.2.
When a load of 6.0 N is attached to the spring, the pin points to 43.9 cm, as shown in Fig. 5.3.

(i) Calculate the extension of this spring for a load of 6.0 N.

extension = .................................................... cm [1]

(ii) Describe how a student could use the equipment in Fig. 5.2 to obtain accurate readings
for a load-extension graph for this spring.

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[Total: 6]
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6 (a) State why force is a vector quantity.

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(b) A 40 N force and a 15 N force act at the same time on an object of mass 14 kg.

Calculate

(i) the maximum possible force on the object due to these two forces,

force = ................................................................. [1]

(ii) the acceleration caused by a resultant force equal to this maximum force.

acceleration = ................................................................. [2]

[Total: 4]
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7 Fig. 7.1 shows two railway trucks on a track.

5.0 m / s

buffer truck B truck A

5000 kg 6000 kg track

Fig. 7.1

Truck A of mass 6000 kg is moving at 5.0 m / s. It is approaching truck B of mass 5000 kg, which is
stationary.

(a) Calculate the momentum of truck A.

momentum = ................................................................. [2]

(b) The trucks collide, their buffers compress and then they bounce off each other, remaining
undamaged.

After the collision, truck B has a momentum of 27 000 kg m / s.

(i) Determine the impulse applied to truck B.

impulse = ................................................................. [2]

(ii) The trucks are in contact for 0.60 s.

Calculate the average force on truck B.

force = ................................................................. [2]

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(iii) Calculate the final speed of truck A.

speed = ................................................................. [3]

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8 (a) State the two conditions which must be true for an object to be in equilibrium.

condition 1 ................................................................................................................................

condition 2 ................................................................................................................................
[2]

(b) Fig. 8.1 shows a uniform metre rule PQ in equilibrium.

10 cm 40 cm
P Q

pivot

0.40 N

Fig. 8.1

The distance PQ is 100 cm. The mass of the metre rule is 0.2 kg and its weight is W .

(i) On Fig 8.1, draw and label:

1. an arrow to show the force W acting on PQ at the centre of mass

2. an arrow to show the force R acting on PQ at the pivot.

[2]

(ii) By taking moments about the pivot, calculate F.

F = ........................................................ [4]

(iii) Calculate R.

R = ........................................................ [2]

[Total: 10]
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9 (a) Name the process by which energy is released in the core of the Sun.

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(b) Describe how energy from the Sun becomes stored energy in water behind a dam.

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(c) Data for two small power stations is given in Table 9.1.

input to power station output of power station

gas-fired 100 MW 25 MW

hydroelectric 90 MW 30 MW

Table 9.1

(i) State what is meant by the efficiency of a power station.

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(ii) Use the data in Table 9.1 to explain that the hydroelectric station is more efficient
than the gas-fired power station.

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[Total: 6]
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10 (a) The boxes on the left contain the names of some sources of energy. The boxes on the
right contain properties of some sources of energy.

Draw two straight lines from each box on the left to the two boxes on the right which describe
that source of energy.

renewable

solar energy
not renewable

polluting
natural gas

not polluting

[2]

(b) Coal-fired power stations are polluting.

State an advantage of using coal as a source of energy.

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(c) A coal-fired power station generates electricity at night when it is not needed.

Some of this energy is stored by pumping water up to a mountain lake. When there is high
demand for electricity, the water is allowed to flow back through turbines to generate electricity.

On one occasion, 2.05 × 108 kg of water is pumped up through a vertical height of 500 m.

(i) Calculate the weight of the water.

weight = ...........................................................[1]
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(ii) Calculate the gravitational potential energy gained by the water.

energy gained = ...........................................................[2]

(iii) The electrical energy used to pump the water up to the mountain lake is 1.2 × 1012 J.
Only 6.2 × 1011 J of electrical energy is generated when the water is released.

Calculate the efficiency of this energy storage scheme.

efficiency = ...........................................................[2]

[Total: 8]
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11 The front views of two cars are shown in Fig. 11.1, to the same scale.

family car racing car

Fig. 11.1

(a) Suggest which car has the greater stability, and give two reasons.

car .............................................................................................................................................

reason 1 ....................................................................................................................................

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reason 2 ....................................................................................................................................

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(b) The cars have the same weight.

Study Fig. 11.1 and suggest why the stationary racing car exerts less pressure on the ground.

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(c) The family car’s tyres each have an area of 0.012 m2 in contact with the ground.

The weight of the car and its contents is 9600 N.

Calculate the pressure exerted by the car on the ground.

pressure = ......................................................... [2]

[Total: 5]
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12 A manometer containing a liquid X, is used to measure the pressure of a gas supply.

Fig. 12.1 shows the manometer.

gas
supply

liquid X

Fig. 12.1

Atmospheric pressure is 9.9 ×x 104 Pa.

(a) The height h is 0.36 m. The density of liquid X is 840 kg / m3.

Calculate

(i) the pressure due to a column of liquid X of height 0.36 m,

pressure = .......................................................... [2]

(ii) the pressure of the gas supply.

pressure = .......................................................... [1]

(b) The pressure of the gas supply stays constant.

Describe what happens to the liquid levels when

(i) the liquid X is replaced by the same volume of a liquid of greater density,

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[Total: 5]