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O-LEVEL
PHYSICS BANK QUESTIONS, 2019

INSTRUCTIONS:
This paper consists of  several  questions.
Designed as Bank Questions for O-level Physics
For comments and suggestions;
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PART A; Numerical Questions: 

1.  (a) (i) The relative density of brass is 8.5. What does this statement mean?
(ii) Describe or give a theoretical argument in support of the Principle of Archimedes. OR
(iii) How can you verify the Archimedes principle? Briefly explain.
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(b) A cube of glass, of 5cm side and of mass 306g, has a cavity inside it. If the density of glass is 2.55g/cm , what is the
volume of the cavity?
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(c) A buoy of volume 40 litres and mass 10kg is held in position in sea water of density 1.04g/cm  (1.04kg/litre) by a
light cable fixed to the bottom so that ¾ of the volume of the buoy is below the surface of the sea water.
(i) Name the three forces that keep the buoy in equilibrium and state the direction in which each acts.
(ii) Determine the tension in the cable.
(d) A block of wood of mass 100g floats in water. What volume of it is below the surface? If this volume is half the
volume of the wood, what is the density of the wood?
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Answers; 50cm , 212N, 100cm , 0.5g/cm  

2.  (a) Explain the significance of the following features of common liquids in thermometer
i.  the thin walled bulk
ii.  a very fine bore
iii.  thick walled stem with a bulge in glass down one side
(b)  Which part of electromagnetic wave spectrum would you use for the following purpose?
i.  Making a piece of toast
ii.  Getting a good suntan
iii.  Treating cancer
iv.  Finding out if you have a broken leg.
(c)  Explain briefly the effects that would happen if:
i.  A tall house in areas of much thunderstorms wire not installed with lighting conductor.
ii.  A large capacitor was not there in an induction coil.

3.  (a) (i) Explain as far as you can the difference between heat and temperature 
(ii) State two properties of matter which could enable it to be used for measuring temperatures.
(b) Give the reasons for the following features of a clinical thermometer,
i.  the bulb is small,
ii.  it is a long cylinder and not spherical,
iii.  the bulb is made of thin glass,
iv.  the capillary is of very small cross-section area,
v.  there is a constriction in the capillary.
(c) (i) State one advantage and one disadvantage of using alcohol and mercury for thermometers. Givethree reasons
why water is unsuitable as a thermometric liquid.
(ii) Give three reasons why mercury is a suitable liquid f or use in a thermometer.
(iii) Suggest one way in which the design of a thermometer may be modified so as to increase its sensitivity.

4.  (a) (i) Explain briefly the principle of the simple mercury barometer.
(ii) Describe how you would use a simple barometer to measure the atmospheric pressure.
(iii) What are the objections to the use of water as the barometric liquid?
(b) If the reading of a mercury barometer is 75.58cm at the base of a mountain and 66.37cm at the summit, what is
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the height of the mountain? (Given, density of mercury = 13600kg/m , average density of air = 1.25kg/m )

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Search (c) (i) What is meant by the term pressure? Explain the fact that when someone uses his thumb to push a drawing-pin
into a block of wood, the pressure on the wood is greater than the pressure on the thumb.
(ii) How would the flow of liquid differ if the bottle had contained mercury in place of water? Give reasons.
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(d)  A uniform vertical tube, 40cm long sealed at the upper end, is lowered into mercury until the length of the
enclosed air column is 35cm. find the depth of immersion of the tube if the atmospheric pressure is 77cm of
mercury.
Answers; 1000m, 16cm
5.  (a) (i) Define the volt , the watt and the kilowatt-hour. 
(ii) Explain how a fuse wire inserted in an electrical circuit protects the rest of the circuit against excessive current.
(iii) Name one desirable property of the material used for the filament of a lamp and indicate the reason.
(b) If 100cm of wire were used in the heating element of a 12V, 60W heater, what length of wire of the same material
having double the cross-sectional area would be r equired for a 24V, 60W heating element, assuming that
the final temperature is the same? Answer; 800cm
(c) A hot water tank containing 40kg of water is heated by an electric i mmersion heater rated at 3 kilowatt, 240V.
Calculate;
(i) The current in the heating element,
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(ii) The time required to raise the temperature of the water from 20 C to 60 C assuming that 80% of the
heat supplied is retained by the water. (Specific heat capacity of water = 4200J/KgK)
Answers; 12.5A, 2800s

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(a) A pan contains 2.0kg of water at 0 c. A jet of steam at 100 c is passed through the water. What will be the
temperature of the water when 0.1kg of steam has condensed in it (assume no heat is lost or absorbed by
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the pan, use: Lv=2.27×10 J/kg)
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Answer; 30.5 C
(b) (i) state the factors which determine the rate of heat production in a resistance due to the passage through it of a
steady electric current.
(ii) Why a fuse is often included in an electrical circuit?
(c)  The heating element of an electric kettle, containing 1 litre of water, initially at a temperature of 20C, is
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connected to a 250V d.c supply and the water commences to boil in 9 min. if the current through the heating
element is 4A, calculate
(i)  The thermal capacity of the kettle.
(ii)  The cost involved when the price of electrical energy is Tsh.6 per kilowatt-hour. Neglect heat losses.
Answers; 2550J/K, Tsh.0.9

7.  (a) (i) what is a bimetal strip? Describe with the diagram, the action of a practical device which uses a bimetal to work.
(ii) A compound strip of brass and iron is straight at room temperature. Give a labelled diagram to show its
appearance when it is cooled.
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(b) A compound strip of brass and iron 10cm long at 20 C is held horizontally with the iro n uppermost. When heated
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from below with a Bunsen burner the temperature of the brass is 820 C and of the iron 770 C. Calculate the
difference in lengths of the iron and the brass. (Given, αb = 0.000019/K and αi = 0.000012/K)
(c) The temperature of the air in contact with a thin layer of ice which has formed on the surface of a pond is just
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below 0 C, why will it take a long time for the pond to freeze even if the air temperature falls well below
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0 C?
(d) How does the volume of a given mass of water change,
i. 
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As the water is cooled from 10 C to 0 C
ii. 
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When the water is frozen to ice at 0 C? Sketch a volume-temperature graph for the range between +10 C
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and -10 C
Answer; 0.062cm
8.  (a) (i) What are the uses of transistors, mention three.
(ii) With the aid of a diagram, explain why in forward bias, the depletion layer is narrowed and resistance is
reduced.
(b) By stating the function of each component, draw the diagram of a fully stabilized common emitter amplifier.
(c) (i) Briefly explain why a bat can fly in the dark without hitting objects?

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(ii) Why is it true that an operating motor is also a generator?
(d) (i) Describe and explain how you would charge a leaf electroscope negatively using a positively charged insulating
rod.
(ii) The negatively charged electroscope is then connected by a wire to an uncharged metal can which stands on an
insulating support. Describe what you would see and explain your observations in terms of the charge,
potential and capacitance of the system.

9.  (a) (i) What is meant by magnetic material ? Give two examples.
(ii) State the law of magnets.
(b) (i) Explain with an illustration how one can locate the position of a north-pole of a bar magnet.
(ii) Explain with an illustration how to magnetize a steel bar using electric current.
(c) (i) What is meant in magnetism by line of forces and by neutral point ?
(ii) Why can iron filings be used to plot the lines of force in a strong magnetic field, but are unsuitable if the field
is weak?
(iii) Explain why one end of a bar of unmagnetised soft iron may attract either end of a compass needle
(d) Explain the following:
(i) The sound is louder when the stem of a vibrating turning fork is held against the top of a table,
(ii) The pitch of the note from a sounding organ pipe changes as the temperature rises,
(iii)  The same note has a different quality when produced by different musical instruments.

10.  (a) (i) What is the velocity ratio of the pulley system?
(ii) If in fact, the pulley system is only 80% efficient, how much work is needed to raise the crate through the 2m,
using the pulley system?
(iii) Give two reasons why the pulley system is not 100% efficient.
(b) (i) What is meant by the components of a force? Draw a diagram to illustrate your answer.
(ii) A small trolley is set in motion on a horizontal surface by a force of 250 newtons applied by means of a rope
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inclined at an angle of 20  to the horizontal. What horizontal force may be used instead?
(c) What is meant by,
(i) The resultant of a number of forces acting at a point,
(ii) The component of a force in a given direction?
(d)  An electric lamp, of mass 900g hangs on a flex, which is pulled aside by a horizontal string until the flex makes an
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angle of 30  with the vertical. Find the tension in the string and in the flex.
Answers; 1250J, 235J, 5.2N, 10.4N

11.  (a) Explain clearly with the diagrams, the difference between a transverse and a longitudinal wave. State four ways in
which light waves differ from sound waves.
(b) Use the fact that light waves t ravel more slowly in an optically denser-medium to explain, with the aid of diagram,
the refraction of light on entering glass.
(c) (i) Explain in terms of sound waves, why a piano can be distinguished from a violin even when they are playing
notes of the same pitch.
(ii) State three ways in which two musical notes may differ from each other. Name and explain the physical factors
which cause these differences.
(iii) Explain why more than one echo may be heard from a sound made inside a large room.

12.  (a) What do you understand by convection? Describe how you would demonstrate the formation of convection
currents in a liquid.
(b) State briefly how heat transfer by radiation differs from heat transfer by conduction and convection, respectively.
(c) A thermometer having blackened bulb records a higher temperature than an ordinary thermometer when they
are both held at an equal distance fr om a fire. Explain this.
(b) Explain the following;
(i) Cork is packed between the double walls of refrigerating chambers.
(ii) Most cooking pots are made of aluminium.
(iii) Ice blocks are wrapped in paper when they are stored.

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Search (iv) Water tanks in the tropics are painted white.

(v) White clothes are worn in the Arctic in preference to dark ones. Read free for 30 days
13.  (a)(i) Explain what is meant by magnetic field  and
 and by magnetic induction. 
(ii) Describe an experiment to plot the magnetic field inside and outside
o utside of a solenoid carrying a direct curr ent, in a
plane containing its axis.
(b) Give a diagram of the lines of forces of the magnetic field in the immediate vicinity of a straight conductor and
show clearly the directions of the current and the lines of forces.
(c) Draw diagrams to show the magnetic field due to;
(i) a current in a long, straight wire
(ii) a current in a single circular turn
Indicate clearly the direction of current and magnetic field in each instance
(d) (i) Explain with the aid of a diagram, the action of an electric bell.
(ii) Describe with the aid of a diagram, the structure of an electromagnet
electro magnet and state clearly those features of its
design and use which affect its attractive force.
(e)  Draw a diagram of the magnetic field produced by a current flowing in a long
lo ng straight wire in a plane at right
angles to the wire. State a rule which gives the relation between the direction of the current and that of the field.

14.  (a) (i) The specific heat capacity of acetic acid is approximately one-half times that of water. Equal masses of water at
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20 C and acetic acid at 80 C are mixed together in an insulated cup.
cu p. What will the temperature of the
t he
mixture be at thermal equilibrium?
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(ii) An insulated container holds
holds 0.15kg of water at 85 C. How much water at 22 C must be poured into the water
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to cool it to a temperature of 60 C?
(b) Simply show that a liquid expands more than glass when its temperature is similarly increased.
i ncreased.
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(c) An iron rod is 600cm long at 0 C. It is mounted alongside a copper rod and both are always maintained at the
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same temperature. When they are heated to 100 C it is found that the difference in their lengths is the
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same as it was at 0 C. Find the length of the copper rod at 0 C. (Given, αi = 0.0000109/K and αc = 0.0000168/K.)
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Answers; 40 C, 0.046kg, 389.3cm

15.  (a) Draw a diagram to represent the structure of

o f a neutral helium atom, clearly label the components.
(b) The half-life for the β-decay of Thorium-234 is 24 days. The Physics department of the particular University College
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bought a sample of this Thorium from
fro m somewhere, on the day of despatch its activity was 4×10  Bq ( i.e 4×10  
disintegrations per second).
(i) What was the activity of the source when it arrived there in 72 days later?
(ii) What safety precautions should the suppliers have taken to ensure that none of the dock-workers could
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be harmed? (4 points) Answer; 5×10  Bq
(c) (i) The half-life of a certain radioactive substance is 57 days. Explain
Explain the meaning of this statement.
(ii) Describe an apparatus for detecting alpha-particles and explain how it works.
(iii) When alpha-particles strike a thin metal foil they are scattered. Draw a sketch of a simplified experimental
arrangement to observe such scattering.

16.  (a) (i) Define electrical resistance and resistivity. 

(ii) How would you determine the resistance of an electrical lamp while it is in use?
(b) Calculate the resistance of a 5.46m length of lead strip, 0.450cm wide and 1.25mm thick. What length of similar
strip, but made of copper, would have to be put
p ut in parallel with the lead strip for
f or the effective resistance of
of
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the combination to be 0.100Ω? (Resistivity of lead = 20.6×10 Ωm; of copper
copper = 1.72×10 Ωm.)
Ωm.)  
Answers: 0.20Ω, 65.40m 
65.40m 

17.  (a) (i) Naming its components , give a diagram showing the structure of a Leclanché cell.
(ii) State one advantage and one disadvantage of the cell and explain on what factors its internal resistance
depends.
(b) Two identical cells, each of e.m.f E v and internal resistance rΩ are joined; 
joined; 

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