Physics Test Answers

Part1

1) A swimmer climbs out of a swimming pool on a warm, dry day. Almost immediately he begins
to feel cold. Why is this?
Answer: D. The water takes latent heat from his body in order to evaporate.

2) The specific latent heat of vaporization of chloroform is 250 000 J/Kg. The amount of heat
required to change 100g of chloroform from liquid into vapors at its boiling points is
Answers: C. 25 000J

3) An object of mass 800g and specific heat capacity 250 J/(Kg℃) is heated. It absorbs 5300 J
of energy. What is the increase in temperature of the object?
Answer: C. 27℃

4) The time required for a single wave to pass a given point is called
Answer: B. Period

5) What is the frequency of the wave?

Answer: b.2.5 Hz

6) A ripple tank is set up as shown in the diagram below. Which of the following phenomena will
be observed?
I. Reflection
II. Diffraction
III. Interference
Answer: b ii and iii

7) A microwave oven is rated at 900 W. It is set to work at full power. How long would it take to
heat 270g of milk from 10℃ to 37℃? (s.h.c. of milk = 4200 J/KgK)
Answer: E=mct E=p*t T=E/P
E= 0.27*4200*27 T=30,618/900
E=30,618 J T=34.02s

8) A waterfall is 210 m high. The temperature of the water at the top is 10.0℃ and the
temperature of the water at the bottom is 10.5℃. Calculate the specific heat of water.
Answer: E=mgh =1kg*10*210 =2,100 j
E=mct 2,100=1*c*0.5 c=2,100/0.5 c=4,200 J/kg℃
Part 2

1) a) Suggest
i) an example of a change in state resulting from the removal of thermal energy from a
quantity material,
Answer: Condensation

2) a) ii) the effect of the change of state on the temperature of the material.
Answer: When a substance is cooled, it loses thermal energy, which causes its particles
to move more slowly and its temperature to drop.

3) b) Define the heat capacity of a body.

Answer: Quantity of heat needed to raise the temperature of a body by one degree.

4) c) A polystyrene cup holds 250 g of water at 20℃. In order to cool the water to make a
cold drink, small pieces of ice at 0℃ are added until the water reaches 0 °C and no
unmelted ice is present. [specific heat capacity of water = 4.2 J / (g °C), specific latent
heat of fusion of ice = 330 J / g]
Assume no thermal energy is lost or gained by the cup. (i) Calculate the thermal energy
lost by the water in cooling to 0 °C.
Answer: =mct =250*4.2*20 =21,100J

5) c) ii) State the thermal energy gained by the ice in melting.

Answer: 21,000J

6) c) iii) Calculate the mass of ice added.

Answer: e=mlf 21,000=m*330J/g m=21,000/330 m=63.64g

7) a) Figure below shows the surface of water in a tank.

Straight wavefronts are produced at the left-hand end of the tank and travel towards a
gap in a barrier. Curved wavefronts travel away from the gap.
(i) Name the process that causes the wavefronts to spread out at the gap.
Answer: Diffraction

8) a) ii) Suggest a cause of the reduced spacing of the wavefronts to the right of the barrier.
Answer: The gap width can be a cause but as the frequency goes up then the
wavelength of the wave gets shorter so it causes less spacing.

9) a) iii) State how the pattern of wavefronts to the right of the barrier changes when the
gap is made narrower.
Answer: The wavefronts are almost semicircular. There is a lot of spreading from smaller
circular wavefronts to bigger circular wavefronts out to all directions. More diffraction.
10) b) Fig. 7.2 shows a wave travelling, in the direction of the arrow, along a rope. 2.4 m Fig.
7.2 (i) Explain why the wave shown in Fig. 7.2 is described as a transverse wave.
Answer:Energy moves away from the disturbance and the particles are displaced
perpendicular to the direction the wave travels.

11) b) ii) The speed of the wave along the rope is 3.2 m / s. Calculate the frequency of the
wave.
Answer: f= c/wavelength
f=3.2/1.2
f=2.7hz