1. The current, I, through a resistor is measured with a digital ammeter to be 0.10 A.

The
uncertainty in the calculated value of I2 will be

A. 1 %.

B. 2 %.

C. 5 %.

D. 20 %.

2. Which of the following lists two scalar quantities?

A. emf, momentum

B. emf, weight

C. impulse, kinetic energy

D. magnetic flux, kinetic energy

3. A body accelerates from rest with a uniform acceleration a for a time t. The uncertainty in a is 8
% and the uncertainty in t is 4 %. The uncertainty in the speed is

A. 32 %.

B. 12 %.

C. 8 %.

D. 2 %.

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4. A car of mass 1000 kg accelerates on a straight, flat, horizontal road with an acceleration
a = 0.3 m s–2.
The driving force F on the car is opposed by a resistive force of 500 N.

The net (resultant) force on the car is

A. 200 N.

B. 300 N.

C. 500 N.

D. 800 N.

5. A railway engine of mass m moves along a horizontal track with uniform speed v. The total
resistive force acting on the engine is F.

Which of the following is the power of the engine?

F
A.
mv

B. Fv

mv
C.
F

v
D.
F

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6. A heater of constant power heats a liquid of mass m and specific heat capacity c. The graph
below shows how the temperature of the liquid varies with time.

The gradient of the graph is k and no energy is lost to the surroundings. What is the power of the
heater?

A. kmc

k
B.
mc

mc
C.
k

1
D.
kmc

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7. A tennis ball of mass m moving horizontally with speed u strikes a vertical tennis racket. The
ball bounces back with a horizontal speed v.

The magnitude of the change in momentum of the ball is

A. m(u + v).

B. m(u – v).

C. m(v – u).

D. zero.

8. Two objects undergo an inelastic collision. Which of the following is correct in respect of both
the conservation of momentum and the conservation of total energy of the system?

Momentum Total energy

A. conserved not conserved
B. conserved conserved
C. not conserved not conserved
D. not conserved conserved

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9. A car accelerates from rest. The acceleration increases with time. Which graph shows the
variation with time t of the speed v of the car?

10. The volume of an ideal gas in a container is increased at constant temperature. Which of the
following statements is/are correct about the molecules of the gas?

I. Their speed remains constant.

II. The frequency of collisions of molecules with unit area of the container wall
decreases.

III. The force between them decreases.

A. I only

B. I and II only

C. I and III only

D. II and III only

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11. The energy of the molecules of an ideal gas is

A. thermal only.

B. thermal and potential.

C. potential and kinetic.

D. kinetic only.

12. Which of the following is an assumption made in the kinetic model of ideal gases?

A. Molecules have zero mass.

B. Forces between molecules are attractive.

C. Collisions between molecules are elastic.

D. Molecules move at high speed.

13. The mole is defined as

1
A. the mass of an atom of the isotope carbon-12.
12

B. the amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities as the number of
atoms in 12 g of the isotope carbon-12.

C. the mass of one atom of the isotope carbon-12.

D. the amount of a substance that contains as many nuclei as the number of nuclei in 12 g of
the isotope carbon-12.

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14. The specific heat capacity c of a solid block of mass m is determined by heating the block and
measuring its temperature. The graph below shows the variation of the temperature T of the
block with the thermal energy Q transferred to the block.

The gradient of the line is equal to

c
A. .
m

m
B. .
c

C. mc.

1
D. .
mc

15. A transverse wave travels from left to right. The diagram below shows how, at a particular
instant of time, the displacement of particles in the medium varies with position. Which arrow
represents the direction of the velocity of the particle marked P?


16. Two waves meet at a point. The waves have a path difference of . The phase difference
4

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 between the waves is

π
A. rad.
8

π
B. rad.
4

π
C. rad.
2

D. π rad.

17. For a system executing simple harmonic motion, the restoring force acting on the system is
proportional to the

A. displacement of the system from equilibrium.

B. amplitude of oscillation.

C. elastic potential energy.

D. frequency of oscillation.

18. A nuclear power station produces 10 GW of electrical power. The power generated by the
nuclear reactions in the core of the reactor is 25 GW. The efficiency of the power station is

A. 15 %.

B. 35 %.

C. 40 %.

D. 60 %.

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19. An object at the end of a spring oscillates vertically with simple harmonic motion. The graph
shows the variation with time t of the displacement x. The amplitude is x0 and the period of
oscillation is T.

Which of the following is the correct expression for the maximum acceleration of the object?

2
A. x0
T

2
B. x0
T2

4 2
C. x0
T2

4 2
D. x0
T

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