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Candidate Name

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, BOTSWANA

in coltaboration with
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS SYNDICATE
Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education
PHYSICS 0571/3
PAPER 3
Wednesday 25 OCTOBER 2000 Morning 1 hour 15 minutes

Candidates answer on the question paper.

Additional materials:
Electronic calculator and/or Mathematical tables
Protractor
Buler (30cm)

TIME t hour 15 rninutes

INST'RUCTI ONS TO CANDI DATES

Write your narne, Centre number and candidate number in the spaces at the top ofthis page.
Answer all questions.
Write your ailswers in the spaces provided on the question paper.

IN FSHMATISN FO FI CANDIDAT'ES
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ]at the end of each question FOH EXAMIh,IEH'S USE
or part question.
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This question paper consists of 16 printed pages.

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(bi Two of the springs used above are arranged in series as shown in Fig. 1.3.

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Determine the extension that is produced by a 6.0 N load'

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3 A fisherman who can paddle at 4 km/h in still water, heads a canoe due north. The nraier is iExamna,s
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moving at a steady speed of 2 km/h due east. j

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{a} the magnitude of the resultant velocity of the canoe,

velocitY =

{bi the angie of travel oi the canoe relative to I'lorth.

angle of ti'avel =
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4 A morula fruit, initially at resi, falls freely frorn a tree.

(ai Oalculate the velocity cf the fruit 1.0 s after it starts to fall.
(The acceleration of free falt = I O m /s2.)

velocity = .............. ."..."......12)

(b) The fruit takes 2.0 s to hit the ground. Calculate the distance the fruit falls before hitting
the ground.

distance = ..t21
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(d) A plastic bottte is completely filled with 200 cm3 o{ water at 0'C. The bottle is closed and
placed into a freezer. The density of water is 1.0 g/cnr3

(ii Calculate the mass of the water.

ITISSS = ....;..-.........'.

(ii) Calculate the heat given out by the water as it turns to ice at 0'C' (The specific
tatent heat of fusion of ice = B40J/9.)

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heat given o$t ='.'-...'-.',-...'-....."'

{iii} Explain why tire plastic bottle ntay burst as the water freezes,

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Fig. 7.i shows a systenr in which one circuit A, coniiols another circuii B,
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(a) When switch S is closed the lamp L lights. Describe how'the system works to Iight
lamp L.

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{h} $witch s is opened and a capaciior is ccnne+ted beiween

x and Y.

(ii On Fig. 7.1, drau+ a capacit*r betv"+en pcints X and Y'

{ii} $tate rvhat happens to the capacitor ir.,hen switch s is closed.

(iiii What now happens to lanrp L when switch S is opened?

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Cu iciilaie the poiential difiet'enc* $.c rcts

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! tJ A raclioactive sample has a iraliliie of 4.0 ciays'

(a) (;) $tate what is meani by the term half'life.

(li) Name the three tVpes o1 radiation that may be emitted by the radioactive sarnple.

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(iii) What fiaction of the sample is left undecayed atter 12 days?

fraction = ............-,.........."'.....-.....i1 ]

(iv) The sample ccntains 12 x 1 023 nu';iei.

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(v) Sketch a Eraph showing l"row the number of atoms in the sample changes with time
using the axes belov;.
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and &4['atan angle 6from each othei'

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(b) Dpavrr a diagram ta show how a prism can be used to harre the
a$ the nrinors in Fig. 11-1.
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