NAME: _______________________________________________________ ADM.

NO: _________

ST. PHILIPS WERA MIXED SECONDARY SCHOOL

PHYSICS FORM TWO

CAT 1 TERM ONE 2023

TIME: 1HOUR.

- Write your name and admission letter in the spaces above.

- Answer all the questions in this paper in the spaces proved.

1. Explain why liquid and not gas is used as a machine hydraulic fluid. (1mark)

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2. State one way of increasing sensitivity of mercury in glass thermometer. (1mark)

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3. When ice is melted, the temperature remains constant until all the ice is melted. Explain this
observation. (1mark)

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4. State kinetic theory of water. (1mark)

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5. State two ways of improving surface tension. (2marks)

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6. Explain why trucks which carry many heavy loads have many wheels. (1mark)

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 7. The figure below represents a simple fire alarm, explain how it works. (3marks)

8. Explain why a wire gauze is placed below a beaker while heating in it. (1mark)

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9. The mass of density bottle of volume 50cm3 is 15.0g when empty. Aluminium turnings are poured
into the bottle and the total mass is 65.0g. water is then added into the turnings till the bottle is
full. If the total mass of the bottle and its contents is 95.0g, calculate the density of the aluminium
turnings. (if density of water is 1000kgm-3) (4marks)

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 10. The figure below shows a clinical thermometer which is not graduated.

Name the parts indicated with letters A and B. (2marks)

A: ________________________________________

B: ________________________________________

11. Explain why gas container with thick glass walls is more likely to crack than one with a thin wall
when a very hot liquid is poured onto them. (2marks)

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12. The figure below shows apparatus used to observe the behavior of smoke particles in smoke cell.

a) Explain what is observed. (1mark)

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b) Explain what happens if the temperature was raised. (1mark)

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13. State two disadvantages of anomalous expansion of water. (2marks)

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14. Differentiate between heat and temperature. (2marks)

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15. A faulty mercury thermometer reads 100C when dipped into melting ice and 900C when on steam
at normal atmospheric pressure. What would this thermometer read when dipped into a liquid at
200C. (3marks)

16. State two characteristics of thermometric liquids. (2marks)

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SUCCESS!
END.

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