The City School

Unified Mock Examination

2020
Class 11

SCHOOL NAME

EXAMINATION
DATE
ROLL NUMBER

PHYSICS 5054/42
Paper 4 Alternative to Practical 1 hour

You must answer on the question paper.

No Additional Materials are required.

INSTRUCTIONS
 Write your School Name, Examination Roll Number and Date in the spaces provided.
 Use a black or dark blue pen. You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams or graphs.
 Answer all questions.
 Write your answers in the spaces provided on the question paper.
 Do not use an erasable pen or correction fluid.
 You may use an electronic calculator.

INFORMATION
 The total mark for this paper is 30.
 The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in brackets [ ].
 You may lose marks if you do not show your working or if you do not use appropriate units.

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3. A rain-gauge is used to measure the amount of rain that falls.

Fig. 3.1 shows a typical rain-gauge.

Fig. 3.1

(a) (i) The shape of the rain-gauge causes the scale to be non-linear.
With reference to Fig. 3.1, explain what is meant by a non-linear scale.
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(ii) Suggest why this non-linear scale is useful in a rain-gauge.
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(b) On one day, the rain-gauge measures 7.5 mm of rain.
(i) On Fig. 3.1, show the level of water in the rain-gauge. [1]
(ii) A student picks up the rain-gauge to read it.
Suggest one possible source of error this causes in reading the rain-gauge.
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(c) Suggest a reason why the rain-gauge
(i) is made from a transparent material,
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(ii) has a spike.
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