SIXTH FORM

SECOND TERM EXAMINATION 2018

LOWERS

TIME: 2.0 H DATE: 5 -3-2018

PHYSICS INTERMEDIATE

PLEASE NOTE:
 only the official paper provided by College can be used for your answers or rough work.
 no notes or books are allowed in the exam room.
 no pencil cases can be carried in the examination room; only transparent plastic bags are
allowed.
 switch off mobile phones and hand them over to the invigilator. Students found in
possession of mobile phones or other unauthorized electronic equipment throughout the
duration of the exam will receive no mark.
 students caught copying will obtain no mark for the exam.
 except for emergency reasons, no one is permitted to leave the exam room during the
first half hour.
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Answer ALL questions.

1.

35o

A dune-buggy of mass 800 kg is pulled along a horizontal stretch of sand at constant velocity by
a cable attached to a winch. The cable is at 35o to the ground.
(i) Draw a diagram showing all the forces acting on the buggy, treating the reactions at the
wheels as a single upwards force.
(ii) The tension in the cable is 4000N. Find the horizontal resistive force opposing the buggy’s
motion, at this constant speed.
(iii) Resolve vertically to find the combined reactions at the wheels.
(3, 4, 3 marks)

2. A particular driver has a reaction time of 0.2 seconds. She is driving a car at 40 ms-1 when she sees an
obstacle in the middle of the road ahead.
(a) What is the distance travelled at constant velocity before the driver starts to brake?
(b) The car comes to a stop 3 seconds after the driver presses the brake pedal.
Assuming a uniform braking force, sketch a labelled velocity-time graph for the whole motion.
Insert all known values.
(c) The driver manages to stop just before hitting the obstacle. Use the graph in (b) to find the initial
distance of the obstacle from the car.
(2, 4, 4 marks)
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 3. The graph in the figure below shows how the extension of a steel rod changes as the rod is loaded to
a maximum tension of 1200N. The steel rod is 0.50 m long and has a cross-sectional area of 3.00 mm2.
Tension /N 1400

1200

800

600

400

200

0
0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 Extension /mm

(a) Define Young’s modulus and give its units. (3 marks)

(b) Determine the maximum stress in the rod. (2 marks)
(c) Determine the maximum strain. (2 marks)
(d) Calculate the Young’s modulus for steel. (3 marks)

4. Two cars A and B are travelling round a circular track as shown. At the moment shown the cars are
travelling alongside each other.
(a) Car B travels at 7 ms-1 and completes one circular lap in 20 s.
What is the radius of the circular path of B?
(b) Car A travels in an outer circular path whose radius is 10m
A BBB larger than that of B.
At what speed should car A travel to maintain the same
periodic time as B?
(c) The mass of each car is 1000 kg. Find the frictional force
between wheels and track required to keep each car
moving along its respective path.
(3, 3, 4 marks)

5. An arrow of mass 50 gram is fired at 80 ms-1 into a wooden block of mass 3 kg at rest on an ice surface,
and becomes embedded in it.
wooden block
arrow of mass 3 kg
(a) Find the velocity at which the arrow and
block move off together, stating the
o principle used.
frictionless ice surface

(b) While the block with the embedded arrow is moving away with the speed found in (a), a second similar
arrow is again fired at 80 ms-1 and embeds in the moving block. Find the new velocity.
(3+2, 5 marks)
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6.

(a) A sledge of mass 200 kg, with a man and his load of combined mass 80 kg on it, is pulled by six dogs
across the snow. Each dog exerts a force of 20 N, and the track may be assumed frictionless.
(i) If the sledge starts from rest, what will be the velocity when it has moved 15m on level ground?
(ii) What is the kinetic energy acquired at this point?
(3, 1 marks)
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(b) After travelling 15m on level ground, the sledge now moves up a slope at an angle of 5 to the
horizontal, while keeping the same speed as before.
(i) Assuming no frictional resistance, find the force which the dogs must now exert to keep the
sledge moving at this speed.
(ii) Find the combined power of the dog team up the slope at this constant speed.
(4, 2 marks)

7. A string of original length 0.450 m and cross-sectional area 2 mm2, has a sphere of mass 3 kg attached
to one end. The sphere is made to rotate on a frictionless table, with the string horizontal, such that
the sphere traces out a circle of radius 0.451 m, with a speed of 1.5 ms-1.
(a) Find the force in the string. (3 marks)
(b) Find the stress in the string. (2 marks)
(c) Find the extension, and hence calculate the strain in the string. (3 marks)
(d) Hence find the Young’s modulus of the string material. (2 marks)

8. (a) In the equation :

x = 1/2 K1 t2 + K2 t
x is a distance in metres, t is the time in seconds, K1 and K2 are constants.
Find suitable units for K1 and K2.
(3, 3 marks)
(b) (i) Using the equation : Work = Charge x Voltage
express the unit of Voltage, ie the Volt, in basic units.
(Charge = Current x Time)
(4 marks)

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9. Answer this question using the graph paper provided.

During an experiment with a loaded spring, a student obtained various values for the time taken
for 10 oscillations of the spring when different masses were added to it.

0.1 13.0
0.2 17.3
0.3 21.7
0.4 25.7
0.5 27.9
0.6 31.1

In theory, the period of a loaded spring varies with the mass attached to it according to the equation

where is a constant for the particular type of spring used.

Squaring both sides of this equation we get that:

which is in the form of a line

(a) Copy the table and complete the values for and .
(6 marks)
(b) Plot the graph of in the against in the .
(8 marks)
(c) Find the gradient of the resulting line.
(3 marks)
(d) Use the gradient to find the value of .
(3 marks)

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