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ST.JOSEPH'S SECONDARY SCHOOL-KAKINDU

UGANDA CERTIFICATE OF LOWER SECONDARY EDUCATION
END OF YEAR ASSESSMENT -2023
SENIOR THREE
PHYSICS
THEORY
P535/1
Time allowed : 2hours 30 minutes

Signature :

Materials
For this paper you must have:
 a ruler
 a scientific calculator
 a geometry set
 Your Essay must be very smart and neat

Instructions:
 Use black ink,blue or black ball-pointpen.
 Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
 Answer ALL questions
 For section B use a separate answer booklet
 Please indicate your CLASS and STREAM

Information
 There are 80 scores available in this paper.
 The scores for questions are shown in brackets.
 You are reminded of the need for clear
presentation of your responses

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 SECTION A
(Attempt all items in A and
any 2 in section B )

Question 1

In the Illustration above we are positioned in _____________ place.

Planet mercury is closest to largest______________ star in the solar system
We the human beings get energy from plants, Plants give us ___________ by means of
photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is possible because of energy from stars such as sun. what is the
main source of energy in the star.___________________________________
[Total score = 05]

Question 2
Nakkonde and Ddamulira visited the physics laboratory and they were given a metre
rule, spring, 6 (100g masses) and springs.
The experiment set up

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The obtained the data which is shown in the table below
Mass (g) Weight W (N) Extension e (cm) Extension e (m)
0 0 10 0.10
200 14 0.14
400 4 18
600 22
800 8 26 0.26
1000 30
Complete the table above correctly. Plot a suitable graph for the data above

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As a S.3 student, Help Nakkonde and Ddamulira to write the hypothesis or the best
conclusion from the experiment they did.
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[ Total score = 10]

Question 3

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Kampala city is overpopulated, as a result landlords no longer have enough place to construct
toilets so they resort a mechanism of withdrawing sewage from toilet using an instrument
which looks like the one above. What is the name of the instrument and explain Briefly how it
works also comple the Diagram showing the presence of atmospheric pressure.
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_[Total score = 05 ]

Question 4

S.1 west students were sent to the library to research and report back to their teacher about
reflection on the plane mirrors. In one of the resource book they saw a diagram below

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As the result, they were unsettled until they realised they have friends in
S.3 who could help and save the situation. In a short passage, write to
these children about nature of light reflection on a plane mirror clarify on
what is in picture
above.___________________________________________________________________
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[ Total
score = 05]
Question 5

Your relatives is seriously sick and given Intensive care unit in one of the
referral hospitals in Kampala. You visit him with prepared food in a plastic
container

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 By the time you
reach at the hospital the food is very cold and the patient refuses to eat.
Fortunately enough, There is a____________________ oven as seen in the
picture,
This instrument works on the heat radiation best described
as__________________________ waves. But these waves are bad to our lives
in that they cause genetic _____________________ and cancer which may
lead to ____________. So one way to prevent our bodies from exposure to
the radiations is by______________________________________________________.
[ Total score = 05]

Question 6.

Mr. Kirembeka Leonard was on his way to kakindu Town from

kampala.while approaching Zigoti town, his car got a problem and he took
it to the nearby garage.
The illustration below shows what took place there after.

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What name is given to the instrument above and briefly how it works.
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If the Engineer applied a force of 500N on a smaller piston of Area A1 = 2
m²
Given that area of bigger piston A2 = 6m² .
Help Mr. Kirembeka Leonard to know the mass of his car.

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score = 10]

Question7

Mr. Vicent has been used to sit on a computer for a very long period of time. Now
when he is not seated on a computer, he is always on his phone. As a result he
strains his eyes a lot to see objects that at a distance far away so in classes he is
always nearer in order to see clearly the chalk board writings . Mr.Vicent thinks he is
being be witched. With relevant illustration, help Mr Vicent to know his challenge
related to his sight. Also show him how it can be settled. { Relevant illustrations } will
easily help Mr. Vicent.

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[Total score
= 05]

Questions 8

S.3 students of St.Joseph's ss- kakindu are planning for a geography your to kigezi
highlands in south western uganda next year [2024]. Their teacher tasked them list
down some of the materials they will need in order to prepare in time. The illustration
shown below is one of the compulsory equipments they will need

The name given the vacuum is____________________________________________________________

Teacher got concerned about every child mentioning the above equipment. As a
S.3 student of physics, help the teacher to understand the importance of the
equipment.

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[Total
score =05]

SECTION B ( TOTAL SCORE =30)

 Respond to any 2 items in this section.
 Write your responses on answer sheets provided.

Situational Item 1
(You write responses in the gaps on question paper).

S.1, S.2 and S.3 students of St.Joseph's ss -Kakindu had a tour in one of
compulsory Science subjects towards the middle of July 2023. After the
tour in the evening their teacher decided to take these amazing children to
one of the shores of Lake victoria in kampala while at scene, a group of
students started throwing stones in water as the way of refreshing their
minds.When ever a stone was thrown in the water, at the point of
disturbance some thing which looks like heap of water was seen to spread
from that point onwards. This group of students was amazed. Meanwhile
they observed endless heaps of water from the far ends of the lake
approaching them all the time on the surface of the lake. These heaps
looked like the one below

Figure one.

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These children got amazed. S.1 Children started saying that this is magic.

These heaps of water that Children called magic are

called water_____________________________________________. Now a hot
argument arose S.2 and S.1 Children about the situation. One of them
realised there were some S.3 elders who could help them settle the issue
at hand.

Task: You are required to write to the children about the issue.You will do
so by carefully responding to missing gaps in the article below using the
support material in form graphical reprentation of a wave.
Figure two

In this
message to S.1 and S.2,tell them that what saw on the surface of lake victoria is a
transverse wave which is __________________________ in nature. Therefore it
transfer energy from one point to another by means of vibration of particles. It is
called so because it's particles vibrate_______________________ to the direction of
propagation of the wave. On such a wave, there are very many particles that are
vibrating. Because of vibration of particles, the water surface acts as
the___________________ for particles to transfer energy. Thus the vibration of
particles forces surface of water to be___________ up and down for energy to be
transferred. Thus water is needed as
a_______________________to transfer energy from far ends of the lake. Tell them
that on figure two, two particles are said to be in phase if they are travelling in the
____________________direction and are at the same __________________ from the rest
Therefore on the water heaps that the children saw which looks like figure 2,
particles at point X and those at__________ are in phase while those at X and P
are_________of phase. Again on figure two, the horizontal line is best described
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as________________.and the amplitude of the wave in figure two is equal to
__________________metres. It's wavelength is equal to 8 metres. Inform the children
that if wave was moving at a velocity V= 80m/s then the frequency of wave they
saw is equal to f = ____________(Hertz). Encourage the children that water wave
they saw can be studies directly in the physics laboratory using a _______________
tank.which looks like the one in the figure below.

Stress to them it is instrument that really show that water waves produced by the
dipper, observed on the screen by the help of the light from the________________
.These wave patterns move at right_____________ to the direction of propagation.
By correctly filling the missing fields, this is the right article to settle the hot
argument between your young sisters and brothers of S.1 and S.2 at beach.
[ Total Score = 15]

Situational Item 2.
During the recent months of September, October 2023 alot accidents in Uganda
were reported by different media houses. A recent accident was aired on NTV ,
BUKEDDE, NBS, TOPTV BBS and many others including Radio stations in Uganda.
This was all over the country because it engaged and claimed the life of famous
tycoon business man APOLLO NYEGAMEHE a.k.a APONYE the owner of Most
buildings in kampala such as Standard Mega supermarket, Maize millers in
Mubende. Many others people have lost their lives. There are a lot of injured
people bedridden in hospitals in Uganda. In the figure below A traffic investigator
is analyzing a crush scene of the most recent accidents along Kampala- Masala
road.

Figure 1 shows accident scene and figure 2 show one of the survivors in the
hospital.

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 Figure 1 shows a heavy trailer which was involved in collision with a stationary
van.After investigations, she reported her findings as follows:

 Trailer and it's contents had mass M1 =3000kg and it was traveling at speed.
U1 = 72km/hr , just before collision.

 The passenger van had a mass M2 = 1000kg and it was at rest

( it's speed U2 = 0 km/hr)

 The survivor in hospital as Shown in figure 2 told the media people the
following;

 The truck driver was not putting on seat belt and he was chatting on the
phone so he was severally injured as he was thrown out of the truck
through front window screen

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 The two vehicles moved together for 15 seconds a distance of 20metres
after collision before they stopped .

The BUKEDDE Media team wish to know whether the collision was elastic
or otherwise.The Velocity with which the two vehicles moved with after
collision, they also want to be informed of possible outcomes of

 Putting on the seat belts

 Not putting on the seat belts

 Driving while whatsaping

Some of them needed clarification about why the brakes were not able
to stop a heavy trailer. As a S.3 students of physics use knowledge of
momentum, linear motion and collision to write an essay to the traffic
investigator which she will use to answer the questions arising from
the media journalists. A journalist from NBS wanted a comment about
acceleration or deceleration of the two vehicles after collision. Help
the investigator to know the question asked and comment on it
correctly.

Journalists wanted know all these questions because they wanted

to report correct and right information to the public and give their
advice basing on scientific facts. [ Total score =
15]

Situational Item 3.
Finland and Japan through their embassies in Uganda announces full
scholarship to Ugandan individuals aged between 14 and 19 years. They say
that these individuals must be both Male and Female who are at Secondary
level of education. Minimum level wanted is S.3, and applicants must be in line
with physics. They give a reason that there is field of physics that has been
discovered and there are few individuals studying it available yet there are alot
of discoveries that are yet to be done. This field is astronomy.They list
benefits of this scholarship as follows;

 Successful candidate will get a free Visa, air ticket to Finland and Japan to
and fro

 This candidate will be paid $15000 every month, Free transportation while
studying, free accommodation during the study of the course, free medical
care for the time to be spent in these nations, free recreational service,
part time job in days when the lectures are off. $500 will be sent to the
family of candidate every week.

 The course of study is to last for 5 years and at end of it, all immediate
family relatives will invited to Japan and Finland for Graduation ceremony
of their child.

 They are willing to sponsor the candidate up to PHD level in Astronomy

even sponsor the candidate to the International Air Space Station for
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Internship.

They say that Eligible candidates should submit in Hand written

application letters to their embassies. Successful candidates will be
informed and later guided on next step. FEMALE APPLICANTS are at a
high chance of passing through.

Task; You are one of many students that applied and passed through. You
received a congulatory message inviting you to Finland or Japan embassy
to start the process of preparing to go for your studies in physics of space
( Astronomy).

Write a speech you would give at function at embassy hall, highlight to

them what you know so far about Astronomy. Tell them more about stars,
their life cycles and their sources of energy. Possibly prepare a power
point presentation showing life cycle of a star, galaxies and other
concepts. This will entice them and know that they chose a right candidate.

Support material:
Knowledge of Stars and galaxies.

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score = 15]

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score= 15]

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