Suzhou Foreign Language School

1st Monthly Class Test for IGCSE 1– October 2014

Subject: Physics

Total Marks: 100 (points) Time: 90 (minutes)

Name___________ Score___________

Part 1 Multiple Choice Questions 15 Questions (30 points)

1. The base SI unit of time is
A) hour. B) minute. C) second. D) millisecond.
2. Select the smallest value.
A) 15 × 10-1 B) 0.15 × 100 C) 0.0015 × 103 D) 0.015 × 106
3. Write the number 0.00045 in power of ten notation.
A) 4.5 × 10-4 B) 4.5 × 10-3 C) 4.5 × 10-2 D) 4.5 × 10-1
4. Write out the number 8.42 × 10-5 in full with a decimal point and correct number of zeros.
A) 0.00000842 B) 0.0000842 C) 0.000842 D) 0.00842
5. 100 mL is equivalent to which of the following?
A) 1 kL B) 10-4 L C) 0.01 L D) 100 cm3
6. How many meters is sixty kilometers?
A) 600,000 m B) 60,000 m C) 60 m D) 0.0 6m
7..There are 4 objects all with different lengths. A is 3 m, B is 302cm, C is 600mm, and D is
3 x107 nm. Which is the longest?
A. A B.B C. C D.D
8. The diagram shows one method of measuring the diameter of a beaker.

What is the diameter of the beaker?

A 4.5 cm B 5.0 cm C 5.5 cm D 8.0 cm
9. Jane wakes up at 6:15am and takes 180 minutes to get ready. Max wakes up at 8am and takes
15 minutes to get ready. John wakes up at 7:15 and takes 70 minutes to get ready. Which is the
following is true?

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A .Jane and John are ready at the same time B.Jane gets ready last
C. Max and Jane are ready before John D.Jane gets ready before John but after Max
10. Vernier calipers read to one tenth of a millimetre.
Which reading shows this precision?
A 3.3 cm B 3.31 cm C 3.310 cm D 3.312 cm
11. An engineer needs to measure the internal diameter of an object as accurately as possible.
Which tool should be used?
A stopwatch B metre rule C measuring cylinder D vernier calipers
12. The diagram shows part of a vernier scale.

What is the reading on the vernier scale?

A 6.50 cm B 6.55 cm C 7.00 cm D 7.45 cm
13. What is the reading on this micrometer?

A 5.43 mm B 6.63 mm C 7.30 mm D. 8.13 mm

14. One oscillation of a swinging pendulum occurs when the bob moves from X to Y and back to
X again.

Using a stopwatch, which would be the most accurate way to measure the time for one oscillation
of the pendulum?
A Time 20 oscillations and multiply by 20.
B Time 20 oscillations and divide by 20.
C Time one oscillation.
D Time the motion from X to Y, and double it.

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15..Fig. 2.1 shows a simple pendulum that swings backwards and forwards between P and Q.The
pendulum has a period of 2 seconds.

Which of the sentence below states the movement of the pendulum in 1 second?
A. Moving from P to R B. Moving from P to Q
C.Moving from R to Q and then from Q back to P
D.Moving from R to Q, from Q back to P and then from P back to R.

Answer Sheet
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Part 2 Structured Questions 10 Questions (70 points)
.1. Complete the table shown below:

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2.Write down the values of:
(a)1500m in km=______________________________________________________
(b) 4mm in nm=___________________________________________________
(c) 2min in s=_____________________________________________________
(d) 2m2 in cm2=___________________________________________________
(e)5cm3 in m3= ____________________________________________________[8]
3. Write the following as a power of ten with one figure before the decimal point:
(a) 0.00001=________________________________________________________
(b) 3500=__________________________________________________________
(c) 504=___________________________________________________________
(d) 0.00104=________________________________________________________[8]
4.(a)A measuring cylinder contains 100cm3 of water.20cm3 of the water is poured into
a beaker. On Fig 1.1,mark the level of water left in the cylinder.

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(b)A rule,calibrated in cm,is placed alongside the measuring cylinder,as shown in Fig.1.2.

(i)What’s the length of the measuring cylinder,from zero up to 100cm3 mark?

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(ii)Calculate the cross-sectional area of the measuring cylinder.

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[Total:5]
5. The clock on a public building has a bell that strikes each hour so that people who cannot see
the clock can know what hour of the day it is. At precisely 6 o’clock, the clock starts to strike. It
strikes 6 times. At the first strike of the bell, a man’s wrist-watch is as shown in Fig. 1.1.

When the bell strikes for the sixth time, the wrist-watch is as shown in Fig. 1.2

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(a) Calculate the time interval between the 1st strike and the 6th strike.

Time interval = ……………… s [2]

(b) Calculate the time interval between one strike and the next.

Time interval = ………………s [2]

(c) At precisely 11 o’clock, the clock starts to strike. Calculate the time interval between the 1st
strike and the 11th strike. Showing your working.
Time interval = ………………s [3]
[Total:7]

6. A Perspex container has a 6cm square base and contains water to a height of 7cm.

a. What is the volume of water?Showing your working. [3]

b. A stone is lowered into the water so as to be completely covered and the water
rises to a height of 9cm. What is the volume of the stone? Showing your
working . [3]

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7.Write “B” in front of base quantity and “D” in front of derived quantities:
_________ a. Thermodynamic Temperature ____________b. Volume
_________ c. Length ____________d. Density [4]
8.The pages of book are numbered from 1 to 200 and each leaf is 0.10mm thick. If
each cover is 0.20mm thick, what is the thickness of the book? Showing your working.
[3]

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9. Which of the following in the front box are [8]

a) units of mass?........................................................................................................
b) units of length?......................................................................................................
c) units of volume?....................................................................................................
d)units of time?....................................................................................................

10.A student decides to measure the period of a pendulum Using a stopwatch, he finds
that 3 complete swings take 3.6 seconds.
a) What’s the period of the pendulum? Calculate it.
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b). How could the student measure the period more accurately?

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11. What are the readings in figures below,showing your working. [8]

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b.

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