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1. A ball is thrown upwards.

What effect does the force of gravity have on the ball?
A It produces a constant acceleration downwards.
B It produces a constant acceleration upwards.
C It produces a decreasing acceleration upwards.
D It produces an increasing acceleration downwards.
2. The object in the diagram is acted upon by the two forces shown.
What is the effect of these forces?
3. A tennis player hits a ball over the net.
In which position is the ball accelerating?

A P and Q only
B P and R only
C Q and R only
D P, Q and R
4. Two identical measuring cylinders containing different liquids are placed on a simple
balance. They balance as shown.
How does the density of X compare with the density of Y?

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6.
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7. A car accelerates along a road as it rises uphill.
Which energy changes are taking place?
8.
9. A child pushes a toy car along a level floor and then lets it go.
As the car slows down, what is the main energy change?
A from chemical to heat

B from chemical to kinetic
C from kinetic to gravitational (potential)
D from kinetic to heat
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10. A person uses chemical energy to run up some stairs.

She stops at the top of the stairs.
What has the chemical energy been converted to when she is at the top of the stairs?
A kinetic energy and gravitational energy

B kinetic energy and strain energy
C gravitational energy and heat energy
D strain energy and heat energy
11.
12. Which line in the table correctly describes whether the molecules of a solid, liquid and gas
are moving or stationary?
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13. The pressure of a fixed mass of gas in a cylinder is measured. The volume of the gas in the
cylinder is then slowly decreased.
Which graph could show the change of pressure of the gas during this process?
14. The diagram shows a simple mercury barometer, used to measure atmospheric pressure.
Atmospheric pressure increases.

What happens to the level L and to the pressure at P?
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15. A cupboard is placed in front of a heater. Air can move through a gap under the cupboard.
Which line in the table describes the temperature and the direction of the air that moves
through the gap?
16.
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17. The diagram shows a section through a series of waves on water.

Which dotted line shows the position of the still water surface after the waves have passed?
18. The diagram shows plane waves reflected by a plane surface.

Which line represents a wavefront?
19. The diagram shows a water wave in a ripple tank.

Which line represents a wavefront?
20. A ray of light in water is incident on the surface. The angle of incidence is much smaller
than the critical angle.
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21. Sound waves travel from a point X to another point Y.
22. A student wishes to measure the speed of sound in air. She plans to measure the time
between making a sound and hearing the echo from a cliff.
23. The diagram shows a microphone being used in an interview.
Which energy change takes place in the microphone?

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25.
In the diagram, the distance OP is the focal length of the lens.
Through which point will the ray shown pass, after refraction by the lens?
26. Why are the electric lamps in a house lighting circuit normally connected in parallel?
A The current in every circuit must be the same.
B The lamps are always switched on and off at the same time.
C The voltage across each lamp must be the mains voltage.
D When one of the lamps blows, all the others go out.
27. A mains electrical circuit uses insulated copper cable and the cable overheats.
To prevent the cable overheating, how should the cable be changed, and why?
A Use thicker copper cable which has less resistance.
B Use thicker insulation which stops the heat escaping.
C Use thinner copper cable which has more resistance.
D Use thinner insulation which allows less heat to escape.
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28. When the circuit shown is connected with switch S open, the 6 V lamp glows.
What happens to the brightness of the lamp when switch S is closed?

A It becomes brighter.
B It remains the same.
C It becomes dimmer.
D It goes off.
29. The diagram shows a lamp in a circuit.

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31.
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33. The circuit shown in the diagram contains an unknown component X, hidden in a box.
The voltage-current graph for X is as shown.
What is the component X?

A a diode
B a closed switch
C a metallic resistor
D an open switch
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34. The diagram shows a battery connected to three identical resistors. Four ammeters A, B, C
and D are connected in the circuit.
Which ammeter shows the smallest reading?
35.
36. Which line in the table shows the structure of the nucleus of a helium atom
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37. A sample of radioactive isotope is decaying.

The nuclei of which atoms will decay first?
A impossible to know, because radioactive decay is random
B impossible to know, unless the age of the material is known
C atoms near the centre, because they are surrounded by more atoms
D atoms near the surface, because the radiation can escape more easily
38. The diagram shows an experiment to monitor the radiation from a radioactive gas. The
counter readings are corrected for background radiation.
The table shows how the counter reading varies with time.
39. A radioactive element has a half-life of 70 s.
40. A scientist needs to use a source of γ–rays as safely as possible.

Which action will not reduce the amount of radiation that reaches the scientist?

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1. A ball is thrown upwards.

What is the effect of these forces?

3. A tennis player hits a ball over the net.

In which position is the ball accelerating?

How does the density of X compare with the density of Y?

7. A car accelerates along a road as it rises uphill.

Which energy changes are taking place?

A from chemical to heat

10. A person uses chemical energy to run up some stairs.

A kinetic energy and gravitational energy

Atmospheric pressure increases.

17. The diagram shows a section through a series of waves on water.

18. The diagram shows plane waves reflected by a plane surface.

19. The diagram shows a water wave in a ripple tank.

21. Sound waves travel from a point X to another point Y.

23. The diagram shows a microphone being used in an interview.

Which energy change takes place in the microphone?

What happens to the brightness of the lamp when switch S is closed?

29. The diagram shows a lamp in a circuit.

What is the component X?

37. A sample of radioactive isotope is decaying.

39. A radioactive element has a half-life of 70 s.

40. A scientist needs to use a source of γ–rays as safely as possible.

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