MARIAN GIRLS’ AND BOYS HIGH SCHOOLS

FORM FIVE CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT TEST, FEBRUARY 2024

PHYSICS 2

Time: 3 Hours 5th February 2024

Instructions
1. This paper consists of six (𝟔) questions.
2. Answer any five (𝟓) questions.
3. Each question carries twenty (𝟐𝟎) marks.
4. The following information may be useful:
(a) Acceleration due to gravity, g = 9.8 m/s 0
(b) Ratio of specific heat capacities, γ = 1.4
(c) Density of air ρ5 = 1.3 kg/m8
(d) Density of air ρ9 = 1.3 kg/m8
(e) The coefficient of viscosity of water η = 1 × 10=8 Pa s
(f) Surface tension of water γ = 0.072 N/m
(g) Young modulus of steel YD = 2 × 10EE Pa
(h) Young modulus of brass YF = 1 × 10EE Pa
(i) Bulk modulus of copper B = 3.6 × 10EE Pa
(j) Shear modulus of lead 𝜇 = 5.6 × 10EE Pa
(k) Coefficient of linear expansivity of copper is α = 8 × 10=L ℃=E
(l) Pie, π = 3.14

QUESTION QUESTION CHOSEN FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY

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1. Define the following terms as applied in dynamic fluid
(a) (i) Irrotational flow 𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) Incompressible fluid flow. 𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(b) (i) What is Reynold’s number? and hence otherwise explain the state of fluid
using the appropriate Reynold’s number. 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) The flow rate of water from a tap of diameter 1.25 cm is 3 litres per minute.
Give the type of liquid flow 𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(c) (i) One of the applications of Bernoulli’s theorem is the action of Atomizer or
sprayer. Explain how this device is used to disperse perfume into a fine spray
of droplets. 𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) The reading of a pressure meter attached to a closed pipe is 2.5 × 10] Nm=0 .
On opening the valve of the pipe, the reading of the pressure meter reduces
to 2.0 × 10] Nm=0 . Calculate the speed of water flowing through the pipe.
𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(d) The pulmonary artery which connect the heart to the lungs has an inner radius
of 2.6 mm and is 8.5 cm long. If the pressure drop between the heart and the
lungs is 3 × 108 N/m0 ,
(i) what is the average speed of the blood in the pulmonary artery? 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) Determine the volume flow rate of the blood. 𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

2. (a) (i) Teflon is coated on the surface of non-sticking pans. Explain why 𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) What makes water-proof rain coat water-proof? 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(iii) Explain why smearing of glycerin over the glass window prevents rain drops
from sticking to it? 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(b) (i) A tube of conical bore of length 10 cm is just dipped inside the water. The
diameters of upper and lower ends are 0.004 cm and 0.006 cm respectively.
Calculate the height to which the water rises in the tube and its radius at that
height. 𝟕 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) Two soap bubbles A and B are blown. What will happen to the bubbles of
the stop cokes SE and S0 are opened keeping stop coke S8 closed given that
A > B. 𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
SE S8 S0

A B

3. (a) Brief explain the following phenomenon as related to surface tension

(i) A drop of oil place on the surface of water spreads out but a drop of water
placed on oil contracts. 𝟐. 𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

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 (ii) Molecules on the surface of water have more potential energy than those in
the interior. 𝟐. 𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(b) (i) There is a soap bubble of radius 0.2 mm in an air cylinder which is originally
at a pressure of 2 × 10] Pa. The air in the cylinder is now compressed
isothermally until the radius of the bubble is halved. Calculate the pressure
of air in the cylinder is now compressed isothermally until the radius of the
bubble is halved. Calculate the pressure of air in the cylinder. 𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) A small drop of clean water is squeezed between two glass plates so that a
very thin layer of large area is formed. If the thickness of water film is
10=L m and the surface area of it is 4 × 10=8 m0 . Find the force required to
separate the glass plates. 𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

P5

P d

P5

(iii) A glass U − tube is inverted with open ends of the straight limbs of diameters
0.5 mm and 1 mm respectively below the surface of water in the beaker. The
air pressure in the upper part is increased until the meniscus in one limb is in
the same level with the water outside. Calculate the difference in height
between the two limbs. 𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

4. (a) A light rod of length 2 m is suspended from the ceiling horizontally by means
of two vertical wire of equal length tied to its ends. One of the wires is made of
steel of cross-sectional area 10=8 m0 and the other wire is of brass of cross-
sectional area 2 × 10=8 m0 . Find out the position along the road at which a weight
may hung to produce,
(i) equal stresses 𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) equal strains 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(b) A road AD consisting of three segments AB, BC and CD is hanging vertically from
a fixed support A. The lengths of the segments are respectively 0.1 m, 0.2 m and
0.15 m. The cross sectional of the rod is uniformly 10=h m. A weight of 10 kg is
hung from D. Calculate the displacement of points B, C and D. Neglect the weight
of the road. Given, the Young modulus of segment AB, Yij = 2.5 × 10Ek Pa, the
Young modulus of segment AB, Yij = 4.0 × 10Ek Pa and the Young modulus of
segment AB, Ylm = 2.5 × 10Ek Pa. 𝟕 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(c) Calculate the pressure required to stop the increase in volume of copper block
when it is heated from 50 ℃ to 70 ℃. 𝟔 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

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5. (a) (i) Explain why steel is more elastic than a rubber material 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) Why are bridges declared unsafe after long use. 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

(iii) Sketch the graph of stress versus strain of a rubber material and explain the
significance of the loop formed. 𝟒 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(b) (i) A square lead slab of side 50 cm and thickness 5 cm is subjected to
shearing force (on its narrow face) of magnitude 9 × 10h N the lower edge
is riveted to the floor. How much is the upper edge displaced? 𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) Calculate the increase in energy of a brass bar of length 0.2 m and cross-
sectional area 1 cm0 when compressed with a force of 49 N along its length.
𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

6. (a) (i) State Gay Lussac’s law 𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬

(ii) At what temperature will the root mean square velocity of hydrogen
molecules be doubled of its value at N. T. P? 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(b) (i) State three assumptions of kinetic theory of gases 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) Use the law of equipartition of energy and degree of freedom to show that
for diatomic molecules the ratio of specific heat capacities, γ = 1.4
𝟓 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(c) A container of volume 0.3 m8 contain 2 moles of helium gas at 20 ℃. Assuming
the helium behaves as an ideal gas
(i) Find the total internal energy of the system. 𝟑 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(ii) What is the average kinetic energy per atom? 𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬
(iii) Determine the r. m. s speed of the atoms. 𝟐 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬