Get Fit Physics: Spring Holidays 2011

Have a go at these questions. Follow the plan I have given you so that your study workload will not
be too much.

1) A search helicopter flies 300km due east
from its base then 400km due south.
The complete journey takes 5 hours.
Find the helicopter`s
a) Displacement from its base.
b) Average speed
c) Average velocity
2) A student measures the acceleration of gravity.
She records the following results in ms-2
9.72, 9.83, 10.52, 9.67 and 9.82
Calculate
a) The mean value of the acceleration
b) The random error in the measurements

3) A car travelling at a velocity of 12ms-1 4) The acceleration time graph of a moving object
accelerates at 3ms-2 for a distance of is shown below
200m.
Calculate the velocity of the car at the
end of the 200m

5) An aerosol can has an internal pressure

of 200kPa at a temperature of 20C.
Find the internal pressure when the
temperature is raised to 75C
Draw the corresponding velocity time graph for
the moving object`s acceleration

6) Find the time it takes for a sandwich to 7) Using the kinetic model of gases explain what
fall to the ground from the Leaning happens to the pressure of a gas inside a sealed
Tower of Pisa which is 55 metres high. container if the gas is heated and its
Assume no air resistance temperature increases.

8) A motion sensor draws a graph from the data

of a cart that accelerates from rest at 4ms-2 for
2 seconds and then its acceleration changes to
-2ms-2 for 2 seconds

a) Sketch the velocity time graph of the cart

for the four seconds of its journey.

b) Find the displacement of the cart after

its 4 second journey.
9) A footballer kicks a ball towards a brick wall 26 metres away with a velocity of 20 ms-1 at an angle of 30O
to the horizontal.
a) Calculate the horizontal and vertical components of the ball`s velocity
b) Find the time it takes for the ball to reach the wall.
c) How high up the wall will the ball strike?

26m

10) Calculate the work done ( energy 11) A cuboid of solid carbon dioxide has a volume of
transferred ) when a 5 Coulomb charge is 2.5 cm3. When heated it changes completely into a gas.
moved between the electric plates shown
Calculate the volume of carbon dioxide gas produced

200V 350V

12) Four identical resistors of 2Ω are connected as shown.

Calculate the total resistance of each combination.

13) The electric circuit shown has two 8 ohm 12V 8Ω

resistors in parallel connected in series
with a 16 ohm resistor and a 12 volt
dc supply with negligible internal resistance. 8Ω

a) Calculate the total resistance of the circuit. 16Ω

b) Find the current in the circuit.
c) Find the pd across the 16Ω resistor

14) A container full of air has a mass of 370.58g.
Some of the air is squeezed out of the container
into an upturned flask.
The volume of squeezed out air equals 1687cm3.
The mass of the container is measured again and
found to have a mass of 368.72g.
Calculate the density of the air in g/cm3.
15) A battery has an emf of 12 volts and an
internal resistance of 1.5 ohms.
a) Explain what is meant by an emf of 12 V
b) Find the short circuit current which
would flow if the terminals of the battery
were connected by a piece of copper
wire.
16) Calculate the refractive index of the material 17) Two identical speakers are connected to
shown: 20O the same signal generator.
At position P the second minimum is heard
from the central maximum.
Find the wavelength of the sound.
15O P
2.00m

2.60m

18) A force of 36N is applied to two boxes on a 19) A 5kg parcel accelerates down a slope of
frictionless table. angle 30O to the horizontal. The parcel has
a) What is the acceleration of both boxes? a frictional force of 4.5 N acting on it.
b) What force does the 4kg box give to the a) Calculate the component of the
8kg box? parcel`s weight acting parallel to the
c) What size of force does the 8kg block slope
exert on the 4kg block? b) Find the unbalanced force acting on
the parcel and its acceleration.
36N
8kg
4kg
O
30

20) An AC supply is connected to an oscilloscope.

The settings for the volts/division and the time base 3
are shown on the controls.

a) Find the peak voltage of the AC supply. Volt/div

b) Find the rms voltage of the AC supply
5
c) Show that the frequency of the AC supply
is 50 Hz.

ms/div

21) A laser beam is passed through a diffraction grating which has 500 lines per millimetre.
A second order maximum fringe is found at an angle of 41O from the central maximum.

41O
Laser
grating

a) Calculate the wavelength of laser light used.

b) What two changes to the above set up would make the interference dots move further apart?
22) Light of frequency 5.08 x 1014 Hz ejects
photoelectrons with a maximum kinetic energy of
4.5 x 10-20 Joules from a metal`s surface.
a) Calculate the work function of the metal
b) What effect on the photoelectron`s
maximum kinetic energy would doubling the
irradiance of the light make.
23) The irradiance of a point source of light at a
distance of 10cm is 64 Wm-2
Calculate the irradiance when the distance
from the point source of light is increased to
40cm

24) Find the total pressure which acts on the top 25) Write down the equivalent units for the
surface of submarine which is at a depth of 300m following:
in sea water which has a density of 1,200kgm-3 a) Joule per coulomb
b) N m
Atmospheric pressure at the surface is equal c) N/m2
to 1 x 105 Pa. d) Coulomb per volt
e) Coulomb per second

26) The graph shows the force which acted on an object of

mass 2kg over a time of 4 seconds.
Initially the object was at rest before the force was applied.

a) Calculate the change of momentum from the graph

b) The final velocity of the object.
c) Calculate the impulse given to the object.
d) Find the average force given to the object.

27) An electron of charge 1.67 x 10-19C passes
through a potential difference of 6kV before it
hits a radar screen.
a) Calculate the kinetic energy of the electron
just before it strikes the screen.
b) If the mass of the electron is 9.11 x 10-31kg
find its speed just before it strikes the
screen.
28) A car of mass 1000kg travelling at 8ms-1 crashes
into a stationary car of mass 800 kg.
a) If both cars stick together after the crash
find the velocity of the combined cars
immediately after the crash.
b) Show by calculation that the crash is
inelastic.

29) A student built an electric circuit to find the internal

resistance of an electric cell.
She obtained the graph of terminal potential difference
against current taken from the cell.
a) Draw the circuit the student built.
b) Find the emf of the cell from the graph
c) Calculate the internal resistance from the graph
d) Find the short circuit current from the cell.
e) What is meant by the short circuit current?
30) A ship is pulled by two tug boats as shown in the 31) A football is inflated with air at
diagram below pressure 1.9 x 105Pa at a
40kN
temperature of 17C
30O a) The ball is left in the sunshine till the
30O temperature of the air increases to 40C.
40kN Find the new air pressure inside the ball
Calculate by scale drawing the resultant force b) Explain the rise in pressure using the
acting on the ship due to the two tug boats. kinetic theory of gases.

32) A student builds the circuit shown to study the charging

of a capacitor through a resistor.
a) What is the initial current when the switch is 6V
closed?
b) What is the initial pd across the capacitor when A
the switch is just closed.
c) What is the energy stored in the capacitor when
the pd across the resistor is 2.5V? 200Ω 2000μF

33) The refractive index for the glass prism is 1.53 for blue light
and 1.51 for red light. White light is shone through the prism.
a) Which colour, blue or red, travels faster through
the prism. Justify your answer.
b) If P and Q represent the ends of the visible 30O
xO
spectrum which letter represents the red part.
c) Calculate angle xO. P
d) The prism is replaced by a grating write down the
Q
two main differences which appear on the screen
between the prism and grating.

34) An electron makes a transition from 35) A ball is kicked into the air. At a certain time in its
energy level EO to E2 by absorbing the flight the velocity vectors are shown.
energy of a photon of light. 30ms-1
-19
E2=- 2.5x10 J
a) Calculate the
E1= -3.0x10-19J 40ms-1
wavelength of
the photon. EO= -4.5 x 10-19J Calculate the ball`s speed at
this instant.

36) The graph shows the velocity time graph of a trolley which is pushed
up a slope with initial velocity 4ms-1

a) Calculate the distance the trolley went up the slope.

b) Draw an acceleration time graph for the trolley`s motion up to 7s
c) Explain what happens at 4 seconds into the trolley`s journey.
Planning Chart for Spring Break Study
Date Questions to do Confident/Not confident
Monday 4th April 1,2 & 3
Tuesday 5th April 4, 5 & 6
Wednesday 6th April 7, 8 & 9
Thursday 7th April 10, 11 & 12
Friday 8th April Assignment 10 (Hand In)
Saturday 9th April 13, 14 & 15
Sunday 10th April 16, 17 & 18
Monday 11th April 19, 20 & 22
Tuesday 12th April 23, 24 & 25
Wednesday 13th April 26, 27 & 28
Thursday 14th April 29, 30 & 31
Friday 15th April 32, 33 & 34
Saturday 16th April 35 and 36

Tips
 Set aside one whole hour each day
 Have your notebooks and study guides to look up how to do the questions.
 Be prepared to write down which questions you want Mr Mallon to go over.
 Use my website www.helpmyphysics.co.uk or Edmodo to ask if you are stuck.
 Answers and some selected solutions will be published on the website/blog.
 Also use your study guide to prepare the Nuclear atom section for returning
 This fortnight is vital to use your time wisely. This is the time when you can win your Higher
Physics pass.
 Dont study for long periods. Break up the day with the rest of your Highers taking regular
breaks and adding rewards to yourself if you finish tasks.
 Best of luck from Mr Mallon. I wish you all the best for your Spring Break Study.