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1. Which of the following is a vector 4. Item 4 refers to the lamps below.

quantity?
(A) (C)
(A) Mass
(B) Density
(C) Moment
(D) Momentum
(B) (D)

2. Which arrangement gives the greatest

resultant force acting on the block?

(A)
The most stable lamp is

(A) P
6N 6N (B) Q
(B)
( ) (C) R
(D) S

(C) 2N
5. Which of the following is MOST
~ )
suitable for measuring the diameter of a
4N
wire?

(D)
_____6_N~,~ __~-----6~~ (A) Metric rule
(B) Tape measure
(C) Vernier calipers
3. Which of the following is a non- (D) Micrometer screw gauge
renewable energy source?
6. Which of the following is the correct SI
(A) Biomass
unit for pressure?
(B) Wind
(C) Natural Gas (A) Joule (J)
(D) Sun (B) Pascal (Pa)
(C) Newton-metre (Nm)
(D) Newton per metre (Nm-I)
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7. A vehicle with a uniform velocity of 11. Acceleration can be defined as the
10ms-1 is represented by which of the rate of change of

XL
following graphs?
(A) velocity
(A)X~ (B)
(B) energy
10 10 (C) momentum

L
5 5 (D) displacement

(C)X
10
5
0.5 1.0 t

(D) XL
10
5
0.5 1.0 t
12. Which of the following does the
pressure of a fluid depend?

I. The depth of the fluid

II. The density of the fluid
0.5 1.0 t 0.5 1.0 t III. The acceleration due to
gravity
8. Which of the following is NOT a vector (A) I only
quantity?
(B) II only
(A) Mass (C) I and II only
(B) Force (D) I, II and III
(C) Velocity
(D) Acceleration 13. The period of a simple pendulum
depends on

9. Force is directly proportional to (A) The length of the string

(B) The mass of the bob
(A) velocity (C) The initial displacement
(B) acceleration CD) The stop watch used
(C) displacement
(D) momentum 14. An aeroplane is travelling at a
constant speed at an altitude of
1000 m above sea level. Which of
10. A cyclist riding down a hill applies
the following is TRUE?
his brakes and eventually comes to
rest at the bottom of the hill. Which of
(A) Its kinetic energy is increasing
the following energy changes takes
place? (B) It has kinetic energy only
(C) It has potential energy only
(A) Potential ~ kinetic (D) It has both potential and
(B) Potential ~ kinetic ~ heat kinetic energy
(C) Kinetic-s potential ~ heat
(D) Potential ~ kinetic ~ chemical
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15. Which of the following is TRUE of a 18. When liquid in a puddle evaporates its
body in equilibrium. temperature changes. How does the
temperature of the liquid change and
I. The sum of the forces in one why?
direction is equal to the sum
of the forces in the opposite Temperature Reason
direction less energetic
II. The sum of the clockwise molecules leave
forces is equal to the sum of (A) decreases the liquid
the anti clockwise forces more energetic
III. The sum of the clockwise molecules leave
moments is equal to the sum (B) decreases the liquid
of the anticlockwise moments less energetic
molecules leave
(A) I only (C) Increases the liquid
(B) II only more energetic
(C) I and III only molecules leave
(D) I, II and III (D) increases the liquid

16. 400 kg of methylated spirit occupies a

volume of 0.50 nr'. What is its
density? 19. Which scientist successfully showed the
relationship between heat and
(A) 8 x 102 kg m-3 mechanical work?
(B) 8 x 10-2 kg m"
(C) 2 x 102 kg m" (A) Joule
(D) 1.25 x 10-3 kg m-3 (B) Einstein
(C) Rumford
(D) Watts
17. What is the gain in gravitational
potential energy of a body of weight
2000 N as it rises from a height of 20
m to a height of 25 m above the
earth's surface?

(A) 400 J
(B) 1 000 J
(C) 10000 J
(D) 20000 J
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20. A thermostat used in a domestic iron is 23. Bubbles of gas rising from a scuba
made from a bimetallic strip comprising diver below the surface of the sea
of a strip of iron and a strip of brass as increase in size as they rise to the
shown below. surface. Their size increase is because

I--------------i( brass
(A) Water pressure on the
decreases
bubbles

Iron (B) Water pressure on the bubbles

lllcreases
(C) Atmospheric pressure on the
The strip is heated and the brass bubble decreases
expands more than the iron. (D) Atmospheric pressure on the
The shape the strip becomes: bubbles increases

(A)
24. The clinical thermometer is designed so
that it is very sensitive to small changes
in temperature.

(C) (D) glass bulb bore

I Which of the following features should
it have?:

(A) A thick-walled bulb and a

wide bore
21. The name given to the amount of (B) A thin walled bulb and a wide
energy needed to raise the temperature bore
of lkg of iron by 1 K is (C) A thin-walled bulb and a
narrow bore
(A) latent heat (D) A thick-walled bulb and a
(B) heat capacity narrow bore
(C) specific latent heat
(D) specific heat capacity
25. In a Y ouTube video, Mr. Lee and his
students heat a metal drum which is
22. Sharon painted half the roof of her dog then capped and dumped into a tub of
cold water. The video shows that the
house white and the other half black.
She noticed that the half painted black drum is crushed.
dried quicker than the half painted
The gas law that BEST explains this
white.
observation is due to
The property that BEST explains why
the half painted black dried quicker is
(A) Boyle's
that dark bodies are better
(B) Charles'
(C) Pressure
(A) insulators.
(D) Combined Gas
(B) heat absorbers
(C) reflectors of heat
(D) conductors of heat
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26. An electronic air conditioner 28. Item 28 refers to the following table.
maintains the temperature of the
PressurelkPa Volume/em"
inside of an office building at 24°C.
1.0 40
Which of the following measures
could noticeably reduce the electricity
1.3 30
bill?
The table shows two pairs of readings
I. Reducing the temperature to
taken from an experiment to investigate
21°C
Boyle's law. Which of the values
II. Hanging curtains at the window
below is MOST likely to be the
III. Painting the roof of the building
measured pressure if the volume is
with aluminum paint
reduced to 20 cm3?
(A) I only
(A) 0.5 kPa
(B) I and II only
(B) 1.6 kPa
(C) II and III only
(C) 1.9 kPa
(D) I, II and III
(D) 2.3 kPa

27. Item 27 refers to the diagram below.

29. Lightning is seen several seconds
before thunder is heard because

(A) thunder is produced after the

80°C 60°C 40°C 20°C lightning
p Q R s (B) light can pass through a vacuum
In the diagram above, P, Q, Rand S but sound cannot
are identical containers containing (C) the speed of light is much faster
water of masses m, 2m, 3m and 4m than the speed of sound
respectively at the temperatures (D) sound is reflected by the clouds
indicated. Which of the following several times before it reaches
must lose the most energy to cool
the ear.
down to 10 ° C?

(A) P
(B) Q 30. The list of electromagnetic waves in
(C) R order of DECREASING wave length is
(D) S
(A) Xrays, ultraviolet, infrared,
microwaves
(B) Xrays, infrared, ultraviolet,
microwaves
(C) Microwaves, ultraviolet, infrared,
x rays
(D) Microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet,
x-rays.
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Item 31 refers to the following diagram Item 34 refers to the following diagram

r \ a, centre

Principle focus

34. From the diagram above, a real image

is produced with a converging lens
31. A ray of light passes from paraffin into when the object is located
air at an angle of incidence of 28°. If the
refractive index of paraffin is 1.44, the (A) At F only
value of sin XO is . (B) At 2F only
1.44
(C) Between F and infinity
(A) (D) Between the optical centre and
sin28°
(B) 1.44 x sin 28°
Sin 28°
(C) 35. When Young's Double Slit
1.44
1.44 experiment is conducted, it is
(D)
sin62° expected to show

(A) That light can bend

Item 32 refers to the following diagram
(B) A series of dots on a screen
(C) That light travels in a straight
line
~ (D) Interference patterns on a
I II III screen
32. Which shows a ray of light passing
through a diverging lens? 36. "Pitch" and "loudness" refer
respectively to
(A) II only
(B) I and II only (A) Amplitude and frequency
(C) I and III only (B) Frequency and amplitude
(D) I, II and III (C) Wavelength and speed
(D) Speed and wavelength

33. The refractive index for light

traveling from air to glass is

speed oflight in glass

1.
speed of light in air
wave length of light in air
II.
wave length oflight in glass
frequency oflight in air
III.
frequency of light in glass

(A) II only
(B) I and II only
(C) II and III only
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Item 37 refers to the following diagram. Item 39 refers to the following diagram,
which shows two resistors, R1= 6.0 0 and Rz
= 4.00, in parallel.
, (

R) (6.00)

R2 (4.00)

1.8 A

~ ~I'FE~ ~
II

39. What is the current in RJ if the current

in Rz is I.8A?

5m
(A) 1.2 A
(B) 1.8 A
37. A lady faces a plane mirror which is (C) 2.7 A
5.0 m away from her. She views the (D) 3.0 A
image of a vase, which is 0.5 m in
front of her. How far from her is the
image of the vase? 40. A transformer was connected to a
100 V supply and the output measured
and found to be 10 V, 0.5 A. The
(A) 4.5 m
primary current was
(B) 5.5 m
(C) 9.0 m
(A) 0.005 A
(D) 9.5 m
(B) 0.05 A
(C) 0.5 A
(D) 5.0 A
38. A transmitter emits radio waves of
frequency 750 kHz. If the velocity of
electromagnetic waves is 3 x 108 m S-I,
Item 41 refers to the truth table below
what is the wavelength of the
transmission?
A B C
0 0 1
(A) 200 m
0 1 1
(B) 250 m
(C) 400 m 1 0 1
(D) 800 m 1 1 0

41. The logic gate that gives the above

output is

(A) OR
(B) AND
(C) NOR
(D) NAND
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42. If in a transformer, N s is greater than 47. For a radioactive substance with a

Nr, then the transformer is a particular half-life, as time increases,
the radioactive substance
(A) Smoothing transformer
(B) Step - up transformer (A) vanishes
(C) Alternating transformer (B) increases
(D) Step-down transformer (C) decreases
(D) remains constant

43. Which of the following quantities is

48. What did the Geiger-Marsden
constant in a parallel circuit?
experiment establish as being present
(A) Current in the atom?
(B) Voltage
(C) Resistance (A) Electrons
(D) Power (B) Nucleus
(C) Neutrons
(D) Electrical forces
44. A magnetic field can be used to
deflect the path of
49. The atomic number and the mass
(A) ~-rays number of an atom are 50 and 120
(B) y- rays respectively. This means that in the
(C) X-rays atom there are
(D) Light rays
(A) 120 protons
(B) 120 neutrons
45. Which of the following scientists (C) 70 protons and 50 neutrons
discovered the relationship E = me'? (D) 50 protons and 70 neutrons

(A) Marie Curie

(B) Isaac Newton 50. On Sunday, the corrected count rate
(C) Albert Einstein of a radioactive source was 240
(D) Ernest Rutherford counts per second. Exactly two days
later, the count rate had fallen to 120
counts per second. After exactly four
more days (on Saturday), the count
46. For any TWO consecutive elements rate in counts per second was
in the periodic table the first element
has one less (A) zero
(B) 24
(A) proton (C) 30
(B) electron (D) 60
(C) neutron
(D) neutrino
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51. When a polythene rod is rubbed with 54. Fleming's left hand rule associates a
a cloth, it becomes quantity with each finger shown in
the diagram below. The correct
(A) Positively charged by losing ORDER of the quantities labelled i,
electrons ii and iii is
(B) Positively charged by gaining
protons
(C) Negatively charged by losing
electrons
(D) Negatively charged by gaining
electrons

52. The role of a transformer in an (A) Current, Force, Field

electrical circuit is to (B) Field, Current, Force
(C) Field, Force, Current
(A) alter the voltage (D) Force, Field, Current
(B) alter the frequency
(C) convert alternating current to
direct current
(D) convert direct current to
alternating current

53. Which of the following materials are

conductors?

1. Wood
II. Gold
III. Graphite

(A) I and II only

(B) I and III only
(C) II and III only
(D) I, II and III
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55. A student requires a circuit to Item 56 refers to the following circuit.

measure the resistance of a
resistor. Which of the circuits
R
\
below is correctly connected?
\ \

1----1111-------1
(A) T

)
!------(Al------( Q

(B)
56. In the circuit shown above, which lamps
will be lit when the switch is closed?

(A) R only
(B) T, Q and R
(C) T and Q only
(C)
(D) T and R only
,'-------l
Item 57 refers to the following diagram
l----{ V I-------i which shows a coil carrying a current and
wrapped around wooden cylinder.
y

(D)
X_I t=
,-......

'=
L
~•

=
r +
~
I·
z

57. Which row of the table below shows the

magnetic field directions at x, y and z?

(A)
.,.__
x
_. y
.,.__
z

_._. .,.__.,.__ .,.___.

(B)
(C)
(D)
__.. _. __..
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60. The radioactive decay of an isotope of

~ 58. Which of the following is NOT Radon is represented by the equation
TRUE when a magnet is moved
I relative to a coil?

The values of a and b are respectively

I. The greater the number of
turns in the coil, the smaller a b
the induced e.m.f. (A) 216 88
II. The faster the magnet moves (B) 216 84
relative to the coil, the greater (C) 220 84
the induced e.m.f. (D) 220 83
III. The stronger the magnetic
field, the greater the induced
e.m.f.

(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) II and III only

Item 59 refers to the diagram below.

59. In the electric field diagram above

the charges labelled A and Bare

(A) Positive and positive

(B) Negative and positive
(C) Negative and negative
(D) Positive and negative