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paper 2 15 minutes

1.Calculate the following problems.

(a) Loudspeaker A vibrates 200 times each second. Loudspeaker B vibrates 400 times each second. What
is the frequency of the sound produced by loudspeaker A? Give the value and the unit.
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(b) A boy fires a gun and another boy at a distance of 1020 m hears the sound of firing the gun 3 s after
seeing its smoke. Find the speed of sound.

Show your working.

Working
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2. Draw two oscilloscope traces, side-by-side, to show the following:

(a) a quiet sound with a low pitch

(b) a loud sound with a high pitch. [2]

3. Nikita investigates light and coloured filters.

(a)He shines white light through a green filter and then a yellow filter.
What is the colour of the light after the two filters?

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(b)He shines white light through a cyan filter and then a magenta filter.

What is the colour of the light at A and at B?


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4. Choose the correct answers.

(a) The diagrams show two electromagnets, P and Q.

Each electromagnet has an electric current of 1 A flowing through it.


Q has stronger magnetic field than P because

A. Q has more turns of wire than P

B. each electromagnet has an electric current of 1 A flowing through it

C. Q has an iron core

Answer ……………………………….. [1]


(b) In the diagrams below, shows two magnets lying close to each other.

What will the two magnets happen?

A. attract
B. repel
C. unchanged
Answer ……………………………… [1]
(c)A student wants to find out how strong the magnetic field is by counting the number of nails it can
pick up.
The experiment with an electromagnet is repeated but the current in the coil is unchanged.
Figure 2 can attract more number of nails than figure 1 because

Figure 1 Figure 2

A. the current in the coil is unchanged


B. Figure 2 has more turns of wire than Figure 1
Answer ……………………………… [1]
5. Choose words from the list.

magnetic-field field alike opposites electromagnet

(a)The magnetic ____________ around a bar magnet is shown below.

(b)Give a reason why the two magnets in the photo will repel each other. The two poles are
_____________.

(c)What kind of magnet can be turned on and off?

___________

(d)Surrounding every magnet is a _____________ . [4]

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