SECTION A

Part 1 (Questions 1 to 13)

(84 marks)
Answer all questions in this part in the spaces provided.
1) A skater jumps off a ramp at a height of 1.0m above ground with an initial speed of
34ms-1 at 50 above the horizontal. He lands on a platform which is also at a height of
1.0m above the ground. Ignore air resistance in this question.

a) Calculate the initial vertical & horizontal speed of the skater.

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b) Calculate the time it takes for the skater to reach the platform.
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c) Determine the range of the jump.

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d) State the other launch angle that would result in the same range for the skater.
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e) Describe the effect on maximum range if the landing platform was removed.
Explain your answer.
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f) State the effect that air resistance would have on the range of the skaters jump.
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2) A vehicle moves around a banked curve without relying on friction. It experiences

two forces, F1 and F2 as shown in the diagram below. The radius of the curve is
150m.
F1

F2

a) Explain how this vehicle is able to travel around the banked curve at the correct
speed for the banking angle.
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b) Calculate the banking angle required to take the curve when the vehicle is moving
at a correct speed of 20ms-1.
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3) Two satellites, P and Q, orbit around the Earth, as shown below. The mass of earth is
M. The radius of orbit P is r and the radius of orbit Q is double the radius of orbit P.

Satellite Q
Satellite P

[Not drawn to scale]

a) Derive the formula v =

GM
for the speed, v, of satellite P with mass m and
r

orbital radius r.
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b) Calculate the ratio

speed of satellite P

speed of satellite Q
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c) Explain why the center of orbits of the satellites P and Q must coincide with the
center of the Earth.
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d) Explain the advantages of launching satellites P and Q at low-altitude equatorialorbits in a west-to-east direction.
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4) A 0.4kg ball moving at the speed of 10ms-1 bounces off the floor without any loss in
speed as shown below. The time the ball is in contact with the floor is 0.10s

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a) Calculate the initial momentum of the ball.

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b) Draw a labeled vector diagram to show the change in momentum of the ball due
to the bounce. Use the initial and final momentum vectors in your diagram.

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c) Hence show that the magnitude of the change in momentum of the ball due to the
bounce is 5 Ns.
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d) Calculate the magnitude of average force of the ball during the bounce.
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5) Below shows two identical balls of 0.5kg colliding. They remain attached after the
collision.
Before collision
12ms-1

16ms-1

During collision
F

After collision

10ms-1

a) Derive an equation expressing the conservation of momentum for the two

particles during collision.
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b) Draw a vector diagram and use it to determine the angle after collision.
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6) Two charges Q1 and Q2 are separated by a distance R, as shown below. The

electrostatic force experienced by Q1 is 16N.
Q1

Q2
R

a) Explain that the force experienced by Q2 is consistent with Newtons third law.
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b) Using proportionality, find the electrostatic force when the charge of Q1 and Q2
are both doubled and the distance R between them is also doubled.
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7) Three identical charges of +12C are nearby a shown below.

4cm
A

3cm

a) Calculate the magnitude of the electric field of each charge A and C at point B
respectively.
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b) Draw and label a vector addition diagram to show the resultant electric field at
point B.

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c) Use the diagram that you have drawn for part b) to determine the magnitude and
direction of the resultant electric field
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d) Calculate the resultant force acting on B.

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8) Below is a diagram of an infinite positively charged conductor plate.

a) Draw on the diagram above the electric field on the conductor plate.
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b) Explain there is no electric field parallel to the conducting surface.

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9) Below is a diagram of a charged conductor.

a) Describe how this conductor may ionize the air near X.

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10) Below is a diagram of a cyclotron used to accelerate an ion.

a) Explain why the cyclotron must be evacuated.

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b) The potential difference accross the dees of a cyclotron is V volts. Show that
when an proton travels around a cyclotron 5 times, its speed is given by
20eV
v=
. Here m is the mass of the ion and e is the charge of the ion.
m

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c) Derive an expression for the kinetic energy, K, of the ion when it is inside the
dees and show that it is independent of the potential difference across the dees, V.
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11) A 0.5m long wire that carries a current is placed in a magnetic field of 0.2T as shown
below. The wire experiences a magnetic force of 2N in the direction perpendicularly
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a) Draw on the diagram above, the direction of current on the wire.

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b) Calculate the current element of the wire.

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12) A proton enters into a magnetic field of 1.0T at right angles and moves in uniform
circular motion in a cyclotron. The radius of the circular motion is 1.5m.
a) Explain how the proton moves in uniform circular motion.
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b) Calculate the speed of the proton moving at a radius of 1.5m.

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SECTION A
Part 2 (questions 13 to 20)

(46 marks)
Answer all questions in this part in the spaces provided.
13) A country TV station transmits at a frequency of 6x10 7 Hz.
a) State the frequency of the receiving antennae in the country.
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b) Explain why transmissions from some country channels are polarized at right
angles to city channels.
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14) Below is a diagram showing laser light reflecting off the surface and bottom of a
body of water. The speed of the laser light traveling in water is 2.4 10 8 ms 1 .

surface
WATER
bottom

a) If the time difference between the two reflections is 2.5s, calculate the depth of
water.
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b) State two factors that would cause light losses in the laser when used in LADS.
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15) A metal with work function of 2.0eV is exposed to light of 500nm.

a) Calculate the threshold frequency required to emit electrons.
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b) Calculate the maximum kinetic energy, in eV, of the photo-electrons emitted by

the metal.
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c) If light with wavelength of 700nm is used in the same experiment,

i) describe what would happen to the photo-electrons and explain your answer.
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ii) describe what would happen if the intensity was increased. Explain your
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16) The diagram below shows a graph of Intensity versus Wavelength for x-rays
produced.

a) State 2 main features of this graph.

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b) Show that the potential difference, V, required to produce the minimum

wavelength in the graph above is approximately 3.1 10 4 V .
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17) The diagram below is a high resolution image produced by an electron microscope.

a) State de Broglies hypothesis.

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b) Calculate the de Broglie wavelength of an electron that has been accelerated by a

potential difference of 100,000V.
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c) Explain how an electron microscope is able to achieve very high resolution.

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18) A hydrogen atom has energy levels as shown in the diagram below.
-0.54
-0.85
-1.51

-3.4

-13.6

a) On the diagram above, draw one transition that corresponds to each photon
emission that falls in the ultraviolet, visible and infrared region of the
electromagnetic spectrum. Label each transition as U (ultraviolet), V (visible) and
I (infrared) respectively.
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b) State what would happen if a photon of 11eV is incident to the hydrogen atom.
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c) Determine the lowest frequency photons that are produced in the visible range.
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19) Below is a diagram of a helium-neon (HeNe) gas laser which produces laser light of
wavelengths 635nm.

a) Describe the gain medium and its purpose in the HeNe laser.
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b) State two important factors that allows laser to be used in double-slit and
diffraction grating experiments.
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c) Explain why a speckle effect is produced when this laser is reflected off a rough
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20) Below is a fission reaction
Z
U 92235 + X 01 Ba 56
+ KrA92 + 3 X 01 + energy

a) State the following unknowns:

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SECTION B
Part 1 (Question 21)
(20 marks)

Answer all questions in this section in the spaces provided.

21) A spectroscope is set up in a laboratory to analyze the frequency of light emitted from
a monochromatic source as shown in the diagram below:
Viewing Telescope

Collimator
Light source

Diffraction
Grating

A light source with a wavelength () of 650nm is analysed using this apparatus.

When observing the source through the viewing telescope, the angle, , of each
maximum intensity peak is recorded in the table below.

Order Number, m.

Angle of maximum
intensity peaks, o

Sin

3.73

65.1

7.47

130.0

11.24

194.9

15.07

260.0

18.97

325.1

22.95

389.9

27.06

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Order number multiplied

by the wavelength of the
source, m

a) Complete the table above by calculating each of the values of m to the correct
number of significant figures.
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b) On the page 12, plot the angle of high-intensity peaks observed against m and
draw a line of best fit.
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Order Number
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c) From the graph, determine the slope of the line of best fit. State the units of the
slope.
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d) Hence, calculate the slit separation, d of the diffraction grating used in the
spectroscope above.
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e) State one possible source of random error in the experiment above.

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f) Detail one method to reduce the effect of random errors in the experiment above.
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SECTION B
Part 2 (Question 22 and 23)
(30 marks)

Questions 23 and 24 are extended-response questions. Answer both questions.

Write your answers in this question booklet.

Question 22, on pages 3 and 4, is worth 16 marks.

Question 23, on pages 5 and 6, is worth 14 marks.

In answering these questions, you should:

communicate your knowledge clearly and concisely;
use physics terms correctly;
present information in an organized and logical sequence;
include only information that is related to the question.
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22) Einsteins equation for the photoelectric effect can be written as follows.
K max = hf W

Students in a laboratory have set up an experiment to study the energy of

photoelectrons emitted from a potassium plate using the concept of the photoelectric
effect. Their apparatus consists of three major components.
A light source
A set of filters
An evacuated tube containing a potassium plate and a collector electrode.
A variable DC source allows a voltage to be applied between the potassium plate and
the collector electrode. A voltmeter (Vs) measures this voltage, and a microammeter
(A) reads the current.
Their apparatus is shown in the figure below.

Explain how the three major components listed above play their part in obtaining
a reading on the microammeter (A).
Describe how the students should use the apparatus above to conduct an
experiment in order to calculate the work function (W) of the potassium plate.
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23) Students in a laboratory are studying Youngs double slit experiment using
microwaves instead of light. The microwave source emits wavelengths of = 5.0cm.
A microwave detector is moved along the line PQ to record the intensity of the
received waves.
The diagram of the apparatus is shown below:

Describe and explain the intensity recorded by the detector as it moves from point
W to Y.
Derive an expression to determine the path difference at Z. Sketch the appropriate
construction lines to aid you explanation. Hence calculate the path difference at Z
in cm.
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