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FAJAR SECONDARY SCHOOL

MID YEAR EXAMINATION 2005
SECONDARY 4 EXPRESS

Physics
Paper 2

5052/2

11th May 2004

1 hour 45 min

Additional Materials:
Writing papers
INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES
Write your name, class and register number in the spaces at the top of this page.
Section A: Write your answers in the space provided.
Section B: Answer ALL questions on the writing paper provided.
If working is needed for any question, show it in the space below that question.
Omission of essential working will result in loss of marks.
ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS MAY BE USED IN THIS PAPER.
INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.
The total of the marks for this paper is 80

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This question paper consists of 14 printed pages
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Section A (50 Marks)

Answer ALL questions in the space provided below.
Q1 Spraying crops with liquid chemical fertilizer and insecticides has become more effective by
using a portable high voltage generator which gives the drops of liquid a small positive charge
when released into the atmosphere. The plants are conductors of charges as they are all
rooted to the ground. When the droplets of liquid are approaching the plants, the plants are
slightly charged.
a) Why are the droplets of liquid spread out evenly when they are spayed into the air?
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b) How does the plant acquire charge when the droplet is approaching?
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c) Suggest two advantages, to both the farmer and environment, of adopting the above
method.
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Q2

A small generator is labeled 5 kW, 230 AC. It is used as a standby generator in the event of
a short circuit or power failure. The circuit is shown as follows,

230 V AC

The generator is connected to 30 lamps rated 60 W.

(a) Explain why the lights are all arranged in parallel?

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(b) What is the suitable fuse rating of the circuit?

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(c) If four of the lamps are blown due to contact of rain water. What is the total current
from the main?
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Q3

A syringe contains 80cm3 of trapped air at room temperature, as shown in fig 2. The piston
inside the syringe is free to move up and down. (Atmospheric pressure is 10 x 10 5 Pa).

Fig 2

(a) The piston is slowly pushed down to compress the air in the syringe. What is the
pressure required to hold the syringe if the air is compressed to 25 cm 3?
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(b)

Explain in kinetic theory of gases when a) is carried out at a higher temperature? [3]

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Q4

A car has a mass of 1300 kg and is moving along a straight and level road. Its engine
produces a force of 5000 N that pushes it forward. The car maintains this forward force
throughout the journey. There are also opposing forces that total 2000 N acting against
the car at this particular instant of travel.
5000 N

(a) State two possible sources for the opposing forces.

2 000 N

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(b) What is the resultant force acting on the car?

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(c) Calculate the acceleration of the car.

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(d) As the car moves faster, its acceleration decreases until it travels at constant speed.
When this happens, what is the value of the total opposing force?
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Q5

A ship sent a pulse of sound wave in the water. The pulse is reflected from the ocean and
returned to the ship 5 seconds later. The speed of sound in water is 1500m/s.
(a) Calculate the depth of the ocean.

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(b) How are the amplitudes for the wave from the ship and the wave that returns
different? Why is it so?

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(c) The pulse of sound wave is now sent to a sloping sea bed. What would be the result
of the return wave?
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Q6

A woodworking machine is turned using a belt-drive from an electric motor as shown in the
diagram blow. The diameter of the motor pulley is 15 cm and the diameter of the machine
pulley is 32 cm. The motor is rotating at a speed of 25 revolutions per second. Calculate

Motor

Machine

(a) the circumference of the machine.

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(b) the speed of the machine in m/s.

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(c) If the tension of the belt is 450 N, what is the moment generated onto the machine
pulley?
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Q7

(a) Plot the magnetic field between the two groups of arrangement.

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Soft Iron

(b) What are the rules that govern the flow of magnetic field lines?

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Q8

Two lenses are placed next to each other and a parallel beam of light passes from
one lens to the other as shown.
a) Find the focal lengths of both the lenses.
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Lens A

Lens B
10cm

35cm

b) Lens B is removed and an object O of height 3 cm is placed 8 cm away from

the optical centre of Lens A. Draw a scaled ray diagram to find the size of the
image.
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Q9

a) List the 7 types of electromagnetic waves in descending frequencies.

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(b) What are the two common characteristics of electromagnetic waves?

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Section B: (30 marks)

Free Responds: Answer ALL questions.
Q10a)

The diagram below shows the output voltage of an AC generator rotating at its normal rate.

Sketch in the axes the two output graphs if

i) the coil is the same but using a stronger magnet.
ii) the coil and magnet are the same but the rate of rotation is doubled.
Write your answer on the next page

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b) The velocity time graph below shows a portion of the movement of a car in a car race.

i) Describe in words, the motion of the racing car.

ii) What is the deceleration of the car?
iii) Calculate the total displacement of the racing car.

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Q10

a)

b)

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Q11a) A block of mass of 15 kg is pushed along a horizontal ground at a constant speed of 2 m/s
with a force 200N in the same direction. As it went down the slope, the speed increased to
5 m/s in 3 s.
i) What is the frictional force along the horizontal ground?
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ii) Calculate the acceleration of the mass when it is going down the slope.
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b) The diagram above shows a dc motor.

i) How is the motor able to turn? Explain.
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ii) Name three methods that we can use in order to increase the speed of the motor [3]
iii) What is the purpose of the split rings?
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Q12

Do Either
The diagram below shows an ideal step up transformer. The input power of the transformer
is 500W. Given that the turn ratio of the transformer is 12.

(a) Calculate the secondary voltage and the secondary current.

[4]
(b) What is the best material used to link a magnetic field between the two coils? Why?
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(c) Why do we use ac for a transformer?
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(d) Which coil on this transformer needs thicker wire? Explain.
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OR
The diagram below shows a semi-circular glass block placed on a table. An incident ray is
directed at an angle 90o to the round surface and immerges into the block. Given that the
refractive index of the glass block is 1.54.

a) What is the speed of light in the glass block?

b) Explain why
i) the light ray does not refract as it enters the glass block?
ii) light cannot pass through surface PQ?
c) Name two applications for the above theory.
d) State two criteria that govern the above phenomena

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