FORM TP 2007254 4 arr sean ners} ‘Yuma hgebslow and rtrn dis boktet Seis tance Sbeves Fears aera Tehtt ir dlgoalinention = = testcope 02238010 MAYISUNE2007 Signature CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION PHYSICS Unit 2 - Paper 01 90 minutes 05 JUNE 2007 (j READ THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY Inadditionto this test booklet, you should have an answersheet. Each item in this testhas four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item youare aboutto answer and decide which choiceisbest. On youranswersheet, find thenumber which correspondsto your item and shade the space having the same letteras the answer you have chosen. Look atthe sample item below. Sample tem Which ofthe following lists one scalar quality and one vector quantity? (A) mass: temperature Sample Answer (B) momentum : pressure @oo (© force: velocity ‘The best answer to this item is “momentum : pressure”, so answer space (B)hasbesn blackened. (D) potential energy : volt Ifyou wantto change your answer, be sure to erase your old answercompletely and fillin yournew choice. ‘When youaretoldto begin, tumthe pageand workasquickly andas carefully as youcan. Ifyoucannot answer an item, omititand goontothenextone. Youcan comeback to the harderitem later. Your score will be the total number of correct answers, Youmay doany rough work in this booklet. Figures are notnecessarily drawnto scale. The use ofnon-programmablecaiculatorsisallowed. Thistestconsists of 45 items. You willhave 90 minutes toanswer them, Donot be concerned that the answer sheet provides spaces for moreanswers than thereare items in thistest. DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO so. auaWTVasxHay ‘LIST OF PHYSICAL CONSTANTS ‘Speed of light in free space © . 3.00 x 10° ms Permeability of free space Bo = 4nx 107Hm Permittivity of free space & = 8.85 x 107? Fo! Elementary charge e = 160x100 ‘The Planck constant h = 663 x10 Is Unified atomic mass constant u = 1.66 x 1077 kg Rest mass of electron me I 9.11 x 107! kg ‘Rest mass of proton my = 1.67 x 1077 kg Acceleration due to gravity g = 981ms? 1 Atmosphere Atm = 1,00 x 10° N nr? Avogadro's number Na = 6.02 x 10”* per moleAa electric field exists between charged parallel plates. Which graph shows how the electric field strength varies along the line OP? E w o P E ® : Pe Fe © oP E © or A.unitequivalentto | voltis (A) Lice (B) twee ©) Jat () LWA A circuitis set up as shown in the diagram. ‘What happens to the readings on the ammeter and volmeter if the resistance of the variable resistor is increased? Ammeter | _Volmeter (A) Increase Increase (B)| Decrease Decrease (©)| Increase | No change (D)| No change | No change A wire of diameter 1.0 mm is carrying a current of 1.5 A. ‘The charge carriers are electrons and the net drift velocity of the electrons is 0.5 mm s'. The number of conduction electrons per unit volume in the conductor is| (A) 9.6.x 10% m? (B) 24 x 10% me (CC) 60x 10m? (D) 95x 10m?-4- Which of the following shows the IV characteristic of a filament lamp? I (A) : ¥ I (B) : i aq A cell of internal resistance ris connected to a load of resistance R. ‘The efficiency of such an arrangement is found from the expression energy dissipated in the load energy dissipated in the complete cireuit Which expression represents the efficiency in this case? @® gh ® R © gs om &£ Kirchoff's Laws are derived from the laws of conservation. On which conservation laws do they depend? © LZ. v v v 14 ©) : Kirehotf's | Kirchoff’s Ist law 2nd law (a) | mass current | (8)| current energy (C)| charge current (D)| charge energyiagram below, a potential ditference 10. Which arrangement of four similar capacitors applied between two parallel metal has the HIGHEST effective capacitance? plates, X and Y, 5 mm apart, What is the magnitude and direction of the “ t electic field at point P? } ov ; | © HI ie plate -600 V ieee KH bp) — (@) —! (A) 12x 10-NC;xX>¥ (@) 12x10 NCSY>X LL. A wire, 1.00 m long and of uniform cross- (©) 12x10NC XY sectional area 2.00 mm:, has a resistance of (@) 12x 1NCY>X 052 What is the resistivity of the wire material? In which resistor below is the GREATEST power dissipated? (A) 10x10Om (B) 10x 10¢Qm © 2.0x 10°Qm 10 A S584 ©) 31x10¢Qm 29 B tas 49 ¢ Bay A284 80 p tas #8512, 13. 14, ‘The force acting per unit current length is the (A) electric field strength (B) magnetic flux density (©) electric potential (D) potential difference ‘Two wires X and Y, each of the same length and material are connected in s¢ toa battery. The diameter of X is twice that of Y. ‘What fraction of the total potential difference is across X? (A) 020 (B) 025 (©) 033 (D) 0.50 ‘The diagram below represents a simple relay. When a current I flows in the solenoid, the two pieces of soft iron materials PQ'and RO become magnetized. Which combination BEST illustrates the polarities at the ends P, Q, R and 0? PQ R_o 1 Neeser @®}/N Ss NS ©|/s $s N oN Ss oN S oN () 15. 16. ‘The diagram shows a piece of wire 0.5 m long moving with a speed of 3.0 ms" perpendicular to a magnetic field of field strength 1.5 mT. What is the e.m.f, induced across the ends of the wire? — > 3.0mst x xX) x x x ee oe x xi} x xx OG exe 0c (A) 45xlV (B) 225x10°V (©) 15x1eV (D) 25x10 ‘The MAJORITY charge carriers in an n-type material are (A) protons (B) electrons (©) holes (D) neutrons17, ‘The circuits below contain diodes, a cell resistors and an ammeter. In which circuit will the ammeter register a current? wo 1 a {8} ® tk ® *——0 Vo The open loop voltage gain of the op-amp is 3x 10° and the voltage of the power supply is £6V. The MINIMUM input voltage (V,) which will cause saturation is (A) £20pv ®) — £30nv ©) E40 ev (D) +180uv23. 24, -9- Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using negative feedback in an op-amp? (A) The gainis predictable and constant, (B) Feedback reduces distortion of the output. - (C) Bandwidth is increased. (D) Feedback increases the gain. Which diagram shows the circuit for a non- inverting amplifier? oO Item 25 refers to the following diagram. 40 bo 102 Input i voltage v The gain of the op-amp circuit in the diagram above is fA} ot (B) -0.25 (C) +025 (DB) +5210" Item 26 refers to the following figures. 21. WN, a is fons a Figure 2 26. The sinusoidal alternating voltage shown in Figure 2 is applied to the input of the op-amp shown in Figure 1. The voltage of the power supply is 10V. Which one of the following graphs correctly shows output voltage with time? > 28. (A) wry : 45 s joa 5 (B) WY, +8 tis oe 29. 5 © WN, +10 is fons 10 (py) Ye, +10) is on ae Item 27 refers to the following diagram. ‘The circuit is equivalent to (A) an AND gate (B) a NAND gate (©) am OR gate (D) an XOR gate ‘Item 28 refers to the following diagram. 0 i> to ° De 1 Which one of the following combinations gives the correct output from EACH of the gates shown above? x oY Z @ Oo 0 0 B® 1 1 1 © 0 1 o © 1 0 1 How many inputs and outputs does a half adder have? INPUTS OUTPUTS AN) 2 oo @) 2 1 © 1 2 ©) 3 230. 31. ee Choose the response which will BEST complete the following statement. A flip-flop has pwo output states, (a) (6) © @) one stable and one unstable. It remains in the stable state until a trigger pulse switches it to che unstable. both of which are urstable. It switches from one state to another after a short interval. one stable and one unstable. It remains in the unstable state for a short time and then switches to the stable state. both of which are stable. It remains in either state until a trigger pulse sends it to the other. Which of the following phenomena led to the discovery of the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation? (A) (B) © @) Interference Reflection Polarisation Photoelectric Effect 32. 33. 34. AT, station broadcasts at a rate 200 kW. and frequency 200 MHz. How many photons are emitied every second? (A) B) © ©) 1.5 x 10% 15x 1? LS x 108 15x10" A work function of a metal is the | ®) © (D) cut-off wavelength of electro- magnetic radiation for that metai. above which no photoelectrons are emitted minimum energy of electro-magnetic radiation needed for 2 photoelectron to be produced from the metal threshold frequency of electro- magnetic radiation required, below which no paotoelectrons are emitted from the metal the maximum kinetic energy of photoelectrons emitted from the metal surface when electro- magnetic radiation of a given frequency is used ‘The maximum wavelength ofelectromagnetic radiation that causes emission of photoelectrons from a metal, X, is 600 nm. ‘What is the work function of X? cy ®) © @) 3.32x10"F 5.30 x 10°F 3.98 x 105 2.48 x LO7J-12- 35. The figure below shows an energy level 37, _—_—P is the momentum of a particle and 2 is its diagram for a hydrogen atom. wavelength. For which of the following graphs would the gradient be equal to the Bs -0.54eV Planck's constant? gE, -0.85eV (A) B -1sev a4ev gE “13.6eV @®) ‘An electron moves from one energy state to another with the production of a photon of frequency 2.46 x 10'S Hz, Which enerey transition accounts for this? @ Boe ® &+5 © © E+E, - ©) E> Item 36 refers to the following diagram. Intensity (dD) au Wavelength ol 7 ee 4 ~ 0 tL : , ol Le V 4, : 36. This graph illustrates the x-ray spectrum from a given x-ray tube, What do X, Y and Z represent? ~. 38. The results of the Geiger - Marsden a - experiment provides 4 _ a 1g exp p (A) | K=series U—series | Continuous { Line spectrum | Line spectrum | spectrum (A) quantum theory [By | L=series Continuous | K- series 4B) size ofthe nucleus | Line spectrum | spectrum | Line spectrum (©) existence of neutrons (©) | K=series Continuous | L~ series (D) radioactive decay Line spectrum | spectrum | Cine spectrum (D) | Continuous | K=series | L— series | spectrum Line spectrum | Line speetrurn-13- yen ‘Thediagram shows thesetup foraMillikan’s 41. Which of the following grapbis, shows. ie oil drop experiment. correct relationship between-the eaarey evolved, E, and the mass covestesi Sint ix nuclear reaction? roe SPRAYED Re ‘OL DROPS (oe VARIABLE DC SUPPLY Avariable voltage, V, is applied between the _ plates X and Y, which are separated by a distance, d. The microscope is focussed on a charged oil drop of mass, m, which is held stationary between the plates. If q is the charge on the oil drop, which of the following expressions is correct? (A) q=mgvid aM @ — a=mgva . © simed © @) . q=mgdv ‘The diagram represents the relationship between binding energy per nucleon and mass number. W, X,Y and Z are different elements. aM. @) = Binding energy per nucleon ‘Mass number ~ Secs aM Which of the following statements is true of nuclear stability? 42. What is the energy equivalent of the stcutic mass unit, u? (A) Z could undergo nuclear fission to become more stable. (A) 1.49.x 10" (B) Wand X could undergo nuclear {B) 498x105 fission to become more stable. (©) 5.53.x 104 (©) Wand Y could undergo nuclear (D) 512x105 fusion to become more stable.43. 44. o14e Atoms undergo redioactive decay because (A) the number of protons in the nucleus is greater than the number of neutrons (B) _theirnuclei are unstable (C) they are heated under high pressure (D) "the number of electrons is greater than the number of protons in the atom ‘The diagram below shows the paths of two types of radioactive emissions, P and Q, ina uniform magnetic field, which is directed into the page. What are P and Q? x ‘Lead box containing X X XQ x radioactive source P Q (A) alpha beta - (B) beta alpha (©) beta gamma (D) alpha gamma IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS TES’ 45. A radioactive nuclide is represented by the symbol 16 P. It decays into a nuclide of clement Q by beta decay. Q then decays into a nuclide of element R by alpha decay and releases gamma radiation. What symbol represents nuclide R? @ GR ®) FR © BR @ FR