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(NO LONGER TESTED) 2023 S4 EOY P1 Q01

A pair of vernier calipers is used to measure the width of a wooden block.

Diagram 1 shows the scale when nothing is clamped between its jaws, while diagram 2 shows the scale when the wooden block is clamped between the jaws.

What is the width of the wooden block?

3.10 cm

3.74 cm

3.80 cm

3.04 cm

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q02

Which cannot be the magnitude of the resultant force when a force of 3 N and a force of 8 N act on an object?

10 N

8 N

5 N

3 N

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q03

A stone undergoes free fall from rest to the ground. The stone travels 0.25 of the total distance to the ground in the first 1.0 s of its fall.

What is the total time taken for the stone to fall to the ground?

3.0 s

2.0 s

1.4 s

4.0 s

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q04

The diagram shows the speed-time graph for a sky diver. He falls from an aircraft, then opens a parachute and later lands safely on the ground.

At which point did the skydiver open the parachute?

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q05

The diagram shows a pendulum hanging from a string suspended inside a train. The train is travelling to the right.

Which row describes the motion of the train when angle θ is constant?

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q06

A man pushes a box along a rough floor with a force F as shown in the diagram. The box moves with constant velocity.

Which force forms an action-reaction pair with F?

frictional force by the floor on the man

normal contact force by the box on the man

normal contact force by the floor on the box

frictional force by the floor on the box

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q07

The diagram shows a non-uniform object suspended freely from a pin at A. When the object is pushed, it swings and then comes to a stop at the position shown.

Which labelled point could be the centre of mass of the object?

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q08

A motor in a crane is used to lift a load of mass 900 kg through a height of 5.0 m from rest to a speed of 2.0 m s⁻¹.

What is the work done by the motor in lifting the load?

1.8 kJ

47 kJ

45 kJ

18 kJ

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q09

The diagram shows a container made of tin and containing only air. It is connected to an air pump through a tube.

Air is pumped out of the container and it collapses when the pressure of the air inside falls to 2.0 × 10⁴ Pa. Atmospheric pressure is 1.0 × 10⁵ Pa and the surface area of face X of the container is 0.060 m².

What is the resultant force on face X when the container just collapses?

4.8 × 10³ N

1.3 × 10⁶ N

3.3 × 10⁵ N

1.2 × 10³ N

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q10

The diagram shows a mercury barometer that contains some trapped air. The atmospheric pressure is 74 cm Hg.

What is the pressure of the trapped air?

10 cm Hg

8 cm Hg

2 cm Hg

12 cm Hg

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q11

In the diagram below, the angle of incidence of a light ray on a horizontal plane mirror is 30º.

What is the angle of reflection if the mirror is rotated anti-clockwise through an angle of 20º?

20º

30º

10º

50º

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q12

A girl with her eyes 1.50 m above the ground stands in front of a 2.50 m high wall, as shown in the diagram (not drawn to scale).

If a small mirror is to be hung on the wall, which position should it be placed so that the girl can see the small lamp behind her?

1.83 m above the ground

1.75 m above the ground

1.63 m above the ground

1.50 m above the ground

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q13

Which diagram correctly shows the path of the light ray when it enters a right-angled triangular glass block?

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q14

The diagram shows an object and a lens positioned to form a well-focused, inverted image on a screen.

A piece of cardboard is then lowered just in front of the lens to cover the top half of the lens.
What will happen to the image on the screen?

The upper half of the image will disappear.

The image will become dimmer.

The lower half of the image will disappear.

The image will become fuzzy and out of focus.

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q15

When electromagnetic waves travel from one medium to another, which properties of the waves will change?

frequency only

speed only

speed and wavelength only

frequency, speed and wavelength

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q16

A wave moves across the surface of water in a ripple tank. In 4.0 minutes, a wavefront moves a distance of 100 wavelengths.

What is the frequency of the wave?

0.040 Hz

25 Hz

0.42 Hz

400 Hz

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q17

A man stands facing a wall. He claps his hands and hears the echo after 2.50 s.

If the speed of sound is 340 m s⁻¹, what is the distance between the man and the wall?

1250 m

625 m

425 m

850 m

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q18

The diagram shows the displacement-time graphs of different musical notes played on a flute.

Which musical note, A, B, C or D, has the lowest pitch?

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q19

Two charged spheres X and Y are hanging from two nylon threads of the same length attached to a point on a ceiling. They remain at rest as shown in the diagram.Which statement(s) below must be correct?

(1) Both spheres carry positive charges.
(2) The force acting on Y by X is larger than the force acting on X by Y.
(3) The mass of X is larger than Y.

(3) only

(1) only

(2) and (3) only

(1) and (2) only

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q20

The diagrams show the range and symbols of four ammeters.

Which ammeter should be used to measure a current of 0.5 A?

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q21

A student sets up the following circuit and makes measurements to plot a resistance-temperature graph of the metal wire as shown below.

When the ammeter reading is 1.0 A, the temperature of the metal wire is 25 ºC.

What is the reading of the ammeter when the temperature of the metal wire is 200 ºC?

0.60 A

0.42 A

1.5 A

0.36 A

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q22

In the circuit below, the e.m.f. of the battery is 2.0 V.
The ratio of the resistance of R₁, R₂, R₃ and R₄ is 1 : 2 : 3 : 4.

What is the potential difference (p.d.) across R₃?

0.39 V

0.30 V

0.19 V

0.33 V

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q23

The wiring from a 240 V mains supply to a socket outlet in a house is shown in the diagram.
L is live and N is neutral.

The socket outlet provides 240 V for an electrical appliance with a 2-pin plug.
Which two terminals should the appliance be connected to?

2 and 3

1 and 3

1 and 2

2 and 4

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(NO LONGER TESTED) 2023 S4 EOY P1 Q24

A centimetre scale is fixed next to an unmarked mercury-in-glass thermometer.
The ice point and the steam point are marked on the scale.

What is the temperature shown on the thermometer?

56 ºC

60 ºC

66 ºC

44 ºC

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q25

A student observes the motion of smoke particles in air through a low-power microscope.

What does the student observe when the temperature of the air is increased?

Air molecules move around at higher speeds.

Smoke particles vibrate about fixed positions at a higher frequency.

Air molecules collide with the smoke particles more forcefully.

Smoke particles move more rapidly in a random manner.

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q26

A fixed mass of gas in a container is being compressed and the temperature of the gas remains constant.
How do these properties of the gas particles change?

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q27

The graph shows the variation of the temperature of a liquid with time when the liquid is heated by a 400 W heater. The mass of the liquid is 2.0 kg.

Assume all the energy given out by the heater is absorbed by the liquid.

What is the specific heat capacity of the liquid?

83 J kg^-1 ºC^-1

480 J kg^-1 ºC^-1

2400 J kg^-1 ºC^-1

1200 J kg^-1 ºC^-1

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q28

The diagram shows an electron moving horizontally into a region of uniform magnetic field.

In which direction does the electron deflect as it enters the magnetic field?

towards the bottom of the page

into the page

out of the page

towards the top of the page

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q29

Which of these tests proves that a metal bar is a permanent magnet?

It repels another magnet.

It attracts another magnet.

It affects the direction in which a compass needle points.

It picks up a paperclip made of iron.

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2023 S4 EOY P1 Q30

A magnet is moved in two stages in a horizontal direction.

First the magnet is moved towards the solenoid.

Then the magnet is moved away from the solenoid.

What is the magnetic pole induced at point P during the two stages of motion?

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