2024 S4 EOY P1

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q01

Which is the shortest distance?

0.0005 km

50000 μm

500 mm

0.005 m

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q02

Which is a possible motion of a moon around a planet?

It could travel at a varying speed with constant acceleration.

It could travel at a constant speed with non-constant acceleration.

It could travel at a constant speed with no acceleration.

It could travel at a constant speed with constant acceleration.

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q03

Which graph is not describing the same motion as the other graphs?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q04

A man of mass 60 kg is standing on a weighing scale in a lift. He takes the lift from the first to the third floor.

The lift first accelerates upwards at 2.0 m s^–2. The lift then moves at a constant speed. Finally, the lift decelerates at 4.0 m s^–2.

Which of the following could be the readings on the weighing scale?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q05

Two forces of magnitudes 3.0 N and 5.0 N are the only forces acting on an object.

Which could be the magnitude of the resultant force on the object?

3.0 N

9.0 N

0.0 N

15.0 N

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q06

The diagram below shows a barometer.

Which height measures atmospheric pressure?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q07

A boy stands beside a girl in front of a large plane mirror. Both of them are the same distance in front of the mirror.

Where does the boy see an image of the girl?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q08

A girl stands at G in the centre of a rectangular room WXYZ facing a 2.0 m wide plane mirror mounted on the centre of wall WX.

What is the maximum width of the wall YZ that she can see behind her when she looks into the mirror?

3.0 m

2.0 m

6.0 m

4.0 m

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q09

A ray of monochromatic light in air is incident on transparent blocks of different shapes.

Which diagram below does not show the correct path of the ray of light through the block?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q10

A ray of light in air is incident on the surface of a glass block as shown. The refractive index of the glass block is 1.5. The diagram is not to scale.

What are the values of the angles r and d?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q11

The diagram shows a thin converging lens with a focal length f. The dots on the principal axis are marked to scale.

Where must an object be placed to produce an inverted real image as shown?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q12

Which wave is part of the electromagnetic spectrum?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q13

The diagram below shows plane wavefronts formed in a ripple tank. The wavefronts move from a deep region toward a shallow region.

Which diagram shows the correct wavefronts in the shallow region?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q14

Four sound waves are displayed on the screens of cathode ray oscilloscopes.

Which screen shows a sound wave that is decreasing in pitch and increasing in loudness?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q15

Helium gas is kept in a rigid container at a low pressure. As the helium particles move, they collide with each other.

Which statement is true about the motion of the helium particles between collisions with each other?

They travel in a straight line with constant speed.

They change direction randomly and travel with decreasing speed.

They change direction randomly and travel with constant speed.

They travel in a straight line with decreasing speed.

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q16

Two identical containers of water are placed on a laboratory bench. The water in container M is left to evaporate at room temperature while the water in container N is kept boiling on an electric hot plate.

Which statement is true about the average kinetic energy and the potential energy of the water molecules when the water vapourises?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q17

A 200 g solid is heated with a 350 W heater and its change in temperature over time is shown in the heating curve below.

Which expression gives the specific latent heat of fusion of the solid in J kg^-1?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q18

A thick copper plate, with one side black and the opposite side shiny, is kept at a constant high temperature. A student puts her hands on either side, equal distance from the copper plate.

Which statement correctly describes what happens?

Her left hand will feel warmer as the black side is hotter than the shiny side.

Her right hand will feel warmer as the shiny side is hotter than the black side.

Her left hand will feel warmer as the black side radiates more heat than the shiny side.

Her right hand will feel warmer as the shiny side radiates more heat than the black side.

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q19

A negatively charged sphere is placed midway between two rods which are initially uncharged. One of the rods is connected to earth.

Which diagram shows the charges in the rods?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q20

A circuit is set up with three dry cells and a fixed resistor of 10 Ω. Each dry cell has an e.m.f. of 1.5 V.

How much charge passes through the resistor in 30 seconds?

14 C

4.5 C

1.5 C

45 C

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q21

Tungsten is a metal used to make the filament of a filament lamp.

What changes will both cause an increase in the resistance of a piece of tungsten wire?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q22

The circuit diagram shows a circuit with a d.c. power supply, two voltmeters, two identical fixed resistors and a variable resistor R.

The resistance of R is increased.

How do the readings on the two voltmeters change?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q23

The diagram shows the correct connections of the earth, live and neutral wires in the 3-pin plug of a rice cooker.

What is the effect if the live and neutral wires’ connections are interchanged?

The rice cooker will work as normal.

The metal body of the rice cooker will be live.

The rice cooker will catch fire.

The fuse will blow.

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q24

A plotting compass is placed near a permanent bar magnet as shown.

In which direction will the plotting compass be pointing?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q25

Which material is used to make the core of an electromagnet?

iron

copper

zinc

steel

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q26

The diagram shows a permanent bar magnet falling through a copper ring.

From the perspective of the observer, in which direction(s) will the induced current flow in the copper ring?

Always in a clockwise direction.

First in an anticlockwise direction and then in a clockwise direction.

Always in an anticlockwise direction.

First in a clockwise direction and then in an anticlockwise direction.

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q27

A magnet is pushed horizontally towards a coil of insulated wire, inducing a current in the coil.

In which direction does the coil move?

away from the magnet

upwards

downwards

towards the magnet

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q28

An ideal transformer is used to power a 5.0 A, 400 V device. The transformer has 200 turns and 500 turns in its primary and secondary coils respectively.

What are the current and voltage delivered by the a.c. power source that is connected to the transformer?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q29

Which row correctly identifies the most ionising and most penetrating types of radiation?

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2024 S4 EOY P1 Q30

The half-life of an isotope is 2.0 days.

How much of the original sample of atoms has decayed after 4.0 days?

25 %

100 %

50 %

75 %

Your score is

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