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KALIUA DISTRICT COUNCIL
FORM TWO PRE – MOCK DISTRICT JOINT EXAMINATION - MAY 2024
PHYSICS
031
Time: 2:30 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS
1. This paper consists of sections A, B and C
2. Answer all questions in each section
3. Write your examination number at the top right corner of every page
4. Show your work clearly
5. All diagrams should be drawn in pencil
6. Where necessary the following constants may be used:
i. Acceleration due to gravity (g) = 10m/s2
ii. Density of water = 1g/cm3
FOR EXAMINERS' USE ONLY

QUESTION SCORE EXAMINER'S

NUMBER INITIAL
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10
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 SECTION A (15MARKS)

Answer all questions from this section

1. For each of the items (i)-(ii), choose the correct answer from the given alternatives
and write its letters in the box provided
(i) What is the usefulness of laboratory rules when carrying out experiments in
the physics laboratory
A. Making students enjoy science
B. Helping students conduct experiment freely
C. Ensuring safety in the laboratory
D. Enhancing communication with other technicians
(ii) Which of the following is a set of effect of forces exerted when you are riding
a bicycle?
A. Compressional, viscosity and stretching
B. Torsional, attraction and couple
C. Frictional, couple and pulling
D. Attraction, friction and restoring
(iii) A hydrometer is an instrument for measuring the density or relative density of
a liquid. What are you supposed to do in order to increase its sensitivity?
A. Increasing the size of the bulb
B. Making the stem narrower
C. Reducing the lead shots in the weighted bulb
D. Increasing the length of the stem
(iv) Which method is preferred to use if a student wishes to charge a charged
body using a positively charged body in order to make it acquire positive
charge?
A. Friction
B. Contact
C. Induction
D. Heating
(v) Why are magnets often fitted to the doors of refrigerators and some of the
cupboards
A. To keep away heat
B. To keep the inside environment warm
C. To keep the door tightly closed
D. To keep iron away
(vi) An object immersed in a liquid in a tank experiences an up thrust. What is
the physical phenomenon that causes the up thrust?
A. The density of the body differs from that of the liquid
B. The density of the liquid increases with depth
C. Pressure in the liquid increases with depth
D. The value of g in the liquid increases with depth
 (vii) The same body immersed in liquid A and then in the liquid B. The extent to
which the body sinks in the liquid B is less than in liquid A. What conclusion
can be delivered from such an observation?
The density of liquid A is more than the density of the liquid B
The density of liquid B is more than that of liquid A
The density of the solid body is less than that of that of the liquid in both cases
The density of liquid A is the same as that of liquid B
(viii) How can you make a rough measure of the size of the molecule?
A. By measuring the height to which water rises in narrow capillary tube
B. By measuring the speed with which Brownian vapour spreads in air
C. By observing Brownian motion of small particles
D. By measuring the area of the cycle in which a small drop spreads in water
(ix) Which of the following is a set of natural sources of light?
(I) Sun, Star and Fluorescence
(II) Sun, Star and Lighting
(III) Star, Candle and Bioluminescence fly
(IV) Star, Lighting and wood
(x) If you are caught outside during a severe thunderstorm, you should :
A. Take shelter under the nearest tree
B. Stand under power lines
C. Move to higher ground
D. Hide in a ditch
2, Match the uses of instruments List A with a correct name of the instrument in List B
by writing a letter of the correct response below the item number in the table provided.
List A List B

(i) Determine unknown resistance of a A.Micrometer screw gauge

resistor or a conductors B.Calorimeter
(ii) Magnify and diminish images of C.Rectangular block
objects D.Lenses
(iii) Measure amount of heat of liquid E. Resistance box
(iv) Measure length , depth , internal and F. Vernier caliper
external diameter of cylindrical objects G. Plane mirror
more accurately H. Rectangular glass block
(v) Shows the minimum angle of deviation I. Beaker
and separate white light into its constituent J. Triangular glass prism
colours K. Metre bridge

Answers
List A (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)

List B
 SECTION B: (70 MARKS)
Answer all questions from this section
3. (a) Suppose you are in the physics laboratory and you are given a bar magnet whose
poles not labelled. Describe how you could determine which end of the bar is North Pole
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(b) Explain what would happen if you cut a bar magnet into half

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4.(a) Explain why petrol road tankers usually have a length of metal chain hanging down
touching the ground
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(b) Describe three (3) ways in which electroscope can be applied
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5. (a) State Newton’s laws of motion experienced on the following phenomena

(i) Falling down of mango from a shaken mango tree
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(ii) Stretching the hand forward by the goalkeeper when catching a ball
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(iii) Firing a bullet from a gun
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(b) A body of a mass 32kg moving with a velocity of 40m/s collides with another body of mass
16kg moving with a velocity of 20m/s in the same direction. If the two bodies tends to stick
together after the collision. Calculate the common velocity shared by two bodies.

6. (a) Suppose a woman hitting a balloon with hammer failed to cause a balloon to burst but
at same force a balloon busted by using a pin, why do you think a woman failed?

(b) A cube of sides 2cm is completely submerged in water so that the bottom of the cube
is at a depth of 10cm. If the density of water is 1027kg/m3 and g=10N/kg:
(i) What is the difference between the pressure at the bottom of the cube and the
pressure at its top?

(ii) Determine the difference in the forces at the top and bottom

(iii)What is the weight of the water displaced?

7. A box weighing 560N is pulled along an inclined plane of length 20m on to a plat form
2m high with a force of 70N. Calculate
(i) The velocity ratio of the plane

(ii) Th mechanical advantage of the plane

 (iii) The efficiency of the plane

8. (a) Briefly explain why a bus with seated passengers and luggage in the lower
compartment is more stable than one with standing passengers and loaded at the top?
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(b) A uniform metre rule is frely pivoted at 35cm mark, and it balances horizontally when
a body of mass 75 g is hung from the 10 cm mark
(i) Draw a clear force diagram of the arrangement

(ii) Calculate the mass of the metre rule

9. (a) Classsify the following as renewable and non renewable souces

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(iii) Fossil
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(b) Using two points state why solar lamp is better than kerosene lamp.
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SECTION B (15 marks)

 Answer question ten (10)
10. a) Draw the circuit Diagram on how an ammeter, voltmeter.resistor, cell are
connected in a circuit

(b) Use the information in the figure below

(i) Calculate p.d across the 5Ω resistor

(ii) Calculate the current value across the resistor of 3Ω