Physics A (H156, H556)

Force and Motion- Practice Questions- 2024

CCHS Physics Department

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1. The diagram below shows three forces acting on an object.

The object is stationary. All the forces lie in the vertical plane. The weight of the object is 4.0 N.
Which statement is not correct?
A. The resultant force on the object is zero.
B. The magnitude of the resultant force of 3.0 N and 4.0 N forces is 5.0 N.
C. The magnitude of the vertical component of the 5.0 N force is 4.0 N.
D. The resultant force in the horizontal direction is 3.0 N.

Your answer
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2. A car accelerates uniformly from rest along a level road.
The effects of air resistance on the car are negligible.
The car travels 12 m in the second second of its journey.

How far does it travel in the fourth second?

A. 28 m
B. 35 m
C. 48 m
D. 64 m
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Your answer

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3. A ball is launched horizontally at 5 m s from the end of a table. The ball is in flight for 0.4 s before it lands on
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the floor. The ball is now launched from the end of the same table with a horizontal velocity 10 m s .

What is the new time of flight of the ball?

A. 0.2 s
B. 0.4 s
C. 0.5 s
D. 0.8 s

Your answer
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4. Which physical quantity has the same base units as energy?

A. moment
B. momentum
C. force
D. pressure

Your answer
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5. When a sandbag is dropped from a balloon hovering 1.3 m above the ground, it hits the ground at 5.0 ms .
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On another occasion, the sandbag is released from the balloon which is rising at 7.0 ms when 1.3 m above the
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ground. There is also a crosswind of 5.0 m s .

At what speed does the sandbag hit the ground?

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A. 2.0 ms
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B. 5.4 ms
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C. 10 ms
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D. 13 ms

Your answer
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6. A ball is thrown with an initial velocity at an angle to the horizontal.

Air resistance has negligible effect on the motion of the ball.

While it is in flight, which graph shows the correct variation of the ball's horizontal velocity v with time t?
Your answer
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7(a). Two cars, A and B, are travelling clockwise at constant speeds around the track shown in Fig. 16.1.
The track consists of two straight parallel sections each of length 200 m, the ends being joined by semi-circular
sections of diameter 80 m.
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The speed of A is 20 ms and that of B is 23 ms .

i. Calculate the time for A to complete one lap of the track.

time for one lap = .............................s [2]

 ii. Starting from the positions shown in Fig. 16.1 determine the shorter of the two distances along the track
between A and B, immediately after A has completed one lap.

distance = .............................m [2]

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(b). Cars A and B are now on a straight road with car A moving at 22 ms and car B at rest. As car A passes car
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B, car B accelerates from rest in the same direction at 1.5 ms for 16 s. It then moves with constant velocity.

Fig. 16.2 shows the graph of velocity against time for car A. The time t = 0 is taken when the cars are alongside.

i. Sketch the graph of velocity against time for car B on Fig. 16.2.
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ii. Determine the time taken for car B to be alongside car A.

time = .............................s [3]

8(a). Fig. 21.1 shows a toy locomotive on a circular track of radius 0.60 m.

At time t = 0, the locomotive is at point A. The locomotive travels at a constant speed round the track. It takes 20
s to travel completely round the track.
i. Calculate the speed of the locomotive.

speed = ........................................................... m s−1 [2]

ii. Fig. 21.2 shows the variation of the magnitude of the displacement s of the locomotive from A with time t.

Explain the graph shown in Fig. 21.2

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(b). An object is placed on a smooth horizontal surface. Two horizontal forces act on this object.
Fig. 21.3 shows the magnitudes and the directions of these two forces.

The mass of the object is 320 g.

Calculate the magnitude of the acceleration of the object.

acceleration = ........................................................... m s−2 [3]

9(a). Fig. 1.1 shows a sign hanging from a rod fixed to a vertical wall. A metal wire attached between the rod and
the wall holds the rod horizontal.

The weight W of the sign and rod act through the centre point of the rod. The value W is 120 N. The angle
between wire and rod is 30°.

Calculate the tension T in the wire.

T = .......................................... N [2]
(b).
i. Draw an arrow on Fig. 1.1 to show the direction of the force exerted on the rod by the wall.

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ii. State how you chose this direction.

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10(a). Fig. 2.1 shows the path of a golf ball which is struck at point F on the fairway landing at point G on the
green. The effect of air resistance is negligible.

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The ball leaves the club at 17 m s at an angle of 60° to the horizontal at time t = 0.
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Show that the speed of the ball at the highest point H of the trajectory is between 8 and 9 m s .

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speed = .......................................... m s [2]

(b). At t = 1.5 s the ball reaches point H. Calculate

i. the maximum height h of the ball

h = .......................................... m [3]
ii. the distance between the points F and G.

distance FG = .......................................... m [2]

(c). Suppose the same golfer standing at F had hit the ball with the same speed but at an angle of 30° to the
horizontal. See Fig. 2.2.
Show that the ball would still land at G.

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(d). Compare the magnitude and direction of the two velocities as the ball lands at G and using this information
suggest, with a reason, which trajectory you would choose to travel a longer distance after hitting the green at G.

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11(a). Energy and work done are scalar quantities and have the same unit as each other.

State two other scalar quantities in physics that have the same unit as each other.

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(b). Two forces A and B act through the same point in an object. These two forces are shown in Fig. 2.1. No
other forces act on the object.
 i. Use Fig. 2.1 to determine the x− and y− components of the force B.

x-component = ........................................................... N

y-component = ........................................................... N

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ii. Use Fig. 2.1 to determine the magnitude of the resultant of the two forces A and B.

resultant force = ........................................................... N [3]

(c). Fig. 2.2 shows a jet of water from the end of a hosepipe.

Air resistance has negligible effect on the motion of the water jet. The water jet reaches maximum height at point
Y.
i. State the direction of the force acting on the water at Y.
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ii. Describe and explain how the horizontal component of the velocity of the water varies from point X to point
Y.

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iii. Describe how the vertical component of the velocity of the water varies from point X to point Z.

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12(a). Fig. 3.1 shows the path taken by an aircraft as it flies from A to B.

On Fig. 3.1, a distance of 1.0 cm represents a distance of 50 km travelled by the aircraft. The aircraft takes 25
minutes to travel from A to B.
i. Use Fig. 3.1 to determine the magnitude of the average velocity of the aircraft as it travels from A to B.
 average velocity = ........................................................... m s−1 [3]
ii. Without doing any calculations, explain why the average speed of the aircraft is not the same as the
magnitude of its average velocity.

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(b). Io is one of the many moons of Jupiter. It travels at constant speed around Jupiter in a circular orbit of radius
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4.2 × 10 m. Io takes 1.5 × 10 s to orbit once around Jupiter.
i. Calculate the speed of Io in its orbit.

speed = ........................................................... m s−1 [2]

ii. Io has several active volcanoes on its surface. One of these volcanoes produces jets of sulphur with a
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velocity of 1.3 km s that rise to 470 km above the volcano.

Calculate the constant acceleration of free fall on the surface of Io.

acceleration = ........................................................... m s−2 [3]

13. The drag force F acting on a car travelling at a speed v is given by the equation
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F = kAv

where A is the area of the front of the car.

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Show that a suitable unit for the quantity k is kg m .
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14(a). A student carries out an experiment to measure g, the acceleration due to gravity, by measuring the time t
for a steel ball to fall a distance s.
The method is shown in Fig. 2.1

The break-to-start and break-to-stop contacts are connected to an electronic timer. As the steel ball is released
from the electromagnet, the electronic timer starts. The ball falls a distance s before it hits a hinged metal 'trap
door'. The trap door opens, breaks the circuit and stops the timer.

The student records the following data for a range of distances s, averaging the time t at each distance over
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several drops. He intends to plot a graph of s against t so adds a third column to his table of results.

s/m mean t/s t2/s2

0.40 0.31 0.10
0.60 0.38 0.14
0.80 0.42 0.18
1.00 0.47
1.20 0.51
1.40 0.55 0.30

i. Complete the table. Add the final two points to the graph of Fig. 2.2. Draw a straight line of best fit on Fig.
2.2.
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 ii. Determine the gradient of the line. Show clearly your working.

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gradient = .......................................... m s [2]

(b). The student expected the line to go through the origin and have a gradient of g/2. The timing device he used
measures to within 0.01 s and the distance s was measured to within 0.01 m.
i. The fact that the line of best fit does not pass through the origin is unlikely to have been caused by random
errors in his measurements. Justify this statement.

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 ii. Explain how a systematic error in each of the measured quantities could contribute to the line not passing
through the origin and what effect, if any, each would have on the gradient of the line.

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iii. Suggest one source of possible systematic error in the experiment.

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