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Grade 9 Review Questions

The document is a review questionnaire for Grade 9 Physics students at Moonlight Academy, focusing on key concepts such as wave types, sound properties, oscillation systems, and thermodynamics. It includes both conceptual questions and numerical problems related to waves, pendulums, and thermal expansion. The aim is to prepare students for the 21st century by reinforcing their understanding of physics principles.

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Grade 9 Review Questions

The document is a review questionnaire for Grade 9 Physics students at Moonlight Academy, focusing on key concepts such as wave types, sound properties, oscillation systems, and thermodynamics. It includes both conceptual questions and numerical problems related to waves, pendulums, and thermal expansion. The aim is to prepare students for the 21st century by reinforcing their understanding of physics principles.

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Moonlight Academy

“Preparing Students for the 21st Century”


0935 40 40 40/ 0946 73-64-21  41575 Addis Ababa E-mail: moon. academy 2010@ gmail.com

Name: ______________________________________________ 2nd Semester 2024/25


Full date: __________________ Review questions
Subject: Physics Grade – 9 (Nine)
I. Conceptual and short answer questions.
1.What is the difference between longitudinal and transverse waves? Give one example for each.
2. What is the difference between electromagnetic and mechanical waves? Give one example for each.
3.Why does sound travel faster in water than in air?
4.What factors affect the period of a pendulum?
5.Describe the relationship between frequency and period
6.State the similarities and differences between a spring and a pendulum as oscillating systems.
7.Why do we not hear sound in space?
8.Explain the concept of interference with one real-life example.
9.Describe the role of the restoring force in a spring oscillation.
10.What happens to the period of a simple pendulum if its length is increased? Explain why.
11.Define mechanical advantage and give an example from everyday life.
12.How does temperature affect the speed of sound in a medium?
13.Why are expansion joints used in bridges and railway tracks?
14.State the thermometric property used in each type of thermometers.
15.List some advantages and disadvantages of using each type of thermometer.
16.Differentiate between heat and temperature with examples.
17. From the table below, What can you say about the change in length of the bars when they are cooled to
the temperature of -100 degree celsius or heated to the tempera- ture of 100 degree celsius? Is it very small?
While discussing consider very long structures such as bridges.
18.What similarities and differences do you see in how all the materials in the table below react as they
warm?

II. Workout
19.A wave has a frequency of 5 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m. Calculate its speed.
20.A sound wave travels at 330 m/s and has a wavelength of 1.1 m. What is its frequency?
Moonlight Academy

“Preparing Students for the 21st Century”


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21.A pendulum has a length of 2.25 m. Calculate its period.


22.A 4 kg mass stretches a spring by 0.1 m. What is the spring constant?
23.A spring with a constant of 150 N/m is compressed by 0.08 m. Calculate the force applied.
24.If a mechanical machine has a mechanical advantage of 4 and the load is 800 N, calculate the required
effort.
25.Calculate the speed of sound if a wave travels 1,700 m in 5 seconds.
26.A rod of steel (α = 12 × 10⁻⁶ /°C) with length 1.5 m is heated from 20°C to 80°C. Find the increase in
length.
27.Convert a temperature of 45°C to the Fahrenheit and Kelvin scale.
28.A thermometer reads 30° on a custom scale where ice point = 20° and boiling point = 200°. What is the
equivalent temperature in °C?
29.An echo is heard 1.8 seconds after the sound is made. Calculate the distance to the reflecting surface if
the speed of sound is 340 m/s.
30.A 2.5 m copper rod expands by 0.0045 m when heated. If α = 18 × 10 ⁻⁶ /°C calculate the temperature
change.

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