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This document is a physics examination paper for the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, focusing on various topics including specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, and Newton's law of cooling. It contains instructions for the test, a series of questions requiring definitions, calculations, and descriptions of experiments. The paper is structured into sections with specific marks allocated to each question, covering theoretical concepts and practical applications in physics.

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s6 Topical Test 3

This document is a physics examination paper for the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, focusing on various topics including specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity, and Newton's law of cooling. It contains instructions for the test, a series of questions requiring definitions, calculations, and descriptions of experiments. The paper is structured into sections with specific marks allocated to each question, covering theoretical concepts and practical applications in physics.

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P510/1

PHYSICS

Paper 1

TOPICAL TEST 3
Uganda advanced certificate of education
Physics paper one
2 hours

INSTRUCTIONS
ATTEMPT ALL
Assume where necessary:
Acceleration due to gravity g = 9.81ms-2
Electronic charge e = 1.6x10-19C
Electron mass = 9.11x10-31kg
Stefan’s Boltzmann’s constant = 5.67x10-8Wm-1K-4
Radius of Earth = 6.4x106m
Radius of sun = 7.0x108m
Specific heat capacity of water = 4200Jkg-1K -1
Specific latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.34x105Jkg-1
Avogadro’s number NA = 6.02x1023mol-1

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1. a) I) Define specific heat capacity of a substance. (01marks)
ii) State three advantages of using continuous flow method over method of mixtures
in determination of specific heat capacity of a liquid (03marks)
b) In continuous flow method, a steady difference of temperature of 1.50C is maintained
when the rate of liquid flow is 45g/s and the rate of electrical heating is 60.5W. On
reducing the liquid flow to 15g/s, 36.5W is required to maintain the same temperature
difference. Calculate
i) Specific heat capacity of the liquid. (04marks)
ii rate of heat loss to the surroundings . (04marks)
b) Describe an electrical method of determining specific heat capacity of a metal
(06marks)
ii) State the assumptions made in the above experiment (03marks)
iii) Comment about the accuracy of results in the above experiment. (01mark)

2. a) ii) Define thermal conductivity (01mark)


ii) Explain the mechanism of heat transfer in metals (04marks)
b) Two brick walls of thickness 10cm are separated by air gap of thickness 10cm. The
outer surface of the brick walls are maintained at 200C and 50C respectively.
i) Calculate the temperature of the inner surface of the walls . (05marks)
ii) Compare the rate of heat loss through the layer of air to that of the single wall.
(Thermal conductivity of air is 0.02Wm-1K-1 and that of bricks is 0.6Wm-1K-1) (03marks)
c) i) State Stefan’s law of a black body (01marks)
i) The average distance of Pluto the Sun is 40 times that of earth from the Sun. If the
Sun radiates as a black body at 6000K, and is 1.5x1011m from the Earth, calculate the
surface temperature of Pluto. (06marks)

3. a) i) State two differences between saturated and unsaturated vapour pressure.


(02marks)

ii) Sketch the graphs of ideal gas and saturated vapour pressure original at 0 0C
(02marks)

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b) The specific heat capacity of oxygen at constant volume is 719Jkg -1K-1 and its density at
s.t.p is 1.429kgm-3. Calculate the specific heat capacity of oxygen at a constant pressure.
(04marks)

c) i) With the aid of a labelled diagram, describe an experiment to determine saturated


vapour pressure of water. (06marks)

ii)State how the experimental set up above may be modified to determine saturated
vapour pressure above atmospheric pressure. (02marks)

d) i) Define an ideal gas (01mark)

ii) State and explain the conditions under which real gases behave as ideal gas .
(03marks)

4 a) State Newton’s law of cooling. (01mark)


ii) Describe an experiment to verify Newton’s law of cooling (05marks)
iii) Explain why temperature remains constant during evaporation (03marks)
b) i) Two thermometers are used to measure temperature of a body. Explain why the
temperature values obtained may be different. (03marks)
ii) A platinum resistance thermometer has resistance of 5.42ohms at the triple point of
water. Calculate the resistance at 50.00C (03marks)
d) In an experiment to determine specific latent heat of fusion of ice, the following
results were obtained

V (V) 4.0 6.0

I (A) 2.0 3.0

Mass of water m(g) 14.9 29.8


collected in 500s

Calculate:
i) Specific latent heat of fusion of ice. (03marks)
ii) Energy gained on the course of obtaining the first set of reading. (03marks)
End
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