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Question 1Multiple choice · 1 markA* challenge

A skydiver is falling at terminal velocity. She then opens her parachute.
Which row describes the skydiver immediately after the parachute opens?

direction of motiondirection of resultant forcespeed
Adownwardsdownwardsdecreasing
Bdownwardsupwardsincreasing
Cdownwardsupwardsdecreasing
Dupwardsupwardsdecreasing
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Answer: C

Question 2Multiple choice · 1 markA* challenge

A stone is thrown from the top of a cliff 8.0 m high with a speed of 8.0 m/s. Air resistance is negligible. (g = 9.8 N/kg)
What is the speed of the stone when it reaches the sea below, whether it is thrown horizontally, upwards or downwards?

  1. A 11.9 m/s
  2. B 12.5 m/s
  3. C 14.9 m/s
  4. D 20.5 m/s
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Answer: C

Question 3Multiple choice · 1 mark

A fixed mass of gas at 106 kPa occupies 580 cm³. It is compressed at constant temperature to 145 cm³. What is the new pressure?

  1. A 26.5 kPa
  2. B 106 kPa
  3. C 424 kPa
  4. D 848 kPa
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Answer: C

Question 4Multiple choice · 1 mark

A uniform beam is balanced at its centre. What is the force F?

pivot2.0 N30 cmF10 cm
Fig. 4.1
  1. A 0.667 N
  2. B 2 N
  3. C 6 N
  4. D 8 N
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Answer: C

Question 5Multiple choice · 1 mark

Why does a student time 20 oscillations of a pendulum rather than one?

  1. A to reduce the effect of reaction time on the measured period
  2. B to increase the period
  3. C to keep the length constant
  4. D to increase the amplitude
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Answer: A

Question 6Multiple choice · 1 mark

What is meant by the half-life of a radioactive isotope?

  1. A the time for the mass of the sample to halve by evaporation
  2. B the time taken for the activity to fall to zero
  3. C half the time taken for all the nuclei to decay
  4. D the time taken for half the nuclei in a sample to decay
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Answer: D

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