TUTORIAL

1. When a ray of sunlight passes obliquely 5. The ability of the eye to focus objects at
through a rectangular glass block, different distances is called
A. it emerges without deviation A. Power
B. it get dispersed without deviation B. Normal vision
C. both dispersion and deviation take C. Accommodation
place D. Persistence of vision
D. the emergent ray is laterally displaced
2. The direction of light ray changes as it Use the diagram below to answer
passes from one medium to another. The questions 6 and 7
phenomenon is called
A. refraction 6Ω
B. reflection 10Ω1
C. deviation 4Ω
D. diffraction
3. The velocity of light in air and glass are I
V
8 -1 8 -1
3.0 x 10 ms and 1.8 x 10 ms
respectively, calculate the sine of the
angle of incidence that would produce an
12V
angle of refraction of 350 for a ray of
light incident on glass. 6. Calculate the current, I.
A. 0.917 A. 0.60 A
B. 0.726 B. 1.15 A
C. 0.615 C. 1.03 A
D. 0.523 D. 0.97 A
4. An object placed 36cm from a converging
lens of focal length 24cm, forms a real 7. Determine the potential difference, V
image which is 6cm high. What is the across the parallel resistors.
height of the object? A. 2.3 V
A. 8.0cm B. 2.5 V
B. 10.0cm C. 3.0 V
C. 12.0cm D. 3.2 V
D. 18.0cm
8. A machine gun with a mass of 5kg fires a A. 101
-1
50g bullet at a speed of 100ms . The B. 151
recoil speed of the machine gun is C. 200
-1
A. 2.0 ms D. 250
-1
B. 1.5 ms 13. A resistance thermometer has a
-1
C. 0.5 ms resistance of 20Ω at 00C and 85Ω at
D. 1.0 ms-1 1000C. If its resistance is 65Ω in a
9. Which of the following statements about medium, calculate the corresponding
elastic collision is correct? temperature.
A. Momentum is lost due to the sound A. 49.20C
produced B. 60.60C
B. Loss in momentum is equal to loss in C. 69.20C
kinetic energy D. 85.70C
C. Both kinetic energy and momentum 14. A given mass of an ideal gas has a
are conserved pressure 0f 500Nm-2 at -130C. If its
D. Kinetic energy is lost while momentum volume remains constant, calculate its
is conserved pressure at 2470C
10. Electrical resistance is a property A. 400Nm-2
of an electrical conductor that causes B. 450Nm-2
electrical energy to be converted into C. 500Nm-2
A. mechanical energy D. 520Nm-2
B. heat energy 15. The volume of an ideal gas at a
C. magnetic energy pressure of 77cm Hg and temperature
D. chemical energy 600C is 240cm3. If the temperature and
11. A simple machine with an pressure are increased to 980C and 81cm
efficiency of 75% lifts a load of 5000N Hg respectively, calculate the new volume
when a force of 500N is applied to it. of the gas
Calculate the velocity ratio of the A. 254.2cm3
machine B. 230.5cm3
A. 13.3 C. 200.4cm3
B. 10.0 D. 120.7cm3
C. 5.0 16. The amount of heat given out or
D. 4.0 absorbed when a substance changes its
12. A screw jack with a tommy bar of state at a constant temperature is known
length 12cm is used to raise a car through A. latent heat
a vertical height of 25cm by turning the B. heat capacity
tommy bar through 50 revolutions. C. specific latent heat
Calculate the approximate velocity ratio D. specific heat capacity
of the jack [π = 3.14]
17. Which of the following physical 22. Where will the image of the
quantities affects the saturated vapour object OB shown in the diagram below be
pressure of a liquid? located after reflection from the mirror?
A. Temperature
B
B. Volume
C. Mass
D. Density O P F C
18. At which position should an object
be placed in front of a concave mirror in
order to obtain an image which is of the
same size as the object?
A. at F
A. At the center of curvature
B. beyond C
B. At the principal focus
C. between P and F
C. Between the pole and the principal
D. between 0 and P
focus
D. Between the center of curvature and
23. Surface waves travelling in deep
the principal focus
water at 15ms-1 are incident at a shallow
19. Images formed by a concave
water boundary. If the angles of
mirror are always
incidence and refraction are 450 and 300
A. magnified
B. behind the mirror respectively, calculate the speed of the

C. real waves in shallow water.

D. inverted A. 10.0ms-1
20. The refractive index of a material B. 10.6ms-1
is 1.5. Calculate the critical angle at the C. 11.0ms-1
glass-air interface. D. 11.6ms-1
A. 190 24. Convex spherical mirrors are
B. 210 preferred to plane mirrors as driving
C. 390 mirrors because
D. 42 0
A. the images produced is upright and
21. A diverging lens of focal length 30 clearly visible
cm produces an image 20 cm from the B. it provides a wider field of view
lens. Determine the object distance. C. the image produced is erect and
A. 10 cm diminished
B. 12 cm D. the image produced is not laterally
C. 50 cm inverted
D. 60 c 25. An object is placed 20cm from a
lens. If an image is formed on a screen
260cm away from the lens, calculate the
magnification of the image.
 A. 28 shoots out of the bottle at an angle of
B. 26 400 to the horizontal and travels a
C. 24 horizontal distance of 4.50 m in 1.25 s,
D. 13 calculate the initial speed of the cork.
26. A uniform meter rule of mass 90g A. 4.7 ms-1
is pivoted at the 40cm mark. If the rule B. 5.2 ms-1
is in equilibrium with an unknown mass m C. 6.5 ms-1
placed at the 10cm mark and a 72g mass D. 7.1 ms-1
at the 70cm mark, determine m 29. A uniform meter rule is balanced
A. 85g on a fulcrum placed at the 35 cm mark by
B. 100g suspending a mass of 120 g at the 10 cm
C. 102g mark. Calculate the mass of the meter
D. 120g rule.
27. The two positions of a body A. 80 g
undergoing uniform accelerated motion B. 200 g
-1 -1
are (10 s, 10 ms ) and (30 s, 50 ms ) on C. 100 g
the velocity graph. Calculate the D. 150 g
magnitude of the acceleration of the 30. When slat is dissolved in water,
body. the freezing point of the water
A. 2.0 ms-2 A. increases
B. 20.0 ms-2 B. decreases
C. 15.0 ms-2 C. remains the same
D. 25.0 ms -2 D. increases and later decreases
28. At a birthday party, the celebrant
pops a corked fruit wine. If the cork

1. a) Explain the term projectile, given two examples.

b) A projectile is fired horizontally with velocity of 25ms-1 from a cliff 30m high, calculate
(i) the time taken to reach the ground
(ii) the distance from the point of impact to the foot of the tower. [g = 9.8ms -2]

2. a) Use a ray diagram to show how an image is formed by two mirrors inclined at an angle of 90 0
b) A concave mirror forms an image of height 4cm at a distance of 2cm. If, the radius of
curvature of the mirror is 3.0cm, find the height and distance of the object from the front of
the mirror.

3. a) With the aid of diagram explain how a Compound Microscope works

b) The critical angle of a material is 700, what is the refractive index of the material? If material
has a thickness of 15cm and is placed on a piece of paper with a black dot. By how much will the
dot be displaced?
4. a) An object 1.2m high is placed 2m in front of a pin hole camera of length 40cm, what is the size
of the image?
b) Explain how a Pin hole camera works, showing the relationship between the size of the pin hole
and the nature of the image.

5. a) Describe an experiment to verify Charles law

b) A given mass of gas at a temperature of 30"C is trapped in a tube of volume V.

Calculate the temperature of the gas when the volume is reduced to two-third of its
original value by applying a pressure twice the original value.

6. A uniform beam 6.0m long weighing 6kg rests on supports K and L placed left and right 1.0 meter
from each end of the beam. Weights of mass 10kg and 8kg are placed near K and L respectively,
one on each end of the beam. Calculate the reactions at K and L.