Physics Practice Paper 2
Physics Practice Paper 2
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GCSE
PHYSICS
Higher Tier 2H
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• a ruler
For Examiner’s Use
• a calculator
• the periodic table Question Mark
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Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. 2
• Pencil should only be used for drawing. 3
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. 4
• Answer all questions in the spaces provided. Do not write
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outside the box around each page or on blank pages.
• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at 6
the end of this book. Write the question number against your 7
answer(s). 8
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want
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to be marked.
• In all calculations, show clearly how you work out your answer. TOTAL
Information
• The maximum mark for this paper is 98.
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• You are expected to use a calculator where appropriate.
You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation
The container has four vertical tubes of different shape and size.
(a) Complete the diagram above to show the height of the water in tubes 2, 3 and 4.
(1)
(b) The further a swimmer dives below the surface of the sea, the greater the pressure on the
swimmer.
Explain why.
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(2)
(c) A person swims from a depth of 0.50 m to a depth of 1.70 m below the surface of the sea.
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Increase in pressure = _____________________ Unit ____________
(4)
(Total 7 marks)
Q2.
The diagram below shows the apparatus a student used to investigate the reflection of light by a
plane mirror.
The student drew four ray diagrams for each angle of incidence.
Angle of reflection
(a) For each angle of incidence, the angle of reflection has a range of values.
What type of error will have caused each angle of reflection to have a range of values?
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(1)
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(b) Suggest what the student may have done during the investigation to cause each angle of
reflection to have a range of values.
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(1)
(c) Estimate the uncertainty in the angle of reflection when the angle of incidence is 50°.
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Uncertainty = ± _____________________ °
(2)
(d) The student concluded that for a plane mirror, the angle of incidence is equal to the angle
of reflection.
Use examples from the results in the table below in your answer.
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(2)
(e) What extra evidence could be collected to support the student’s conclusion?
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(1)
(f) State one change the student should make to the apparatus if he wants to use the same
method to investigate diffuse reflection.
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(1)
(Total 8 marks)
Q3.
Figure 1 shows an exercise device called a chest expander. The three springs are identical.
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Figure 1
A person pulls outwards on the handles and does work to stretch the springs.
When the springs are stretched ___________ ___________ energy is stored in the
springs.
(1)
(b) Figure 2 shows how the extension of a single spring from the chest expander depends
on the force acting on the spring.
Figure 2
(i) How can you tell, from Figure 2, that the limit of proportionality of the spring has not
been exceeded?
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(1)
(ii) Use data from Figure 2 to calculate the spring constant of the spring.
Give the unit.
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Spring constant = ___________ Unit ___________
(3)
(iii) Three identical resistors joined in parallel in an electrical circuit share the total
current in the circuit.
In a similar way, the three springs in the chest expander share the total force
exerted.
By considering this similarity, use Figure 2 to determine the total force exerted on
the chest expander when each spring is stretched by 0.25 m.
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Figure 3
Each time the student does one chin-up he lifts his body 0.40 m vertically upwards.
The mass of the student is 65 kg.
The student is able to do 12 chin-ups in 60 seconds.
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Power = ___________ W
(3)
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(Total 10 marks)
Q4.
(a) Brown dwarf stars are thought to have been formed in the same way as other stars.
They are too small for nuclear fusion reactions to take place in them.
Brown dwarf stars emit infrared radiation but are not hot enough to emit visible light.
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(2)
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(1)
(iii) Scientists predicted that brown dwarf stars existed before the first one was
discovered in 1995.
Suggest one reason why scientists are now able to observe and identify brown
dwarf stars.
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(1)
(b) In the 18th century some scientists suggested a theory about how the planets formed in
the Solar System. The theory was that after the Sun formed, there were cool discs of
matter rotating around the Sun. These cool discs of matter formed the planets. The
scientists thought this must have happened around other stars too.
(i) Thinking about this theory, what would the scientists have predicted to have been
formed in other parts of the Universe?
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(1)
(ii) Since the 1980s scientists studying young stars have shown the stars to be
surrounded by cool discs of rotating matter.
What was the importance of these observations to the theory the scientists
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suggested in the 18th century?
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(1)
Why is the presence of elements heavier than iron in the Earth evidence that the Solar
System was formed from material produced after a massive star exploded?
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(Total 7 marks)
Q5.
A student investigated the refraction of light at the boundary between air and glass.
(a) The ray of light from the ray box should be as narrow as possible.
Explain why using a wider ray would give less accurate results than using a narrower ray.
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(2)
(b) Estimate the angle of refraction when the angle of incidence is 80°.
(c) Describe a method the student could have used to obtain the results shown in the graph
above.
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(6)
When the angle of incidence was 40° the three measured values for the angle of
refraction were
Estimate the uncertainty in the angle of refraction when the angle of incidence was 40°.
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Uncertainty = ± __________°
(2)
Colour
Frequency
Velocity
(1)
(Total 13 marks)
Q6.
Figure 1 shows a piece of apparatus called a current balance.
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Figure 1
When the switch is closed, the part of the wire labelled X experiences a force and moves
downwards.
(a) What is the name of the effect that causes the wire X to move downwards?
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(1)
(b) Suggest one change you could make to the apparatus in Figure 1 that would increase the
size of the force that wire X experiences.
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(1)
(c) Figure 2 shows how a small weight placed on the insulating bar makes the wire X go
back and balance in its original position.
Figure 2
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Q7.
(a) The stopping distance of a vehicle is made up of two parts, the thinking distance and the
braking distance.
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(1)
1. ____________________________________________________________
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2. ____________________________________________________________
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(2)
(b) A car is travelling at a speed of 20 m/s when the driver applies the brakes. The car
decelerates at a constant rate and stops.
Calculate the kinetic energy of the car and driver before the brakes are applied.
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(ii) How much work is done by the braking force to stop the car and driver?
(iii) The braking force used to stop the car and driver was 8000 N.
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Calculate the braking distance of the car.
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(iv) The braking distance of a car depends on the speed of the car and the braking force
applied.
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(1)
(v) Applying the brakes of the car causes the temperature of the brakes to increase.
Explain why.
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(2)
(c) Hybrid cars have an electric engine and a petrol engine. This type of car is often fitted
with a regenerative braking system. A regenerative braking system not only slows a car
down but at the same time causes a generator to charge the car’s battery.
State and explain the benefit of a hybrid car being fitted with a regenerative braking
system.
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(3)
(Total 14 marks)
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Q8.
Quantities in physics are either scalars or vectors.
(a) Use the correct answers from the box to complete the sentence.
(b) Complete the table to show which quantities are scalars and which quantities are vectors.
Momentum
Acceleration
Distance
Force
Time
(3)
(c) The diagram shows two supermarket trolleys moving in the same direction.
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Momentum of trolley A = _______________
Unit __________
(4)
(ii) The trolleys in the diagram collide and join together. They move off together.
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Velocity = _______________ m / s
(3)
(iii) In a different situation, the trolleys in the digram move at the same speeds as
before but now move towards each other.
Calculate the total momentum and the total kinetic energy of the two trolleys before
they collide.
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Q9.
A student investigated the behaviour of springs. She had a box of identical springs.
(a) When a force acts on a spring, the shape of the spring changes.
The student suspended a spring from a rod by one of its loops. A force was applied to the
spring by suspending a mass from it.
Figure 1 shows a spring before and after a mass had been suspended from it.
Figure 1
Before After
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(i) State two ways in which the shape of the spring has changed.
1. ____________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________
(2)
Explain how the student could test if the spring was behaving elastically.
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(2)
(b) In a second investigation, a student took a set of measurements of force and extension.
Table 1
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(ii) During this investigation the spring exceeded its limit of proportionality.
Force = _________________ N
Reason _______________________________________________________
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Figure 2
Table 2
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Mass in g Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Mean
Tick ( )
Gravitational potential
energy
Kinetic energy
(1)
(ii) The value of time for the 100 g mass in Test 2 is anomalous.
Tick ( )
Misread stopwatch
(iii) Calculate the correct mean value of time for the 100 g mass in Table 2.
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(iv) Although the raw data in Table 2 is given to 3 significant figures, the mean values
are correctly given to 2 significant figures.
Suggest why.
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(2)
(v) The student wanted to plot her results on a graph. She thought that four sets of
results were not enough.
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(2)
(Total 17 marks)
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Mark schemes
Q1.
(a) all heights drawn the same as tube 1
judge by eye
1
(b) increasing depth increases the height / mass / volume (of the water column) above
the swimmer
allow more water above (the swimmer)
more water is insufficient
1
(Δ) p = 12112.8
allow a correctly rounded answer
allow a correct calculation using either 0.50 or 1.70
1
pascals or Pa
do not accept pa
allow N/m2
1
an answer of 12 112.8 scores 3 marks
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Q2.
(a) random
human error is insufficient
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(b) accept any practical suggestion that could cause a range of values
e.g. misjudging the centre of the ray
e.g. not replacing mirror / ray box in the same position
measuring the angle incorrectly is insufficient
moving the mirror / ray box is insufficient
1
(c) range = 10
or
mean of 51 calculated
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5(°)
an answer of 5(°) scores 2 marks
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1
(d) within experimental accuracy the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are
the same
allow the angle of incidence is nearly the same as the
angle of reflection
or
the angle of reflection is usually different to the angle of incidence
allow only a few of the values are the same / similar
allow the idea of a range of values
1
(e) results could be collected for angles (of incidence) not yet measured
allow a stated angle of incidence e.g. 10° or 60°
changing the mirror is insufficient
ignore repeat the measurements
1
Q3.
(a) elastic potential
1
(ii) 400
allow 1 mark for correct substitution of any pair of numbers
correctly taken from the graph e.g.160 = k × 0.40
2
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(iii) 300
allow 1 mark for correctly obtaining force on 1 spring = 100N
2
(c) 52
allow 2 marks for calculating change in gpe for 1 chin-up as 260
(J) or for 12 chin-ups as 3120 (J)
an answer 4.3 gains 2 marks
allow 1 mark for correct substitution into gpe equation ie gpe = 65
× 10 × 0.4 (× 12)
or
correct use of power equation with an incorrect value for energy
transferred
3
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Q4.
(a) (i) (enough) dust and gas (from space) is pulled together
accept nebula for dust and gas
accept hydrogen for gas
accept gas on its own
dust on its own is insufficient
mention of air negates this mark
1
by:
gravitational attraction
or
gravitational forces
or
gravitaty
ignore any (correct) stages beyond this
1
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(c) elements heavier than iron are formed only when a (massive) star explodes
accept materials for elements
accept supernova for star explodes
accept stars can only fuse elements up to (and including) iron
1
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Q5.
(a) it is harder to judge where the centre of a wider ray is
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41 (degrees)
allow 40 to 43 (degrees)
1
(c) Level 3: The design/plan would lead to the production of a valid outcome. All key
steps are identified and logically sequenced.
5−6
Level 2: The design/plan would not necessarily lead to a valid outcome. Most steps
are identified, but the method is not fully logically sequenced.
3−4
Level 1: The design/plan would not lead to a valid outcome. Some relevant steps
are identified, but links are not made clear.
1−2
No relevant content
0
Indicative content:
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(d) = 25
1
3 (degrees)
allow alternative method
28 – 22 = 6 (1)
= 3 (degrees) (1)
1
(e) Velocity
1
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Q6.
(a) motor effect
1
or
F = 6 × 10−3 (N)
1
B=
1
B = 8 × 10−2 or 0.08
1
allow 8 × 10 or 0.08 with no working shown for 5 marks
−2
Tesla
accept T
1
do not accept t
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Q7.
(a) (i) distance vehicle travels during driver’s reaction time
accept distance vehicle travels while driver reacts
1
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(ii) any two from:
• tiredness
• (drinking) alcohol
• (taking) drugs
• speed
• age
accept as an alternative factor distractions, eg using a mobile
phone
2
(iii) 40
or
correctly calculated
allow 1 mark for statement work done = KE lost
or
allow 1 mark for correct substitution, ie
8000 × distance = 320 000 or their (b)(ii)
2
• (worn) tyres
• road surface
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accept heat for thermal energy accept
KE transferred to thermal energy
1
or
increases the range of the car
accept less demand for other fuels or lower emissions or lower
fuel costs
environmentally friendly is insufficient
the decrease in (kinetic) energy / work done charges the battery (up)
accept because not all work done / (kinetic) energy is wasted
1
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Q8.
(a) speed
must be in correct order
1
direction
1
(b)
Quantity Scalar Vector
Momentum
Acceleration
Distance
Force
Time
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4 × 0.5
3
kg m / s or N s
1
(ii) 1.5 (m / s)
or
their pA + pB = 12 × v correctly calculated
allow 2 marks for correct substitution, ie
18 = 12 × v
or
their pA + pB = 12 × v
18 or their pA + pB scores 1 mark if no other mark awarded
3
(iii) 14 (kg m / s)
or
their pA - pB
1
16.5 (J)
1
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Q9.
(a) (i) any two from:
observe if the spring returns to its original length / shape (then it is behaving
elastically)
1
evidence of processing figures eg 8.0 cm is half way between 4.0 cm and 12.0
cm
1
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(ii) any value greater than 4.0 N and less than or equal to 5.0 N
1
the increase in extension is greater than 4 cm per 1.0 N (of force) added
dependent on first mark
1
smaller masses eg 50 g
not exceeding limit of proportionality
1
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