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56

 List three advantages of fluorescent tubes over filament bulbs.

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57

List three advantages of p - n junetion diode over diode valve.

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58

(a) State two deductions that can be made from a displacement-time graph.

(b) If the distance beween two equal masses is doubled and their individual masses are also doubled, what would happen to the force between them? Support your answer quantitatively.

(c) State two factors that affect the maximum height attained by a bullet fired from a gun.

(d) State two practical examples of mechanical resonance. A body is released from rest at the top of a plane inclined at 30° to the horizontal and 4.0 m high. If the coefficient of friction between the body and the plane is 0.3, calculate the time the body takes to reach the bottom of the plane.

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(a) Define stable equilibrium as applied to a rigid body.

(b) Sketch a block and tackle system of pulleys with a velocity ratio of 3.

(c) At the beginning of a race, a tyre of volume 8.0 x 10\(^{-4}\) at 20°C-has a gas pressure of 4.5 x 10\(^5\) Pa. Calculate the temperature of the gas in the tyre at the end of the race if the pressure has risen to 4.6 x 1 0\(^5\) Pa.

(d)(i)

 

Ice point

273k

 

373k

Steam point

Resistance/\(\Omega\)

5.67 7.75

Pressure/Pa

7.13 x 10\(^4\) 9.74 x 10\(^4\)


The table above shows readings of the resistance and pressure of a platinum resistance thermometer and a constant-volume gas thermometer respectively, when immersed in the same liquid bath. Use this data to determine the temperature of the bath on the: (\(\alpha\)) resistance thermometer; (\(\beta\)) gas thermometer

(ii) By what percentage is the temperature measured on the platinum resistance thermometer in error?

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60

(a) What is a wavefront?

(b) (i) State two practical uses of glass prisms.

(ii) List two factors that determine the deviation of a ray of light travelling from air into a triangular glass prism.

(iii) Sketch a graph to illustrate the variation of the angle of deviation d, with that of incidence, i, for a ray of light travelling from air into a triangular glass prism. Indicate on the graph the point at which the angle of incidence equal to the angle of emergence e.

 

(c) (i) Draw and label a diagram of an astronomical telescope in normal adjustment.

(ii) The angular magnification of an astronomical telescope in normal adjustment is 5. If the focal length of the objective is 100cm, calculate the:

(\(\alpha\)) focal length of the eyepiece;

(\(\beta\)) length of the telescope.

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