Cambridge A Level · 9702 · Paper 1 · Multiple choice
Physics 9702/12 May/June 2020 past paper
Cambridge A Level Physics (9702) Paper 1 (Multiple choice), variant 2, May/June 2020: the question paper and its official mark scheme, 40 questions worth 40 marks. Free to open, no account needed.
- Questions
- 40
- Marks
- 40
File names: 9702_s20_qp_12 · 9702_s20_ms_12
Topics in this paper
Which syllabus chapters 9702/12 May/June 2020 tested, by marks. Each chapter links to every past-paper question on it.
| Chapter | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity | 10 | 10 |
| Waves | 7 | 7 |
| Deformation of solids | 6 | 6 |
| Work, energy and power | 3 | 3 |
| Kinematics | 3 | 3 |
| Dynamics | 3 | 3 |
| Superposition | 3 | 3 |
| Forces, density and pressure | 2 | 2 |
| Particle physics | 2 | 2 |
| Physical quantities and units | 1 | 1 |
Questions in 9702/12 May/June 2020
- Question 1
What is a reasonable estimate of the mass of a raindrop? A 101 kg B 10–1 kg C 10–3 kg D 10–5 kg
- Question 2
Which quantity is a scalar? A acceleration B force C kinetic energy D momentum
- Question 3
A galvanometer of resistance 5 Ω is to be used in a null method. In order to protect the galvanometer from damage due to an excessive initial current, resistors of resistance 0.5 Ω and 1 kΩ are available. Which arrangement …
- Question 4
Readings are made of the current I for different voltages V across a fixed resistor. The results are plotted on a graph to show the variation of I with …
- Question 5
A stone is dropped from a height of 20 m above water. The graph shows the variation with time of the velocity of the stone. …
- Question 6
A car X is travelling at a constant speed u along a straight road. At time …
- Question 7
The resultant force acting on an object is slowly increased. Which graph could show the variation with time t of the momentum p of the object? …
- Question 8
An astronaut has a weight of 660 N when she is standing on the Earth’s surface. The acceleration of free fall on the surface of Mars is …
- Question 9
A mass m1 travelling with speed u1 collides with a mass m2 travelling with speed u2 in the same direction. After the collision, mass m1 has speed v1 and mass m2 has speed v2 in the same direction. The collision …
- Question 10
The diagrams show a negative electric charge situated in a uniform electric field and a mass situated in a uniform gravitational field. – charge uniform electric field mass uniform gravitational field Which row shows the directions of the forces acting …
- Question 11
A bicycle pedal is connected to a pivot by a metal bar, as shown. 20 cm 16 cm 12 cm pivot bar pedal force 60 N The force on the pedal is 60 N downwards. What is the moment of …
- Question 12
A thin horizontal beam XY is freely hinged at point Y to a vertical wall. The beam is held stationary by a cable XZ which is attached to the wall at point Z. wall hinge …
- Question 13
A pipe, open at one end, floats in a liquid as shown. …
- Question 14
During an interval of time, fuel supplies energy X to a car. Some of this energy is converted into kinetic energy as the car accelerates. The rest of the energy Y is lost as thermal energy. What is the efficiency …
- Question 15
In which situation is work done on an object? A The object slides with a constant velocity along a horizontal frictionless surface in a vacuum. B A person holds the object at arm’s length and at a fixed height above …
- Question 16
A spring is attached at one end to a fixed point. A mass is then hung from the other end of the spring. The spring has extension x when the system is in equilibrium. spring …
- Question 17
An escalator in an underground station has 25 people standing on it and is moving with a speed of …
- Question 18
An elastic cord of unstretched total length 16.0 cm and cross-sectional area …
- Question 19
A student is investigating the mechanical properties of a metal. He applies different loads to a long thin wire up to its breaking point, and measures the extension of the wire for each load. He then plots a graph of …
- Question 20
Which statement describes what is meant by the plastic deformation of a material? A It always obeys Hooke’s law. B It does not return to its original length when the extending force is removed. C It never obeys Hooke’s law. …
- Question 21
A transverse wave is moving along a rope. Two points X and Y on the rope are a quarter of a wavelength apart from each other. Which statement is not possible for the two points X and Y at any …
- Question 22
Two progressive waves meet at a fixed point P. The variation with time of the displacement of each wave at point P is shown in the graph. …
- Question 23
A microphone connected to the Y-plates of a cathode-ray oscilloscope (CRO) is placed in front of a loudspeaker. The trace on the screen of the CRO is shown. 1 cm 1 cm The time-base setting is 0.5 ms cm–1 and …
- Question 24
The diagram shows an experiment to produce a stationary wave in an air column. A tuning fork, placed above the column, vibrates and produces a sound wave. The length of the air column can be varied by altering the volume …
- Question 25
A stationary person measures the speed and wavelength of the sound from a horn on a stationary vehicle. The person then repeats the measurements when the vehicle is approaching at a constant speed. Which row describes the measured wavelength and …
- Question 26
The table shows the wavelengths of five electromagnetic waves. Which row correctly identifies the principal radiation for each of these wavelengths? …
- Question 27
Two progressive waves meet at a point. Which condition must be met for superposition of the waves to occur? A The waves must be coherent. B The waves must be of the same type. C The waves must be travelling …
- Question 28
A hill separates a television (TV) transmitter from a house. The transmitter cannot be seen from the house. However, the house has good TV reception. hill house TV transmitter By which wave effect at the hill could the TV signal …
- Question 29
The diagram shows an arrangement for demonstrating two-source interference using coherent light of a single wavelength λ. light of wavelength …
- Question 30
Light of wavelength λ is incident normally on a diffraction grating. The angle between the second-order maximum and the normal to the grating is θ. The variation with sin θ of λ is shown on the graph. …
- Question 31
A dipole is a pair of charges of equal magnitude, one negative and one positive. The electric field of a dipole is shown below. In which direction does the force act on an electron when at point …
- Question 32
A charged oil droplet of mass m is falling, initially freely, in a vacuum between two horizontal metal plates that are separated by a distance x. A potential difference (p.d.) V is then applied across the plates. This results in …
- Question 33
The number density of free electrons in copper is …
- Question 34
An electric kettle is rated at 2.0 kW, which describes the power supplied to the heating coil in the kettle. The coil has a resistance of 5.0 kΩ. What is the current in the coil? …
- Question 35
A conductor consists of three wires connected in series. The wires are all made of the same metal but have different cross-sectional areas. There is a current I in the conductor. conductor …
- Question 36
A cell of electromotive force (e.m.f.) E and internal resistance 0.50 Ω is connected to a resistor of resistance …
- Question 37
Kirchhoff’s first and second laws link to the conservation of physical quantities. Which quantities do they link to? first law second law A charge energy B charge momentum C energy charge D energy momentum
- Question 38
In the circuit shown, X is a variable resistor whose resistance can be changed from 5.0 Ω to 500 Ω. The electromotive force (e.m.f.) of the battery is 12.0 V. It has negligible internal resistance. output …
- Question 39
An unstable nucleus goes through successive decays to become a final, stable nucleus. The initial nucleus and the final nucleus are isotopes of each other. How many α and β– particles could have been emitted during the decay sequence? particle …
- Question 40
A hadron has a charge of –e and is composed of three quarks. What could be the quark composition of the hadron? …
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