Cambridge A Level ยท 9702 ยท Paper 4 ยท A Level structured questions
Physics 9702/42 May/June 2022 past paper
Cambridge A Level Physics (9702) Paper 4 (A Level structured questions), variant 2, May/June 2022: the question paper and its official mark scheme, 10 questions worth 100 marks, with the grade thresholds. Free to open, no account needed.
- Questions
- 10
- Marks
- 100
- Grade A from
- 54
File names: 9702_s22_qp_42 ยท 9702_s22_ms_42
Grade thresholds for 9702/42 May/June 2022
The minimum raw marks Cambridge set for each grade on this component (out of 100). Thresholds change every session and variant, so always compare your score with the paper you actually sat.
| A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 46 | 35 | 24 | 13 |
Topics in this paper
Which syllabus chapters 9702/42 May/June 2022 tested, by marks. Each chapter links to every past-paper question on it.
| Chapter | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Magnetic fields | 2 | 20 |
| Electricity | 1 | 13 |
| Temperature | 1 | 12 |
| Capacitance | 1 | 11 |
| Nuclear physics | 1 | 11 |
| Gravitational fields | 1 | 10 |
| Oscillations | 1 | 8 |
| Quantum physics | 1 | 8 |
| Astronomy and cosmology | 1 | 7 |
Questions in 9702/42 May/June 2022
- Question 1
(a) (i) Define gravitational potential at a point. (ii) Starting from the equation for the gravitational potential due to a point mass, show that the gravitational potential energy EP of a point mass m at a distance r from another โฆ
- Question 2
(a) State Coulombโs law. (b) Positronium is a system in which an electron and a positron orbit, with the same period, around their common centre of mass, as shown in Fig. 2.1. r centre of mass electron positron Fig. 2.1 โฆ
- Question 3
(a) Define specific latent heat of vaporisation. (b) The specific latent heat of vaporisation of water at atmospheric pressure of โฆ
- Question 4
(a) State what is meant by resonance. (b) Fig. 4.1 shows a heavy pendulum and a light pendulum, both suspended from the same piece of string. This string is secured at each end to fixed points. fixed points string heavy โฆ
- Question 5
(a) Define the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor. (b) Two capacitors, of capacitances C1 and C2, are connected in parallel to a power supply of electromotive force (e.m.f.) E, as shown in Fig. โฆ
- Question 6
(a) State the two conditions that must be satisfied for a copper wire, placed in a magnetic field, to experience a magnetic force. โฆ
- Question 7
(a) State Faradayโs law of electromagnetic induction. (b) Two coils are wound on an iron bar, as shown in Fig. โฆ
- Question 8
(a) State one piece of experimental evidence for: (i) the particulate nature of electromagnetic radiation (ii) the wave nature of matter. (b) (i) Calculate the de Broglie wavelength ฮป of an alpha-particle moving at a speed of โฆ
- Question 9
(a) (i) State Hubbleโs law. (ii) Explain how cosmologists use observations of emission spectra from stars in distant galaxies to determine that the Universe is expanding. (b) Explain how Hubbleโs law and the idea of the expanding Universe lead to โฆ
- Question 10
(a) State what is meant by radioactive decay. (b) A radioactive sample consists of an isotope X of half-life T that decays to form a stable product. Only X and the stable product are present in the sample. At time โฆ
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