Cambridge A Level · 9702 · Paper 1 · Multiple choice
Physics 9702/11 May/June 2023 past paper
Cambridge A Level Physics (9702) Paper 1 (Multiple choice), variant 1, May/June 2023: the question paper and its official mark scheme, 40 questions worth 40 marks, with the grade thresholds. Free to open, no account needed.
- Questions
- 40
- Marks
- 40
- Grade A from
- 28
File names: 9702_s23_qp_11 · 9702_s23_ms_11
Grade thresholds for 9702/11 May/June 2023
The minimum raw marks Cambridge set for each grade on this component (out of 40). Thresholds change every session and variant, so always compare your score with the paper you actually sat.
| A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 25 | 22 | 19 | 17 |
Topics in this paper
Which syllabus chapters 9702/11 May/June 2023 tested, by marks. Each chapter links to every past-paper question on it.
Questions in 9702/11 May/June 2023
- Question 1
Which unit is not an SI base unit? …
- Question 2
What is the best estimate of the number of atoms in a piece of metal of volume 50 cm3? …
- Question 3
A copper pipe has a true diameter of 42.03 mm. A builder measures the diameter of the pipe five times using digital calipers. The measurements are shown. diameter / mm …
- Question 4
Two forces, each of 10 N, act at a point P, as shown. The angle between the directions of the forces is …
- Question 5
One object moves directly from P to …
- Question 6
A ball is kicked so that it has an initial velocity of …
- Question 7
A camera drone of mass 1.20 kg hovers at a fixed point above the ground. The drone has four propellers. propeller camera In a time of 1.00 s, each propeller pushes a mass of 0.400 kg of air vertically downwards. …
- Question 8
A box rests on the Earth, as shown. Newton’s third law describes how forces of the same type act in pairs. One of the forces of a pair is the weight W of the box. Which arrow represents the other …
- Question 9
A small ball is held at the surface of liquid oil in a container. The ball is released from rest and falls through the oil. The ball has velocity v. A viscous (drag) force F acts on the ball. Which …
- Question 10
An object of mass m, moving at speed u along a frictionless horizontal surface, collides head-on with a stationary object of mass …
- Question 11
The driver of a car applies two parallel forces to a steering wheel, as shown. centre of steering wheel …
- Question 12
A farmer is trying to lift the corner of a large water tank. She uses a metal rod as a lever. force from farmer metal rod water tank pivot The vertical force from the farmer is constant and is always …
- Question 13
The diagram shows a ball of weight W hanging in equilibrium from a string. …
- Question 14
Which expression for pressure is correct? A force per unit area B force per unit volume C mass per unit area D mass per unit volume
- Question 15
A ball has a mass of 0.50 kg and a volume of …
- Question 16
A man sits on a buggy that is pulled along by a wire attached to a kite. The wire is at an angle of 40 to the horizontal and has a constant tension of 200 N. The man and buggy …
- Question 17
A ball is thrown vertically upwards from the surface of the Earth. Which statement describes the energy of the ball as it rises through the air? A The kinetic energy of the ball decreases as the gravitational potential energy decreases. …
- Question 18
A lamp is suspended in equilibrium from a fixed support by three long identical wires. wires fixed support lamp The weight of the lamp causes each wire to have an extension of 0.40 cm. The height h of the lamp …
- Question 19
The force–extension graph for a spring is shown. 0 0 extension force What represents the work done to extend the spring? A the area under the graph B the gradient of the graph C the reciprocal of the gradient of …
- Question 20
In an experiment, a student uses a microphone and a cathode-ray oscilloscope (CRO) to analyse a sound wave. The diagram shows the trace on the screen of the CRO. The student is expecting a sinusoidal waveform to be shown on …
- Question 21
The graph shows the variation with time of the displacement of a particle in a progressive wave. 0 0 displacement time y x Two measurements, x and y, are labelled on the graph. What do x and y represent? …
- Question 22
A car travels at a constant speed along a straight line PQ. A loudspeaker attached to the car emits sound of constant frequency f. A stationary observer is at point …
- Question 23
Some sources of electromagnetic waves in free space are listed. 1 a radio wave transmitter 2 a source of X-rays …
- Question 24
A vertically polarised beam of light is incident normally on a polarising filter. The transmission axis of the filter is at an angle of 40 to the horizontal. 40 beam of vertically polarised light transmission axis of polarising filter polarising …
- Question 25
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 26
A string is stretched between a vibration generator and a fixed point. When the vibration generator is vibrating at a frequency f, a stationary wave with five nodes is created on the stretched string, as shown. There is a node …
- Question 27
A ripple tank and a barrier with a single gap are used to demonstrate the diffraction of surface ripples on water. Initially, the wavelength of the ripples is five times smaller than the gap in the barrier. gap barrier ripples …
- Question 28
A laser produces a beam of light of wavelength 650 nm. The beam is incident normally on two slits that are a distance of 0.12 mm apart. A screen is placed parallel to the slits. The bright interference fringes on …
- Question 29
A beam of light from a laser is incident normally on a diffraction grating. 110 diffraction grating light beam The diagram shows only the second-order maxima that are produced. The grating has a line spacing of …
- Question 30
The electric current in a metal wire is 4.0 mA. How many electrons pass a fixed point in the wire in a time of 10 hours? …
- Question 31
What is the definition of the potential difference across an electrical component? A the charge per unit time passing through the component B the energy transferred per unit charge C the force per unit charge D the resistance per unit …
- Question 32
Which graph shows the I–V characteristic of a filament lamp? …
- Question 33
A metal wire has a length of 2.50 m and a cross-sectional area of …
- Question 34
Which circuit symbol represents a microphone? …
- Question 35
A battery with internal resistance is connected to a fixed resistor, an ammeter and a voltmeter, as shown. A V The battery is replaced by a different battery that has the same electromotive force (e.m.f.) but a greater internal resistance. …
- Question 36
Four potential divider circuits each consist of a battery of electromotive force …
- Question 37
A voltmeter is connected into a circuit with the polarity shown. …
- Question 38
A proton has mass mp and charge +e. What are the mass and charge of an antiproton? mass charge A –mp +e B –mp –e C mp +e D mp –e
- Question 39
A uranium nucleus has 92 protons and 143 neutrons. The nucleus emits a total of 3 -particles and 4 – particles to form nucleus X. How can nucleus X be represented? …
- Question 40
Which statement about a proton is correct? A A proton is a baryon but not a meson. B A proton is a meson but not a hadron. C A proton is both a hadron and a meson. D A proton …
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