Cambridge A Level · 9702 · Paper 1 · Multiple choice
Physics 9702/12 Feb/March 2026 past paper
Cambridge A Level Physics (9702) Paper 1 (Multiple choice), variant 2, Feb/March 2026: the question paper and its official mark scheme, 40 questions worth 40 marks. Free to open, no account needed.
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Which syllabus chapters 9702/12 Feb/March 2026 tested, by marks. Each chapter links to every past-paper question on it.
Questions in 9702/12 Feb/March 2026
- Question 1
What is the value of the ratio ? nm 1 km …
- Question 2
What could reduce systematic errors? A averaging a large number of measurements B careful calibration of measuring instruments C reducing the sample size D repeating measurements
- Question 3
A student measures the current and the potential difference for a resistor in a circuit. current …
- Question 4
Graphs can be used to represent the motion of an object. Which relationship between a quantity of motion and a property of a graph is correct? A Acceleration is the area under a velocity–time graph. B Acceleration is the gradient …
- Question 5
The water surface in a deep well is 78.0 m below the top of the well. A person at the top of the well drops a heavy stone down the well. Air resistance is negligible. The speed of sound in …
- Question 6
A toy car moves in a straight line. The graph shows the variation with time of the displacement of the car from its initial position. displacement …
- Question 7
A car travels anticlockwise along a horizontal circular road of radius 12 m, as shown. The car takes a time of 4.0 s to move from position P to position …
- Question 8
A person is suspended from a rope vertically below a helicopter. The helicopter and the person are stationary above the ground. person ground rope helicopter Which force forms a Newton’s third law force pair with the weight of the person? …
- Question 9
Two small moving particles collide. After the collision, the particles move in different directions. What is essential for the total momentum to be conserved in the collision? A No external force acts on the system of the two colliding particles. …
- Question 10
Block 1 of mass 3.0 kg is on a horizontal frictionless table. A rope with negligible mass is attached to the block. The rope passes over a frictionless pulley. Block 2 of mass 1.0 kg is suspended from the other …
- Question 11
The mass of an object can be determined by its relationship to other physical quantities. Three relationships are shown. 1 object the of on accelerati object the on force resultant 2 object the of velocity object the of momentum linear …
- Question 12
A basket is sliding on a horizontal frictionless surface with a velocity of 30 cm …
- Question 13
Two children are balanced horizontally in equilibrium on a plank. plank, mass 7.0 kg child X, mass 20 kg child Y, mass 15 kg …
- Question 14
The diagrams show two ways of hanging the same picture. …
- Question 15
The diagram shows four metal cylinders submerged inside a container of water. Which cylinder has the greatest pressure on its top surface? …
- Question 16
Three solid objects, cube P, cuboid Q and cylinder R, are shown. …
- Question 17
A small ball is projected into the air from horizontal ground. The diagram shows part of the path of the ball. X Y path of ball 8.8 m horizontal ground The ball leaves the ground at point X with a …
- Question 18
A boat requires a power P to move through still water with a constant velocity. There is a drag force F acting on the boat. What is the velocity of the boat? …
- Question 19
When the speed of an object is increased from …
- Question 20
Trains supply coal to a power station. The table shows quantities describing the operation of the power station. symbol unit power station average output P W number of trains per day N mass of coal on a train M kg …
- Question 21
Which descriptions of objects undergoing elastic and plastic deformation are correct? object undergoing elastic deformation object undergoing plastic deformation A is permanently deformed is not permanently deformed B is not permanently deformed is not permanently deformed C is permanently deformed …
- Question 22
A force F extends a length L of a uniform wire by an extension e. The wire has diameter d and obeys Hooke’s law. What is the Young modulus of the material of the wire? A FL …
- Question 23
An 8.00 N weight is attached to the lower end of a spring which is fixed at its upper end. The weight is initially held at rest at position X and the spring is unstretched. The weight is then released …
- Question 24
An electromagnetic wave has a frequency of …
- Question 25
A wave on a stretched string causes the particles on the string to vibrate. The diagram shows part of the string at one instant. string …
- Question 26
What describes the displacement of a particle on a wave? A the distance in a specified direction of the particle from its equilibrium position B the distance moved in a specified direction by the particle per unit time C the …
- Question 27
A beam of vertically polarised light of intensity I0 is incident normally on a polarising filter. The transmission axis of the filter is at an angle of 60° to the vertical. The transmitted light beam is then incident normally on …
- Question 28
A car is driving along a straight road while emitting a sound of a constant frequency. There is a stationary observer at each location X, Y and Z. direction of motion …
- Question 29
Each diagram shows a stationary wave on a stretched string. Which diagram is correctly labelled? A node antinode wavelength B antinode node wavelength C node antinode wavelength D antinode node wavelength
- Question 30
Two coherent electromagnetic waves are travelling in a vacuum. The two waves meet at a point. At this point, the two waves have different intensities. Which statement about the waves is not correct? A They have a constant phase difference …
- Question 31
Laser light of a single frequency is incident normally on a diffraction grating with …
- Question 32
Which graph represents the variation with current I of potential difference (p.d.) V for a filament lamp? …
- Question 33
What is the definition of the potential difference (p.d.) across a component? A the energy transferred per unit charge B the energy transferred per unit time C the power transferred per unit current D the product of current and resistance
- Question 34
Conducting putty is a substance that conducts electricity and can be moulded into various shapes. A cuboid made from this putty has length L and width x. The resistance between the square faces of the cuboid is …
- Question 35
Each of Kirchhoff’s laws is linked to the conservation of a physical quantity. Which conserved physical quantities are used in the derivation of Kirchhoff’s first law and of Kirchhoff’s second law? Kirchhoff’s first law Kirchhoff’s second law A energy charge …
- Question 36
Eight identical resistors are connected as shown. …
- Question 37
A battery of electromotive force …
- Question 38
In the -particle scattering experiment, a beam of -particles is aimed at a thin gold foil. Most of the -particles go straight through or are deflected by a small angle. A very small proportion are deflected by more than 90°, …
- Question 39
In a type of beta decay, an up quark changes flavour to a down quark. Which row shows the new hadron created in this beta decay and the sign of the charge on the emitted beta particle? hadron created sign …
- Question 40
Uranium, U, 238 92 decays into radium, Ra, 226 88 after a sequence of alpha and beta-minus decays. Which row gives the correct number of alpha decays and beta-minus decays? …
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