TERM 2 2022 OPENER EXAM FORM 4

FORM 4 PHYSICS PAPER 1

NAME: ……………………………………………….ADM NO.:………………CLASS…...............

SECTION A: 25 MARKS
1. The figure below shows part of a vernier callipers when the jaws are closed
without an object in between the jaws.

a)State the zero error of the vernier callipers. (1mk)

b) A student used the same vernier calipers to measure the diameter of a

test tube of actual diameter 2.15cm. What was the reading shown by
the vernier callipers? (2mks)

2. Xcm3 of substance A of density 800kgm-3 is mixed with 100cm3 of water of

density 1000kgm-3. The density of the mixture is 960kgm-3. Determine the
value of x. (3mks)
3. Chalk is denser than air. Explain why chalk dust floats in air. (1
mark)

4. A bullet of mass 10g travelling at a speed of 400ms-1 hits a tree trunk, it

penetrates the tree trunk and stops inside the trunk after 4 cm.
(a) Calculate the average resistance force offered by the trunk to the bullet.
(3mks)

(b) State the energy changes that takes place. (1mk)

5. State one way of making surface tension of water stronger. (1mk)

6. State the law of conservation of energy. (1 mark)

7. An airtight flask containing a gas is connected to a mercury manometer. The

levels of mercury in the two limbs of the manometer are as shown in the
diagram below.
 Calculate the pressure of the gas (Density of mercury = 1.36 x 104 kg/m3 and
atmospheric pressure = 1.0 x105 N/m2)
(3mks)

8. A column of air 26cm long is trapped by mercury thread 5.0cm

long as shown in the figure (a) below. When the tube is inverted
as in figure (b) the air column becomes 30cm long. What is the
value of atmospheric pressure? (3 marks)

9. a) State two conditions necessary for a body to be in equilibrium . (2mks)

b) The figure below shows a uniform rod AE which is 40cm long. It has a mass of 2kg
and pivoted at D. If 2N is acting at point E, and 30N force is passed through a frictionless
pulley

Find the force X acting at end A (3mks

10. State the reason why a trailer carrying heavy loads has many wheels. (1 mark)

SECTION B
11.a) State the Archimedes Principle. (1 mark)

(b) The figure below shows rectangular block of height 4cm floating
vertically in a beaker containing two immiscible liquid A and B. The densities of
the liquid are 8000 kg/m³ and 12,000kg/m³ respectively.
 The cross sectional area is 2cm².Determine.

(i) the weight of the liquid A displaced by the black. (2 marks)

(ii) the weight of the liquid B displaced by the block. (2 marks)

(iii) the mass of the block. (1 mark)

(iv) the density of the block. 2 marks)

12.(a) (i) What is meant by perfectly inelastic collision. (1 mark)

(ii) A minibus of mass 1600kg travelling at a constant velocity of

20mls collides with a stationary car of mass 800kg. The impact
takes 2 seconds before the two moves together and come to
rest after 15 seconds. Determine.
(a) The common velocity. 3marks
(b) The distance moved after the impact. (2 marks)

(iii) The impulse force. (3 marks)

13. (a)Sketch a block and tackle pulley system with three movable pulleys in the
lower block and two fixed pulleys in the upper block. (2mks)

Find:

(b) (i)Velocity ratio (V.R.) (1mk)

 (c) A man uses the inclined plane to lift a 50kg load through a vertical
line height of 4.0m. The inclined plane makes an angle of 30 with
the horizontal. If the efficiency of the inclined plane is 80%,
determine.

i. The effort needed to move the load up the inclined plane at a constant
velocity. (3 marks)

ii. The work done against friction in raising the load through the height of
4.0m. (Take g = 10N/kg). (3 marks)

d) The graph below shows the variation of force with distance for a body being
towed
Force
(N)
C D
6000
4000 A
B
2000
E G
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Distance (m)
2000
4000
6000
F
Calculate the total work done on the body. (3 Marks)
 14. a) The moon goes round the earth at constant speed. Explain why it is true to
say that the moon is accelerating. (1 mark)

(b) A string of negligible mass has a bucket tied at the end. The string is 60cm long and
the buckets has a mass of 45g. The bucket is swung horizontally making 6 revolutions
per second. Calculate:

(i) The angular velocity. (1 mark)

(ii) The centripetal acceleration. (2 marks)

(iii) The tension on the string. (2 marks)

(iv) The linear velocity. (1 mark)

(c)Figure 6 shows a body of mass;m=200 g attached to the centre of a rotating table with
a string . The radius of the string was varied and different values of angular velocity
recorded. The mass of the body remained constant throughout the experiment.

 r
String

fig.6
The results obtained for angular velocity and radius were used to plot the following
graph;

From the above graph;

(i)Calculate the value of the slope. (2mks)

1 p 1
(ii)If ω 2 and are related by the equation; ω 2¿ × , find the value of P. (2mks)
r r m

(iii)State the significance of P. (1mk)

15.a) Define the term specific heat capacity. (1 mark)

 (b) A block of metal of mass 150g at 100C is dropped into a lagged
calorimeter of heat capacity 40Jk-1 containing 100g of water at 25C.
The temperature of the resulting mixture is 34C. (Specific heat
capacity of water = 4200Jkgˉ¹).
Determine;

(i) Heat gained by calorimeter. (2 marks)

(ii) Heat gained by water. (2 marks)

(iii) Heat lost by the metal block. (1 mark)

(iv) Specific heat capacity of the metal block. (3 marks)

(c)200 g of ice at 0°C is added to 400g water in a well lagged calorimeter of

mass 40g.The initial temperature of the water was 40°C. If the final temperature of
the mixture is X°C,
(Specific latent of fusion of ice L = 3.36 x 105 Jkg-1, specific heat capacity of water,
c = 4200Jkg-1K-1, specific heat capacity of copper = 400 Jkg-1K-1.)

(i) Derive an expression for the amount of heat gained by ice to melt it and raise its
temperature to X°C (2mks)

(iii) Determine the value of X. (3mks)