OCR A Level Physics A Modelling Physics June 2017 question paper H556/01

Which of the following is a correct unit for gravitational field strength?

J kg⁻¹ A

N kg⁻¹ B

N m² kg⁻² C

kg m s⁻¹ D

Your answer

Four materials A, B, C and D have the same length and cross-sectional area. The force against extension graph for each material up to the breaking point is shown below.

Which material is brittle and has the greatest ultimate tensile strength?

Your answer

A ball is dropped from rest above the ground. Air resistance has negligible effect on the motion of the ball.

The speed of the ball is v after it has fallen a distance h from its point of release.

Which graph is correct for this falling ball?

Your answer

Which is the best estimate of the area of a rectangular field of length 98 ± 3 m and width 47 ± 2 m?

4600 ± 5 m² A

4600 ± 6 m² B

4600 ± 300 m² C

4606 ± 337 m² D

Your answer

The intensity against wavelength graph of an object at 750 °C peaks at a wavelength of . The temperature of the object is raised to 960 °C.

What is the wavelength now at the new peak intensity in terms of ?

A 0.78

B 0.83

C 1.2

D 1.3

Your answer

The diagram shows two opposite vertical forces of magnitude 1.2 N and 2.1 N acting on an object.

Which of the following statements could be correct?

1 The object is accelerating and moving up. 2 The object is decelerating and moving down. 3 The magnitude of the resultant force is 0.9 N.

A Only 3

B Only 1 and 3

C Only 2 and 3

D 1, 2 and 3

Your answer

A graph of y against distance r from the centre of a planet is shown below.

The graph shows that y is inversely proportional to r².

Which quantity is best represented on the y-axis of the graph?

A Period of a satellite orbiting the planet.

B Gravitational potential of the planet.

C Gravitational field strength of the planet.

D Kinetic energy of a satellite orbiting the planet.

Your answer

Part of the line spectrum for light from the Sun is shown below.

Which spectrum best shows light from a similar star to the Sun?

Your answer

A tensile force of 4.5 N is applied to a spring. The spring extends elastically by 3.2 cm.

What is the elastic potential energy of the spring?

A 0.072 J

B 0.14 J

C 2.4 J

D 14 J

Your answer

An object above the ground is released from rest at time t = 0.

Air resistance is negligible.

What is the distance travelled by the object between t = 0.20 s and t = 0.30 s?

A 0.20 m

B 0.25 m

C 0.44 m

D 0.49 m

Your answer

A puck of mass 0.16 kg is sliding on ice with a constant velocity of 11.0 m s⁻¹. A hockey stick exerts 13 a force on the puck, for a short period of time, in the opposite direction to the velocity of the puck. The momentum of the puck changes by 2.0 kg m s⁻¹.

Ignore friction.

What is the speed of the puck when it leaves the hockey stick?

1.5 m s⁻¹ A

3.8 m s⁻¹ B

12.5 m s⁻¹ C

23.5 m s⁻¹ D

Your answer

A container has an ideal gas. The mean square speed of the gas molecules in the container is 3.0 × 10⁵ m² s⁻².

Over a period of time, a third of the gas molecules escape from the container. The pressure and volume of the gas in the container remain the same.

What is the mean square speed of the molecules left in the container?

1.0 × 10⁵ m² s⁻² A

2.0 × 10⁵ m² s⁻² B

4.5 × 10⁵ m² s⁻² C

9.0 × 10⁵ m² s⁻² D

Your answer

Which two quantities are related in Hubble’s law?

A Distance and mass of galaxies.

B Velocity and intensity of galaxies.

C Distance and velocity of galaxies.

D Distance and red shift of stars in our galaxy.

Your answer

Calculate the work done by the 400 N force exerted by the mechanic.

Calculate the useful work done on the car and hence the percentage efficiency of the jack.

A group of students are conducting an experiment in the laboratory to determine the value of absolute zero by heating a fixed mass of gas. The volume of the gas is kept constant. Fig. 17.1 shows the arrangement used by the students.

The gas is heated using a water bath. The temperature of the water is increased from 5 °C to 70 °C. The temperature of the water bath is assumed to be the same as the temperature of the gas. The pressure p of the gas is measured using a pressure gauge.

The results from the students are shown in a table.

/ °C	p / kPa
5 ± 1	224 ± 3
13 ± 1	231 ± 3
22 ± 1	238 ± 3
35 ± 1	248 ± 3
44 ± 1
53 ± 1	262 ± 3
62 ± 1	269 ± 3
70 ± 1	276 ± 3

Describe and explain how the students may have made accurate measurements of the temperature .

Fig. 17.2 shows the pressure gauge. Measurements of p can be made using the kPa scale or the psi (pounds per square inch) scale. The students used the psi scale to measure pressure and then converted the reading to pressure in kPa.

Suggest why it was sensible to use the psi scale to measure p.

Plot the missing data point and the error bars on Fig. 17.3.

* Explain what is meant by absolute zero. Describe how Fig. 17.3 can be used to determine the value of absolute zero. Determine the value of absolute zero. You may assume that the gas behaves as an ideal gas.

Describe, without doing any calculations, how you could use Fig. 17.3 to determine the actual uncertainty in the value of absolute zero in (c)(ii).

The experiment is repeated as the water bath quickly cools from 70 °C to 5 °C. Absolute zero was found to be −390 °C.

Compare this value with your value from (c)(ii) and explain why the values may differ. Describe an experimental approach that could be taken to avoid systematic error in the determination of absolute zero.

A swimming pool designer investigates the depth d below a water surface reached by a diver when diving from a height h above the water surface. The designer models the diver as a uniform wooden cylinder. The experimental arrangement is shown in Fig. 18.1.

Calculate the density of the wood.

density =........ kg m⁻³

Suggest why wood is an appropriate material to model the depth reached by a diver.

The cylinder is released from rest from a trapdoor. The base of the cylinder is at a height h = 0.30 m above the water surface. Calculate the speed of the cylinder just before the base hits the water. Ignore air resistance.

speed =........ m s⁻¹

Fig. 18.2 shows the cylinder fully submerged under the water surface before it has come to rest. The cylinder is moving vertically down.

Add arrows to Fig. 18.2 to show the three forces acting on the wooden cylinder. Label

the arrows.

Describe and explain how the resultant force on the wooden cylinder varies from the moment the cylinder is fully submerged until it reaches its deepest point.

The graph of Fig. 18.3 shows the depth d reached for different initial drop height h.

The designer is required to double the height of a diving board for an existing swimming pool. He suggests that the depth of the pool also needs to be doubled. Use Fig. 18.3 to explain whether you agree with this suggestion.

This question is about a simple pendulum made from a length of string attached to a mass (bob). For oscillations of small amplitude, the acceleration a of the pendulum bob is related to its displacement x by the expression

Show that the period T of the oscillations is given by the expression

A student notices that the amplitude of each oscillation decreases over time. Explain this observation and state what effect this may have on T.

* Describe with the aid of a labelled diagram how an experiment can be conducted and how

amplitude.

Another student conducts a similar experiment in the laboratory to investigate the small amplitude oscillations of a pendulum of a mechanical clock. Each ‘tick’ of the clock corresponds to half a period.

Show that the length of the pendulum required for a tick of 1.0 s is about 1 m.

If the pendulum clock were to be used on the Moon, explain whether this clock would run on time compared with an identical clock on the Earth.

A plastic kettle is filled with 0.60 kg of water at a temperature of 20 °C. A 2.2 kW electric heater is used to heat the water for a time of 4.0 minutes.

Calculate the total energy supplied by the heater during the time of 4.0 minutes.

The specific heat capacity of water is 4200 J kg⁻¹ K⁻¹ and the specific latent heat of (b) vaporisation of water is 2.3 × 10⁶ J kg⁻¹. The boiling point of water is 100 °C.

Calculate the mass of water remaining in the kettle after 4.0 minutes. Assume that all the thermal energy from the heater is transferred to the water.

Explain why the energy levels are negative.

An electron makes a transition (jump) from level C to level A.

1 Calculate the energy gained by this electron.

2 Calculate the wavelength in nm of the photon absorbed by this electron.

State how an emission line is produced.

State an adjustment that could be made to the experimental arrangement that would space the emission lines more widely.

In the laboratory, the wavelength of the hydrogen-alpha emission line is 656.3 nm. Use Fig. 21.2 to determine the recession velocity of the galaxy.

recession velocity =........ m s⁻¹

Suggest why hydrogen spectral lines play an important role in determining red shift of galaxies.

Light from a similar star is viewed in a galaxy further away. The star is part of a pair of stars which orbit a common centre of mass. Describe and explain how the equivalent spectrum might appear.

Define the internal energy of a substance.

A block of paraffin wax is melting at a constant temperature of 52 °C. Use the behaviour of paraffin molecules to describe and explain the changes to the internal energy of the molecules of the paraffin wax as it melts.

Write an expression for the gravitational potential V_g at the surface of a planet of mass M and radius r.

The table below shows some data for Mercury and Pluto.

Show that the escape velocity v of a gas molecule on the surface of Pluto is given by the equation

where M is the mass of Pluto and r is its radius.

Calculate the escape velocity v of gas molecules on the surface of Pluto.

=........ m s⁻¹ v

Explain why Mercury has no atmosphere whilst Pluto still has a thin atmosphere. Use data from the table to support your explanation.