Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

Which material can be picked up by a magnet?

Which row correctly names an electrical conductor and an insulator?

The diagram shows the magnetic field around wire X which carries a current into the paper. The arrows on the field lines show the direction of the ...

A power supply of 18 V is connected to three resistors, as shown. What is the potential difference across the 2.0Ω resistor?

An immersion heater is labelled 24 V, 120 W. What is the current in the heater when it is connected to a 24 V supply?

The diagram shows an electrical device X connected between a 6 V a.c. supply and a 12 V lamp. The lamp is seen to glow with normal brightness. What...

In the circuit shown, all lamps are identical. Lamp P lights with normal brightness. Switch Y is closed and lamps come on. Which row indicates the ...

A radioactive isotope ¹⁴C emits beta-particles. A sample of this isotope is left for a period of time that is equal to its half-life. Which two qua...

In the Geiger-Marsden experiment, a beam of alpha-particles is fired at a very thin sheet of gold foil, in a vacuum. What is deduced from this expe...

Fig. 1.1 shows an archer firing an arrow at a target during a competition. [Figure 1.1] The arrow has a mass of 0.018kg and is initially at rest. T...

Fig. 2.1 shows a freezer for keeping food frozen. [Figure 2.1]

A lorry of mass 4.4 × 10⁴ kg travels along a straight, horizontal road at 20m/s.

Fig. 4.1 shows a screwdriver of mass 64g resting in equilibrium on a pivot. [Figure 4.1]

In a steam cleaner, water is heated to its boiling point and is then turned into steam (water in the gas state).

A burning candle is placed close to a thin converging lens. The candle acts as the object. A white, vertical screen is moved to a position on the o...

Audible sound waves and ultrasound waves both consist of compressions and rarefactions.

A potential divider is made from a light-dependent resistor (LDR) and a 6.0kΩ fixed resistor. The potential divider is connected in series with a 1...

Force is a vector quantity and mass is a scalar quantity.

Fig. 10.1 shows a solenoid (long coil) X connected in series with a battery, a switch S and a variable resistor (rheostat). [Figure 10.1] The switc...

Fig. 11.1 shows the proton number and the nucleon number of the nuclei of five neutral atoms. [Figure 11.1]

Water is transported to a village in a tank pulled by a tractor. Fig. 1.1 shows the tank being pulled by a tractor. [Figure 1.1] The combined mass ...

The surface of a running track is made of rubber. A heavy trolley is pulled on to the track and it exerts a large force on the rubber track. State ...

A very deep tank is used when training sailors to escape from submarines. The tank is cylindrical and open to the air at the top. Fig. 3.1 shows th...

A copper saucepan with a wooden handle contains cold water. The saucepan is placed on a red-hot heating element that is a part of an electric cooke...

All thermometers use the value of a physical property to measure temperature. State what makes a physical property suitable for the measurement of ...

A gas is trapped at atmospheric pressure in a cylinder by a piston. The piston is held in a fixed position by a movable rod. Fig. 6.1 shows the cyl...

Light enters a parallel-sided glass block at A. The angle between the side of the block and the ray of light in air is 35°. The light then strikes ...

A spotlight in a television studio is at full brightness. The lamp inside the spotlight is powered by a 230 V supply and the current in the filamen...

Aeroplanes fly at high altitudes where the temperature is well below 0°C. Ice that forms on an aeroplane can fall to earth and strike the ground. F...

Thin wire, covered in plastic insulation, is used to make a solenoid (long coil). The solenoid is connected to a sensitive ammeter. Fig. 10.1 shows...

The proton number (atomic number) of the element lead is 82. The isotope lead-209 (²⁰⁹Pb) is radioactive and decays by the emission of beta-particles.

A length of copper wire is labelled 'length 30 m' and 'diameter 0.50mm'. Which instruments are most suitable to measure accurately the length and t...

The diagram shows a car going around a circular track at constant speed. Which arrow shows the direction of the resultant force on the car?

A car has stopped at a red light. When the light changes to green, the car starts moving with a constant acceleration. The graph represents this mo...

Which statement about mass and weight is correct?

Each diagram shows two forces that are equal in magnitude. Which diagram shows two forces that are a Newton's third law pair of forces?

Two forces of 3.0N and 4.0N act at right-angles to each other. Which diagram shows the resultant R of these forces?

A workman rolls a barrel of weight 2000 N up a plank of length 2.0m and onto a lorry. The back of the lorry is 0.80 m above the horizontal surface ...

Three objects P, Q and R have different masses and different speeds, as shown in the table. What is the order of increasing kinetic energy (smalles...

A weightlifter lifts some masses through a height of 1.8 m. The gravitational field strength g is 10N/kg. During the lift, the gravitational potent...

Which expression is used to calculate power?

The pressure of the atmosphere is 100 000 Pa. What force does the atmosphere exert on the upper surface of a pond of surface area 20 m²?

Oil of density 8.5 × 10² kg/m³ is stored in a large tank. The gravitational field strength g is 10N/kg. What is the pressure due to the oil 6.0m be...

Air is trapped in a cylinder by a piston. The piston is pushed further into the cylinder. How do the pressure and the volume of the air in the syri...

Which statement explains how a pressure is exerted by a gas on a container?

The diagram shows changes of state. What are the names of the changes of state P, Q, R and S?

A boiling liquid absorbs thermal energy (heat) at a rate of 450 W. The specific latent heat of vaporisation is 2.7 × 10⁶ J/kg. How much liquid is v...

Which statement about the transfer of thermal energy is correct?

A phone rings and lights up. Which types of wave are associated with the phone's operation?

The diagram shows the surface of water as a wave passes across a ripple tank. Which lengths represent the amplitude and the wavelength of the wave?