Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

A car of mass 800 kg has a forward acceleration of 2.5 m/s². A frictional force of 1200 N opposes the motion of the car. What is the driving force ...

There is an astronaut on a planet which has a gravitational field strength one fifth of the value on Earth. He hangs samples of rock from a spring ...

An extension-load graph is plotted for a spring. Which point marks the limit of proportionality for this spring?

The diagram shows a diver 20 m below the surface of a lake. The total pressure at this depth is 3.0 x 10⁵ Pa. An air bubble has a volume of 0.60 cm...

A ball is dropped from a height as shown. Ignoring the effects of air resistance, which statement about the total energy of the ball is correct?

A student uses an average force of F to push a box a distance of d across a horizontal table. The mass of the box is m and the gravitational field ...

What is power?

The diagram shows a glass tube filled with water and suspended above a bench. The water is free to circulate around the tube. At point P, there is ...

Which physical property cannot be used for the measurement of temperature?

A student performs an experiment to find out how much energy is needed to change the temperature of a steel nail by 1.0 °C. Which quantity is the s...

A substance has a melting point of -17 °C and a boiling point of 117 °C. In which state does the substance exist at -10 °C and at 110 °C?

A mass of gas is trapped inside a cylinder by a moving piston. As the piston moves in, the volume of the gas decreases but the temperature stays th...

A plane mirror on a vertical wall forms an image of an object placed in front of it. Which characteristics describe the image?

Which statement about light passing from air to glass is correct?

Applications use different components of the electromagnetic spectrum. Which shows correct applications for X-rays, ultraviolet light and microwaves?

A scientific research boat uses pulses of ultrasound to detect fish underneath it. A pulse of ultrasound is bounced from a group of fish 6000 m dir...

Which row correctly describes ultrasound?

What is stored in a battery and what is its unit?

A car battery delivers 150 kC to a circuit before it needs recharging. Two headlamps connected in parallel to the battery are switched on. There is...

Three identical lamps and three ammeters are connected as shown. The readings on the ammeters are I₁, I₂ and I₃. How are the readings related?

A 240V mains circuit contains eight 60W lamps in parallel. At the time when the lamps are switched on, the filaments are cold and the current is fo...

What is used with a magnet to create an induced electromotive force (e.m.f.) in a simple a.c. generator?

What changes kinetic (movement) energy into electrical energy?

A transformer has 4800 turns on its primary coil and 480 turns on its secondary coil. The primary coil is connected to a 240 V a.c. supply. The sec...

A cathode-ray oscilloscope with the Y-gain set at 2 V/division is connected to a generator. Which row describes the signal from the generator and i...

A potential divider uses a power supply of voltage 12 V. The resistors X and Y initially have equal resistances. The resistance of X is halved. Wha...

What is the definition of the half-life of a radioactive element?

Which row shows the atomic structure of a neutral atom with a nucleon number of 9?

Fig. 1.1 is the distance-time graph for a skydiver who jumps from a balloon at time t = 0. [Figure 1.1]

Fig. 2.1 shows a satellite moving at a constant speed in a circular orbit around the Earth. [Figure 2.1] Speed is a scalar quantity but velocity is...

Fig. 3.1 shows a door and an automatic door-closer viewed from above. [Figure 3.1] When the door opens and closes, the hinge acts as a pivot. A gir...

The three angles of a glass prism are 45°, 45° and 90° as shown in Fig. 4.1. [Figure 4.1] At point Y, a ray of light of a single frequency travels ...

Fig. 5.1 shows some parts of a thermocouple thermometer that is being used to determine the temperature of a liquid. [Figure 5.1]

When electricity is transmitted over large distances, a transformer is used to increase the voltage before transmission. A second transformer is us...

Nuclear fusion is a reaction that occurs in the Sun and other stars.

The density of water in a lake is 1000 kg/m³. At a depth of 25 m beneath the surface of the lake, the total pressure is 3.5 × 10⁵ Pa.

A small glass measuring cylinder of oil is placed inside a freezer where the temperature is -18°C. Fig. 9.1 shows how the temperature of the oil va...

Fig. 10.1 shows a wire of length l and cross-sectional area A. [Figure 10.1]

A glass beaker has a mass of 50g. A liquid of density 1.8g/cm³ is poured into the beaker until it reaches the 200 cm³ mark.

The total mass of a wheelbarrow and its load is 90kg. A worker pushes the wheelbarrow and load up a plank of length 2.0m on to a platform, as shown...

Fig. 3.1 shows a hot water tank that contains two electric heaters X and Y. [Figure 3.1] Heater X is used during the daytime but heater Y is only u...

Describe, in terms of molecules, the structure of a solid.

The cable of a washing machine contains three separate wires. There is a fuse in one of the wires.

Phosphorus-32 ( ⁳⁵P) is an isotope of phosphorus that undergoes radioactive decay.

A bus leaves a bus-stop at time t = 0 and travels along a horizontal road until it reaches a second bus-stop. Fig. 7.1 is the distance-time graph f...

A thin converging lens is made of a transparent material of refractive index 1.4.

Fig. 9.1 shows a permanent magnet lying on a piece of paper. [Figure 9.1]

Two forces, X and Y, act upon an object O. The arrows represent the magnitudes and directions of the forces. Which arrow shows the direction of the...

Two identical objects begin to fall from rest. One object falls from 200 m above the Earth's surface and the other falls from 200 m above the Moon'...

An electron has mass. Where does a stationary electron experience a force?