Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions
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What is equivalent to the unit of electric field strength?
The diagram shows the reading on an analogue ammeter. [Figure 3.1] Which digital ammeter reading is the same as the reading on the analogue ammeter?
A steel wire is stretched in an experiment to determine the Young modulus for steel. The uncertainties in the measurements are given below. What is...
The acceleration of free fall on the Moon is one-sixth of that on Earth. On Earth it takes time t for a stone to fall from rest a distance of 2 m. ...
Which graph represents the motion of a car that is travelling along a straight road with a speed that increases uniformly with time? [Figure 6.1]
What is the principle of conservation of momentum?
Water is pumped through a hose-pipe at a rate of 90 kg per minute. It emerges from the hose-pipe horizontally with a speed of 20 ms⁻¹. Which force ...
Two railway trucks of masses m and 3m move towards each other in opposite directions with speeds 2v and v respectively. These trucks collide and st...
A glider is descending at constant speed at an angle of 15° to the horizontal. The diagram shows the directions of the lift L, air resistance R and...
A ball is falling at terminal speed in still air. The forces acting on the ball are upthrust, viscous drag and weight. What is the order of increas...
A uniform ladder rests against a vertical wall where there is negligible friction. The bottom of the ladder rests on rough ground where there is fr...
A mass attached to the lower end of a spring bounces up and down. At which points in the path of the mass do the gravitational potential energy of ...
A mass m is situated in a uniform gravitational field. [Figure 14.1] When the mass moves through a displacement x, from P to Q, it loses an amount ...
A small electric motor is mounted on a bench, as shown. The motor is connected to a 6.0V supply and the current in the motor is 0.50A. The motor is...
What is the correct name for a material containing long-chain molecules that are tangled and coiled?
Which statement about molecules in a gas is correct?
The diagram shows the atoms of a substance with the atoms at the corners of a cube. The average separation of the atoms at a particular temperature...
The stress-strain graph for a glass rod, up to the point at which it breaks, is shown below. [Figure 20.1] Which statement about the glass rod is c...
A rubber band is stretched by hanging weights on it and the force-extension graph is plotted from the results. [Figure 21.1] What is the best estim...
When sound travels through air, the air particles vibrate. A graph of displacement against time for a single air particle is shown. [Figure 23.1] W...
Which statement describes a situation when polarisation could not occur?
A stationary sound wave is produced in a tube. Which statement describes the wave speed?
Two identical loudspeakers are connected in series to an a.c. supply, as shown. [Figure 26.1] Which graph best shows the variation of the intensity...
A diffraction grating experiment is set up using yellow light of wavelength 600 nm. The grating has a slit separation of 2.00 μm. [Figure 27.1] Wha...
The diagram shows two parallel horizontal metal plates. There is a potential difference V between the plates. [Figure 28.1] A small charged liquid ...
The diagram shows two metal plates connected to a constant high voltage. [Figure 29.1] Which graph shows the variation of the electric field streng...
B₁, B₂ and B₃ are three identical lamps. They are connected to a battery with zero internal resistance, as shown. [Figure 30.1] Initially the switc...
A battery is marked 9.0 V. What does this mean?
A pencil is used to draw a line of length 30 cm and width 1.2 mm. The resistivity of the material in the pencil is 2.0 × 10⁻⁵ Ω m and the resistanc...
The graph shows how the electric current I through a conducting liquid varies with the potential difference V across it. [Figure 34.1] At which poi...
The combined resistance R_T of two resistors of resistances R₁ and R₂ connected in parallel is given by the formula shown. 1/R_T = 1/R₁ + 1/R₂ Whic...
In the potentiometer circuit shown, the reading on the ammeter is zero. [Figure 36.1] The light-dependent resistor (LDR) is then covered up and the...
Six resistors, each of resistance R, are connected as shown. [Figure 37.1] The combined resistance is 66 kΩ. What is the value of R?
Which statement about α-particles is correct?
The isotope ²²²₈₆Rn decays in a sequence of emissions to form the isotope ²⁰⁶₈₂Pb. At each stage of the decay sequence, it emits either an α-partic...
What is the approximate mass of a nucleus of uranium?
Which list shows increasing lengths from beginning to end?
Which equation contains only scalar quantities?
The time T taken for a satellite to orbit the Earth on a circular path is given by the equation T² = kr³ / M where r is the radius of the orbit, M ...
Which row gives reasonable estimates for the mass and the speed of an adult running?
A student measures the time T for one complete oscillation of a pendulum of length l. Her results are shown in the table. l/m: 0.420 ± 0.001, T/s: ...
A boy throws a ball vertically upwards. It rises to a maximum height, where it is momentarily at rest, and then falls back to his hands. Which row ...
The curved line PQR is the velocity-time graph for a car starting from rest. [Figure showing a velocity-time graph]
A ball is released from rest above a horizontal surface. It strikes the surface and bounces several times. The velocity-time graph for the first tw...
A bus takes a time of 25s to reach a constant speed while travelling in a straight line. A graph of speed v against time t is shown. [Figure showin...
A single horizontal force F is applied to a block X which is in contact with a separate block Y as shown. [Figure showing force F applied to block ...
A mass of 0.20 kg is suspended from the lower end of a light spring. A second mass of 0.10 kg is suspended from the first mass by a thread. The arr...
An object of mass m travelling with speed v has a head-on collision with another object of mass m travelling with speed v in the opposite direction...
Two identical spheres X and Y approach each other with the speeds shown and undergo a head-on elastic collision. [Figure showing sphere X approachi...
Which pair of forces acts only as a couple on the circular object?