Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

The primary coil of a transformer is connected to the mains supply. The voltage of the a.c. mains supply is 240 V. Fig. 6.1 is a diagram of the arr...

Copper is sometimes chosen as a material to make pans for heating liquids. A copper pan contains water at room temperature.

An uncharged plastic rod is rubbed with an uncharged woollen cloth. As a result, the rod becomes negatively charged.

Protactinium-234 (²³⁴₉₁Pa) is a radioactive isotope of protactinium that decays to uranium-234 (²³⁴₉₂U).

Which description is of a scalar quantity?

The diagram shows a distance-time graph for a car travelling in a straight line. In which region is the car decelerating?

A wooden block is pushed across a table at constant speed. Which statement is correct?

A car begins to move. It speeds up until it reaches a constant speed. What happens to the acceleration and what happens to the velocity of the car?

The diagram shows how the length of a spring changes when a load of 10 N is suspended from it. The 10 N load is replaced by a 20 N load. What is th...

A force F causes a moment about point O on an L-shaped bar. The force F acts at point P. What is the moment of F about O?

A uniform metre rule of weight W is pivoted at the 25 cm mark and held horizontal by a force F applied upwards at the 100 cm mark. The rule is supp...

The diagram shows a stationary fairground ride with four chairs of equal mass. Which chair has the most gravitational potential energy?

Hydroelectric and tidal power stations generate electrical energy. Do these use renewable sources of energy?

Which energy resource is correctly described?

A small motor has an input power rating of 10 W and is switched on for 5.0 minutes. What is the electrical energy input to the motor in this time?

Two liquids, X and Y, are poured into beakers of different sizes. Liquid X has a density of 1000 kg/m³ and liquid Y has a density of 900 kg/m³. On ...

A swimmer is at the bottom of a pool. The density of the water in the pool is 1000 kg/m³ and the gravitational field strength is 9.8 N/kg. Which ex...

Some gas is trapped in a large syringe. The atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa. The gas pressure is 200 kPa above atmospheric pressure. The piston mov...

A graph of temperature against time is shown for a material being heated from its solid state. Which row describes what is happening at X, Y and Z?

A student on a camping expedition cools a sealed bottle of water which is at the same temperature as the surrounding air. Which method cools the wa...

A student suggests three factors that affect the rate of emission of thermal energy by radiation from a hot object. These are: 1 the surface temper...

The diagrams show light travelling in air incident on the surface of a glass block. Some light is reflected and some light is refracted. Which diag...

Which range of sound frequencies includes only frequencies of sound that can be heard by a healthy human ear?

Two metal spheres are brought close to each other. The two spheres repel each other. Which statement explains this?

A student sets up the circuit shown. The lamp does not light. What makes the lamp light?

Circuits P and Q each contain two identical resistors, each of resistance R. What is the resistance of circuit P and what is the resistance of circ...

The current in an electric motor is 2.0 A. It transfers 20 J of energy in 5.0 s. What is the potential difference (p.d.) across the motor?

Three students make comments about appliances with double insulation. student P Appliances with double insulation do not need an earth wire. studen...

A magnet moves at constant speed through a coil of wire. The coil is connected to an oscilloscope. The diagram shows the trace produced on the scre...

A bar magnet is dropped through a vertical solenoid that is connected to a sensitive ammeter. A current is induced in the solenoid and the solenoid...

Which graph shows the voltage output against time for a simple a.c. generator?

A charger for a mobile phone (cellphone) uses a transformer which steps the voltage down from 230 V to 5.0 V. The primary coil in the transformer h...

A commutator is connected to the coil of a d.c. motor. The commutator rotates and connects the coil to the power supply. Once every half-turn, the ...

A girl makes a simple transformer to illuminate a low voltage lamp. The transformer is shown. What is the material of the rod and what is the type ...

Which particles are in the nucleus of a large atom?

Alpha (α) particles and beta (β) particles are emitted during radioactive decay. Which particle has the weaker ionising effect and which has the we...

A beam of beta (β) particles passes into a magnetic field and into an electric field. Which numbers show the paths of the beam through the fields?

The isotope radon-222 has a half-life of 3.8 days. Which statement about a sample containing 1.0 mg of radon-222 is correct?

What is the first stage in the life cycle of stars?

What is the definition of redshift?

The diagram shows the level of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The scale is marked in cm³. What is the volume of the liquid?

A distance-time graph and a speed-time graph show the motion of an object. How are the speed and the acceleration of the object determined from the...

A student finds that the mass of a rock is 65 g. She pours 30 cm³ of water into a measuring cylinder. She places the rock in the water so that the ...

A small submarine of mass 1000 kg sinks in water with a constant speed of 2.0 m/s. What is the resultant force exerted on the submarine as it sinks?

A student drops, from rest, a light ball in air. The ball experiences some air resistance as it falls. What happens to the velocity and to the acce...

The stopping distance of a car travelling at a certain speed is measured in four different situations. • on a dry road with new tyres • on a dry ro...

A spring has a length of 9.0 cm when loaded with a 200 g mass. The extension–mass graph for the spring is shown. The 200 g mass is replaced with a ...

The International Space Station orbits the Earth. Which arrow shows the direction of the force on the International Space Station when it is at poi...

Which expression is equal to impulse?

A box with mass 4.0 kg is pulled from rest along a horizontal floor by a constant force F. A constant frictional force of 1.0 N acts on the box. Wh...