Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions
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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?
A car of mass 500 kg is at rest at point X on a slope, as shown. The car's brakes are released and the car rolls down the slope with its engine swi...
In which situation is no work done?
The diagram shows the cross-section of an Olympic-size swimming pool filled with water. It is not drawn to scale. The density of the water is 1000 ...
A force acts on a wire to produce extension e. The same force then acts on a second wire of the same material, but of half the diameter and three t...