Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions
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Four statements about either potential difference or electromotive force are listed. 1 It involves changing electrical energy into other forms. 2 I...
In the circuit shown, there is a current of 3.0 A in the 2.0 Ω resistor. [Figure 37.1] What are the values of the current I delivered by the power ...
The calcium nuclide ⁴²₂₀Ca is formed by β⁻ decay. What are the nucleon (mass) number and proton (atomic) number of the unstable nuclide that underw...
Which diagram represents the structure of an antineutron?
Which pair of units are not the same when expressed in SI base units?
What is the vertical component of this displacement vector? [Figure showing a vector of 5.0 km at 37° to the horizontal]
The units of specific heat capacity are J kg⁻¹ K⁻¹. What are the SI base units of specific heat capacity?
A quantity y is to be determined from the equation shown. y = px / q² The percentage uncertainties in p, x and q are shown. [Table showing percenta...
A hot-air balloon is moving vertically upwards with a constant speed of 3.00 m s⁻¹. A sandbag is dropped from the balloon. It takes 5.00 s for the ...
The velocity-time graph for a train starting at one station and stopping at the next is shown. [Figure showing a velocity-time graph for a train] A...
A slow vehicle and a fast vehicle travel towards each other in a straight line and then collide. Which outcome is never possible, regardless of the...
Two blocks of masses M and m are joined by a thin string which passes over a frictionless pulley, as shown. [Figure showing two blocks M and m conn...
The diagram shows a block of copper suspended in water. [Figure showing a block of copper suspended in water with face S (top) and face R (bottom) ...
The diagram shows a solid cube with weight W and sides of length L. It is supported at rest by a frictionless spindle that passes through the centr...
A street lamp is fixed to a wall by a metal rod and a cable. [Figure showing a street lamp supported by a wall, metal rod, and cable] Which vector ...
Two rigid steel beams XY and YZ are fixed at their lower ends and are hinged at Y. Each beam is inclined at 50° to the horizontal, as shown. A weig...
Air is trapped inside a glass bulb which is immersed in water and attached to a U-tube containing mercury. The densities of water and mercury are ρ...
A ball of mass m is thrown up to height h in air with an initial velocity v, as shown. [Figure showing a ball thrown upwards from P to Q, reaching ...
Car X is travelling at half the speed of car Y. Car X has twice the mass of car Y. Which statement is correct?
During refuelling, a petrol car receives 50 litres of fuel in 90 seconds. The petrol has 34 MJ of energy per litre. For an electric car to receive ...
A bolt is subjected to a tensile force, as shown. [Figure showing a bolt with two sections, one with diameter 2d at X and another with diameter d a...
A rectangular block of steel supporting a very large component of a bridge has a height of 15 cm and a cross-section of 20 cm × 12 cm. It is design...
Which wave is a longitudinal wave?
A vibrating tuning fork is held above a glass cylinder filled to the top with water. The water level is steadily lowered. A loud sound is first hea...
A train that is moving in a straight line along a railway track has a whistle that continuously emits sound of frequency f. A woman standing by the...
Orange light in a vacuum has a wavelength of 600 nm. What is the frequency of this light?
A stationary sound wave has a series of nodes. The distance between the first and the sixth node is 30.0 cm. What is the wavelength of the sound wave?
Which diagram shows the diffraction of water waves in a ripple tank?
A hill stands between a radio transmitter and a house, as shown. [Figure showing a hill between a radio transmitter and a house] The radio transmit...
In an experiment to demonstrate double-slit interference using light, the distance from the slits to the screen is doubled and the slit separation ...
The diagram shows two metal plates connected to a constant high voltage. [Figure showing two parallel metal plates separated by distance d connecte...
An electron moves between two points X and Y in a uniform electric field, as shown. [Figure showing a uniform electric field with points X and Y, w...
Two copper wires are joined together and carry a current, as shown. [Figure showing two copper wires P (diameter d) and Q (diameter 2d) joined in s...
Which graph represents a metallic conductor, where the resistance of the conductor is given by the gradient of the graph?
A typical mobile phone battery has an e.m.f. of 5.0 V and an internal resistance of 200 mΩ. What is the terminal p.d. of the battery when it suppli...
The circuit shown contains a resistor S that is neither in series nor in parallel with the other resistors. [Figure showing a complex circuit diagr...
The diagram shows a potential divider connected to a 12 V supply of negligible internal resistance. [Figure showing a potential divider circuit wit...
The diagram shows a sequence of radioactive decays involving three α-particles and a β⁻ particle. [Figure showing a decay chain: ²³⁷₉₃Np → Q (α) → ...
Which combination of up (u) and down (d) quarks forms a neutron?
The drag force FD acting on a sphere moving through a fluid is given by the expression FD = Kρv² where K is a constant, ρ is the density of the flu...
The variation with time t of the velocity v of two cars P and Q is shown in Fig. 2.1. The cars travel in the same direction along a straight road. ...
A tube is open at both ends. A loudspeaker, emitting sound of a single frequency, is placed near one end of the tube, as shown in Fig. 3.1. The spe...
A wire is designed to ensure that its strain does not exceed 4.0 × 10⁻⁴ when a force of 8.0kN is applied. The Young modulus of the metal of the wir...
Three cells of electromotive forces (e.m.f.) E₁, E₂ and E₃ are connected into a circuit, as shown in Fig. 5.1. The circuit contains resistors of re...
Two parallel metal plates in a vacuum are separated by a distance of 15mm, as shown in Fig. 6.1. A uniform electric field is produced between the p...
Wires are used to connect a battery of negligible internal resistance to a lamp, as shown in Fig. 7.1. The lamp is at its normal operating temperat...
A neutron within a nucleus decays to produce a proton, a β⁻ particle and an (electron) antineutrino. n → p + β⁻ + ν̄
One end of a wire is connected to a fixed point. A load is attached to the other end so that the wire hangs vertically. The diameter d of the wire ...
Define the moment of a force.
A spring is attached at one end to a fixed point and hangs vertically with a cube attached to the other end. The cube is initially held so that the...