Cambridge & Pearson Edexcel Past Paper Questions

A box of length 12cm and weight 0.43 N is placed on a horizontal table, with the greater part of its length overhanging the edge of the table. The ...

An object is suspended by two ropes. One rope has a tension of 410N at an angle of 60° to the horizontal. The other rope has a tension of 210N at a...

A solid cube is floating in equilibrium in liquid mercury. The cube is made of iron of density 7900 kg m⁻³. The cube floats with 42% of its volume ...

The diagram shows two vessels, P and Q, both with sides inclined at 45° to the horizontal. [Figure showing vessel P tapering outwards and vessel Q ...

A motor is used to lift a load vertically upwards. The load has weight W. The motor produces useful power output P. The load is lifted at constant ...

A lamp is switched on for 2.0 hours. The power input to the lamp is 1.0W. The energy given out by the lamp as light is 7.0 × 10³ J. How much energy...

An object of mass m is dropped onto the surface of two planets, X and Y, which have no atmosphere. The height from which the object is dropped and ...

A known tensile force acts on a metal wire. The wire does not exceed its limit of proportionality. Which two measurements enable the strain of the ...

A wire is extended by different forces. The wire obeys Hooke's law. A graph is plotted to show the variation of a quantity y with a quantity x. [Fi...

A wave pulse moves along a stretched rope in the direction shown. [Figure showing a wave pulse moving along a stretched rope with point P] Which di...

Which statement about progressive transverse and longitudinal waves is correct?

A miniature loudspeaker, initially at rest, falls vertically from a window in a high building. When the speaker has fallen a distance of 10.0m, it ...

Two electromagnetic waves have wavelengths of 5.0 × 10⁻⁷ m and 5.0 × 10⁻² m in a vacuum. Which row identifies the regions of the electromagnetic sp...

The wavelength of sound in air may be determined by using stationary waves. In one experiment, a loudspeaker produces a sound wave of constant freq...

Light of a single frequency is incident on a pair of narrow slits that are a distance of 0.10 mm apart. A series of bright and dark fringes is obse...

Red light of a single wavelength passes through a diffraction grating. Bright dots are formed on a screen, as shown. [Figure showing bright dots on...

A nichrome wire has a resistance of 15Ω and a diameter of 3.0mm. The number density of the free electrons in nichrome is 9.0 × 10²⁸ m⁻³. A potentia...

The diagrams show two different circuits. [Figure showing two circuits: left with one resistor R, right with two resistors R in parallel connected ...

The potential difference (p.d.) across a filament lamp is increased. Which statement is correct?

A metal wire has resistance R. The wire is stretched so that its diameter decreases to 94.0% of the original diameter. The volume of the wire is un...

The diagram shows a cell of electromotive force (e.m.f.) 3.0V and internal resistance 4.7Ω connected across a lamp. The lamp has a resistance of 9....

A circuit consists of a battery, a high-resistance voltmeter and four fixed resistors, as shown. The battery has an electromotive force (e.m.f.) of...

A potential divider circuit is designed to detect the difference in temperature between two different places. [Figure showing a potential divider c...

Which two particles have opposite charges?

Which particle is a lepton?

A student estimates the maximum speed of some different moving objects. Which maximum speed is not a reasonable estimate?

Which quantity is an SI base quantity?

A student takes measurements to determine the constant acceleration of a model car moving from rest in a straight line. The measured values with th...

An aeroplane is moving at a constant speed in a straight line at an angle θ to the horizontal. Four forces act on the aeroplane: thrust force T, we...

An astronaut on the Moon, where there is no air resistance, throws a ball. The ball's initial velocity has a vertical component of 8.00 m s⁻¹ and a...

Two blocks, of mass 0.20 kg and 0.50 kg, are connected by a light inextensible string that passes over a frictionless pulley. [Figure 7.1] The bloc...

A resultant force causes an object to accelerate. What is equal to the resultant force?

An object falls from a stationary helicopter and reaches terminal velocity. What happens to the acceleration of the object between leaving the heli...

A force F is applied at an angle of 45° to a door handle at a distance d from the pivot of the handle, as shown. [Figure 11.1] What is the moment o...

A couple consists of two forces, each of magnitude F, that act in opposite directions in the same plane. The perpendicular distance between the two...

The diagram shows an experiment to determine the force exerted on a ball by a horizontal air flow. [Figure 13.1] The ball is suspended by a light s...

Two solid cylindrical objects X and Y are held fully submerged in a liquid, as shown. [Figure 14.1] The objects have the same volume. The density o...

An electric car travels at a constant speed of 70 km h⁻¹ for 80 km on a straight horizontal road and uses energy E from its battery. The total resi...

What is meant by the efficiency of a system?

When an object of mass m is raised through a vertical height Δh, the gain of its gravitational potential energy is ΔEₚ. ΔEₚ and Δh are related by t...

Three identical springs, each with the same spring constant, are connected together in four different arrangements, as shown. [Figure 18.1] Which a...

The force–extension graph for a wire is shown. [Figure 19.1] Which row could identify the labels X, Y and Z?

X and Y are two points on the surface of water in a ripple tank. A source of constant frequency generates a wave which travels past X and Y, causin...

A transverse wave on a rope has wavelength λ and period T. The graph shows the variation of the displacement of the particles of the rope with dist...

A source of sound waves is moving at a constant speed directly towards a stationary observer. The sound waves have a speed of 340 m s⁻¹ and a frequ...

A student is investigating two electromagnetic waves, X and Y, in a vacuum. Wave X has a wavelength of 5.2 × 10⁻⁷ m. Wave Y has a frequency of 9.4 ...

A plane polarised light wave of intensity I₀ is incident normally on a polarising filter. The initial intensity of the transmitted wave is 0. A sec...

What can explain how stationary waves are formed from progressive waves?

A pipe has a length of 2.0 m. It is open at one end and closed at the other end. A stationary sound wave is set up within the pipe. There are four ...

A teacher is explaining diffraction to a group of students. Which piece of apparatus is most appropriate for the teacher to use to demonstrate diff...