P8 Forces in Balance
P9 Motion
P10 Force and Motion
P11 Force and Pressure
P12 Wave Properties
P13 Electromagnetic Spectrum
100

What is the word to describe the net force (sum of forces) acting on an object, after the different directions of all the forces have been taken into account?

Resultant force

100

How would you find the total distance travelled using a velocity-time graph?

Find area under the graph

100

What is the 2 word phrase to describe the measure of how difficult it is to change an object's velocity?

Inertial mass
100

What is the name given to the force that helps you float?

Upthrust

100

Which type of wave has oscillations parallel to the direction of motion?

Longitudinal

100

Give 1 thing that all EM waves have in common

Travel at speed of light, can travel through a vacuum, are transverse

200

Name 2 contact forces and 2 non-contact forces

 

200

Describe this object's motion:

Constant velocity

200

Write the letters of the 2 areas on this graph where the object has reached terminal velocity

c and e

200

Give the 2 SI (standard) units for density

g/cm3 or kg/m3

200

As a water wave moves from deep water to shallow water, its wave speed will ____________________

Decrease

200

Give the 3 ionising waves of the EM spectrm

UV, X-rays, gamma rays

300

What does Newton's 1st Law state?

An object will not change its motion unless a resultant force acts

300

An object travelling with initial velocity 3 m/s accelerates to a final velocity of 6 m/s. If it has an acceleration of 1 m/s2, what distance does it travel?

13.5 m

300

What does Hooke's Law state?

Force on a spring and its extension directly proportional to each other

300

Pressure comes from the _________ of particles on a surface and acts in all ____________

Collisions, directions

300

Give the 3 types of seismic waves (you can use their abbreviations)

P-waves, S-waves, L-waves

300

Where do gamma rays originate from?

Radioactive nucleus of an atom
400

What is the unknown weight?

1.5 N

400

Write the steps for how you would calculate the speed at a specific time of this graph (2 steps):

1) Draw a tangent line

2) Calculate the gradient of that tangent line

400

How does a crumple zone lead to safety?

Increase impact time

400

A caterpillar vehicle is fitted with tracks that have an area of 3.0 m2 in contact with the ground exerts 4 kPa of pressure. Calculate its weight.

12000 N

400

Which type of wave cannot travel through the liquid outer core and thus leads to a shadow zone?

S-waves

400

Give the waves of the EM spectrum in order from longest wavelength to shortest wavelength

Radio waves

Microwaves

Infrared Radiation

Visible light

UV

Xrays

Gamma Rays

500

693 N

500

What is the average running speed?

3 m/s

500

A 0.5 kg trolley A is pushed at a velocity of 1.2 m/s into a stationary trolley B of mass 1.5 kg. The two trolleys stick together after the impact. Calculate the velocity of the two trolleys straight after impact

3 m/s

500

A sink plug is used to block the outlet of a sink filled with water. If the pressure of the water was 882 Pa, and the density of the water is 1000 kg/m3, what was the depth? g = 9.8 N/kg

0.09 m

500

When a light wave enters a diamond, it has a wave speed of 1.25 x 108 m/s. If this wave of light has a frequency of 4.3 x 1014 Hz, what is the wavelength of the light?

2.91 x 10-7 m

500

Please write the components involved in the usage of carrier waves to send messages:

1) _________ + Microphone

2) _________

3) _________

4) _________

1) Oscillator + Microphone

2) Transmitter

3) Receiver

4) Speaker