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(2) Basic Education High School, Bahan
2024 – 2025 Academic Year, February Year End Test
Grade 10 Physics Time Allowed (2) Hours
Section A
(Answer ALL questions)
1. Are the following statements True (or) False? (10 marks)
(i) Generally, all substances expand on heating and contract on cooling.
(ii) The mechanical waves do not need material medium to propagate and cannot pass through
vacuum.
(iii) When the view of an object is obstructed by an obstacle, the microscope can be used to see the
object clearly.
(iv) The earth is part of the solar system that contains nine planets and the Sun.
(v) Normal body temperature is 98.6˚C.
(vi) Waves in a vibrating string are transverse waves.
(vii) Metal is a conductor.
(viii) The earth has a magnetic field.
(ix) Hydrogen has two isotopes.
(x) Real and virtual images can be found by a convex mirror.
2. Fill in the blanks. (15 marks)
(i) On the Kelvin scale, the ice point is _______ and the steam point is 373 K.
(ii) The energy of a photon was proportional to its _______.
(iii) _______ can be found in the interior of atoms.
(iv) The coefficient of area expansion is _______ times of the coefficient of linear expansion.
(v) The wavelength does not change after _______.
(vi) The perpendicular distance from the equilibrium line to the wave crest (or) trough is _______.
(vii) The interchange of left and right in the image by a mirror is called _______.
(viii) _______ occurs in metals that are heated to a very high temperature.
(ix) The speed of light is about _______ times faster than that of sound.
(x) _______ is an uncharged particle.
(xi) If the reflecting surface of a mirror forms parts of the inner surface of a hollow sphere, the
mirror is called _______.
(xii) In SI units, electric charge is measured in _______.
(xiii) Flow of electric charges is called an _______.
(xiv) The _______ image cannot be formed on a screen.
(xv) Copper and brass are _______ materials.
3. Choose the correct answer from the following. (15 marks)
(i) Waves carry energy and _______.
(A. momentum B. density C. pressure)
(ii) _______ wave cannot travel through vacuum.
(A. Sound B. Light C. Radio)
(iii) We use _______ to measure the temperature of a body.
(A. resistance thermometer B. liquid in glass thermometer C. thermocouple)
(iv) When an object is at the centre of curvature of a concave mirror, the magnification is _______.
(A. 0.5 B. -1 C. 1.5)
(v) 1 light year is equal to _______ kilometer.
(A. 9.35 x 1012 B. 9.45 x 1012 C. 9.46 x 1012)
(vi) Which of the following is the normal audible frequency range of a human ear?
(A. 0 – 20 Hz B. 20 – 2000 Hz C. 20 – 20000 Hz)
(vii) _______ mirrors are used for shaving mirror.
(A. Concave B. Convex C. Plane)
(viii) The charge carrier of the conductor are _______.
(A. protons B. electrons C. neutrons)
(ix) It can be confirmed that a metal bar is already magnetised if
(A. a magnet is attracted to it.
B. both ends of a compass needle are attracted to the same end of the bar.
C. one end of a compass needle is repelled by one end of the bar.)
(x) The density of water is _______ at 4˚C.
(A. same B. maximum C. minimum)
(xi) The approximate age of the universe is,
(A. 14 billion years old B. 13.8 billion years old C. 130 billion years old)
(xii) _______ is used in the core of transformers.
(A. Iron B. Copper C. Steel)
(xiii) When an electron is removed from an atom, it becomes _______ ion.
(A. positive B. negative C. none of them)
(xiv) The centre of the surface of a concave or convex mirror is called its _______.
(A. pole B. centre of curvature C. focus)
(xv) When water waves pass from deep to shallow water the wavelength is _______.
(A. longer B. shorter C. remain constant)
Section (B)
4. (a) Define coefficient of area expansion and volume expansion. Write down their SI units. (7
marks)
How much does the area of a rectangular steel plate 0.5m by 1.5m increase when it is heated
from 0˚C to 40˚C? (coefficient of linear expansion of steel is 1.27 x 10-5 K-1).
(b) State the laws of reflection of light. (8 marks)
A boy 4 ft tall is looking into a plane mirror on the wall which is 6 ft away from him.
He views the image of a chart which faces the mirror and is 3 ft behind him. Find (i) height of
his image, (ii) the distance between boy and his image, (iii) the distance between his eyes and
image of the chart. (iv) the distance between chart and image of the chart.
5.(a) “Generally, the denser the medium the greater will be the velocity of sound”. Explain (7 marks)
this statement.
On a day when air temperature is 11˚C, you use a whistle to call your dog. If the wavelength
of the sound produced is 0.016 m, what is the frequency? Could you hear the whistle?
(b) An object is placed at C of a concave mirror. Draw a ray diagram to show the formation of (8 marks)
image. Write down the properties of image.
An object is placed 10 cm in front of a concave mirror of focal length 15 cm. Find the image
and the magnification.
6.(a) Define conductor, insulator and semiconductor. Give two examples. (7 marks)
Is your body a conductor (or) insulator.
(b) Write down Wien’s law and Stefan-Boltzmann’s law. (8 marks)
Calculate the photon energy of yellow colour of wavelength 590 nm emitted from a sodium
lamp. What is the frequency of this colour?
7.(a) What is magnetization? How would you magnetize a steel rod PQ using direct current? (7 marks)
Draw with diagram.
(b) Define wavelength, frequency and velocity of a sound wave. (8 marks)
displacement (cm)
0.6
0.3 0.7
time (s)
0.1 0.5 0.9
0.6
At 0˚C, the displacement of an air particle with time as a sound wave travel through the air is
as shown above. What is (i) amplitude, (ii) period, (iii) frequency, (iv) wavelength of the
sound wave?
8.(a) (i) A chlorine atom has an atomic number of 17 and a mass number of 35. How many (7 marks)
(a) protons, (b) electrons, (c) neutrons and (d) nucleons does it have?
(ii) Discuss the Bohr’s model of an atom.
(b) Express any two practical uses of static electricity in our daily life. Draw a diagram of four (8 marks)
steps in charging a single metal sphere by induction.
Common static electricity involves charges ranging from nanocoulombs to microcoulombs.
(i) How many electrons are needed to form a charge of -2nC?
(ii) How many charges are in 3.75 x 1020 electrons?
9.(a) What are the main differences in the magnetic properties of soft iron and steel? Where are (7 marks)
used in hard magnetic and soft magnetic material.
(b) Where are used for convex mirror? Why? (8 marks)
An object is 20 cm in front of a concave mirror of focal length 15 cm. How for must the
screen be placed from the centre of curvature of the concave mirror to receive the image of the
object? If the object is 2 cm tall, find the size of the image.
