NG`IYA GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
ANNUAL PHYSICS CONTEST-TERM TWO 2025
JUNIOR CATEGORY
SUNDAY, 15TH JUNE, 2025
NAME:…………………………………………….. SCHOOL CODE:…………….
TIME: 1 HOUR STUDENT`S SCORE
INSTRUCTIONS
• Write your name and the school code in the spaces provided.
• Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.
• Mathematical tables and silent electronic calculators may be used.
[Link] 1 below show a mirror with the lower end pivoted to a wall and the other end suspended
using a flexible rubber band 20cm long such that it makes an angle of 350 with the wall.
Rubber band Plane mirror
Wall 350 Light ray
Figure 1
In a hot afternoon, the rubber band stretches by 22.12mm, a ray of light strikes the mirror
horizontally. Calculate the angle between the horizontal and the new reflected ray. (2marks)
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[Link] an experiment to determine the presence of charge on a body, a material to be tested was
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brought close to the cap of a positively charged electroscope. There was no divergence observed
from the leaf of electroscope. State the possible reason for the observation. (1 mark)
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[Link] any two ways of reducing the magnetic force of attraction of a magnet. (2 marks)
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4.A cog wheel with 20 teeth is rotated with a stiff card pressing lightly against the teeth. Sound is
produced when the rotating teeth strikes the card. Calculate the wavelength of sound produced if
the wheel makes 20 revolutions per second. (Velocity of sound in air is 330m/s). (3 marks)
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5.A car battery is rated 40Ah and is expected to supply a constant current for 200 minutes.
Determine the strength of current delivered. (2 marks)
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6. Figure 2 shows reflection of parallel rays of light by a concave reflector.
Figure 2
Give the name of the phenomenon describing the focus after the reflection in the figure 2 above.(1
mark)
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[Link] object initially placed beyond the centre of curvature of a concave mirror is moved so that its
now between the principal focus and the centre of curvature. State two changes to the image.(2
marks)
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[Link] 3 shows a straight copper wire placed between the poles of magnet and connected in an
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electric circuit.
Figure 3
State the direction of force exerted on the copper wire when the switch is closed. (1 mark)
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9.A form 1 student in the figure below rubs a balloon on her hair
State the charge acquired by the balloon. (1 mark)
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[Link] can be classified as mechanical waves or electromagnetic waves. Give any two
examples of each type. (2 marks)
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[Link] domain theory, explain how electrical method can be used to demagnetise a bar magnet.
(2 marks)
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12(a) The figure 5 shows a simple primary cell. Study it and answer the questions that follow
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(i) Name solution X that is used as electrolyte for the cell (1 mark)
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(ii) Explain how the zinc plate becomes the negative terminal of the cell (2 marks)
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13.A positively charged metal sphere is brought near an uncharged metallic object as in Figure 6.
Figure 2
Figure 6
Identify the type of charge induced at:
X…………………………………………. Y………………………………. (2 marks)
14.A form one student set up the circuit shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7
Identify the error made by the student and state how it can be corrected. (2 marks)
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15.A person standing out in the garden at night is observed to have two shadows of different
sharpness. Explain this observation. (2 marks)
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16.A boy and a girl stand facing each other 200 m apart on one side of a high wall and at the same
perpendicular distance, d, from it. (See Figure 8).
When the boy fires a pistol, the girl hears two sounds of the gunshot. The first one 0.6 seconds after
the flash and the one 0.25 seconds later.
(i) Sketch, on the diagram, the path followed by the second sound. (1 mark)
(ii) Determine the:
(I) velocity of sound in air, (3 marks)
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(II) length of path followed by the second sound, (3 marks)
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17. Draw a diagram to show how a convex mirror used in a shop give a large field of view.
[Link] diagram below shows a soft iron half ring and two magnets. Draw the magnetic field pattern
that result from the arrangement
