Name…………………………………………………………….

Index
No……………………………..
School…………………………………………………………… Candidate’s sign…………………….
Date………………………………….

232/3
PHYSICS
Paper 3
JULY/AUGUST 2010
2¼ HOURS

BUTERE DISTRICT JOINT EVALUATION TEST – 2010

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

232/3
PHYSICS
Paper 3
JULY/AUGUST 2010
2¼ HOURS

INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES
1. Write your name and index number in the space provided above.
2. Sign and write your name in the spaces provided above
3. You are supposed to spend the first 15 minutes of the 2 ½ hours allowed for this paper reading the
whole paper carefully before commencing your work.
4. Answer ALL questions in the spaces provided in the question paper.
5. Marks are given for a clear record of the observations actually made, their suitability, accuracy
and the use made of them.
6. Candidates are advised to record their observations as soon as they are made.
7. Mathematical tables and electronic calculators may be used.

FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY

QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE CANDIDATE’S SCORE

1 12
2 14
3 14
TOTAL 40

This paper consists of 8 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to
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 Ensure that all the pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
1. You are provided with the following:
- Two dry cells and a cell holder
- One ammeter
- One voltmeter
- A variable resistor
- A switch
- Connecting wires
Proceed as follows:
(a) Set up the circuit as shown in the figure below.

(b) Close the switch S and adjust the variable resistor until the voltmeter reads 2.9V. (If 2.9V
is not obtainable, take the maximum possible value and insert it in the table in place of
2.9V)
Read and record the values of V and the corresponding value of I in the table below. Open
the switch.
(c) Repeat the procedures in (b) above for other values of V shown in the table. Complete the
table.
TABLE I
V (volts) 2.9 2.7 2.5 2.3 2.0 1.8 1.6
I (A)
(3mks)
(d) Plot the graph of V (y axis) against I (A) (4mks)

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 (e) From the graph, determine the emf, E, and the internal resistance, r, of the battery given
that E = V + Ir
E (1mk)

r (4mks)

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2. You are provided with the following:
- One stand
- One boss
- One clamp
- On piece of thread
- One stop watch or stop clock
- One metre rule or half metre rule
- One spring with a pointer

Proceed as follows:
(a) (i) Hang the spring to the clamp using the piece of thread as shown in the figure 2.

(ii) Hang 100g mass from the lower end of the spring so that the mass is supported by the
spring.
(iii) Clamp the ruler vertically with zero centimeter mark uppermost.
(iv) Adjust the ruler so that the pointer is at 40.0cm mark from the top of the rule.
(b) (i) Add a 100g mass to the first mass. Record the new position of the pointer and the
extension, e, in the table below.
(ii) Add another 100g mass and record the new position of the pointer and the extension
in the table below.
(iii) Repeat (b) (i) until the total mass supported by the spring is 600g.
(c) (i) Remove the rule. Displace the 600g mass slightly down and release it to oscillate
vertically.
(ii) Time 20 oscillations. Record this to obtain the time, t2. Calculate the average time, t,
and record. Calculate the period, T, of the oscillation and record in the table.
(iii) Repeat (c) above for 500g, 400g, 300g and 200g masses.
(iv) Determine T2 and complete the table.

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 TABLE II
Mass (g)
Position of pointer (cm)
Extension, e (cm)
Time for 20 t1 (s)
oscillations t2 (s)
Average time, t (s)
Period time, t (s)
T2 (s2)
(7mks)
(d) (i) On the grid provided, plot a graph of T2 (vertical axis) against the extension (4mks)

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 (ii) Determine the gradient of the graph (2mks)

(iii) The equation of the graph is given by , where b and c are constants.

Determine the value of b. (1mk)

(iv) What is the significance of b? (1mk)

3. You are provided with the following:

- A glass prism, L (38mm x 38mm)
- 4 optical pins
- 4 drawing pins
- Plain paper
- A piece of plasticine
- Protractor (each candidate has a personal one)

Proceed as follows:
(a) Place the prism L on the paper and draw its outline with a sharp pencil
(b) Place a small block of plasticine on the prism to indicate which is the refractive angle AB.
(c) Construct the normal at a point I on AB and an incident ray making an angle of 30o with
this normal.
(d) Replace the prism and insert pins P1 and P2 to define this incident ray.
View this pins through the prism from the opposite face AC and insert pins P3 and P4 so
that they appear in line with the images of P1 and P2 (i.e. P3, P4 and the images of P1 and
P2 appear in one straight line)
(e) Remove the prism and join P4P3 to give the emergent ray.

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 (f) Draw a normal at E. Measure the angle of the emergence, eo and record in the table below.
(g) Repeat the procedure above for the values of io given and record the corresponding values
of angle eo in the table. You may use different parts of the paper in each case and always
using the prism with the refractive angle A as shown.
TABLE III
Angle of incidence (io) 30 40 50 60 70 80
Angle of emergency (eo)
(3mks)
(h) Measure angle A (1mk)
Angle A = …………………………………………………………………………………
(i) Plot a graph of angle eo (y axis) against angle io (5mks)

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 (j) Determine the value of D from the graph where D = (io = eo) (2mks)

(k) Calculate the value of c: from the expression (3mks)

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