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1 October 2011

6.1 Physics
Mr J Willetts
Time 40 minutes
Write your answers in blue or black ink not pencil on the questions paper.
Do not do rough working on other paper.
You may use a calculator and a dictionary that translates from English into your own language. You may not
use an English dictionary.
Do not use liquid paper/Tippex/Snopake: cross out any mistakes.
Show your working for all calculations.

To improve you need to

include the correct units with your answers
give answers to an appropriate number of s.f.
show the stages in your working
be more careful with calculations
include more detail in descriptions/explanations
learn basic definitions/laws
other

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1.

A 12 V, 24 W light bulb is connected to a 12 V battery. Calculate:

(a)

the current through the light bulb

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(b)

the energy transfer to the bulb in 1800 s.

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(Total 4 marks)

2.

Some materials exhibit the property of superconductivity under certain conditions.

State what is meant by superconductivity.
Explain the required conditions for the material to become superconducting.
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(Total 3 marks)

3.

A battery is connected across a uniform conductor. The current in the conductor is 40 mA.
(i)

Calculate the total charge that flows past a point in the conductor in 3 minutes.
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(ii)

Using data from the Data Sheet calculate the number of electron charge carriers
passing the same point in the conductor in this time.
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(iii) If 8.6 J of energy are transferred to the conductor in this time, calculate the
potential difference across the conductor.
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(iv) Calculate the resistance of the conductor.

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(Total 6 marks)
4.

(a)

A pencil lead is made from a non-metallic material which has a resistivity, at

room temperature, of 4.0 103 m. A piece of this material has a length of
20mm and a diameter of 1.40 mm.
Show that the resistance of this specimen, to two significant figures, is 52 .
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(b) Given a specimen of the pencil lead described in part (a) with similar
dimensions, describe an experiment you could carry out in the school or college
laboratory to verify that the resistivity of the material is equal to the value
quoted in part (a).
Your description should include
a labelled circuit diagram,
details of the measurements you would make,
an account of how you would use your measurements to determine the
result.

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(c)

During an experiment such as that described in part (b), a specimen of pencil

lead is found to have a resistance of 52 when the current through it is
250 mA.
Calculate the power dissipated in the specimen under these conditions.
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(Total 12 marks)

5.

(a)

Show that the unit of resistivity is m.

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(b) A cable consists of seven straight strands of copper wire each of diameter
1.35 mm as shown in the diagram.
strand of copper wire

Calculate
(i)

the cross-sectional area of one strand of copper wire,

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(ii)

the resistance of a 100 m length of the cable, given that the resistivity of
copper is 1.6 108 m.
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(c)

(i)

If the cable in part (b) carries a current of 20 A, what is the potential

difference between the ends of the cable?
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(ii)

If a single strand of the copper wire in part (b) carried a current of 20 A,

what would be the potential difference between its ends?
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(d) State one advantage of using a stranded rather than a solid core cable with
copper of the same total cross-sectional area.
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(Total 8 marks)

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