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Question 12 A schematic diagram of a simple DC motor is shown below. — split-ring commutator o ° =) S H FE he + _ e————— DC power supply Which one of the following arrows best give
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Question 13 Students build a simple electric motor as shown below. axis of rotation N S Which one of the following modifications would not increase the torque of the motor? A. incr
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Question 13 The output of a household rooftop solar photovoltaic system is connected to an inverter. ‘Which one of the following graphs best represents the output of the inverter?
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Question 14 Sam and Simon are investigating interference effects using sound waves. On the school sports field they set up two speakers, S; and S,, connected to a signal generator
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Question 14 Ignoring the motion of Earth, which one of the following travellers is not in an inertial frame of reference? A person A. seated on a train while the train is stationar
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Question 15 Janet and Boris pass electrons and X-rays through the same crystal sample and observe that the diffraction patterns produced have a similar spacing, as shown below. ele
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Question 15 An electron is accelerated from rest through a potential difference of 10 V and has a de Broglie wavelength of L. Which one of the following is closest to the de Brogli
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Question 16 Protons with a Lorentz factor, γ, equal to 2.10 are injected into a 100 m long beamline in a particle physics laboratory. In the reference frame of the protons, which o
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Question 16 In an experiment to investigate standing waves, a length of string is fixed at both ends as shown below. The string is under constant tension so that the speed of the t
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Question 17 Light of wavelength 500 nm is just able to cause the photoelectric emission of electrons from a metallic surface. Which one of the following would happen if light of wa
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Question 17 Which one of the following phenomena can only be explained using the concept of quantisation? A. absorption spectra of atoms B. diffraction patterns observed with elect
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Question 18 Lia is taking measurements using an analogue ammeter (an ammeter with a scale and pointer), as shown in the diagram below. Source: <huntingSHARK/Shutterstock.com> Four
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