GCSE AQA Combined Science Trilogy Physics Paper 1

[question number = 01.1] Use one of the following numbers to fill in the blank:
110, 12, 24, 230

[question number = 01.2] Use one of the following numbers to fill in the blank:

Batteries, mains power, does, does not

[question number = 01.3] A wire carries 15 A of current at 120 V. Calculate:
a) The power in watts
b) The resistance in ohms
c) The current that would flow if the voltage doubled but resistance stayed the same

[question number = 01.4] Drag and drop to match the purpose with the correct wire

[question number = 01.5] Students are told that they should investigate how the resistance of a wire changes with its length.

Plan an investigation to determine the relationship between the length of a wire and its resistance. (enter your answer)

You should include:

• how to set up the apparatus and the materials you would use:
• how to collect and record data
• how to ensure accuracy and reliability of results.

[question number = 02.1] Drag and drop to match the disadvantages to the correct energy resource

[question number = 02.2] Which of the following are fossil fuels?

[question number = 03.1] Convert 0.0000789 to standard form

[question number = 03.2] Convert 236,000 into standard form

[question number = 03.3] Convert 2400μm to m

[question number = 03.4] Convert 32,400 s to hours

[question number = 03.5] A square metal plate has sides of length 2.54 × 10⁵ micrometres. Calculate the perimeter of the plate in metres, give your answer in ordinary form to three decimal places.

[question number = 04.1] Calculate the change in momentum of an object that experiences a force of 350 N over 15 s.

[question number = 04.2] Calculate the distance moved when a 650 J of work is done to move a 160 N object. Leave your answer to 1 d.p.

[question number = 04.3] Jack moves a cube weighing 250N. He moves the cube by 2.5m in a straight line. Calculate the work done by Jack. 

[question number = 05.1] A train is travelling at 45 miles per hour. The driver puts on the brakes in order to stop at the station. Where is the kinetic energy of the train being transferred to?

[question number = 05.2] Energy can be transferred to useful and non-useful forms. Which of the following are non-useful transfers of energy?

[question number = 05.3] How can you reduce the effect of friction in the chain on a bicycle?

[question number = 05.4] What are the units we use for measuring energy?

[question number = 05.5] What do we use to slow the rate of heat loss out of a house?

[question number = 05.6] Which process transfers heat using electromagnetic waves?

[question number = 05.7] Using the kinetic energy equation – calculate the kinetic energy of a car with a mass of 1200kg travelling at 10 m/s. 

[question number = 05.8] How is gravitational potential energy stored?

[question number = 05.9] An object with a mass of 5kg is 100m above the ground and has 35 J of gravitational potential energy. What will happen to the gravitational potential energy if the mass was increased to 10kg?

[question number = 06.1] Drag and drop to match the description to the type of particle

[question number = 06.2] Which material do we commonly use to line the containers where radioactive sources are stored?

[question number = 06.3] The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5 years. If there are 100g of cobalt-60 in a sample, how much will be left after 15 years?

[question number = 06.4] The graph shows the activity of two different radioactive substances. Determine the half-life of Source B (red) in minutes.

[question number = 06.5] Put the types of radiation in order from most ionising to least ionising.

[question number = 06.6] The graph shows the activity of two different radioactive substances. Determine the half-life of Source A (blue) in minutes. Do not add the units.

[question number = 07.1] Calculate the specific latent heat of vaporisation/evaporation for carbon dioxide using the following information. You have a 1.5kg sample of carbon dioxide that changed state from a liquid to a gas. The energy required to evaporate it was 856.62 J

[question number = 07.2] Use some of the following words to complete the definition.

Specific, cool, leftover, latent, power, energy, 1, 100, 1000, mixture, state

[question number = 07.3] Match the change of state with the transition using the words below.

Freezing, sublimation, evaporation or boiling, condensation, melting, deposition

[question number = 07.4] Calculate the mass of a block of platinum when the change in thermal energy is 50 J, the specific heat capacity is 0.12 J/kg °C, and the change in temperature is 10 °C.

[question number = 08.1] A metal cube has a mass of 648g and each side is 6 cm long. Calculate: a) The volume in m³ b) The density in kg/m³ c) The mass in kg of a second cube of the same material with 0.03 m sides

[question number = 08.2] An engineer wants to build a cube 5 times larger than the original cube (6 cm sides) using identical small metal cubes of the same size as the original. Calculate:

a) How many of the original-sized cubes would be needed to complete this larger cube?

b) What would be the total mass of this larger cube?

c) What would be the volume of the new cube?

[question number = 08.3] 2000 of the 5 times larger metal cubes (30 cm sides) need to be transported to a construction site within 3 days. A standard lorry flatbed has dimensions of 13.6 m length × 2.55 m width, with a maximum permitted height of 4.9 m. The maximum payload (carrying capacity) of each lorry is 28,000 kg. Calculate:

a) How many cubes can fit along the length and width of the flatbed? (Ignore height for now)

b) If these cubes can be stacked, how many layers high can they go within the legal height limit?

c) What is the total number of cubes that could be transported in one journey?

d) Given each cube weighs 81 kg, what is the actual maximum number of cubes that can be transported per journey due to the weight limit?

e) How many lorry journeys will be required?