IN 2011E.
C EAST GOJJAM ZONE PHYSICS MODEL ZONAL EXAMINATION
FOR GRADE 10 TIME ALLOWED 1:30HR
Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives
1. When does a NOR get have a high output?
(A) When both inputs are high (C) When either input is low
(B) When both inputs are low (D) When either input is high
2. A wheel of radius 20cm is accelerating at 5𝜋 rad/sec2. What is the tangential
acceleration of a point at the rim of the wheel?
(A) 0.5𝜋 m/s2 (B) 2𝜋 m/s2 (C) 1.5𝜋 m/s2 (D) 𝜋 m/s2
3. Which physical quantities increase as sound travels from glass to air?
(A) speed and frequency (C) frequency and period
(B) speed and wave length (D) frequency and wave length
4. The horizontal component of a force is 40N. If the force makes an angle of
37o to the horizontal, what is the magnitude of the force? (Use sin37o=0.6,
cos37o=0.8)
(A) 40N (B) 32N (C) 24N (D) 50N
5. The diagram below shows the deflection of electron beam in a cathode ray
tube. A
Electron beam center
screen
B
The position of the bright spot on the screen can be shifted from the center
to the lower point when
(A) plate A is positive with respect to plate B
(B) a magnetic field directed from A to B is applied
(C) plate B is positive with respect to plate A
(D) a magnetic field directed from left to right is applied
6. You have given three 1 resisters. All of the following equivalent resistance
can be produced using all three resisters EXCEPT
1
(A) 3 (B) 1.5 (C) 1 (D) 3
7. A destructive interference is a wave phenomena that occurs when two waves
moves in
(A) the same directions out of phase (C) opposite direction out of phase
(B) the same direction in phase (D) opposite direction out of phase
8. What is the value of acceleration due to gravity at half of the height of the
radius of the earth, from the surface of earth? (Use g=10m/s2)
(A) 2.5m/s2 (B) 2m/s2 (C) 4m/s2 (D) 4.4ms2
9. Which symbol of the circuit represents photodiode?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
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10. A resistance of wire of length L and a cross sectional area A is connected
in a simple electric circuit. This wire is then folded in to two and connected
in the same circuit. What happens to the current in the circuit?
(A) halved (B) doubled (C) quadrupled (D) remains the same
11. Three capacitors are connected with the source as shown below.
𝐶1 =2𝜇F
V=12V
𝐶2 =2𝜇F
𝐶3 =4𝜇F
What is the voltage drop across the capacitor 𝐶3 ?
(A) 24V (B) 3V (C) 6V (D) 12V
12. Which one of the following is unit of magnetic flux?
(A) NM/A (B) Wb (C) TM2 (D) All of the above
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13. An object of mass m at rest explodes in to two unequal masses 3m and
2 1
m. If the 3m mass moves to the right with a speed of 20m/s, what is the
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2
velocity acquired by 3m mass?
(A) 10m/s to the left (C) 10m/s to the right
(B) 40m/s to the right (D) 40m/s to the left
14. Ethiopian electric power corporation calculates the first 50KWH consumption
at the minimum rate. In this quantity the unit KWH refers to
(A) energy (B) charge (C) current (D) power
15. A body of mass 2kg falls from the top of a building having a height 5m.
What is the momentum of the body just it strikes the ground in the
absence of air resistance? (Use g=10m/s2)
(A) 10kgm/s (B) 5kgm/s (C) 15kgm/s (D) 20kgm/s
16. Liquids and gases are collectively called fluids because
(A) both can be compressed (C) both can flow
(B) both have fixed volume (D) both fill the volume of their container
17. A wheel of diameter 40cm has a force applied to it, as shown in the
diagram below. (Use sin370=0.6, cos370=0.8)
F4 = 8N
v 37
O
F3 = 10N
F1 = 12N
F2 = 14N
2
What is the magnitude and the direction of the net torque produced by the
force about O?
(A) 2Nm anticlockwise (C) 1Nm clockwise
(B) 2Nm clockwise (D) 1Nm anticlockwise
18. Which one of the following is contact force?
(A) Frictional force (C) Electric force
(B) Magnetic force (D) Gravitational force
19. A block of mass m is pulled a constant velocity along a rough horizontal
surface by an applied force F as shown in the diagram below.
F
What is the magnitude of the frictional force?
(A) (mg+Fcos) (B) (mg-Fsin) (C) Fsin (D) Ftan
20. All electromagnetic wave travel with the same speed in
(A) water (B) air (C) mirror (D) vacuum
21. Which one of the following is graph of uniform accelerated motion?
v s v a
(A) (B) (C) (D)
t t t t
22. In a thermionic diode, once the current reaches saturation, what can be
done to increase the anode current?
(A) decrease the anode temperature (C) increase the heater voltage
(B) decrease the cathode voltage (D) increase the anode voltage
23. A block of 40g which is sliding on a frictionless horizontal surface with a
constant velocity of 4m/s collided with a pendulum bob of the same mass,
as shown in the diagram below.
θ 1m
bob
4m/s h
If the block stops right after collision with bob, to what height will the bob
swing? (Use g=10m/s2).
(A) 0.4m (B) 0.8m (C) 8m (D) 4m
24. What type of semiconductor results by doping silicon with pentavalent
atoms?
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(A) superconductor (C) n-type semiconductor
(B) p-type semiconductor (D) intrinsic semiconductor
25. Two plane mirrors, mirror 1 and mirror 2, are placed perpendicular to each
other as shown in the figure below. A ray of light that is incident on mirror
at an angle of incidence 𝜃1 = 530 is reflected to mirror 2.
𝜃1 = 530
𝜃2
What is the angle of reflection 𝜃2 at which the ray will be reflected from
mirror 2?
(A) 450 (B) 530 (C) 370 (D) 1060
26. What are the tensions in cables A and B supporting the 300N body in the
figure below? (Use sin370 = 0.6, cos370 = 0.8)
370
A B
300N
(A) 𝑇𝐴 = 400𝑁 and 𝑇𝐵 = 500𝑁 (C) 𝑇𝐴 = 800𝑁 and 𝑇𝐵 = 600𝑁
(B) 𝑇𝐴 = 600𝑁 and 𝑇𝐵 = 800𝑁 (D) 𝑇𝐴 = 500𝑁 and 𝑇𝐵 = 400𝑁
27. All of the following are vacuum tube device EXCEPT
(A) X-ray (C) transistor
(B) cathode ray oscilloscope (D) thermionic diode
28. How much work is needed to be done on a 2kg circular disc of rotational
inertia 0.04kgm2 in order to accelerate it from rest to an angular speed of
20 rad/sec?
(A) 8J (B) 0.08J (C) 80J (D) 0.8J
29. If the glass rod rubbed with the fur, the rod quickly brought near to the
knob of uncharged leaf type of electroscope, then the leaf of the
electroscope becomes
(A) negatively charged (C) neutral
(B) positively charged (D) unknown
30. What force required to move a 4kg object vertically up with an acceleration
2m/s2?
(A) 48N (B) 40N (C) 20N (D) 50N
31. In an open field there is a big concrete wall. Sound waves are produced in
front of the wall can be heard behind the wall. This is possible mainly due
to
(A) Interference (B) refraction (C) reflection (D) diffraction
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32. Which one of the following is true about Kepler’s 3rd law?
𝑇2 𝑇
(A) =constant (C) 𝑟 3 =constant
𝑟2
𝑇2 𝑇2
(B) =constant (D) =constant
𝑟3 𝑟
33. In the diagram below, what is magnitude and the direction the net magnetic
𝑇𝑀
field strength at a point P? (Use 𝜇0 = 4𝜋𝑥10−7 𝐴 )
𝐼1 = 4𝐴
8cm
𝑃
12cm 𝐼2 = 8𝐴
(A) 1𝑥10−5 𝑇 out of the page (C) 5𝑥10−5 𝑇 out of the page
(B) 4𝑥10−5 𝑇 into the page (D) 5𝑥10−5 𝑇 into the page
34. On a 1.5m long second class lever a load of 450N is placed on 0.5m away
from the fulcrum. How large the velocity ration of the lever?
(A) 0.33 (B) 3 (C) 2 (D) 0.5
35. What is the electric field strength at a point midway between two charges of
𝑁𝑚 2
2𝜇C and 4𝜇C, if they are 2m apart? (Use 𝑘 = 9𝑥109 )
𝐶2
N N N N
(A) 18x103 C (B) 36x103 C (C) 54x103 C (D) 20x103 C
36. Which one of the following is TRUE about projectile motion?
(A) The horizontal acceleration is constant
(B) The horizontal component of the velocity is constant
(C) The vertical component of the velocity is constant
(D) All of the above
37. A long wire wound in the form of a ring freely suspended near the north
pole of a bar magnet. If the current I sent in the ring as shown in diagram
below, then the ring will
(A) move away from the magnet
(B) not be affected by the magnet
(C) move towards the magnet
N
(D) none of the above
38. A force dose a negative work when
(A) the force is opposite to the displacement
(B) the force is perpendicular to the displacement
(C) both the force and the displacement are positive
(D) both the force and the displacement are negative
39. Which one of the following diagrams correctly represents the vector addition
𝐵=𝐶 -𝐴?
(A) 𝐴 𝐵 (C) 𝐴
𝐵
𝐶 𝐶
(B) 𝐴 𝐶 (D) All of the above
𝐵
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40. The pressure at the surface of an ocean is one atmosphere (=105pa). At
what depth in the ocean is the absolute pressure twice the atmospheric
pressure? (Use 𝜌w=1000kg/m3)
(A) 5m (B) 10m (C) 6 (D) 2m
41. A 3 resister and 6 resisters are connected in parallel. When this
combination is connected across a battery, the current delivered by the
battery is 14A and when the 6 resister is disconnected, the current drops
to 10A. What are the internal resistance and the emf of the battery?
(A) 0.1 and 10v (C) 0.2 and 14v
(B) 2 and 30v (D) 0.5 and 35v
42. A block initially at rest slides down a friction less plane inclined at an angle
of 370 with the horizontal. How long does it take the block to travel a
distance of 12m?
(A) 4sec (B) 2sec (C) 6sec (D) 8sec
43. From the above Question number 42, what is the acceleration of the block?
(A) 4m/s2 (B) 8m/s2 (C) 6m/s2 (D) 2m/s2
44. If a uniform accelerated body starts from rest, its displacement will be
directly proportional to
(A) the square of the time interval (C) the instantaneous velocity
(B) the half of the time interval (D) the total time interval
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45. In the figure below a disc (I=2 mr ) is freely rolling down on an inclined
plane.
What is the acceleration of the disc down the plane?
2 1
(A) 3 gsin (B) 2 gsin (C) gsin (D) g
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