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BETHEL SABS GIRLS’ SECONDARY SCHOOL
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FORM FOUR
1. A mountaineer named YC, records the air pressure at some meters above the
base X of Mt. Kilimanjaro 710mm of mercury and at almost the top at point Y as
330mm of mercury. Given that the average density of air is 1.0kg/m3 and the
density of mercury is 13600kg/m3, calculate the height of the mountain.
2. Your household's monthly electric bill is often expressed in kilowatt-hours. One

kilowatt-hour is the amount of energy delivered by the flow of l kilowatt of
electricity for one hour. Use conversion factors to show how many joules of energy
you get when you buy 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity.
3. An escalator is used to move 20 passengers every minute from the first floor of a
department store to the second. The second floor is located 5.20 meters above the
first floor. The average passenger's mass is 54.9 kg. Determine the power
requirement of the escalator in order to move this number of passengers in this
amount of time.
4. A simple hydrometer is set up with a test-tube (of length 12cm and mass of 15g)
with a flat base, and partly filled with lead shot. The tube has a uniform cross-
sectional area of 2 cm2 and 10cm of its length is under water. Calculate, with clear
explanations; (Use density of water = 1000kg/m3)
a) The mass of the lead shot in the tube. Why are the lead shot so kept?
b) the length of the tube immersed if placed in brine with density 1.25g/cm3
c) the lowest density of liquid in which this tube would float
5. (a) State parallelogram law of vector addition.

(b) A plane flying along a tail wind. If the plane is travelling at a velocity of 100
Km/h and the wind velocity is 25 Km/h, what is the velocity of plane relative to an
observer on the ground?
(c) Two forces of magnitude 40N and 60N are pulling a box on a horizontal table.
If the two forces make an angle of 600 between them, find the resultant force on
the box using the parallelogram law.
(d) Bernadette wishes to swim straight across a river 20m wide to a point X
directly opposite her. There is a uniform current of 0.5m/s. Find the direction in
which the swimmer must head to do this, and the time she would take to reach X,
when she swims at a steady speed of 1m/s.
(e) Car A is moving with a velocity of Va km/h while car B moving with a velocity
of Vb km/h. Calculate the velocity of car A relatives to car B if when they are
moving in the same direction their relative velocity is 40km/h while when in
opposite it becomes 92km/h
6. A uniform pencil AB of mass 4g can be balanced horizontally about a knife

edge at 2cm from the end A when a mass of 6g is hung from this end. What is the
length of the pencil?
7. Give reason to why:-

i. A body weigh move in air than when immersed in liquid
ii. The hydrometer’s bulb is weighed with mercury or lead shots
iii. The stem of hydrometer is made thin
iv. The graduations in the stem of the hydrometer start with small numbers at the
top and end with large numbers at the bottom.
v. The volume of the hydrometer’s bulb is used to determine the densities to be
measured.
vi. Particles in liquids move faster as they slide past each. Particles in gases move
randomly
8. A body is moving with a velocity of 30 m/s is accelerated uniformly to a

velocity of
50 m/s in 5 seconds.
a) Derive the equations of uniformly accelerated motion
b) If a book says that a cheetah can run at a speed of 96 km/h. How long
would it take for a cheetah to run 50m?
c) Calculate the acceleration of the body
d) Calculate the distance travelled by the body
9. Suppose a body is accelerated uniformly from velocity u to velocity v. The
distance
covered by the body during the acceleration process is s. Show that the
acceleration a of the body is given by,
v 2−u 2
a= 2S
10. A uniform plank 4.4m long and of mass 20kg is placed horizontally and
symmetrically on two supports which are 3.2m apart. A brick layer of mass 80kg
stands on the plank over one of the supports. (Use g = 10N/kg)
(a) Draw a diagram of the arrangements, showing clearly the forces acting on
the plank. Calculate the force on each support
(b) State briefly how you would expect the forces on each support to vary as the
man moves along the plank towards the other support
(c) When will the two forces on the supports equal and what will be their
magnitude?
(d) How far could the man move towards the nearer end of the plank before it
starts to tip?
11. An aquanaut stands on a uniform plank 6m long and of mass 40 kg. The plank
is suspended horizontally from vertical ropes attached 1m from each end. The mass
of the aquanaut 72kg.
(a) Calculate the tension in the ropes when the aquanaut is 1m from one of the
supports.
(b) If he jumps into water up to 10m under the surface where the atmospheric
pressure is 65cm of mercury, calculate the total pressure on his body. [Density
of mercury is 1.36x104 kg/m3; density of water = 1.0x103 kgm-3]
12. A ladder is 5m long and has mass of 16 kg. It can be balanced horizontally 2m
from one of the end. Two men, one at each end, carry the ladder. Calculate the
force each exerts on the ladder
13. A uniform bridge AB, 30m long and weighing 200000N, rest on supports at
each end. Find the forces on the supports when a car of mass 1ton is 4m from A
and a lorry of weight 100000N is 10m from B.
14. The air in each of the four tyres of a motor car exerts a pressure above
atmospheric pressure of 3×105 N/m2. Each tyre is in contact with the ground over
an area of 80 cm2. Estimate the mass of the car.
15. A metre rule is found to balance at 49 cm mark. When a mass of 100g is
suspended at 10 cm mark, it balances at 36 cm mark. Calculate the weight of the
rule.

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2. Your household's monthly electric bill is often expressed in kilowatt-hours. One

5. (a) State parallelogram law of vector addition.

6. A uniform pencil AB of mass 4g can be balanced horizontally about a knife

7. Give reason to why:-

8. A body is moving with a velocity of 30 m/s is accelerated uniformly to a

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