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S4 PHY 1 PRE-REG

This document outlines the Physics Paper 1 for the Uganda Certificate of Education Pre-Registration Examinations 2025, which consists of various tasks and questions divided into two sections. Candidates are instructed to attempt four items from both sections, with specific tasks related to electromagnetic waves, satellite technology, waste disposal, pulley systems, motion, and safety measures against lightning. Each item includes practical scenarios requiring physics knowledge to solve real-world problems, emphasizing understanding and application of physics concepts.

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S4 PHY 1 PRE-REG

This document outlines the Physics Paper 1 for the Uganda Certificate of Education Pre-Registration Examinations 2025, which consists of various tasks and questions divided into two sections. Candidates are instructed to attempt four items from both sections, with specific tasks related to electromagnetic waves, satellite technology, waste disposal, pulley systems, motion, and safety measures against lightning. Each item includes practical scenarios requiring physics knowledge to solve real-world problems, emphasizing understanding and application of physics concepts.

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PHYSICS
PAPER 1
FEB 2025
2hours: 15 minutes

UGANDA CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION


PRE-REGISTRATION EXAMINATIONS 2025
PHYSICS THEORY
Paper 1
2 hours: 15 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

 Attempt four items in both Section A and Section B


 Attempt any two from Section A
 And any Two from Section B
 Graph papers are provided
 Start each item on a fresh page.
SECTION A
(Attempt any two questions)
Item 1.
A barber working in a salon uses a UV sterilizer machine to disinfect his shaving
tools. One day, a regular customer notices the UV sterilizer through the shaving
mirror an express concern that it looks different from the usual sterilizer he has
seen, suspecting it might not be the correct type. The barber explains that the
mirror has magnified the image of the sterilizer, but the customer remains
skeptical. To reassure the customer, the barber provides data on the
electromagnetic waves emitted by the sterilizer, but the customer found it
confusing.
Hint:
Speed of light in vacuum is 3.0 x 108 m/s
Wavelength of the electromagnetic wave produced by the UV sterilizer machine is
254nm
A correct UV sterilizer machine produces electromagnetic waves of frequency about
1.181 x 1015Hz

Task: as Physics learner help the barber;


a) Convince the customer by confirming that the shaving machine was
sterilized by the right sterilizer machine.
b) Make the customer understands the properties of the electromagnetic waves
produced by the UV sterilizer machine
c) Understand how the magnified image of the UV sterilizer machine was
formed in the shaving mirror and state the characteristics of such images to
clear the doubt.
(Hint: 𝑛 = 10 )
Item 2
An article in the newspaper gave information that on 2nd December 2022, Ugandan
engineers with the help of Japanese engineers launched a satellite. The literature
teacher who picked interest who picked interest in the article found new words like
artificial and natural satellites. He developed a number of un answered questions
which could be answered by a physics learner like you.
Task:
(a) Explain the difference between the two types of satellites in the article.
(b) With reasons, justify why Uganda should spend all that much money to launch
its own satellite.
(c) In case Uganda is to develop to a super rocket capable of reaching different
planets. List with reasons the planets it can land on and planets it cannot land
on.

Item 3
In a certain town people are concerned with waste disposal from the factory into
the nearby lake is their source of water for home use. They raised this issue to the
chairperson local council one (LC1) who directed the management of the factory to
stop disposing wastes into the lake. A scientist was contacted to investigate the
presence of radioactive material to water and he found that the water was
radioactive as shown in table.
Time(days) 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Activity(counts/minute) 1200 740 440 260 160 90 60
Although the water from the lake remains radioactive for a long time, the scientist
recommended that water will be safe for use again when the activity is less than
38 counts per minute.

Task: As a student of physics: -

a) Advise the chairperson about the time the community will wait for the water
to be safe for use again.
b) Sensitize the members of the community about the risks associated with
radioactive materials and how such materials should be handled.

SECTION B
(Attempt any two from here)
Item 4
During a dry season, a school resorted to drawing water from an underground well
8m deep. Originally, they did it manually by lifting a metallic bucket of mass 4kg
and volume of 20 litres. The school workers however complained that the bucket
was very cold in the morning, very hot in the afternoon when the sun was up. It
was also very tiring to keep pulling up the bucket manually. They suggested a
pulley system of 4 wheels and an efficiency of 80% be used to help them quicker.
None of them could however tell how the pulley works and how much effort would
be required to raise the bucket.
Hint; acceleration due to gravity = 10ms-2
Task:
a) Explain what makes the bucket very cold in the morning and hot when the
sun is up?
b) Show what the pulley system suggested above look like and how it works.
Item 5
A man set off for a destination 250km away from his home at 4:00 am, he is
supposed to be at his workplace at 8:00 am. The speed limit on that road is
80km/hr. He set off on the journey without fastening his seatbelt and drove at an
average speed of 60km/h for the first 2 hours. He saw a truck that had fallen
covering the whole road and steeped on his brakes which brought the car to a
sudden stop. This made him jerk forward almost crushing into his windscreen.
The man stopped for 45 minutes and resumed his journey, reaching his work place
on time. He got out of his car and discovered it was very cold so he decided to wear
a black sweater which was against the choices of his workmates who said he was
smart in white.
Hint: speed limit is 80km/h
Task: Use your knowledge of physics
a) Determine if the driver exceeded speed limit
b) Explain what made the man jerk forward
c) Explain to the man’s workmates why he chose a black sweater.
Item 6:
Small pieces of metal which are unsafe to be eaten by chicken were found in feeds
that had just been bought from a milling company by a poultry farmer. The small
pieces of metal were later identified as iron. The farmer thought of disposing off the
feeds but remembered that the pieces of metals could be sorted with a magnet
which he did not have.
In the previous rainy season, there was a powerful lightning that struck severely
the trees in the farmer’s compound to pieces, luckily it did not strike the house but
according to the weather forecast there appears to be a new thunderstorm in the
coming week in the region

HINT: A nail, connecting wires of resistance 0.5 Ω, two dry cells each of 1.5 V were
available to the farmer.

TASK: As a student of physics;


(a). Help the farmer to remove the pieces of iron from the feeds.

(b) Comment on the effectiveness of what you have designed, given that current
of 4 A is enough to create a strong magnet

(c) Help advice how he can protect his house from being struck in the coming
thunderstorm predicted

END

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