IGCSE physics Progression test 1
Date: 25.10.2024
Duration: 40 minutes
Marks available: 40
1. A car travels due north at a constant speed of 30 ms -1 for 2 minutes. The car
then travels due east at a constant speed of 20 ms -1 for 4 minutes. What is the
total distance travelled by the car?
A) 140 m B) 8400 m C) 9000 m D) 9100 m
2. A man travels to work by car.
He travels on local roads and on
the motorway. The graph
shows how his speed varies
with time during the journey.
Take OD = 30 m/s, OA = 200 s,
AB = 450 s and BC = 300 s.
a. Calculate the acceleration of the car during OA.
acceleration = ..............................
b. Calculate the deceleration of the car during BC.
deceleration = ..............................
c. Find the average speed of the car in time interval BC.
average speed = ..............................
d. Calculate how far the car travels in time interval AB.
distance travelled = ..............................
3. A sprinter starting from the rest, reaches his full speed of 9.0 ms-1 in 1.5 s.
a) What is his acceleration?
b) How long he travelled to reach this speed?
4. These free body diagrams represent forces acting on a body.
a. Which diagram represents the forces acting on a car that is accelerating to the
right?
b. Calculate the resultant force acting on this car.
The other diagram represents the forces on a car that is braking.
c. Name the forces acting on this car.
d. Calculate the resultant force acting on this car.
5. An astronaut is on the Moon. He picks up a small rock 2,5 kg.
a. He hangs the rock from a newtonmeter and finds that its weight is 4 N. What is
g on the Moon?
b. Calculate the weight of the rock on the surface of the Earth.
c. Why mass of the rock on the Moon and Earth doesn’t change, while weight
changes.
6. The spring in figure stretches from
10 cm to 22 cm when a force of 4 N is applied.
a. Calculate the spring constant of the spring.
b. If the extension is proportional to the
stretching force when a force of 6 N is applied, calculate
i) the new extension length of the spring
ii) the final length in cm of the spring.
7. Extension of a spring under a force is
shown.
a) Explain behaviour of the spring
in OE region and EA region.
b) How E and A points are called?
c) Explain what happens if extension is beyond limit of proportionality.
d) Explain what OS region in the graph is.
e) Why spring is not ending at O, but S? Explain.
