TRANSLATED VERSION MAJLIS PEPERIKSAAN MALAYSIA (MALAYSIAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL) SIJIL TINGGI PERSEKOLAHAN MALAYSIA Arahan kepada calon: a cepa Jawab semua soalan dalam Bahagian A dalam ruang yang pemeriksa disediakan. Semua kerja mestitah ditunjukkan. Bagi penghitungan, | (For examiner's use) nilai pemalar yang berkaitan dalam Buku Data mestilah digunakan, Bagi jawapan berangka, unit mestilah dinyatakan di mana- 1 ‘mana yang sesuai. 2 Jawab mana-mana empat soalan daripada Bahagian B. Untuk bahagian ini, tulis jawapan anda pada helaian jawapan a yang dibekalkan. Mulakan setiap jawapan pada helaian kertas 4 Yang baru, dan susun jawapan anda mengikut tertib berangka. F Tkat helaian jawapan anda bersama dengan buku soalan ini. Jawapan boleh ditulis dalam bahasa Melayu atau bahasa 6 Inggeris. 7 Buku Data dibekalkan. a Instructions to candidate: “Answer alll the questions in Section A in the spaces provided. 9 All working must be shown. For calculations, relevant values of 10 constants in the Data Booklet must be used. For numerical answers, units must be quoted wherever they are appropriate. uu Answer any four questions from Section B. For this section, 2 write your answers on the answer sheets provided. Begin each B answer on a fresh sheet of paper, and arrange your answers in numerical order. Tie your answer sheets to this booklet. 14 Answer may be written in either Malay or English. Jumlah A Data Booklet is provided. (Total) (MALAYSIA HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE) Kertas soalan ini terdiri daripada 12 halaman bercetak. (This question paper consists of 12 printed pages.) STPM 960/1 ‘© Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia 2002STPM 2002 Section A Answer all the questions in this section. 1 The figure below shows four blocks of bricks, each of length L, places on top of one another. Find the maximum value for x, y, and z in terms of L so that all the bricks are in equilibrium. 65]STPM 2002 2 (a) A mass in suspended at the end of a spring which is hung at a fixed point. The mass in then displaced vertically and released. On the same axes, sketch graphs to show the variation of displacement against time for oscillations which are underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped. Label your graphs. G3) (6) Compare the vibrational energy and the period of a free oscillating system with those of an underdamped oscillating system. (ai 3. The minimum intensity of audible sound is 1.0 x 107? W m”, (a) What is meant by sound intensity? (b) What is the factor affecting the sound intensity? al (c) The sound intensity level that is detected by an observer is 105 dB. What is the intensity of the sound at the observer's ear? GISTPM 2002 4 (a) (i) Electric conductor usually has thermal conductivity higher than that of non- conductor. Explain this statement, 2 (ii) Why diamonds have high thermal conductivity? 1) (b) The table below shows the thermal conductivity of aluminium, steel, copper, and lead. Metals Thermal conductivity 7 Aluminium 235 Steel 14 Copper 401 Lead a (i) Based on the information from the table above, which metal is most effective if used to construct cooling fins of refrigerator or car radiator? (ii) Explain why the cooling fins require a large surface area?STPM 2002 5 Inthe circuit shown below, cell X has an e.m-f. of 3.0 V and its internal resistance is 1.0 2. E.m4. of cell Y is 3.0 V and its internal resistance is 2.0 Q. | i| 50a 3.09 (a) Calculate the current 1). (b) Calculate the current 1. (2)STPM 2002 6 The diagram below shows a metal detector consisting of a plane coil placed horizontally in order to detect a piece of metal underneath the ground, Coil Ground surface ao Metal An alternating current flows through the coil. (a) Sketch the pattern of the magnetic field produced by the coil. ul (b) Explain how the metal underneath the ground can be detected. (4)‘STPM 2002 7 The energy of the electron in a hydrogen atom is given as £,=—BSevy, n=1,2,3,.. Ww A hydrogen atom is excited by a photon and makes a transition from energy level n = 1 to energy level n = 5. (a) What is the energy absorbed by the excited atom? 2] (b) What is the wavelength of the photon? (3)STPM 2002 8 Whenever a uranium-235 nucleus is bombarded by a slow neutron, two possible reactions may occur as shown below. G) *U+n— Xe + %Sr+ 20 2) U+n— "Cs + Rb + 2n (a) Calculate the energy released in reaction (1) using the binding energy per nucleon in the table below. Nuclide | Binding energy per nucleon | MeV Sr 8.74 Xe 8. ay 7.60 Gl (b) Calculate the energy released in reaction (2). [Mass of *°U = 235.04392 u, Mass of “Cs = 140.91963 u, Mass of "Rb = 92.92157 u, Mass of n= 1.00867 u, 1u=931 MeV] (2) (©) Between the two reactions, which is more likely to occur?STPM 2002 Section B Answer any four questions in this section. 9 (a) A body is moving with constant speed in a circular path. (Using Newton’s law of motion, explain why an external force has to act on the body. 21 (ii) Describe qualitatively the direction of this force. Q (b) A car moving with constant speed is going round a bend on a flat horizontal road. (i) State the name of the centripetal force which enables the car to go round the bend. oO) (ii) State the conditions that can cause the car is to skid to the outer fringe of the road. BI) (iii) What is the shape of the path if the car is to skid to the outer fringe of the road. Explain your answer. 2 (c) A smooth road has a bend of radius of curvature 60 m and is banked at an angle 15° to the horizontal as shown in the figure below. Back view of car Outer fringe of bend Inner fringe of bend (i) At what speed will the car travel round the bend without skidding? (41 (ii) What will happen to the car while rounding the bend if its speed is less than that calculated in (c)(i) above? ul)STPM 2002 10 (a) Metals are used to construct the frame of a car which has the following properties: high rigidity, high tensile strength, and malleable (able to have its shape changed). Sketch a graph of stress against strain of a wire made from such a metal. Based on your graph, explain how the quantities on the graph shows the properties described above. (4) (b) Explain, from the aspect of lattice structure of material, the condition of a material which can experience plastic deformation and the condition that a material which can achieve breaking point without experiencing plastic deformation, BI (c) (i) The particles of a solid are free to move in the directions x, y, and z in the lattice space of the solid. Using the law of equipartition of energy, write down an expression for the mean vibrational kinetic energy for one mole of the solid. 2 (ii) The particles in a solid have the same mean potential energy and mean vibrational kinetic energy. Derive an expression for the molar heat capacity of solid, (31 (ii) ‘The specific heat capacity and the molar mass of copper and aluminium at room temperature are shown below: Metals ‘Molar mass / g mor" Copper 386 635 Aluminium 900 27.0 Calculate the molar heat capacity of copper and aluminium. BI 11 (a) (i) State Gauss’ law. PI Gi) Using Gauss’ law, explain why a person inside a closed metallic cabin maintained at a high electric potential will not experience an electric shock. BI (b) The diagram below shows a spherical conductor X of radius 0.15 cm and with charge +3.0 uC fixed at a distance of 0.50 m from another spherical conductor Y of radius 0.30 cm and with charge - 0.20 1C. 0.50 m —————+t (Calculate the force between the two spheres. 13] The two spheres is connected with a thin wire. The wire is then removed from the spheres. Gi) What is the charge on each of the sphere? [5] (iii) Is the force between the two spheres a force of repulsion or a force of attraction after the wire is removed? Explain your answer. 2STPM 2002 12 (a) Write down the lens maker's formula. Explain the symbols in your formula. (21 (b) The lens shown in the diagram below has curved surfaces with radius of curvature 20.0 cm and 60.0 cm. The refractive index of the lens material is 1.63. (@)_ Using the lens maker's formula you have written in part (a), calculate the power of the lens. BI (ii) What type of lens is this? a (iii) Calculate the focal length of the Jens when the lens is immersed in water of refractive index 1.33. BI (c) The diagram below shows an object O placed at a distance of 20.0 cm from the surface P of a glass sphere of radius 5.0 cm and refractive index 1.63. Glass sphere, n= 1.63 (Determine the position of the image formed by the surface P of the glass sphere. 13] (ii) Determine the position of the final image formed by the glass sphere. (BISTPM 2002 13 (a) (i) State two observations from the experiment on photoelectric effect that cannot be explained with the wave theory. (2) (i) Monochromatic light with wavelength 350 nm illuminates the suface of a potassium metal of work function 2.30 eV. Calculate the maximum speed of the photoelectrons emitted. BI (ii) Sketch the graph for the maximum speed of photoelectrons against the frequency of the incident rays. 12) (b) (i) Explain the difference between the process of production of continuous X-rays with the process of production of line X-rays from an X-ray tube [4] (ii) Why is the line X-rays the characteristic of the target metal in the X-ray tube? ul (iii) The accelerating potential difference across an X-ray tube using copper as target is 5.0 KV. Calculate the minimum wavelength of the X-rays produced. 2) (iv) A wavelength of the copper line X-rays is 1.54 x 10° m, State whether the line X-rays can be produced by the X-ray tube in (b)(ii) above. fit] 14 (a) (i) Sketch the graph of neutron number N against proton number Z for stable nuclei. a Gi) Explain how the nucleus, particularly the heavier ones, can exist while the force of repulsion between the protons in the nucleus is very strong since they are very close to one another. 2 iii) Using the mass-energy relationship, explain why the mass of a nucleus is less than the total mass of the nucleons. 2 (b) Two radioactive samples A and B contain the same number of nuclei. (@)_ Compare the initial activities of the two radioactive samples mentioned. [1] ') What is the ratio of the number of nucleus A to the number of nucleus B when the activities of both the radioactive samples are the same? 21 (c) Natural carbon consists of “Cand °C. The ratio of the number of '‘C nucleus to the total number of natural carbon nucleus is 1.32 x 10°”. (i) Calculate the number of ““C nucleus in 400 mg of natural carbon of an ancient material 2 Gi) If the half-life of '“C is 5730 years and the ancient material has an activity of 136 decays per hour, calculate the age of the ancient material. (51 [1 year = 8760 hours, molar mass of natural carbon = 12.0 g]