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class Form Fou

subject Physics

Instructions: this paper is arrange in two sections A and B. Answer all questions in sections
A and B
SECTION A
Write only the letter corresponding to the correct answer in your answer booklet.

1. Waves that move through materials are

called D. 330 ms-1
A. EM waves 3. Mechanical waves include
A. Light
B. radio waves
B. UV waves
C. UV waves
C. EM waves
D. progressive waves
D. sound
2. Speed of sound in air is
4. Number of oscillations per unit
A. 280 ms-1
time is called
B. 300 ms-1
A. wavelength
C. 350 ms-1
B. amplitude

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 C. displacement A. Frequency decreases as
D. frequency wavelength decreases
5. If the particles of medium vibrate at right B. Frequency increases as
angles to the direction of velocity then wavelength decreases
wave is C. Frequency is independent
A. longitudinal of wavelength
B. abrupt D. Frequency is directly proportional
C. sound to wavelength
D. transverse 13. The maximum displacement if a wave is
6. Wave speed is directly proportional to A. Wave speed
A. Amplitude B. Wave amplitude
B. Wavelength C. Displacement
C. Energy D. The frequency of a wave
D. Frequency 14. The wave period is
7. Longitudinal waves gives rise to A. The time taken for one complete wave
A. Amplitude B. The time taken for one
B. Frequency complete oscillation
C. high and low pressure regions C. The distance between two
D. wavelength consecutive peaks
8. Which type of waves requires a medium to D. The speed of a wave
propagate? 15. The wave that has a back-and-forth
A. electromagnetic wave
B. quantum waves motion is
C. mechanical waves A. Transverse wave
D. gravity wave B. Longitudinal wave
9. What is the difference between transverse C. Circular wave
and longitudinal waves D. Elliptical wave
A. speed of propagation
16. Wave diffraction can be defined as
B. frequency of oscillation
C. direction of vibration A. The bending of a wave around
D. amplitude of wave an obstacle
10. Mechanical waves are waves that B. The reflection of a wave at a boundary
A. travel faster in air C. The transmission of a wave
B. travel at high speed in a material medium through a medium
C. travel at low speed in a material medium
D. do not travel in a material medium D. The absorption of a wave by a medium
11. What is the definition of a wave? 17. Interference of waves is
A. A stationary object A. The combination of two or more waves
B. A disturbance that travels through a B. The reflection of a wave at a boundary
medium C. The transmission of a wave
C. A type of energy through a medium
D. A force that acts on an object D. The absorption of a wave by a medium
12. What is the relationship between 18. Wave refraction is defined as
frequency and wavelength? A. The bending of a wave as it
passes from one medium to

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another

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 B. The reflection of a wave at a boundary C. Sound waves can travel as
C. The transmission of a wave through a polarised waves.
medium D. Sound can travel through a solid.
D. The absorption of a wave by a medium 23. The diagram below shows two points, A
and B, on a wave train.
19. Two waves have the same amplitude and
are travelling in the same medium. The two
waves can produce a standing wave if they
How many wavelengths separate point A
A. have the same frequency and travel in and point B?
opposite directions
B. have different frequencies and travel in A. 1.0
opposite directions. B. 3.0
C. have different frequencies and travel in the C. 0.75
D. 1.5
same direction.
24. What is the frequency of a wave
D. have the same frequency and travel in the if its period is 0.25 second?
same direction A. 1 Hz
20. A displacement-time graph is shown for a B. 12 Hz
particle in a transverse wave. C. 0.25 Hz
D. 4.0 Hz
25. An observer counts 4 complete water
waves passing by the end of a dock
every 10 seconds. What is the
frequency and period of the waves?
A. 2.5 Hz and 2.25 s
B. 40 Hz and 4 s
C. 4.0 Hz and 2.0 s
Which property of the wave cannot be D. 0.40 Hz and 2.5 s
determined directly from the displacement- 26. The amplitude of a sound wave is
most closely related to the sound's
time graph?
A. Speed
A. wavelength B. Wavelength
B. Frequency C. Loudness
C. time period D. Pitch
D. Amplitude 27. An electric bell connected to a
21. The following are characteristics of sound battery is sealed inside a large jar.
What happens as the air is removed
except
from the jar?
A. Pitch A. The electric circuit stops working
B. Loudness because electromagnetic
C. Quality radiation can not travel through a
D. Amplitude and frequency vacuum.
B. The bell’s pitch decreases
22. Which statement about sound is correct?
because the frequency of the
A. Sound waves travel in a direction
sound waves is lower in a
perpendicular to the direction of the
vacuum than in air.
oscillations.
C. The bell’s loudness decreases
B. Sound can travel through a vacuum.
because sound waves can not
travel through a vacuum.

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D. The bell’s loudness increases
because of decreased air
resistance

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 28. A term often used to describe the C. period and frequency
frequency of a sound is called D. amplitude and wavelength
A. amplitude
30. A pencil appears to be bent at a
B. volume
C. pitch point where it enters the water in a
D. tone beaker. This phenomenon is called
29. As a periodic wave travels from one A. reflection
medium to another, which pair of the B. dispersion
wave's characteristics do not change? C. refraction
A. period and amplitude D. rarefaction
B. frequency and velocity

SECTION B
Answer all the questions in this section
1. Distinguish between the following
(a) Mechanical and electromagnetic waves Displacement/cm
(b) Transverse and longitudinal waves
4 marks 5
2. Study the graph 0 4.0 Time/s
2.0 6.0
and answer the
questions that -5
follows
Displacement/cm
Determine
12 a) The amplitude of the
wave
0 2 4
6 Distance/m b) The period of the wave
-12 c) The frequency of the
wave
Determine d) The wavelength of
the wave if the
speed is 40 m/s
6
marks
3. a) Plane wave fronts are
generated from a
a) The amplitude of the wave 3. Study the graph and answer the questions
b) The wavelength of the wave
c) The speed of the wave given that its
frequency is 80 Hz 4 marks

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source S in a ripple tank as shown in the
figure. The tank is made up of three sections
A, B and C.
A is shallow while B and C are deep water
but B is separated from C by a barrier with a
smaller
opening than the spacing of the wave fronts.
Copy the entire diagram and continue the
waves to show what happens as the waves
pass through sections B and C 4
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 S

Deepwater Deepwater
Shallowwater
A
B C

b) Give the difference between pure and

impure notes 2 marks
END!!! Go back and check your work. Good luck.

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