Name: _______________________ PHYSICS QUIZ Answer all the questions below. 1.

Express the following in SI unit without using a prefix (a) 0.0347 s

Class: _______________________

[1 mark] (b) 295 Gm [1 mark] (c) 23 mm3 [1 mark] 2. Estimate how fast your hair grows. How much longer does your hair get in one second? [2 marks]

3. A glass marble with a radius of 12.0 mm has a density of 2500 kg/m3. Determine the mass of the marble. Express your answer in mg. [2 marks]

4. The mass of the earth is 5.98 x 1024 kg, and its radius is 6400 km. What is the density of the earth? The mass of Saturn is 95 times the mass of the earth, and its radius is 9.4 times the radius of the earth. If you filled a big enough bathtub with water, and placed Saturn inside, would it sink or float? Give your reason. [3 marks]

5. A unit of area, often used in measuring land areas, is the hectare, defined as 104 m2. An open- pit coal mine consumes 75 hectares of land, down to a depth of 26 m, each year. What volume of earth, in cubic kilometers, is removed in this time?

[2 marks] 5. Table shows the values of the variables x and y for the function y = 4x2 + k. x y -2 13 1 1 2 13

Find the value of k.

[2 marks]

6. a student has used four types of measuring instruments: metre rule, measuring tape, vernier calipers and micrometer screw gauge, to measure the quantities listed in table 1.1. Write down the name of the instruments suitable for each measurement. quantity circumference of cylinder length of wire width of box thickness of metal plate reading/ cm 15.7 85.6 2.64 0.725 measuring instrument used

[4 marks] 7. readings of student X/cm 2.42 2.38 2.44 2.40 2.36 reading of student Y/cm 2.41 2.43 2.38 2.44 2.34 Table 2 Table 2 shows the diameter of a metal rod as recorded by two students, X and Y. (a) Explain why five readings were taken for each measurement. _____________________________________________________________________________________ [1 mark] (b) Calculate the average value of the readings made by (i) student X: (ii) student Y: [2 marks] (c)The actual value of the diameter of metal rod is 2.40 cm. If the sensitivity of the instrument used is 0.01 cm, which set of the reading is more accurate? Why? __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ [2 marks] (d) Which set of reading is more consistent? Why? __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ [2 marks]

8. Figure 1 shows two masses M and M, separated by a distance x between them.

x Figure 1 The force of attraction F between the two masses is given by the equation (a) State two scalar quantities and a vector quantity in the given equation. where G is a constant.

[3 marks]

(b) Derive the unit for G.

[2 marks]