Q1 MCQ Drill: 2022 Physical Sciences P1 (2022 NSC May/June Mid-Year Examination)

Physical Sciences Past Paper Question 1 Drill Level 1: Knowledge & Recall

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6 multiple-choice questions taken verbatim from Section A of the official 2022 NSC May/June Mid-Year Examination Physical Sciences Paper 1, auto-marked against the official marking guideline. Questions that rely on diagrams or graphs are excluded - see the full paper for those.

Question 1 of 6 2 Marks

A bucket is at rest on a table. Which ONE of the following is the reaction force to the weight of the bucket, as described by Newton's Third Law?

A. Force of the table on Earth

B. Force of the bucket on Earth

C. Force of the bucket on the table

D. Force of the table on the bucket

Question 2 of 6 2 Marks

A ball is dropped from a small height above the ground. Ignore air resistance. The following pairs show physical quantities associated with the ball while it is falling to the ground. In which ONE of these pairs will BOTH quantities change while the ball is falling?

A. Mechanical energy and weight

B. Kinetic energy and momentum

C. Gravitational acceleration and kinetic energy

D. Gravitational potential energy and gravitational force

Question 3 of 6 2 Marks

Which ONE of the following can be explained by the Doppler effect?

A. A stethoscope is used to listen to a person's heartbeat.

B. An echo is heard when sound waves are reflected off a cliff.

C. The spectrum of light from an approaching star is shifted towards shorter wavelengths.

D. Sound intensity decreases when the sound source moves away from a stationary listener.

Question 4 of 6 2 Marks

Two oppositely charged point charges move towards each other. Which ONE of the following is CORRECT? The point charges move at …

A. constant velocity.

B. decreasing velocity.

C. constant acceleration.

D. increasing acceleration.

Question 5 of 6 2 Marks

Which ONE of the following phrases describes the emf of a battery?

A. Energy supplied per unit time

B. Charge transferred per unit time

C. Current supplied per unit charge

D. Maximum energy supplied per unit charge

Question 6 of 6 2 Marks

A photon of light of energy 2X joules is shone onto a metal surface with work function X joules. Which ONE of the following represents the maximum kinetic energy (in joules) of the electron ejected from the metal by this photon?

A. Zero 1

B. X 2

C. X

D. 2X

Q1 MCQ Drill: 2022 Physical Sciences P1 (2022 NSC May/June Mid-Year Examination)

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