Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) · Science (Grades 11 and 12)

Physics

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  1. Which type of wave needs a medium to travel?
  2. A 2 kg cart is pushed by a net force of 6 N. What is its acceleration?
  3. An object is dropped from rest. Ignoring air resistance, how fast is it moving after 3 s? (g = 9.8 m/s²)
  4. Which statement describes alpha radiation?
  5. What happens to the gravitational potential energy of a ball as it falls?
  6. Which quantity is a vector?
  7. A wave has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 2 m. What is its speed?
  8. A car accelerates uniformly from rest to 20 m/s in 5 s. What distance does it cover?
  9. In a series circuit with two 4 ohm resistors and a 12 V battery, what is the current?
  10. A 0.50 kg ball moves in a horizontal circle of radius 2.0 m at a constant speed of 4.0 m/s. What centripetal force acts on it?
  11. The distance between two masses is tripled. What happens to the gravitational force between them?
  12. Light in air (n = 1.00) strikes the surface of water (n = 1.33) at an angle of incidence of 30 degrees. What is the angle of refraction?
  13. A 60 W light bulb is left on for 5.0 hours. How much electrical energy does it use, in kilowatt-hours?
  14. A radioactive nucleus emits a beta-minus particle. What happens to its atomic number?
  15. A spring with a spring constant of 200 N/m is stretched by 0.10 m. How much elastic potential energy does it store?

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