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Paper 2
Wednesday 22 May 2024 Time allowed: 1 hour 30
minutes You are advised to
Afternoon spend about 35 minutes on
Materials
Section C
For this paper you must have:
a pencil and a ruler
a scientific calculator For Examiner’s Use
a Data and Formulae Booklet Questio Mark
a protractor. n
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Instructions 2
Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
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Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
Answer all questions. 4
You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do 5–34
not write outside the box around each page or on blank
TOTAL
pages.
If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at
the end of this book. Write the question number against your
answer(s).
Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do
not want to be marked.
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Information
The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 70.
You are expected to use a scientific calculator where appropriate.
A Data and Formulae Booklet is provided as a loose insert.
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outside the
Section A box
Answer all questions in this
section.
0 1 A hacksaw blade is a thin flexible strip of metal.
Figure 1 shows a blade clamped between two blocks above a
horizontal bench. A pen is attached to the free end of the blade.
Figure 1
The free end of the blade is displaced and released.
The blade oscillates in a horizontal plane as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2
The time for each oscillation is T.
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0 1 .1 Table 1 shows repeated measurements of 60T. box
Table 1
Measurements of 60T / s
25.20 25.05 24.97 25.10
Show that T is about 0.42 s.
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