1983 JAMB UTME Physics Past Questions

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Which of the following is NOT a vector quantity?

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In a resonance tube experiment, a tube fixed length is closed at one end and several tuning forks of increasing frequency used to obtain resonance at the open end. If the tuning fork with the lowest frequency which gave…

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Which of the following statements is true about liquid pressure is NOT correct? The pressure

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If relative density of a metal is 19, what will be the mass of 20cm3 of the metal when immersed in water?

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The refractive index of liquid is 1.5. If the velocity of light in vacuum is 3.0 x 108ms-1, the velocity of light in the liquid is

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The force with which an object is attracted to the earth is called its

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Which of the following statements about friction is NOT correct?

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If the pressure on 100cm3 of an ideal gas is doubled while its kelvin temperature is halved, then the new volume of the gas will become

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The range of wavelengths of the visible spectrum is 400nm - 700nm. The wavelength of gamma rays is

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Which of the following statements about defects of vision is/are CORRECT? i. for a long sighted person, close objects appear blurred. ii. for a short sighted person, distant objects appear blurred. iii. short sight is co…

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which of the following is NOT correct? i. the pitch of a sound note depends on the frequency of vibrations. ii. the intensity of a sound note is proportional to the amplitude of vibrations. iii. beats are produced by two…

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A ship travelling towards a cliff receives the echo of its whistle after 3.5 seconds. A short while later, it receives the echo after 2.5 seconds. If the speed of sound in air under the prevalling condition is 250ms -1,…

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A milliameter with full scale deflection of 10mA has an internal resistance of 5 ohms. It would be converted to an ammeter with a full scale deflection of 1A by connecting a resistance of

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Which of the following arrangements in the sequence shown can be used to obtain a pure spectrum of white light?

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A man of mass 50kg ascends a flight of stairs 5m high in 5 seconds. If acceleration due to gravity is 10ms-2, the power expended is

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Which of the following conditions are necessary and sufficient for total internal reflection to take place at the boundary between two optical media? i. light is passing from optically denser medium to optically less den…

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A train has an initial velocity of 44ms-1 and an acceleration of -4ms-1. Its velocity after 10 seconds is

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A piece of wood is floating on water. The forces acting on the wood are

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Ripples on water are similar to light waves in that they both

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The electrochemical equivalent of a metal is 0.126 x 10-6 kgC-1. The mass of the metal that a current of 5A will deposit from a suitable bath in 1 hour is

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