2013 JAMB UTME Physics Past Questions

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A train with an initial velocity of 20ms-1 is subjected to a uniform deceleration of 2m-2. The time required to bring the train to a complete halt is?

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A simple pendulum of length 0.4m has a period of 2s. What is the period a similar pendulum of length 0.8m at the same place?

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The pair of physical quantities that are scalar only are ?

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The resultant of two forces is 50N. If the forces are perpendicular to each other and one of them makes an angle 0f 30o with the resultant, find its magnitude.

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When a brick is taken from the earth's surface to the moon, its mass

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The coefficient of friction between two perfectly smooth surface is

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If a pump is capable of lifting 5000kg of water through a vertical height of 60m in 15 min, the power of the pump is

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An object is moving with a velocity of 5m-1. At what height must a similar body be situated to have a potential energy equal in value with kinetic energy of the moving body?

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A piece of cork floats in a liquid. What fraction of its volume will be immersed in the liquid? [Density of the cork = 0.25 x 103kgm-3, Density of the liquid = 1.25 x 103kgm-3]

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Calculate the apparent weight loss of a man weighing 70kg in an elevator moving downwards with an acceleration of 1.5ms-2. [g = 10ms-2]

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Calculate the length which corresponds to a temperature of 20oC if the ice and steam points of an unguarded thermometer are 400 mm apart

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What volume of alcohol will have same mass as 4.2m-3 of petrol?Density of alcohol = 8.4 x 102kgm-3, density of petrol =7.2x103kgm-3

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At what depth below the sea-level would one experience a change of pressure equal to one atmosphere? Density of sea water = 1013kg-3, one atmosphere = 0.01 x 105Nm-2, g = 10ms-2

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Calculate the work done when a force of 20N stretches a spring by 50mm.

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What effort will a machine of efficiency 90% apply to lift a load of 180N if its efforts arm is twice as long as its load arm?

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Steam from boiling water causes more damage on the skin than does boiling water because

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Food cook quicker in salt water than in pure water because of the effect of

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Two liquids X and Y having the same mass are supplied with the same quantity of heat. If the temperature rise in X is twice that of Y, the ratio of specific heat capacity of X to that of Y is

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A gas at a pressure of 105Nm-2expands from 0.6m-3 to 1.2m3 at constant temperature, the work done is

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A wire of length 100.0m at 30o has linear expansive of 2x10-5K-1 Calculate the length of the wire at a temperature of - 10oC

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