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A-level
PHYSICS
Paper 2
Friday 24 May 2019 Morning Time allo𝑤ed: 2 hours
Materials
For this paper you must have:
a pencil and a ruler For Examiner’s Use
a scientific calculator Question Mark
a Data and Formulae Booklet.
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Instructions 2
Use black ink or black ball-point pen. 3
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. 4
Ans𝑤er all questions.
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You must ans𝑤er the questions in the spaces provided. Do not 𝑤rite
outside the box around each page or on blank pages. 6
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this book. Write the question number against your ans𝑤er(s).
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Information
The marks for questions are sho𝑤n in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 85.
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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Section A outside the
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Ans𝑤er all questions in this section.
0 1 Figure 1 sho𝑤s a perfectly insulated cylinder containing 0.050 kg of liquid nitrogen
at a temperature of 70 K.
A heater transfers energy at a constant rate of 12 W to the nitrogen.
A piston maintains the pressure at 1.0 × 105 Pa during the heating process.
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0 1 . 1 The nitrogen is heated from 70 K and is completely turned into a gas after 890 s. box
Calculate the specific heat capacity of liquid nitrogen.
Give an appropriate unit for your ans𝑤er.
specific latent heat of vaporisation of nitrogen = 2.0 × 105 J kg−1
boiling point of nitrogen = 77 K
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specific heat capacity = unit =
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