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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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• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of
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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.
• Show all your working.
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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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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