GCSE Science
3rd December 1981
- 1Radioactivity, Half-Life and Nuclear Uses
A GM tube detects a count rate of 240 counts per minute from a source. After 15 days the count rate has fallen to 30 counts per minute. Show that this data is consistent with a half-life of 5 days.
- 2Forces
State whether friction is a contact force or a non-contact force.
- 3Motion: Speed, Velocity and Acceleration
On a velocity-time graph, what does the area between the line and the time axis represent?
- 4Forces, Newton's Laws and Momentum
State two factors that increase a driver's thinking distance.
- 5Pressure, Moments and Levers
State two factors, other than depth, that affect the pressure at a given point in a liquid.
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