Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance

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16th April 1998

5 questions · Years 7-8 · 744 questions in this band

  1. 1
    Chemistry: Reactions, Energy and Rates

    Explain, using collision theory, why crushing a solid into a powder increases the rate of reaction.

  2. 2
    Chemistry: Metals, the Reactivity Series and Environmental Chemistry

    Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.

  3. 3
    Physics: Forces and Energy

    A parcel of mass 2.5 kg is lifted onto a shelf 2 m above the ground. Take g = 10 N/kg and use GPE = mass x g x height. Calculate the gain in gravitational potential energy.

  4. 4
    Physics: Electricity, Magnetism and Waves

    State one way, other than increasing the current, to increase the strength of an electromagnet made from a coil of wire around an iron core.

  5. 5
    Physics: Light, Sound and Space

    State why an astronaut in open space, far from any planet or star, cannot hear an explosion happening nearby.

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