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IGCSE Physics of Christmas Quiz

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    Forces and motion
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  • How does Santa measure the volume of his sack of presents?
    With a magical measuring tape
    By multiplying the length x width x height
    With measuring cylinders filled with hot chocolate
    He guesses based on how heavy it feels
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  • If Santa accelerates when leaving a rooftop, what does his velocity-time graph look like?
    A wavy line like tinsel
    A steep slope upwards
    A series of jumps for each chimney
    A flat line, like the North Pole
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  • If Santa's sleigh is delivering presents and moving with constant speed, what is the net force acting on it?
    Equal to the weight of the presents
    The force of Christmas spirit
    Zero, because the sleigh is not accelerating
    The pull of the reindeers
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  • What force helps Santa not slide off a steep, icy roof?
    The grip of his white-gloved hands
    Gravity, pulling him down the chimney
    Magnetic North Pole attraction
    The friction between his boots and the ice
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  • Rudolph ran around the North Pole non-stop. If he used a digital timer that started at 5:00 pm and ended at 5:30 pm, how long did he run in seconds?
    2 200 s
    1200 s
    1800 s
    99 999 9999 999s
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  • Mrs. Claus baked cookies and placed them in a straight line, 5 cm apart. If there are 20 cookies, what is the total distance from the first to the last cookie?
    105 cm
    100 cm
    20 cm
    95 cm
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  • If a reindeer pushes a sleigh with a force of 15 N for 3 minutes, how much work is done if the sleigh doesn't move?
    45 J
    0 J
    5 J
    2700 J
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  • Santa is checking his list and lifting his 23 kg bag of toys up and down. If he lifts it 0.5 meters, how much work does he do each time? (Use g = 10 m/s^2)
    11.5 J
    0 J
    230 J
    115 J
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  • If the elves throw snowballs with a kinetic energy of 16 Joules and a mass of 0.5 kg, what is the speed of the snowballs?
    5. 66 m/s
    32 m/s
    8 m/s
    16 J
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  • Santa accidentally dropped a bag of presents in the ocean. If the bag has a mass of 10 kg and a volume of 0.008 m³, will it sink or float in water? (Assume the density of water is 1000 kg/m 3 1000 kg/m^3 )
    Santa isn't real
    Sink
    Float
    Dissapear
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  • How much power does Rudolph exert if he pulls Santa’s sleigh, doing 500 J of work over a distance of 5 meter in 10 seconds?
    5 000 J
    100 J
    50 J
    2500 J
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  • Santa’s sleigh weighs 2000 kg and is being pulled by 8 reindeer. Each reindeer exerts a force of 200 N. The sleigh experiences air resistance of 150N. What is the acceleration of the sleigh?
    40 m/s^2
    1.25 m/s^2
    0.03 m/s^2
    1.38 m/s^2
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  • On Christmas Eve, Santa consumes 15 cookies which gives him 250 Calories of energy (1 Calorie = 4184 J) each. If santa weighs 100 kg and he needs to climb 5 m for each chimney, how many chimneys can he climb with the energy from 15 cookies?
    0.75 Chimneys
    209 Chimneys
    31 380 Chimneys
    3138 Chimneys
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  • If an elf blows up a balloon and it expands to a radius of 50 cm and exerts a pressure of 1.5 Pa on its surface, what is the force exerted by the air inside? Assume the balloon is a sphere with area 4*pi*r^2
    4.7 N
    1.2 N
    3.1 N
    9.4 N
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  • Santa’s workshop has a power outage and the only light comes from Rudolph’s nose, which emits 8000 Joules of light energy in 2 hours. What is the power of Rudolph's nose?
    1.1 Watt
    8000 watt
    4000 Watt
    2.2 Watt
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  • Santa needs to calculate how efficient his new toy-making machine is. If it uses 1000 J of electrical energy and produces 600 J of useful toy energy, what is its efficiency?
    16.7 %
    40%
    100%
    60%
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