General Revision Page

This page contains physics questions that you can use to revise.
The questions will change about every two or three weeks. Just check the date on the page.
Have your notebook at hand as each set is usually on a topic such as Transport or Health Physics.
Best of luck for your revision!

This page was updated on May 17th 2000.

Set One

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1. Radio Scotland broadcasts on 810kHz. Calculate the wavelength of the station.
   

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2. Describe something that happens in nature that can show the difference between the speeds of light and sound.
   
   

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3. John is watching a golf match. He sees a golfer hit his ball at the other end of the course. He sees the ball being hit and about one and a half seconds later he hears the noise. How far away was John from the golfer?
   
   
   

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4. Linda is an astronomer. Her job is to look at radio signals that come from a distant galaxy. Copy the diagram of the radio telescope and show on it how the weak signals are made strong.
   
   
   

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5. Richard works for a cable tv company. He is examining an audio signal from one of the tv stations. Copy the diagram and mark on it clearly
   a) a wavelength
   b) the amplitude of the signal.
   

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