SS2 Physics Third Term Assignment

PHYSICS TUTORIAL ASSIGNMENT FOR SENIOR SECONDARY TWO  - THIRD TERM 2019/2020 SESSION

Instruction:  Do personal revision with  your old notes. Begin immediately with these topics below. Do the solution into your biology note book. You will submit it according to the schedule that will be sent to you.

WK 1-  TOPIC: PRODUCTION AND PROPAGATION OF WAVES

1.    Distinguish between wave motion and vibration of particles.

2.    State 3 the important characteristics of wave.

3.    Classify  waves into longitudinal and transverse waves by using;

i)     Mode of vibration                ii) Direction of propagation.

4.    Write and explain the terms in the wave equation.

WK  2   TOPIC: PROPERTIES OF WAVES

1.    State the properties of wave.

2.    Produce plane and circular waves using ripple tank.

3.    State the law of refraction of waves.

4.    State the law of reflection of waves.

5.    What do you understand by superposition of waves.

WK  3  TOPIC: LIGHT WAVES

1.    State some of the applications of plane and curved mirror.

2.    Explain refraction of light through rectangular glass block and triangular glass prism.

3.    Explain critical angle and total internal reflection and solve simple problems on them.

4.    Explain sun’s radiation to the earth.

5.    Explain how the direction of light changes as it travels from one medium into the other.

6.    Draw ray diagrams to show the formation of images by plane and curved mirrors.

7.    Explain the meaning of critical angle and total internal reflection stating the conditions under which they occur.

WK  4  TOPIC: SOUND WAVES

1.    Distinguish between noise and music.

2.    Distinguish between intensity and loudness, pitch and frequency.

3.    Explain forced vibration and resonance.

4.    State the similarities and the differences between human eye and a camera.

WK  5  TOPIC: HUMAN EYE

1.    Explain the defects of the eye and its correction.

2.    Explain the role played by some parts of the eye in the formation of image on the retina.

3.    Identify the type of lenses for correcting the various defects of the eye.

TOPIC  6:   APPLICATION OF SOUND WAVES

1.    Calculate speed of sound, time for the sound to travel, dept of sea-beds, distance of a cliff or high wall from an observer.

2.    Explain the function of hearing aids.

3.    Explain the physical principles involved in the use of wind string and percussion instruments.

4.    Use the reflection of sound to explain echoes

5.    Classify musical instruments into; i) Wind instruments    ii) Stringed instruments       iii) Percussion instruments

TOPIC 7:  MOLECULAR THEORY OF MATTER

1.    State the fundamental assumptions of the molecular theory.

2.    Use the molecular model to explain;

      i) Pressure in a gas     ii) Cohesion and adhesion    iii) Diffusion  

TOPIC   8  - 9 :    APPLICATION OF LENSES AND PLANE MIRRORS

1.    Explain the optical principles involved in;

i)     The snapshot camera         

ii)    The enlarging camera

iii)   The copying camera

2.    Explain the formation of images by the camera and the projector by tracing rays light through them.

3.    Trace the paths of light rays through simple and compound microscopes and telescopes.

TOPIC  10 : MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

1.    Identify various local musical instruments.