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Paper 6 Alternative to Practical
May/June 2003
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International General Certificate of Secondary Education
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A student carried out an experiment to find the spring constant of a steel spring. The apparatus is shown in Fig. 1.1.
l0 l load W half-metre rule
half-metre rule Fig. 1.1
The student recorded the unstretched length l0 of the spring. Then she added loads W to the spring, recording the new length l each time. The readings are shown in the table below.
W/N
l / mm
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30
1
32
2
33
3
36
4
39
5
40
6
42
e / mm
l0 = 30 mm
(a) Calculate the extension e of the spring produced by each load, using the equation e = (l – l0).
Record the values of e in the table.
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(b) Plot the graph of e / mm