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Candy_Lovely
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« on: May 21, 2011, 07:51:40 PM »

Physics IGCSE question please help me?
Hi everyone,I'm candy from Thailand. This is my first time using this web site. So I have question about physics please help me...

Q1.Why the vacuum is necessary in the cathode ray oscilloscope?.

I answered-> vacuum is necessary because accelerated electron will not lose their kinetic energy colliding with air molecule while traveling toward the screen. ( correct?)...

Q2.State what is seen when the cathode ray strike the florescent screen.?

I answered-> Light (correct?)

Q3.What is mean by the north pole of the magnet?.


Q4.state two change the usually happen to the molecules of the Solid when the solid is heated?.

I checked from the Mark Scheme it's witten. greater speed, molecules further apart ( correct?).

Q5. The gound beneath the chair is soft ,so the organisers put the chair on a large flat board.Why the board prevent the chair from sinking into the ground?

I answered -> Board have large area which decreases the pressure. ( how I should write in proper way)??...


Please help me I'm waiting u all to answer all the time....

Please help me ...

Thank you very much in advance
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Arne_Biermans
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 08:24:32 PM »

Your answers are pretty much correct.

Q5 correct, the force is spread over a larger area therefor decreasing the pressure.

Q3 magnets have 2 poles, a 'south pole' and a 'north pole'. The magnetic filed lines flow from the north pole to the south pole.

From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet

Pole naming conventions

The north pole of a magnet is the pole that, when the magnet is freely suspended, points towards the Earth's North Magnetic Pole in northern Canada. Since opposite poles (north and south) attract, the Earth's "North Magnetic Pole" is thus actually the south pole of the Earth's magnetic field.[8][9][10][11] As a practical matter, in order to tell which pole of a magnet is north and which is south, it is not necessary to use the Earth's magnetic field at all. For example, one method would be to compare it to an electromagnet, whose poles can be identified by the right-hand rule. The magnetic field lines of a magnet are considered by convention to emerge from the magnet's north pole and reenter at the south pole.[11]
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