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Winter (Oct/Nov) 2026Paper 5(IAL)

Earthquakes can cause buildings to oscillate. The effects can be reduced by damping the oscillations using ductile materials. Which of the following describes a ductile material? A It behaves elastically under compression. B It can undergo significant plastic deformation. C It wi…

Summer (May/Jun) 2025Paper 1(IAL)

A violin is a musical instrument that has four strings, as shown. (Source: © bob_sato_1973/Getty Images) (a) A force-extension graph for a sample of one of the strings is shown below. The table shows the stiffness for samples of three of the strings on the violin. Each sample was…

Summer (May/Jun) 2024Paper 1(IAL)

A student carried out an experiment to determine the Young modulus of copper. *(a) The student clamped one end of a copper wire to the bench. The wire passed over a pulley and masses were added to the other end of the wire. A metre rule was fixed to the bench and a marker fixed t…

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