JAMB Physics 2010 Past Questions

Two cars moving in the same direction have speeds of 100 kmh^-1 and 130 kmh^-1 what is the velocity of the faster car as measured by an observer in the slower car?

A stone and a feather are dropped from the same height above the earth surface. ignoring air resistance, which of the following is correct?

A car moves with an initial velocity of 25 ms^-1 and reaches a velocity of 45 ms^-1 in 10s. what is the acceleration of the car?

The surfaces of conveyor belts are made rough so as to

A machine of velocity ratio 6 requires an effort of 400 N to raise a load of 800 N through I m. Find the efficiency of the machine

If a wire 30 cm long is extended to 30.5 cm by a force of 300 N. find the strain energy of wire

In a hydraulic press, the pump piston exerts a pressure of 100 pa on the liquid. what force is exerted in the second piston of cross sectional area 3 m²?

The accurate measurement of the relative density of a substance in its powdered form is done with a beam balance and

A hydrometer is an instrument used in measuring

One special advantage of alcohol over mercury as a thermometric liquid is its

The density of a certain oil on frying becomes
0.4 kgm^-3 with the volume of 20m³. what will be its initial volume when its initial density is 0.8 kgm^-3 assuming no loss of oil due to spillage?

Heat is radiated by hot objects in the form

If a container is filled with ice to the brim, what happens to the level of water when the ice completely melts?

The small droplet of water that forms on the grass in the early hours of the morning is

A vapour is said to be saturated when

The pressure of one mole of an ideal gas of volume 10^-2 m³ at a temperature of 27°c is


[molar gas constant = 8.3 J mol^-1 k^-1]

Which of the following has no effect on radiation?

The wavelength of a wave traveling with a velocity of 420 ms^-1 is 42 m. what is its period?

The sound of an electricity bell dies down slowly when air is slowly pumped out from a bottle because

During a thunderstorm, the sound is heard over a long time. this phenomenon is referred to as

In comparing the camera and the human eye, the film of the camera function as the

An object 4 cm high is placed 15 cm from a concave mirror of focal length 5 cm. The size of the image is

An object is embedded in a block of ice, 10 cm below the plane surface. if the refractive index of the ice is 1.50, the apparent depth below the surface is

Which of the following is used for the correction of short sightedness?

Dispersion occurs when white light passes through a glass prism because of the

When a positively charged rod is brought nearer the cap of a positively charged electroscope, the leaves divergence will

Power supply is transmitted at a very high voltage and low current in order to

A galvanometer with full-scale deflection of 10 mA is to be converted to a voltmeter with full-scale deflection of 5v. the resistance of the galvanometer is

Two inductors of inductances 5 mll and 15 mll are connected in series and a current of 5A flows through them. the total energy stored in the inductor is

In alternating current circuit at resonance, the angel of lead or lag is

In a discharge tube, most of the gas is pumped out so that electricity is conducted at

The ground stated energy for the hydrogen atom is 5.44 x 10^-19J . If an electron drops from zero energy to ground state, calculate the frequency of the emitted radiation.

[h = 6.6 x 10^-34 Js]

Transistors are used for the

Which of the following is a pure semiconductor?

The diagram above shows a velocity - time graph. The statement that is true about this motion is that the car

The diagram above represents balls in an undulating surface. Which of the following option represents positions of stable equilibrium?

A bob of weight 0.1 N hangs from a massless string of length 50 cm. A variable horizontal force which increase from zero is applied to pull the bob until the string makes an angle of 60^o with the vertical. The work done is

Two metals P and Q of length l₁ and l₂ are heated through the same temperature difference. If the ratio of the linear expansivities of P to Q is 2:3 and the ratio of lengths is 3:4. What is the ratio of increase in length of P to Q?

THe velocity of sound in air at 16^oC is 340ms^-1. What will it be when the pressure is doubled and its temperature raised to 127^oC?

Three capacitors of capacitance 2μF, 4μFand 8μF are connected in parallel and a P.D of 6V is maintained across each capacitor, the total energy stored is

A cell of e.m.f 12V and internal resistance 4Ω is connected to an external resistor of resistance 2Ω. Find the current flow.

The diagram above shows a balanced metre bridge, the value of x is

Three 4Ω resistors connected in parallel have a potential difference of 16 V applied across them. What is the total current in the circuit?

In the diagram above, a 200 W bulb is lighted by a 240 V a.c mains supply. If 1kwh is sold at N40, the cost of keeping the bulb lighted for a day is

In the diagram above, if the south-poles of two magnets strokes steel bar, the polarities at T and V will respectively be

In Faradays law of electrolysis, a graph of the mass deposited against the quantity of electricity is plotted. The slope of the graph gives

Rationalize \( \frac{2\sqrt{3}} + \sqrt{5} \sqrt{5} - \sqrt{3} \)

An object is weighted at different locations on the earth. What will be the right observation?

The radioisotope \( ^{235}_{92}U \) decays by emitting two alpha particles, three beta particles and a gamma ray. What is the mass and atomic number of the resulting element?