What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9702 Physics papers and filtered to kinematics. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on kinematics, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Using the equations of motion when the acceleration is not uniform. Check for a straight line on the velocity-time graph first.
- Taking the area under a velocity-time graph as distance when part of it is below the axis.
- Confusing gradient and area, so acceleration is read off as an area.
- Saying a body at terminal velocity has stopped, or that it is still accelerating.
- Giving a projectile a horizontal acceleration.
- Forgetting that the vertical velocity, not the speed, is zero at the top of the flight.
- Changing the sign convention partway through a question.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Kinematics revision notes.