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                                                             (d)  Brass is an alloy. Based on this
                                        Metre rule              experiment, state the operational
                                                                definition of an alloy.
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                                                             (e)  Figure  2.4 shows  an aeroplane
                                        Weight                  owned by  Malaysia  Airlines
                                                                Berhad.
                 Retort                  Steel ball
                 stand                   Cellophane
                                         tape
                                         Brass block

                              Figure 2.2                               Figure 2.4
                    After  the  experiment, the  depth of           The body of an aeroplane is made
                    the  dent  produced on each block is        from duralumin. Why is duralumin
                    measured and recorded in Table 2.           used in the construction of an
                               Table 2                          aeroplane  instead  of a pure
                                                                metal?                [1 mark]
                        Type of      Depth of dent
                         block           (cm)             3.  Figure 3 shows the apparatus  set-
                                                            up for an experiment  to study the
                      Copper block
                                                            relationship between mass and inertia.
                                                            A piece of plasticine  with a mass of
                       Brass block        0.3
                                                            50 g is placed at the end of a
                                                            hacksaw blade which is then pulled
                    (a)  Complete  Table 2 by measuring     aside horizontally and released.  The
                       the depth  of  the dent produced     time taken for the hacksaw blade to
                       on the  copper  block shown  in      complete 20 oscillations is recorded.
                       Figure 2.3.
                                         Depth
                                         of dent
                                         Copper
                                         block
                                                                               G-clamp
                              Figure 2.3
                                             [1 mark]                              Plasticine

                    (b)  State the inference based on the             Hacksaw blade
                        results of  the  experiment shown
                        in Table 2.                                    Figure 3
                                             [1 mark]        The experiment is repeated by using
                                                            plasticine with  a mass of  100 g,
                    (c)  State the responding  variable  in
                        this experiment.                    150 g and 200 g.  The results of the
                                                            experiment are shown in Table 3.1.
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