2025 · M/J · 5054/22 | Q2

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Fig. 2.1 shows a fork-lift truck used to lift a load.

When lifting the load, the electric motor on the fork-lift truck has a useful output power of 600 W.

(a)Define ‘power’.

Fig. 2.1 — see the question text for what it shows

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The efficiency of the motor is 70%.

(b)Calculate the input power to the motor.

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Calculate Show your working. The method can earn marks even when the final value is wrong, and a bare answer often cannot.

[2 marks]

The fork-lift truck lifts a load with mass of 50 kg through a vertical distance of 2.3 m.

(c)(i)Calculate the work done in lifting the load.

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Calculate Show your working. The method can earn marks even when the final value is wrong, and a bare answer often cannot.

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(c)(ii)Calculate the time taken to lift the load.

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Calculate Show your working. The method can earn marks even when the final value is wrong, and a bare answer often cannot.

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(d)Describe how energy is transferred to thermal energy as the load is lifted by the fork-lift truck.

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Describe Say what happens, in order. Reasons are not required unless the question also asks why.

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5054/22/M/J/25Cambridge O Level Physics 5054 · May/June 2025 · Paper 2 variant 2 · Question 2