plumiDamping, forced vibrations and resonance: OCR A‑Level Physics B questions
OCR A-Level Physics B past-paper questions on 5.1.1.7 Damping, forced vibrations and resonance, 2016–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available.
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All 15 questions on Damping, forced vibrations and resonance, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q8(a) (3 marks): Explain why the sensitivity of dynamic microphones falls at high frequencies and how this can affect the accuracy of recordings (lines 66–69). [3]
- June 2025, Paper 3, Q4(d)(i) (6 marks): The student develops their experiment to investigate resonance. In the modified experiment, the oscillations are driven by a signal generator and vibrator as sh
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q3(c) (3 marks): The spring and mass are attached to a vibration generator as shown in Fig. 3.2. The vibration generator oscillates the spring through a range of frequencies fro
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q3(d) (3 marks): The hydrogen chloride molecule (HCl ) can be modelled as a light mass (the hydrogen atom) attached to a much heavier mass (the chlorine atom) by an elastic spri
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q4(b)(ii) (6 marks): This question is about the force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field. A student sets up an experiment to measure the field strength between a pair of
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q6(a)(i) (1 mark): State how the graph shows that the oscillator is undamped. [1]
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q5(e) (4 marks): A powerful magnet is fixed to the side of the mass as shown in Fig. 5.2. An aluminium sheet is placed below the mass. The friction between the mass and the meta
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q5(f) (3 marks): At a height of 632 m, the Shanghai Tower is the world’s second tallest building. A huge pendulum which oscillates at the natural frequency of the building reduc
- November 2021, Paper 3, Q3(b)(i) (2 marks): What is resonance? [2] hacksaw blade ruler vibration signal generator generator 24.0 cm string Hz Fig. 3.1
- November 2021, Paper 3, Q3(b)(ii) (3 marks): On the axes in Fig. 3.2 sketch the frequency-amplitude graph you would expect to achieve. Label the significant features of your graph. amplitude 0 0 frequency
- November 2021, Paper 3, Q3(b)(iii) (6 marks): This question is about the oscillations of hacksaw blades. (iii)* To investigate how damping affects resonance, two different sized pieces of card can be stuck
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q41(a)(i) (2 marks): Fig. 41.2 shows the f = c v proportionality and Fig. 41.3 shows how the sound level in the car varies with speed v. frequency of eddies f / Hz sound intensity i
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q41(a)(ii) (2 marks): State the evidence that shows there is a resonant oscillation happening in this example. [2]
- June 2019, Paper 1, Q41(b) (2 marks): The resonant frequency f of an enclosed volume of air V, with an aperture area A, is given by: f = u A V L. 2π Calculate the resonant frequency f of oscillation
- June 2017, Paper 3, Q2(c) (6 marks): This question is about the behaviour of a mass on a spring. (c)* By connecting the vibration generator to a signal generator it is possible to use this apparatu
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