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Date May 2019 Marks available [Maximum mark: 1] Reference code 19M.1A.SL.TZ1.5
Level SL Paper 1A Time zone TZ1
Command term Question number 5 Adapted from N/A
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19M.1A.SL.TZ1.5

A girl throws an object horizontally at time t = 0. Air resistance can be ignored. At t = 0.50 s the object travels horizontally a distance  x in metres while it falls vertically through a distance y  in metres.

What is the initial velocity of the object and the vertical distance fallen at t = 1.0 s?

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D

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The correct response (D) was the most common selection by a minority of candidates, with incorrect responses being roughly equally distributed among the remaining options. This question has one of the highest discrimination indexes.

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