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PART A
Q1. A leaf appears green in daylight. If this leaf were observed in red light, what colour would it
appear to have?
(a) Green (b) Black-Brown (c) Red (d) Blue
Q2. The distance from Nehrunagar to Gandhinagar is 27 km . A and B start walking from
Nehrunagar towards Gandhinagar at speeds of 5 km / hr and 7 km / hr , respectively. B reaches
Gandhinagar, returns immediately, and meets A at Indiranagar. What is the distance between
Nehrunagar and Indiranagar? (Assume all three cities to be in one straight line)
(a) 12.5 km 2. 22.5 km (c) 4.5 km (d) 13.5 km
Q3. A sphere G of radius b is fixed mid-air and several spheres identical to the first one are shot at
it with their velocities parallel to each other. If the shot spheres fall within an imaginary cylinder
of radius a  b  a  , then the fraction of spheres that will hit G is

(a) 2b / a (b) 4b 2 / a 2 (c)  a  b  /  a  b  (d) 8b3 / a 3

Q4. Five persons A, B, C , D and E are sifting in a row with C in the middle of the group. If D is at
an extreme end and there are at least two persons between B and E , then which of the
following statements is incorrect?
(a) E can be on extreme left (b) E can be on extreme right
(c) A cannot be on extreme left (d) A is always a neighbour of B or D
Q5. In a group of students, 30 % play only cricket, 20 % play only football and 10 % play only
basketball. 20 % of the students play both football and cricket, 15 % play both basketball and
cricket, 10 % play both football and basketball. 15 students play no games, while 5 % of the
students play all three games. What is the total number of students?
(a) 300 (b) 250 (c) 350 (d) 400
Q6. When Ramesh was at the age of 8 years, he hammered a nail into a large tree to mark his height.
If the tree grows 2 cm/year, how much higher would the nail be after 5 years?
(a) 5cm higher (b) 0 cm higher (c) 10 cm higher (d) 8cm higher
Q7. Find the missing number
17 15 13 12 25 24 41 40
8 5 7 ?
(a) 4 (b) 9 (c) 3 (d) 6

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Q8.
A

B won
lost
C

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100110120130140150
Number of seats

The bar chart above shows number of seats won by four political parties A, B, C and D . Which
party won the largest proportion of seats it contested?
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D
Q9. The molar fraction of hydrochloric acid in an extremely dilute’ aqueous solution is doubled. The
pH of the resulting solution is
(a) approximately doubled (b) approximately halved
(c) increased (d) reduced
Q10. Approximately how much blood flows per day through a normal human heart beating 70 times
per minute, having a relaxed volume of 110 cc and compressed volume of 70 cc ?
(a) 7150 litres (b) 4000 litres (c) 28000 litres (d) 11100 litres
Q11. The number of three English letter words, having at least one consonant, but not having two
consecutive consonants, is
(a) 2205 (b) 3780 (c) 2730 (d) 3360
Q12. Which one of the following graphs represents f  x   sin x cos x ?
1 0.5
(a) 0.5 (b)

0 0
0.5
1 0.5
0  /2  3 / 2 2 0  /2  3 / 2 2

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1 0.5

(c) 0.5 (d)

0 0
0.5
1 0.5
0  /2  3 / 2 2 0  /2  3 / 2 2
Q13. There are two gas parcels of equal volume, A and B at the same temperature and pressure.
Parcel A is one mole of water vapour, while parcel B is one mole of dry air. Which of the
following is TRUE?
(a) Parcel A is heavier then Parcel B
(b) Parcel B is heavier than Parcel A
(c) Both parcels are equally heavy
(d) Without temperature and pressure data, their relative masses cannot be determined
Q14. For which of the following numbers is its positive square root closest to the number itself’?
(a) 0.33 (b) 0.99 (c) 0.89 (d) 0.10
Q15. Find the next pattern in the following sequence:

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

R
Q16. DRQP is a small square of side a in the corner of a big square D C
ABCD of side A. P Q
What is the ratio of the area of the quadrilateral PBRQ to that of
the square ABCD , given A / a  3 ?
(a) 2 / 9 (b) 1/ 6
(c) 1/ 3 (d) 2 / 7 A B

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Q17. A 100 m long fence is to be made by fixing a wire mesh on steel poles. Each pole has a 1 m

vertical portion and a 1 m portion tilted at 450 to the vertical. What will be the area of wire mesh
required?
(a) 200 m 2 (b) 241.4 m 2 (c) 400 m 2 (d) 170.7 m 2
Q18. The average staff salary of a company is Rs. 8000 / - . A new guard and a new manager are
recruited with salaries of Rs. 5000 / - and 20000 / - , respectively. What is the current staff
strength if the new average salary is Rs. 4000 / - more than that of the guard?
(a) 7 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 11
Q19. A bird flies along the three sides of a field in the shape of an equilateral triangle at speeds of
2, 4,8 km / hr , respectively. The average speed of the bird is
24 14 22
(a) km / hr (b) km / hr (c) km / hr (d) 4 km / hr
7 3 7
Q20. A buys n copies of a book at 20 % discount. B gets the same book at 30 % discount. What is
the minimum value of it for which B can buy one extra copy of the book, spending the same
amount as A ?
(a) 7
(b) 8
(c) 6
(d) This problem cannot be solved unless the marked price of the book is known.

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PART ‘B’
 
21. Let A be a non-singular 3  3 matrix, the columns of which are denoted by the vectors a , b and
   
c , respectively. Similarly, u , v and w denote the vectors that form the corresponding columns

of  AT  . Which of the following is true?

1

           
(a) u  a  0, u  b  0, u  c  1 (b) u  a  0, u  b  1, u  c  0
           
(c) u  a  1, u  b  0, u  c  0 (d) u  a  0, u  b  0, u  c  0

Q22.  
Consider the real function f  x   1/ x 2  4 . The Taylor expansion of f  x  about x  0

converges
(a) for all values of x (b) for all values of x except x  2
(c) in the region 2  x  2 (d) for x  2 and x  2
Q23. Consider the matrix equation
 1 1 1  x   0 
    
 1 2 3  y    0 
 2 b 2c  z   0 
    
The condition for existence of a non-trivial solution and the corresponding normalised solution
(upto a sign) is
1
(a) b  2c and  x, y, z   1, 2, 1
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1
(b) c  2b and  x, y, z   1, 1, 2 
6
1
(c) c  b  1 and  x, y, z    2, 1, 1
6
1
(d) b  c  1 and  x, y, z   1, 2, 1
6
dy
Q24. Consider the differential equation  ay  e bt with the initial condition y  0   0 . Then the
dt
Laplace transform Y  s  of the solution y  t  is

1 1 1 e a  e b
(a) (b) (c) (d)
 s  a  s  b  b  s  a a  s  b ba

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Q25. A light signal travels from a point A to a point B , both within a glass slab that is moving with
uniform velocity (in the same direction as the light) with speed 0.3c with respect to an external
observer. If the refractive index of the slab is 1.5 , then the observer will measure the speed of the
signal as
(a) 0.67 c (b) 0.81c (c) 0.97 c (d) c
Q26. A monoatomic gas ‘of volume V is in equilibrium in a uniform vertical cylinder, the lower end
of which is closed by a rigid wall and the other by a frictionless piston. The piston is pressed
lightly and released. Assume that the gas is a poor conductor of heat and the cylinder and piston
are perfectly insulating. If the cross-sectional area of the cylinder is A , the angular frequency of
small oscillations of the piston about the point of equilibrium, is
5
(a) 5 gA /  3V  (b) 4 gA /  3V  (c) gA / V (d) 7 gA /  5V 
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Q27. A disc of mass m is free to rotate in a plane parallel to the xy plane with an angular velocity
 ẑ about a massless rigid rod suspended from the roof of a stationary car (as shown in the
figure below). The rod is free to orient itself along any ẑ
direction. The car accelerates in the positive x -direction ŷ
with an acceleration a  0 . Which of the following
statements is true for the coordinates of the centre of mass x̂
of the disc in the reference frame of the car?
axˆ
(a) only the x and the z coordinates change
(b) only the y and the z coordinates change
 ẑ
(c) only the x and the y coordinates change
(d) all the three coordinates change
Q28. A cyclist, weighing a total of 80 kg with the bicycle, pedals at a speed of 10 m / s . She stops
pedalling at an instant which is taken to be t  0 . Due to the velocity dependent frictional force,
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her velocity is found to vary as v  t   m.s , where t is measured in seconds. When the
 t 
1  
 30 
velocity drops to 8 m / s , she starts pedalling again to maintain a constant speed. The energy
expended by her in 1 minute at this (new) speed, is
(a) 4 kJ (b) 8 kJ (c) 16 kJ (d) 32 kJ

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Q29. The number of linearly independent power series solutions, around x  0 , of the second order
d 2 y dy
linear differential equation x   xy  0 , is
dx 2 dx
(a) 0 (this equation does not have a power series solution)
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 3
Q30. Let x denote the position operator and p the canonically conjugate momentum operator of a
particle. The commutator
 1 2 2 1 2
 2m p   x , m p   x 
2

 
where  and  are constants, is zero if

(a)    (b)   2  (c)   2  (d) 2  

Q31. Two point charges 3Q and Q are placed at  0, 0, d  and  0, 0, 2d  respectively, above an

infinite grounded conducting sheet kept in the xy - plane. At a point  0, 0, z  , where z  d , the

electrostatic potential of this charge configuration would approximately be

1 d2 1 2d 1 3d 1 d2
(a) Q (b) Q (c) Q (d)  Q
4 0 z 3 4 0 z 2 4 0 z 2 4 0 z 3
Q32. A rectangular piece of dielectric material is inserted partially into the (air) gap between the plates
of a parallel plate capacitor. The dielectric piece will
(a) remain stationary where it is placed
(b) be pushed out from the gap between the plates
(c) be drawn inside the gap between the plates and its velocity does not change sign
(d) execute an oscillatory motion in the region between the plates
Q33. An electromagnetic wave is travelling in free space (of permittivity  0 ) with electric field

ˆ cos q  x  ct 
E  kE 0

The average power (per unit area) crossing planes parallel to 4 x  3 y  0 will be
4 1 16
(a)  0 cE02 (b)  0 cE02 (c)  0 cE02 (d)  0cE02
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Q34. A plane electromagnetic wave from within a dielectric medium (with  4 0 and   0 ) is

incident on its boundary with air, at z  0 . The magnetic field in the medium is

 
H  ˆjH 0 cos t  kx  k 3 z , where  and k are positive constants.

The angles of reflection and refraction are, respectively,

(a) 450 and 600 (b) 300 and 900 (c) 300 and 600 (d) 600 and 900
Q35. The normalized wavefunction of a particle in three dimensions is given by
1
  r , ,   e r / 2 a where a  0 is a constant. The ratio of the most probable distance
8 a 3

from the origin to the mean distance from the origin, is


[You may use  dx x n e  x  n ! ]
0

1 1 3 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 2 2 3
Q36. The state vector of a one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator of angular frequency  , at
1
time t  0 , is given by   0    0  2  , where 0 and 2 are the normalized ground
2
state and the second excited state, respectively. The minimum time t after which the state vector
  t  is orthogonal to   0  , is

 2  4
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2   
Q37. The normalized wavefunction in the momentum space of a particle in one dimension is

  p  , where  and  are real constants. The uncertainty  x in measuring its
p 2
2

position is

    
(a)  (b)  (c) (d)
 2
 3
2  
Q38. The full scale voltage of an n -bit Digital-to-Analog Convener is V . The resolution that can be
achieved in it is
V V V V
(a) (b) (c) (d)
 2 1
n
  2 1
n
 22 n n

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Q39. The spring constant k of a spring of mass ms is determined experimentally by loading the spring
with mass M and recording the time period T , for a single oscillation. If the experiment is
carried out for different masses, then the graph that correctly represents the result is

(a) (b)
T2 T2

 0, 0  M  0, 0  M

(c) T2 (d) T2

 0, 0  M  0, 0  M
Q40. A Zener diode with an operating voltage of 10 V at 250 C has a positive temperature coefficient

of 0.07 % per 0 C of the operating voltage. The operating voltage of this Zener diode at 1250 C
is
(a) 12.0 V (b) 11.7 V (c) 10.7 V (d) 9.3 V
1 
Q41. The dispersion relation of a gas of spin fermions in two dimensions is E  v k , where E is
2

the energy, k is the wave vector and v is a constant with the dimension of velocity. If the Fermi
energy at zero temperature is F , the number of particles per unit area is

F 3F  3/F 2 3F

(a) (b) (c) (d)
 4 v   6 2v 33   3v  
3 3
 2 v 2  2 
Q42. The relation between the internal energy U , entropy S , temperature T , pressure p , volume V ,
chemical potential  and number of particles N of a thermodynamic system is
dU  TdS  pdV   dN . That U is an exact differential implies that

p T U U
(a)   (b) p S
S V , N V S ,N T S ,N V S ,

U 1 U p T
(c) p  (d) 
T S ,N T V S , S V , N V S ,N

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Q43. The number of microstates of a gas of N particles in a volume V and of internal energy U , is
given by
3N / 2
 aU 
 U , V , N   V  Nb 
N
 
 N 
(where a and b are positive constants). Its pressure P , volume V and temperature T , are
related by
 aN   aN 
(a)  P   V  Nb   Nk BT (b)  P  2  V  Nb   Nk BT
 V   V 

(c) PV  Nk BT (d) P V  Nb   Nk BT

Q44. Consider a system of identical atoms in equilibrium with blackbody radiation in a cavity at
temperature T . The equilibrium probabilities for each atom being in the ground state 0 and an

excited state 1 are P0 and P1 respectively. Let n be the average number of photons in a mode

in the cavity that causes transition between the two states. Let W01 and W10 denote,

respectively, the squares of the matrix elements corresponding to the atomic transitions 0  1

and 1  0 . Which of the following equations hold in equilibrium?

(a) P0 nW01  PW
1 1 0 (b) P0 nW01  PnW
1 1 0

(c) P0 nW01  PW
1 10  PnW
1 1 0 (d) P0 nW01  PW
1 1 0  PnW
1 1 0

Q45. In the circuit below the voltages VBB and VCC are kept fixed, the voltage measured at B is a

constant, but that measured at A fluctuates between a few V VCC to a

few mV . 9V
From these measurements it may be inferred that the
RC
(a) base is open internally
B
(b) emitter is open internally
VBB RB
(c) collector resistor is open
3V A
(d) base resistor is open

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PART ‘C’
Q46. Consider a set of particles which interact by a pair potential V  ar 6 where r is the inter-particle
separation and a  0 is a constant. If a system of such particles has reached virial equilibrium,
the ratio of the kinetic to the total energy of the system is
1 1 3 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 3 4 3

Q47. In an inertial frame S , the magnetic vector potential in a region of space is given by A  az iˆ
(where a is a constant) and the scalar potential is zero. The electric and magnetic fields seen by

an inertial observer moving with a velocity viˆ with respect to S , are, respectively [In the
1
following   ]
v2
1 2
c

(a) 0 and  ajˆ (b) vakˆ and v ajˆ

(c) v akˆ and v ajˆ (d) v akˆ and  ajˆ

Q48. In the rest frame S1 of a point particle with electric charge q1 another point particle with electric

charge q2 moves with a speed v parallel to the x -axis at a perpendicular distance l . The

magnitude of the electromagnetic force felt by q1 due to q2 when the distance between them is
minimum, is
1
[In the following   ]
v2
1 2
c
1 q1q2 1  q1q2
(a) (b)
4 0  l 2 4 0 l 2

1  q1q2  v 2  1 q1q2  v 2 
(c) 1   (d) 1  
4 0 l 2  c 2  4 0  l 2  c 2 

Q49. A circular current carrying loop of radius a carries a steady current. A constant electric charge is
 
kept at the centre of the loop. The electric and magnetic fields, E and B respectively, at a
distance d vertically above the centre of the loop satisfy
        
(a) E  B (b) E  0 
(c)  E  B  0   
(d)   E  B  0

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Q50. A phase shift of 300 is observed when a beam of particles of energy 0.1MeV is scattered by a

target. When the beam energy is changed, the observed phase shift is 600 . Assuming that only
s -wave scattering is relevant and that the cross-section does not change with energy, the beam
energy is
(a) 0.4 MeV (b) 0.3 MeV (c) 0.2 MeV (d) 0.15 MeV

Q51. Consider an element U   of the group SU  2  , where  is any one of the parameters of the

group. Under an infinitesimal change      , it changes as

U    U     U    1  X    U  gj  . To order  , the matrix X   should always

be
(a) positive definite (b) real symmetric (c) hermitian (d) anti-hermitian
dy  x 
Q52. The differential equation   x 2 , with the initial condition y  0   0 , is solved using
dx
Euler’s method. If yE  x  is the exact solution and y N  x  the numerical solution obtained using

n steps of equal length, then the relative error

 y  x   y  x 
N E
is proportional to
yE  x 

1 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
n2 n3 n4 n
1
Q53. The interval  0,1 is divided into n parts of equal length to calculate the integral  ei 2 x dx using
0

the trapezoidal rule. The minimum value of n for which the result is exact, is
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 
Q54. The generating function G  t , x  for the Legendre polynomials Pn  t  is

1
G t, x     x n Pn  t , for x  1
1  2 xt  x 2 n 0

x
If the function f  x  is defined by the integral equation  f  x dx  xG 1, x  , it can be
0

expressed as
 
1
(a) 
n ,m0
x n  m Pn 1 Pm  
2
(b) 
n ,m 0
x n m Pn 1 Pm 1

 
(c) 
n ,m 0
x n m Pn 1 Pm 1 (d) 
n ,m 0
x n  m Pn  0  Pm 1

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Q55. A particle moves in one dimension in a potential V  x   k 2 x 4   2 x 2 where k and  are

constants. Which of the following curves best describes the trajectories of this system in phase
space?
p p

(a) (b)
x x

p
p

(c) (d)

x x

Q56. Let  x, p  be the generalized coordinate and momentum of a Hamiltonian system. If new

variables  X , P  are defined by X  x sinh   p  and P  x cosh   p  , where  ,  and 

are constants, then the conditions for it to be a canonical transformation, are

1 1 1 1
(a)      1 and      1 (b)     1 and     1
2 2 2 2
1 1 1 1
(c)      1 and      1 (d)     1 and     1
2 2 2 2
Q57. A closed system having three non-degenerate energy levels with energies E  0,   , is at
temperature T . For  2k BT , the probability of finding the system in the state with energy

E  0 , is
1 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) cosh 2 (d)
1  2 cosh 2   2 cosh 2  2 cosh 2

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Q58. Two non-degenerate energy levels with energies 0 and  are occupied by N non- interacting
particles at a temperature T . Using classical statistics, the average internal energy of the system
is
N N 3
(a) (b) (c) N  e / kBT (d) Nk BT

1  e/ kBT  
1  e/ kBT  2
Q59. In the circuit below, D1 and D2 are two silicon diodes with the same characteristics. forward

voltage drop of a silicon diode is 0.7 V then the value of the current I1  I D1 is
I1
1k I D1 ID2
10V D1 D2 Vo

(a) 18.6 mA (b) 9.3 mA (c) 13.95 mA (d) 14.65 mA

1 1 1 
Q60. The Hamiltonian of a two-level quantum system is H     possible initial state in
2  1 1 
which the probability of the system being in that quantum state does not change with time, is
       
 cos 4   cos 8   cos 2   cos 6 
(a)   (b)   (c)   (d)  
 sin    sin    sin    sin  
       
 4  8   2  6 
Q61. Consider a one-dimensional infinite square well
0 for 0  x  a,
V  x  
 otherwise
If a perturbation
V0 for 0  x  a / 3,
V  x   
0 otherwise

is applied, then the correction to the energy of the first excited state, to first order in V , is
nearest to
(a) V0 (b) 0.16 V0 (c) 0.2 V0 (d) 0.33 V0

Q62. The energy eigenvalues En of a quantum system in the potential V  cx 6 (where c  0 is a

constant), for large values of the quantum number n , varies as

(a) n 4 / 3 (b) n3/ 2 (c) n5/ 4 (d) n 6 / 5

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Q63. Consider a quantum system of non-interacting bosons in contact with a particle bath. The
probability of finding no particle in a given single particle quantum state is 106 . The average
number of particles in that state is of the order of
(a) 103 (b) 106 (c) 109 (d) 1012
Q64. The sensitivity of a hot cathode pressure gauge is 10 mbar 1 . If the ratio between the numbers of
the impinging charged particles to emitted electrons is 1:10 , then the pressure
(a) 10 mbar (b) 101 mbar (c) 102 mbar (d) 102 mbar

2 M b
Q65. Two physical quantities T and M are related by the equation T  , where a and b
a 2
are constant parameters. The variation of T as a function of M was recorded in an experiment
to determine the value of a graphically. Let m be the slope of the straight line when T 2 is
plotted vs M , and  m be the uncertainty in determining it. The uncertainty in determining a is
a m  m b m 2 m 
(a)   (b) a   (c)   (d)  
2 m   m  2a  m  a  m 
Q66. The circuit below comprises of D -flip flops. The output is taken from Q3 , Q2,Q1 and Q0 as shown

in the figure.

LSB Q Q1 Q2
MSB Q
0 3

D Q D Q D Q D Q

CLR CLR CLR CLR

CLK

RST
the binary number given by the string Q3 , Q2,Q1Q0 changes for every clock pulse that is applied

to the CLK input. If the output is initialized at 0000 , the the corresponding sequence of decimal
numbers that repeats itself, is
(a) 3, 2,1, 0 (b) 1,3, 7,14,12,8
(c) 1,3, 7,15,12,14,0 (d) 1, 3, 7,15,14,12,8, 0

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Q67. The spin-parity assignments for the ground and first excited states of the isotope 28 Ni , in the
single particle shell model, are
   
1 3 5 7
(a)   and   (b)   and  
2 2 2 2
   
3 5 3 5
(c)   and   (d)   and  
2 2 2 2
238
Q68. The first excited state of the rotational spectrum of the nucleus 92 U has an energy 45 keV
above the ground state. The energy of the second excited state (in keV) is
(a) 150 (b) 120 (c) 90 urestuct (d) 60
Q69. Which of the following process is not allowed by the strong interaction but is allowed by the
weak interaction?
(a) k 0   0  k 0       (b) p  n  d  p  p

(c)    k 0  p  n (d) p     n   
Q70. A crystal of MnO has NaCl structure. It has a paramagnetic to anti- ferromagnetic transition at
120 K . Below 120 K , the spins within a single 111 planes are parallel but the spins in adjacent

111 planes are antiparallel. If neutron scattering is used to determine the lattice constants,

respectively, d and d  , below and above the transition temperature of MnO then
d d
(a) d  (b) d 
2 2

(c) d  2d  (d) d  2d 
Q71. A metallic nanowire of length l is approximated as a one-dimensional lattice of N atoms with
lattice spacing a . If the dispersion of electrons in the lattice is given as E  k   E0  2t cos ka ,

where E0 and t are constants, then the dnsity of states inside the nanowire depends on E as
2
t2  E  E0 
 1
3
(a) N (b) 
E  E0  2t 

E  E0 N
(c) N 3 (d)
t2  2t    E  E0 
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Q72. Consider a two-dimensional material of length  and width w subjected to a constant magnetic
field B applied perpendicular to it. The number of change carries per unit area may be expressed
B
as n  k q , where k is appositive real number and q is the carrier charge. Then the Hall
 2  
resistivity  xy is

2 k  2  w 2  2 k
(a) (b) (c) (d)
q2 w kq 2  kq 2 q2
Q73. The Zeeman shift of the energy of a state with quantum numbers L, S , J and mJ is
m  B
H z  J B  L.J  g s S .J 
J  J  1
B
where B is the applied magnetic field, g s is the g -factor for the spin and  1.4 MHz  G 1 ,
h
where h is the Planck constant. The approximate frequency shift of the S  0, L  1 and mJ  1

state, at a magnetic field of 1G , is

(a) 10 MHz (b) 1.4 MHz (c) 5 MHz (d) 2.8 MHz

Q74. The separations between the adjacent levels of a normal multiplet are found to be 22 cm 1 and

33 cm1 . Assume that the multiplet is described well by the L  S coupling scheme and the

Lande’s interval rule, namely E  J   E  J  1  AJ , where A is a constant. The term notaions

for this multiplet is

(a) 3 P0,1,2 (b) 3 F2,3,4 (c) 3 G3,4,5 (d) 3 D1,2,3

Q75. If the fine structure splitting between the 2 2 P3/ 2 and 2 2 P3/ 2 levels in the hydrogen atom is

0.4 cm1 , the corresponding splitting in L2i  will approximately be

(a) 1.2 cm 1 (b) 10.8 cm1 (c) 32.4 cm1 (d) 36.8 cm 1

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