Unit and dimension:
1. Does dimensional correctness ensure correctness of equation, write with
example.
2. If F=kv is an equation under investigation, then find dimension of k.
3. Check whether equation F=dgv and P=dgh are consistent.
4. Convert 5 Pascal (SI) in Barye (Ba) (CGS).
Vectors
1. State and prove parallelogram law of vector addition.
2. What is scalar product of vector? Write its formula.
3. What is vector product of vector? Write its formula. How can we find
direction in vector product?
4. Find x and y component of following vector:
magnitude 10m making angle 600
magnitude 20 m making angle1350
magnitude 10 m making angle 2100
magnitude 20 m making angle 3200
Also Find resultant of all the vectors given above.
5. A man went to explore jungle, he went 50km south followed by 3 km north
of west. Find final displacement and magnitude and direction of lap to return
back.
6. At what angle does magnitude of dot product and cross product is equal?
Kinematics
1. A man who can swim at 5m/s in stagnant water wishes to cross the river
flowing at 2 m/s, 200m wide. At what angle does he need to swim, and how
much time does it take him to cross the river?
2. A man travelling on a car observes rain to fall vertically with velocity 5
m/s. If speed of car is 20km/hr towards east, find actual velocity of rain.
3. Find acceleration and displacement for following velocity time graph:
4. What is projectile motion? Prove that path of projectile motion is parabolic.
5. What is time of flight of projectile, derive its formula.
6. What is range of projectile? Derive its formula.
7. What is velocity and acceleration of projectile at maximum height? Derive
formula for maximum height.
8. A man is standing on a tower 50m high wishes to throw an object on a
ground 20 m from the tower base. By what horizontal velocity should he throw
the object?
9. A javelin thrower projects the javelin at 90km/hr velocity at an angle 400
to with horizontal. Find range, maximum height and time of flight for the
javelin.
10. A cricketer hits ball at 30m/s with angle 45°. The fielder is at distance
75m from the batter. If the boundary line is at 95m then find out whether
the ball goes for four or six. How fast must the fielder run to catch the ball?
11. At what angle of projection does time of flight and range is equal?
12. At what angle for projection height gained is maximum?
13. At what angle of projection does range is maximum?
Dynamics
1. State Newton's laws of motion.
2. What is inertia? How can we know it quantitatively?
3. Why fruits fall off the branches upon shaking it?
4. What is momentum, write down its formula.
5. A 5kg object is moving with l0 m/s. Find its momentum. Can an object of 1
kg have same momentum?
6. A ball of mass 100gm moving with velocity 5m/s bounces off the wall at
0.3s with velocity 4m/s, find force exerted on the wall.
7. Net is used to collect fruits falling from tree, why?
8. A football bounce upon hitting goal post but remain inside upon entering,
why?
9. A man is standing in an elevator. What will be his apparent weight if the
elevator
a) move up with a=3m/s2.
b) move up with v = 5m/s.
c) move down with a= 3m/s2.
10. A box of mass 10kg is on horizontal plane. If it is pushed by 80N force,
what wlll be acceleration if
a) the surface is frictionless?
b) the coefficient of friction is 0.1?
Also find how long does it travel before stopping?
11. An object 0n inclined plane, just began to slide by itself at an angle 200,
Find coefficient of friction and acceleration on object when angle of inclination
is 40°.
12. Find acceleration in the system and tension on chords if coefficient of
friction is 0.3
13. Prove that conservation of momentum. 14.
Prove that F=ma. 15.
Show that conservation of momentum and Newton's third law of motion are
complimentary.
Heat and temperature:
1. State zeroth law of thermodynamics.
2. How does system attain thermal equilibrium?
3. Write down relation between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin scale.
4. Convert 500K in °C and of 37°C in 0F and K.
5. A faulty thermometer shows reading 500. If it measures freezing point as
5° and boiling point as 950, find actual temperature.
Thermal expansion
1. Define linear, superficial and cubical expansivity. On what factor does it
depends on?
2. Derive formula:
L = L0 (1+ α.∆θ)
A = A0 (1+ β.∆θ)
V = V0 (1+ γ.∆θ)
3. Establish relation between α, β and γ.
4. Why gap is left between bridge gap portions.
5. A copper rod is supported by its two end. If length of the rod is 1m at
450C, and it perfectly fit between the supports. Find thermal stress developed
at temperature 10°C. Linear expansivity of copper = 16×10-6K-1
6. A steel container with capacity 1L is filled with glycerin. If the
temperature increases by 200 then how much glycerin will overflow or can be
added to container.
Linear expansivity of steel = 12x10-6 K-1 and
cubical expansivity of glycerin = 5×10-4K-1.
SHC of Cu = 385 J/kgK & SHC of Fe = 450 J/kg°c.
Quantity of heat
1. Derive formula for determination of specific heat capacity of solid and
liquid.
2. Derive formula for determination of latent heat of fusion and vaporization.
3. Differentiate between specific heat capacity and heat capacity.
4. A thin wire put across ice block melt and cut the ice block, how?
5. A calorimeter with mass 200gm contain water 200gm initially at 200C. If an
Iron ball of mass 100gm at 300°C is kept in it then find final temperature.
6. Find amount of heat required to change 1 kg of ice at -10°c to steam at
100°C.
7. On an ice block, 100gm of steam at 100°C is exposed. Find amount of ice
it can melt.
8. In a calorimeter of mass 100gm with 200gm of water at 50°c. 10gm of ice
at -20°c is kept in it, find final temperature.
9. Small babies needs to be taken care of more than adults, why?
10. Oil cools faster than water at same temperature, why?
Refraction through plane surface.
1. Define refraction, total internal reflection, critical angle.
2. State law of refraction.
3. Write condition for total internal reflection.
4. Establish relation between absolute and relative refractive indices.
5. Differentiate between absolute and relative refractive index.
6. How apparent position of celestial object is observed?
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7. Prove: d = Real depth (1- 𝝁).
8. A stick 6ft long is kept inside water vertically. What will be observed
length of stick if refractive index of water is 1.33? What about keeping the
stick horizontal?
9. Light is incident from water to glass at angle 30°. Find angle of refraction
and angle of emergence to air if refractive index of water and glass is 1.3
and 1.5 respectively.
10. A glass slab of thickness 5cm is kept on table. Light is incident at angle
600. If refractive index of glass is 1.5 then find lateral shift.
11. Prove that lateral shift is equal to thickness of glass slab when angle of
incidence is 900.
𝒕 𝐬𝐢𝐧(𝒊−𝒓)
12. Prove that p = .
𝐜𝐨𝐬 𝒓
13. Write down application of total internal reflection in mirage formation,
data communication.
14. Complete the figure if refractive index of glass is 1.7.
Electric charge
1. Define electric charge. How many electrons are there in 1C charge?
2. Current of 10A flows through a wire for 2 min. Find number of
electrons that passes through it?
3. How can we induce charge by a) conduction b) induction?
4. What is action of points? Why transmission towers are made pointed on
top?
5. State and proof Coulomb's law.
6. Three charges of 1μC are kept at corners of equilateral triangle of side
10cm. Find electrostatic force on one of the corners.
7. Two charges 2nC and 6nC are separated by 1m. At what point between
them if another charge of 5nC is kept so that it experience no net
force.
Electric field
1. Define electric field intensity.
2. Draw electric lines of force for different charges.
3. Why electric lines of forces never intersect each other?
4. What is electric flux? Write down its formula.
5. State and proof Gauss law.
6. Use Gauss law ro find electric field intensity for a) Hollow sphere and b)
Infinite line charge.
7. What is electrostatic shielding? Why a person inside car does not get
shock while lightning?
8. Three charges of 1nC is kept at three of the four corners of a square
with side 50cm. Find electric field at the fourth corner.
9. A mass of 10-15 kg has charge 2μC. What electric field is required to
keep object levitating?
10. Two charges 5nC and 10nC are situated at some distance. There
is zero electric field at distance 20cm from the 5nC charge. Find
distance between the charges?
Electric potential
1. Derive formula for potential difference.
2. Prove that electric field intensity is equal to negative gradient of
electric potential.
3. What is equipotential lines and surface? Write its significance.
4. A 2nC charge was at distance 20cm from a fixed -10μC. What amount
of energy is required to make it move to point at 25cm?
5. A charge 10nC is at center. Another charge -2nC move from point
(0.2,0) to a point (0.15,0.15). Find the work done.
6. Two fix charges 5nC and -5nC are separated by 50cm. An electron is
introduced between them initially at rest. Find velocity of electron when
it move 10cm from its initial position.
Nuclear physics
Mass of neutron: 1.00898
Mass of proton: 1.00759
Mass of deuterium: 2.01419
Mass of helium: 4.00277
1. Define atomic number and atomic mass.
2. Write difference between isotope and isobar.
3. What is amu? Write its value and energy equivalence.
4. Prove that nuclear density is constant for all atoms.
5. What is mass defect, packing fraction, binding energy and binding
energy per nucleon with their related formula?
6. Draw and write any two significance of BE curve.
7. Differentiate between nuclear fusion and fission reaction.
8. Calculate in MeV, the energy liberated when helium nucleus is produced
a) by fusing two neutrons and two protons b) by fusing two deuterium.
9. Find binding energy per nucleon of 92U238.
10. A U-238 nucleus break into Thorium and Helium. If thorium has
mass 234.11650 then find Q value of the equation.