PHYSICS - Model – I

I - Answer all Questions

1) What is the Beta decay? Which force is a function of it?

2) What do we prefer a spanner of longer arm as compared to the spanner

of shorter arm

3) The error in measurement of radius of a sphere is 1%. What is the error

in the measurement of volume?

4) What is meant by hydrostatic paradox

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5) A  i  j What is the angle between the vector and x-axis

6) Give the expression for the excess pressure in an air bubble inside the
liquid

7) When a bullet is fired from a gun, the gun gives a kick in the back ward
direction explain

8) State Datton’s law of partial pressure

9) We cannot open or close the door by applying force at the hings. Why?

10) Explain the concept of degrees of freedom for molecules of a gas

II - Answer any SIX Questions

11) A ball is dropped from the roof of a tall building and simultaneously
another ball is thrown horizontally with same velocity from the same
roof. Which ball lands first? Explain your answer

12) A typical raindrop is about 4 mm in diameter, if a rain drop falls from a

cloud which is at 1 km above the ground, estimate its momentum when
it hits the ground

13) State parallelogram law of vectors derive an expression for the

magnitude and direction of the resultant vector
14) Wind is blowing from the south at 5 ms -1. To a cyclist it appears to be
blowing from the east at 5 ms -1. Show that the velocity of the cyclist is

5 2 ms-1 towards north-east

15) Distinguish between centre of mass and centre of gravity

16) What is orbital velocity? Obtain an expression for it

17) What is escape velocity? Obtain an expression for it

18) Why are shock absorbers used in motor cycles and cars?

19) Explain the concept of elastic potential energy in a stretched wire and
hence obtain the expression for it

20) What amount of heat must be supplied to 2.0 x 10 -2 kg of nitrogen (at

room temperature) to raise its temperature by 45 o C at constant
pressure? (Molecular mass of N2 = 28; R = 8.3 Jmol-1 k-1)

21) Define specific heat capacity of the substance on what factors does it
depend? Define molar specific heat capacity

22) Pendulum clocks generally go fast in winter and slow in summer why?

III - Answer any TWO Questions

23) A) What are collisions? Explain the possible types of collisions? Develop
the theory of one dimensional elastic collision?

B) Find the power used in pumping 3425 m 3 of water per hour from a
well 8 m deep to the surface, supposing 40%, of the horse power
during pumping is wasted. What is the horse power of the engine?

24) A) Obtain an equation for the frequency of oscillation of spring of force

constant K to which a mass m is attached

B) What happens to the energy of a simple harmonic oscillator if its

amplitude is doubled?
25) Show that in the case of one dimensional elastic collision, the relative
velocity of approach of two colliding bodies before collision is equal to
the relative velocity of separation after collision

26) Explain thermal conductivity and coefficient of thermal conductivity. A

copper bar of thermal conductivity 40100 (mk) has one end at 104 o C
and the other end at 24o C. The length of the bar is 0.10 m and the
cross sectional area is 1.0 x 10 -6 m2. (a) what is the rate of heat
conduction P, along the bar?
 PHYSICS - Model – II
I - Answer all Questions

1) Prove that energy per unit volume is pressure

2) What is the difference in the positions of a girl carrying a bag in one of

her hands and another girl carrying a bag in each of her two hands?

3) How can systematic errors be minimized or eliminated?

4) What should be the radius of a capillary tube if water has to rise to a

height of 6cm in it?(surface tension of water 7.2 x 10-2 Nm-1)

5) Two forces of magnitudes 3 units and 5 units act at 60 o with each other.
What is the magnitude of their resultant?

6) If the diameter of a soap bubble is 10mm and its surface tension is 0.04
Nm-1. Find the excess pressure inside the bubble.

7) A horse has to pull harder during the start of the motion than later.
Explain?

8) Define mean free paths?

9) Is it necessary that a mass should be present at the centre of mass of

any system?

10) Name two prominent phenomena which provide conclusion evidence of

molecular motion?

II - Answer any SIX Questions

11) A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km
away with a speed of 5 kmh-1. Finding the marked closed, he instantly
turns and walks back home with speed of 1.5 kmh-1 what is the

A) magnitude of average velocity, and

B) average speed of the man over the interval of time (i) 0 to 30 min

(ii) 0 to 40 min ?
12) A car travels the first third of a distance with a speed of 10kmph, the
second third at 20 kmph and the last third of 60 kmph. What is its
mean speed over the entire distance?

13) Define unit vector, null vector and position vector?

14) Ship A is 10 km due west of ship B.Ship A is heading directly north at a

speed of 30km/h, while ship B be heating in a direction 60 o west of
north at a speed of 20 km/h.

i) Determine the magnitude of the velocity of ship B relative to ship A.

ii) What will be their distance of closest approach?

15) Define angular velocity (). Derive V = r

16) Four identical masses each of mass m are kept at the corners of a
square of side a find the gravitational force exerted on one of the
masses by other masses.

17) Three uniform spheres each of mass m and radius R are kept in such a
way that each touches the other two. Find the magnitude of
gravitational force on any one of the spheres due to the other two

18) Explain advantages and disadvantages of friction?

19) Two wires of different materials have same lengths and area of cross
section. What is the ratio of their increases in length when the forces

applied are the same?

 Y  0.90 10
1
11
Nm 2 , Y2  3.60 1011 Nm 2 
20) How much will be the internal energy change in

i) Isothermal process

ii) adiabatic process

21) Five moles of hydrogen when heated through 20 k expand by an

amount of 8.3 x 10 -3 m3 under a constant pressure of 10 5 N/m2, if Cv =
20J/mole k, find Cp
22) Find the increase in temperature of aluminum rod if its length is to be

1%   A1  25  106 / o C 
increased by

III - Answer any TWO Questions

23) A) State and prove law of conservation of energy incase of a freely

falling body

B) A pump is required to lift 600 kg of water per minute from a well 25

m deep and eject it with a speed of 50 ms -1. Calculate the power
required to perform the above task?

24) A) What are collisions? Explain the possible types of collisions? Develop
the theory of one dimensional elastic collision?

B) A body freely falling from a certain height ‘h’. After striking a smooth
floor rebounds are rises to a height h/2. What is the coefficient of
restitution between the floor and the body?

25) A) Define simple harmonic motion, show that the motion of (point)
projection of a particle performing uniform circular motion on any
diameter is simple harmonic

B) A particle executes SHM such that, the maximum velocity during the
oscillations is numerically equal to half of the maximum acceleration.
What is the time period?

26) State and explain Newton’s law of cooling state the conditions under
which Newton’s law of cooling is applicable. A body cools down from 60 o
C to 50o C in 5 minutes and to 40o C in another 8 minutes, find the
temperature of the surroundings.
 PHYSICS - Model – III
I - Answer all Questions

1) What is the contribution of S. Chandra Sekhar to Physics

2) Find the scalar and vector product of two vectors


a  3i  4 j  5k  and


b  2i  j  3k 
  
3) Find the torque of a force 7i  3 j  5k about the origin. The force acts on a

  
particle whose position vector is i  j  k

4) The error in measurement of radius of a sphere is 1%. What is the error

in the measurement of volume?

5) What is the principle behind the carburetor of an automobile?

6) What is Magnus effect?

7) When two right angled vectors of magnitude 7 units and 24 units

combine, what is the magnitude of their resultant?

8) States the law of equipartion of energy?

9) Explain the concept of degrees of freedom for molecules of agas?

10) Why does a heavy rifle not recoil as strongly as a light rifle using the
same cartridges?

II - Answer any SIX Questions

s  ut  1 at 2
11) Derive the equation 2 using graphical method

12) A particle moves rectilinearly with uniform acceleration, its velocity at

time t = 0 is v1 and at time t = t is v2. Average velocity of the particle
 v1  v2
in this time interval is 2 is the statement true or false? Substantiate

your answer?

13) What is relative motion explain it?

14) A projectile is fixed at an angle of 60 o to the horizontal with an initial

velocity of 800 m/s;

i) Find the time of flight of the projectile before it hits the ground

ii) Find the distance it travels before it hits the ground (range)

15) A hoop of radius 2m weight 100 kg, it rools along a horizontal floor so
that its centre of mass has a speed of 20 cm/s. How much work has to
be done to stop it?

16) Define the terms momentum and impulse. State and explain the law of
conservation of linear momentum. Give its examples

17) Derive the relation between acceleration due to gravity (g) at the
surface of a planet and gravitational constant (G)

18) How does the acceleration due to gravity ‘g’ change for the same
values of height (h) and depth (d)

19) A copper wire of 1 mm diameter is stretched by applying a force of 10

N. Find the stress in the wire

20) Obtain an expression for the work done by an ideal gas during
isothermal change

21) Write a short note an Quasi – static process

a) Quasi static process

22) In what why is the anomalous behavior of water advantageous to

aquatic animals?

III - Answer any TWO Questions

23) A) Develop the notions of work and kinetic energy and show that it
leads to work – energy theorem?

B) A machine gun fires 360 bullets per minute and each bullet travels
with a velocity of 600 ms-1, if the mass of each bullet is 5 gm, find the
power of the machine gun?

24) What are collisions? Explain the possible type of collisions? Develop the
theory of one dimensional elastic collision?

25) A) Derive expressions for the kinetic energy and potential energy of a
simple harmonic oscillator

B) What fraction of the total energy is K.E when the displacement is

one half of a amplitude of a particle executing S.H.M

26) State Boyle’s law and Charles’ law derive ideal gas equation. Which of
the two laws is better for the purpose of thermometry and why?
 PHYSICS - Model – IV
I - Answer all Questions

1) What is the discovery of C.V. Raman

2) What is the moment of inertia of a rod of mass M, length L, about an

axis perpendicular to it and passing through one end?

3) Distinguish between accuracy and precision?

4) Calculate the work done in blowing a soap bubble of diameter 0.6 cm

against the surface tension (surface tension of soap solution

 2.5  102 Nm 1 )

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 i  4 j  14k  i  4 j  10k
5) If P 2 and Q 4 , find the magnitude of P  Q

6) How high does methyl alcohol rise in a glass tube of diameter 0.06 cm?
(Surface tension of methyl alcohol = 0.023 Nm-1 and desnsity = 0.8 gm
cm-3. Assume that the angle of contact is zero)

7) What is inertia? What gives the measure of inertia?

8) When does a real gas behave like an ideal gas?

9) A coin is kept at a distance of 10 cm from the centre of a circular

turntable, if the coefficient of state friction between the table and the
coin is 0.8 find the frequency of rotation of the dise at which the coin
will just begin to slip

10) State Boyle’s law and Charles law?

II - Answer any SIX Questions

11) A police van moving on a highway with a speed of 30 kmn -1 fires a bullet
at a thief’s car speeding away in the same direction with a speed of 192
 kmn-1. If the muzzle speed of the bullet is 150 ms -1, with what speed
does the bullet hit the thief’s car?

12) A man walks on a straight road from his home to a market 2.5 km away
with a speed of 5 kmh-1, finding the market closed, he instantly turns
and walks back home with speed of 7.5 kmh-1. What is the

a) Magnitude of average velocity, and

b) Average speed of the man over the internal of time (i) 0 to 30 min

13) Show that the trajectory of an object thrown at certain angle with the
horizontal is a parabola?

14) If θ is the angle of projection, R the range, h the maximum height, T

the time of flight then show that (a) tan θ = 4h/l (b) h = gT2/8
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15) Show that the area of the triangle contained between the vectors A and
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B is one half of the magnitude of A  B

16) What is a Geostationary satellite? State its uses

17) Mention the methods used to decrease friction

18) Define gravitational potential energy and derive an expression for it

associated with two particles of masses m1 and m2

19) A metal wire of length 2.5 m and area of cross section 1.5  10-6 m2 is
stretched through 2 mm calculate the work done during stretching

 y  1.25 10
11
Nm 2 

20) Explain the following process

(i) Cyclic process with example

(ii) Non cyclic process with example

21) Derive a relation between the two specific heat capacities of gas on the
basis of the first law of thermodynamics.

22) Explain conduction, convection and radiation with examples

III - Answer any TWO Questions

23) A) Show that two equal masses under go oblique elastic collision will
move at right angles after collision, if the second body initially at rest

B) A ball falls from a height of 10 m on to a hard horizontal floor and

1
repeatedly bounces if the coefficient of restitution is 2 . What is the

total distance travelled by the ball before it cases to rebound?

24) A) Develop the nations of work and kinetic energy and show that it
leads to work-energy theorem?

k
f   x  0
B) A force x2 acts on a particle along the x-axis. Find the work

done by the force in displacing the particle from x=+a to x=+2a. Take K
as a positive constant

25) A) Show that the motion of a simple pendulum is simple harmonic and
hence derive an equation for its time period. What s seconds pendulum?

B) Calculate the change in the length of a simple pendulum of length

1m, when its period of oscillation changes from 2s to 1.5s

26) State and explain Newton’s law of cooling state the conditions under
which Newton’s law of cooling is applicable. A body cools down from 60 o
C to 50o C in 5 minutes and to 40o C in another 8 minutes find the
temperature of the surroundings