PHYSICS PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR GRADE 12 STUDENTS

DIRECTIONS: Each of the following questions is followed by four possible alternatives.

Read each question and carefully blacken the letter of your best choice on the separate
answer sheet provided.

You may refer to the information given below when you work on some of the
questions.

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1) If a precision of surveyor measured a distance of 500 meters /between two points in a village/ using a
meter that has millimeter division on it, then what is the measurement result?
a) 500 m b) 500.0 m c) 500.00 m d) 500.000 m
2) What can be concluded when the number of significant figures increases?
a) Accuracy increases c) Uncertainty increases
b) True reading increases d) Precision increases
3) What is the vector product A  B of two vectors: A = i+ 4j - 8k and B = 3 i- 2j +5k ?
a) 36 i + 11j – 2k c) -4 i + 59 j +26k
b) 4 i -59j – 26k d) 4 i – 29j -14k
4) Four vectors are listed below
       
4  2   6   15 
A    , B    , C    , D    ,
 1 0    5   1 5    6 
Which pair of the vectors is orthogonal?
a) A and B b) B and C c) A and D d) C and D
  
5) Suppose A  3 i  2 j , B   i  4 j and C are three vectors in xy-plane with the property that
   
A  B  C  0 . Which of the following is a unit vector along C ?
1  6 
a) 2 i  6 j c) 10
i j
10
1 3
b)  2 i  6 j d) 10
i  j
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6) A car start moving from rest and its motion on a straight line is shown in the figure below. What is the
average velocity of a car with in the first 6 seconds?

a) 1.67 m/s b) 6 m/s c) 5 m/s d) 5.67 m/s

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 7) Two students A and B, with masses m A and m B respectively, stand on wheeled trolleys as shown in
the figure below. If student A has larger mass and pushes student B, then what can be said about
their accelerations?

a) The acceleration of student B is less than that of student A.

b) The acceleration of student A is less than that of student B.
c) Both boys will be accelerated by the same magnitude but in opposite directions .
d) There would be no acceleration because the forces are equal and opposite.
8) A military plane which flies at a velocity of 250 m/s, at a height of 2000 m, drops a bomb as it
approaches a target, and strikes it, as shown in the figure.

How many meters away is the target from the vertical projection of the point where the bomb is
released, x?
a) 500m b) 5000m c) 10m d) 100m
9) A race car is moving at a constant speed of 35 m/s. A security car was moving at a speed of 5 m/s as
the race car passes by it and was accelerating at constant rate of 5 m/s 2 ,What was the speed of the
security car when it took over the race car?
a) 65 m/s b) 60 m/s c) 35 m/s d) 5 m/s
10) For a constant force F, if the impulse imparted to the system is large, then what can you conclude
about the collision?
a) Linear momentum is conserved.
b) Kinetic energy is conserved.
c) The change in velocity is small.
d) The contact or impact time is large.

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11) An open trolley is rolling on a level surface without frictional loss through a vertical downpour of rain,
as shown in the figure below

As the trolley rolls, an appreciable amount of rainwater accumulates in the cart. What will be the
speed of the cart?
a) It decreases because of conservation of momentum.
b) It increases because of conservation of mechanical energy.
c) It decreases because of conservation of mechanical energy.
d) It remains the same because the raindrops are falling perpendicular to the
direction of the cart's motion.
12) Equal forces F act on isolated bodies A and B. The mass of B is three times that of A.
The magnitude of the acceleration of A is __________.
a) three times that of A c) the same as A
b) 1/3 that of A d) nine times that of A
13) A block of mass m is pulled along a rough horizontal floor by an applied force T as shown. The vertical
component of the force exerted on the block by the floor is:

a) mg c) mg + T cos
b) mg - T cos d) mg - T sin
14) A boy pushes a block over 12 m distance with 6 seconds. The force applied by the boy varies as shown
in the diagram below. What is the average power loss by the boy?

a) 7 w b) 8 w c) 6w d) 4 w

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15) A 50 kW machine is used to lift heavy objects to the top of a building under construction. If this
machine is replaced with a new machine of 100 kW power, then which of the following statements is
NOT true about the new machine?
a) The new machine can raise objects with the same mass at twice the speed of the
old machine.
b) The new machine can raise objects with twice as much mass at the same speed
as the old machine.
c) The new machine takes twice as much time to do the same work as the old
machine.
d) The new machine can do twice as much work in the same time as the old
machine.
16) If in a given rotational system of a body the angular momentum is increased with time, which one of
the following statement is NOT correct?
a) There is no torque exerted on the system.
b) The radius of rotation may increase.
c) The moment of inertia may increase.
d) There is a torque exerted on the system.
17) Which of the following objects has the largest moment of inertia assuming they all have the same
mass and radius?
a) A solid disk. c) A circular loop
b) A solid sphere. d) A solid cylinder
18) Two blocks are connected by a string of negligible mass passing over a pulley of radius r = 0.1 m and
moment of inertia I as shown in Figure 3. The block on the horizontal frictionless surface is moving
with a constant acceleration a = 1.0 m/s2 . If the pulley axis is frictionless, the string is inextensible
and does not slip on the pulley, what should be the moment of inertia of the pulley?

a) 0.40 kg m2 b) 0.25 kg m2 c) 4 .00 kg m2 d) 8.00 kg m2

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19) A 4m long uniform board of mass 10 kg hinged on the ground at one end is hanging by a string at the
other end. A block of mass 8 kg is placed at 1m from the hinge on the ground as shown in the
diagram below. What is the tension in the string?

a) 10 N b) 50 N c) 70 N d) 110 N
20) A ladder of length 3m and mass 20 kg leans against a smooth, vertical wall so that the angle between
the wall and the ladder is 45 0 . Determine the magnitude of the normal forces at the contact point on
the wall (Nw) and at the contact point on the ground (N f).(tan45 0 = 1)
a) N w = 57.7 N, Nf = 200N c) N w = 100 N, Nf = 200N
b) N w = 200 N, Nf = 577N d) N w = 200 N, Nf = 0N
21) Which of the following figure indicates tensile deformation?

a) c)

b) d)

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22) In the figure below, what is the speed of water as it leaves A 2?

a) 3.3 m/s b) 0.9 m/s c) 0.3 m/s d) 3.6 m/s

23) An object hands from a spring balance. The balance indicates 30N in air and 20N when the object is
totally submerged in water with density 1000kg/m 3. What is the volume of the object?
a) 103 m3 b) 10-6 m3 c) 10-3m3 d) 10-1 m3
24) A very large open tank is full of oil whose density is 800kg/m 3. If the absolute pressure at the bottom
of the tank is 1.81  105pa, then what is the depth of the oil? (p at = 1.01 105pa)
a) 100m b) 75m c) 10m d) 25m
25) During the time that latent heat is involved in a change of state:
a) the temperature does not change c) molecular activity remains constant
b) a chemical reaction takes place d) kinetic energy changes into potential
energy
26) An ideal gas is compressed isothermally, the compressing agent does 84J. What is the quantity of
heat flow?
a) 84J flows into the gas c) 0
b) 48J flows into the gas d) 84J flows out of the gas
27) Which of the following statement is NOT correct?
a) A system can absorb heat from a hot reservoir and can convert it entirely into
work without additional changes in the system and its surroundings.
b) No process is possible In which there is an overall decrease in the entropy of the
universe:
c) The spontaneous transfer of energy from a cooler body to a hotter body is not
possible.
d) The complete conversion of energy from hot source into work is not possible.
28) A given weight of gas has temperature of 27 oC and volume V. Keeping the pressure constant, the
volume is increased to 3V by varying the temperature. What is the final temperature of the gas?
a) 81 oC c) 627 oC
b) 546 oC d) 900 oC

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29) Which statement is not among the assumptions made in the kinetic theory of gases?
a) There is no interaction between particles or between particles and the wall
except during collision
b) Collisions between particles and between particles and walls are perfectly
elastic.
c) The distribution of velocities of particles is uniform.
d) The volume occupied by the particle is negligible compared to the volume of the
gas as whole.
30) The second level at a distance of 4m from a source is 120 dB. At what distance is the sound level 100
dB?
a) 0.40m b) 4.80m c) 40m d) 48m
31) In simple harmonic motion, the magnitude of the acceleration is greatest when:
a) the displacement is zero c) the speed is maximum
b) the displacement is maximum d) the force is zero
32) An organ pipe 1m long is open at both ends. If the velocity of sound is 330m/s, what is the frequency
of the wave?
a) the fundamental is 42Hz c) the first overtone is 165Hz
b) the second overtone is 495Hz d) the first harmonic is 330m/s
33) What makes the oscillatory motion a simple harmonic motion?
a) The acceleration of the motion is directly proportional to the velocity.
b) The velocity of the motion is directly proportional to the displacement.
c) The velocity of the motion is inversely proportional to the displacement.
d) The acceleration of the motion is directly proportional in magnitude but
opposite in direction to the displacement.
34) A wave front is:
a) A line that represents the direction of propagation of light.
b) The locus of all points of a traveling wave that are in phase.
c) The minimum distance between two points that are in phase.
d) The numbers of waves crossing a given plane in a unit time.
35) A monochromatic red light (=500nm)falls on a double slit with slit spacing of 0.1 mm. what must be
the distance of the screen behind the slit for the fringes spacing to be 5mm?
a) 0.2m b) 0.5m c) 5m d) 1m

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36) A small object of mass m carries a charge q and is suspended by a thread between the vertical plates of a
parallel- plate capacitor. The plate separation is d. if the thread makes an angle of with the vertical, what is the
potential difference between the plates?

a) c)

b) d)
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37) A copper wire of cross-sectional area 2 mm carrying a current of 1.5 A. If the drift velocity of the
electron is 0.00028 m/s, what is the number of charge carriers (free electrons) per unit volume in the
copper wire?
a) 1.5 x 1025/m3 c) 1.67 x 1032/m3
b) 1.5 x 1032/m3 d) 1.67 x 1028/m3
38) Two parallel plates are kept at 3 V and 5 V as shown in the diagram below. If an electron is released
at O, then which way will the electron move?

a) towards A c) towards B
b) remains at 0 d) parallel to the plates
39) A capacitor of 1 2  F capacitance can be fully charged after it is connected between a potential
difference of 9V. How much electrical energy is used in charging the capacitor?
a) 1.0 x 10-3 J b) 4.86 x 10-4 J c) 54 x 10-4 J d) 9.72 x 10-4 J
40) What is the resistance of a copper cable that has a cross sectional area of 1 cm 2 and a length of 2 km?
The resistivity of copper is 2 × 10 -8 m.
a) 0.2 b) 0.8 c) 0.4 d) 0.6
41) Which of the following statement is correct?
a) Galvanometer can be converted to voltmeter of different scale by connecting
low valued resistance in parallel.
b) Galvanometer can be converted to ammeter of different scale by connecting
variety of low valued shunt resistance in parallel .
c) Low valued internal resistance increases accuracy of voltmeter.
d) High valued internal resistance increases the accuracy of ammeter.

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42) In the circuit shown below, each resistor has a value of 3 . What is the value of the current through
R 4?

a) 0.125 A b) 1.0 A c) 0.75 A d) 0.625 A

43) A cell supplies a current of 1A through a 2  resistor and a current of 0.5A through a 6  resistor. If a
cell has internal resistance r, what is the e.m.f of the cell?
a) 2V b) 8V c) 4V d) 12V
44) What is the magnetic field strength inside a conductor of radius 10 mm at a distance of 3 mm from
the center of the conductor when a current of 1.5 A is flowing through the conductor? (0= 4
10-7Tm/A)
a) 6  10-6 T b) 8  10-6 T c) 9  10-6 T d) 4 10-6 T
45) A uniform magnetic field is directed into the page. A charged particle, moving in the plane of the
page, follows a clockwise spiral of decreasing radius as shown. A reasonable explanation is:

a) the charge is positive and slowing down

b) the charge is negative and slowing down
c) the charge is positive and speeding up
d) the charge is negative and speeding up

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46) Two long parallel conductors, separated by a distance 3cm, carry current in opposite direction. If I 1 =
6A and I 2 = 5A, what is the force per unit length exerted on each conductor by the other?(m 0= 4 
10-7Tm/A)
a) 2 10-4N/m, attractive c) 10-4N/m, repulsive
b) 10-4N/m, attractive d) 2 10-4N/m, repulsive
47) A circular loop of wire is positioned half in and half out of a square region of constant uniform
magnetic field directed into the page, as shown. To induce a clockwise current in this loop:

a) move it in +x direction c) move it in -y direction

b) move it in +y direction d) move it in -x direction
48) The unit “henry” is equivalent to:
a) volt. second/ampere c) ohm
b) volt/second d) ampere. volt/second
49) An RLC circuit is designed to have a resistance of 400 , capacitive reactance of
350 and inductive reactance of 50 . The circuit is connected to an alternative voltage source of
effective (rms) value 50 v, and frequency 50 Hz. What is the output average power?
a) 4.0 W b) 40 W c) 400 W d) 62.5 W
50) determine the total impendence for the circuit shown below.

a) 0 b) 4 c) 27 d) 31

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