PIET SANSKRITI SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

NFL TOWNSHIP, PANIPAT

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION
CLASS XI
TIME: 3 HOURS PHYSICS(042) M.M.:70
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. There are 33 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
2. This question paper has five sections: Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D, Section E.
3. SectionA contains 16 questions, 12 MCQ and 4 Assertion Reasoning based of 1 mark each. Section B
contains 5 questions of 2 marks each, Section C contains 7 questions of 3 marks each, Section D contains 2
case based questions of 4 marks each and Section E contains 3 long answer questions of 5 marks each.
4. There is no overall choice. However , an internal choice has been provided in 1 question in section B , 1
question in section C, one question in each CBQ in sectionD and all three questions in section E. You have
to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
5. Use of calculator is not allowed.

SECTION A
1. The numerical value of 1 J in the new system, in which length is measured in 10 meter, mass in 10 kg and
time in 1 minute, will be:
–4 –3 –2 –1
(a) 36 × 10 (b) 36 × 10 (c) 36 × 10 (d) 36 × 10

2. Which one of the following pair of quantities has the same dimensions?
(a) Force and work done
(b) Momentum and impulse
(c) Pressure and force
(d) Time period and frequency

3. A particle moves along the curved path of a quarter circle. The ratio of distance to dis-
placement is:

(a) 11 : 7 (b) 11 : 7 √2. (c) 7 : 11 (d) 7 : 11 √2

4. A ball is thrown vertically upwards. Which of the following plot represents the speed-
time graph of the ball

during its flight, if the air resistance is not ignored?

(a) s

t
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5. The resultant of two vectors A and B is perpendicular to the vector ( A ) and its
® ®
magnitude is equal to half of the magnitude of the vector B . The angle between A
®
and B is:

(a)120° (c) 135° (b) 150°(d) None of these

6. At the upper most part of a projectile, velocity and acceleration are at an angle of:
(a) 0 degree (b) 30 degree (c) 180 degree (d) 90 degree

7. If units of length, mass and force are chosen as fundamental units, the dimensions of
time would be

(a) M1/2 L -1/2

F1/2. (b) M1/2 L 1/2
F1/2.(c) M1/2 L 1/2
F-1/2. (d)M1/2 L -1/2
F-1/2.

8. A ball thrown up is caught by the thrower 4s after start. The height to which a ball
has risen is (g=10m/s2)

(a) 20m (b) 40 m (c) 400m (d) 2m

9. A car travelling at speed of 30km/h is brought to a halt in 8m by applying brakes. If

same car at 60km/h, it

Can be brought to a halt with the same brake power

(a) 8m (b) 16m (c) 24m (d) 32m

10. A rod of mass m and length l is lying on a horizontal table. Work done in making it
stand on one and will

be

(a) mgl (b) mgl/2 (c) mgl/4 (d) 2mgl

11. A long spring is stretched by 2 cm. potential energy is V. if the string is stretch by
10 centimetre potential

energy would be

(a) V/25. (b) V/10. (c) 5V (d) 25V

12. The angle between two vectors (-2 i+3j+k) and (I+2j-4k)

(A) 0. (B) 90(c)180 (d) none

Two statements are given one labelled Assertion

(A) and the other labelled Reason (R). Select the
correct answer to these question from the codes
(a), (b), (c) and (d) as given below.
(a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct ex-
planation of A.
(b)
BothAandRaretrueandRisnotthecorrectexplanati
onofA.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false and R is also false.
13. ASSERTION: Kinetic energy of a body is quadrupled

REASON: when miss velocity double this is because kinetic energy =1/2 MV 2

14. Assertion (A): Force and pressure cannot be added.

Reason(R): The dimensions of force and pressure are different.

15. Assertion (A): In real life, in a number of situations, the object is treated as a point
object.

Reason (R): An object is treated as a point object, as far as its size is much smaller
than the distance, it moves in a reasonable duration of time.

16. Assertion (A): Force on friction depends on actual area of contact

Reason (R): larger the area of contact larger is the position of motion

SECTION B

17. How many kg make 1 unified atomic mass unit?

OR

State the number of significant figures in the following:

(I) 0.007 (ii) 2.64 (iii) 0.2370 (d) 0.0006032

18. A ball rolls off the top of a stairway with a horizontal velocity u. If each step has
height h and width b the

th
ball will just hit the edge of the n step. Find the value of n.

19. In which of the following example of motion can the body be considered approxi-
mately a point objects

(i)a railway carriage moving without jerks between two station.

(ii) a monkey sitting on the top of a man cycling smoothy on a circular track .

(iii)a spinning Cricket ball that turn on hitting the ground.

(iv) a tumbling Beaker that has slipped off the edge of a table?

20. Show that there are two values of time for which a projectile is at the same height.
Also show that the sum of these two times is equal to the time of flight.

21. A constant retarding force of 50 newton is applied to a body of mass 20 kg moving

initially with the speed

of 15m/s. how long does the body take to stop?

SECTION C

2 –2
22.A calorie is a unit of heat or energy and it equals 4.2 J where 1 J = 1 kg m s . Sup-
pose we employ a system of units in which unit of mass is a kg, unit of length is b m,
unit of time g s. What will be magnitude of calorie in terms of this new system?

0R

When 1 m, 1 kg and 1 min are taken as the fundamental units, the magnitude of the
force is 36 units. What will be the value of this force in CGS system?

23. A particle moves along a circular path of radius r. It starts from point A and moves
anti-clockwise. Find the

distance travelled by the particle as it:

(A) moves from A to B

(B) moves from A to C
(C) moves from A to D
(D) complete one revolution

Find magnitude of distance and displacement in each case.

24. A passenger arriving in a new New Town wishes to go from the station to a hotel lo-
cated 10 km away on a straight road from the station. A dishonest conman takes him
along a circular path 23 km long and reaches the hotel in 28 minutes.

(A) what is the average speed of the taxi

(B) the magnitude of average velocity .are the two equal?

25. Deduce an expression for work- energy theorem ?

26. Derive a formula for maximum height and horizontal range of projectile motion.

27. A Body of mass 50 kg is active upon the two perpendicular forces 8 Newton and 6
Newton. give the

magnitude and the direction of acceleration of the body?

28. The ceiling of a long hall is 25 m high. what is the maximum horizontal distance that
a ball thrown with the

speed of 40 m per second can go without eating the ceiling of the hall?

SECTION D

29. A mathematical calculation can't increase the precision of a physical measurement

therefore the number of significant figures in the sum or product of a group of measure-
ment cannot be greater than minimum number of significant figures.

(A) A car runs 1200 m in 22.5 sec. The average speed of a car in appropriate significant
figures.
(a) 53.3 m/s (b) 53.33 m/s
(c) 53.333 m/s (d) None of these

(B) The radius of a uniform wire r = 0.024 cm. Take π = 3.142, then area of cross-section
upto appropriate significant figures.
2 2
(a) 0.001808 cm (b) 0.0018086 cm

2 2
(c) 0.0018 cm (d) 18.08 cm

(C) The volume of sphere is 2.42 cm3. The volume of 12 spheres taking into account the
significant figures.
3 3
(a) 29.0 cm (b) 29.04 cm
3 3
(c) 29.1 cm (d) 29 cm

30. Work is said to be done by a force acting on a body provided the body is played ac-
tually in any direction except in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the force.
Mathematically w = f.s = FS cos0 where as energy is capacity of a body to do the work;
power is the rate at which the body can do work.

P=W/t = F.s/t both work ,energy are measured in joule and power is measured in WATT.
(A). A box is pushed through 4.0 m across a floor offering 100 N resistance. Work done
by the ap- plied force is

(a) 400 J. (c) 25 J (b) - 400 J (d) 0.04 J

(B). In the above question, work done by the resisting force is

(a) 400 J. (b) - 400 J (c) 25 J (d) - 25 J

(C). In the above question, work done by gravity is

(a) 400 J (b) - 400 J (c) Zero (d) - 25 J

(D). A truck draws a tractor of mass 1000 kg at a steady rate of 20 m s-1 on a level road.
The ten- sion in the

coupling is 2000 N. Power spent on the tractor is

(a) 40 W. (c) 20 kW (c) 40KW (b) 20 W

OR

Work done on the tractor in one minute is

(A)2400 kJ. (d) 2400 J (b) 24 KJ (d) 24000 J

SECTION E

he greatest height to which a boy throws a ball is 50 m. What will be the greatest dis-
tance along the horizontal up to which the boy can throw the ball with the same speed?

OR

A juggler maintains four balls in motion, making each in turn rise to a height of 20 m
from his hand. With what velocity does he project them, and where will the other three
balls be at the instant when the fourth one is just leaving the hand?

32. Derive an expression for elastic collision in 1-D?

33. (A) deduce an expression for motion along x- axis in projectile motion.

(B)A car moving along A straight highway with the speed of 126 km per hour is
brought to a stop with
 the with in a distance of 200 M. what is the retardation of the car assumed uni-
form motion and how

long does it take the car to stop?

OR

(A) Deduce an expression for motion along y- axis in projectile motion.

(B) Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks
with the uniform speed

of 72 km per hour in the same direction with A head of B. The driver of B de-
cide to overtake A and

accelerate by 1 m per second square .if after 50 SEC the guard of B just
brushes past the driver of A,

what was the original distance between them?