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13. When the pressure on a sphere is increased Chapter -10

by 80 atmospheres, its volume decreases by
0.01%. Find the bulk modulus of elasticity of Fluids
the material of the sphere. (2)
1A. Consider the flow of a liquid through a
[Imp-2011] pipe of varying cross section.
14. Elasticity is an internal property of matter. a) Write the equation of continuity of
Fluids possess volume elasticity. Which is flow. (1)
more elastic, air or water? Why?
b) Draw a figure and drive Bernoulli’s
[March – 2011] equation. (4)
15. Modulus of elasticity of a material is the c) A tank of 5 m height is filled with
ratio of stress and strain. water. Calculate the velocity of efflux
through a hole, 3 m below the surface of
a) Young’s modulus for a perfectly rigid
water. (2)
body is ---------
b) One end of a rope of a length 4.5 m OR
and diameter 6 mm is fixed to the
branch of a tree. A monkey weighing 1B. Surface tension is a property of liquids
100 N jumps to catch the free end and and it causes capillary rise in small tubes.
stays there. Find the elongation of the
rope. (Young’s modulus = 4.8  1011 a) What do you mean by surface
tension? (1)
N/ m2). [ Imp – 2010]
b) Draw a figure and derive an equation
for capillary rise in a tube of radius
‘r’. (4)
16. Elasticity is the property of matter that is c) Excess pressure inside a liquid drop
characterized by atomic packing. For an is 60 N/m2. What will be the excess
elastic solid, stress applied is directly pressure inside a liquid bubble of the
proportional to the strain produced in it. The same radius formed by the same
stress versus strain graph for three materials liquid?
A, B and C is shown below.
(2) [SEPT-2016]

2A. In case of fluids law of conservation of

a) Which is energy can be explained with Bernoulli’s
more elastic A, B or principle. [March 2016]
C? Justify your
answer. a) State and prove Bernoulli’s
b) If the bulk principle. (4)
modulus of water is 2 x 109 Nm-2, find b) While travelling in aeroplane, it is
its compressibility. advisable to remove ink from
c) Why are girders for supporting roofs fountain pen. why? (2)
formed in the shape of I? OR
[March 2010] 2B. Viscosity is the frictional force in
fluids.

a) When a small metal ball is falling

through a viscus medium, what are
the various forces acting on it? Using

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this arrive at an expression for and explain the principles of working

terminal velocity. (4) of a hydraulic lift. (3)
b) Raindrops falling under gravity do not c) The above arrangement is placed in
acquire very high velocity. Why? (2) an elevator which is accelerating
[March 2016] upwards. What happens to the
possible height of the liquid column
3A. a) State and prove Bernoulli’s theorem. in the tube? Justify. (2)
(4) [Imp 2015] OR

4B. The antiseptic used for cuts and wounds

in human flesh have low surface tension. Due
to low surface tension, they spread over the
wounds easily.

a) In the following figure, the angle of

contact  is......... (1)

b) Surface tension causes capillarity.

Define capillarity and arrive at the
b) A steady flow of nonviscous liquids are expression for capillary rise in terms
shown in ffigures 1 and 2. Which one of the of surface tension. (3)
figures is INCORRECT? Why? (2) c) In a capillary tube, water rises to a
height. If the capillary tube is inclined
OR at an angle 600 with the vertical, what
3B. a) What is the SI unit of pressure? Derive will be the length of the water column
a mathematical expression for excess pressure in the tube. (2) [March 2015]
inside a liquid drop. (4) 5A. Law of conservation of energy is a
b) What will happen to two soap bubbles universal law for all states of matter. (1+ 3)
of radii, which are in contact with each other? a) Which theorem gives the law of
Why? (2) conservation of energy for a flowing
4A. The pressure of the atmosphere at any liquid?
point is the weight of the air column of a unit b) State and prove the above theorem.
cross sectional area.
OR
Its unit is bar.
5B. A liquid surface behaves like a stretched
a) Identify the elastic membrane.
given diagram
a) Name the liquid property for the
and write its
use. (1) above behaviour.
b) Define angle of contact. What is its
value for pure water with glass?
b) State Pascal’s
law for transmission of fluid pressure

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c) Derive an expression for the rise of

liquid in a capillary tube of radius r, having
density  and surface tension S.

[Imp-2014]

6. Fill in the blanks. (1)

Venturimeter: Bernoulli’s theorem iii. No change occurs in their

Hydraulic lift: .................... [March 2014] sizes
iv. Their sizes become equal
7A. The viscous force exists when there is a [March 2014]
relative motion between the layers of the fluid.

(1+ 3+ 1) 8. Pick the odd one out from the following

a) State true or false: “The viscosity of a) Atomiser b) Hydraulic Lift

gases decreases with an increase in
temperature.” c) Venturimeter d) Aerofoil (1)
b) Obtain the expression for the terminal
[Imp-2013]
velocity attained by an object falling
through a viscous medium. 9A. (a) When air is blown in between the
c) The speed – time graph of a falling two balls, will they
sky diver is shown below. During the attract or repel?
fall he opens his parachute. (1)

Which part of the graph shows the sky diver (b) State the principle
falling with terminal velocity? that explains your
observation. (1)
OR
(c) Using this principle, derive Torricelli’s
7B. There is always an excess of pressure equation [Speed of Efflux] (3)
inside drops and bubbles. (1+ 3+ 1)
9B. When a thin tube is
a) State true or false: “A drop of liquid dipped in water, water
under no external forces is always rises in the tube through a
spherical in shape.” height ‘h’
b) Obtain an expression for excess of
pressure inside a drop of radius r and a) Name the
surface tension S. phenomenon.
c) Two soap bubbles A and B are blown b) Arrive at an expression for the
at the ends of a tube, as shown below. height of the water rise (h) in the
tube.
c) Will water overflow, if the tube is
cut at level A? Justify your answer.

(1+3+1) [Imp-2013]
Choose the correct answer:
When the block C is removed... 10. A small water drop placed on a lotus leaf
i. The size of A increases and is spherical in shape.
that of B decreases
ii. The size of B increases and a) Define surface tension.
that of A decreases

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b) Why does the small water drop acquire a b) What is the value of the angle of
spherical shape? [March-2013] contact for pure water?
c) Calculate the work done in breaking a
11. A. Three vessels of different shapes are water drop of radius 1mm to 1000
filled with water to the same height ‘h’ and droplets. Surface tension of
their bottom parts are connected to water = 72 x 10-3N/m. [Imp-2012]
manometers measuring the pressure. The OR
water levels in all the vessels remaining the
same. 13B. a) Is pressure in a liquid, scalar or vector.

b) State the law associated with liquid

pressure.

c) Briefly explain the working of

hydraulic lift. [Imp-2012]

14. Match the following: [March 2012]

a) Identity the above phenomenon. A B

a) Reynold’s Equation of
b) Predict the pressure level shown by number continuity
the manometers. b) Magnus effect Surface tension

c) Blood pressure in humans is greater at c) Action of Archimedes

detergent principle
the feet than at the brain. Explain why.
d) a 1 v 1  a 2 v 2 Viscosity
d) Pick the odd one out. Bernoulli’s
principle
Dentist chair, hydraulic brake, hydraulic
Pressure
press, venture meter. [March 2013]
15. Raindrops falling due to gravity do not
12. The flow of an ideal fluid in a pipe of acquire high velocity.
varying cross section is shown.
a) Define the velocity of the raindrop
when unbalanced force on it is zero.
b) Why do bubbles of air rise up through
water?
c) The terminal velocity of copper ball
of radius 2.0 mm falling through a
tank of oil at 200 C is 6.5cm s-1.
Compute the viscosity of the oil at
200C. Density of oil is 1.5  103kgm-3
a) Differentiate between streamline flow and density of copper is 8.9 
turbulent flow. 103kg m-3.
d) Viscosity of gases........with
b) State and prove Bernoulli’s principle. temperature, whereas viscosity of
liquids .........with temperature
[March 2013]
(increases/decreases). [March 2012]
13A. Surface tension changes with
16A. The rise or fall of a liquid against
temperature.
gravitational force through fine tubes is
a) Hot soup is tastier than cold one. known as capillarity.
Why?

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a) Give an example for capillarity from c) Derive an expression for the capillary
practical life. (1) height of a liquid in a narrow tube.
b) Derive an expression for the capillary
rise through a capillary tube. (2) OR
OR

16B. When we below between two light balls

suspended nearby they approach each other.
Why?

a) State the principle that can explain

your observation. (1) 19B. If air is blown through the space
b) Use this principle to arrive at between two discs BC and DE shown in the
Torricelli’s equation. (Velocity of figure, the lower disc DE instead of being
Efflux) (2) [Imp-2011] blown off from BC, will move towards BC.

a) State the principle which is used to

17. A solid sphere falling through a viscous
explain this phenomenon.
medium attains a constant velocity called
b) A garden hose having an internal
terminal velocity after some time of its
diameter of 2 cm is connected to a
fall. What are the different forces acting
lawn sprinkler that consists of an
on the sphere? Derive an expression for
enclosure with 12 holes, each 0.2 cm
terminal velocity in terms of the
in diameter. If the water in the hose
coefficient of viscosity of the medium.
has a speed does it leave the sprinkler
[March – 2011]
holes?
18. a) Hydraulic lift is a device used to lift c) Show that the speed of liquid flowing
heavy loads. State the principle behind the out of a small hole in a tank filled with
working of this device. liquid will be 2gh where h is the
b) The velocity of outflow of a liquid from height of liquid above the hole and g
an open tank is identical to that of a freely is the acceleration due to gravity.
falling body. [ Imp – 2010]

i. Name this law and the principle 20. Match the following
behind this law.
Equation of
ii. Derive this law based on this continuity. F  ma Hydraulic lift.
principle.
1 1  A2U 2
Pascal’s law AU Rocket
[March – 2011] propulsion.
Newton’s
19A. Water does not wet the feathers of ducks. 1 1  PV
PV 2 2
law of Quill tube
A physical quantity called angle of contact motion
determines whether a liquid will spread on the Boyle’s law F1 F2
surface of a solid or it will form droplets on it.
 Venturimeter.
A1 A2
a) Define angle of contact. [March 2010]
b) A wire ring of internal radius 3 cm is 21. Washing with water doesn’t remove
rested on the surface of a liquid and is grease stains from clothes but addition of
then raised. An extra pulling force detergent removes the molecules of greasy
equivalent to the weight of 3.03 g is substances.
required before the film breaks than it
is after. Calculate the surface tension a) Which property of a liquid causes the
of the liquid. above effect?

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b) A single drop of liquid is split into 8 drops were to combine to from one
identical drops. What will be the large spherical drop?
excess pressure in each drop? [March-2009]
c) How can the coefficient of viscosity
of a highly viscous liquid the
determined by Stokes method? Chapter -11
[March 2010]
Thermal Properties of Matter
22. a) Explain the terms surface tension and
surface energy. 1. a) Triple point of water is 0.010C.
Express this temperature in Kelvin scale. (1)
b) Show that surface tension is
numerically equal to surface energy. b) How does sea breeze occur? Explain.
(2) [SEPT-2016]
c) Calculate the amount of energy
evolved when eight drops of mercury of 2. A hole is drilled in a copper sheet. The
radius 1mm each, combine to form one diameter of the hole is 4.24 cm at 270C.
drop, (surface tension of mercury is 0.55 What is the change in diameter of the hole
N/m). [ Imp – 2009] when the is heated to 2270 C? (2)

23. Mercury barometer is a device used to (Coefficient of linear expansion of copper =

measure the atmospheric pressure. 1.7  10-5/0C). [March 2016]

a) If a student places the barometer in a lift, 3. The below graph represents temperature
falling freely under gravity, how the versus heat for water at 1 atm. pressure. [Imp
barometer reading will change. 2015]
b) If the same barometer is placed in a lift
that is ascending with an acceleration f,
how the barometer reading will change.
c) Find an expression for pressure P
at a depth h below the surface of
a liquid of density ρ in a container
moving vertically upwards with
an acceleration f ? What happens
(a) Match the following using the above
to pressure for a free fall of the
graph. (2)
container? [ Imp – 2009]
Graph Process State
24. Rain drops are being accelerated while
i) BC a) Melting p) Water
falling through the atmosphere. But they reach
ii) DE b) Sublimation q) Ice
at the surface of the earth with a uniform c) Regelation r)Partially Solid
velocity. and liquid
d) Vapourisation s) Partially liquid
a) What is this velocity called? and vapour
b) Obtain an expression for the excess b) The slopes of AB and CD are different.
pressure inside a rain drop. Why? (1)
c) Draw a neat diagram of an atomiser
(spray gun) and explain the principle 4. A steel beam of length 5m is kept at a
involved in its working. temperature of 200C. On a hot day, the
d) Eight spherical rain drops of equal in temperature rises to 400C. What is the change
size are falling vertically through air in its length due to thermal expansion? (2)
with a uniform speed of 1 ms-1. What
(Coefficient to linear expansion of steel is
would be the uniform speed if these
1.2 x 10-5/0C). [March 2015]

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