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PHYSICS
(Important Numerical questions)
Very Short Answer type Question
Units & Measurements
1. In a system of units, the unit of force is 100N, unit of length is 10m and the unit of
time is 100s. What is the unit of mass in this system?
2. Three measurements of the time for 20 oscillations of a pendulum give t1 =39. 6s, t 2
=39. 9s and t3 =39.5s. What is the precision in the measurements? What is the
accuracy of the measurements?
3. A physical quantity X is related to four measurable quantities a,b,c and d as follows:
x= a 2b3c d 2 . The percentage error in the measurement of a,b,c and d are 1%, 2%, 3%
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and 4% respectively. What is the percentage error in x?
4. The velocity of a body is given by v=At 2 =Bt+c. If v and t are expressed in SI what
are the units of A,B and C ?
5. The resistance R = V/1 where V=(100 5) V and I = (10 0.2)A. Find the percentage
error in R.
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6. The period of oscillation of a simple pendulum is T = 2 . Mesured value of L is
g
20.0cm known to 1 mm accuracy and time for 100 oscillations of the pendulum is
found to be 90s using a wrist watch of 1s resolution. What is the accuracy in the
determination of g?
7. The error in measurement of radius of a sphere is 1%. What is the error in the
measurement of volume?
8. The percentage error in the mass and speed are 2% and 3% respectively. What is the
maximum error in kinetic energy calculated using these quantities?
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A4 B 3
9. Find the relative error in Z if Z 3
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Laws of Motion
10. A batsman hits back a ball straight in the direction of the bowler without changing its
initial speed of 12 ms 1 . If the mass of the ball is 0.15kg, determine the impulse
imparted to the ball. (Assume linear motion of the ball)
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11. The motion of a particle of mass m is described by y = ut + gt 2 . Find the force
2
acting on the particle.
12. Calculate the time needed for a net force of 5N to change the velocity of a 10kg mass
by 2 m/s.
Mechanical Properties of Fluids
13. If the diameter of a soap bubble is 10 mm and its surface tension is 0.04 Nm 1 , find
the excess pressure inside the bubble.
14. If work done by an agent to from a bubble of radius R is W, then how much energy is
required to increase its radius to 2R?
15. What should be the radius of a capillary tube, if the water has rise the height of 6cm
in it? Surface tension of water = 7.2 10 2 N/m, g = 10m/sec 2 .
16. What is the pressure on a swimmer 10m below the surface of a lake?
(Take g=10ms 2 )
17. The density of the atmosphere at sea level is 1.29 kg/m 3 . Assume that it does not
change with altitude. Then how high would the atmosphere extend?
18. Two syringes of different cross sections and lengths filled with water are connected
with a tightly fitted rubber tude filled with water. Diameters of the smaller piston and
larger piston are 1 cm and 3 cm respectively. Find the force exerted on the larger
piston when a force of 10 N is applied to the smaller piston.
Thermal Properties of Matter
19. What is the temperature for which the readings on Kelvin and Fahrenheit scales are
same ?
20. Find the increase in temperature of aluminium rod if its length is to be increased by
6
1%. ( for aluminium=25 10 0 C).
21. If the maximum intensity of radiation for a black body is found at 2.65 m . Find the
temperature of the radiating body.
Kinetic Theory of Gases
22. Molar volume is the volume occupied by 1 mole of any (ideal) gas at standard
temperature and pressure. Show that it is 22.4 litres.
23. Estimate the total number of air molecules of air (inclusive of oxygen, nitrogen,
water vapour and other constituents) in a room of capacity 25.0 m 3 at a temperature of
27 0 C and 1 atm pressure.
Short Answer type Question
Motion in a Plane
24. Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 35ms 1 . Wind starts blowing after sometime
with a speed of 12 ms 1 in east to west direction. In which direction should a boy
waiting at a bus stop, hold his umbrella?
25. Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 35ms 1 . A women rides a bicycle with a
speed of 12ms 1 in east to west directions. What is the direction in which she should
hold her umbrella?
26. Prove the statement “for elevations which exceed or fall short of 45 0 by equal
amounts, the ranges are equal”.
27. A cricket ball is thrown at a speed of 28ms 1 in a direction 300 above the horizontal
Calculate (a) the maximum height, (b) the time taken by the ball to return to the same
level, and (c) the distance from the thrower to the point where the ball return to the
same level.
System of Particles And Rotational Motion
28. Find the centre of mass of three particles at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. The
masses of the particles are 100g, 150g, and 200g, respectively. Each side of the
equilateral triangle is 0.5m long.
29. Find the scalar and vector product of two vector, a (3i 4 j 5k ) and
b (2i j 3k )
30. 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
31. What is the moment of inertia of a disc about one of its diameters?
32. What is the moment of inertia of a rod of mass M, length 1 about an axis
perpendicular to it and passing through one end?
33. What is the moment of inertia of a ring about a tangent to the circle of the ring?
34. The moment of inertia of a fly wheel making 300 revolutions per minute is 0.3 kgm 2 .
Find the torque required to bring it to rest in 20s.
35. When 100J of work is done on a fly wheel, its angular velocity is increased from
60rpm to 180rpm. What is the moment of inertia of the wheel?
Long Answer numaricals questions
Work, Energy And Power
36. 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 5g, find the power of the machine gun?
37. A pump is required to lift 600kg of water per minute from a well 25m deep and to
eject it with a speed of 50ms 1 . Calculate the power required to perform the above
task?
38. Find the total energy of a body of 5kg mass, which is at a height of 10m from the
earth and falling downwards straightly with a velocity of 20m/s.
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(acceleration due to gravity as 10m/s
Oscillations
39. On an average a human heart is found to beat 75 times in a minute. Calculate its
frequency and period.
40. What is the length of a simple pendulum, which ticks seconds?
41. A particle executes SHM such that, the maximum velocity during the oscillation is
numerically equal to half the maximum acceleration. What is the time period?
42. The mass and radius of a planet are double that of the earth. If the time period of a
simple pendulum on the earth is T, find the time period on the planet.
43. Calculate the change in the length of a simple pendulum of length 1m, when its
period of oscillation changes from 2s to 1.5 s.
Thermodynamics
44. What amount of heat must be supplied to 2.0 10 2 kg of nitrogen (at room
temperature) to raise its temperature by 45 0 C at constant pressure? (Molecular mass
of N 2 = 28, R = 8.3 J/ mol. K)
45. Find the external work done by the system in kcal, when 20 kcal of heat is supplied to
the system the increase in its internal energy is 8400 J. (J = 4200 J/kcal).
46. Find the efficiency of a heat engine if the temperature of the source is 1000C and sink
is 270C.
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