FACULTY RECRUITMENT TEST

CATEGORY-D
Formal School Education/IX, X / NSEJS/NTSE/ Foundation
for KVPY, Senior Olympiads, JEE Main & JEE Advanced

PHYSICS
PAPER B
Time: 1 Hour

Maximum Marks: 40

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Marks:

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Instructions
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Attempt all questions.

Paper A has Two Parts I and II. Each question of Part I carries 2 marks and each
question of part II caries 4 marks.

Calculators and log tables are not permitted.

PART I
1.

A 2kg ball drops on floor from a height of 20 m and rebounds with 20% of the initial speed. Find the
impulse received by the ball.

2.

A uniform chain of length L and mass M is lying on a smooth table and one-third of its length is
hanging vertically down over the edge of the table. If g is acceleration due to gravity, calculate the
work required to pull the hanging part on to the table.

3.

Find the value of current i in the circuit shown in the figure.

15 A

3A

8A
5A

iA

4.

A ray of light falling at an angle of 50 is refracted through a prism in minimum deviation position. The
o
o
angle of the prism is 60 . Calculate the refractive index of the prism. Given that sin 50 = 0.766.

5.

A block of mass

3 kg is resting on a horizontal plane

(coefficient of static friction = 1 2 3 ). A force F is applied to

the block as shown in the figure. Find the minimum magnitude

F
60
m=3kg

of F for which the block begins to slide. (g = 10 m/s2 )

6.

A current of 2 A enters at the corner d of a square frame abcd of side 20

cm and leaves at the opposite corner b. A magnetic field B = 0.1 T exists
in the space in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the frame as
shown in the figure Find the magnitude and direction of the magnetic
forces on the four sides of the frame.

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7.

Gravitational force between point masses m and M separated by a distance F. Now if a point mass
2m is placed next to m, what will be the (a) force on M due to m. (b) total force on M

8.

In the figure shows the graph of the x-coordinate of a

particle going along the X-axis as a function of time. Find
(a) the average velocity during 0 to 10 s. (b) instantaneous
velocity at 2 sec

X (m)
100
50
0

9.

Time (second)
(m)
2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 12.5 15.0

A block of mass m is kept on a frictionless inclined wedge of mass

M with angle of inclination . The wedge is given an acceleration a
to keep the block stationary. Find the acceleration a.
a

10.

A ball is dropped on a floor from a height of 2.0 m. After the collision it rises upto a height of 1.5m.
Assuming that 40% of mechanical energy lost goes as thermal energy into the ball. Calculate the rise
in temperature of the ball in the collision. Specific heat capacity of the ball is 800 J/K.
2
(Take g = 10m/s )

PART II
11.

A ball is thrown vertically upward with a velocity 20 m/s. Find the distance covered by the ball is 3 sec.

12.

A point source of light B is placed at a distance L in front of the

centre of a mirror of width d hung vertically on a wall. A man
walks in front of the mirror along a line parallel to the mirror at a
distance 2L from it as shown. Find the greatest distance over
which he can see the image of the light source in the mirror.

L
2L

13.

14.

A liquid of density is filled in a beaker of cross section A to a

height H and then a cylinder of mass M and cross-section a is
made to float in it as shown in figure. If the atmospheric pressure
is P0, find the pressure (a) at the top face B of the cylinder (b) at
the bottom face C of the cylinder and (c) at the base D of the
beaker (d) can ever these pressures be equal?

B
B
H

A small charged particle of mass m and charge q is suspended by an

insulated thread in front of a very large sheet of charge density . Find the
angle made by the thread with the vertical in equilibrium.

C
D

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15.

q
m

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An artificial satellite of mass 100 kg is in circular orbit at 500 km above the earths surface. Take the
6
radius of the earth as 6.5 10 m.
(a) Find the acceleration due to gravity at any point along the satellite path.
(b) What is the centripetal acceleration of the satellite?

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