2009 Sr.No. JECT.CODE BOOKLET CODE 2013 (D) (2) J PHYSICAL SCIENCES L TEST BOOKLET — Time; 3:00 Hours Mavinsian Marks: 200 RUCTIONS ‘You have opted for English as medium of Question Paper. This Test Booklet contains seventy five (20 Part A"#25 Part *B’ + 30 Part °C’) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). You are required to answer a maximum of 15, 20 and 20 questions from part “A’ “B® and SC* respectively. If more than required number of questions are answered, only first 15, 20, 20 questions in Parts *A* “B® and °C” respectively, will be taken up for evaluation, “Answer sheet has been provided separately. Before you start filling up your particulars, please ensure that the booklet contains requisite number of pages and that these are not torn or mutilated. If it is so, you may request the Invigilator to change the booklet. 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You have to f for each question, the correct or the best answer. Candidates found copying or resorting. to any. unfair a - disqualified rom t ure examinations. Candidate should not write anything anywhere except on answer sheet or sheets for rough work, Afler the test is over, you MUST hand over the Test Booklet and the answer sheet (OMR) to the invigilator. Use of calculator is not permitted, Roll No... [have verified all the information filled in by the candidate Name 8/46 BU13-SBE—1A Signature of the InvigilatorS/46 BJ/13-SBE—1BPART During an evening party, when Ms. Black, Ms, Brown and Ms. White met, Ms. Brown marked, “It is interesting that our dresses ‘ess!”. Ms. White replied, "But your white dress does not suit you!”. answer. Ms White's dress was brown. Ms. Black's dress was white. Ms. White's dress was black, 4, Ms, Black's dress was black. Of all the triangles that can be inscribed in 2 semicircle of radius R with the diameter as one side, the biggest one has the area i. RP 3. RV3 2. RV2 4, 2R? A square pyramid is to he mada using 2 wire such that only one strand of wire is used for each edge. What is the minimum number of times that the wire has to be cut in ordar to enake the pyramid? 13 27 32 44 Identify the next figure in the sequence customer survey conducted during Monday to Friday, of the customers who .sked for chiid care facilites in super markets, 23% were men and the rest, women. Among .9% of the women and 8.8% of the willing to pay for the facilities. A, What is the ratio of the men to women customers who wanted child care facilities? xurvey had been conducted during the ‘weekend instead, how will the result change? With the above data, Only A can be answered Only B can be answered Both A and 8 can be answered Neither A nor B can be answered Pepe &. The map given below shows contour lines. which connect points of equal ground surface elevation in a region, tnverted 'V’ shaped portions of contour lines represent a valley along which 2 river flows. What is the downstream direction of the river? During 2 summer vacation, of 20 friends from a hostel, each wrote a letter to each of ail others. The total number of letters written was 2, 400 1 3. 4, 3804 a 12.A daily. sheet calendar of the year > 2013contains sheets of 10x10 cm size. All the sheets of the calendar are spread over the floor’ of a room of Smx7.3m size, What percentage of the floor will be ‘covered by a these sheets? A person has to cross a square field by going 1.04 a4 from A to C. The person is only allowed to 3. 10 4. 100 move towards the east or towards the north or use a combination of these movements. The total distance travelled by the person 13, How many rectangles (which are not squares) G are there in the following figure? 1. depends on the length of each step 2. depends on the total number of steps 3. Is different for different paths . 4, isthe same for all paths 9. A crow is flying along a horizontal circle of radius R at a height R above the horizontal ground, Each of a number of men on the 1. 56 2.70 ground found that the angular height of the crow was a fixed angle 6 (< 45°) when it was 3. 86 4, 100 closest to him. Then all these men must be on a circle on the ground with a radius 14, Define a@b = Icm(a,b) + gcd(a,b) and a®b = a+b, What is the value of (102) ® (304) ? 1. RR sing Here lcm = least common multiple and 2. RAR cosO gcd=greatest common divisor. 3, RAR tand . Ae RAR cotO . 1. 145 2. 286 2. How many pairs of positive integers have ged 3. 436 4. 572 20 and lcm 600? (gcd = greatest common divisor; lem= least common multiple) 45. There is an equilateral triangle in the XY plane with its centre at the origin, The distance of its sides from the origin is 3.5 cm. The area of its circumcircle in cm? is 14 2.0 3.4 a7 1. 385 2. 49 411, Two integers are picked at random from the 93.65 nel first 15 positive integers without i ti 16. What is the value of +444 .. replacement. What is the probability that the patna tad sum of the two numbers is 20? 902. 3 1. 2/3 2d 13 2 7 3.2 4, 2 3.795 4 Sle Slea of radius R/2 fixed toone end. 20, A solid cyl A was held ng was towered into water in a dipped in water in 2 cylindrical vessel of basal cylindrical container of base radius R to keep area 2A vertically such fength h of the exactly half the sphere dipped, The rise in the cylinder is immersed. The lower tip of the level of water in the container will be 1 RB 3. R/B 48. Choose the largest number: 12 00 w der is at 2 height A from the bese of the vessel. What will be the height of water in the vessel when the cylinder is ta‘ 2. R/A 4. R/Z 2 ah 4a 2h ? 2.3 4. 5° 49. A crystal grows by stacking of unit ceils of 10%20x5 nim size as shown in the diagram given below. ovr many unit cells will make a crystal of Lemn® volume ? € ni a x S iam © Unit Cell (not to scale) “Ee Crystal (not to scale) 1. 20° 3. 40% 2, 10? 4. 10%PART. 24, The approximation cos @ ~ 1 is valid up . to 3 decimal places as long as |6|_ is less than: (take 180° /m % 57.29°) (1) 1.28° (2) 1.81° (3) 3.28° (4) 401° 22, Given that Hye) Oh = evtteate n=O . the value of H4(0) is aq) 12 Q) 6 @) 24 @) 6 A unit vector fi on the xy-plane is at an angle of 120° with respect to f. The angle between the vectors i= at + b fA and B= a+b? will be 60° if () b = V3a/2 (2) b = 2a/v3 GB) a/2 @ a 24, With z= x-+ ly, which of the following functions f(x,y) is NOT a (complex) analytic function of 2? () f@y) = @ + ty - 8)? (44+x7 — y? + 2ixy)” 2) fy) = Gt ty) ~ x - iy)? B) fay) = (? — y? + Bixy — 3)° 4) fy) = (xt yy A+x+iy)® 25. A planet of mass m and an angular morhentum Z moves in a circular orbit in a potential, V(r) = —k/r, where kis a constant. If it is- slightly perturbed 26. radially, the angular frequency of radial oscillations is (A) mk? /V213 (2) mk? /13 (3) V2mk? /13 (4) V3mk?/13 ‘The Lagrangian of a particle of mass m moving in one dimension is given by b= x? — b; aqme? — bx where b is a positive constant. The coordinate of the particle x(#) at time # is - given by: (in the following ¢; and e are 2. constants) D 42 (1) ome tet + Cy (2) cyt + Cy (3) cyeos (“*) + gain () (4) cxcosh (%) + casinh (7) A uniform cylinder of radius r and length £, and a uniform sphere of radius R are released on an inclined plane when their » centres of mass are at the same height. If they roll down without slipping, and if the sphere reaches the bottom of the plane with a speed V, then the speed of the cylinder when it reaches the bottom is: av ft 15R? r QW ie av. 8) fa @ Vie29. The area of a disc in its rest frame S is equal to 1 (ia some units). The disc will appear distorted to an observer O moving with a speed u with respect to S along the plane of the disc. The area of the disc measured in the rest frame of the observer O is (c is the speed of light in vacuum) @ (1-8) @ (1-3) ® 0-3) uot (0-2) A particle of charge e and mass m is located at the midpoint of the line joining two fixed collinear dipoles with unit charges as shown in the figure. (The particle is constrained to move only along the line joining the dipoles.) Assuming that the length of the dipoles is much shorter than their separation, the natural frequency of oscillation of the particle is eR Ro cern? © |e : egmd® eek meoma* @® [setae \Veomis @) seta egmi? @ 3h. 32. ied by a narrow beam in vacuum with ii. The direction and ively, of the Poynting the beam at a radial @ Si and |s|= “eg lar (4) $\@ and [3] = et If the electric and magnetic fields are unchanged when the vector potential A changes (in suitable units} according to A A+ 8, where 7 = r(¢)?, then the scalar potential © must simultaneously change to @) o-r Q) @+r 3) © — ar/ at 4) © + Gr/ & Consider an axially symmetric static charge distribution of the form, P= Po @ ent! cos? p radial component of the dipole ni due to this charge distribution is, @ 2npord 2) mpors @) pord ) mpord'/233. In a basis in which the z-component S, of the spin is‘diagonal, an electron is in a spin state * w= (A40N8 O\ VB ‘The probabilities that a measurement of S, will yield the values h/2 and —h/2 are, respectively, (1) 1/2 and 1/2 2) 2/3 and 1/3 @) U4 and 3/4 4) 13 and 23 34, Consider the normalized state Ib) of a particle in a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator: hb) = b|0) + ba|1) where |0) and [1) denote the ground and first excited states respectively, and by and 6, .are real constants, The expectation value of the displacement x in the state [{) will be a minimum when. () b, = 0, (b, = 1) Q) by 3) by @ b, 35. A muon (12~) from cosmic rays is trapped by a proton to form a hydrogen-like atom. Given that a muon is approximately:200 times heavier than an electron, the longest wavelength of the spectral line (in the analogue of the Lyman series) of such an atom will be 36. 37, () 5.624 Q) 667A @) 3.754 @ 133A ‘The un-normalized wavefunction of a particle in a spherically —symmetiic potential is given by WG) = 2f(r) where f(r) is a function of the radial variable r, ‘The cigenvalue of the operator T? (namely. the square of the orbital angular momentum) is (1) 2/4 @) N/a @) (4) 2h? Two identical bosons of mass m are placed in a one-dimensional potential V@) = Fmo*x?, The bosons interact via a weak potential, Via = Vo exp[—m0 (xy ~ x2)?/4h] where x; and x» denote coordinates of the particles. Given that the ground state wavefunction of the harmonic oscillator 1 e-"ar-. The ground state energy of the two-boson system, to the first order in Vo, is: (1) ha + 2Vy Q) hw + 42 a 8) ha + M(14+2 - (4) fio + Vo (1 +2)38. Ten grams of ice at 0°C is added to a beaker containing 30 grams of water at 25°C. What is the final temperature of the system when it comes to thermal equilibrium? (The specific heat of water is Ical/em/°C and latent heat of melting of ice is 80 cal/gm.) (dy orc (2) 75°C @) 125°C (4) -1.25°C 39, A. vessel has two compartments of volume V; and Vp, containing an ideal gas at pressures py and p2 , and temperatures T, and T, respectively. If the wall separating the compartments is removed, the resulting equilibrium temperature will be Ty +272 (ay Palate Pitz yy Mati t¥e ODay, atVe PiVi+P2V2 (P1V1/T1)+@2V2/T2) @ 1)? B) 40. For temperature 7 > 7, the qualitative temperature dependence of the probability distribution F(v) of the speed v of a molecule in three dimensions is correctly represented by the following figure: @ 4h. 42. a ‘A. system of non-interacting spin-/4 charged particles are placed in an external magnetic field. At low temperature 7, the leading behavior of the excess energy above the ground state energy, depends on Tas: (c is a constant) (el Q) cP Qe? (4) c (is independent of 7) ‘The acceleration due to gravity g is determined by measuring the time period T and the length L of a simple pendulum. If the uncertainties in the measurements of T and L are AT and AL respectively, the fractional error Ag/g in measuring g is best approximated bylanl, lar} o waif aah Q) Tt © +e 43. A silicon transistor with built-in voltage 0.79 is ‘used ‘in the circuit ‘shown, with Vin = 9.7V, Rp = 300 kQ, Voc = 12 V and Re = 2 kQ. Which of the following figures correctly represents the load line and the quiescent Q point? Re 10 44, If the analog input to an 8-bit successive approximation ADC is increased fiom 1.0 V to 2.0 V, then the conversion time will (1) remain unchanged (2) double 3) decrease to half its original value (4) increase four times 45.The insulation resistance R of an insulated cable is measured by connecting it in parallel with a capacitor C, a voltmeter, and battery B as shown, The voltage across the cable dropped from 150V to 15V, 1000 seconds after the switch $ is closed. If the capacitance of the cable is SuP thon its insulation resistance is approximately @ 10° Q) 1082 @) 10° (4) 10°.. The inverse Laplace transform of ti PART 'C' . ‘The conductors in a 0.75 km long two-wire transmission line are separated by a centre-to- stance of 0.2 m. If each conductor has a diameter of 4 cm, then the capacitance of ine is (2) 8.85 uF (2) 88.5 nF (3) 8.85 pF (4) 8.85 nF 1. s(s+1) 's 142 -t Q Ze+1-e @) t-1tet @ Ge a-e) . Ifthe operators A and B satisfy the commutation relation [A, B | = J, where / is the identity operator, then. () [e4,B] = e# @ [e4,B] = [e*,A] 3) [e4,B] = [e-*, A] 4) [e4,B]= 1 ‘The electronic energy levels in a hydrogen atom are given by BE, = —13.6/n? eV. Ifa selective excitation to the n = 100 level is to be made using a laser, the maximum allowed frequency line-width of the laser is (1) 6.5 MHz (2) 6.5 GHz (3) 6.5 Hz (4) 6.5 kHz . Consider the laser resonator cavity shown in the figure. —S a wm, P M, 1h is the intensity of the radiation at mirror Mj and ais the gain coefficient of the medium between the mirrors, then the energy density of photons in the plane P at a distance x from M is(l) Ch/cde“* Q) (h/de* @) (h/c)(e™ + e-@) A) (h/ejer 51. Consider the hydrogen-deuterium molecule HD, If the mean distance between the two atoms is 0.08 nm and the mass of the hydrogen atom is 938 MeV/c’, then’ the energy difference AF between the two lowest rotational states is approximately (1) 10-tev @) 10-ev 8) 2x 10-ev (4) 1o“ey 52, The solution of the differential equation dx, dt with the initial condition x(0) = 1. will blow up as ¢ tends to a @® 2 @) 12 (4) 53. In the Born approximation, the scattering amplitude f (0) for the Yukawa potential mie V(r) = 7 is given by: (in the following b = 2k sin 2k? /2m) amp : amp agai @ GE 3) - 2m -— 2 ® - aa O) ~ GED 54, If the energy dispersion of a two-dimensional electron system is E = whke where wis the velocity and kis the momentum, then the density of states D(E) depends on the energy as (DWE Q) VE QE @) constant 55. The phonon dispersion for the following one-dimensional diatomic lattice with masses My, - and M, (as shown in the figure) K IID GIB -15595- OHI 0HHI— Mm, M, My My is given by wo=n(eed) Ey ‘ty of sound is y tw ? of 2@i+Ma) Kishi, voy, (HGH ta) , a a] yi MeV is given by the approximate formula 3 a (N - Z)? A BOP? FRAN 39 Mat ¢ of Z of the most stable isobar for a given ion for 2 one-dimensional metal is ka 1, 220| 7 gsin veal fhe monicatumt, « is Ure lattice consiant, & is a constant having dimensions of er of electrons pez atom in the conduction band is where ! energy and {ial BtC+D where it is known that B and C are also spin-Y4 particles, The complete set of allowed values of the spin of the particle D is $12.28, @) 0,1 @) Sonly O ppg Using the frequrency-dependent Drude formula, what is the effective kinetic inductance of a metallic wire that is to be used as a transmission line? [In the following, the electron mass is m, density of electrons is n, and the length and cross-sectional area of the wire are ¢ and A respectively. } (1) mA/(ne?e) Q) zero * @) me/(ne?A) (4) mvVA/(ne?£?) 62, 63, Let v be a random variable uniformly distributed in the interval [0,1] and V = —cInu, where c is a real constant, If is to be exponentially distributed in the interval [0,00) with unit standard deviation, then the value of ¢ should be (i) In2 (2) 1/2 @B) 1 @) -1 A system is governed by the Hamiltonian 1 1 2 H = 5x — ay)? +5 (Py — bx) where a and 6 aré constants and py, Py are momenta conjugate to x and y respectively. For what values of a and b will the quantities (p, — 3y) and (p, + 2x) be conserved? Wa =2 @a=3,b @)a -3 . (4)a=-2,b66. 67. 68. |. The number of degrees of freedom of a rigid body in d sp: 45 -e-dimensions is (2d 26 @)d(d+1)/2 (4) @! . A particle of mass m is at the stable equilibrium position of its potential energy V(x) = ax — bx? where a, b are positive constants. The mininium velocity that has to be imparted to the particle to render its motion unstable is (A) (6402 /9m?b)/* 2) (6403 /27mb)'/* (3) (16a3/27m?b)/* (4) (3a3/64m2b)*/* The components of a vector potential A, = (Ao, Ai, A2,A3) are given by Ay = k(—xyz, y2t, 2xt, xyt ) where kis a constant. The three components of the electric field are (1) kz, 2x, xy) (2) kG, y,2) @B) 0,0, 0) (A) k(xt, yt, 2¢) If rum Genvies the eigenfunction of the Ham then the expectation value of the operator 12 + 13, in the state 1 = g[3vau + Paro ~ VIS pas] is (1) 3982/25 (2) 1382/25 3) 28? (4) 26h? /25 ‘An oscillating current 1(t) = Ig exp(—ioot) flows in the direction of the y-axis through a thin metal sheet of area 1.0 cm’ kept in the xy-plane, The rate of total energy radiated per unit area from the surfaces of the metal sheet at a distance of 100 m is () Ipw/(2me9c?) (2) Ip? /(A2megc3) Q) [g?o/(2meQc%) (4) Ine? /(24me 903)16 69. Consider a two-dimensional infinite square well Vouy) = { 0 0 0), One system is populated by spin- 5 fermions and the other by bosons. What is the value of Ee~ Ey where Hy and Ey are the ground state energies of the fermionie and bosonic systems respectively? (1) 660 2) 20 @), 4e0 (4) &17 73. Consider a system of two Ising spins S, and S, taking values +1 with interaction energy given by ¢=—JSiS2, when it is in thermal equilibrium at temperature 7, For large T, the average energy of the system varies as C/kg7, with C given by Q@) -F (4) 40 74, ‘The input to a lock-in amplifier has the form V;(t) = Visin(we + 0,) where Vi, w, 8 are the amplitude, frequency and phase of the input signal respectively. This signal is multiplied by a reference signal of the same frequency «, amplitude ¥, and phase @,. If the multiplied signal is fed to a low pass filter of cut-off frequency «, then the final output signal is (5 Vivzcos(0, ~ 8) VW, [cos(8, ~ 8) ~ cos (ut +6; + 6)] 8) Vi; sin(6; — 8) ) Yi [cos(o, —6,) + cos G cot + 6; + 0,)] 75. Four digital outputs V, P, T and H_ monitor the speed v, tyre pressure p, temperature / and relative humidity A of a car. These outputs switch from 0 to 1 when the values of the parameters exceed 85 km/hr, 2 bar, 40° C and 50%, respectively. A logic circuit that is used to switch ON a lamp at the output E is shown below. . p> Which of the following conditions will switch the lamp ON ? (1) v<85 knv/hr, p <2 bar, f> 40°C, h > 50% (2) v<85 km/hr, p <2 bar, f> 40°C, A < 50% (3) v> 85 km/hr, p <2 bar, t> 40°C, <50% (4) v> 85 km/hr, p <2 bar, < 40°C, A> 50% $/46 BUNS-SBE—218 ve @ri/ROUGH WORK