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Junior Inter Physics: Important Questions
Junior Inter Physics: Important Questions
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Important Questions
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What are significant figures and what do they represent when reporting the
result of a measurement?
Distinguish between fundamental and derived units
In a system of units, the unit of force is 100 N. unit of length is 10 m and unit
of time is 100 S. What is the unit of mass in this system.
State the no. of significant figures in the following
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The error in the measurement of radius of a sphere is 1%. What is the error in
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Give an example where the velocity of an object is zero, but its acceleration is
not zero.
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Chapter - 6 (Work
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Can two vectors of unequal magnitude add up to give the zero vector? Can three
unequal vectors addup to give the zero vector?
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When a bullet is fired from a gun, the gun gives a kick in the backward
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Why does a rifle not recoil as strongly as a light rifle using the same catridges?
If a bomb at rest explodes into two pieces, the pieces must travel in opposite
directions. Explain.
Can the coefficient of friction be greater than one?
Why does the car with a flattened tyre stop sooner than the one with inflated
tyres?
A horse has to pull harder during the start of the motion than later - Explain.
What happens to the coefficent of friction, if the weight of the body is doubled.
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(a) work done by a man in lifting a bucket out of well by means of a rope tied
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(b) work done by gravitational force in the above case.
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F = 3 ^i + 4 ^j - 5^k
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Is it necessary that a mass should be present at the centre of mass of any system.
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Two rigid bodies have same moment of inertia about their axes of symmetry or
the two, which body will have greater kinetic energy?
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Why do we prefer a spanner of longer arm as compared to the spanner of shortner arm?
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If the polar ice caps of the earth were to melt, what would the effect of the length
of the day be?
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a = 3 ^i - 4 ^j + 5^k
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The bob of simple pendulum is a hallow sphere filled with water. How will be
the period of oscillation change, if water begins to drain out of the hallow
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The bob of pendulum is made of wood. What will be the effect on the time
period, if the wooden bob is replaced by an identical bob of aluminium?
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A pendulum clock gives correct time at equator. Will it gain or lose time if it is
taken to the poles? If so why?
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What would be the change in acceleration due to gravity (g) at the surface, if the
radius of earth decreases by 2% keeping the mass of earth constant?
Give the equation for the value of 'g' at a depth 'd' from the surface of earth.
What is the value of 'g' at the centre of earth?
"Hyderogen is in abundance around the Sun but not around Earth" Explain.
What are polar satellites?
A steel wire of length 20 cm is stretched to increase its length by 0.2 cm. Find
the lateral strain in the wire if the poisson's ratio for steel is 0.19.
If an iron wire is stretched by 1% what is the strain on the wire?
A Tungsten wire of length 20 cm is stretched by 0.1 cm. Find the strain on the
wire?
A copper wire of 1mm diameter is stretched by applying a force of 10 N. Find
the stress in the wire.
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What is the Principle behind the Carburetor of an automobile?
What is magnus effect?
Give the expression for excess pressure in an air bubble inside the liquid.
Give the expression for excess pressure inside the soap bubble in air.
What is angle of contact?
"Terminal velocity is more, if surface area of the body is more". Give reasons in
support of your answer.
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What are water proofing agents and water wetting agents? What do they do?
What is the pressure on a swimmer 10 m below the surface of a lake?
If the density of atmosphere at sea level is 1.29 Kg/m3. Assume that it does not
change with altitude. Then how high would the atmosphere extend?
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Why utensils are coated with black? Why the bottom of utensils are made of
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What is the temperature for which the readings on Kelvin and Fahrenheit scales
are same?
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Chapter - 13 (Thermodynamics)
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Define Calorie. What is the relation between Calorie and mechanical equivalent
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What thermodynamic variables can be defined by (a) Zeroth Law (b) First Law.
In Summer, when the valve of a bicycle tube is opened, the escaping air appears
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Why does the breakdrum of an automobile get heated up, while moving down
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What is the expression between pressure and kinetic energy of a gas molecule?
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When pressure increases by 2%, what is the percentage decrease in the volume
of a gas, assuming Boyle's law is obeyed?
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If a gas has 'f' degrees of freedom, find the ratio of Cp and Cv.
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4 Marks Questions (short answer type)
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Can the equations of Kinematics be used when the acceleration varies with
time? If not, what form would these equations take?
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Show that the maximum height reached by a projectile launched at angle of 45o
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A bullet is moving with a speed of 150 m/s strikes a tree and penetrates 3.5 cm
before stopping. What is the magnitude of its retardation in the tree and the time
taken for it to stop after striking the tree.
A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20 m/s from the top of a
multistored building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is
25m from the ground.
(a) How high will the ball rise? (b) How long will it be before the ball hits the
ground? Take g = 10m/s2.
A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 kmh-1 is brought to
a stop within the distance of 200m. What is the retardation of the car, how long
does it take for the car to stop?
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State Parallelogram law of vectors. Derive an expression for the magnitude and
direction of the resultant vector.
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Show that the trajectory of an object thrown at certain angle with the horizontal is parabola.
Explain the terms the average velocity and instantaneous velocity. When are
they equal?
u2sin2
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Show that maximum height and range of projectile are and
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respectively where the terms have their regular meanings.
A force 2 ^i - ^j - ^k newton acts on a body. Which is initially at rest. At the end
^ m/s. What is the mass
of 20 seconds the velocity of the body is 4i^ + 2 ^j - 2k
of the body?
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Define the terms momentum and Impulse. State and explain the law of conservation of linear momentum. Give examples.
Why are shock absorbers used in motor cycles and cars?
Explain advantages and disadvantages of friction
of 8m deep to the surface, suppose 40% of horse power during pumping is wasted. What is the horse power of engine?
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A pump is required to lift 600 kg of water per min. from a well of depth 25m
and to eject it with a speed of 50 m/s. Calculate the power required to perform
the above task?
In a ballistic demonstration of police officer fires a bullet of mass 50gm with
speed 200 m/s on soft plywood of thickness 2cm. The bullet emerges with only
10% of its initial kinetic energy. What is the emergent speed of the bullet?
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Distinguish between centre of mass and centre of gravity.
Explain about the centre of mass of Earth-Moon system and its rotation around
the Sun.
Define vector product. Explain the properties of a vector product with examples.
Definie angular acceleration and Torque. Establish the relation between acceleration and Torque.
Find the centre of mass of three particles at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. The masses of the particles are 100gm, 150 gm, 200gm respectively. Each
side of the equilateral triangle is 0.5 long. Find the Torque of the force
(7^i - 3^j - 5 ^k) about the origin. The force acts on a particle whose position
vector is (^i - ^j + ^k )
A particle executing SHM has amplitude of 4cm and its acceleration at a distance of 1 cm from the mean position is 3 cm/s2. What will be the velocity at a
distance of 2 cm from its mean position.
A Simple harmonic oscillator has a time period of 2 sec. What will be the
change in phase 0.25 sec after leaving the mean position!
A freely falling body takes 2 seconds to reach the ground on a plane, when it is
dropped from a height of 8m. If the period of a simple pendulum is seconds on the planet. Calculate the length of pendulum.
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Chapter - 9 [Gravitation]
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State keplers laws of planetary motion.
Two spherical balls each of mass 1 kg are placed 1 cm apart. Find the gravitational force of attraction between them (G = 6.67 x 10-11 Nm2/Kg2 R = 6400
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A satellite is orbiting the earth at a height of 1000 km. Find its orbital speed.
What is Toricelli's law? Explain how the speed of efflux is determined with an
experiment.
What is venturi meter? Explain how it is used?
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If the maximum intensity of radiation for a black body is found of 2.65 cm. What is
the temperature of the radiating body? (Wein's constant = 2.9 x 10-3 mk)
Define two principal specific heats of a gas. Which is greater and why?
Derive the relation between two specific heat capacities of a gas on the basis of
law of thermo dynamics.
Obtain an expression for the work done by an ideal gas during isothermal
change.
Compare isothermal and adiabatic process.
Explain the concept of absolute zero of temperature on the basis of kinetic theory.
Four moles of gas have speeds 1, 2, 3 & 4 km/s. Find the rms speed of the gas
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(a) Define angle of friction and angle of repose. Show that angle of friction is
equal to angle of repose for a rough inclined plane.
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Develop the notations of work, Kinetic energy and show that it leads to work
energy theorem.
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State and prove Law of conservation of energy incase of a freely falling body.
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(a) State and prove parallel axes theorem
(b) For a thin flat circular disc, the radius of gyration about a diameter as axis
is k. If the disc is cut along a diameter AB (as shown in fig) into two equal
pieces; then find the radius of gyration of each piece about AB.
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(a) State and Prove perpendicular axes theorem.
(b) If a thin circular ring and a thin flat circular disc of same mass have same
moment of inertia about their respective diameters as axes. Then find the
ratio of their radii.
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State and Prove law of conservation of angular momentum. Explain the principle of conservation of angular momentum with examples.
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Define simple harmonic motion. Show that the motion of projetion of a prarticle performing uniform circular motion, on any diameter, is simple harmonic.
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Show that motion of a simple pendulum is simple harmonic and hence derive
an equation for its time period. What is seconds pendulum?
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State Newton's Law of Gravitation. Explain how the value of gravitational constant (G) can be determined by cavendish method.
Derive an expression for variation of acceleration due to gravity (g) (a) above
(b) below the surface of earth.
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State Boyle's law and charles's Law. Hence derive ideal gas equation. Which of
the two laws is better for the purpose of thermometry, why?
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