2. Answer, in brief, any two questions.
[2X2= 4]
Balkumari Higher sec. school
Sent Up Examination 2070
Grade: XI
Subject: Physics FM: 75 PM: 27 Time: 3 hrs
Candidates are required to give their answer in their own words as far as
practicable. The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
You may use the following values of physical constant wherever necessary.
Acceleration due to gravity = 10 m/s2
Density of steel = 7800 kgm-3,
Young's modulus for steel = 2.0 X 1011 N/m2
Latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.34 x 105 J/Kg
Latent heat of Vaporization of steam = 2.26 x 106 J/Kg
Sp. heat capacity of Copper = 400 JKg-1K-1
Ratio of principal specific heat capacity of gas = 1.4
Group ‘A’
1. Answer, in brief, any six questions. [2X6 = 12]
a. Define precise and accurate measurement with examples.
b. Can you find two vectors with different lengths that have a vector
sum of zero? What length restrictions are required for these
vectors to have a vector sum of zero? Explain.
c. A car speeds up while the engine delivers constant power. Is the
acceleration greater at the beginning of this process or at the end?
Explain.
d. Sketch the graph for the variation of acceleration due to gravity of
earth with different distance from earth surface.
e. Differentiate between center of gravity and center of mass.
f. What is radius of gyration? Write it’s value in case of solid sphere.
g. Explain why a suction effect is experienced by a person standing
close to the platform at a station when a fast train passes.
a. Absolute zero temperature is not zero energy temperature.
Explain
b. A thermos bottle containing some coffee is shaken vigorously
considering the coffee as a system. (i) Does its temperature rise?
(ii) Has work been done on it? (iii) Has heat been added to it?
(iv) Has its internal energy been changed?
c. Why triple point of water is considered as reference point in the
modern thermometry? Explain.
3. Answer, in brief, any one question [2X1 = 2]
a. When white light is dispersed by the prism, red light appears at
the top of the spectrum whereas violet at the bottom. Why?
b. Does the focal length of a lens change if it is immersed in water?
Will it increase or decrease?
4. Answer, in brief, any one question [2X1 = 2]
a. A proton is placed in a uniform electric field and then released.
Then an electron is placed at the same point and released. Do
these particles experience the same force? The same
acceleration?
b. If electric field intensity is zero at a given point, will the electric
potential be necessarily zero at that point?
Group ‘B’
5. Answer any three questions. [4X3= 12]
a. Define the centripetal force. Derive an expression for it.
b. State and explain the Newton’s second law of motion. Show that
the principle of conservation of linear momentum can be verified
by using Newton’s second.
c. Define gravitational potential. Derive an expression for the
gravitational potential of a body at a distance ‘r’ from the center of
the earth of mass ‘M’.
d. Define capillary action. Derive an expression for the surface
tension of a liquid by capillary tube rise method.
6. Answer any two questions. [4X2 = 8]
a. Using the postulates of kinetic theory of gas, derive an
expression for the pressure exerted by the gas contained in a
box.
b. Describe an experiment to determine thermal conductivity of
good conductor by using Searle’s method.
c. Describe the working of a petrol engine with the help of its P-V
diagram.
7. Answer any one question. [4X1 = 4]
a. Define angle of minimum deviation. Derive the relation
, where the symbol carry their usual meaning.
b. Describe the construction and working of compound
microscope. Derive an expression for its magnification.
8. Answer any one question. [4X1 = 4]
a. State and explain Gauss's law. Use it to find the electric field due
to a charged conducting sphere at a point outside the sphere.
b. Define capacitance of a capacitor. Deduce an expression for the
capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor. Discuss the action of
dielectric between the plates.
Group ‘C’
9. Solve any three numerical questions. [4X3 = 12]
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a. A body is projected down at an angle of 30 with the horizontal
from the top of a building 170 m high. It's initial speed is 40 m/s.
How long will it take before striking the ground? How far from
the foot of the building the body will strike and at what angle
with the horizontal?
b. An elevator weighting 5 Kg is moving upward and tension in the
supporting cable is 55N. Find the upward acceleration. What will
be the tension in the cable if the elevator moves in downward
direction with same acceleration?
c. A recording disc rotates steadily at 45 rev/min on a table. When a
small mass of 0.02 kg is dropped gently on the disc at a distance
of 0.04 m from its axis and sticks to the disc, the rate of revolution
falls to 36rev/min. calculate the moment of inertia of the disc
about its center.
d. A uniform steel wire 3 m long weighing 21 g is extended by a
load of 2.5 kg. Calculate (a) the extension produced (b) the energy
stored in the wire.
10. Solve any two numerical questions. [4X2 = 8]
a. Determine the final result when 400 gm of water and 100 gm of
ice at 00C are in a copper calorimeter of mass 500 gm into which
10 gm of steam at 1000C is passed.
b. A cube of side 2.8 cm and mass 33.3 gm floats on a bath of
liquid. As the temperature is raised, the cube begins to sink at
400C. If the density of the liquid is 1.54 gm/cm 3 at 00C, find the
coefficient of cubical expansion of the liquid. Ignore the
expansion of cube.
c. A gas in a cylinder, initially at a temperature 100C and a pressure
1.01 × 105 Nm-2 is to be compressed to one eighth of its initial
volume. What would be the difference between final pressures if
the compression were done i) isothermally ii) adiabatically?
What would be the final temperature in the second case?
11. A transparent cube of 12 cm edge contains a small air bubble. Its
apparent depth when viewed through one face of the cube is 6 cm
and when viewed through the opposite face is 2 cm. What is the
actual distance of the bubble from the first face? [4]
12. A 1μF capacitor and 2 μF capacitor are connected in parallel across
a 1200 V supply line. Find the charge on each capacitor. The
charged capacitors are now disconnected from the line and from
each other and reconnected with the terminals of unlike sign
together. Find the final voltage across each. [3]