Balkumari Higher Secondary School

Chitwan
Subject: Physics First Terminal Examination 2067 Full Marks: 75
Time: 2 Hrs Grade: XI Pass Marks: 27
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable. The figures
in the margin indicate full marks.
(All answers of numerical problems should be expressed in S.I. system)
Group A

1. Answer, in brief, any THREE questions (2 x 3 = 6)

a. Water is cheap and available everywhere but it is not used as thermometric liquid, why?
b. Why is ice-cream appears cooler to the mouth than water at 00C?
c. Absolute zero temperature is not the zero energy temperature. Justify this statement.
d. Explain why dews are formed in the clear night but not in the cloudy night?
2. Answer, in brief, any ONE question (2 x 1 = 2)
a. If a spherical mirror is immersed in water, does its focal length change? Explain with diagram.
b. Why do in summer, roads often appear to be covered with water when seen from a distance?
Explain.
3. Answer any THREE questions: (4 x 3 = 12)
a. What is mean by perfectly black body? State and explain Stefan’s law of black body radiation.
b. Define linear and cubical expansivities. Derive the relation between them.
c. Define specific latent heat of fusion of a solid. Develop an expression for the determination of the
latent heat of fusion of ice.
d. Define the coefficient of thermal conductivity of a substance. Describe Searle's method for the
determination of the thermal conductivity of a good conductor.
4. Answer any ONE question: (4 x 1= 4)
a. Show that the deviation produced by small angle prism is independent of angle of incidence.
b. Define focal length of lens. Derive an expression for Lens maker’s formula.
5. Answer any TWO questions: (4 x 2 = 8)

a. Air at 00C and 1.01 × 105 N/m2 pressure contains 2.7×1025 molecules per cubic meter. How many
molecules per cubic meter will there be at a place where the temperature is -500C and the pressure
is 1.33 × 104 N/m2.
b. During the hot summer day temperature of atmosphere is 35 0C. A student intending to drink cold
coca-cola took 4 piece of ice cube at 0 0C and weighting 5 gm each in a glass. What volume of
coca-cola should be added in the glass to lower the temperature to 150C?
c. At a certain day, the air temperature in a room is 17.70C and the dew point is 5.3 0C. find the
relative humidity. Saturated vapour pressure at 50, 60,170 and 180 C are 0.654 cm, 0.705 cm, 1.442
cm and 1.546 cm respectively.
6. A narrow beam of light is incident normally on one face of an equilateral prism ( and finally

emerges from the prism. The prism is now surrounded by water ( . what is an angle between the

directions of the emergent beam in the two cases. (3)

Balkumari Higher Secondary School

Chitwan
Subject: Physics First Terminal Examination 2067 Full Marks: 75
Time: 2 Hrs Grade: XII Pass Marks: 27
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable. The figures
in the margin indicate full marks.
(All answers of numerical problems should be expressed in S.I. system)
Group A

1. Answer, in brief, any FIVE questions (2 x 5 = 10)

a. Which one of the two has greater resistance: a 1 KW heater or 100 W bulb, both marked for
220 V?
b. Differentiate between fuse wire and heating wire.
c. Why are pole-pieces of magnets cut into cylindrical form in a galvanometer?
d. Classify dia-, para- and fero-magnetic substance on the basis of their magnetic permeability and
susceptibility.
e. A voltameter measures current more accurately than an ammeter does. Why?
f. 220 V a.c. is more dangerous than 220 V d.c. Why?
g. Why should we press battery key before galvanometer key while doing experiment of P.O. Box?

2. Answer any FOUR questions: (4 x 4 = 16)

a. State and explain Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction. Also, explain Lenz’s Law.
b. State Kirchhoff’s rules and use these to find the balance condition in a Wheatstone Bridge circuit.
c. State and explain Ampere’s circuital law. Use it to derive an expression for the magnetic field at
the centre of the current carrying solenoid.
d. Discuss the phase relation between the current and voltage in the A.C. containing capacitor and
resistor in series and hence derive an expression for the impedance of the circuit.
e. State and verify Joules law of heating effect.

3. Answer any TWO questions: (4 x 2 = 8)

a. It is found that the horizontal component of earth’s magnetic field is times the vertical

component at a place. Find the angle of dip and the resultant earth’s magnetic field at that place.
b. An accumulator of e.m.f. 2V and of negligible resistance is joined in series with a resistance of
500 Ω and an unknown resistance X Ω. The readings of a voltmeter across 500 Ω resistance and X
 Ω resistance are 2/7V and 8/7 V respectively, calculate the value of X and internal resistance of
voltmeter.
c. A closely wound, circular coil with radius 2.4 cm has 800 turns. (i) What must be the current in the
coil be, if the magnetic field at the center of the coil is 0.058 T? (ii) At what distance x from the
center of the coil, on the axis of the coil, is the magnetic field half its value at the center?

4. The coil of moving coil galvanometer has 50 turns and its resistance is 10 Ω. It is replaced by a coil
having 100 turns and the resistance 50 Ω. Find the factor by which the current sensitivity changes.
(3)