ATION FOR GRADE 12 DIRECTIONS. THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS PHYSICS EXAMINATION GRADE 12. THE EXAMINATION CONTAINS 50 MULTIPLE CHOICEQUESTIONS. CHOOSE THE BEST ANSWER FROM THE SUGGESTED OPTIONS AND WRITE THE LETTER OF YOUR CHOICE ON THE SEPARAT ANSWER SHEET PROVIDED. YOU ARE ALLOWED TO WORK ON THE EXAM FOR 2 HOURS. estions. FOR You may refer the information given below when you work on some of the qu oO NMI ee 16+10 “coulomb 16" 10 coulomb | Plank’s constant ‘Speed of light Permittivity of free space Remco of free spaceIY A veetor has components of 6m inthe rx direction, 2 m in the *Y direction, and 3 m in the +z direction. What is the magnitude of this vector? A) 49m oii m ms _B)7m p)Im We a5N 2.1f A=1+2j+2kand B=3i +47, the angle between the two vectors is: Ad re Boos '14/15) ) cos (104/225) B) cos"(11/225) D) cos *(11/15) so ms 3. For two vectors, A= 3-23 and B= 2/ +3) -2£ which of the following vectors is \ at bo perpendicular to both 4 and B? i) A) 4746 j+13k ©) 41-6) +13k a N B) -474+.67+13k p47 +6)-13k : Aerie eciorseiand Dike R= 4x B and b/90)where 0 is he angle berween ae a” Aand B, which of the following is NOT true? Des | Reasin g)aeB-0 = a6 B) -R=BxA* D) ReB=0 5. A train travels at 60 km/h for 3 hrs and then at 45 km/h for 2 hrs What is the train’s average speed? A) 63 km/b ©) 21 km/h B) 41 kvh D) 34k ntical bullets horizontally at the same speed from the same height 6. Two identical guns fire ide! the Earth and the other on the Moon. Which of the following above level planes, one on statements is true? (BMoon ~ 1/6 geann) ‘A) The horizontal distance traveled by the bullet is greater for the Earth, BB) The Might ume is less for the bullet on the Moon. ) The vertical component of velocity of the bullet is greater for the Earth. ent of velocity of the bullet is greater for the Moon. 1p) The vertical compons TAN a sa ita tok traveling at constant speed of LS mis passes oat OE from rest II'the ear aecelerates at 3 m/s", how Jong will it take the ear to overtake the truck?° A particle i Moves in a circul: ar path of radius 2 m with centripetal acceleration of 32 m/s’. What is the angular speed of the particle 2 A) 64 rad/s ia aan 16 rad/s aoe . wheel of a cycle is acceler. i ze ated uniformly from 6 rad/sec to 14 rad/sec in 2 see. What is the angular speed of the wheel at t=3 sec? ae as A) 18 rad/s 7 ae C) 20 rad/s 4 is D) 12 rad/s 11. If the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Earth is g, the acceleration due to a graces shove Evi'ssufns gro ee oe wal 1 set pilte )58 O58 ae ee a t i B78 D) 98 12. A river flows at 5 km/h west. A man rowing a boat at 10 km/h wishes to cross from the south bank to a point directly opposite on the north bank, At what angle must the boat be headed? Ss A) 30° East of North C) 30° North of East 3 2 B) 60° East of North D) 60°North of West 13. Equal forces F act on bodies A and B. The mass of B is three times that of A. The magnitude of the acceleration of A is: oe 1/3 times that of B. C) 9times that of B. Oe Brice that of B. D) 1/9times that of B. 14. A box of mass/m| placed on 230°frictionlessinelined plane, is pulled by a force of 350-Nup 15, a.05 kg block rests on a horizontal, frictionless surface as in figure below. The block is ©, pressed back against a spring having a constant of k =625 N/m, compressing the spring by 9% $f Oemto point A and then released, If 0=30, what isthe maximum distanced the block 6 2 travels up the frictionless incline and how fast is the block going when halfway to its. ¥ a 8 ee maximum height? v x =el 16. A car of mass 1500 kg moving at 25 m/s in the +-direction collides with a 2500 kg van S2veling 120 m/s in the +y direction, What is velocity of the wreckage after the collision, assuming that the vehicles undergo a perfectly inelastic collision? 3 71+ 75, 3 oo a) (23428; Js © (2i.8 } 1s Oa ws 3 usage J eae 14. 25 T5325 « ee » (Fi+38 wr >)[Bi+2j}nis 17. A race car starts from rest on a circular track of radius 200 mi. The car’s speed increases at @ constant rate of 0.5 m/s”. At the point where the magnitudes of the centripetal and tangential accelerations are equal, the car has traveled a distance of eel) A) 100m oe 400m at a B) 200 m D) 800m‘ 18. An object moves in a circular path of radius 0,5 rm ona horizontal frictionless surface. The cord will break if its tension exceeds 16N. What is the maximum kinetic energy of the object? A) 32) © 165 7 oak B)AT Be) Des a 19. A'S kg cart is moving horizontally at 6 m/s. In order to change its speed to 10 mvs, the net work done on the cart must be: A)40J ©) 1603 + ® Byo05 D) 4003 Morais a < 30. A 1 kg block is dropped from a height h above the top end of vertical spring with k= 1200 Nim, If the block compresses the spring by.0.1 m and momentaril: what is the height from which the block was dropped? A) 0.2m 004m B) 0.3m. D)0.5m 2°21. A whee! initially rotating at 2 rad/s secelerates at 3.5 rad/s for2 sec. Through what angle yeu” does the wheel rotate during 2 5? A) ll rad ©) 5 rad B) 8 rad D) 3 rad 22. A 2kg block starts from rest on the positive x axis 3m from the origin and thereafter has an acceleration given by a =(4i-3f)m/s?. What is its angular momentum about the origin at ene ly comes to rest, the end of 2 s? * 4) 96 ka. mis )-96 kg. m’is B) 48 kg. m/s & D)-36 kg. m’ss 23. A uniform meterstick is found to balance at the 50cm mark whe ass i tached | 10 ss24. Water flows throu; e pectin een ee aus) aes ‘At the wide end its speed is 4 m/s. The difference in A)2.6 m/s 0° Pa. The speed of the water at the narrow end is: B)5 m/s s pans 25. is wen Steel beam supports a load of 6x10‘ N. {fits cross-sectional area is 8x107 m, is its elongation? (Take Yseu = 210" Pa) A) 4.5x107 m oy.sx104m B)3.5*104m : one D) 1.5x104m 2 sample of argon gas (molar mass 40 g) is at four times the absolute temperature of a sample of hydrogen gas (molar mass 2 g). The ratio of the rms speed of the argon molecules to that of the hydrogen is: A) IS ©) 5:1 B) 1:¥5. D)V5:1 27. A Camot heat engine operates between 127°C and 227°C. What is its efficiency? A) 20% ©) 25% A B) 40% D) 44% 28. The pressure of a gas, in a container with a piston of cross-sectional area 0.2 m?, is maintained at 5000 Pa. 1f60 J of heat is slowly added and the piston is pushed out ward a distanceof4 cm, what is the change in internal energy of the system? A) 403 ©) 20) B)35J D)105 29. The position of a particle moving with simple harmonic motion is given by an expression x()=(0.4 m) sin(300). What is speed of the particle at ‘= 2 sec? ‘A) 24 mis, ©)30 m/s GF B) 12 m/s D)6mls E 30. A simple pendulum of length L has frequency f. What must be the new length for the new frequency to be2f? A)’L O*L B) 4L D)2L 31. The sound level at a distance of 5 m from a source is 160 dB. At what distance from the source will the sound level be 120 4B? A)50m ©) 500m B) 100m. D) 1000 m 32. A string has a mass per unit length of | kg/m and a length of 0.5 m. What must be the tension in the str fits fi the same frequency as the first harmonic of 233. Two coherent waves from two slits travel to a distant screen to produce the second maximum interference pattern. The difference in the distance traveled by the waves 1S A)half wavelength C) one fourth wavelength B) four wavelength D) two wavelengths. 34. In a Young’s double-slit experiment, the slit separation is doubled. To maintain the same fringe spacing on the screen, the screen-{o-slit distance D must be changed 10: A)2D c)v2D D D »)2 ! 2 Rae 35. What is the minimum thickness of a soap-bubble film (n=4/3) that will result in constructive interference in the reflected light if the film is illuminated by light with wavelength 5002m in free space A) 187.5 nm C) 275.5 nm B) 93.75 nm D) 125.5 nm 36. Two small charged objects attract each other with a force F when separated by a distanced. Ifthe charge on each object is reduced to one-fourth of its original value and the distance between them is reduced to 4 the force becomes: ya ©) vip sla BF D) 37. A particle with charge Q is on the y-axis a distance d from the origin and a particle with charge q is on the x-axis a distance x from the origin, What is the value of x for which the x-component of the force on the second particle is the greatest? Aad Oy2d = B) 54 D) V2a 438. A charged particle produces an electric field of magnitude E ata point 2m away. Ata point iim from the particle the magnitude of the field is: A) 4E ©)2E B) YE _D)AE nt 439, IF you use only two resistors, Rs and Ro, you will be able to obtain resistances of 3.2, 49, 12, and 16, What must be the values of R, and Ro? ‘A)39,42 €)4.9,129 B)49, 162 D)22,12940. Each of the two 25 Pass through the HE capacitors shown i amme capacitors are: eter A offer the 3 is initially uncharged. The ammount of charge that witch S is closed and the total stored energy in the © A) 0.05 C, 400 J C) 0.1. C, 200) B) 10C, 200) D)0.2C, 400) 41. An immersion heater having a power of 4500 W is used to heat a 125 Cit of water from 20°C to S0°C. How long will it take? (Take: pusie = 1000 ke/m’, ewer = 4200 J/kg."C) A) 35 sec C) 350 sec B) 3500 see D) 3.5 sec 42. A wire of initial length Ly and radius ry has a measured resistance of 1. The wire is drawn to a new uniform radius of r=0.5r9, What is the new resistance of the wire? A)16Q c)4a B)8Q D) AQ 43. Two wires, each having a weight per unit length of 110 N/m, are parallel with one directly above the other. The wires carry equal currents in opposite direction. If the lower wire is fixed and the upper wire in equilibrium at 0.20 m above the lower wire by the magnetic and gravitational forces, what is the magnitude of current in the wires? A) 100A COA B)S0A D)SA 44, The magnetic field of the Earth at a certain location is directed vertically downward and has a magnitude of SOnT. A proton is moving horizontally toward west in this field with a speed of 4x10%m/s, What is the magnetic force that the field exerts on the proton? A) 1.6x10-"'N South 3) 3.24101'N North al B) 1.6*10°7N North D) 3.2107""N South 45. The plane of a rectangular coil, 5 em by 8 cm, is perpendicular to the direction of a magnetic field. If the coil has 50 tums and a total resistance of 8, at what rate must the magnitude of B change to induce a current of 0.10 A in the windings of the coil? A) 400 T/sec ©) 4 Tisee B) 40 T/sec D) 0.4 Tisec 46. A current through an inductor of L = 50 mH in an ac circuit is given by = (10 A) sin(200t + 7/6). What is the ‘voltage across the inductor? & i ms 0 .47 A wire carries a7 A currem Hite die ‘ ancsl the y-axis, as shown in figure beiow. What is y inagnetic field at point P? - (4.00, 3.00) m A)7.5*10°'T into page )7.5<10"T out of page 5 B) 5 x107F out of page D) B10 “7 out of page 48. A square loop of wire lies in the plane of the paye and carries a current | as shown. There is a uniform magnetic field B parallel to the side MK as indicated. The loop will tend to rotate about cS A x A - Pe -2Q Es - M 1 + s 'A) PQ with KL coming out of the page. ©) RS with MK coming out of the page. B) PQ with KL going into the page. D) RS with MK going into the page/ erator supplies 100V to the primary coil of a transformer. The primary has 50 turns and 49.A r thesecondary has 500 tums. The secondary voltage is: ‘A) 1000 V ©) 100 B) 500 V D)10V .d with light of frequency 3*10'°Hz, a stopping potential When a certain metal is illuminate = ii jected electrons. What is the work function of of7 V is required to stop the most energetic ¢} - = 8.691025) ©) 8.6910" B) 8.69107 D) 8.691017