PHY 101 / Assignment 2 Date of Submission: On or Before 26th November 2017

Heat and Thermodynamics

1. How much heat is required to convert 1 g of ice at – 10°C to steam at 100°C? [The specific heat
capacity of ice and water are 2000 JKg-1ºC-1 and 4190 JKg-1ºC-1 respectively. The heat of fusion and
vaporization are 3.34x105 J/kg and 2.2x106 J/kg respectively]

2. A beaker contains 500 g of water at a temperature of 80°C. How much ice at a temperature -20°C
must be dropped in the water so that the final temperature of the system will be 50°C?

3. A calorimeter contains 100gm of water at 0ºC. A 1000gm copper cylinder and a 1000gm lead
cylinder, both at 100ºC, are placed in the calorimeter. Find the final temperature if there is no loss of
heat to the surroundings. The specific heat capacity of water, copper, and lead are 4.19Jgm-1ºC-1,
0.47Jgm-1 ºC-1 and, 0.13Jgm-1 ºC-1, respectively.

4. A copper calorimeter of mass 300gm contains 500gm of water at a temperature of 15ºC. A 560gm
block of copper at a temperature of 100ºC is dropped into the calorimeter and the temperature is
observed to increase to 22.5ºC. Find the specific heat capacity of copper. The specific heat capacity
of water is 4.19Jgm-1ºC-1.

5. An ideal gas undergoes an isothermal expansion at 20°C from 0.015 m3 to 0.250 m3. For 4 mol of
gas compute the work done, the heat added and the change in internal energy.

6. When water is boiled under a pressure of 2 atm, the boiling point is 120°C and the heat of
vaporization is 2.2x106 J/kg. At this pressure 1-kg of water has a volume 10-3 m3 and 1-kg of steam a
volume 0.824 m3. Compute the work done when 1 kg of steam is formed and compute the increase
in internal energy.

(Reference: University Physics by Sears, Zemansky and Young, Sixth Edition : Ch. 14 & 15.)

Waves and Oscillation

7. A body is vibrating with simple harmonic motion of amplitudes 15 cm and frequency 4 Hz. Compute
(a) the maximum value of the acceleration and velocity. (b) the acceleration and velocity when the
coordinate is 9 cm. (c) the time required to move a distance 12 cm from equilibrium position.

8. A body of mass 2 kg is suspended from a spring and is found to stretch the spring 20 cm. (a) what is
the force constant of the spring? (b) what is the period of oscillation if pulled down and released? (c)
what would be the period if a body of mass 4 kg hanging from the same spring?

9. A body of mass 10g moves with SHM of amplitude 24 cm and period 4 s. The coordinate is +24 cm
when t = 0. Compute (a) the position of the body when t = 0.5 s (b) the force acting at t = 0.5 s. (c)
the minimum time required for the body to move from its initial position to the point where x = -12 cm.
(d) the velocity of the body when x = -12 cm

10. The equation of a transverse traveling wave on a string is y = 2 sin2π (t/0.01 – x/30),
where x and y are expressed are in cm and t is in seconds. Find the amplitude, wavelength,
frequency, period and velocity of the propagation.
PHY 101 / Assignment 2 Date of Submission: On or Before 26th November 2017

11. A transverse sine wave of amplitude 10 cm and wavelength 200 cm travels from left to right along a
long horizontal string with a speed 100 cm/s. Take the origin at the left end. At time t=0, the left end
of the string is at the origin and is moving downward (a) Find the frequency, angular frequency, and
propagation constant. (b) what is the equation of the wave? (c) what is the equation of motion of the
left end of the string? (d) what is the equation of a particle 150 cm to the right of the string?

12. A steel piano wire 50 cm long of mass 5 g is stretched with a tension of 400 N. (a) What is its
fundamental frequency (b) what is the number of the highest overtone that could be heard by a
person who is capable of hearing frequencies up to 10000 Hz?

(Reference: University Physics by Sears, Zemansky and Young, Sixth Edition : Ch. 21, 22 & 23.)

Optics

13. A parallel beam of light makes an angle 30º with the surface of a glass plate having refractive index
of 1.50. (a) What is the angle between the refracted beam and the surface of the glass? (b) What
should be the angle of incidence φ with this plate for the angle of refraction φ/2 ?

14. A ray of light is incident on a plane surface separating two transparent substances of indices 1.60
and 1.40. The angle of incidence is 30º and the ray originates in the medium of higher index.
Compute the angle of refraction.

15. An object 2 cm high is placed 5 cm away from a concave spherical mirror having radius of curvature
of 20 cm. Determine the position, size, orientation and nature of the image.

16. An object is placed 18 cm from a screen. (a) At what points between object and screen may a lens
of 4 cm focal length be placed to obtain an image on the screen? (b) What is the magnification of the
image for these positions of the lens?

17. Three thin lenses, each of focal length 20 cm, are aligned on a common axis and adjacent lenses
are separated by 30 cm. Find the position of the image of a small object on the axis, 60cm to the left
of the first lens.

18. Two slits are spaced 0.3mm apart and are placed 50cm from a screen. Suppose the entire
apparatus is immersed in water. What is the distance between the second and third dark lines of the
interference pattern when the slits are illuminated with the light of 6010 nm wavelength?

19. Light from a mercury lamp falls on two slits separated by 0.6 mm, and the resulting interference
pattern is observed on a screen 2.5 m away from the slits. If the adjacent bright fringes are
separated by 2.27 mm, what is the wavelength of the light?

20. A light of wavelength 600 nm are incident normally on a plane transmission grating having 500
lines/mm. Find the angle of deviation on the first, second and third order.

(Reference: University Physics by Sears, Zemansky and Young, Sixth Edition : Ch. 38, 39 & 41.)