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PHYSICS – Model Paper – I

Section - A
I - Answer all the Questions

1) Define a power of convex lens. What is its units?

2) A current of 10 A passes through two very long wires held parallel to

each other and separated by a distance of 1m. What is the force per
unit length between them?

3) Magnetic lines form continuous closed loops. Why?

4) Define magnetic declination

5) What is the step up transformers? How it differs from step down

transformer?

6) If the wave length of electromagnetic radiation is doubled. What

happens to the energy of photon?

7) What are “Cathode rays”?

8) Find the (a) Maximum frequency and (b) minimum wavelength of x-

rays produced by 30 ke V

9) How is a battery connected to a junction diode in

i) Forward bias ii) Reverse bias

10) Mention Basic methods of modulation

Section - B

II - Answer any SIX Questions

11) Define critical angle. Explain total internal reflection using a neat
diagram

12) Why does be the setting Sun appear red?

13) Derive the expression for the intensity at a point where interference of
light occurs. Arrive at the conditions for maximum and zero intensity
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14) State and explain coulomb‟s inverse square law in electricity

15) Derive an expression for the intensity of the electric field at a point on
the equatorial plane of an electric dipole.

16) In a hydrogen atom the electron and proton are at a distance of 0.5 A.
The dipole moment of the system is

17) Derive an expression for the potential at a distance from a point charge

18) State and explain Biot – Savart Law

19) Describe the ways in which eddy currents are used to advantage.

20) What is impact parameter angle and angle of scattering? How are they
related to each other?

21) Explain the distance of closest approach and impact parameter

22) Calculate the current amplification factor (beta) when change in

collector current is 1 mA and change in base current is 20 A

Section - C

III - Answer any TWO Questions

23) Explain the formation of stationary waves in stretched strings and

hence deduce the laws of transverse waves in stretched strings?

24) A) Explain the formation of stationary waves in an air column enclosed

in open pipe. Derive the equations for the frequencies of the harmonics
produced

B) A closed organ pipc 70 cm long is sounded. If the velocity of sound

is 331 m/s, what is the fundamental frequency of vibration of the air
column?

25) A) State Kirchoff‟s laws for an electrical network. Using these laws
deduce the condition for balance in a wheat stone bridge?

B) Three identical resistors are connected in parallel and the total

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resistance of the circuit is ; Find the value of each resistance
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26) A) Define mass defect and binding energy. How does binding energy
per nucleon vary with mass number? What is it‟s significance?

B) How much energy is required to separate the typical middle mass

nucleus 120
50 Sn into its constituent nucleons? (Mass of 120
50 Sn =

119.902199u, mass of proton = 1.007825u and mass of neutron =

1.0086654)
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PHYSICS – Model Paper – II

Section - A
I - Answer all Questions

1) A concave mirror of focal length 10 cm is placed at a distance 35 cm

from a wall. How far from the wall should an object be placed so that
its real image is formed on the wall?

2) A moving coil galvanometer can measure a current of 10-6 A. What is

the resistance of the shunt required if it is measure 1A?

3) What do you understand by the „magnetization‟ of a sample?

4) A bar magnet of length 0.1 m and with a magnetic moment of 5 Am 2 is

placed in a uniform magnetic field of intensity 0.4 T, with its axis
making an angle of 60o with the field. What is the torque on the
magnet?

5) In a transformer the primary to secondary terms ratio is 1 : 2. If an AC

current of 4A is flowing through primary. What is the current in
secondary?

6) Write any one use of Infrared waves. Which animal can detect Infrared
waves?

7) What important fact did Millikan‟s experiment establish?

8) What is the (a) momentum, (b) speed and (c) de-Broglic wavelength of
an election with kinetic energy of 120 eV?

9) Draw the circuit symbols for p-n-p and n-p-n transistors

10) Which type of communication is employed in mobile phones?

Section - B

II - Answer all Questions

11) Explain the formation of mirage

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12) With a neat labeled diagram explain the formation of image in a simple
microscope

13) How do you determine the resolving power of your eye?

14) Define intensity of electric field at a point. Derive an expression for the
intensity due to a point charge

15) State Gauss‟s law in electro statics and its importance‟s

16) There is a uniform electric field in the XOY plane represented by

 40i  30 j  Vm-1. If the electric potential at the origin is 200V, the

electric potential at the point with coordinates (2m, 1m) is

17) Derive an expression for the potential energy of an electric dipole

placed in a uniform electric field?

18) Derive an expression for the magnetic induction at the centre of a

current carrying circular coil using Biot – Savart law

19) Obtain an expression for the emf induced across a conductor which is
moved in a uniform magnetic field which is perpendicular to the plane
of motion

20) Derive an expression for potential and kinetic energy of an electron in

any orbit of a hydrogen atom according to Bohr‟s atomic model. How
does, P.E change with increasing n.

21) Describe Rutherford atom model. What are the draw backs of this
model?

22) What is a rectifier? Explain the working of half wave with diagrams

Section - C

III - Answer any TWO Questions

23) A) How are stationary waves formed inclosed pipes? Explain the various
modes of vibration and obtain relations for their frequencies.
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B) A pipe 30 cm long is open at both ends. Find the fundamental

frequency velocity of sound in air is 330 ms-1

24) A) What are beats? Obtain an expression for the beat frequency. Where
and how are beats made use of?

B) A vertical tube is made to stand in water, so that the water level can
be adjusted. Sound waves of frequency 320 HZ are sent into the top
the tube. If standing waves are produced at two successive water levels
of 20 cm and 73 cm. What is the speed of sound waves in the air in the
tube?

25) A) State the working principle of potentiometer explain on the help of

circuit diagram how the potentiometer is used to determine the internal
resistance of the given primary cell.

B) A battery of emf 10 v and internal resistance 3  is connected to a

resistor „R‟

i) If the current in the circuit is 0.5 A. Calculate the value of „R‟?

ii) What is the terminal voltage of the battery when two circuit is closed

26) A) Explain the principle and working of a nuclear reactor with the help
of a labeled diagram

B) If one of microgram of U is completely destroyed in an atom

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bomb, how much energy will be released?