PHYSICS XI - SET A

Group ‘A’
1. Answer, in brief, any six questions. 6x2=12
a. What is the difference between accurate and precise measurement?
b. Two vectors A and B are such that A – B = C and A – B = C. Find the angle between them.
c. At what point, the velocity of a projectile is minimum and why?
d. What are uniform and variable velocities?
e. Explain why a cricket player moves his hands backwards while catching a ball?
f. Why kinetic friction is less than limiting friction?
g. A light body and heavy body have the same kinetic energy which one will have a greater momentum?
2. Answer, in brief, any two questions. 2x2=4
a. A hole is drilled in a flat metal sheet. What happens to the diameters of the hole as the metal sheet heated to higher
temperature?
b. The cycle tubes are burst sometimes in summer, why?
c. Why do we feel cool in the mouth when we eat halls?
3. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
a. A spherical mirror is immersed in water. Will its focal length change? Explain.
b. Under what conditions a prism does produce minimum deviation?
4. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
a. More charge can be stored on a metal if it is highly polished than when surface is rough. Explain.
b. What is dielectric constant?
Group ‘B’
5. Answer any three questions. 3x4=12
a. State the parallelogram law of vectors addition. Derive the magnitude and direction of the resultant vector?
b. State the principle of conservation of linear momentum. How does Newton’s third law of motion lead to the principle of
conservation of linear momentum?
c. Define centripetal acceleration. Derive an expression for it.
d. Define orbital velocity and escape velocity and find the relation between them.
6. Answer any two questions. 2x4=8
a. Define the coefficient of real and apparent expansions of a liquid and derive a relation between them.
b. Explain how you determine the specific heat of a solid by the method of mixture.
c. Define volume coefficient and pressure volume coefficient. How pressure coefficient and volume coefficient of a gas are
related?
7. Answer any one question. 1x4=4
a. Derive the relation between object distance, image distance and focal length of concave mirror.
b. Show that the refractive index is equal to the ratio of the real depth and apparent depth.
8. Answer any one question. 1x4=4
a. State Gauss’s law in electrostatics. Use it to find the electric field intensity due a line charge.
b. What do you mean by electrostatic? How a body is charged negatively by induction?
Group ‘C’
9. Answer any three numerical questions. 3x4=12
a. A projectile is fired from the ground level, with velocity 300m/s at 30 o to the horizontal. Find its horizontal range, greatest
vertical height to which it raises and the time to reach the greatest height. ( g = 9.8m/s 2)
b. A block of wood of mass 1.5kg rests on an inclined plane. If the coefficient of static friction between the surfaces in
contact is 0.3. Find (i) greatest angle to which the plane may be tilted without the block slipping, and (ii) the force parallel
to plane necessary to prevent slipping when the angle of plane with horizontal is 30 0.
c. If a lift moves (i) up and (ii) down with an acceleration of 2m/s2. In each case, calculate the reaction of the floor on a man
of mass 50 kg standing in the lift.
d. A stationary mass explodes into two parts of mass 4 units and 40 units respectively. If larger mass has an initial kinetic
energy of 100 J, what is the initial kinetic energy of the smaller mass?
10. Answer any two numerical questions. 2x4=8
a. A copper cylinder is initially at 20oC. At what temperature will its volume be 0.15% larger than it is at 20 oC? ( For copper,
 = 75 x 10-5/oC )
b. A substance takes 3 min in cooling from 50oC to 45oC and takes 5 min in cooling from 45oC to 40oC. What is the
temperature of surroundings?
c. What is the result of mixing 20 gm of water at 80 oC to 40 gm of ice at -10oC? (specific heat of ice = 0.5 cal/gm)
11. An equilateral glass prism is immersed in water. What is the angle of minimum deviation for the prism? ( refractive indices for glass
and water are 1.5 and 1.33 respectively) 4
12. Two small spheres of charge 10 μC and 40 μC are placed 6cm apart. Find the location of a point between them where the field
strength is zero. 3

PHYSICS XI - SET B
Group ‘A’
1. Answer, in brief, any six questions. 6x2=12
a. Is dimensionally correct equation necessarily to be a correct physical relation?
b. What are the differences between scalar products and vectors products?
c. Can speed be negative? Explain.
d. Can action and reaction forces cancel each other? Explain.
 e. A moving bus suddenly stops. Is its momentum destroyed?
f. The positively charged nucleus of an atom attracts the electron in the orbits. Why do the electrons not collapse into the
nucleus?
g. Can a pendulum vibrate in an artificial satellite?
2. Answer, in brief, any two questions. 2x2=4
a. Why is mercury used commonly as thermometric substance?
b. Does the coefficient of linear expansion depend on length? Explain.
c. What are the characteristics for a gas to be ideal or perfect?
3. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
a. Why do stars twinkle?
b. Explain why a mirror cannot give rise to chromatic aberration?
4. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
a. What do you mean by quantization of charge?
b. Can two similar bodies attract each other? Explain.
Group ‘B’
5. Answer any three questions. 3x4=12
a. Derive expressions for maximum height and range of projectile fired at an angle  with horizontal.
b. Define angle friction and derive a relation between angle of friction and coefficient of friction.
c. Define elastic collision. Show that if two bodies of equal masses suffer elastic collision, then after collision they will interchange
their velocities.
d. Discuss the motion of a vehicle round a circular banked track.
6. Answer any two questions. 2x4=8
a. Why do substances expand on heating? Derive the relation between linear and cubical expansivity of a substance.
b. Define latent heat of fusion. Describe the method for the measurement of it in the laboratory.
c. Starting from the kinetic theory of gas, obtain Bolye’s law, Charles law and ideal gas equation.
7. Answer any one question. 1x4=4
a. Define lateral shift. Derive an expression for it.
b. Derive lens’s maker’s formula.

8. Answer any one question. 1x4=4

a. State and explain Coulomb’s law in electrostatics and hence define one coulomb charge. Also define the permittivity of medium.
b. State Gauss law in electrostatics and use it to find the electric field due to a hollow charged spherical conductor when point lies
(i) outside and (ii) inside the sphere.
Group ‘C’
9. Answer any three numerical questions. 3x4=12
a. A rocker fires two engines simultaneously. One produces a thrust of 725 N directly forward while the other gives a 513 N thrust
at 32.4o above the forward direction. Find the magnitude and direction of the resultant force which these engines exert on the
rocket.
b. Two masses 7kg and 12kg are connected at the two ends of a light extensible string that passes over a frictionless pulley. Using
free body diagram method, find the acceleration of masses and the tension in the string when the masses are released.
c. A body of mass 2kg is initially at rest. A constant force of 5N acts on it for 10 sec. calculate the average power of the force.
d. An earth satellite moves in a circular orbit with an orbital speed of 6200m/s. (a) Find the time of one revolution and the radial
acceleration of the satellite in its orbit.
10. Answer any two numerical questions. 2x4=8
a. A glass vessel of volume 50cm3 is filled with mercury and is heated from 20oC to 60oC. What volume of mercury will over
flow?(g=1.8x10-6C-1, Hg =1.8x10-4C-1)
b. A liquid takes 4 minutes in cooling from 60oC to 40oC. How long does it take in cooling from 50oC to 30oC? The temperature of
surrounding is 20oC.
c. At 15oC and 48cm of mercury 75 liters of an ideal gas weigh 8gm. find the molecular weight of the gases.
11. The angle of glass prism is 60o and the minimum deviation of light through the prism is 39o. Calculate the velocity of light in the glass.
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12. The points A, B and C form an equilateral triangle of side 1cm. Point charges of 1C magnitude are placed at A and B. Find the
electric strength at C due to these charges when both charges are positive. ( o=8.85x10-12Fm-1)
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PHYSICS XI - SET C
Group ‘A’
1. Answer, in brief, any six questions. 6x2=12
a. Taking force, length and time to be fundamental quantities, find the dimensions of pressure and density.
b. A car moving from a station P to another station Q and then back to P with uniform speed of 60km/hr. What are the average
speed and velocity of the car? Explain your answer.
c. If a man wants to hit a target, in what direction should he point his rifle?
d. Why are vehicles provided with wheels and ball bearings?
e. No energy is consumed in planetary motion, why? Explain.
f. Why is the highway roads banked at turning?
g. Explain why is the earth flattened at the poles?
2. Answer, in brief, any two questions. 2x2=4
 a. Explain why is platinium wire used in resistance thermometer?
b. Is it possible to heat substance without rise in temperature?
c. Absolute zero temperature is not the zero energy temperature, explain.
3. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
a. What is refractive index? On which factors does it depend?
b. What are the advantages of the total reflecting prism over than plane mirror?
4. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
a. Define action of points. Also write its two uses.
b. The relative permittivity of water is 80. What does it mean?
Group ‘B’
5. Answer any three questions. 3x4=12
a. State and prove triangle law of vector addition.
b. State Newton’s first and second law of motion. Also prove that, first law gives the definition of force and second law gives the
measurement of force.
c. Show that the total mechanical energy of a body is conserved when it moves under the gravitational field.
d. Derive an expression for the change in the value of acceleration due to gravity at a place of latitude  of the rotation of earth.
6. Answer any two questions. 2x4=8
a. Describe how the cubical expansivity of a liquid can be determined by the use of balanced columns.
b. State Newton’s law of cooling. Also determine the specific heat of liquid by method of cooling.
c. What do you mean by ideal or perfect gas? Also derive the equation of state PV = nRT.
7. Answer any one question. 1x4=4
a. Derive mirror formula for convex mirror.
b. Derive the relation between refractive index and minimum deviation of a prism.

8. Answer any one question. 1x4=4

a. Define charge. How a body be charged positively by induction?
b. Define electric lines and electric flux. Also derive an expression for the flux due to a point charge +q.
Group ‘C’
9. Answer any three numerical questions. 3x4=12
a. Rain is falling vertically downward with a speed of 10km/s. A man runs on a horizontal road at 60km/s in the rain. (i) At what
angle should he hold the umbrella in order to protect himself from the rain? (ii) What is the velocity of rain relative to the man?
b. How long will it take for wooden block of mass 2kg to slide from rest to distance of 3cm down a rough plane inclined at 30 o to
the horizontal? [=0.2]
c. A mass of 0.2kg is whirled in a horizontal circle of radius 0.5m by a string inclined to 30o to the vertical. Calculate tension in the
string and the speed of mass in the horizontal circle.
d. The mass of the earth is 6x1024kg and that of the moon is 7.4x1022k. If the distance between their centers is 3.8x108m. Calculate
at what point on the line joining their centers, there is no gravitational forces?
10. Answer any two numerical questions. 2x4=8
a. A brass rod and steel rod differ by 10cm in length at all temperatures. What are their lengths at 0 oC?(b=1.8x10-6C-1, s =12x10-
6 -1
C )
b. From what height should a block of ice be dropped in order that it may completely melt? It is assumed that only 20% of energy
is retained by ice.
c. For what mass of molecule of a particle is vrms equal to 1m/s at a temperature of 27oC.
11. A convex lens of focal length 24cm (ag =1.5) is totally immersed in water (aw =1.33). Find the focal length in water.
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12. Two small spheres spaced 20cm apart have equal charge. How many excess electrons must be present on each sphere if the magnitude
of the two force of repulsion between them is 4.57x10-21N? ( o=8.85x10-12Fm-1)
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PHYSICS XI - SET D

Group ‘A’
1. Answer, in brief, any six questions. 6x2=12
a. Define significant figure of a number.
b. A physical quantity has both magnitude and direction. Is the quantity necessarily a vector? Justify your answer.
c. Under what condition is the average velocity equal to the instantaneous velocity?
d. It is easier to pull than to push a lawn roller, why?
e. What are conservative and non-conservative forces?
f. Why a force is necessary to keep a body moving with uniform speed in a circular motion?
g. The weight of a body is less in mine. Is it true? Explain.
2. Answer, in brief, any two questions. 2x2=4
a. How are gas thermometers superior to mercury thermometers?
b. What are the limitations of Newton’s law of cooling?
c. Why are the gas law not obeyed at low temperature and high pressure?
3. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
a. Does the size of the mirror affect the nature of the image?
b. If a convex lens is immersed in water, does it power change?
4. Answer, in brief, any one question. 1x2=2
 a. Can a charged body attract an uncharged body? Explain.
b. Two electric lines never intersect each other. Comment it?
Group ‘B’
5. Answer any three questions. 3x4=12
a. From velocity – time graph, derive the following kinematics equation of motion:
i) v=u+at (ii) v2=u2+2as
The symbols have their usual meanings.
b. State Newton’s second law of motion and prove that impulse is equal to change in momentum.
c. State and prove work energy theorem.
d. What do mean by geostationary satellite and parking orbits? Derive an expression for the total energy of a satellite in a circular
orbit.
6. Answer any two questions. 2x4=8
a. Define linear expansivity of a solid. Describe a method to determine the linear expansivity of a solid.
b. What is heat capacity? Describe the method of mixture to determine the specific heat of a solid.
c. Prove that the pressure exerted by the gas on the walls of a container is 2/3 times the translation kinetic energy per unit volume.
7. Answer any one question. 1x4=4
a. Show that the angle of deviation for small angled prism is independent with the angle of incidence.
b. Show that the combined power of lens is the sum of power of individual lenses when placed in contact.
8. Answer any one question. 1x4=4
c. State and explain Coulomb’s law in electrostatics. Mention two similarities and dissimilarities between electrostatic and
gravitational forces.
a. Define electric field and electric field intensity. Calculate the electric field intensity due to a point charge.
Group ‘C’
9. Answer any three numerical questions. 3x4=12
a. Find the velocity and direction of projection of a shot which passes in a horizontal direction just over the top of a wall which is
50m off and 25m high.
b. A man of mass 70kg stands on a weighing machine inside an elevator. What is the uniform speed, (iii) the elevator accelerates
upwards at a 5m/s2 and (iv) the elevator accelerates downwards at 5m/s2?
c. A rifle bullet weighing 20gm is fired with a velocity 91m/s into a wooden block of mass 1.8kg which is suspended from a cord
of 1m long. If the bullet embeds itself inside the block. Calculate the vertical height through which the pendulum rises and the
maximum inclination of the cord to the vertical.
d. A stone is rotated steadily in a horizontal circle with a period T by a string of length L. If the tension in the string is constant and
L increases by 1%. Find the percentage change in T?
10. Answer any two numerical questions. 2x4=8
a. The pendulum clock is made of brass whose linear expansivity is 1.9x10-5C-1. If the clock keeps correct time at 15oC, how many
seconds per day will it lost at 20oC?
b. An electric heater supplies heat at the constant rate. It takes 15 min to raise a certain amount of water from 0oC to boiling using a
heater. Then it takes 1hr and 20min more to convert all the water into vapour. Find the specific latent heat of vaporization of
water.
c. 14gm of nitrogen, 32gm of oxygen and 2gm of hydrogen are placed in an enclosure of volume 1cm3. Calculate the pressure
exerted by the mixture at 27oC.
11. A light travelling in air is incident on the surface of a block of plastic at an angle of 62.7o to the normal and is deviated through an
angle 48.7o with the normal in a plastic. Find the speed of light in the plastic.
12. Two positive charges are 0.1 m apart and exert a repulsive force of 18N on each other. If total charge of these two is 9C. Find the
value of each other. (o=8.85x10-12Fm-1)
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13. Second Terminal Examination (2070)

PHYSICS XI - SET E

1. Attempt any six questions [2x6=12]

a. Explain when a passenger throws a ball upwards inside the moving bus, the ball returns on his hand
b .A man moving in rain holds his umbrella inclined to the vertical even though the rain drops are falling vertically downwards. Why ?
c. Find the angle of projection at which the maximum height and horizontal range of a projectile are equal
d. Can action and reaction forces cancel each other ?
e. It is easier to pull a body than to push it. Why ?
f. Can a body have energy with out having momentum? explain.
g. Explain why a boat lightly moves away from the shore when a person from it jumps to the shore ?
h. A light body and a heavy body have the same kinetic energy , which one will have agreater momentum?
2. Attempt any two questions [2x2=4]
a. Why do animal eat more during winter ?
b. Explain, why is food cooked faster in a pressure cooker than in an open pot.
c. Why can you get more sever burn from steam at 100oC than from water at 100oC?
3. Attempt any one question [1x2=2]
a. Why does the star twinkle in the sky ?
b. When write light is dispersed by a prism, red light appears at the top of the spectrum whereas violet at the bottom. Why ?
4. Attempt any one question [1x2=2]
a. Why pointed ends are not kept in electrostatic machine ?
 b. Two electric lines of force never intersect each other. Why ?

Group A [Longt Questions]

5. Attempt any Three questions [3x4=12]
a. Define projectile. Show that the path of a projectile projected making an angle with horizontal is parabolic.
b. State the principle of conservation of energy. Show that mechanical energy remains constant for a falling body.
c. What are the laws of limiting friction ? Show that the coefficient of limiting friction is equal to the tangent of angle of repose .
d. State and explain the parallelogram law of vector addition.
6. Attempt any Two questions [2x4=8]
a. Describe Dulong and Petit's experiment to find out the coefficient of real expansion of liquid.
b.. Derive the equation of state for an ideal gas.
c . Explain the method of mixture for finding specific heat capacity of solid.
7. Attempt any One questions [1x4=4]
a. What do mean by chromatic aberration ?derive the condition for achromatism lenses in contact
b. What is lateral shift ? Deduce lateral shift in terms of thickness of a slab and the angle of incidence of light
8. Attempt any One questions [1x4=4]
a. What is meant by electrostatic induction ? Show how you would charge a body positively by induction.
b. State &explain gauss theorem use it to find the electric field due t a charged conducting sphere.
 Group C [Numerical Problems]
9. Attempt any Three questions [3x4=12]
a. An iron block of mass 10 kg, rests on a wooden plane inclined at 30 0 to the horizontal. It is found that least force parallel to the plane
which causes the block to slide yp the plane is 100N. Calculate the coefficient of sliding friction between wood and iron (g=10m/s2)
b. A fire engine pumps water such a rate that the velocity of the water leaving the nozzle is 15m/s. If the jet be directed perpendicularly on
to a wall and the rebound of the water be neglected, calculate the pressure on the wall. (1m3 water has mass 1000kg)
c. A railway truck of mass 4x104 kg moving at a velocity of 3m/s collides with another truck of mass 2x104 kg which is at rest. The
coupling joins and the trucks move off together. What traction of the first truck's initial K.E. remains as K.E. of the two trucks after the
collision ?
d. How fast would a 70 kg person have to run to have the energy equal to the energy given by 100 W light bulb per hour?
10. Attempt any Two questions [2x4=8]
a. A clock whose pendulum makes one vibration in 2 seconds is correct 25C how many seconds per day will clock gain or lose at 15C
b. What is the result of mixing 20 gm of water at 90 0c with 10 gm of ice at -100c ? (Specific heat of ice = 0.5 cal/gmc latent heat of ice =
80 cal /gm)
c. The density of silver at 00c is 10310 kgm-3 and the coefficient of linear expansion 19 x 10-6 /0c. Calculate its density at 1000c.
11. It is desired to make a converging achromatic lens of mean focal length 40 cm by using two lenses of materials A and B. If dispersive powers
of A and B are in the ratio 1/3, find the focal lengths of each lens .
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12.. Calculate the value of two equal charges if they repel one another with the force of 0.1N when situated 50cm a part in vaccum. What would
be the amount of charges if they were situated in an insulating liquid whose permittivity was 10 times that of vaccum.
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PHYSICS XI - SET F

Group A
1. Answer in brief any six. 62=12
(a) Using the method of dimensions, derive an expression for the centripetal force facing on an particle of mass ‘m’ moving with velocity
‘v’ in a circle of radius ‘r’.
(b) Can the sum of two equal vectors be equal to either of the vectors explain.
(c) Find the angle of projection for which the horizontal range and maximum height of projection are equal.
(d) Why is it difficult to move a bike with its brakes on?
(e) How does the K.E. of an object change if its momentum is doubled.
(f) Why a critter lowers his hands while catching a ball ?
(g)why has a horse to pull a cart harder during the first few steps of its motion ?
(h) Is there any work done by the car if it moves with uniform speed on a smooth level road ?
2. Answer in brief any two 22=4
(a) Why does a thick tumbler crack when boiling water is poured on it?
(b) Why can you get more sever burn from steam at 100oC than from water at 100oC?
(c) Why do animal eat more during winter
3. Answer in brief any one 2x1=2
a. Will the focal length of a lens increase or decrease when it is immersed in water ?
b. When write light is dispersed by a prism, red light appears at the top of the spectrum whereas violet at the bottom. Why ?
4. Answer in brief any ONE 2x1=2
a. A charged conical conductor loses its charge earlier than a similarly charged sphere. Why ?
b. Two electric lines of force never intersect each other. Why ?

5. Answer in any three 34=12

(a) State the principle of conservation of energy. Show that total mechanical energy remains same for a freely falling body.
(b) State and explain the triangle law of vector addition.
(c) Define work. Derive an expression to calculate the work done by avariable force.
(d) Show that a stone projected at an angle  with the horizontal follows a parabolic path. Also calculate its time of flight.
6. Answer any two questions. 24=8
(a) Define latent heat of fusion of ice. Describe a method to determine it by the method of mixture.
(b) Derive the equation of state for an ideal gas.
(c) Describe Dulong and Petit’s experiment to find the coefficient of real expansion of liquid.
7. Answer any onequestions. 24=8
(a) Show that the deviation produced by a small angled prism is independent with angle of incidence.
(b) Derive the formula for the power of two thin lenses in contact.

8. Answer any onequestions. 24=8

a. What is meant by electrostatic induction ? Show how you would charge a body positively by induction.
b. Derive the relation for electric field intensity at a point.

9. Answer any three. 34=12

(a) A bullet of mass 10g traveling horizontally with a velocity of 300m/s strikes a block of wood of mass 290g which rests on a rough
horizontal floor .After impact ,the block and bullet move together and come to rest when the block has travaledadistance of 15m.
Calculate the coefficient of friction between the block and the floor.
 (b) How fast would a 70 kg person have to run to have the energy equal to the energy given by 100 W light bulb per hour?
(c) The mass of a gas emitted from the rear of toy rocket is initially 0.1 kg/s if the speed of the gas relative to the rocket is 50m/s and the
mass of the rocket is 2kg,what is the initial acceleration of the rocket ?
(d) A body is projected horizontally from a top of tower 100m high with a constant velocity of 9.8 m/l. Find the velocity with which it
hits the ground.
10. Answer any two questions. 24=8
(a) A litre of air initially at 20oC and at 760 mm of Hg is heated at constant pressure until its volume is doubled. Find the final temperature.
(b) What is the result of mixing 100 gm of ice at 0oC into 100 gm of water at 20oC in an iron vessel of mass 100 gm? (specific heat of iron
0.1 cal gm-1c-1)
(c) The density of silver at 0oC is 10310 kgm-3 and the coefficient of linear expansion is 19  10-6/oC. Calculate the density of silver at 50oC.
11. Calculate the focal length of a lens of dispersive power 0.031 which should be placed in contact with a convex lens of focal length 84
cm and dispersive power 0.021 to make the achromatic combination. 3
12. calculate the value of two equal charges if they repel one another with the force of 0.1N when situated 50cm a part in vaccum. What
would be the amount of charges if they were situated in an insulating liquid whose permittivity was 10 times that of vaccum.
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