PHYSICS (PAPER I) - VSAQ (Each question carries 2 marks)

1. What is the phase difference between incident and reflected waves at

a) Open end? b) Closed end?
2. What is Myopia? How can it be corrected?
3. What is Fresnel distance?
4. Write the expression for beat frequency?
5. Define power of a convex lens. What is its unit?
6. What is Justification for validity of ray optics?
7. If the air column in a tube, open at both ends is set in vibration, what harmonics are
possible?
8. A small angled prism of 4⁰ deviates a ray through 24.8⁰. Find the µ of the prism.
9. What is condition for which diffraction is valid?
10. What is the distance between a node and antinode in stationary wave?
11. The focal length of a concave lens is 30cm. Where should an object be placed so that
its image is 1/10th of its size?
12. What are Coherent Sources
13. What are Harmonics?
14. What is dispersion? Which color gets relatively more dispersed?
15. What change will occur in YDSE if the whole apparatus is immersed in water rather
than air?
16. What happens to the fundamental frequency of a stretched string when its linear
density becomes 1/4thof f its initial value?
17. Define Principal Focus?
18. Can the head lights of a distant car produce interference pattern? If not, Why?
19. What is the ratio of the frequency of fourth overtone to the fundamental frequency of
a stretched string?
20. If the separation between the two slits in YDSE is made less than the wavelength of
light, then what pattern is observed whether interference or diffraction
21. What focal length should the reading spectacles have a person for whom the least
distance of distinct vision is 50 cm
22. What is Persistence of hearing?
23. Write the Snell’s Law of Refraction?
24. What is the ratio of intensity of light if N identical coherent and incoherent sources
are used?
25. What happens to the frequency of a tuning fork
a) When loaded with wax? b) when filed?
26. Why red color is used as danger signal?
27. Two forks are excited together produced 3 beats per second. What is the time interval
between the maximum intensity and the next minimum?
28. What is Condition for path difference in YDSE for Bright and Dark fringes
29. What are the conditions under which Total internal reflection will occur?
30. What should be the width of each slit to obtain 10 maxima of the double slit pattern
within the central maximum of single slit pattern?