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PHYSICS
Subjectives
1. A current is established in a gas discharge tube when a
sufficiently high potential difference is applied across
the two electrodes in the tube. The gas ionizes; electrons
move toward the positive terminal and singly charged
positive ions toward the negative terminal. What are the
magnitude and direction of the current in a hydrogen
discharge tube in which 3.1×1018 electrons and 1.1×1018
protons move past a cross-sectional area of the tube each
second?
2. The quantity of charge q (in C) passing through a surface
of area 2.0 cm2 varies with time as q = 4 t3 + 5t + 6, where
t is in seconds.
(a) What is the instantaneous current through the sur-
face at t = 1.0 s?
(b) What is the value of the current density?
3. A small sphere that carries a charge of 8.00 nC is whirled
in a circle at the end of an insulating string.The angular
frequency of rotation is 100  rad / s. What average cur-
rent does this rotating charge represent?
4. Figure represents a section of a circular conductor of
nonuniform diameter carrying a current of 5.0 A. The ra-
dius of cross-section A1 is 0.40 cm.
(a) What is the magni-
tude of the current
density across A1?
(b) If the current density
across A 2 is one
fourth the value
across A1 , what is the
radius of the conductor at A2?
5. A current of 1.0 A exists in a copper wire of cross-section
1.0 mm2 . Assuming one free electron per atom calculate
the drift speed of the free electrons in the wire. The
density of copper is 9000 kg / m3.
6. Two wires have the same cross-sectional area and are
joined end to end to form a single wire. One is tungsten,
which has a temperature coefficient of resistivity of
  0.0045( o C) 1 . The other is carbon, for which
  0.0005 ( o C) 1 . The total resistance of the compos-
ite wire is the sum of the resistance of the pieces. The
total resistance of the composite wire does not change
with temperature. What is the ratio of the length of the
tungsten and carbon sections? Ignore any changes in
length due to thermal expansion. The resistivity of tung-
sten is 5.2 × 10–8 m and that of carbon is 35 × 10–6  m.
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7. The resistance and the magnitude of the current depend
on the path that the current takes. The drawing shows
three situations in which the current takes different paths
through a piece of material. Rank them according to (a)
resistance and (b) current, largest first.
8. Figure shows a rectangular solid conductor of edge
lengths L, 2L, and 3L. A certain potential difference V is to
be applied between pairs
of opposite faces of the
conductor as in figure.
Left-right, top-bottom,
and front-back. Rank
those pairs according to
(a) the magnitude of the electric field within the conductor,
(b) the current density within the conductor
(c) the current through the conductor, and
(d) the drift speed of the electrons through the conduc-
tor, greatest first.
9. Two aluminum wires have the same resistance. If one has
twice the length of the other, what is the ratio of the diam-
eter of the longer wire tothe diameter of the shortest wire?
10. A length of wire is cut in half and the two lengths are
wrapped together side by side to make a thicker wire.
How does the resistance of this new combination com-
pare to the resistacne of the original wire?
11. Find the resistance of a hollow cyllindrical conductor of
length 1.0 m and inner and outer radii 1.0 mm and 2.0 mm
respectively. The resistivity of the material is 2.0 × 10–8  m.
12. A wire with a resistance R is lengthened to 1.25 times its
original length by pulling it through a small hole. Find the
resistance of the wire after it is stretched.
13. A metallic wire has a resistance of 120  at 20 oC. Find the
temperature at which the resistance of same metallic wire
rises to 240  where the temperature coefficient of the
wire is 2 × 10–4  / oC.
14. A bird stands on a dc electric transmission line carrying
3100 A. The line has 2.5 × 10–5  resistance per metter,
and the bird's feet are 4.0 cm apart. What is the potential
difference between the bird's feet?
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15. The current voltage graphs for 24. A metallic resistor is connected across a battery. If the
a given specimen at two dif- number of collisions of the free electrons with the lattice
ferent temperatures T1 and T2 is somehow decreased in the resistor (for example, by
are shown in figure. cooling it), the current will
(a) Is the specimen ohmic? (1) increase (2) decrease
(b) At which temperature re- (3) remain constant (4) become zero
sistance is greater?
(c) Which temperature is higher? 25. A metallic resistor is connected across a battery. If the
number of collisions of the free electrons with the lattice
16. What will be the number of electrons passing through a is somehow decreased in the resistor (for example, by
heater wire in one minute, if it carries a current of 8 A? cooling it), the current will
(1) increase (2) decrease
17. The current through a wire depends on time as i = (2+3 t) (3) remain constant (4) become zero
A. Calculate the charge crossed through a cross section
of the wire in first 10 seconds. 26. An aluminum rod and a copper rod are taken such that
their lengths are same and their resistances are also same.
18. Current through a wire decreases linearly from 4 A to zero The specific resistance of copper is half that of aluminum
in 10 s. Calculate the charge flown through the wire dur- but its density is three times that of aluminum. The ratio
ing this interval of time. of the mass of aluminum rod and that of copper rod will
be
19. Draw the colour code for 42 k ± 10% carbon resistance. (1) 1 / 6 (2) 2 / 3
(3) 1 / 3 (4) 6
Objective
27. Match the following items
20. Current flows through a metallic conductor whose area Graph Solid
of cross-section increases in the direction of the current.
If we move in this direction,
(1) the current will change.
(2) the carrier density will change. (A) (p) Semiconductor
(3) the drift velocity will increase.
(4) the drift velocity will decrease.

21. A conductor with rectangular cross section has

dimensions (a × 2 a × 4 a) as shown in figure. Resistance
across AB is x, across CD is y and across EF is z. Then (B) (q) Conductor
(1) x = y = z
(2) x > y > z
(3) y < z < x
(4) x > z > y

22. An aluminium wire is initially at 20 oC. The temperature at (C) (r) Conductor which exhibits
which its resistance is 1.5% higher is given by
(Temperature coefficient of resistivity of aluminium is
4.0 × 10–3 / oC.) conductivity
(1) 21.25 oC (2) 23.75 oC
(3) 23.50 oC (4) 22.50 oC 28. Match the column I with column II
Column I Column II
23. Two square metal plates A and B are of the same (A) Filament of electric bubl (p) tin-lead alloy
thick  ness and material. The side of B is twice that of A. (B) Fuse wire (q) Manganin
These are connected is shown in series. If the resistances (C) Resistance of resistance box (r) Nichrome
of A and B are denoted by RA and RB, then (RA / RB) is (D) Filament of heating device
(heater, geyser, press etc) (t) Constanton

(1) 1 / 2 (2) 2 / 1
(3) 1 / 1 (4) 4 / 1

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ANSWERKEY
Subjective
1. 0.67 A towards the negative terminal 2. (a) 17 A; (b) 8.5×104 A / m2 3. 400 nA
4. (a) 9.94 × 10 A / m ; (b) 0.80 cm
4 2
5. 0.74 mm/s 6. 60
7. (a) Ra > Rc > Rb ; (b) Ib > Ic > Ia 8. a – d top bottom then front back and then left right

9. 2 10. one quarter of the original 11. 21×10–3 

12. 1.56 R 13. 5020 oC 14. (C) T2 > T1 16. 3 × 1021 electrons 17. 170 C 18. 20 C
19. According to colour code, colour for digit 4 is yellow, for digit 2 it is red, for digit 3 the colour is orange and 10% tolerance is represented by
silver colour. So colour code should be yellow, red, orange and silver
Objective
20. (4) 21. (4) 22. (4) 23. (2) 24. (1) 25. (3) 26. (3)
27. (A) – q, (B) – p, (C) – r 28. (A) – s, (B) – p, (C) – q,t,(D) – r

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