ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL DHAULA KUAN

PRE BOARD EXAMINATION [2021-22]

CLASS XII
PHYSICS
Time : 2 Hours Max. Marks : 35
General Instructions:
(i) There are 12 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
(ii) This question paper has three sections: Section A, Section B and Section C.
(iii) Section A contains three questions of two marks each, Section B contains eight questions of three
marks each, Section C contains one case study-based question of five marks.
(iv) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been provided in one question of two
marks and two questions of three marks. You have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
(v) You may use log tables if necessary but use of calculator is not allowed.

SECTION A

Q1. (i) What is doping and dopant in semiconductors?

(ii) Draw the labelled energy band diagrams of p-type and n-type semiconductors. (2)

Q2. Prove that the de-Broglie wavelength of electrons accelerated through a potential V volts can be
expressed as λ2 = h/2meV.
OR

Calculate the radius of curvature of an equi-concave lens of refractive index 1.5, when it is kept in a
medium of refractive index 1.4, to have a power of ̶ 5 D? (2)

Q3. (i) Plot I-V characteristics of photodiode for different intensities I1 and I2 where I1 > I2.
(ii) What are the tiny lights in traffic light called and how do these operate? (2)

SECTION B

Q4. Define the terms ‘depletion layer’ and ‘barrier potential’ for a junction diode. How does (i) an increase
in the doping concentration, and (ii) biasing across the junction, affect the width of the depletion layer?

OR

Draw a labelled diagram of a full-wave rectifier circuit and briefly explain its working principle. Show
its input and output waveforms also. (3)

Q5. (i) Define mass defect and write its expression in terms of mass number and atomic number.
(ii) State any two characteristic properties of nuclear forces.
(iii) Show that the density of nucleus is independent of its mass number. (3)

Q6. (i) The radius of innermost electron orbit of a hydrogen atom is 5.3 × 10-11 m. What is the radius of
orbit in the second excited state?
(ii) State Bohr’s quantisation condition for defining stationary orbit.
(iii) Find the ratio of energies of photons produced due to transition of an electron of hydrogen atom
from its (i) second permitted energy level to its first level, and (ii) the highest permitted energy level
to the first permitted level. (3)

Q7. (a)The oscillating mag. Field in a plane EM wave is given by

By = 8 × 10—6 Sin (2×1011t + 300πx) T.
(i) Calculate the wavelength of EM wave (ii) Write down the expression for oscillating electric field.
(b) Why do welders wear special glass goggles or face masks with glass windows? (3)
Q8. (a) Draw a labelled ray diagram to show the image formation in an astronomical telescope for normal
adjustment position. Write down the expression for its magnifying power.
(b) A compound microscope with an objective of 1.0 cm focal length and an eyepiece of 2.0 cm focal
length has a tube length of 20 cm. Calculate the magnifying power of the microscope, if the final
image is formed at the near point of the eye. (3)

Q9. (i) Write Einstein’s photoelectric equation and mention any two important features in photoelectric
effect can be explained with the help of this equation.
(ii) The maximum kinetic energy of the photoelectrons gets doubled when the wavelength of light
incident on the surface changes from λ1 to λ2. Derive the expression for the threshold wavelength λ0
and work function for the metal surface. (3)

Q10. (i) A ray of light, incident on an equivalent glass prism of refractive index √ 3 moves parallel to the
base line of the prism inside it. Find the angle of incidence for this ray.
(ii) Plot a graph to show the variation of the angle of deviation as a function of angle of incidence for
light rays passing through a prism and mark angle of minimum deviation on it. (3)

Q11. (a) Depict the shape of a wavefront in each of the following cases:
(i) Light diverging from a point source.
(ii) Light emerging out of a convex lens when a point source is placed at its focus.
(b) Use Huygen’s principle to show how a plane wavefront propagates from a denser to rarer
medium. Hence, verify Snell’s law of refraction.

OR

(a) In what way is diffraction from each slit related to the interference pattern in a double-slit
experiment?
(b) Two wavelengths of sodium light 590 nm and 596 nm are used, in turn, to study the diffraction
taking place at a single slit of aperture 2 × 10-4 m. The distance between the slit and the screen is 1.5
m. Calculate the separation between the positions of first maxima of the diffraction pattern obtained
in the two cases. (3)

SECTION C

Q12. CASE STUDY BASED QUESTION

Interference of light is based on the superposition principle according to which at a particular point
in the medium the resultant displacement produced by two or more light waves is the vector sum of
displacements produced by the two individual light waves.
A British physicist Thomas Young made two pin holes separated by a very small distance on a
opaque screen which were illuminated by Another pin hole lit by a monochromatic source of light.
So two pin holes behave as two coherent sources of light. Spherical waves emanating from coherent
sources produce interference fringes on the screen. If a point on screen situated at a distance x from
central point of the screen, then path difference between the waves coming from two sources is xd/D.
Bright fringe is obtained on the screen if path difference xd/D is an integer multiple of wavelength λ.
However, we get a dark fringe on the screen if the path difference is an odd multiple of λ/2.

(a) The phenomenon of interference is shown by

(i) Longitudinal mechanical waves only.
(ii) Transverse mechanical waves only.
(iii) Electromagnetic waves only.
(iv) All the above type of waves. (1)

(b) Two waves are said to be coherent if

(i) both have the same vibrational amplitude.
(ii) both produces waves of the same wavelength.
(iii) both produce waves of same wavelength having a constant originating phase difference.
(iv) both produce waves having the same velocity. (1)
(c) Two coherent sources of intensities I1 and I2 produce an interference pattern. The maximum intensity in
the interference pattern will be
(i) I1 + I2
(ii) (I12 + I22)1/2
(iii) (I11/2 + I21/2)2
(iv) (I1 + I2)2 (1)

(d) Monochromatic green light of wavelength 500 nm illuminates a pair of slits 1 mm apart and the
interference pattern is formed on a screen placed 2 m away. The separation between the successive
bright bands is
(i) 0.25 mm
(ii) 0.1 mm
(iii) 1.0 mm
(iv) 0.01 mm
(1)
(e) In a Young’s double experiment the fringe width on a screen is 0.2 mm. If the wavelength of light used
is increased by 10 % then the new fringe width on that screen will be
(i) 0.2 mm
(ii) 0.4 mm
(iii) 0.24 mm
(iv) 0. 16 mm (1)