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Concepts:
Sound
1. Waves: properties, types of waves, with diagram and label the parts of a transverse
wave.
2. Difference between transverse and longitudinal waves;
3. Sound wave, speed of wave in different medium, why speed varies in different medium
4. Period, frequency, velocity,
5. Show wavelength, amplitude, crests, and troughs on the picture
6. Concept of doppler effect
Problems:
1. a periodic longitudinal wave that has a frequency of 10 Hz. travels along a coil
spring. If the distance between successive compressions is .200 m, what is the
speed of the wave?
2. periodic transverse wave that has a frequency of 20.0 hz travels along a string.
The distance between a crest and either adjacent trough is 0.5 m. What is its
wavelength?
Thermal Properties:
1. Specific heat, heat equation
2. Latent Heat , of fusion, vaporizatiom
3. Specific heat capacity of water, why water is used as a coolant?
4. Anomalous behaviour of water
5. Reason behind gap in the railtrack
6. Relationship between coefficient of linear, areal and cubical expansion of a solid
7. What’s absolute zero. Conversion from kelvin to celsius and vice versa
8. Conversion of fahrenheit to celsius and vice versa
9. Units and dimension of heat and temperature
10. Thermal equilibrium
11. Co-efficient of linear, areal, cubical expansion, relationship.
12. Triple point
13. Three modes of heat transfer with examples
14. calorimetry-Newton’s law of cooling
Problems:
Properties of solids:
Problems:
1. A 10cm long rubber band is stretched to a length of 15cm by certain
load. What’s the strain produced?
2. A force of 50N is applied song a 20m long wire. Stress produced in
the wire is 60000 N/m2. Find the area of crosssection of the wire.
Gravitation:
Problem:
1. . What is the gravitational force between the Sun and the Earth?
(take, the mass of the Sun = 1.99 x 10^30 Kg.
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mass of the Earth = 6 x 10 Kg
−11 2 2
G = 6.67 x 10 N-m /kg
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and distance between the Sun and the Earth=1.49 x 10 m)
2. What would be the average duration of a year if the distance between the sun and the
earth becomes twice the present distance?
3. Find the acceleration due to gravity on a planet that is 10 times massive than the earth
and radius 20 times that of earth.
4. Find the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the moon if mass of the moon is
1/80 times that of the Earth and diameter of the moon is 1/4th times that of the earth.
Laws of Motion:
Problem:
1. Find the center of mass of three particles at vertices of an equilateral triangle. The masses
are 100g, 50g, 150g respectively. Each side of the equilateral triangle is 0.5m long.
2. A batsman hits back a ball straight in the direction of the bowler without changing its
initial speed of 12m/s. Determine the impulse imparted to the ball.
3. A bullet of mass 20gm moving with a speed of 100m/s enters a heavy wooden block and
is stopped after a distance of 50cm. What is the average retarding force exerted by the
block on the bullet?
4. A force of 50N acts on a mass of 5kg for 10s. Find the velocity and momentum after 10s.
Problems:
1. If three particles A, B and C are having velocities 𝑉 ,𝑉
𝐴 𝐵
and 𝑉 𝐶
, what is the
formula which gives the relative velocity of A with respect to B.
2. A car moving along a straight road with a speed of 120 km/hr, is brought to
rest by applying brakes. The car covers a distance of 100 m before it
stops. Calculate
(i) the average retardation of the car
(ii) time taken by the car to come to rest.
a) How long does the ball take to reach its maximum height?
b) What is the maximum height the ball is going to cover above the
release point?
10. A person walks 3km towards east and comes back to the starting point covering 3km
again turning west after 2 hours. What’s the total displacement? What’s the total
distance covered by the person? Also, find the total speed and total velocity?
11. If displacement of an object in two dimension is given by 8i+6j m in 2 s, find the
magnitude and direction of the average velocity..