READER GROUP OF COLLEGES KUNDIAN

Subject: Physics 1st Year

Name: Marks: 17
Roll No: Time: 20 Mints
Objective Type
Q.1: Choose the correct answer. 17
i) Significant figures in 0.00876 are:
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6
ii) The percentage in radius of a sphere is 2%. The total percentage uncertainty in volume is:
(a) 2% (b) 4% (c) 6% (d) 8%
iii) Projection of B along A will be given as:
(a) A.B (b) A.B/B (c) A.B/cos 𝜃 (d) None
°
iv) If the angle between two vectors with magnitude 12 and 4 is 60 the their scalar product is
(a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 24 (d) None of these
v) A bullet is shoot straight up returns to its starting point in 10s.the initial speed
was:
(a) 9.8 m/s (b) 24.5 m/s (c) 49 m/s (d) 98 m/s
vi) The equation of motion are not useful for object moving with:
(a) Uniform velocity (b) Uniform acceleration
(c)Variable acceleration (d)Variable velocity
vii) As we move the body above the surface of earth, the change in potential energy will be:
(a) Negative (b) Positive (c) Zero (d) Infinity
viii) 100 radian is equal to
(a) 57.3° (b) 573° (c) 5730° (d) 5.73°
ix) All point on rigid body rotating about a fix axis do not have the same:
(a) Speed (b) Angular speed (c) Angular acceleration (d) angular displacement
x) When the body is falling under the action of gravity with terminal velocity the
acceleration is:
(a) Constant (b) Zero (c) Variable (d) 9.8 m/s2
xi) The wave form of SHM is:
(a) Sine wave (b) Square wave (c) Cosine Wave (d) None
xii) Speed of sound at 0° C is 332 m/s, the speed of sound at 2° C will be:
(a) 333.2m/s (b) 335m/s (c) 33m/s (d) 232 m/s
xiii) Star moving towards the earth shows:
(a) Blue shift (b) Red shift (c) No Shift (d) Longer wavelength
xiv) The wavelength of X-ray is of the order:
(a) 10 m (b) 10-10 m (c) 10-2 m (d) 10cm
xv) For glass air boundary the value of critical angle is
(a) 41.4° (b) 41.6° (c) 41.8° (d) 42.2°
st
xvi) In case of adiabatic process 1 law of thermodynamics is written as:
(a) W = ∆𝑈 ( b) W = Q (c) W =− ∆𝑈 (d) W =− ∆𝑄
xvii) Efficiency of petrol engine is:
(a) 25-30% (b) 45-50% (c) 34-67% (d) 49-60%
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Paper code:4520
Subject: Physics 1st Year
Name: Marks: 68
Subjective Type
Roll No: Time: 2:40 hour
Section I
Q.2 Write short answer to any EIGHT (8) questions: (8×2 = 16)
i. What do you understand by the term precision and accuracy?
ii. Show that the famous “Einstein equation” E = mc2 is dimensionally consistent.
iii. Does dimensional analysis give any information on constant of proportionality that may appears in algebraic
expression? Explain.
iv. What are the dimensions of pressure and density?
v. Define impulse and show that how it is related to linear momentum?
vi. At what point or points in its path does a projectile have its minimum speed, its maximum speed?
vii. Find the relation for force due to water flow.
viii. Find the change in momentum for an object subjected to a given force for a given time and state law of motion in
terms of momentum?
ix. Derive Charle’s law from kinetic theory of gases.
x. Specific heat at constant pressure is greater than specific heat at constant volume. why?
xi. Give an example of a process in which no heat is transfer to or from the system, but temperature of the system
changes?
xii. What happens to the temperature of the room, when an air conditioner is left running on a table in the middle of
the room?
Q.3 Write short answer to any EIGHT (8) questions: (8×2 = 16)
i. Suppose the side of closed polygon represents vector arranged head to tail rule. What is the sum of these vectors?
ii. If all the components of the vector ⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝐴1 and ⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝐴2 are reversed, how would the alter ⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝐴1 × ⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝐴2 ?
iii. Show that sum and difference of two perpendicular vectors of equal length are also perpendicular and of the same
length?
iv. How much work is done by the upward force when a person holding the pail moving forward?
v. Calculate the work done in kilo joules in lifting a mass of 10 kg (at the steady velocity) through a vertical height
of 10 m?
vi. An object have 1 joule of potential energy. Explain what does it means?
vii. Prove that 1 rad = 57.3°
viii. ?why does diver changes his body position before and after diving in the pool?
ix. Why mud flies off the tyre of a moving bicycle, in what direction does it fly? Explain it.
x. An oil film spreading over a wet footpath shows colours? Explain how does it happen?
xi. Explain whether Young’s experiment is an experiment for studying interference or diffraction of light?
xii. How would you manage to get more orders of spectra using a grating?
Q.4 Write short answer to any SIX (6) questions: (6×2 = 12)
i. Why fog droplet appears to be suspended in air?
ii. What is meant by phase angle? Does it define the angle between maximum displacement and the driving force?
iii. What happens to the time period of the simple pendulum if its length is doubled? What happens if the suspended
mass is doubled?
iv. Describe some common phenomenon in which the resonance plays an important role?
v. Why does sound travels faster in solids than in gases?
vi. How beats are useful in tuning musical instrument?
vii. How should a sound source move with respect to an observer so that the frequency of its sound does not change?
viii. What do you understand by the linear magnification and angular magnification? Explain how a convex lens is
used as a magnifier?
ix. How the power is lost in optical fibre through dispersion? Explain.
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SECTION II
Note: Attempt any Three from the following: (3×8 = 24)
Q.5 (a) Describe the method of addition of vectors by rectangular components. (5 + 3)
(b) Ten bricks, each 6.0 cm thick and mass 1.5 kg, lie flat on a table. How much work is required to stack them
one on the top of another?
Q.6 (a) Find the rotational K.E of the disc and hoop. Also derive the relations for the velocities of disc and hoop
moving down an inclined plane. (5 + 3)
(b) Two block of mass 2.0 kg and 0.5 kg are attached at two end of a compressed spring. The elastic potential
energy stored in the spring is 10J. Find the velocities of the block if the spring delivers its energy to the blocks when
released.
Q.7 (a) What is Doppler effect? Discuss its different cases. (5+3)
(b) What gauge pressure is required in the city mains for a stream from a fire hose connected to the mains to
reach a vertical height of 15.0 m.
Q.8 (a) What is simple pendulum? Show that the motion of pendulum is SHM. Also find relations for its time period and
frequency. (5+3)
(b) A second order spectrum is formed at an angle of 38° when light falls normally on a diffraction grating having
5400 lines per centimeter. Determine wavelength of light used.
Q.9 (a) What is Carnot’s Engine? Explain its working and calculate its efficiency. Also state Carnot’s Theorem.
(5 + 3)
(b) A simple astronomical telescope in normal adjustment has an objective of focal length 100 cm and an eye
piece of focal length 5.0 cm. (i) where is the final image formed? (ii) calculate the angular magnification.