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analogue ? Calculate the Doppleer shift in the frequency of a photon travelling along the y -axis. with
respect to an observer moving along the x -axis with a constant speed v.
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(c) Explain the phenomenon of pulse dispersion in a step index optical fibre.
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of radius 7 x I 08m and Earth-sun distance to be 1.5 x I 011m, Calculate the surface temperature of
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pi ane, compute by method of images, the electric potential above the plane and the induced charges
on the conductor.

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heat C per unit mass. A is at a temperature T and B is at a temperature 4T. What will be the entropy
change of the universe when the bodies are brought into diathermic contact with each other?

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(b) Describe the Otto cycle and obtain an expression for the efficiency of the cycle, Show that the
efficiency is lower than that of a Carnot cycle operating between the highest and the lowest
temperature of Otto cycle.

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 (c) Define Fenni energy. For an ideal Fenni gas of N particles at absolute zero temperature, show that
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The magnetic moment of a position is 2.793 IJ.N. Calculate the radio frequency at which nuclear
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(a) Sketch carefully the binding energy per nucleon curve for stab! e nuclei. Explain its salient features.
On the basis of this curve explain why fusion is possible only for low mass nuclei, whereas fission
takes place in heavy nuclei.
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(b) (i) State the conservation law which is violated in each of the following processes: ~

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7.(a) Give two characteristics properties of strange par- tides which distinguish them from non-strange
ones. Write the Gellmann-Ni shijima relation and show how it is used for the classification of
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(b) What is a Josephson junction ? Discuss de and ac Josephson effects and obtain the relation.
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8. (a) Derive the various current components in a p-n -p transistor when it is actively biased. Using Ebers-
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