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Continuous Assessment Test (CAT) – I – January 2019

Programme : B.Tech. (All Branches) Semester : Winter 2018-19
Course : Engineering Physics Code : PHY1001
Faculty : Dr. Sharad Chandra Tripathi Slot/Class no. : B1+TB1+LB1/1546
Time : 1½ hours Max. Marks : 50

Answer all the Questions

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Q.No. . Question Description Marks
Sec.
1 A mass thrown vertically upward with initial speed . Assuming the gravitational
force to be constant, and neglecting air friction show that the maximum height attained
10
by the mass is . (usual conventions are to be assumed.)

2 The spinning terror is an amusement park ride. It is a large vertical drum which spins so
fast that everyone inside stays pinned against the wall when the floor drops away. Let
be the coefficient of static friction and R the radius of the drum. Show that the
minimum angular velocity which allows the floor to be dropped away safely is 10

3 What is the acceleration of a bus approaching a bus stop?

a) Uniform acceleration
b) Instantaneous acceleration
5
c) Average acceleration
d) Negative acceleration
Give proper justification to your answer.
4 An object is moving in quantum mechanical world. State and derive the equation
10
governing its motion.
5 Show that Schrödinger’s time independent equation as applied to a free particle in a
rigid box gives the energy eigen values as
10

(usual conventions are to be assumed.)

6 What if Planck’s constant was zero? 5
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