Physics 10th

Test 5
Syllabus: Chapter 17+18
MCQs
1. For which of the following we can get information almost about everything.
(a) Book
(b) Teacher
(c) Computer
(d) Internet
2. The basic operations performed by a computer are
(a) arithmetic operations
(b) Non-arithmetic operations
(c) Logical operations
(d) Both a and c
3. A CD can store over ______ of computer data.
(a) 680 megabytes
(b) 620 megabytes
(c) 680 gigabytes
(d) 620 gigabytes
4. Which technology is used in mobile phones
(a) Radio technology
(b) Health technology
(c) Artificial intelligence
(d) None of these
5. The reason carbon-dating works is that
(a) When plants or animals die. They absorb fresh carbon -14
(b) plants and animals are such strong emitters of carbon-14
(c) there is so much non-radioactive carbon dioxide in the air
(d) after a plant or animal dies, it stops taking in fresh carbon-14carbon-14
6. What is the half life of lead
(a) 10 hours
(b) 10.3 hours
(c) 10.6 hours
(d) 10.2 hours

Short Questions
1. How light signals are sent through optical fibre?
2. Briefly describe 2 services used on internet.
3. Define the term software.
4. What do you mean by the term piracy?
5. What do you understand by half-life of a radioactive element?
6. A nitrogen nuclide decays to become an oxygen nuclide by emitting an electron. Show this
process with an equation.
7. Write two uses of radioisotopes in medicine.
8. What are tracers? Give examples.

Long Questions
1. Describe in detail the information storage devices.
2. Ashes from a campfire deep in a cave show carbon-14 activity of only one-eighth. The activity of
fresh wood. How long ago was that campfire made?