Physics 12

Second half
1. How was Louis’s Broglie statement different then the electromagnetic waves
concept.
2 Why transistor is called current amplification device?
3. Explain the significance of depletion layer.
4. Why must the rest mess of a photon be zero?
5. Some stars are observed to be radish and some are blue which stars have the
higher surface temperature?
6. Differentiate inertial and non-inertial frame of reference.
7. State Einstein postulates of special theory of relativity?
8. Why CT scanners are preferred as compared to x-ray?
9. Electrons in an ex-ray tube are accelerated through a potential difference of
3000 volt if these electrons were slow down in a target what will be the minimum
wavelength of X-rays produced?
10. Show that
1u=1.66x10^-27=031Mev
11. Differentiate hadrons and leptons.
12. Why is a conventional fission nuclear reactor not able to explode as a bomb?
13. Why are small and large nuclei unstable?

Section c
a) What is a laser, explain the principle and operation of a laser? (5)
b) Differentiate photoelectric effect, Compton effect, and peer production with
respect to incident photon (3)C) a50 kilo electron volt x ray is scattered through an
angle of 90 degree what is the energy of X-Ray after Compton’s scattering?