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1. A person's eye is at a height of 1.5 m. He stands infront of a 0.3 m long plane mirror whose lower end is 0.8
m above the ground. The length of the image he sees of himself is
(a) 1.5 m (b) 1.0 m
(c) 0.8 m (d) 0.6 m

2. Two plane mirrors A and B are parallel to each other and spaced 20 cm apart. An object is kept in between
them at 15 cm from A. Out of the following, at which point, image is not formed in mirror A (distance
measured from mirror A)
(a) 15 cm (b) 25 cm
(c) 45 cm (d) 55 cm

3. A point object is kept between a plane mirror and a concave mirror facing each other. The distance between
the mirrors is 22.5 cm. The radius of curvature of the concave mirror is 20 cm. What should be the distance
of the object from the concave mirror so that after two successive reflections the final image is formed on the
object itself ? [Consider first reflection from concave mirror]
(a) 5 cm (b) 15 cm
(c) 10 cm (d) 7.5 cm

4. A luminous point object is moving along the principal axis of a concave mirror of focal length 12 cm towards
it. When its distance from the mirror is 20 cm its velocity is 4 cm/s. The velocity of the image in cm/s at that
instant is
(a) 6, towards the mirror (b) 6, away from the mirror
(c) 9, away from the mirror (d) 9, towards the mirror

5. An object is placed at a distance u from a concave mirror and its real image is received on a screen placed
at a distance of v from the mirror. If f is the focal length of the mirror, then the graph between 1 v versus
1/u is
1/v 1/v

(a) (b)

1/u 1/u
1/v 1/v

(c) (d)

1/u 1/u

6. A ray of light passes from vacuum into a medium of refractive index n. If the angle of incidence is twice the
angle of refraction, then the angle of incidence is
(a) cos −1 (n 2) (b) sin−1 (n 2)
(c) 2 cos −1 (n 2) (d) 2 sin−1 (n 2)

7. A ray incident at an angle of incidence 60o enters a glass sphere of µ = 3 and it is reflected and refracted at
the farther surface of the sphere. The angle between reflected and refracted rays at this surface is
(a) 120o (b) 90o
o
(c) 60 (d) 150o

8. The critical angle of light going from medium A to medium B is θ. The speed of light in medium A is v. The
speed of light in medium B is
v v
(a) (b)
sinθ cos θ
(c) v sinθ (d) v cos θ

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9. A ray of monochromatic light is incident on one refracting face of a prism of angle 75o. It passes through the
prism and is incident on the other face at the critical angle. If the refractive index of the material of the
prism is 2, the angle of incidence on the first face of the prism is
(a) 30° (b) 45°
(c) 60° (d) None of these

10. A ray of light is incident at angle i on a surface of a prism of small angle A and emerges normally from the
opposite surface. If the refractive index of the material of the prism is µ, the angle of incidence i is nearly
equal to
(a) A µ (b) A (2µ)
(c) µA (d) µA 2

11. If a minima in Young's double slit experiment occurs directly infront of one of the slits (distance between slit
and screen D = 12 cm and distance between slits d = 5cm) then the wavelength of the radiation used is
(a) 2 cm only (b) 4 cm only
2 2 4 4
(c) 2 cm, cm, cm (d) 4cm, cm, cm
3 5 3 5

12. Plane wavefronts are incident on a spherical mirror as shown. the reflected wavefronts will be

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

13. Figure shows plane waves refracted for air to water. What is the refractive index of water with respect to air?

a b
air
d e
Water

(a) a/e (b) b/e

(c) b/d (d) d/b
14. In Young's double slit experiment, the wavelength of red light is 7800 Å and that of blue light is 5200 Å. The
value of n for which n th bright band due to red light coincides with (n + 1)th bright band due to blue light, is
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4

15. In Young's double slit experiment, first maxima is observed at a fixed point P on the screen. Now the screen
is continuously moved away from the plane of slits. The ratio of intensity at point P to the intensity at point
O (centre of the screen)

P
O

(a) remains constant (b) keeps on decreasing

(c) first decreases and then increases (d) first increases and then decreases

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16. The potential field of an electric field E = (y $i + x $j) is

(a) V = – xy + constant
(b) V = – (x + y ) + constant
(c) V = – (x 2 + y 2 ) + constant
(d) V = constant

17. In the circuit shown in figure C = 6 µF. The charge stored in capacitor of capacity C is

C 2C
10V

(a) zero (b) 90 µC

(c) 40 µC (d) 60 µC

18. A capacitor of capacity C1 = 1 µF is charged to a potential of 100 V. The charging battery is then removed
and it is connected to another capacitor of capacity C 2 = 2 µF. One plate of C 2 is earthed as shown in figure.
The charges on C 1 and C 2 in steady state will be
C1 C2

(a) 50 µC, 50 µC (b) 100 µC, zero

100 200
(c) µC, µC (d) zero, zero
3 3

19. Capacity of an isolated sphere is increased n times when it is enclosed by an earthed concentric sphere. The
ratio of their radii is
n2 n
(a) (b)
n –1 n –1
2n 2 n +1
(c) (d)
n +1 n +1

20. Three conducting spheres A, B and C are as shown in figure. The radii of the spheres are a, b and c
respectively. A and B are connected by a conducting wire. The capacity of the system is

C
B
A

a
b

 bc 
(a) 4π ε 0 (a + b + c ) (b) 4π ε 0  
 c – b
 1 1 1  abc 
(c) 4π ε 0  + +  (d) 4π ε 0  
a b c  ab + bc + ca 

B 2R 2C 2
21. The dimensions of (where B is magnetic field, and µ 0 is permeability of free space, R is resistance
2µ 0
and C is capacitance) is
(a) [ML–1] (b) [MLT –1]
2 –2
(c) [ML T ] (d) [MLT 2 ]

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22. A conducting rod of length l and mass m is moving down a smooth inclined plane of inclination θ with
constant velocity v. A current i is flowing in the conductor in a direction perpendicular to paper inwards. A
vertically upward magnetic field B exists in space. Then magnitude of magnetic field B is
mg mg
(a) sin θ (b) tan θ
il il
mg cos θ mg
(c) (d)
il il sin θ

23. A particle of charge q and mass m starts moving from the origin under the action of an electric field E = E $i
and magnetic field B = B $i with a velocity v = v 0 $j. The speed of the particle will become 2 v 0 after a time
2mv 0 2Bq
(a) t = (b) t =
qE mv 0
3Bq 3 mv 0
(c) t = (d) t =
mv 0 qE

24. A rigid circular loop of radius r and mass m lies in the x-y plane on a flat table and has a current i flowing in
it. At this particular place, the earth’s magnetic field is B = B x $i + B z k.
$ The value of i so that one edge of the
loop lifts from the table is
mg mg
(a) (b)
πr Bx2 + Bz2 πrBz
mg mg
(c) (d)
πrBx πr Bx Bz

25. A current carrying square loop is placed near an infinitely long current carrying wire as shown in figure.
The torque acting on the loop is

i1 i2 a

a a

µ 0  i1i 2a  µ 0 i1i 2a
(a)   (b)
2π  2  2π

µ 0 i1i 2a
(c) ln (2) (d) zero
2π

26. A pure resistive circuit element X when connected to an AC supply of peak voltage 200 V gives a peak
current of 5 A which is in phase with the voltage. A second circuit element Y , when connected to the same
AC supply also gives the same value of peak current but the current lags behind by 90°. If the series
combination of X and Y is connected to the same supply, what will be the rms value of current?
10 5
(a) amp (b) amp
2 2
 5
(c)   amp (d) 5 amp
 2

27. A current is made of two components, a DC component of I1 = 3 amp and an AC component given by
I 2 = 4 2 sin ωt amp, then the reading of the hot-wire ammeter is: (Reads the RMS value):
(a) 4 amp (b) 4 2 amp
(c) (3 + 4 2 ) amp (d) 5 amp

28. The self inductance of a choke coil is 10 mH. When it is connected with a 10 V dc source, then the loss of
power is 20 watt. When it is connected with
10 volt ac source loss of power is 10 watt. The frequency of ac source will be:
(a) 50 Hz (b) 60 Hz
(c) 80 Hz (d) 100 Hz

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29. Two capacitors 2C and 4C initially charged to potential difference of V 0 and 3V 0 with the polarities as shown
are connected to an inductor of inductance L. Initial current in the inductor is zero. Now the switch ‘S’ is
closed. The maximum current in the circuit is
2C 4C
+ – + –
V0 3V0

L
V0 C C
(a) (b) 8V0
8 3L 3L
V0 C C
(c) (d) 4V0
4 3L 3L

30. In the circuit shown in figure switch S is closed at time t = 0. Which statement is true after one time
constant of L -R circuit?

L R

ε S

2Lε
(a) Flux linked with inductor is (1 − e −1 )
R
ε
(b) Current through battery is (1 − e −1 )
2R
Lε
(c) Flux linked with inductor is (1 − e −1 )
R
2ε
(d) Current through battery is
R

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