IPE Questions Pinnacle 1st Year PHYSICS

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Very Short Answer Questions 2 Marks

1. Can a substance contract on heating? Give an example.

2. Why gaps are left between rails on a railway track?

3. What is latent heat of fusion?

4. What is latent heat of vapourisation?

5. Why utensils are coated black? Why the bottom of the utensils are made of copper?

6. State Wein’s displacement law?

7. Ventilators are provided in rooms just below the roof. Why?

8. Does a body radiate heat at 0 K? Does it radiate heat at 0o C ?

9. What is greenhouse effect? Explain global warming.

10. What would be the change in acceleration due to gravity (g) at the surface, if the radius of
Earth decreases by 2% keeping the mass of Earth constant?

11. What is the time period of revolution of a geostationary satellite? Does it rotate from West
to East or from East to West?

12. Define mean free path.

13. When does a real gas behave like an ideal gas?

14. State Boyle’s law and Charles Law.

15. State Dalton’s law of partial pressures.

16. Explain the concept of degrees of freedom for molecules of a gas.

17. The absolute temperature of a gas is increased 3 times. What will be the increase in rms
velocity of the gas molecule?

18. Four molecules of a gas have speeds 1, 2, 3 and 4 km/s. Find the rms speed of the gas
molecule.

19. A thermos flask containing a liquid is shaken vigorously. What happens to its temperature?

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IPE Questions Pinnacle 1st Year PHYSICS
FIITJEE
Short Answer Questions 4 Marks

1. Pendulum clock generally go fast in winter and slow in summer. Why?

2. In what way is the anomalous behavior of water advantageous to aquatic animals?

3. Explain conduction. Convection and radiation with examples.

4. State Kepler’s laws of planetary motion

5. Derive the relation between acceleration due to gravity(g) at the surface of a planet and
Gravitational constant (G)

6. What is orbital velocity? Obtain an expression for it.

7. What is escape velocity? Obtain an expression for it.

8. What is a geostationary satellite? State its uses.

Long Answer Questions 8 Marks

1. Explain reversible and irreversible processes. Describe the working of Carnot engine.
Obtain an expression for the efficiency

2. State second law of thermodynamics. How is heat engine different from a refrigerator.

Problems

1. Four identical masses of ‘m’ are kept at the corners of a square of side a. Find the
gravitational force exerted on one of the masses by the other masses.

2. (a) Calculate the escape velocity of a body from the Earth’s surface. (b) If the Earth were
made of wood, its mass would be 10% of its current mass. What would be the escape
velocity, if the Earth were made of wood?

3. A refrigerator is to maintain eatables kept inside at 9o C. If room temperature is 36o C,

calculate the coefficient of performance.

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