Iit-Jam Phviii

Date: 26-01-2014
TEST PAPER CODE : PH IIT-JAM PHYSICS 2014

TIME: 3:00 HOURS M.M.: 100
Test Series-VIII
1. The question-cum-answer booklet has 14 pages and has

48 questions. Please ensure that the copy of the question-
cum-answer booklet you have received contains all the
questions.
2. Wri te your Name in the appropriate space

provided on the right side.
3. Section-A and Section-B have objective questions.

Each objective question has 4 choices for its answer: (a),
(b), (c) and (d) only One of them is the correct answer.
There will be negative marking for wrong answers to
objective questions. The following marking scheme for
objective questions shall be used:
(a) For each correct answer, you will be awarded 1 mark in
Section-A and 2 marks in Section-B.
(b) For each wrong answer, you will be awarded -(1/3)
marks in Section-A and –(2/3) in Section-B.
(c) Multiple answers to a question will be treated as a
wrong answer.
(d) For each un-attempted question, you will be awarded 0
(zero) mark.
4. Section-C has descriptive questions. Each question

carries 5 marks. Write your answer in the space provided.
5. Do not write more than one answer for the same question.
In case of you attempt a subjective question more than
once, please cancel the answer(s) you consider wrong.
Otherwise, the answer appearing last only will be
evaluated.
6. All answers must be written in blue/black/blue-black ink

only. Sketch pen, pencil or ink of any other color should
not be used.
7. For rough work blank sheets are attached in the end of

the question paper.
8. No supplementary sheets will be provided to

the candidates.
9. Clip board, log tables, slide rule, calculator,

cellular phone or electronic gadgets in any
form are NOT allowed.
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SECTION-A
1. In a diffraction pattern due to a single slit, the ratio between the intensitites of the second secondary maxima
and principal maxima will be
4 4 4 4
(a) 2 (b) 2 (c) 2 (d)
9 19 25 49 2
2. A thin polaroid is interposed between a pair of cross polaroids and made to rotate at a rate  about their
common axis. If an unpolarised light of intensity I0 falls on the first polaroid, then after what minimum time
(after t = 0 at which no light will be transmitted) the tramitted light intensity will be I0/16?
   
(a) (b) (c) (d)
16 8 4 2
3. The function f  x   sinh 1 x can be express as
 2
(a) ln x  x  1   2
(b) ln x  x  1   2
(c) ln x  x  1   2
(d) ln x  x  1 
 0 1 0
 
4. The eigenvalues of the matrix  0 0 1  are given by 1 , 2 , 3 . Which one of the following statements is not
1 0 0 
 
true?
(a) 1  2  3  0 (b) 12  2 3  31  0
(c) Two of the eigenvalues are real (d) Product of the eigenvalues is 1.
5. The speedometer of a 180 kg vehicle reads 72 km/hr at a particular instant. The readings are known to have an
accuracy of  2 km/hr. The minimum uncertainity in the position of the vehicle at that instant, is
(a) 0.5 1036 m. (b) 4.8 1036 m. (c) 4.8 1032 m. (d) 0.5 1032 m.
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6. The eigenfunction of the operator xˆ  pˆ x will be of the form

(a) exponentially decaying (b) exponentially growing
(c) siinusoidally varying (d) Gaussian
7. Half life of a radio isotope is 4 108 years. If there are 103 radioactive nuclei in a sample today, the number of
such nucleai in the sample 4 109 years ago were
(a) 128 103 (b) 256 103 (c) 512 103 (d) 1024 103
8. For the given p-n junction diode network shown of Si type. Calculate peak output voltage for positive half
cycle
+
10sint V0
–
(a) 0.7V (b) 0V (c) –10V (d) none
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9. Identify the function F generated by the logic network shown

Z
(a) F   X  Y  Z (b) F  Z  Y  YX (c) F  ZY  Y  X  (d) F  XYX
10. Consider X-ray diffraction from a crystal with a face-centered-cubic (fcc) lattice. The lattice. The lattice plane
for which there is NO diffraction peak is:
(a) (2, 1, 2) (b) (1, 1, 1) (c) (2, 0, 0) (d) (3, 1, 1)
11. A ray of light is reflected from a mirror. If the mirror is slowly rotated with an angular velocity w, then the
angle between the incident and the reflected rays changes at the rate
(a) –w (b) w (c) 2w (d) w/2
12. A plane is flying at height 10 km with speed of 1000 km/hr. What would be angular velocity of plane when it is
observed by person standing on earth
(a) 1 rad/sec (b) 36 rad/sec (c)  rad/sec (d) /2 rad/sec
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13. The work done in moving an object along a vector 2iˆ  3jˆ  4kˆ , when a force F  ˆi  2ˆj  2kˆ is applied is:
(a) Zero (b) 29 (c) 38 (d) 3
14. Two point charges each equal to Q are placed a d distance apart. At what distance from the mid point a third
charge should be placed on the perpendicular bi-sector so that it experiences maximum force?
d d d d
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 2 2 2 3
15. Two infinitely long line charges lie parallel to each other with a separation d between them. If linear charge
density on the two is  and -  , what is electrostatic force per unit length between the two line charges,
2 2 2 2 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
 o d 4 o d 2 o d  o d
16. If electric potential at the centre of a solid sphere having a total charge Q uniformly distribted over its volume is
taken to be zero potential on the surface of the sphere will be?
Q Q Q Q
(a) 4  R (b) (c) _ 4  R (d) _ 8  R
0 8 0 R 0 0
17. The entropy change associated with the freezing of 1 mole of water at 0ºC and 1 atm (heat of fusion under
these conditions is 6.0 kJ/ml) is:
(a) –6 J/K (b) –22 J/K (c) +22 J/K (d) +6 J/K
18. The compressibility factor for an ideal gas is:
(a) 1 (b) 1.5 (c) 2 (d) 
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19. A partile executes simple harmonic motion of period 16s. Two seconds later after it passes through the centre
of oscillation its velocity is found to be 2 ms–1. The amplitude is
(a) 7.2 m (b) 3.6 m (c) 12.5 m (d) 15.4 m
20. A body executing SHM has an amplitude of 10 cm and its time period is 1.5s. The time taken by the body to
travel a distance of 5 3 cm from its rest position.
(a) 0.25s (b) 0. 5 s (c) 0.75 s (d) 1s
SECTION-B
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21. Let, a vector field is given by v  xy i  y zj  xz 2 kˆ . The directional derivative of v 2 at the
2ˆ 2 ˆ
point (2, 0, 3) in the direction of outward normal to the sphere x2 + y2 + z2 = 14 at that point (3, 2, 1)?
1404 1404 1404 1404
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 41 6 14
1 1 1
x y z 
22. If matrix P =  , then which of the following statement for matrix P is true ?
 x 2 y2 z 2 
(a) Rank of P is 1 is x = y = z (b) Rank of p is 2 if x = y = z

(c) Rank of P is 3 if x = y = z (d) Rank of P is 3 always
23. Suppose m and  n stationary state wave functions of a particle in a deep square well potential. Which
r
of the following statements about  m | p x |  n = 0, is true?
(a) r is odd integer and (m + n) is odd (b) r is odd integer and (m + n) is even
(c) r is even integer and (m + n) is even (d) none of these

24. For any normalized wave packet in one dimension, probablity current density J(x) can be the can be related
with momentum px by
  2
2 px
(a)  J  x  dx  px (b)  J  x  dx  m
0 0
  2
px px
\ (c)  J  x  dx  m (d)  J  x  dx  m
 
25. In a certain inertian frame S two light pulses are emitted at point 5 km apart and separated in time by 5  s .
An observer moving at a speed v simultaneously along a line joining these points observes that the pulses
are simultaneous. The speed of the observer is
(a) 0.3c (b) 0.6c (c) 0.8c (d) 0.9c
26. The eyes can be regarded as a single spherical refracting surface of radius of curvature 7.8 mm., separating
two media of indices 1 and 1.34 respectively. The distance from the refracting suraface at which a parallel
beam of light will come to focus, is
(a) 1.15 cm. (b) 2.34 cm. (c) 3.07 cm. (d) 4.36 cm.
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27. A glass plate of thickness 1.2 mm. is placed in the path of one of the interfering beams in a biprism experiment,
using a wavelength of 6000 A0. If the central band shifts by a distance equal to the width of the bands, then
the refractive index of the glass will be
(a) 1.45 (b) 1.5 (c) 1.54 (d) 1.61
28. For the given zener diode network shown. Calculate max lead current IZ  0mA
50
(20–30)V RL
V=10V
1 2
(a) A (b) A (c) 2A (d) 5A
5 5
29. For the given transistor network shown in figure the transistor is operating in:
10V
2K
50V
5V VBE sat  0.8V
VCE sat  0.2V
1K
(a) Saturation (b) Active (c) Cutoff (d) Inverse active

30. For a two-dimensional free electron gas, the electronic density n, and the Fermi energy EF, are related by
3 3 1
(a) n 
 2mE F  2
(b) n 
mE F
(c) n 
mE F
(d) n 
2 2
 mE F  2
32 3  2 2 2 
31. A triangle of uniform mass density of base L and height h is shown below. The centre of mass of the triangle lies
at this distance above the base:
L
h 2h h h
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 2 3 6
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32. A horizontal circular platform rotates with a constant angular velocity  directed vertically upwards. A person
seated at the centre shoots a bullet of mass ‘m’ horizontally with speed ‘v’. The acceleration of the bullet, in the
reference frame of the shooter, is
(a) 2v  to his right (b) 2v  to his left

(c) v  to his right (d) v  to his left
33. The total energy E of a particle of mass m executing small oscillations about the origin along on the x-direction
1 x
is given by, E  mv 2  V0 cosh   , where V0 and L are positive constants. The time period T of oscilla-
2 L
tion is
1 m L m mL2
(a) T  (b) T  2 (c) T  L (d) T  2
2 V0 m E V0
34. A closed loop of area A is placed in a perpendicular magnetic field which varies with time as
B  t   at 4  bt 3 where a, b, t > 0. Magnitude of maximum e.m.f. induced in the loop is
Ab3 Ab 2 Ab 2
(a) (b) (c) (d) None of these
4a 2 2a 3 3a
35. In the figure shown what is the potential difference between points P and Q. If magnetic field changes with time
as B  t , length of each side of circuit is ‘a’
P
R
a 2
(a) R
4
a 2
(b) R
2
R Q
a 2
(c)
3
(d) zero.
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36. Electric field associated with an electromagnetic wave is E  E0 xˆ cos(kz  t  ) , amplitude of displace-
ment current, density
E 0 0  E 0 0
(a) E0 0  (b) E0 0 (c) (d)
c c
37. A particle of mass m is thrown from origin in x-y plane. There exists a uniform magnetic field B along z
direction. The particle describes a circular path in x-y plane. It is found that y=5 line is a tangent to the circle at
 
point 5 2, 5 . What is the radius of the circle?
(a) 5 (b) 7.5 (c) 10 (d)12
38. At 27ºC, two moles of a gas expand isothermally from 10 litre to 20 litre against a constant pressure of 1
atm. What is the work done in calories (1 atm litre = 24.2 cal)
(a) 10 (b) 242 (c) 484 (d) 1000
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39. At 300 K 2 moles of an ideal gas expand reversibly and isothermally from 1L to 10L. What is the entropy
change for the process?  R  2 cal K 1mol1 and in 10=2.303 
(a) 9.2 cal K 1 mol1 (b) 4.6 cal K 1 mol 1 (c) 2.76 cal K 1 mol 1 (d) 0
40. If Young’s double slit experiment the fringe ‘pattern is observed on the screen placed ot a distance D. The slits
are separated by ‘d’ and are illuminated by light of wavelength. The distance from the central point where the
intensity falls to half the maximum.
D D D D
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2d d 3d 4d
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SECTION-C
41. Calculate the flux of the vector field

   
F  xz 2iˆ  x 2 y  z 3 ˆj  2 xy  y 2 z kˆ
through the surface of the hemispherical region bounded by z  r 2  x 2  y 2 and z  0 .
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42. The convex surface of a plano-convex lens of glass with radius of curvature R = 0.5 m is placed on a flat glass
plate and illuminated from above with a monochromatic light of wave length  . The radius of the 30th dark
ring, after the central spot, in the reflected light is r. Watching this ring, the lens is removed vertically upward by
a distance 5 m , the new radius of the ring is found out to be 1 mm. smaller than the old radius r..
(i) Calculate both the new and old radius of the ring.
(ii) Calculate the wavelength of the light.
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43. A quantum mechanical particle moving in one dimension has thw wave function:
  x   Axe |x|/ k    x   
where A is the normalization constant and k is a positive constant. Calculate the probabiity that the position of
the particle lies in the region   x  k .
e  ax  2 2x 2 
(Useful Integral:  x 2 e ax dx  
a  x  a  a 2  for a  0 )
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44. For the given transistor network shown. Calculate AI, AV, Ri, R0.
If hic = 1K, hoc = 2  10 4 , hfe = 100, hre = 2×10–4, VBE = 0.7V.
10V
2K
50K V0
C2
C1
1K
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45. A ball is thrown down a lawn in such a way that it initially slides with a speed v0 without rolling. It gradually
picks up rotational motion. When it starts rolling without sliding, calculate its total kinetic energy and total
angular momentum.
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46. If a gas of volume V1 at pressure p1 is compressed adiabatically to volume V2 and pressure p2, calculate
the work done by the gas. Express your answer in terms of the given quantities only.
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47. A dipole of electric moment p is located at a distance ‘r’ from a long thread charged with a linear density
 . Find the force on the dipole if (a) it is placed parallel to the thread, (b) perpendicular to the thread.
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48. Calculate the velocity of sound in a mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and argon at 0ºC when their masses are
in the ratio 2 : 7 : 1. The molecular weights of gases are 32, 28 and 40 respectively.
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IIT-JAM Physics Test Series-VIII
Answer Key 26-01-2014
Section A
1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (a)

6. (d) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (d) 10. (a)
11. (c) 12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (c)
16. (d) 17. (b) 18. (a) 19. (a) 20. (a)
Section B
21. (d) 22. (a) 23. (b) 24. (c) 25. (a)
26. (c) 27. (b) 28. (b) 29. (b) 30. (b)
31. (a) 32. (b) 33. (d) 34. (a) 35. (d)
36. (a) 37. (a) 38. (c) 39. (a) 40. (d)

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TEST PAPER CODE : PH IIT-JAM PHYSICS 2014

1. The question-cum-answer booklet has 14 pages and has

2. Wri te your Name in the appropriate space

3. Section-A and Section-B have objective questions.

4. Section-C has descriptive questions. Each question

6. All answers must be written in blue/black/blue-black ink

7. For rough work blank sheets are attached in the end of

8. No supplementary sheets will be provided to

9. Clip board, log tables, slide rule, calculator,

3. The function f  x   sinh 1 x can be express as

9. Identify the function F generated by the logic network shown

(a) F   X  Y  Z (b) F  Z  Y  YX (c) F  ZY  Y  X  (d) F  XYX

(a) Zero (b) 29 (c) 38 (d) 3

(a) Rank of P is 1 is x = y = z (b) Rank of p is 2 if x = y = z

(c) r is even integer and (m + n) is even (d) none of these

(a) 0.3c (b) 0.6c (c) 0.8c (d) 0.9c

(a) 1.45 (b) 1.5 (c) 1.54 (d) 1.61

(a) Saturation (b) Active (c) Cutoff (d) Inverse active

(a) 2v  to his right (b) 2v  to his left

B  t   at 4  bt 3 where a, b, t > 0. Magnitude of maximum e.m.f. induced in the loop is

through the surface of the hemispherical region bounded by z  r 2  x 2  y 2 and z  0 .

1. (c) 2. (b) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (a)

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