Class 11 Science Part II

Practice Questions

1. Two pistons of a hydraulic lift have diameters of 60 cm and 5 cm. What is the force
exerted by the larger piston when 50 N is placed on the smaller piston?
2. A solid sphere has a radius of 1.5 cm and a mass of 0.038 kg. Calculate the specific
gravity or relative density of the sphere.
3. A metal plate of area 2.5×10-4 m2 is placed on a 0.25×10-3 m thick layer of castor oil. If a
force of 2.5 N is needed to move the plate with a velocity 3×10-2 m s-1, calculate the
coefficient of viscosity of castor oil.
4. Let 2 .4×10−4 J of work is done to increase the area of a film of soap bubble from 50 cm2
to 100 cm2. Calculate the value of surface tension of soap solution.
5. Water rises in a capillary tube to a height of 2.0cm. How much will the water rise through
another capillary tube whose radius is one-third of the first tube?
6. In a normal adult, the average speed of the blood through the aorta (radius r = 0.8 cm) is
0.33 ms-1. From the aorta, the blood goes into major arteries, which are 30 in number,
each of radius 0.4 cm. Calculate the speed of the blood through the arteries.
7. Why coffee runs up into a sugar lump (a small cube of sugar) when one corner of the
sugar lump is held in the liquid?
Answer:The coffee runs up into the pores of sugar lump due to capillary action of the
liquid.
8. Within the elastic limit, the stretching strain produced in wires A, B, and C due to stress
is shown in the figure. Assume the load applied are the same and discuss the elastic
property of the material.

9. A wire 10 m long has a cross-sectional area 1.25 x 10-4 m2. It is subjected to a load of 5
kg. If Young’s modulus of the material is 4 x 1010 N m-2, calculate the elongation
produced in the wire.
10. A metallic cube of side 100 cm is subjected to a uniform force acting normal to the whole
surface of the cube. The pressure is 106 pascal. If the volume changes by 1.5 x 10-5 m3,
calculate the bulk modulus of the material.
11. A wire of length 2 m with the area of cross-section 10-6 m2 is used to suspend a load of
980 N. Calculate i) the stress developed in the wire ii) the strain and iii) the energy
stored.Given: Y = 12 × 1010N m−2
12. In a horizontal pipe of non-uniform cross section, water flows with a velocity of 1ms-1 at
a point where the diameter of the pipe is 20 cm. The velocity of water (ms-1) at a point
where the diameter of the pipe is…………………
13. Calculate the number of moles of air is in the inflated balloon at room temperature as
shown in the figure. The radius of the balloon is 10 cm, and pressure inside the balloon is
180 kPa.
14. Normal human body of the temperature is 98.6°F. During high fever if the temperature
increases to 104°F, what is the change in peak wavelength that emitted by our body?
(Assume human body is a black body)
15. 500 g of water is heated from 30°C to 60°C. Ignoring the slight expansion of water,
calculate the change in internal energy of the water? (specific heat of water 4184 J/kg.K)
16. A gas is at temperature 80°C and pressure 5 × 10-10N m-2. What is the number of
molecules per m3 if Boltzmann’s constant is 1.38 × 10-23 J K-1
17. Estimate the total number of air molecules in a room of capacity 25 m3 at a temperature
of 27°C
18. Classify the following motions as periodic and non-periodic motions?.
a. Motion of Halley’s comet.
b. Motion of clouds.
c. Moon revolving around the Earth.
19. Compute the position of an oscillating particle when its kinetic energy and potential
energy are equal.
20. Which of the following represent simple harmonic motion?
(i) x = A sin ωt + B cos ωt
(ii) x = A sin ωt+ B cos 2ωt
21. Calculate the amplitude, angular frequency, frequency, time period and initial phase for
the simple harmonic oscillation given below
a. y = 0.3 sin (40πt + 1.1)
b. y = 2 cos (πt)
22. Which of the following has longer wavelength?

23. The average range of frequencies at which human beings can hear sound waves varies
from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. Calculate the wavelength of the sound wave in these limits.
(Assume the speed of sound to be 340 m s-1
24. Calculate the velocity of the travelling pulse as shown in the figure below. The linear
mass density of pulse is 0.25 kg m-1. Further, compute the time taken by the travelling
pulse to cover a distance of 30 cm on the string.
25. Calculate the speed of sound in a steel rod whose Young’s modulus Y =2×1011Nm-
2 and ρ = 7800 kg m-3
26. Check the dimensional of the wave y = sin(x−vt). If it is dimensionally wrong, write the
above equation in the correct form.
27. Consider two sound waves with wavelengths 5 m and 6 m. If these two waves propagate
in a gas with velocity 330 ms-1. Calculate the number of beats per second.
28. Two vibrating tuning forks produce waves whose equation is given by y1 = 5 sin(240π t)
and y2 = 4 sin(244πt). Compute the number of beats per second.
29.If a flute sounds a note with 450Hz , what are the frequencies of the second, third, and
fourth harmonics of this pitch?.
30. A balloon with hydrogen in it rises up but a balloon with air comes down, why? 5.
Fig.(a) shows a thin liquid
31. Figs. (a) and (b) refer to the steady flow of a non-viscous liquid. Which of two figures
are incorrect and why?

32. Calculate the temperature at which the rms speed of CO2 gas molecule will be 1kms−1.
(Take, molecular mass of CO2 = 44u)
33. What is the kinetic energy of translation of one molecule of a gas at 300 K?
34. How does the boiling point of a liquid vary with pressure? Ans. The boiling point of a
liquid increases with pressure, e.g., if the pressure is more than the atmospheric pressure,
water boils at a temperature higher than 100°C.
35. Why the food is cooked faster in the pressure cooker? Why it becomes difficult to cook
food at mountains? Ans. The pressure inside the pressure cooker is very high. This
raises the boiling point of water and the temperature inside the cooker is higher than
100°C which results in faster cooking of food. At the mountains, the pressure is less, so
the cooking of food is difficult.
36. How does the burner of a gas work? Ans. The gas comes out of the nozzle with high
speed due to which the surrounding pressure decreases. The air from the hole enters the
main pipe. So, the gas and air both reaches to the top of the burner and starts burning on
ignition.
37. Why does an iron needle float on clean water but sink when some detergent is added to
this water? Ans. Due to surface tension, the free surface of liquid at rest behaves like a
stretched membrane. When an iron needle floats on the surface of clean water, its
weight is supported by the stretched membrane. When some detergent is added to this
water, its surface tension decreases.
38. Explain why: To keep a piece of paper horizontal, you should blow over, not under it.
39. Why does air pressure in car tyre increases during driving?
40. How does the broiling point and melting point of water changes with increase in
pressure? Ans. The B.P. of water increases with increase in pressure. While M.P. of ice
decreases with increase in pressure.
41. Is it possible to increase the temperature of a gas without adding heat to it? If yes, then
explain how?
42. Two different gases have exactly the same temperature. Does this mean that their
molecules move with the same r.m.s. speed? Ans. When the two gases have exactly the
same temperature the average kinetic energy per molecule for each gas is the same. But
as the different gases may have molecules of different masses, the r.m.s. speed (c) of
molecules of different gases shall be different.
43. Can a motion be oscillatory but not simple harmonic? Ans. Yes. When a ball is dropped
from a height on a perfectly elastic plane surface, the motion of the ball is oscillatory
but not simple harmonic. As: Restoring force, F = mg = constant But for S.H.M the
required condition is F ∝ -y.
44. Will a pendulum gain or lose time when taken to the top of a hill? Ans. Value of
acceleration due to gravity decreases at the top of the hill. Decrease in g means, increase
in T, i.e., the pendulum takes more time to complete vibration, it implies that it will lose
time.
45. It is sometimes unhealthy to put on wet clothes. Why? Ans. Because of high value of
specific heat of water, the wet clothes can take away a large amount of heat from the
body. Due to which, the temperature of the body may fall much below the normal
temperature.