Vacation Home Work - 2080

1. If the ice on polar cap of earth melts, how will it affect the duration of the day? Explain.
2. Can you distinguish a raw egg and a hardboiled egg by spinning each on the table? Explain.
3. If earth shrinks how will be the duration of day affected?
4. The cap of a bottle can be easily opened with the help of two fingers than one finger. Why?
5. A ballet dancer stretches her hands when she wants to come to rest. Why?
6. Explain why spokes are fitted in the bicycle wheel.
7. What are the counterparts of mass and force in rotational motion?
8. Define moment of inertia and establish a relation of it with rotational kinetic energy of a body.
9. The speed of a motor engine decreases from 900 rev/min to 600 rev/min in 10 sec. calculate (i)
the angular acceleration (ii) number of revolution made by the motor during this interval. (iii)
how many additional seconds are required to come to rest in the same rate?
10. Speed of a body spinning about an axis increases from rest to 100 rev/min in 5 sec., if a constant
torque of 20 Nm is applied. The external torque is then removed and the body comes to rest in
100 sec. due to friction. Calculate the frictional torque.
11. A body is moving in a circular path with constant speed. Is this motion a simple harmonic?
Explain.
12. Show that the motion of a simple pendulum is simple harmonic motion. Derive its time period.
13. A particle of mass 0.3 kg vibrates with a period of 2 seconds. If the amplitude is 0.5 m, what is its
maximum K.E.?
14. An object moving with SHM has amplitude of 0.02 m and frequency of 20 Hz. Calculate (i) the
period of oscillation. (ii) the velocity and acceleration at the middle and end of oscillation.
15. An ice cube floats in glass of water. When the ice melts, will the water level in the glass rise, fall
or remains unchanged? Explain.
16. Why is the bottom of ship made heavy?
17. Establish a relation between surface tension and surface energy.
18. Why mercury does not wet a glass tube?
19. What will happen if a capillary tube of insufficient height is dipped in water?
20. What is capillarity? Deduce an expression for the rise of liquid in a capillary tube.
21. Define terminal velocity and describe the experimental method to find the coefficient of viscosity
of a liquid by Stoke’s method.
22. What is the maximum weight of an aircraft with a wing area of 50 m 2 flying horizontally, if the
velocity of the air over the upper surface of the wing is 150ms-1 and that below the lower surface
is 140 ms-1? Density of air = 1.29 kg/m3.
23. Piece of gold aluminium alloy weighs 100 g in air and 80 g in water. What is the weight of gold in
the alloy if the relative density of gold is 19.3 and that of aluminium is 2.5.