KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGTHAN, JAIPUR REGION

HALF YEARLY EXAM. 2023-24

CLASS XI -PHYSICS (042)

Time Allowed: 3hours Maximum Marks:70

General Instructions:
(1) There are 33 questions in all. all questions are compulsory.
(2) This question paper has five sections: section A, section B, section C,
section D and section E.
(3) All the sections are compulsory.
(4) Section A contains sixteen questions, twelve mcq’s and four assertion
reasoning based of 1 mark each, section B contains five questions of
two marks each, section C contains seven questions of three marks
each, section D contains two case study-based questions of four marks
each and section E contains three long answer questions of five marks
each.
(5) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been
provided in one question in section B, one question in section C, one
question in each question in section D and all three questions in section
E. You have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
(6) Use of calculators is not allowed.

SECTION- A
1. A man weighs 80 kg, stands on a weighing scale in lift, which is moving 1M
-2
upward with a uniform acceleration of 5 ms . What would be the reading
on the scale? (g=10 ms-2)
(a) 1200 N (b) 400N (c) 800 N (d) zero
2. When the mass of the body is doubled. The coefficient of friction will be- 1M
(a) halved (b) tripled (c) doubled (d) not change
3. A diver in a swimming pool bends his hand before diving. It- 1M
(a) increases his linear velocity.
(b) increases his moment of inertia.
(c) decreases his angular velocity.
(d) decreases his moment of inertia.
4. The angle between two vectors i + j and i - j is 1M
(a) 900 (b) 450
(c) 600 (d) 00

5. Analogue of mass in rotational motion is- 1M

(a) Moment of inertia (b) Radius of gyration
(c) Angular momentum (d) None of the above
6. Out of the following pair, which one does not have identical dimensions? 1M
(a)Work and torque

(b)Moment of inertia and moment of force

(c)Angular momentum and Plank's constant

d) Impulse and momentum

7. The displacement (in meters) of a body varies with time t (in second) as 1M
y = t2 – t – 2. The displacement is zero for a positive of t equal to
(a) 1 s (b) 2 s (c) 3 s (d) 4 s
8. A boy starts from a point A, travels to a point B at a distance of 3 km 1M
from A and returns to A. If he takes two hours to do so, his average
speed is
(a) 2 km/h (b) zero (c) 3 km/h (d) 1.5 km/h

9. A particle moves on a circular path with decreasing speed. Choose the 1M

correct statement.
(a) Angular momentum remains constant.
(b) Acceleration is towards the centre.
(c) The direction of angular momentum remains constant.
(d) Particle moves on a spiral path with decreasing radius.
10 The significant figures in 0.2590 m and 4.0583 are- 1M
. (a) 4 ,5 (b) 5,4 (c) 3, 5 (d) 4,3

11 At what height above the surface of the earth, the value of g become g/2 1M
. ? (R is the radius of the earth)-
(A)h = 2R (B) h=3R (C) h=√2R (D) h=(√2 – 1)R

12 If mass of a satellite revolving around the earth is made four times, then 1M
. the orbital velocity of the satellite will become
(a) two times (b) four times
(c) eight times (d) remains same

For Questions 13 to 16, two statements are given –one labelled Assertion
(A) and other labelled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these
questions from the options as given below.
(a)If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is correct
explanation of Assertion.
(b) If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not
the correct explanation of Assertion.
(c) If Assertion is true but Reason is false.
(d) If both Assertion and Reason are false.
13. Assertion(A): Impulse of force and momentum are same physical 1M
quantities.
Reason (R):. Both quantities have same unit.
14. Assertion (A): Horizontal component of a vector is zero. 1M
Reason (R): Vector is directed in the vertical direction.
15. Assertion (A): The kinetic energy of a body decreases when it rises 1M
vertically up under the gravity in vacuum.
Reason (R): Mechanical energy of body remains constant. .
16. Assertion (A): An object can have constant speed but 1M
variable velocity.
Reason (R): The speed is scalar but velocity is vector quantity.
SECTION- B
17. Derive an expression for the potential energy of an elastic stretched 2M
spring.
18. If kinetic energy of a body is increased by 300%, by what percentage 2M
will linear momentum of the body increase?
19. State Kepler’s third law for planetary motion and explain it. 2M
20. Show that for an isolated system the centre of mass moves with 2M
uniform velocity along a straight-line path?

21. Define the torque? Find the torque of a force 4î -3ĵ+5k̂ about the origin 2M
which acts on a particle whose position vector is î+ĵ+k̂.
OR
Prove that the time rate of change of the angular momentum of a
particle is equal to the torque acting on it.

SECTION- c
22. 3M
A ball is thrown vertically upward with a velocity of 20ms-1 from top of
a building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is25m
from the ground. (i) How high will the ball rise? (ii)How long will it be
before the ball hits the ground? (g=10ms-2).
OR
The position of a particle is- r =3.0tî+2.0t2 ĵ+5.0k̂ , where t is in
seconds and r in metres. Find (i) v(t) &a(t) of particle, (ii) magnitude
& direction of v(t) at t=3.0 s.

23. Three blocks are connected together (as shown in the figure) lie on a 3M
horizontal frictionless table and pulled to the right with a force F=
60N.If m1=5kg, m2=10kg, m3=15kg, find the tensions T1 and T2.

24. Draw velocity- time graph of uniformly accelerated motion in one 3M

dimension. From the velocity – time graph of uniform accelerated
motion, deduce the equation of motion in distance and time.

25. Define elastic collision. A body of mass m moving with speed v collide 3M
elastically head on with another body of mass m initially at rest. Show
that the moving body will come to rest as the result of this collision.

26. The time period T of oscillation of the simple pendulum depends on (i) 3M
mass m of bob (ii) length l of the pendulum and (iii) acceleration due
to gravity g. Derive the expression for the time period T using method
of dimensions.
27. Derive an expression for ‘g’ at a depth ‘d’ from the surface of earth? 3M
What is the weight of body at the center of the earth?
28. A solid cylinder of mass 20 kg rotates about its axis with angular 3M
speed 100 rad s-1. The radius of the cylinder is 0.25 m. What is the
kinetic energy associated with the rotation of the cylinder? What is the
magnitude of angular momentum of the cylinder about its axis?
SECTION- D (CASE BASED QUESTIONS)
29. Case Study Based Question 4M
Suppose that if the force applied in the horizontal direction on a
body lying on a surface is less, then the body does not have any
motion because an equal and opposite frictional force is present.
 It is because static friction is in operation between surfaces that
are at rest with respect to each other. As the applied force is
increased the frictional force too increases continuously until a
stage is reached when the body is just at the verge of sliding. The
force of friction at this stage is called the limiting friction.
Magnitude of frictional forces acting between the surfaces in
contact depends upon how hard the surfaces press each other.
(i) Frictional force acting on two surfaces in contact
(a) Depends on normal reaction
b) depends on the nature of surfaces in contact
(c) Does not depend upon the magnitude of area of contact.
(d) all of the above.

(ii) When pulling a lawn roller the normal reaction of the surface
is
(a) more than the weight of body (b) less than the weight of body
(c ) equal to the weight of body (d) equal to the applied force

(iii) Magnitude of frictional force acting

on the body (body is stationary) kept on
the inclined plane is:
(a) mg sinθ (b) mg cos θ
(c ) µ mg cosθ (d) non of these

(iv) Magnitude of frictional force acting

on the body sliding on the inclined plane
is:
(a) mg sinθ (b) mg cos θ
(c ) µ mg cosθ (d) none of these

OR

(iv) A block of wood is placed on a surface. A force is

applied parallel to the surface to move the body. The
frictional force developed acts
(a) normal to the surface upwards
(b) normal to the surface downwards
(c) along the direction of the applied force
(d) opposite to the direction of the applied force

30. 4M
Read the following paragraph and answers the questions:
Projectile motion is a type of motion in which an object is thrown
with some initial velocity near the earth’s surface at angle and it
moves along a curved path under the action of gravity alone. The
path followed by the projectile is called its trajectory and the
components along horizontal and vertical directions are given by
u cosө and u sinө respectively.
 (i)The example of projectile motion is
(a) motion of a car on a banked road
(b) motion of boat in sea
(c) a javelin thrown by an athlete
(d) none of these
(ii)The acceleration of the object in horizontal direction during
projectile motion is
(a) Constant
(b) Decreasing
(c) Increasing
(d) Zero
(iii)The vertical component of the velocity at the maximum height
during projectile motion is
(a) Maximum
(b) Zero
(c) Double to that at o
(d) Equal to horizontal component
(iv)Which of the following is constant during projectile motion?
(a) Horizontal component of velocity
(b) Vertical component of velocity
(c) Net velocity at any point of the projectile motion
(d) none of these
OR
(iv)The maximum range of projectile is 2/√𝟑 times the actual
range. The angle of projection for the actual range is…
(a) 900 (b) 450
(c) 300 (d) 600

SECTION-E

31. (i) State the parallelogram law of vector addition. Show that the 3+2
resultant of two vectors, A and B inclined at an angle θ is M
R2 =A2+B2+2ABcosθ.
(ii) At what angle do the two forces (P+Q) and (P-Q) act so that the
resultant is √(P2+3Q2).
OR
(i)What is centripetal acceleration? Derive an expression for the
centripetal acceleration of a particle moving with constant speed v
along a circular path of radius r.
(ii).A stone tied to the end of a string 80 cm long whirled in a
horizontal circle with a constant speed. If the stone makes 14
revolutions in 20 seconds. What is the magnitude and direction of
 acceleration of the stone?

32. (a) State the low of conservation of linear momentum and prove it by 3+2
third law of motion. M
(b)Why is it easier to pull a lawn mower than to push it. Explain it?
OR
(a)What do you mean by banking of road? Derive expression for
maximum velocity of a car on banked circular road.
(b) Find the maximum speed at which a car can take turn round a
curve of 30m radius on a level road. If the coefficient of friction
between the tyres and road is 0.4. (g=10ms-2)
33. (i)Define escape velocity. Derive an expression for the escape 3+2
velocity of a satellite projected form the surface of the earth ? There is M
no atmosphere at moon surface. Why?
(ii) The escape velocity of a projected on the earth’s surface is 11.2
km s-1 . A body is projected out with thrice this speed. What is the
speed of the body far away from the earth? Ignore the presence of
the sun and other planets.
OR
Define gravitational potential energy? Obtain an expression for it for a
1body of mass m lying at a distance r from the centre of earth. What
is the value of gravitational potential energy at infinity?