Sub.: Physics Question Bank Std. XI Sci.

MCQS.

1. Which one of the following group have quantities that DO NOT have same……..
(a) velocity , speed (b) pressure, work / volume

(c) force, impulse (d) work, energy

2............... Is a vector quantity

(a) Electric charge (b) Time

(c) Electroststics potential (d) Force

3. Which of the following is not a fundamental unit……………………….

(a) cm (b) kg (c) centigrade (d) volt

4. What is the magnitude of sum of the vectors P = 3 i and Q = 4j ?

(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 7

5. An object throw from a moving bus is an example of………………..

(a) Uniform circular motion (b) Rectilinear motion

c) Projectile motion (d) strain

6. Length of path between two positions of particale is… ……….

(a) displacement (b) velocity (c ) acceleration (d) distance

7. Name the law that states the force between electric charges……….

(a) Ohm’s law (b) Coulomb’s law. (c) faraday’s law. (d ) Ampere’s law

8. Change in dimensions is known as ……….

(a) deformation (b) formation (c) contraction (d) strain

9. Current through a reverse biased P-N junction increases abruptly at ……….

(a) Breakdown Voltage (b) 0.0 V (c ) 0.3 V (d) 0.7 V

10. Earth’s atmosphere is richest in ………………………..

(a) U V (b) I R (c) X-ray (d) Microwave

11. Which is the following is an Ohmic conductor……………………….

(a) transistor (b) Vacuum tube (c) electrolyte (d) nichrom wire

12. If two temperatures differ by 25o c on cousins scale, the difference in temperature on fahrenlit
scale

(a) 65o (b) 45o (c) 38 o (d) 25o

13. Speed of sound is maximum in …………………..

 (a) Air (b) Water (c) Vacuum (d) solid

14. For a particle having a uniform circular motion, which of the following is constant…………….

(a) speed (b) Acceleration (c) Velocity (d) Displacement

15. The binding energy of a satellite revolving around planet in a circular orbit is 3 x 109 it’s kinetic

energy is…………….

(a) 6 x109 J (b) -3 X 109 J (c) -6 X 109 J (d ) 3 X 109 J

16. The magnitude of scalar product of two unit vectors perpendicular to each other is………….

a) -1 b) zero c) 1 d) 2

17. For two vector to be equal, they should have the…..

a) Same magnitude b) Same direction

c) Same magnitude and direction d) Same magnitude but opposite direction.

18. Magnetic meridian is the plain…..

a. Perpendicular to the magnetic axis of earth

b. Perpendicular to the geographical axis of earth

c. Passing through the magnetic axis of earth

d. Passing through the geographic axis of earth

19. Newton’s third law of motion lad to the law of conservation of....

a. angular momentum b. energy

c. mass d. momentum

20............... Is a vector quantity

(a) Electric charge (b) Time

(c) Electroststics potential (d) Force

21. Electric conduction through a semiconductor is due to …..

a. electrons b. holes

c. none of these d. both electron and holes

22. A constant F is applied to a body of mass m. The power delivered by the force at time t from the

start is proportional to…

a. t b. t2 c. √𝑡 d. t0
Answer the following:

1. What is Dot product.

2. Write the Dimension of Acceleration.

3. State conditions for electrostatic force to the attractive or repulsive.

4. State and describe the Plane angle.

5. What do you mean by gravitational constant? State it’s SI unit?

6. Define the term absolute refractive index?

7. What is the EM waves?

8. State parallelogram law of vector addition.

9. What is rectilinear motion ?

10. What is the unit of magnetic Intensity?

11. What is Young’s modulus of a rigid body?

12. State parallelogram law of vector addition

13. Define critical angle.

14. What is the fundamental quantity?

15. If A is parallel to B, What is their vector product?

16. What is the SI unit of magnetic field?

17. State the Newton’s second low of motion.

18. Explain the term Electric flux.

19. Write the Dimension of Acceleration

20. If a glass rod is given a charge of 1nC, how many electrons must have been removed from
the rod?
21. State the Ohm’s law

22. Describe the Plane angle.

23. A charge of 6C passes through the cross section of a copper wire in one minute .find the

current through the wire.

24. Define uniform circular motion (UCM).

25. If the motion of a particle is described by x = f (t), write the formulae for instantaneous velocity

and instantaneous acceleration. Define modulus of elasticity

26. Define 1 eV.1mark

27. What is intrinsic semiconductor

29. Define potential barrier.

30. What is knee voltage

SECTION: B

Q.1. Distinguish between P-type and n-type of a particle.

Q.2. Describe briefly different types of systems of unit.

Q.3. Distinguish between Scaler quantity and Vector quantity.

Q.4. Find the percentage error in kinetic energy of a body having mass 60.0+-0.3 g moving with a
velocity 25.0 +-0.1 cm/s.

Q.5. Length ‘L’, force ‘F’ and time ‘T’ are taken as fundamental quantities. What would the

dimensional equation of mass and density ?

Q.6. what is uniform and non uniform electric field? Represent them diagrammatically

Q.7. Explain commutative and associative property of vector addition.

Q.8. Determine the significant figures of the following measurements —

(a) 0.70787 (b) 6.67 X 10-11

Q.9. Define the following terms with the help of diagram.

i) Electric dipole, ii) Dipole axis, iii)Axis line & iv)Equatorial line.

Q.10. State any four properties of electric line of force.

Q.11. What is the magnetic axis and magnetic equator?

Q.12. Define and expression of specific resistance

Q.13. Define average velocity and instantaneous velocity. When they are same?

Q.14. State any four properties of line of force.

Q.15. Give the any four application of semiconductor P-N junction diode

Q.16 Distinguish between Real force and Pseudo force

Q.17. State and explain the Hook’s law

Q.18. State Kepler’s three of planetary motion

Q.19. State and explain Ohm’s law.

Q.20. Define and expression of specific resistance

Q.21. What is the acceleration due to gravity?

Q.22. What are the dimensions of the quantity l √𝑙/𝑔. l being the length and g the acceleration due
to gravity?

Q.23. Uses of Dimensional Analysis to check the correct of physical equations. V = u + at.
Q.24: Earth magnetic field of the equator is approximately 4 X 10-5 T. Calculate earth dipole moment.

(Radius of earth equal to 6.4 X 106 Mtr, µ0= 4 πX 10-7 SI unit)

Q.25: Define kinematics and dynamic motion.

Q.26: Draw and explain the I-V characteristics of a forward baised diode.

Q.27: State and explain Kepler’s law of orbits.

Q.28. What is p-n junction diode? Draw its circuit symbol.

Q.29. Explain shearing strain.

Q.30. State and explain Hooke’s law.

Q.31. When is a body said to be perfectly elastic? Give an example for perfectly elastic body and

perfectly plastic body.

Q.32. A wire of length 20 m and area of cross section 1.25 × 10-4 m2 is subjected to a load of 2.5 kg. (1

kg wt = 9.8 N). The elongation produced in wire is 1 × 10-4 m. Calculate Young’s modulus of
the material

Q.33. Explain the concept of kinetic friction.

Q.34. Derive expression for Poisson’s ratio.

Q.35. A uniform steel wire of length 3 m and area of cross section 2 mm2 is extended through 3 mm.

Calculate the energy stored in the wire, if the elastic limit is not exceeded. (Ysteel = 20 × 1010 N/m2)

SECTION: C
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Q.1. Using dimensions, show that 1 joule= 10 erg

Q.2. Explain different types of error in measurements.

Q.3. Explain the characteristics of Vector Product.

Q.4. Derive expression for electric intensity at a point on the axis of an electric dipole

Q.5. State different types of modulus of elasticity.

Q.6. Write down the main characteristics of longitudinal waves.

Q.7. Define the following terms. Give their SI units.

i. Period
ii. Frequency
iii. Velocity

Q.8. A bat emits ultrasonic sound of frequency 1000 kHz in air. If the sound meets a water surface,
what is the wavelength of (i) the reflected sound, (ii) the transmitted sound? Speed of sound in air is
340 m s-1 and in water is 1486 m s-1
Q.9. What is bulk modulus? Derive an expression for bulk modulus.
Q.10. Derive expression for couple acting on an electric dipole in a uniform electric field.

Q.11. State and Explain Coulomb’s law of electric charge.

Q.12. Explain the Gauss' law for electric fields.

Q.13. Write a short note on space wave

Q.14. A car moving along a straight road with a speed of 120 km/hr, is brought to rest by applying
brakes. The car covers a distance of 100 m before it stops. Calculate (i) the average retardation of
the car (ii) time taken by the car to come to rest.

Q.15. Show that the path of a projectile is a parabola.

Q.16. Explain principal of conservation of linear momentum

Q.17. Explain variation of resistance with temperature

Q.18. State and explain work energy theorem.

Q.19. Explain the working of forward biased and reverse biased junction diode.
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Q.20. The length of metal rod at 27 c is 4 cm. The length increases to 4.02 cm. When the metal rod is

heated upto 3870C. Determine coefficient of linear expression of the metal rod.

Q.21. Derive and expression for couple acting on dipole movement when place in an electric field

Q.22: Explain Magnetic field due to a bar magnet at a point along the axis.

Q.23: A hose pipe used for gardening is injecting water horizontally at the rate of 0.5 m / s. Area of

the bore of the pipe is 10 cm2. Calculate the force to the applied by the gardener to hold the

pipe horizontally stationary.

Q.24: The speeds of sound in air at a given place on two different days of a given week are in the
ratio of 1:1.1.Assuming the pressure on the two days to be the same, what quantitative conclusion
can you draw about the condition ( density of air ) on the two days?
Q.25. Derive expression for electric intensity at a point on the axis of an electric dipole.

Q.26. What is the resistance of one of the rails of a railway track 20 km long at 200C?

The cross section area of the rail is 25 cm2and the rail is made of steel having

resistivity 6X10-8Ω.

Q.27: State the characteristics of electromagnetic wave

Q.28. What is the conical pendulum ? show that the it’s time period is given by, 2π root l cos Ѳ/g

Q.29. An object of mass 50 g moves uniformly along a circular orbit with an angular speed of 5
rad/s .If the linear speed of the poetical is 258m/s , what is the radius of the circle? Calculate the
centripetal force acting on the particle
Q.30. Calculate the value of acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Mars if the radius of
Mars=3.4x103 km and its mass is 6.4x1023 kg.
Q.31. Explain universal Gravitational force between masses m1 and m2

Q.32. Explain Newton’s formula for velocity of sound What is it s limitation?

Q 33.An echo sounder in a fishing boat receive s an echo from a shoal of fish 0.45 s after it was
sent .if the speed of sound in water is 1500 m/s, how deep is the shoal ?
Q.34: Write a short notes on Total internal reflection.

SECTION: D

Q.1. .For a prism, prove the relation i+e = A+d (delta). Where the symbols have their usual
meanings.

Q.2. A) State and explain the gauss' law of magnetism.

B) A magnetic pole of bar magnet with pole strength of 100A m is 20cm away from the centre of
bar magnet .Bar magnet has pole strength of 200 A m and has a length 5cm.If the magnetic pole is
on the axis of the bar magnet ,find the force on the magnetic pole

Q.3. A) Derive an expression for centripetal acceleration of a particle performing uniform circular
motion.

B) A particle moves in a circle with constant speed of 15 m/s . The radius of the circle is 2 m.
Determine the centripetal acceleration of the particle.

Q.4. A) Define uniform electric field and non uniform electric field….

B) Gap between two electrodes of spark plug used in an automobile engine is 1.25 mm. If the
potential of 20 V is applied across the gap, what will be the magnitude of electric field between
the electrodes?

Q.5. A) State and explain law of Rolling friction…..

B) The coefficient of static friction between a block of mass 0.25 kg and a horizontal surface is
0.4. Find the horizontal force applied to it.

Q.6. A) Write the notes on ground waves…

B) An EM wave of frequency 50 MHz travels in vacuum along the positive x axis and E at a
particular point, x and at a particular instant of time t is 9.6 j V/m. Find the magnitude of
direction of B at this point x and at instant of time t.

Q.7. A) Write the notes on rheostat.

B) Calculate the resistance per meter, at room temperature, of a constant (alloy) wire of
diameter 1.25mm. The resistivity of constant room temperature is 5.0 x 10-7 ohm meter.

Q.8: A) State and prove law of conservation of momentum

B) As I was standing on a weighing machine inside a lift it recorded 50 kg wt. Suddenly for few

seconds it recorded 45 kg wt. What must have happened during this time? Explain with

complete numerical analysis.

 Q.9. A) Explain the term of 1) Magnetic axis 2) Magnetic equator

B) Find the value of resistance for the following colour code.

1) Blue, Green, Red, Gold.

2) Brown, Black, Red, Silver

Q.10: Explain the working of a forward - baised and reverse- baised pn-junction diode.
Q.11. A) Star A is farther than star B . Which star will have a larger parallax angle?
B) Derive the formula of kinetic energy of a particle having mass ‘m’ and velocity ‘v’ using
dimensional analysis
Q.12. A) Explain the variation in g altitude….
B) At what distance above the surface of earth the acceleration due to gravity decreases by 10%
of its value at the surface? (radius of earth = 6400 km)
Q13. (a)Explain Coulomb’s law in vector form
(b) Charge on an electron is 1.6x10-19C .How many electron are required to accumulate a
charge of one coulomb ?
Q14. a) State and explain principle of superposition.
b) What is the force between two small charge spheres having charges of 2 x 10-7 C and 3 x
10-7 C place 30 cm apart in air ?
Q15. a) define terms Zero vectors give its example. And what is rectangular unit vector explain.
b) Find the unit vector in the direction of the vector 3i+ 4j.