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CBSE IX Physics II Term Questions

The document contains questions about work, energy, momentum, and sound for a 9th standard physics exam. For work and energy, it asks about the direction of work, factors that kinetic energy depends on, examples of energy conversions. It also contains problems about work, power, potential and kinetic energy. For sound, it asks about the nature of sound waves, how they travel, and properties like frequency, wavelength and speed. It contains problems about sound intensity, reflection, ultrasound applications and the speed of sound.

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CBSE IX Physics II Term Questions

The document contains questions about work, energy, momentum, and sound for a 9th standard physics exam. For work and energy, it asks about the direction of work, factors that kinetic energy depends on, examples of energy conversions. It also contains problems about work, power, potential and kinetic energy. For sound, it asks about the nature of sound waves, how they travel, and properties like frequency, wavelength and speed. It contains problems about sound intensity, reflection, ultrasound applications and the speed of sound.

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The Study Lcole Internationale

Kalapet, Pondicherry - 14
IX Standard Physics
Work & Energy
One mark questions
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Does work have a direction?


Does the kinetic energy of an object depend on its direction of motion?
Can matter be converted into energy?
Give an example of conversion of chemical energy into heat energy.

Two marks questions


1. Two persons do the same amount of work. The first person does it in 10 s and the
second, in 20s.Find the ratio of the power used by the person to that by the second
person.
2. A body of mass 25 g has a momentum of 0.40 kgm/s. Find its kinetic energy.
3. Define work and write its units.
4. By what factor does the kinetic energy of an object depend on its direction of motion?

Three marks questions


1. How much time will it take to perform 440 j of work at a rate of 11 W.
2. A body of mass 3.0kg and a body B of mass 10 kg are dropped simultaneously from a
height of 14.9m.Calculate their Momenta, their Potential energies and kinetic energies
when they are 10m above the ground.
3. A man does 200J of work in 10 seconds and a boy does 100j of work in 4 seconds.
Who is delivering more power? Find the Ratio of power delivered by the man to that by
the boy.

Five marks questions


1. Show that the work done by a force is given by the product of the force and the
projection of the displacement along the force.
2. Find the expression for gravitational potential energy of a body of mass m at height h.
3. Why does a person standing for a long time get tired when he does not appear to do
any work?
4. How can you justify that a body kept at a greater height has larger energy?

Sound
One mark questions
1. What do you understand by sound waves?
2. Give an example to show that sound travels at a finite speed.
3. Is sound wave longitudinal or transverse?
4. Name two quantities that vary periodically at a place in air as a sound wave travels
through it
5. An airplane produces a sound wave with frequency of 5 KHz and wavelength 30 m. In
how much time would the sound wave cover the distance of 4 Km?
6. With the help of a diagram show how longitudinal waves like sound waves travel in air.
7. Can we hear the ringing of a mobile phone placed in a vacuum chamber?
8. Can two astronauts talk on moon a they does on the surface of the earth?

Two marks questions


1. Explain how echoes are used by bats to judge the distance of an obstacle?
2. State the special properties of ultrasound that make it useful to us .In general, how
these properties are utilized.
3. Why is soft furnishing avoided in concert halls?

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4. Draw a diagram depicting low pitched sound and high pitched sound and write main
difference between the two? 5. Distinguish between longitudinal and transverse waves.
Give one example each.
6. An explosion takes place at the moon. After what time would it be heard at the earth?

Three marks questions


1. Two sources A and B vibrate with the same amplitude. They produce sounds of
frequencies 1 kHz and 30 kHz respectively. Which of the two waves will have greater
power?
2. Find the time period of the source of a sound wave whose frequency is 400Hz.
3. A sound wave travels at a speed of 340m/s. If its wavelength is 2 cm, what is the
frequency of the wave? Will it be in the audible range?
4. The grandparents and parents of a two year girl are playing with her in a room. A
sound source produces a 28 kHz sound. Who in the room is most likely to hear the
sound?

Five marks questions


1. Sound cannot travel in vacuum. Describe an experiment to demonstrate this.
2. With the help of a diagram describe how compression and rarefaction pulses are
produced in air near a source of sound.
3. Explain briefly how a flaw in a mental component can be detected using ultrasound?
4. Explain the working and application of SONAR.
5. A monkey drops a coconut from the top of a tree. He hears the sound of the coconut
hitting the ground 2.057 seconds after dropping it .If the monkey was 19.6 metres above
the ground, what is the speed of sound in air?(take g = 9.8m/s 2).
6. Draw a neat diagram of human ear. Explain the function of various parts.

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