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Upthrust IX Test

This physics test has 18 questions testing concepts related to fluid mechanics, pressure, density, floatation, upthrust, Archimedes' principle, and Pascal's law. The test is out of 80 total marks and takes 2 hours to complete. It involves defining terms, explaining phenomena, listing properties, solving calculations, and finding densities and relative densities using various measurements and principles.

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Upthrust IX Test

This physics test has 18 questions testing concepts related to fluid mechanics, pressure, density, floatation, upthrust, Archimedes' principle, and Pascal's law. The test is out of 80 total marks and takes 2 hours to complete. It involves defining terms, explaining phenomena, listing properties, solving calculations, and finding densities and relative densities using various measurements and principles.

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Physics Test Total Marks -80 Time : 2 hrs

1. Define the following : (2x4)


a. Bouyancy
b. Fluid pressure
c. Relative density.
d. Zero error
2. Give reasons for the following :- (2x11)
a. Sleepers are laid below the rails.
b. Mercury is used as a barometric liquid.
c. A toy balloon filled with hydrogen rises to the ceiling, but if filled with carbon dioxide
sinks to the floor.
d. It is difficult to hold a school bag having a strap made of thin and strong string.
e. As a ship in harbor is being unloaded, it slowly rises higher in water.
f. Sea divers need special protective suits.
g. There is no change in level of water on melting a floating piece of ice.
h. An iron nail sinks in water while an iron ship floats on water.
i. A balloon filled with hydrogen rises to a certain height and then stops rising urther.
j. Bubble released at the bottom of a lake grows in size as it rises to the surface of the
lake.
k. It is easier to swim in sea water than in freshwater lake.
3. Explain the impact of atmospheric pressure during :- (2x3)
a. Filling of ink into a fountain pen.
b. Sucking a drink with a straw.
c. Taking out oil from a sealed oil can.
4. List three characteristic properties of upthrust. 3
5. State various conditions of floatation. 3
6. List the factors affecting upthrust. 2
7. Name various types of zero error.How can they be removed? 1+2
8. State
a. Archimedes principle. 2
b. Pascal’s Law 2
9. The pitch of a screw gauge is 2mm and there are 200 divisions on the circular head.
While measuring the diameer of a wire , the main scale reads 3 mm and the 55th division
is in line with the base line. Find the diameter of wire, assuming no zero error in the
instrument. 3
10.The length of a simple pendulum is decreased by 5%. Whateffect does it have on the time
period of pendulum? 2
2
11.A VC has 1mm mark on the main scale.It has 20 equal divisions on the vernier scale
which matches with 16 main scale divisions. For this VC , find the least count. 2
12.A wooden block floats in water with two-third of its volume submerged. Calculate
a. Density of wood. 2
b. When the same block is placed on oil, 3/4th of its volume is immersed in oil. Find the
density of oil. 2
13.A piece of wax floats on brine. What fraction of its volume is immersed ? Density of wax
= 0.95 g/cm3 , Density of brine = 1.1 gm/cm3 2
14.A piece of stone of mass 113 gm sinks to the bottom in water contained in a measuring
cylinder and water level in cylinder rises from 30 ml to 40 ml.Calculate RD of stone. 2
15.A metal cube of side 5 cm and density 7.9 g/cm3 is suspended by a thread and is
immersed completely in a liquid of density 1.1 gm/cm3. Find
a. the weight of cube
b. the upthrust of cube and
c. the tension in thread. (2x3)
16.A solid of density ρ has weight W. Show that its apparent weight wil be W[1- (ρ/ρL)]
when it is completely immersed in a liquid of density ρL. 3
17.A weather forecasting plastic balloon of volume 15 m³ contains hydrogen of density 0.09
kg m-3. The volume of an equipment carried by the balloon is negligible compared to its
own volume. The mass of empty balloon alone is 7.15 kg. The balloon is floating in air of
density 1.3 kg m 3. Calculate: 4
(i) the mass of hydrogen in the balloon,
(ii) the mass of hydrogen and balloon,
(iii) the total mass of hydrogen, balloon and equipment if the mass of equipment is x kg,
(iv) the mass of air displaced by balloon and (v) the mass of equipment using the law of
floatation.
18.A student recorded the following observations in his notebook. 3
(i) Weight of stone in air = 280 gm-wt
(ii) Weight of the stone in pure water = 240 gm-wt
(iii) Weight of the stone in salty water = 190 gm-wt
Find the relative density of salty water.

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