MODEL QUESTION (2080)

GRADE – XI (PHYSICS)

SET- C

Attempt all the questions

1. If S is stress and Y is young’s modulus of a wire, the energy stored per unit volume in the wire can be
expressed as
2𝑌 𝑆 𝑆2
a) 𝑆 2 b) 2𝑌 c) 2𝑌 d) 2𝑆 2 Y

2. Two bodies having different mass have same momentum. Which of them has greater kinetic energy?
a) Heavier one b) Lighter one c) Both same d) Information is incomplete

3. The radius of the earth were to shrink by 2%, its mass remaining the same.by how much percent the acceleration due
to gravity changes
a) 4.1% b) 2% c) 8.1% d) 6.1%

4. A disc rotates at a constant angular speed. If the linear speed of yellow ball at 5 cm from the centers 2m/s, find the
linear speed of red ball which is 5 cm away from the yellow one if there is no slipping between ball and the disc.
a) 2 m/s b) 3 m/s c) 4 m/s d) 6 m/s

5. A particle is acted by a force F= k x, where k is positive constant. Its potential energy at x= 0 is zero. Which of the
following curve correctly represents the variation of potential energy (U) of the block with respect to x?

a) b) c) d)

6. A force of 3 ̂+
𝑖 4𝑗̂ Newton acts on a body and displaces it by 3 ̂+
𝑖 4𝑗̂ meters. The work done
by the force is
a) 10 J b) 12 J c) 16 J d) 25

7. The angle of deviation produced by a small angle prism of angle A and refractive index µ is
a) A (µ-1) b) µ (A-1) c) A (µ+1) d) µ (A+1)

8. Which of the following correctly describes the dispersion of white light?

9. The capacitance of a capacitor is influenced by
a) Plate area b) Nature of dielectric c) Both a and b d) None of a and b

10. If radii of a solid and hollow sphere are same, which can hold greater amount of charge?
(a) Solid sphere (b) Hollow sphere
(c) both will hold same (d) nothing can be said

11. Which of the following pair are third generation of quark?

a) u and d b) c and s c) t and b d) u and e

GROUP – B
Short Answer Questions ( 8*5=40)

12. A boy is operating a remote-control toy on a horizontal circular track, as shown in figure.

The tack has a radius of 1.8m and the car travels around the track with a
constant speed

i) Explain why the car is accelerating, even though it is travelling at a constant

speed. [2]

ii) The car has a mass of 0.50kg. The boy now increases the speed of the car to
6m/s. The total radial friction between the car and the track has a maximum
value of 7.0N.
Show by calculation that the car cannot continue to travel in a circular path. [3]

OR

a) A base ball is thrown with the speed u in a direction 𝜃 above the horizontal.
i) Define Projectile motion and horizontal range. [1]
i) Show that it’s path is parabolic. [2]
ii) If the base ball is thrown towards a player with an initial speed of 20m/s and 450 with
the horizontal. At the moment, the ball is thrown, player is 50m from the thrower, At
what speed and in what direction must he run to catch the ball at the same height at
which it is released? [2]

13. a) Explain anomalous expansion of water and explain the following cases on the basis of
anomalous expansion of water [3]
i) Bursting of water pipe in winter
ii) Aquatic life in winter
b) The density of silver at 00C is 10310 kg/m3, Calculate coefficient of linear expansion if
the density of silver is 10251.566 km/m3 at 1000C. [2]

14 A substance is in the solid form at 00C. The amount of heat added to this substance and its
temperature are plotted in the following graph. If the relative specific heat capacity of the
solid substance is 0.5, Study the graph and answer the following question,
 (i) What is represented by AB? Name the state of substance at this position.
(ii) If the slope of OA > slope of BC, what conclusion would you draw from this fact?
(iii) Calculate the mass of the substance.
(iv) Find the value of specific latent heat of the melting process and
(v) What is the specific heat of the substance in the liquid state?
(Specific heat capacity of water =1000cal/kg/K)

15. a) Explain on the basis of kinetic theory that the pressure of a gas increases with increase of
temperature. [2]
b) Under what condition do the real gases obeys more strictly the gas equation PV=RT? [1]
c) The volume of air with rms 500m/s in a fully expanded pair of human lungs is 5.0 × 10−3
m3 The pressure of the air in the lungs is 1.0× 105 pa and its temperature is 310 K.
Calculate [2]
i) average kinetic energy of an air molecules in the lungs.
ii) density of gas

16. a)Define total internal reflection of light.

[1]
b) Under what conditions light undergoes total internal reflection. Explain with ray
diagram.[1]
c) Two non-miscible transparent liquids are arranged in figure. Find the apparent height of
the mark M at the bottom. [3]

OR

a) Define linear magnification. [1]

b) Why a concave mirror is preferred to a plane mirror for shaving? [1]
c) A Concave mirror has a 40 cm radius of curvature. How far from the mirror must an
object be placed to create on upright in the three times of the height of the object. [3]

17. A wire of resistivity 𝜌 is stretched to double its length. What will be the new resistivity? [1]
b) Describe the mechanism of metallic conduction and derive a relation between current
density and drift velocity of electron. [2]
c) A metallic wire has a diameter of 4.12 mm. When the current in the wire is 8.00A, the drift
Velocity is 5.40 × 10−5 m/s, what is the density of free electron in the metal? [2]
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18. a) Show that the total energy stored in a charged capacitor is 𝑈 = 2 𝐶𝑉 2 . [3]
a) A sheet of paper 40 mm wide and 1.5× 10−2 mm thick between metal foil of the same
width is used to make a 2.0 𝜇𝐹 capacitor. If the dielectric constant of the paper is 2.5, what
length of paper is required? (∈0 =8.85× 10−12 F/m) [2]

19. a) Define equipotential surface. [1]

b) Is it possible to have point where potential is zero but electric field is non-zero? Give an
example. [1]
c) Electron revolves around the nucleus. It does not need extra energy to do so. Why? [1]
d) At what distance must an electron move in a uniform potential gradient 200 V/cm in
order to gain kinetic energy 3.2× 10−18J ? [2]

GROUP – C

Long Answer Questions: [3*8=24]

20 a) Define angle of friction and angle of repose. [1]
b) Show with derivation that angle of friction and angle of repose are equal.[3]
c) Define Impulse and write any two applications of impulse. [2]
d) In the pulley system two masses are suspended assuming the pulley be frictionless.
Calculate, [2]
i) Acceleration of given mass suspended at the ends of a cord
ii) Tension on the chord

21 a) A rocket is projected with certain angle to the atmosphere in order to escape it from
earth gravitational field.
i) Define escape velocity of projected rocket. [1]
ii) Obtain an expression for escape velocity to show that escape velocity is independent of
mass of projected rocket. [3]
iii) The rocket, which is projected from the surface of planet having mass 8× 1024 𝑘𝑔 and
radius 8350 km, with velocity 8 km/sec. Will the rocket go out of the planet? [3]
b) Sketch a graph showing variation of acceleration due to gravity inside and outside the
earth. [1]

OR
a) State and explain Hooke’s law of elasticity. [2]
b) Which one: steel or rubber is more elastic? Explain why? [2]
c) A specimen of oil having initial volume of 600 cm3 is subjected to a pressure increases of
3. 6 × 106 pa and the volume is found to decrease by 0.45cm3. [2]
i) What is the bulk modulus of the material?
ii) Find compressibility.
d) The stress-strain curve for metal and elastomers like rubber are different.[2]
i) What do we call for the stress-strain curve of rubber? Define it.
ii) What does the area under stress-strain curve of elastomers represents?

22.a) Figure shows the chain reaction of nuclear fission

reaction
i) Define chain reaction. [1]
ii) How does the number of neutron grows
tremendously in uncontrolled chain reaction? [2]
iii) How can the growth of neutron can be controlled I
in nuclear chain reaction? Explain [2]

b) A nucleus of uranium 238 can disintegrate with the emission of an alpha particle according
to the reaction
238 234 4
92𝑈 → 90𝑇ℎ + 2𝐻𝑒
Calculate the total energy released in the disintegration. [2]
[Mass of 238 234 4
92𝑈= 238.12492 amu , Mass of 90𝑇ℎ = 234.11650 amu, Mass of 2𝐻𝑒 = 4.00387
amu.1 amu is equivalent to 930 MeV ]
c) Write the quark combination of any three fermions you know. [1]

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