ANEES HUSSAIN COACHING CLASSES

EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION SINCE 1989

PREPARATION PAPER
Compiled By Engr. Salman Ali

1. A Carnot engine whose low temperature reservoir is 200K has an efficiency of 50%. It is desired to increase this
to 75%. By how many degrees must the temperature of flow temperature reservoir be decreased if the
temperature of the higher reservoir remains constant? (OR)A heat engine performing 400J of work in each cycle
has an efficiency of 25%. How much heat is absorbed and rejected in each cycle
2. A 200gm piece of metal is heated to 150oC and then dropped into an aluminum calorimeter of mass 500gm,
containing 500gm of water initially at 25oC. Find the final equilibrium temperature of the system if the specific
heat of metal is 128.100 J/kg-K, specific heat of water is 4200 J/kg-K (OR)A Celsius thermometer in laboratory
reads the surrounding temperature as 30o C, what is the temperature in Fahrenheit and absolute scale.
3. A steel bar is 10m in length and -2.5oC. What will be the change in its length when it is at 250 oC.(OR) Find the
change in volume of a brass sphere of 0.6 m diameter, when it is heated from 30 oC to 100oC (OR) Calculate the
density of hydrogen gas, considering it to be an ideal gas, when the root mean square velocity of hydrogen gas
molecules is 1850 m/sec at 0 degree Celsius and 1 atm pressure.
4. A proton of mass 1.67×10-17 kg and charge 1.6×10-19 C is to be held motionless between two parallel horizontal
plates. Find the distance between the plates when the potential difference of 6×10 -9 volt is applied across the
plates. (OR)How many electrons should be removed from each of two similar spheres each of 10 gm so that
electrostatic repulsion may be balanced by gravitational force?
5. A capacitor of 12 micro Farad is charged to a potential difference of 100 V. Its plates are then disconnected from
the source and are connected parallel to another capacitor. The potential difference in this combination falls
down to 60 V. What is the capacitance of the second capacitor?(OR)Two capacitors of capacitance 4 µF are
charged to the potential difference of 300 and 400 V respectively. They are then connected in parallel. What will
be the resultant potential difference and charge on each capacitor?
6. A parallel plate capacitor has the plates 10 cm x 10 cm separated by a distance of 2.5 cm. It is initially filed with
air. What will be the increase in its capacitance? If a dielectric slab of the same area and thickness 2.5 cm is
placed between the two plates.
7. A small sphere of weight 5 x 10-3 N is suspended by a silk thread which is attached to a point on a large charged
insulating plane. When a charge of 6 x108 C is placed on the ball the thread makes an angle of 30o with the
vertical. Find the charge density on the plane.
8. A charged particle of 17.7 µC is close to a positively charged thin sheet having surface charge density 2 x 10 -6
C/m2Find the magnitude and direction of force acting on the charged particle. (OR)
A thin sheet of positive charge attracts a light charged sphere having charge – 5 x 10-6+ C with a force of 1.695 N.
Calculate the surface charge density.
9. You have given three resistors each of 2 ohms. How would you arrange these to obtain equivalent resistance
of: (a) 1.33 ohm (b) 3 ohm (c) 6 ohm?
10. A rectangular bar of iron is 2 cm × 2 cm is cross section and 20 cm long. What is the resistance of the bar at
500oC if ρ=11×10-8 Ω-m and α= 0.0052 K-1? (OR) A platinum wire of diameter 0.2 mm is wound to make a resistor
of 4 ohm. How long a wire is needed for this purpose?
11. Find the current required to produce a magnetic field of induction B=2.511 103 web/m2 in a 50cm long solenoid
having 4000 turns of wire. (OR) How fast must a proton be moving if it is to follow a circular path of radius 2.0
cm in a magnetic field of 0.7 Tesla. (mp = 1.67 x 10-27 kg)
12. An alternating current generator operating at 50 Hz has a coil of 200 turns, while the coil has an area of 120 cm 2.
Calculate the magnetic field intensity applied to rotate the coil to produce the maximum voltage of 240 volts.
(OR) A step down transformer having 4000 turns in primary is used to convert 4400 V to 220 V. The efficiency of
the transformer is 90 % and 9 KWatt output is required. Determine the input power, the number of turns in the
secondary coil and the current in the primary coil and secondary coil.
13. A pair of adjacent coils has a mutual inductance of 850 mH. If the current in primary coil changes from 0 to 20 A
in 0.1 sec; what is the change in the magnetic flux in the secondary coil of 800 turns?(OR) What will be the
mutual inductance of two coils when the change of a current of 3 Amp. In one coil produces the change of flux of
6 x 10-4 Weber in the second coil having 2000 turns?
14. A galvanometer has a resistance of 50 Ohms gives full deflection with a current of 10 mA. A shunt of 0.05 ohm is
connected in parallel to convert it into an ammeter. Find the range of the ammeter. (OR) A galvanometer has a
resistance of 100 Ohms. A difference of potential of 50 mV gives the full scale deflection. Calculate the shunt
resistance to read from 0 – 5 A . What is the value of the series resistance if the galvanometer is to be converted
into voltmeter to read unto 250 V?
15. A galvanometer whose resistance is 50 ohms deflects full scale for potential difference 100 mV across its terminals.
How can it be converted into a voltmeter of 50V range? (OR) A 300 Volts voltmeter has a total resistance of 20 kilo
Ohms. What additional series resistance is required to convert it into a voltmeter ranging up to a maximum of 600
V?
16. A sodium surface is exposed to a light of wavelength 2 10-7m. If the work function of sodium metal is 2.46ev,
find the K.E of the photoelectrons and cut off wavelength.
17. If the electron beam in a television picture tube is accelerated by 10 KV what will be the De-Broglie’s
wavelength? (h=6.63 10-34LS, e=1.6 10-19C, m=9.11 10-31Kg)(OR) An electron exists within a region of 10-10 m; find
its momentum, uncertainty and approximate kinetic energy. (h=6.63x10-34 J-s, m=9.1x10-31 kg)
18. Calculate the relativistic speed at which the mass of a particle became double its rest mass. (OR)Estimate the
relativistic mass and the wavelength associated with an electron moving at 0.9c. (h= 6.63x10-34 J-s)
19. In Compton’s scattering process, the fractional change in wavelength of X-ray photon is 1 % at an angle of 120 o
(Ө=120o); find the wavelength of X-rays used in this experiment.
20. Find the value of the shortest and the longest wavelength of emitted photons in hydrogen spectra in Balmar
series (OR) Calculate the energy of the longest wavelength radiation emitted in the Paschen series in hydrogen
atom spectra. (RH = 1.0968 × 107 m-1, h= 6.63 × 10-12 JS, C= 3 × 108 m/s)(OR) In a hydrogen atom, an electron
experiences transition from a state whose binding energy is 0.54 eV to the state whose excitation energy is 10.2
eV. (RH = 1.097 x 107 m-1). Calculate: (a) The quantum numbers of the two states. (b) The wavelength of the
photon emitted.
21. If the number of atoms per gram of 88R226 is 2.666 x 10 21 and it decays with a half life of 1622 years, find the
decay constant and the activity of the sample.
22. The half period of 104Po210 is 140 days, by what percent does its radioactivity decrease per week. (OR)
Find the binding energy of 52 Te125 in MeV if the mass of proton = 1.0078 U, mass of neutron = 1.0086 U, mass of
Te atom = 125. 9033 U.