SHAHEEN GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS

SHAHEEN JUNIOR COLLEGE

PHYSICS

SECTION - A
1. The base quantity among the following is
(1) Speed (2) Weight (3) Length (4) Area
2. Which of the following is not a unit of time?
(1) Second (2) Minute (3) Hour (4) Light year
3. One astronomical unit is a distance equal to
(1) 9.46 × 1015 m (2) 1.496 × 1011 m (3) 3 × 108 m (4) 3.08 × 1016 m
4. The value of 600 in radian is
   
(1) (2) (3) (4)
2 3 4 5
5. A far-off planet is estimated to be at a distance D from the earth. If its diametrically opposite
extremes subtend an angle  at an observatory situated on the earth, the approximate diameter
of the planet is
 D 1
(1) (2) (3) D (4)
D  D
6. One unified atomic mass unit represents a mass of magnitude
(1) 10-30 kg (2) 1.66 ×1027 kg (3) 1.66 ×10-27 kg (4) 1030 kg
7. Thickness of a pencil measured by using a screw gauge (least count. 001 cm) comes out to be
0.802 cm. The percentage error in the measurement is
(1) 0.125% (2) 2.43% (3) 4.12% (4) 2.14%
8. The percentage error in the measurement of the voltage V is 3% and in the measurement of the
current is 2%. The percentage error in the measurement of the resistance is
(1) 3% (2) 2% (3) 1% (4) 5%
9. The relative error in the measurement of the side of a cube is 0.027. The relative error in the
measurement of its volume is
(1) 0.027 (2) 0.054 (3) 0.081 (4) 0.046
10. A packet contains silver powder of mass 20.23 g  0.01 g. Some of the powder of mass 5.75 g
 0.01 g is taken out from it. The mass of the powder left back is
(1) 14.48 g  0.00 g (2) 14.48 g  0.02 g (3) 14.5 g  0.1 g (4) 14.5 g  0.2 g
11. The radius of a sphere is (2.6  0.1) cm. The percentage error in its volume is
0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
(1) 100% (2) 3  100% (3) 100% (4) %
2.6 2.6 3  2.6 2.6
12. We can reduce random errors by
(1) Taking large number of observations (2) Corrected zero error
(3) By following proper technique of experiment (4) Both (1) & (3)
13. The number of significant figures in the measured value 0.0204 is
(1) Five (2) Three (3) Four (4) Two
14. The number of significant zeroes present in the measured value 0.020040, is
(1) Five (2) Two (3) One (4) Three
3
15. An object of mass 4.237 g occupies a volume 1.72 cm . The density of the object to appropriate
significant figures is
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(1) 2.46 g cm-3 (2) 2.463 g cm-3 (3) 2.5 g cm-3 (4) 2.50 g cm-3
16. The dimensional formula for energy is
(1) [MLT-2] (2) [ML2T-2] (3) [M-1 L2T] (4) [M L2T]
17. The pair of the quantities having same dimensions is
(1) Displacement, velocity (2) Time, Frequency
(3) Wavelength, focal length (4) Force, acceleration
18. The dimensional formula for relative refractive index is
(1) [M1L1 T1] (2) [M0L0T0] (3) [M1L0T0] (4) [MLT-1]
19. The dimensional formula [ML-1T-2] is for the quantity
(1) Force (2) Acceleration (3) Pressure (4) Work
20. If the buoyant force F action on an object depends on its volume V immersed in a liquid, the
density  of the liquid and the acceleration due to gravity g. The correct expression for F can
be
g
(1) V  g (2) (3)  gV 2 (4)  gV
V
21. The dimensionally correct expression for the resistance R among the following is
[P = electric power, I = electric current, t = time, V = voltage and E = electric energy]
E
(1) R = PI (2) R = 2 (3) R = V 2 P (4) R = VI
I t
A x
22. The potential energy u of a particle varies with distance x from a fixed origin as u = ,
x+B
where A and B are constants. The dimensions of A and B are respectively
(1) [ML5/2T-2], [L] (2) [MLT-2][L2] (3) [L], [ML3/2T-2] (4) [L2], [MLT-2]
23. A physical quantity P is given by the relation. P = P 0e(-t2) If t denotes the time, dimensions of
constant  are
(1) [T] (2) [T2] (3) [T-1] (4) [T-2]
24. Which of the following is not a derived force?
(1) Tension in a string (2) Van der Waal forces
(3) Nuclear force between proton-proton (4) Electrostatic force between proton-proton
25. Which of the following practical units of length is not correct?
(1) 1 fermi = 10-15 m (2) 1 astronomical unit = 1.496 × 1011 m
(3) 1 parsec = 3.26 light year (4) 1 light year = 9.46 × 1012 m
26. The damping force on an oscillator is directly proportional to the velocity. The units of the
constant of proportionality are
(1) kgs-1 (2) kgs (3) kgms-1 (4) kgms-2
27. The density of a material in CGS system of units is 4 g/cm3. In a system of units in which units
of length is 10 cm and unit of mass is 100 g, the value of density of material will be
(1) 400 (2) 0.04 (3) 0.4 (4) 40
28. Which two of the following five physical parameters have the same dimensions?
(a) Energy density (b) Refractive index
(c) Dielectric constant (d) Young’s modulus
(1) (a) & (e) (2) (b) & (d) (3) (c) & (e) (4) (a) & (d)
29. Which of the following has the dimensions of pressure?
(1) [MLT-2] (2) [ML-1T-2] (3) [ML-2T-2] (4) [M-1L-1]
30. The dimensions of RC is
(1) Square of time (2) Square of inverse time (3) Time (4) Inverse time

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 a  
31. An equation is given here  P + 2  = b where P = Pressure, V = Volume and  = Absolute
 V  V
temperature.
(1) [ML-5T-1] (2) [ML5T1] (3) [ML5T-2] (4) [M-1 L5T2]
32. Which pair do not have equal dimensions?
(1) Energy and torque (2) Force and impulse
(3) Angular momentum and Planck’s constant (4) Elastic modulus and pressure
33. The dimensions of universal gravitational constant are
(1) [M-1L3T-2] (2) [ML2T-1] (3) [M-2L3T-2] (4) [M-2L2T-1]
b
34. The velocity v of a particle at time t is given by v = at + , where a, b and c are constants,
t +c
The dimensions of a, b and c are
(1) L, LT and LT-2 (2) LT-2, L and T (3) L2, T and LT2 (4) LT2, LT and L
35. Dimensions of resistance in an electrical circuit, in terms of dimension of mass M, of length L,
of time T and of current I, would be
(1) [ML2T-2] (2) [ML2T-1I-1] (3) [ML2T-3I-2] (4) [ML2T-3I-1]
  − t2
36. The dimensions of in the equation F = , where F is the force, v is velocity and t is
  v2
time, is
(1) [MLT-1] (2) [ML-1T-2] (3) [ML3T-4] (4) [ML2T-4]
37. In a practical unit if the unit of mass becomes double and that of unit of time becomes half, then
8 joule will be equal to ……… unit of work.
(1) 6 (2) 4 (3) 1 (4) 10
38. In a new system of units energy (E), density (d) and power (P) are taken as fundamental units,
then the dimensional formula of universal gravitational constant G will be
(1) [E-1d-2P2] (2) [E-2d-1P2] (3) [E2d-1P-1] (4) [E1d-2P-2]
39. Let P represent radiation pressure, c represent speed of light and I represent radiation energy
striking a unit area per second, then PxIycz will be dimensionless for
(1) x = 0, y = z (2) x = y = z (3) x = z = -y (4) x = y = -z
40. The frequency of vibrations f of a mass m suspended from a spring of spring constant K is
given by a relation of type f = cmxKy, where c is a dimensionless constant. The values of x and
y are
1 1 −1 −1 1 −1 −1 1
(1) x = , y = (2) x = , y = (3) x = , y = (4) x = , y =
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
 2 ct   2 x 
41. The equation of a stationary wave is y = 2 A sin   cos   . Which of the following
     
statements is incorrect?
(1) The unit of ct is same as that of  (2) The unit of x is same as that of 
2 c c x
(3) The unit of is (4) The unit of is same as that of
  
42. If energy E, velocity V and time T are taken as fundamental units, the dimensional formula for
surface tension is
(1) [EV-2T-2] (2) [E-2VT-2] (3) [E-2V-2] (4) [E-2V-2T-2]
43. If the error in the measurement of radius of a sphere is 2%, then the error in the determination
of volume of the sphere will be
(1) 2% (2) 4% (3) 6% (4) 8%
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44. Percentage errors in the measurement of mass and speed are 2% and 3% respectively. The error
in the estimated of kinetic energy obtained by measuring mass and speed will be
(1) 8% (2) 2% (3) 12% (4) 10%
45. The density of a cube is measured by measuring its mass and length of its sides. If the
maximum error in the measurement of mass lengths are 3% and 2% respectively, the maximum
error in the measurement of density would be
(1) 12% (2) 14% (3) 7% (4) 9%
46. A set of defective observation of weights is used by a student to find the mass of an object
using a physical balance. A large number of readings will reduce
(1) Random error (2) Systematic error
(3) Random as well as systematic error (4) Neither random nor systematic error
47. A force F is applied on a square area of side L. If the percentage error in the measurement of L
is 2% and that in F is 4%, what is the maximum percentage error in pressure?
(1) 2% (2) 4% (3) 6% (4) 8%
48. If the percentage error in the measurement of momentum and mass of an object are 2% and 3%
respectively, then maximum percentage error in the calculated value of its kinetic energy is
(1) 2% (2) 1% (3) 5% (4) 7%
a b -c
49. A physical quantity is represented by X = [M L T ]. If percentage error in the measurement of
M, L and T are %, % and % respectively, then maximum percentage error in measurement
of X should be (Given that   and  are very small)
(1) (a – b + c)% (2) (a + b + c)%
(3) (a – b - c)% (4) (a + b - c)%

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