IIT-JEE-2004

Physics
[Time allowed: 2 hours]

Note: Question number 1 to 10 carries 2 marks each and 11 to 20 carries 4 marks each.

1. A long wire of negligible thickness and mass per unit length  is floating in a liquid such
that the top surface of liquid dips by a distance ‘ y ’. If the length of base of vessel is 2a ,

find surface tension of the liquid. ( y  a )

2. An ideal diatomic gas is enclosed in an insulated chamber at temperature 300K . The

chamber is closed by a freely movable massless piston, whose initial height from the base
is 1m . Now the gas is heated such that its temperature becomes 400 K at constant
pressure. Find the new height of the piston from the base.

If the gas is compressed to initial position such that no exchange of heat takes place, find
the final temperature of the gas.

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 3. In Searle’s apparatus diameter of the wire was measured 0.05cm by screw gauge of
least count 0.001cm . The length of wire was measured 110cm by meter scale of least
count 0.1 cm . An external load of 50 N was applied. The extension in length of wire
was measured 0.125cm by micrometer of least count 0.001cm . Find the maximum
possible error in measurement of young’s modulus.

4. Two infinitely large sheets having charge densities  1 and  2 respectively ( 1   2 ) are

placed near each other separated by distance ‘ d ’. A charge ‘ Q ’ is placed in between two
plates such that there is no effect on charge distribution on plates. Now this charge is
moved at an angle of 450 with the horizontal towards plate having charge density  2 by

distance ‘a’ ( a  d ) . Find the work done by electric field in the process.

5. An  -particle and a proton are accelerated from rest through same potential difference and
both enter into a uniform perpendicular magnetic field. Find the ratio of their radii of
curvature.

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6. A small ball of radius ‘ r ’ is falling in a viscous liquid under gravity. Find the dependency
of rate of heat produced in terms of radius ‘ r ’ after the drop attains terminal velocity.

7. A syringe of diameter D = 8mm and having a nozzle of diameter d = 2 mm is placed

horizontally at a height of 1.25 m as shown in the figure. An incompressible and non-
viscous liquid is filled in syringe and the piston is moved at speed of 0.25m s . Find the
range of liquid jet on the ground.

8. A light ray is incident on an irregular shaped slab of refractive index 2 at an angle of

45 with the normal on the incline face as shown in the figure. The ray finally emerges
from the curved surface in the medium of the refractive index  = 1.514 and passes
through point E . If the radius of curved surface is equal to 0.4 m , find the distance OE
correct upto two decimal places.

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9. A screw gauge of pitch 1mm has a circular scale divided into 100 divisions. The diameter
of a wire is to be measured by above said screw gauge. The main scale reading is 1mm
and 47 th circular division coincides with main scale. Find the curved surface area of wire
in true significant figures. (Given the length of wire is equal to 5.6 cm and there is no
zero-error in the screw gauge.)

10. The age of a rock containing lead and uranium is equal to 1.5 109 yrs . The uranium is

decaying into lead with half life equal to 4.5 109 yrs . Find the ratio of lead to uranium

present in the rock, assuming initially no lead was present in the rock. (Given 21 3 = 1.259 )

11. An inductor of inductance ( L ) equal to 35mH and resistance ( R ) equal to 11 are

connected in series to an AC source. The rms voltage of a.c. source is 220 volts and
frequency is 50 Hz .

(a) Find the peak value of current in the circuit.

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(b) Plot the current ( I ) vs (t ) curve on the given voltage vs (t ) curve. (Given  =
7

12. Two identical blocks A and B are placed on a rough inclined plane of inclination 450 .
The coefficient of friction between block A and incline is 0.2 and that of between B and

incline is 0.3 . The initial separation between the two blocks is 2 m . The two blocks are
released from rest, then find

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 (a) the time after which front faces of both blocks come in same line and

(b) the distance moved by each block for attaining above position.

13. In a photoelectric setup, the radiations from the Balmer series of hydrogen atom are
incident on a metal surface of work function 2eV . The wavelength of incident radiations
lies between 450 nm to 700 nm . Find the maximum kinetic energy of photoelectron
emitted. (Given hc e = 1242 eV − nm ).

14. A spherical ball of radius R , is floating in a liquid with half of its volume submerged in
the liquid. Now the ball is displaced vertically by small distance inside the liquid. Find the
frequency of oscillation of ball.

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15. The two batteries A and B , connected in given circuit, have equal e.m.f. E and internal
resistance r1 and r2 respectively ( r1  r2 ) . The switch S is closed at t = 0 . After long time

it was found that terminal potential difference across the battery A is zero. Find the value

of R

16. A point object is moving with velocity 0.01m s on principal axis towards a convex lens
of focal length 0.3m . When object is at a distance of 0.4 m from the lens, find

(a) rate of change of position of the image, and

(b) rate of change of lateral magnification of image.

17. An experiment is performed to verify Ohm’s law using a resister of resistance R = 100 ,
a battery of variable potential difference, two galvanometers and two resistances of 106 
and 10−3  are given. Draw the circuit diagram and indicate clearly position of ammeter
and voltmeter.

18. A uniform rod of length L , conductivity K is connected from one end to a furnace at
temperature T1 . The other end of rod is at temperature T2 and is exposed to atmosphere.

The temperature of atmosphere is Ts . The lateral part of rod is insulated. If

T2 − Ts << Ts , T2 = Ts + T & T  (T1 − Ts ) , find proportionality constant of given

equation. The heat loss to atmosphere is through radiation only and the emissivity of the
rod is  .

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19. A cubical block is floating inside a bath. The temperature of system is increased by small
temperature T . It was found that the depth of submerged portion of cube does not
change. Find the relation between coefficient of linear expansion ( ) of the cube and
volume expansion of liquid (  ) .

20. In a Young’s double slit experiment light consisting of two wavelengths 1 = 500 nm and
2 = 700 nm is incident normally on the slits. Find the distance from the central maxima
where the maximas due to two wavelengths coincide for the first time after central
D
maxima. (Given = 1000 ) where D is the distance between the slits and the screen and
d
d is the separation between the slits.

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