Class 11 Physics Half Yearly Paper2
Class 11 Physics Half Yearly Paper2
Section B
(V) Short answer type questions (Any Five) (3x5=15)
1. Name any two Indian physicists and their discoveries?
2. What is physics? Discuss its various branches?
Or
The radius of a solid cylinder is 2 cm and its height is 10 cm. Find its total surface area in mm 2.
3. Write down difference between mass and weight.
4. After how much distance will a ball moving with a velocity of 10 m/s stop if the coefficient of friction
between the ball and ground is 0.4
5. Define angle of repose and angle of friction. Prove that angle of friction and angle of repose are equal
6. Write down statement of newtons second law of motion and derive the relation F=ma?
Or
Masses of 5 kg and 4 kg are tied to each other with a string as shown if fig, neglecting friction, calculate the
acceleration of 5 kg mass?
Section C
(VI) Long answer type questions (Any five) (4x5=20)
1. A bullet of mass 10 gm moving with a velocity of 250 m/s. Penetrates a wall up to 2.5 cm before it stops.
Calculate the force exerted by the wall?.
2. Write down the statement of law of conservation of momentum and show that momentum is conserved by a
derivation?
3. A bullet fired at an angle of 30 0 with the horizontal with the ground 3.0 km away. By adjusting its angle of
projection, can one hope to hit a target 5 km away? Assume the muzzle speed to be fixed and neglect air
resistance.
4. (a)What is principle of rocket propulsion explain.
(b) In zero space, a horse can neither run nor pull a cart why? Explain
Or
(a)Two forces of√ 3 N and 3 N act at angle of 300 on a point. Find their resultant and angle?
(b) If ⃗AX⃗ B= ⃗R ∧A +B =R ,then find the angle between ⃗
2 2 2
A∧ ⃗B?
5. An aeroplane is flying along horizontal direction with a velocity of 1440 km/hr at a height of 1960 m. Where
it should drop a bomb to hit a specific target on earth?
6. (a)Write down difference between displacement and distance?
(b) If a body moves along a semi circular path of radius 7m then find distance travelled by the body and its
displacement?
(VII) Answer the following Questions (Any Two) (5x 2=10)
1. (a)Time period of a simple pendulum depends on effective length of the pendulum and acceleration due to
gravity. Deduce the formula.
(b) What is dimensional formula of ‘g’ (acceleration due to gravity?)
2. (a) A motor boat is racing towards North at 25 km/hr ant the water current in that region is 10 km/hr in the
direction 600 east to south, Find the resultant velocity of the boat.
(b) If the magnitude of resultant of two vectors of modulli 4 and 3 unit is 1 unit, then find the angle between
them.
3. A body of mass 2 kg initially at rest moves under the action of an applied horizontal force of 7 N on a table
with the coefficient of kinetic friction = 0.1. Compute the
(a) work done by the applied force in 10 s,
(b) work done by friction in 10 s,
(c) work done by the net force on the body in 10 s,
(d) change in kinetic energy of the body in 10 s,