ABU DHABI INDIAN SCHOOL, BRANCH – 1 AL WATHBA

ANNUAL EXAMINATION: 2023-2024

GRADE: XI MAX MARKS : 70
SUBJECT: PHYSICS TIME: 3 hrs
NAME OF THE STUDENT/EXAM NO: DATE: 06/03/2023
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General Instructions:
1. This Question Paper contains 33 questions. All questions are compulsory.
2. This Question Paper is divided into five sections – Sections A, B, C, D & E.
3. In Section A – Questions no. 1 to 16 are Multiple Choice type questions. Each
question carries 1 mark.
4. In Section B – Questions no. 17 to 21 are Very Short Answer type questions. Each
question carries 2 marks.
5. In Section C – Questions no. 22 to 28 are Short Answer type questions. Each
question carries 3 marks.
6. In Section D – Questions no. 29 and 30 are case study based questions. Each
question carries 4 marks.
7. In Section E – Questions no. 31 to 33 are Long Answer type questions. Each
question carries 5 marks.
8. There is no overall choice given in the question paper. However, an internal choice
has been provided in few questions in all the Sections except Section A.

SECTION-A
1. Which of the following physical quantity has the dimensions [ML2T-3]?
a) work b) power c) pressure d) impulse

2. An insect trapped in a circular groove of radius 12 cm moves along the groove

steadily and completes 7 revolutions in 100 s. What is the magnitude of its
acceleration vector and is it a constant?
a) 2.3 ms-2 ; not constant
b) 2.3 ms-2 ; constant
c) 2 ms-2 ; not constant
d) 2 ms-2 ; constant

3. A car moving along a straight highway with a speed of 126 km h-1 is brought to a
stop within a distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car? (assumed
uniform).
a) 3 ms-2 b) 3.016 ms-2 c) 3.06 ms-2 d) 3.05 ms-2

4. A man of mass 70 kg stands on a weighing scale in a lift which is moving upwards

with a uniform acceleration of 5 ms-2. What will be reading on the scale?
a) 70 kg b) 75 kg c) 105 kg d) 0 kg

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5. In kinetic theory of gas, it is assumed that:
a) the collisions are not perfectly elastic.
b) the molecular collisions change the density of the gas.
c) the molecules don’t collide with each other and on the wall.
d) between two collisions the molecules travel with uniform velocity.

6. A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20 ms-1 from the top of a
multistorey building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is 25 m
from the ground. How long will it take before the ball hits the ground? (g=10 ms-2).
a) 2 s b) 3 s c) 5 s d) 1 s

7. A bullet of mass 0.04 kg moving with a speed of 90 ms-1 enters a heavy wooden
block and is stopped after a distance of 60 cm. What is the average resistive force
exerted by the block on the bullet?
a) 120 N b) 250 N c) 270 N d) 160 N

8. A body constrained to move along the z-axis of a coordinate system is subject to a

constant force F given by F = – î + 2 ĵ + 3 k̂ N where î, ĵ and k̂ are unit vectors along
the x-, y- and z- axes of the system respectively. What is the work done by this force
in moving a body a distance of 4 m along the z-axis?
a) 10 J b) – 10 J c) 12 J d) – 12 J

9. A 50 kg girl wearing high heel shoes balances on a string heel. The heel is circular
with a diameter 1.0 cm. what is the pressure exerted by the heel on the horizontal
floor?
a) 6.2 x 106 Pa b) 6.2 x 105 Pa c) 6 x 106 Pa d) 60 Pa

10. Find the centre of mass of a uniform L-shaped lamina (a thin flat plate) with
dimensions as shown. The mass of the lamina is 3 kg.

𝟒 𝟐 𝟓 𝟔
a) 𝒎 b) 𝒎 c) 𝒎 d) 𝒎
𝟔 𝟔 𝟔 𝟓

11. Figure shows graph between stress and strain for a uniform wire at two different
temperatures. Then:

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a) T1 = T2 b) T1 < T2 c) T1 > T2 d) none of these

12. A body weighs 63 N on the surface of the earth. What is the gravitational force on
it due to earth at a height equal to half the radius of the earth?
a) 20 N b) 63 N c) 28 N d) 0 N

Q 13 to 16 are ASSERTION and REASONING based questions. Mark the correct

choice as:
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation for A
(b) Both A and R are true, and R is not the correct explanation for A
(c) A is True but R is False
(d) Both A and R are False

13. Assertion (A): When a glass of hot milk placed in a room is allowed to cool, its
entropy decreases.
Reason (R): Allowing hot objects to cool does not violate the second law of
thermodynamics.

14. Assertion (A): Kepler’s second law can be understood by the law of conservation
of angular momentum.
Reason (R): Kepler’s second law is related with areal velocity which can further be
𝒅𝑨 𝟏
proved to be based on the law of conservation of angular momentum as = 𝒓𝟐 𝝎.
𝒅𝒕 𝟐

15. Assertion (A): It is hotter over the top of a fire than at the same distance on its
sides.
Reason (R): Air surrounding the fire carries the heat upwards.

16. Assertion (A): When a body moves along a circular path no work is done by the
centripetal force.
Reason (R): The centripetal force is used in moving the body along the circular path
and hence no work is said to be done.

SECTION-B

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17. The speed-time graph of a particle moving along a fixed direction is shown. Find:

(i) The distance traversed and

(ii) average speed of the particle over the intervals:
(a) t= 0 s to 10 s and
(b) t= 2 s to 6 s

18. (i) State the principle of homogeneity of dimension and mention any one
limitation of dimensional analysis.
(ii) If x=2at-5bt2 where x is in in metres and t is in seconds, find the dimensions of a
and b.

19. A man stands on a rotating platform, with his arms stretched horizontally holding
a 5 kg weight in each hand. The angular speed of the platform is 30 revolutions per
minute. The man then brings his arms close to his body with the distance of each
weight from the axis changing from 90cm to 20cm. The moment of inertia of the
man together with the platform may be taken to be constant and equal to 7.6 kg m2.
(a) What is his new angular speed? (Neglect friction.)
(b) Is kinetic energy conserved in the process? If not, from where does the change
come about?
OR
(i) If τ is the torque and L is the angular momentum of a rotating rigid body
show that τ=dL/dt
(ii) Two particles, each of mass m and speed v, travel in opposite directions along
parallel lines separated by a distance d. Show that the vector angular momentum of
the two particle system is the same whatever be the point about which the angular
momentum is taken.

20. (i) State Pascal’s law.

(ii) A hydraulic automobile lift is designed to lift cars with a maximum mass of 3000
kg. The area of cross-section of the piston carrying the load is 425 cm2 . What
maximum pressure would the smaller piston have to bear ?

21. The transverse displacement of a string (clamped at its both ends) is given by:
𝟐
Y(x, t) = 0.06 sin x cos(120 πt) where x and y are in m and t in s. the length of the
𝟑
string and its mass is 3.0 x 10-2 kg.

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Answer the following:
(a) Does the function represent a travelling wave or a stationary wave?
(b) Interpret the wave as a superposition of two waves travelling in opposite
directions. What is its wavelength, frequency and speed of each wave?

SECTION-C

22. (i) A projectile is projected with a velocity ‘u’ making angle ‘θ’ with the horizontal
direction. Find:
(a) time of flight
(b) horizontal range
(ii) A bullet is fired with an angle of 45o with the horizontal hits ground 3km away. By
adjusting the angle of projection, can one hope it will hit a target 5km away?
Deduce the result with necessary calculation. Assume that air resistance is
neglected.

23. (i) State Hooke’s law.

(ii) The Marina trench is located in the Pacific Ocean, and at one place it is nearly
eleven km beneath the surface of water. The water pressure at the bottom of the
trench is about 1.1 × 108 Pa. A steel ball of initial volume 0.32 m3 is dropped into the
ocean and falls to the bottom of the trench. What is the change in the volume of the
ball when it reaches to the bottom? (Bulk Modulus of Steel is 1.6 x 1011 N/m2).
(iii) The stress-strain graph for a steel wire is shown below. From the plot identify the
following regions.

(a) OA (b) OO’

24. (i) Banking of road helps to increase the limit of maximum safe of a vehicle at a
curve. With the help of a schematic diagram, obtain an expression for the maximum
safe speed of a vehicle at a banked road with frictional force and mark the various
forces acting on it.
(ii) A circular racetrack of radius 300 m is banked at an angle of 15°. If the of
coefficient friction between the wheels of a race car and the road is 0.2, what is
optimum speed of the race car to avoid wear and tear on its tyres?

25. (i) Explain why: a brass tumbler feels much colder than a wooden tray on a chilly
day.

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(ii) Show that the coefficient of area expansion of a rectangular sheet of a solid is
twice its coefficient of linear expansion.
OR
Calculate the heat required to convert 3 kg of ice at –12 °C kept in a calorimeter to
steam at 100 °C, at atmospheric pressure. Given specific heat capacity of ice = 2100 J
kg–1 K–1, specific heat capacity of water = 4186 J kg– 1 K–1, latent heat of fusion of ice
= 3.35 x 105 J kg–1 and latent heat of steam = 2.256 x 106 J kg–1.

26. (i) Draw the pattern of wave forms of the first three harmonics in a string fixed at
its two ends.
(ii) Show that in a string fixed at its two ends the frequencies of the first three
harmonics are in the ration 1:2:3.

27. (i) Following figure shows the plot of PV/T versus P for 1.00 x 10–3 kg of oxygen
gas at two different temperatures.

(a) What does the plot signify?

(b) Which is true: T1>T2 or T1<T2? Give reason.
(ii) Derive an expression for work done during an isothermal process.

28. A spring having with a spring constant 1200 N m–1 is mounted on a horizontal
table as shown in Fig.

Fig

A mass of 3 kg is attached to the free end of the spring. The mass is then pulled
sideways to a distance of 2.0 cm and released
Determine its:
(a) Its frequency of oscillations
(b) maximum acceleration of the mass and
(c) maximum speed of the mass.

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 SECTION D
(Case Study based questions)
Question numbers 29 and 30 are case study-based questions. Read the paragraphs
carefully and answer the following questions.

29. If a stone is thrown by hand, we see it falls back to the earth. Of course, using
machines, we can shoot an object with much greater speeds and with greater and
greater initial speed, the object scales higher and higher heights. A natural query
that arises in our mind is the following: can we throw an object with such high initial
speeds that it does not fall back to the earth.
Thus, minimum speed required to throw object to infinity away from earth’s
gravitational field is called escape velocity.
Ve = √(2gr)
Where g is acceleration due to gravity and r is radius of earth and after solving
Ve = 11.2 km/s. This is called the escape speed, sometimes loosely called the escape
velocity. This applies equally well to an object thrown from the surface of the moon
with g replaced by the acceleration due to Moon’s gravity on its surface and r
replaced by the radius of the moon. Both are smaller than their values on earth and
the escape speed for the moon turns out to be 2.3 km/s, about five times smaller.
This is the reason that moon has no atmosphere. Gas molecules if formed on the
surface of the moon having velocities larger than this will escape the gravitational
pull of the moon.
Earth satellites are objects which revolve around the earth. Their motion is very
similar to the motion of planets around the Sun and hence Kepler’s laws of
planetary motion are equally applicable to them. In particular, their orbits around
the earth are circular or elliptic. Moon is the only natural satellite of the earth with a
near circular orbit with a time period of approximately 27.3 days which is also
roughly equal to the rotational period of the moon about its own axis.

(I) The escape speed of a projectile on the earth’s surface is 11.2 km s-1. A body is
projected out with thrice this speed. What is the speed of the body far away from
the earth? Ignore the presence of the sun and other planets.
a) 30 km/s b) 35 km/s c) 40 km/s d) 31.6 km/s
th
(II) What would be the escape velocity (in km/s) from a plane of mass ¼ of mass of
earth and radius 1/9th the radius of the earth?
𝟒𝟒 𝟏𝟏 𝟑𝟑 𝟑𝟑
a) b) c) d)
𝟑 𝟑 𝟐 𝟒
(III) The escape velocities from the surface of two planets of the same mass are in
the ration 1 : √2. Then the ratio of their densities is?
a) 1 : 2 b) 1 : 8 c) 1 : 4 d) 1 : 16
(IV) What is the maximum height attained by an object that is projected from the
surface of the Earth with a velocity that is one third of the escape velocity? (Radius
of the Earth=R)
𝑹 𝑹 𝑹 𝑹
a) b) c) d)
𝟐 𝟒 𝟖 𝟓

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 OR (only for option (IV))
(IV) The mass of the moon is 1/81 of the earth’s mass and its radius is ¼ of that of
earth. If the escape velocity from the earth’s surface is 11.2 km/s, what is its value
for the moon?
a) 0.14 km/s b) 2.5 km/s c) 0.5 km/s d) 5 km/s

30. Degrees of freedom of a dynamical system are defined as the total number of
coordinates independent variables required to describe completely the position and
configuration of a system. If N= number of particles in the system and k = number
of independent relations between the particles, then the number of degrees of
freedom of the system is f= 2N – k. a monoatomic gas has 3 degrees of freedom.
Thus, the average energy of a molecule at temperature T is (3/2)KBT. A
diatomic gas has 5 degrees of freedom at moderate temperature and 7 at high
temperature. The law of equipartition of energy states that in any dynamical
system in thermal equilibrium, the energy of the system is equally divided among
its various degrees of freedom and energy associated with each degree of freedom
𝟏
is KBT, where KB is Boltzmann constant and its value is 1.3806452 x 10-23 J/K, and T
𝟐
is the absolute temperature of the system. The total internal energy of a mole of
such a gas is U= (3/2) RT. The molar specific heat at constant volume Cv is given by
Cv = dU/dT = (3/2) R. For an ideal gas, Cp – Cv = R where Cp is the molar specific heat
at a constant pressure. Thus, Cp = (5/2) R.

(I) Specific heat at constant volume (Cv) and at constant pressure (Cp) of an ideal
gas have been reported as shown below. Which of the following sets are the most
reliable? The unit is cal mol-1K-1.
a) Cv= 5; Cp= 3 b) Cv= 3; Cp= 4
c) Cv= 5; Cp= 7 d) Cv= 3; Cp= 5
(II) Graph of specific heat at constant volume versus temperature for a monoatomic
Gas is shown by:

(III) The mean kinetic energy of one mole of gas per degree of freedom is:
𝟏 𝟑 𝟑 𝟏
a) kT b) kT c) RT d) RT
𝟐 𝟐 𝟐 𝟐
(IV) If a gas has n degrees of freedom, ratio of specific heats of gas is:

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 𝒏 𝟏+𝐧 𝟏 𝟐
a) 𝟏 + b) c) 𝟏 + d) 𝟏 +
𝟐 𝟐 𝒏 𝒏
OR (only for option (IV))
(IV) How much heat energy in joules must be supplied to 14g of nitrogen at room
Temperature to raise its temperature by 40oC at constant pressure?
a) 50 R b) 60 R c) 70 R d) 80 R

SECTION-E

31. (i) State Work-Energy theorem.

(ii) It is well known that a raindrop falls under the influence of the downward
gravitational force and the opposing resistive force. The latter is known to be
proportional to the speed of the drop but is otherwise undetermined. Consider a
rain drop of radius 2 mm falls from a height of 500 m above the ground. It falls with
decreasing acceleration (due to viscous resistance of the air) until at half of its
original height, it attains its maximum (terminal) speed, and moves with a uniform
speed thereafter.
(a) (i) What is the work done by the gravitational force on the drop in the first and:
(ii) second half of its journey ?
(b) What is the work done by the resistive force in the entire journey if its speed on
reaching the ground is 10 ms–1 ?
(iii) Justify with a valid proof:
The Work-Energy theorem is not independent of Newton’s Second Law of Motion.
OR
(i) What are elastic collisions? Show that two identical bodies moving on a straight
line exchange their velocities after colliding elastically with each other.
(ii) Answer carefully, with reason(s) :
(a) In an elastic collision of two billiard balls, is the total kinetic energy conserved
during the short time of collision of the balls (i.e. when they are in contact) ?
(b) Is the total linear momentum conserved during the short time of an elastic
collision of two balls ?
(iii) A railway carriage of mass 9000 kg moving with a speed of 36 km/h collides with
a stationary carriage of the same mass. After the collision, the carriages get coupled
and move together.
(a) What is their common speed after collision?
(b) What type of collision is this (elastic/inelastic)? Justify your answer.

32. (i) State Bernoulli’s principle. With the help of a suitable diagram, establish
Bernoulli’s equation for the flow of a non-viscous and incompressible liquid in a
streamlined flow.
(ii) Explain giving suitable reasons:
(a) Can Bernoulli’s equation be used to describe the flow of water through a rapid in
a river?

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(b) Does it matter if one uses gauge instead of absolute pressures in applying
Bernoulli’s equation?
(iii) Write any two characteristics and limitations of the fluid that obey Bernoulli’s
principle.
OR
(i) One consequence of surface tension is that free liquid drops and bubbles are
spherical if effects of gravity can be neglected. You must have seen this especially
clearly in small drops just formed in a high-speed spray or jet, and in soap bubbles
blown by most of us in our childhood. Derive an expression of excess pressure inside
a soap bubble.
(ii) (a) What is the excess pressure inside a bubble of soap solution of radius 5.00
mm, given that the surface tension of soap solution at the temperature (20 °C) is
2.50 × 10–2 N m–1 ?
(b) If an air bubble of the same dimension were formed at depth of 40.0 cm inside a
container containing the soap solution (of relative density 1.20), what would be the
pressure inside the bubble ? (1 atmospheric pressure is 1.01 × 105 Pa).
(iii) What is the pressure inside the drop of mercury of radius 3.00 mm at room
temperature ? Surface tension of mercury at that temperature (20 °C) is 4.65 × 10–1
N m–1. (1 atmospheric pressure is 1.01 × 105 Pa).

33. (i) Show that for small oscillations the motion of a simple pendulum is simple
harmonic. Derive an expression for its time period. Does it depend on the mass of
the bob?
(ii) (a) A spring balance has a scale that reads from 0 to 50 kg. The length of the scale
is 20 cm. A body suspended from this balance, when displaced and released,
oscillates with a period of 0.6 s. What is the weight of the body ?
(b) A seconds pendulum is taken in a carriage. Find the period of oscillation when
the carriage moves with an acceleration of 4m/s2 vertically upwards.
(iii) Explain giving reason:
(a) The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of moon is 1.7 m s–2. What is the
time period of a simple pendulum on the surface of moon if its time period on the
surface of earth is 3.5 s ? (g on the surface of earth is 9.8 m s–2)
(b) Why does the amplitude of an oscillating pendulum go on decreasing?
OR
(i) (a) Define SHM.
(b) Why are army troops not allowed to march in steps while crossing a bridge?
(c) The displacement-time relation of a simple harmponic motion is shown below.

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Draw the graph showing the corresponding velocity-time graph
(ii) Show that for a particle in linear SHM the average kinetic energy over a period of
oscillation equals the average potential energy over the same period.
(iii) A body is executing SHM according to the equation: y=14sin(100πt+π/6)cm. Find
its maximum speed and maximum acceleration.

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