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Waves – 8 Marks
Problems:
1. A closed organ pipe 70cm long is sounded. If the velocity of sound is 331 m/s, what is the
fundamental frequency of vibration of the air column?
2. A pipe 30cm long is open at both ends. Find the fundamental frequency. Velocity of sound
in air is 330ms.
3. A open organ pipe 85 cm long is sound. If the velocity of sound is 340 m/s, what is the
fundamental frequency of vibration of the air column?
4. A rocket is moving at a speed of 200ms-¹ towards a stationary target. While moving, it emits
a wave of frequency 1000 Hz.. Calculate (1) the frequency of the sound as detected by the
target
5. Two organ pipes of lengths 65cm and 70cm respectively, are sounded simultaneously. How
many beats per second will be produced between the fundamental frequencies of the two
pipes ?
6. A stretched wire of length 0.6 m is observed to vibrate with a frequency of 30 Hz in the
fundamental mode. If the string has a linear mass of 0.05 kg/m, find
(a) the velocity of propagation of transverse waves in the string,
(b) the tension in the string.
7. A steel wire 0.72m long has a mass of 5.0×10-3 kg. If the wire is under a tension of 60N,
What is the speed of transverse waves on the wire?
8. A string has a length of 0.4m and a mass of 0.16g. If the tension in the string is 70N. What
are the three lowest frequencies it produces when plucked?
9. A vertical tube is made to stand in water so that the water level can be adjusted.Sound waves
of frequency 320 Hz are sent into the top of the tube. If standing waves are produced at two
successive water levels of 20cm and 73cm, what is the speed of sound waves in the air in
the tube?

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10. A train sounds its whistle as it approaches and crosses a level-crossing. An observer at the
crossing measures a frequency of 219 Hz as the train approaches and a frequency of 184 Hz
as it leaves. If the speed of sound is taken to be 340 m/s. Find the speed of the train.

Ray Optics and Optical Instruments – 4 Marks and 2 marks

Problems:
1. A light wave of frequency 4x10" Hz and a wavelength of 5x10m passes through a
medium. Estimate the refractive index of the medium.
2. Two lenses of power -1.75D and +2.25D respectively, are placed in contact. Calculate the
focal length of the combination.
3. What focal length should the reading spectacles have a person for whom the least distance
of distinct vision is 50 cm.
4. A concave mirror of focal length 10 cm is placed at a distance 35 cm from a wall How far
from the wall should an object be placed so that its real image is formed on the wall?
5. A concave mirror produces an image of a long vertical pin, placed 40 cm from the mirror,
at the position of the object. Find the focal length of the mirror (Mar-20'TS)
6. The focal length of a concave lens is 30cm. Where should an object be placed sothat its
image is 1/ 10 of its size?
7. A double convex lens of focal length 15 cm is used as a magnifying glass in order to
produce an erect image which is 3 times magnified. What is the distance between the
object and the lens?
Wave Optics – 4 Marks
Problems:
1. Two slits are made one millimeter apart and the screen is placed one meter away. What is
the fringe separation when blue - green light of wave length 500nm is used?
2. What should the width of each slit to obtain 10 maxima of the double slit pattern within
the central maximum of the single slit pattern?

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3. 3. In a Young's double slit experiment, the slits are separated by 0.28 mm and the screen is
placed 1.4m away. The distance between the central bright fringle and the fourth bright
fringle is measured to be 1.2cm. Determine the wave length of light used in the
experiment?
4. What is the Brewster angle for air to glass transition? (Refractive index of glass = 1.5)
5. Estimate the distance for which ray optics is good approximation for an aperture of 4mm
and wavelength 400nm.

Electric-charges and fields – 4 Marks

1. An electric dipole with dipole moment 4×10−9 C-m is aligned at 30∘ with the direction of
a uniform electric field of magnitude 5×104NC−1. Calculate the magnitude of the torque
acting on the dipole.
2. What is the force between two small charges of 2×10−7C and 3×10−7C placed 30 cm apart
in air?
3. An infinite number of charges each of magnitude q are placed on x - axis at distances of
1,2, 4, 8, ... meter from the origin. The intensity of the electric field at origin is…………

Electric Potential and Capacitance – 4 Marks and 2 Marks

1. Three capacitors of capacitances 2pF, 3pF and 4pF are connected in parallel .
(a) What is the total capacitance of the combination?
(b) Determine the charge on each capacitor if the combination is connected to a 100V
supply.
2. A 12pF capacitor is connected to a 50V battery. How much electrostatic energy is stored
in the capacitor?
3. In a hydrogen atom the electron and proton are at a distance of 0.54° The dipole moment
of the system is.
4. Three capacitors each of capacitance 9pF are connected in series.

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(a) What is the total capacitance of the combination?
(b) What is the potential difference across each capacitor if the combination is connected
to a 120V supply?
5. In a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates, each plate has an area of 6×10-3
m² and the distance between the plates is 3mm. Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor.
If this capacitor is connected to a 100V supply, what is the charge on each plate of the
capacitor?
6. Three capacitors of capacitances 1µF, 2µF and 3µF are connected in parallel.
(a) What is the ratio of Charges?
(b) What is the ratio of potential differences?
7. Three capacitors of capacitances 1µF, 2µF and 3µF are connected in Series.
(a) What is the ratio of Charges?
(b) What is the ratio of potential differences?

Current Electricity – 8 Marks and 2 Marks

Problems:
1. Write the color code of a carbon resistor of resistance 23 kilo ohms.
2. If the voltage V applied across a conductor is increased to 2V, how will the drift velocity
of the electrons change?
3. **Three identical resistors are connected in parallel and total resistance of the circuit is
R/3. Find the value of each resistance.
4. **A 10Ω thick wire is stretched so that its length becomes three times. Assuming that
there is no change in its density on stretching, calculate the resistance of the stretched wire
5. **A wire of resistance 4R is bent in the form of a circle. What is the effective resistance
between the ends of the diameter ?
6. A cylindrical metallic wire is stretched to increases its length by 5% Calculate the
percentage change in resistance.

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7. A battery of emf 2.5 V and internal resistance r is connected in series with a resistor of 45
ohm through an ammeter of resistance 1 ohm. The ammeter reads a current of 50 mA.
Draw the circuit diagram and calculate the value

Moving Charges and Magnetism – 4 Marks and 2 Marks

1. A current of 10 A passes through two very long wires held parallel to each other and
separated by a distance of 1m. What is the force per unit length between them?
2. A moving coil galvanometer can measure a current of 10 - 6 A. What is the resistance of
the shunt required if it is measure 1A?
3. A circular coil of wire consisting of 100 turns, each of radius 8.0 cm carries a current of
0.40 A. What is the magnitude of the magnetic field B at the centre of the coil

Magnetism and Matter – 2 Marks

1. In the magnetic meridian of a certain place, the horizontal component of the earth's
magnetic field is 0.26G and the dip angle is 60º. What is the magnetic field of the earth at
this location?
2. The earth's magnetic field at the equator is approximately 0.4G.Estimate the earth's dipole
moment
3. A bar magnet of length 0.1m and with a magnetic moment of 5 Am² is placed in a uniform
magnetic field of intensity 0.4T with its axis making an angle of 60º with the field. What
is the torque on the magnet?

Electromagnetic Induction – 4 Marks

Problems
1. The current in a circuit falls from 5A to 0A in 0.1s. If an average emf of 200V is induced,
give an estimate of the self inductance of the circuit.

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2. The current in a coil changes from 5Amp to 10 Amp. in 10 sec then an emf of 50 milli volts is
induced in a coil near it. Calculate the mutual inductance.

Alternating Current – 2 Marks

1. A transformer converts 200V AC into 2000V AC. Calculate the number of turns in the
secondary. If the primary has 10 turns.
2. What type of transformer is used in a 6V bed lamp?
3. In a transformer the primary to secondary terms ratio is 1:2. If an AC current of 4A is
flowing through primary. What is the current in secondary?
4. A power transmission line feeds input power at 2300V to a stepdown transformer with its
primary windings having 4000 turns. What should be the number of turns in the secondary in
order to get output power at 230V?

Electromagnetic Waves – 2 Marks

1. The amplitude of the magnetic field part of harmonic electro magnetic wave in vacuum is
Bo=510nT What is the amplitude of the electric field part of the wave.
2. Suppose that the electric field amplitude of an electromagnetic waves is E, = 120NC
a) Determine Bo
3. If the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is doubled, what happens to the energy of
photon?

Dual Nature of radiation and matter – 2 Marks

1. If the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is doubled, what happens to the energy of
photon?
2. Find the
a) Maximum frequency, and
b) Minimum wavelength of X-rays produced by 30 kV electrons.

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3. The work function of Caesium metal is 2.14 eV. When light of frequency 6x 10 14 Hz is
incident on the metal surface, photoemission of electrons occurs, what is the
a) Maximum kinetic energy of the emitted electrons.
b) Stopping potential, and
c) Maximum speed of the emitted photoelectrons ?
4. The photoelectric cut-off voltage in a certain experiment is 1.5 V. What is the maximum
kinetic energy of photoelectrons emitted?
5. What is the
a) momentum
b) speed, and
c) de-Broglie wavelength of an electron with kinetic energy of 120 eV.
6. What is the de Broglie wavelength associated with an electron moving with a speed of 5.4
x 106 ms-¹
7. An electron of a - particle and a proton have the same kinetic energy Which of these
particle has the shortest de Broglie wavelength?
8. What is the de Broglie wavelength associated with an electron accelerated through a
potential difference of 100volts

Atoms – 4 Marks
1. The radius of the innermost electron orbit of a hydrogen atom is 5.3×10-11m. What are the
radii of the n = 2 and n =3 orbits?

Nuclei – 8 Marks
1. The half-life of radium is 1600 years. How much time does 1 g of radium take to
reduce to 0.125g.
2. How much 235U is consumed in a day in an atomic power house operating at 400
MW, provided the whole of mass 235U is converted into energy?

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3. Find the bonding energy of Fe. Atomic mass of Fe is 55.9349u and that of Hydrogen
is 1.00783 u and mass of neutron is 1.00876น.
4. Calculate the binding energy of an a-particle. Given that the mass of proton
=1.0073u, mass of neutron =1.0087u and mass of a particle = 4.0015u.
5. The half-life period of a radioactive substance is 20 days. What is the time taken for
7/8th of its original mass to disintegrate?
6. If one microgram of 235U92 is completely destroyed in an atom bomb, how much
energy will be 92 released?
7. Calculate the energy equivalent of 1g of substance.
8. Compare the radii of the nuclei of mass number 27 and 64
Semiconductor Electronics– 4 Marks and 2 Marks
1. In a half wave rectifier, a p-n junction diode with internal resistance 20 ohm is used.
If the load resistance of 2K ohms is used in the circuit, then find the efficiency of this
half wave rectifier.
2. A full wave p-n junction diode rectifier uses a load resistance of 1300 ohm. The
internal resistance of each diode is 9 ohm. Find the efficiency of this full wave
rectifier.
3. Calculate the current amplification factor ẞ (beta) when change in collector current
is ImA and change in base current is 20 μ. Α.
4. 4 For a transistor amplifier, the collector load resistance 2K ohm and the input
resistance R=1K ohm. If the current gain is 50, calculate voltage gain of the amplifier.
Communication System –2 Marks
1. A transmitting antenna at the top of a tower has a height of 32 m and the height of
the receiving antenna is 50 m. What is the maximum distance between them, for
satisfactory communication in Line of Sight (LOS) mode? ( Radius of earth = 6400
km)
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