2012 PHYSICS – PH

PH : PHYSICS
Duration: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 100

Read the following instructions carefully.

1. Do not open the seal of the Question Booklet until you are asked to do so by the invigilator.

2. Take out the Optical Response Sheet (ORS) from this Question Booklet without breaking the seal
and read the instructions printed on the ORS carefully.
3. On the right half of the ORS, using ONLY a black ink ball point pen, (i) darken the bubble
corresponding to your test paper code and the appropriate bubble under each digit of your registration
number and (ii) write your registration number, your name and name of the examination centre and
put your signature at the specified location.
4. This Question Booklet contains 20 pages including blank pages for rough work. After you are
permitted to open the seal, please check all pages and report discrepancies, if any, to the invigilator.
5. There are a total of 65 questions carrying 100 marks. All these questions are of objective type. Each
question has only one correct answer. Questions must be answered on the left hand side of the ORS
by darkening the appropriate bubble (marked A, B, C, D) using ONLY a black ink ball point pen
against the question number. For each question darken the bubble of the correct answer. More
than one answer bubbled against a question will be treated as an incorrect response.
6. Since bubbles darkened by the black ink ball point pen cannot be erased, candidates should darken
the bubbles in the ORS very carefully.
7. Questions Q.1 – Q.25 carry 1 mark each. Questions Q.26 – Q.55 carry 2 marks each. The 2 marks
questions include two pairs of common data questions and two pairs of linked answer questions. The
answer to the second question of the linked answer questions depends on the answer to the first
question of the pair. If the first question in the linked pair is wrongly answered or is unattempted, then
the answer to the second question in the pair will not be evaluated.
8. Questions Q.56 – Q.65 belong to General Aptitude (GA) section and carry a total of 15 marks.
Questions Q.56 – Q.60 carry 1 mark each, and questions Q.61 – Q.65 carry 2 marks each.
9. Unattempted questions will result in zero mark and wrong answers will result in NEGATIVE marks.
For all 1 mark questions, ⅓ mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. For all 2 marks questions,
⅔ mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. However, in the case of the linked answer question
pair, there will be negative marks only for wrong answer to the first question and no negative marks
for wrong answer to the second question.
10. Calculator is allowed whereas charts, graph sheets or tables are NOT allowed in the examination hall.

11. Rough work can be done on the question paper itself. Blank pages are provided at the end of the
question paper for rough work.
12. Before the start of the examination, write your name and registration number in the space provided
below using a black ink ball point pen.

Name
Registration
Number PH
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Some Useful Constants

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Speed of light in free space c = 3 × 10 m/s
Boltzmann constantk–23
B= 1.380 × 10 J/K
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Planck’s constant h = 6.626 × 10 J.s
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Electron charge e = 1.602 × 10 C
Permi–1222 ttivity of free space
0 = 8.854 × 10 C/N.m
Perme–7 ability of free space
0
Q.=14– ×Q.10
25H/m
carry one mark each.
NOTE : In numerical problems, the option closest to the correct answer will be given credit.
Q.1 Identify the CORRECT statement for the following vectors a3iˆ2jˆ and biˆ2jˆ

(A) The vectors a and b are linearly independent

(B) The vectors a and b are linearly dependent
(C) The vectors a and b are orthogonal
(D) The vectors a and b are normalized
Two uniform thin rods of equal length, L, and masses M1 and M2 are joined together along the
Q.2
length. The moment of inertia of the combined rod of length 2L about an axis passing through the
mid-point and perpendicular to the length of the rod is,

(A) (B) L2 L2
M1 12M2  M1  6M2 
L2 L2
(C) (D)
M1  3M2  M1  2M2 
Q.3 The space-time dependence of the electric field of a linearly polarized light in free space is given by
xE
0cos(tkz)where E0,  and k are the amplitude, the angular frequency and the wavevector,
respectively. The time averaged energy density associated with the electric field is
1 1
(A)
4 2E2 (B) E20E2 (C) (D)2E20000000
Q.4 If the peak output voltage of a full wave rectifier is 10 V, its d.c. voltage is
(A) 10.0 V (B) 7.07 V (C) 6.36 V (D) 3.18 V
Q.5 A particle of mass m is confined in a two dimensional square well potential of dimension a. This
potential V(x,y) is given by
V(x,y)0 for axa and aya
 elsewhere
The energy of the first excited state for this particle is given by,
2 2

2 2 2 2
2 522 4
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 2 2
ma ma 2ma2 ma
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Q.6 The isothermal compressibility, of an ideal gas at temperature T0 and volume V0, is given by

1 V
(A)  (B) 1 V
(C) V (D)
P P
0T00
V P V P
0V0
V V
T
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Q.7 The
the ground state of sodium atom (Na) is a S1/2 state. The difference in energy levels arising in
0 T0 T0

presence of a weak external magnetic field B, given in terms of Bohr magneton, µB, is
(A) µBB (B) 2µBB (C) 4µBB (D) 6µBB
Q.8 For an ideal Fermi gas in three dimensions, the electron velocity v at the Fermi surface is
related
F
to electron concentration n as,
Q.9 (A) vn2/3 (B) vn (C) (D)
F F vn1/2 v1/3F Fn
Which one of the following sets corresponds to fundamental particles?
(A) proton, electron and neutron
(B) proton, electron and photon
Q.10 (C) electron, photon and neutrino
(D) quark, electron and meson
In case of a Geiger-Muller (GM) counter, which one of the following statements is CORRECT?
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(A) Multiplication factor of the detector is of the order of 10
(B) Type of the particles detected can be identified
(C) Energy of the particles detected can be distinguished
(D) Operating voltage of the detector is few tens of Volts