TOPPER SAMPLE PAPER 2

XI PHYSICS
Time: Three Hours Maximum Marks: 70
General I nstructions
(a)All questions are compulsory.
(b)There are 30 questions in total. Questions 1 to 8 carry one mark
each, questions 9 to 18 carry two marks each, questions 19 to 27
carry three marks each and questions 28 to 30 carry five marks
each.
(c) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been
provided in one question of two marks, one question of three marks
and all three questions of five marks each. You have to attempt
only one of the given choices in such questions.
(d)Use of calculator is not permitted.
(e)You may use the following physical constants wherever necessary.
19
8 1
34
7 2
23 1
23
27
1.6 10
3 10
6.6 10
4 10
1.38 10
6.023 10 /
1.6 10
o
B
A
n
N
e C
c ms
h JS
A
k JK
N mole
m kg

Q1. Give dimensions of (i) rotational Kinetic energy (ii) strain.
1
Q2. If the force shown on the block is action, what is its reaction?
1
Q3. Mention two advantages of I shape of iron beams used in building
construction. 1
Q4. The graph below shows load extension curve for two wires A and B
of the same material and of same length.
Which one of them is thicker?
1
Q5. Give one example each of natural and forced convection.
1
Q6. Draw cooling curve for hot water.
1
Q7. Why is invar used for making the pendulum of a clock?
1
Q8. What do you understand by natural frequency of a vibrating
system? 1
Q9. What is absolute error? The temperature of two bodies measured
by a thermometer are t
1
= 20C 0.5C and t
2
= 50C 0.5C.
What is the temperature difference and the error therein?
2
Q10. From the following graph, find the sign of (i) velocity (ii)
acceleration. Give reasons for each answer.
2
Q11. What is the maximum height reached by an oblique projectile if its
time of flight is T? 2
Q12. Explain very briefly, why
(i) A horse cannot pull a cart and run in empty space?
(ii) Passengers are thrown outward when a moving bus takes a
sudden turn. 2
Q13. What are concurrent forces? Under what conditions will a body
remain in equilibrium? 2
Q14. Why does a satellite not need any fuel to circle around the earth? Is
it possible to put an artificial satellite in an orbit such that it always
remains visible directly over New Delhi? 2
Q15. A gas mixture consists of molecules of type A, B and C with
molecular masses m
A
> m
B
> m
C
. Rank the three types according to
(a) average kinetic energy (b) rms speed, greatest first. Give
justification for each answer. 2
OR
What would be the ratio of initial and final pressures if the masses
of all the molecules of a gas are halved and their speeds doubled?
What is the kinetic energy per unit volume of a gas if its pressure is
2 10
5
N/m
2
. 2
Q16. A Carnots engine takes 2095 J of heat per cycle from source at 400
K and rejects 1676 J to the sink. Calculate the temperature of the
sink and efficiency of the engine. 2
Q17. Define SHM. Under what conditions is the motion of a pendulum
simple harmonic? 2
Q18. A particle is executing SHM. What fraction of its energy is kinetic
when the displacement is half the amplitude? 2
Q19. The motion of a car along y-axis is given by
v(t)= -12t + 12
where velocity v is in m/s and time t in seconds. Find the
instantaneous position of the car as a function of time if at t = 0 it
was at 5 m. Also find its acceleration at t = 2 second.
3
Q20. Find

1 2 3
F F F
3
Q21. (i) Classify the following into conservative and non-conservative
spring force, human push, gravitational force, viscous drag
(ii) Potential energy of a system due to a conservative for F is U.
What is the relation between then?
3
Q22. Define coefficient of restitution. In an elastic collision of two bodies
are the momentum and energy of each body conserved? Why is
heavy water chosen in a nuclear reactor to slow down fast moving
neutrons? 3
Q23. (a) Find the torque of a force

7i 3j 5k about the origin. The force
acts on a particle whose position vector is

i j k .
(b) How do we find the direction of angular velocity?
3
Q24. State perpendicular axis theorem. What is the moment of inertia of
a ring of mass 2 kg and radius 0.5m about an axis passing through
its centre and perpendicular to its plane? Also find moment of
inertia about a parallel axis through its edge. 3
Q25. Find the potential energy of a system of four identical particles
placed at the vertices of a square of side a. Also obtain the potential
at the centre of the square. 3
Q26 State the main features of kinetic theory of an ideal gas.
3
Q27. State the first law of thermodynamics. Establish the relation
between C
P
and C
V
. 3
Q28. (a) Force-time graph for a body is given below. What is the velocity
of the body at the end of 11 sec? Mass of the body is 7 kg and
assumes it to be initially at rest.
(b) When an automobile moving with a speed of 36 km/h reaches
an upward inclined road of angle 30, its engine is switched off. If
the coefficient of friction involved is 0.1, use an appropriate free
body diagram to find the retardation suffered by the automobile.
5
Q29. What do you understand by laminar flow and streamlined flow?
Water is flowing with a speed of 2 m/s in a horizontal pipe with
cross sectional area
2 10
-2
m
2
at pressure 4 10
4
Pa. What will be the pressure at a
smaller cross section where the area decreases to 0.01 m
2
?
5
OR
Define angle of contact. For what nature of angle of contact will a
liquid wet the solid?
A liquid drop of diameter 4 mm breaks into 1000 droplets of equal
size. Calculate the resultant change in surface energy if the surface
tension of the liquid is 0.07 N/m. 5
Q30. A displacement wave is represented by y = 0.25 10
-3
Sin (500t +
0.025 Hz). where y, t and z are in cm, sec and m respectively.
Deduce (i) the direction of travel of the wave.
(ii) wave frequency
(iii) wavelength
(iv) the wave speed
(v) maximum particle velocity
5
OR
(a) What is Doppler effect? A whistle is being rotated in a horizontal
circle. What will be the effect on the sound frequency for a listener
standing (i) outside the circle (ii) at the centre of the circle.
(b) What is the beat frequency when two tuning forks of frequency
200 Hz and 205 Hz are sounded together? Mention one application
of beats. 5