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WORKSHEETS
GRADE-XI A
SUBJECT-ENGLISH

PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Short Answer Type Questions

Q1. Describe the grandmother in your own words.
Q2. How were the narrator and the grandmother good friends in the village?
Q3. What was the turning point in their friendship?
Q4. Why was the author’s grandmother unhappy with the city education?
Q5. Why did the grandmother hate music?
Q6. Draw a comparison between village school education and city school education.
Q7. What used to be the happiest moments of the day for the grandmother?
Q8. What was “the last sign” of physical contact between the author and the grandmother?
Q9. How did the grandmother celebrate the homecoming of her grandson?
Q10. Why did the grandmother stop talking before her death?
Q11. What could have been the cause of grandmother’s falling ill?
Q12. How did the sparrows mourn the death of grandmother?
Q13. How can you say that the grandmother was a kind- hearted woman?
Q14. The grandmother has been portrayed as a very religious lady. What details in the story
create that impression?
Long Answer Type Questions
Q1. Describe the narrator’s grandmother as a very religious and kind-hearted woman.
Q2. Write a character sketch of the author’s grandmother
Q3. How did the grandmother receive the author when he returned from abroad?
Q4. The grandmother herself was not formally educated but was serious about the author’s
education. How does the text support this?
Q5. Gradually the author and the grandmother saw less of each other and their friendship was
broken. Was the distancing in the relationship deliberate or due to the demand of the
situation?

A PHOTOGRAPH

Short Answer Type Questions

Q1. What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?
Q2. What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?
Q3. The poet’s mother laughed at the snapshot. What does this laugh indicate?
Q4. What does ‘this circumstance’ refer to?
Q5. What do you learn about the poet’s mother from the photograph?
Q6. What has the camera captured?
Q7. The poet’s mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate?
Q8. What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease or loss”
Q9. What scene from mother’s childhood has been captured in the photograph? Who had
taken the photograph?
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Q10. How did the cousins accompany mother for paddling?
Q11. Explain the contrast given in the last two lines of the first stanza.
Q12. How does the poet feel when she remembers the sea holiday of her mother?
Q13. Why doesn’t she want to think about the photograph anymore?
Q14. The three stanzas depict three different phases. What are they?

WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO DIE IF WE ALL.....

Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.

1. Give a brief description of the narrator’s boat. How was it equipped and tested?
2. How did Jonathan react to the desperate situation they found themselves in on 5th January?
3. How did the narrator respond to little John’s words? What do his actions reveal about his
character?
4. How did Sue try to enliven the gloomy atmosphere?
5. Why did the narrator search for an island so eagerly?
6. Why do you think did the narrator call Ile Amsterdam, the most beautiful island in the
world’?
7. What did the narrator think of on landing at Ile Amsterdam?
8. How can you say that Suzanne’s injuries were serious?
Answer the following questions in 120-150 words:
1. What efforts did the narrator make to save the ship and its passengers?
2. What damage did ‘Wavewalker’ suffer as a result of bad weather?

THE SUMMER OF A BEAUTIFUL WHITE HORSE

1. Which incident shows that Mourad is courageous?

2. What are some differences between Mourad and Aram?
3. How did Aram feel when he sat on the horse to ride it alone
4. What is stealing as per the opinion of Aram and Mourad?
5. When did Mourad come to Aram's house? Why?
6. What did you get to know about the families of two boys from this story the beautifull
white horse?
7. Who is Uncle Khosrove?
8. What did John Byro said to the boys after looking at the horse?
9. What are the peculiarities in Uncle Khosrove'sbehaviors?
10. What were Aram's earliest memories?
11. How does Uncle Khosrove react to John Byro's complaint about the stealing of the
horse?
12. Why did the boys return the horse back to the owner
13. Why did the cousin return the horse to John Byro?
14. Describe the horse ride enjoyed by the two boys
15. Explain Aram's reaction when he saw the horse for the first time.
16. How does Aram justify the act of stealing the horse?
17. Make a comparison between Khosrove and Mourad. In William Saroyan's short story
"The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse,"

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 RANGA’S MARRIAGE

1. What kind of person was the narrator?

2. What were Ranga's views on marriage did he stick to them in his own case?
3. What was the role of astrologer in getting Ratna and Ranga married?
4. What is the attitude of narrator towards English?
5. Describe Indian Society on Marriages.

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WORKSHEETS
GRADE XI A

CHAPTER 1: SETS

1 Is pair of sets equal? Give reasons. A = {2, 3}, B = {x : x is solution of x2+ 5x + 6

= 0}
2 If X = {a, b, c, d} and Y = {f, b, d, g}, find X – Y and Y – X.
3. In a survey of 100 students, the no. of students studying the various languages
were found to be English only 18, English but not Hindi 23, English and Sanskrit
8, English 26, Sanskrit 48, Sanskrit and Hindi 8, no language 24. Find
(i) How many students were studying Hindi? (ii) How many students were
studying English and Hindi?
4. In a class of 50 students, 30 students like Hindi, 25 like science and 16 like both.
Find the no. of students who like
(i) Either Hindi or science (ii) Neither Hindi nor science.
5. List all the element of the set A = { x : x is an integer x 2 ≤ 4}
6. If ∪ = {a, e, i, o, u} [4] A = {a, e, i} And B = {e, o, u} C = {a, i, u} , then verify
that
A ∩ (B – C) = (A ∩ B) – (A ∩ C)
7. Given L = {1, 2, 3, 4}, M ={3, 4, 5, 6} and N = {1, 3, 5} Verify that
L – (M U N) = (L – M) (L – N)
8. Let S = {x/ x is positive multiple of 3 less than 100}, P = {x/ x is a prime number
less than 20} , write the elements of S and P.
9. Let A and B be two sets such that n(A) = 24, n(A U B) = 46 and n (A B) = 8.
Find
(i) n(B) (ii) n (A – B) (iii) n (B – A)
10. In a survey of 800 students in a school 200 were listed as taking apple juice, 250
taking orange juice and 125 were taking both apple as well as orange juice. Find
how many students were taking neither apple juice nor orange juice.
11. If A {x : x = 2n + 1, n ≤ 4, n Є N} and B = { y : 2 < y < 7, y Є N}, find (i) A B
(ii) A U B
12. Describe the following sets in set builder form :-
(i){ 1, , , , …. } (ii) {3, 6, 9, - - -}
13. If A = {1,2,3,5} and B = {4,6,9}, R = {(x, y) : |x – y| is odd, x  A, y  B} . Write R in
roster form.
14. Are sets A = {1, 2, 3, 4}, B = { x : x  N and 5  x  7} disjoint? Why?

CHAPTER 2: RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS

1 Let A = {1,2} and B = {3,4}.Write A×B. How many subsets will A×B have? List
them.
2 Let A = {1,2,3,…..,14}. Define a relation R from A to A by R = {(x,y) : 3x-y = 0,
where x,y∈A}. Write down its domain, co-domain and range

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 3. Let R be a relation from Q to Q defined by R = {(a,b):a,b∈Q and a-b∈Z}.Show
that
(i) (a,a)∈R for all a∈Q (ii) (a,b)∈R implies that (b,a)∈R (iii) (a,b)∈R and (b,c)∈R
implies that (a,c)∈R
4. Let A = {9, 10, 11, 12, 13} and let f: A → N be defined by f(n) = the highest
prime factor of n. Find the range of f.
5. Find the domain and the range of the real function f defined by f (x) = |x – 1|.
6. Examine the relation : R={(2,1),(3,1),(4,1)} and state whether it is a function or
not?
7. Examine the relation : R={(2,1),(3,1),(4,1)} and state whether it is a function or
not?
8. Let A = {1, 2, 6, 8} and let R be a relation on A defined by {(a, b): a, b∈ A, b is
exactly divisible by a}
i) Write R in roster form. ii) Find the domain of R. iii) Find the range of R.
9. If f and g are two functions such that f(x) = 5x + 2 and g(x) = x2 + 3, then find f +
g and f – g.
10. A function f is defined by f(x) = 2x – 5. Write down the values of (i) f(0), (ii) f(7),
(iii) f(–3)
11. Find the range of the following functions given by:
(i) f(x) = (ii) f(x) = (iii) f(x) = 1 -
12. If f(x) = and g(x) = x be defined in the domain R+ U {0}
Find (i) (f + g)(x) (ii) (f – g)(x) (iii) (fg)(x)

CHAPTER 4: PRINCIPE OF MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION

1 Show by Induction, .
2 Show for all ∈ ,
3. Show using PMI, 1.3 + 3.5 +.............. (2 − 1)(2 + 1) =
4. Show by Induction + + 2………. n-1= (
5. By principle of mathematical induction show that 3 2 +2 − 8 − 9 is divisible by 8
for all ∈ N.
6. Prove by PMI, 3 2 when divided by 8, the remainder is always 1.
7. By PMI, show 2 − 2 is divisible by + y.
8. By PMI, show that 2.7 + 3.5 − 5 is divisible by 24.
9. Prove by induction that the sum of the cubes of the consecutive natural numbers is
divisible by 9.
10. Show by PMI, ( + 1)( + 5) is multiple of 3.

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WORKSHEETS
GRADE XI A
BIOLOGY

Chapter-3-Plant Kingdom

1. What are the differences between artificial and natural system of classification?

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 2. Define phylogenetic classification systems, numerical taxonomy, cytotaxonomy and chemotax
onomy.
3. Give general characteristics of Kingdom Algae & discuss its mode of reproduction also.
4. Name two hydrocolloids obtained from algae.
5. Name two algae from which agar is obtained. Give commercial use of agar.
6. Name two unicellular algae rich in proteins & which are used as protein supple
ments by space travelers.
7. List the name divisions of kingdom Algae & give their characteristics.
8. Explain life cycle of Bryophytes (Mosses).
9. Why are bryophytes called amphibians of Plant Kingdom?
10. What is ‘gemma’? Where do you find them?
11. Give schematic representation of life cycle of pteriophyte.
12. Chematically represent life cycle of a gymnosperm.
13. What are 2 classes of Angiosperm?
14. Describe male & female sex organs of an angiosperm.
15. What is double fertilization?
16. Give schematic representation of life cycle of an angiosperm.

Chapter-4-Animal Kingdom

1. What is open and closed type of circulatory system?

2. Which type of symmetry do the following animals have? Explain the symmetry also:
sponges, echinoderms, annelids.
3. Give single terms for:-
a) Animals which have ectoderm & endoderm only.
(b) Animals which ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm.

4. Define coelom. Give e.g. of animals who are coelomates.

5. What are pseudocoelomates & acoelomates animals? Give examples

6. What is metamerism ?

7. Give flowchart of classification of animals.

8. Explain the terms of Phylum Porifera: - Water canal system, coenocytes & types of
skeleton sponges

9. (a) In which phylum do you find endoblasts? What is its function?

(b) Give differences between polyp & medusa

10. What is bioluminescence?

11. What is the function of flame cells? In which phylum are they found?

12. Which phylum has the characteristic – bilaterally symmetrical, triploblastic,

pseudocoelomates animal?

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13. What are the functions of parapodia & nephridia?

14. Which is the largest phylum of Animalia?

15. Describe the following features of an arthropod (a) Body exoskeleton (b) appendages

(c) organs of respiration, balance organs & organs of excretion.

16. Give characteristic features of Phylum Mollusca.

17. Which are the most distinctive features of an Echinoderm?

18. Give differences between chordates & Nonchordates.

19. Which are the three subphylum of Phylum chordata?

20. List the features of Vertebrata & give its flowchart.

21. List the features of with examples: - (i) Class cyclostomata (ii) Class chondrichytes

(ii) Class Osteichythes (iv) Class Amphibia (v) Class Reptilia (vi) Class Aves (vii) Class
Mammalia

Chapter-1&2-The living World and Biological Classification

1. What are the differences between artificial and natural system of classification?
2. Define phylogenetic classification systems, numerical taxonomy, cytotaxonomy and
chemotaxonomy.
3. Give general characteristics of Kingdom Algae & discuss its mode of reproduction also.
4. Name two hydrocolloids obtained from algae.
5. Name two algae from which agar is obtained. give commercial use of agar.
6. Name two unicellular algae rich in proteins & which are used as protein supplement
s by space travelers.
7. List the name divisions of kingdom Algae & give their characteristics.
8. Explain life cycle of Bryophytes (Mosses).
9. Why are bryophytes called amphibians of Plant Kingdom?
10. What is ‘gemma’? Where do you find them?
11. Give schematic representation of life cycle of pteridophyte.
12. Schematically represent life cycle of a gymnosperm.
13. What are 2 classes of Angiosperm?
14. Describe male & female sex organs of an angiosperm.
15. What is double fertilization?
16. Give schematic representation of life cycle of an angiosperm.

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CLASS: XI
SUBJECT: PHYSICS

CH.1-PHYSICAL WORLD AND MEASUREMENTS

1. If x = at + bt2 where x is in meters and t is in seconds. What are the units of a and b?
2. Fill ups.
(i) 3.0m/s2 = --------------------- km/hr (ii) 6.67 10-11Nm2/kg2 = -------------------------
g-1cm3s-2
3. Write S.I unit of luminous intensity and temperature?
4. 4.Calculate the time taken by the light to pass through a nucleus of diameter
1.56×10-16 m. (speed of light is 3×108 m/s)
5. If force (F) acceleration (A) and time (T) are taken as fundamental units, then find the
dimension of energy.
6. Two resistances R1= 100±3 Ωand R2= 200±4 Ωare connected in series. Then what is
the equivalent resistance?
7. If velocity, time and force were chosen the basic quantities, find the dimensionsof
mass?
8. Young’s modulus of steel is 19×1010 N/m2. Express it in dynes/ cm2. Here dynes
are the C.G.S unit of force.
9. The velocity υ of water waves may depend on their wavelength λ density of water ρ
and the acceleration due to gravity g. Find relation between these quantities by the
method of dimension?
10. What is the difference between A˚and A.U.?
11. Define S.I. unit of solid angle?
12. Name physical quantities whose units are electron volt and pascal?
13. When a planet X is at a distance of 824.7 million kilometers from earth its
angular diameter is measured to be 35.7211 of arc. Calculate the diameter of ‘X’.
14. A radar signal is beamed towards a planet from the earth and its echo is received
seven minutes later. Calculate the velocity of the signal, if the distance between the planet
and the earth is 6.3x1010m?
15. Give two methods for measuring time intervals?
16. Find the dimensions of latent heat and specific heat?
17. (a) State which of the following are dimensionally current(i) Pressure = Energy per
unit volume (ii) Pressure = Momentum ×volume ×time

CH. 2 – Motion in a Straight line

1. Using calculus, establish the following, v2-u2 = 2as.
2. Draw v-t graph of a uniform motion. Prove that the displacement of an object in a
time interval is equal to the area under v-t graph in that time interval.
3. A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20m/s.It takes 4s to return to its
original position. Draw v-t graph for the motion of the ball.
4. A ball is thrown vertically upwards. It has a speed of 10m/s, when it has reached one
half of its maximum height. How high does the ball rise?
5. A bird flies for 4s with a velocity v=(t-2)m/s in a straight line.Calculate the
displacement of the bird and distance travelled by the bird.
6. A balloon starts raising from the ground with an acceleration of 1.25ms-2. After 8s,a

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stone is released from the balloon. Find the time taken by the stone to reach the ground
after its release.
7. A ball is thrown is vertically upward with a speed of 19.6m/s from the top of a
tower returns to the earth in 6s.Find the height of the tower.
8. If a body loses half of its velocity on penetrating 3cm in a wooden block, then how
much will it penetrate more before coming to rest?
9. The displacement of a particle starting from rest is x=3t2-t3.Calculate the time at
which the acceleration of the particle becomes zero.
10. A car completes its journey along a straight line in three equal parts with speed
v1,v2 and v3 respectively.Find the average speed of the car.

CH.3 – Motion in a plane

1. Differentiate between scalar quantities and vector quantities.
2. Compare path length of an object between two points with that of magnitude of
displacement between the same two points.
3. Explain the following briefly.a.Multiplication of vector by real numbers b.Equality of
vectors c.Triangle method of vector addition .
4. What is commutative law of vector addition?
5. What is Associative law of vector addition? What is a null vector? Give the
physical meaning of a null vector. Give the properties of a null vector.
6. Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 35 ms-1. Winds starts blowing after sometime
with a speed of 12 ms-1in east to west direction. In which direction should a boy waiting at
a bus stop hold his umbrella?
7. Explain briefly subtraction of vectors.
8. Find the magnitude and direction of the resultant of two vectors A and B in terms of
their magnitudes and angle θ between them.
9. State the parallelogram law of two vectors.
10. State the following laws.a.Law of cosines b.Law of sines
11. A small block slides down from top of a hemisphere of radius R. At what height h the
ball will lose contact with the surface of the sphere, assuming there is no friction between
the block and the hemisphere.
12. A fighter jet makes a loop of 1000m with a speed of 250m/s. Compare its
centripetal acceleration with the acceleration due to gravity.
13. How much high above the ground, a boy can throw the ball if he is able to throw the
same ball upto a maximum horizontal distance of 50m?
14. Derive the projection angle θ0 for a projectile.
15. A projectile can have the same range R for two angles of projection.If t1 and t2 be the
time of flights in the two cases, then find the value of t1t2.

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CLASS: XI
COMPUTER SCIENCE

REVISION 1

1. What is a database system? What is need of it?

2. What are views? How are they useful?

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 3. What is purpose of using MySQL?
4. Differentiate between DDL and DML commands.
5. What is data redundancy?
6. List the key features of MySQL.
7. List some of the TCL commands.
8. Explain some of the Table Maintenance commands.
9. Differentiate between CHAR and VARCHAR datatypes.
10. Summarize the major differences between a relation and a traditional file.
11. Write a query to create a string from ASCII values 70,65,67,69
REVISION 2

1. Consider the table ‘Movies’:

S.No. Title Type Ratings Stars Qty Price
1 Gone with the wind Drama G Gable 4 39.95
th
2 Friday the 13 Horror R Jason 2 69.95
3 Top Gun Drama PG Cruise 7 49.95
4 Splash Comedy PG13 Hanks 3 29.95
5 Independence Day Drama R Turner 3 19.95
Answer the following queries based on the table above:

a) Display a list of all movies with price over 20 and sorted by price.
b) Display all the movies sorted by Qty in decreasing order.
c) Display a report listing a movie number, current value and replacement value
for each movie in the above table. Calculate the replacement value for all
movies as Qty*Price*1.15.
2. What are the group functions?
3. Write a query to display the name, job, and salary of employee who do not have
manager.
4. Write a query to display name, job and HireDate of employee who are hired between
May 20, 1991 and December 31, 1991. Order the query in ascending order of HireDate.
5. What are constrains in database.
6. What is primary key and foreign key in database?
7. List the DML Commands.
8. The Structure of table Temp is as follows:

Enum NOT NULL number

Ename Varchar(10)
Sal Number(7,2)
Months Number(3)
Write a query to insert into into table Temp, the employee numbers, names, and salaries
of all those employees completed 2 years.
9. What are integrity constraints in database?
10. How do you alter the values present in the database?

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REVISION 3
1. Add the following data in the table , Employee, as instructed:
ID First_Name Last_Name User_ID Salary
1 Joseph Jones JJones 5000
2 Shankar Giri SGiri 4000
3 Gautam Shankar GautamS 8000
4 Jaya Mishra JMishra 7000
5 Siddharth Sharma SidSharma 2000
6 Lisa Roy RoyL 9000
(i) Populate the table with first record mentioning the column list in the insert
clause.
(ii) Populate the table with next two records without mentioning the column list in
the insert clause.
(iii) Populate the table with 4th record and enter only ID and First_Name.
(iv) Populate the table with 5th record and enter ID, User_ID and Last_Name only.
2. Differentiate between:
a. DROP TABE, DROP DATABASE
b. DROP TAB, DROP clause of ALTER TABLE
3. Write the quires for the following
a. Increase salary of employee records by 10%
b. Give commission of 500 to all employess who joined in the year 2018
c. Allocate the Department situated in BOSTON to employee with employee
number 7500
4. Given the following table:
a. Orders(orderNo, Ord_date, Prodno, Qty)
b. Product (ProdNo, Descp, Price)
c. Payment(OrderNo, Pment)
Write a query to delete all those record from the table Orders whose complete payment as
been made.

5. What does ‘*’ mean in SELECT * FROM STUDENT?

6. With SQL, how do you select all the columns from a table names ‘Persons’.
7. How do you add a constraint (NN-Grade) in table Empl that declares column grade
not null?
8. Write a quiry to display the FirstName,LastName and Total Salary of all
Employees from the Table Employee and Empsalary where total salary is
calculated as salary+Benefits.
9. Create table Department as per following table Instance chart
Column Name DeptId Deptname
Key type Primary
Nulls/Unique NOTNULL
Datatype Number VarChar
Length 2 20

10. What are the Order by clasue.

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GRADE: 11
CHEMISTRY

CHAPTER:1 – SOME BASIC CONCEPTS OF CHEMISTRTY

1. Calculate the molarity of an aqueous solution of methanol in which the mole fraction
of ethanol is 0.040. Assume the density of water to be 1.0 g mL−1
2. If mass of air at sea level is 1034 g cm−2, calculate the pressure in pascal. (Given g =
9.8 ms−2, 1 Pa = 1 Nm−2)
3. The density of 3 M solution of NaCl is 1.25 g mL−1. Calculate molality of solution.
(Molar mass of NaCl is 58.5 g mol−1).
4. Determine the molecular formula of an oxide of iron in which the mass percent of
iron and oxygen are 69.9 and 30.1 respectively. Molar mass of this oxide is 170.0 g
mol−1.
5. How many significant figures are present in the answer of following calculations:
a. 0.0125 + 0.7864 − 0.023
b. 0.025 X 298.15 X 0.1155 / 0.5785
6. Calculate the mass of CaCO3 required to react completely with 25mL of 0.75 M HCl.
7. A compound contains 4.07% hydrogen, 24.27% carbon and 71.65% chlorine. Its
molar mass is 98.96 g. Determine its emperical and molecular formulas.
8. State and explain Avogadro’s law. Illustrate it with an example.

CHAPTER:2 – STRUCTURE OF ATOM

1. Outline Rutherford’s contribution to understand the nucleus of an atom.

2. Distinguish between an atomic emission spectrum and an atomic absorption spectrum.

3. Show that the circumference of Bohr orbit for the hydrogen atom is an integral
multiple of the de Broglie wavelength associated with the electron revolving around
the nucleus.

4. Calculate the percentage of higher isotope of neon which has average atomic mass
20.2 and the isotopes have the mass numbers 20 and 22.

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5. Calculate and compare the products of uncertainty in position and uncertainty in
velocity for a milligram-sized object and that of an electron (me = 9.11 × 10−31 kg).
What conclusion would you draw from result?

6. Calculate the wavelength of an electron that has been accelerated in a particle

accelerator through a potential difference of 1keV. [1 eV = 1.6 × 10−19 J]

7. The kinetic energy of a subatomic particle is 5.86 × 10−25 J. Calculate the frequency
of the particle wave.

8. How many series are found in the spectrum of atomic hydrogen? Mention their names
and the regions in which they appear.

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