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Physics 1st Paper
Chapter -02 : Vector
1. Two boatman started to their journey for crossing a river at the same time . 1st boatman is
started his journey along OA and reach exactly at point D | 2nd boatman is started his journey
along OB with ( ̂ ̂) ms-1
D
A 1 km B
1 km

600
current10.8 kmh-1 current10.8 kmh-1

O O

a. Define component .
b. Distinguish between triangle law and parallelogram law .
c. Determine the resultant velocity of first boatman .
d. Who will take the least time to cross the river .- analyze .

2.
d
A B

O 3m/s (Velocity of current)

In order to cross a canal two swimmers are started to swim at the same time with same
velocity 5ms-1 from O. They reached at the opposite side with the time difference of 10s.
For crossing the canal swimmer 1 has chosen the shortest path (OA) and swimmer 2 has
chosen the shortest time (OB).
(a) Define resultant vector.
(b) Why ̂ ̂ is a null vector ?
(c) Determine the width "d" of the canal.
(d) For crossing canal their horizontal displacement will not equal– analyze
mathematically.

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3. Look at the picture carefully and give the answer of the question given below:
Y

A 5

300 300
–X X B 6

–Y
a. What is free vector?
b. Vector product does not obey the commutative law-Explain.
c. Find out A  B .
d. ⃗ ⃗⃗and A  B will be perpendicular to each other-Verify mathematically.
Y
4. In the figure, x
ox  A  3iˆ  2 ˆj  kˆ
y
oy  B  iˆ  2 ˆj  3kˆ
oz  C  2iˆ  3 ˆj  kˆ X
O

a. Define displacement vector.

b. Position vector is not a free vector – explain .
c. Find out the angle between vector C and Y-axis.
d. Are three vectors mentioned in the stem co-planer or not? Give opinion with mathematical
analysis.

5. ⃗⃗⃗ ̂ ̂ ̂ &⃗⃗⃗ ̂ ̂ ̂ are the two vector quantities.

a. Define vector resolution?
b. What are the conditions for maximum & minimum value of a resultant vector of two
vectors? Explain.
c. Calculate the unit vector parallel to the resultant vector.
d. Which area will be greater if you determine a rectangle by taking the magnitude of vector ⃗⃗ as
length & the perpendicular component of vector ⃗⃗⃗ along vector ⃗⃗as width and a parallelogram
with two adjacent sides as these vector? Mathematically analyze it.

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6.   3x 2 yz  4 xyz  2 yz 3 is a scalar field and V  4 xy 3 ziˆ  3x3 yzˆj  5xyz 2kˆ is a vector field.
a. Define position vector.
b. Difference between divergence and curl .

c. Determine the curl of V .
d. "A scalar field can be converted into a vector field and a vector fieldcan be
converted into a scalar field."Show with mathematical analysis in the light of stem.

7.
⃗⃗
𝐵 𝑖̂ 𝑗̂ 3𝑘 β
𝐶⃗

𝛼
𝐴⃗ 3𝑖̂ 6𝑗̂ 2𝑘

a.What is gradient ?
b. Explain the condition for which the addition and subtraction of two vectors become equal .
c. Find a unit vector perpendicular to the plane of ⃗ and ⃗⃗ .
d.For stem which value will be greater between αand β –give your opinion with
mathematical analysis .

Chapter-03 : Dynamics
1. In the following figure velocity vs time graph is shown of a moving body .
velocity

8
v(ms-1)

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Time t (sec)
a . Define acceleration .
b. How instantaneous velocity can be determined from displacement vs time graph .
c. Determine total displacement of the body .
d. Mathematically determine the acceleration of the body from graph and draw the acceleration vs
time graph .

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 Y
2. vy
P
vx B

X
O A
An object is thrown from point O with v0velocity towards the wall AB=2m located 85m away. The
object reaches point P after 1s. Herevx=27.7ms–1and vy=6.2ms–1.
a. What is instantaneous angular velocity.
b. Discuss vector form of centripetal acceleration.
c. Calculate the value of v0.
d. At what minimum change the angle of projection is to be done so that the object obstacles in
the wall AB? Analyze mathematically.

3. A footballer takes a free kick with a velocity of 25 ms–1 and angle 350 with horizontal line and
56 m away from the goal post but couldn’t score. The height of post was 2.5 m.
a. Define projectile.
b. Write two differences between angular and linear acceleration.
c. Find the velocity of the ball after 2 sec of the free kick.
d.‘‘The coach says he could have score if he took the free kick 100 cm behind from
his previous position.’’-Justify the statement mathematically.

4. P

100m

A 500m B C

Two policeman shoot from P by seeing a car of robber moving towards BC from point B with
uniform velocity 10m/s. The 2nd policeman shoots the bullet with a velocity 100m/s at an angle
6 upward with horizontal, meanwhile the 1st policeman shoots the bullet with velocity 100m/s
along the horizontal. Acceleration due to gravity is 10 ms-2. Length of the car is 4m.

a. What is instantaneous acceleration?

b. Is it possible to maintain uniform velocity for circular motion? Explain.
c. At what velocity the bullet of first policeman will hit the ground?
d. Will the 2nd policeman’s bullet hit the car? Analyze it mathematically.

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5.
V2
V1

D B A
C

Building 3 Building 2 Building 1

x 2x

A person throws a ball of mass 200gm from point A of building-1 with 40m/s velocity at angle
. The ball hits point B of building-2 and moves with velocity after losing 40% of its velocity
towards building-3. The height of building-1 & 2 are 100m and building-3 is 70m. CD=10m
a. Define horizontal range .

b. Explain the kinetic and potential energy of projectile at maximum height .

c) If the collision time of ball at point B is 0.4s then calculate the impulsive force.

d) Will ball falls on the roof of building-3? Mathematically analyze it.

6. In fig-1 an object thrown with velocity making an angle 3 with the horizontal line .
In fig-2 another object thrown with velocity making an angle with the horizontal line
and the horizontal component of the velocity of object at point P is 3 .
3 𝑚𝑠 𝑣
P

Fig-1 Fig-2

a. Define instantaneous velocity ?

b. Average velocity may be zero but average speed may not be zero – explain .

c. At what height will the object reach after 1.5 s according to fig-1 ?

d. After 1 s the velocity of both objects will be equal or not –analyze mathematically.

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7. A
300

6 ms-1 B

Block-C
Block-D
40 m 30 m

8m

A Superman dive from point A of block-C with velocity 6ms-1and angle 300 with horizontal
instantly after seeing a child freely falling from point B of block-D.
a. Define centripetal acceleration .
b. Draw and explain the v-t graph for the motion of child .
c. Calculate the time whenvy= 2 vx in case of superman .
d. Was superman able to save the child ?– Analysis mathematically.

8.
1 1
40 ms- 40 ms-

30º 45º
Figure -1
Figure-2
a. Give the definition of instantaneous velocity.
b. "A body travelling with uniform circular motion has acceleration"- Explain.
c. Compare the maximum height of two projectiles in the stem.
d. Analyze the velocity and position of projectile in figure -2 when projectile in
figure -1 touch to the ground.

9. A projectile has been thrown from O. In order to hit the projectile a stone is released from P
just 0.5s after throwing the projectile.
P

20ms-1
H=R
θ°
O
R
(a) Define time of flight.
(b) Explain condition for maximum range ?
(c) Determine the value of θo.
(d) Weather the store will hit the projectile or not.– analyze mathematically.
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 Chapter-04 :Newtonian Mechanics
1. m1=10kg m2=5kg
m1 m2

u1=10ms–1 u2=5ms–1 v1=7ms–1

Time of collision
0.4 sec

a. Define the torque.

b. When an object is rotating with an unit uniform angular velocity its moment of inertia will
be twice of its Kinetic energy Explain.
c. Find out the magnitude of F1 .
d. Was the collision elastic – Analyze mathematically.

2. A rubber disc sliding on a frictionless sarface collides with a stationary rubber disc. The discs
move as shown in the diagram. Mass of sliding disc is 30 kg.
v1=0.20 m/s

300
30 kg 450
Stationary disc

0.15 m/s
a. Define moment of inertia.
b. What do you mean by 10N force? Explain.
c. Calculate the mass of stationary disc.
d. The initial velocity of sliding disc was less than 1 m/s-Verify it with mathematical analysis.

3. A biker is moving through a bank of radius 300m creating an angle 6 with road. The width
and relative height difference between two sides of the road are 10m and 2.5m respectively. A
car having wheel of diameter 80cm rotates 500 times within one minutes through that bank.
a. What is impulsive force?
b. Impulse of fore is equal to change of momentam. Explain.
c. Calculate the velocity of biker.
d. Will that car fall on accident? Analyze mathematically.

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4. Mass of AB rod is 1 kg.

P x

2m 2m

A B

Q y
(a) Define elastic collision.
(b) What are the necessities of banking in a road?
(c) Calculate the radius of gyration of the body with respect to XY axis.
(d) In which case it will be easier to rotate the bar through axis PQ or XY?explain mathematically.

5. A boy is circulating a stone of mass 50g horizontally with a string of length 1m. The stone
completes 10 revolution within 2s. Suddenly the mass decreased by 20% and the boy increased
the length of string 10%.
a. Define angular momentum.
b. Why the angular velocity of each particle of a rotating object become same?

c.Calculate the torque have to be applied for converting the angular velocity of stone 14rps within 6s.
d. The number of rotation have to be increased approximately 10 times per minute to keep the
balance-verify mathematically.

6. A biker moves through a bank of radius 200m creating an angle with road. The width
and relative height difference between two sides of the road are 20m & 5.176m.
Meanwhile, a car of mass 400kg falls on accident on that bank while moving with the
same velocity as bike. But if the road provides 1300N friction on that car, then it can avoid
the accident.
a) What is radius of gyration?
b) Why does centrifugal force is an absurd force? Explain.
c) Calculate the velocity of biker.
d) How does car avoid the accident with the help of friction? Analyze it mathematically.

7. A bird of mass 500g is sitting at a branch of a tree at point A; where C is the surface. A
shooter at point B shots the bird with a bullet of mass 50gm towards BA direction and starts to
run with velocity 6 m/s to catch the bird after just after shooting. The bullet hits the bird with
speed 70m/s and remains in its body. Here AC= 4m and

a) State conservation of angular momentum.

b) Explain the parallel axes theorem.
c) Calculate the velocity of the bird after the hit.
d) Will the shooter can catch the bird? Analyze mathematically

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8. A motor bike and a train moving with the velocities 72 kmh–1 and 54 kmh–1 parallel to each
other. The road and the rail line have the radius of curvature 200m and 300m respectively.
And the distance between the two lines of the rail is 1.6m.
a. Define Impulse of force .

b. Explain perpendicular axis theorem .

c. Calculate the height of the outer rail relative to the inner rail.
d. What will be the angle of the biker observed by a train passenger at the turning place?
Determine mathematically.

9.

A
600 20 m
54 kmh-1

D
8m
E
B C

A driver hold the break of his car after seeing a blind man coming towards ED with uniform
velocity 1ms-1. The driver was able to stop his car at D. Frictional force is 100N and mass of
the car is 2000 kg.
a. Define angle of banking.
b. Conservation of angular momentum is more universal than the conservation of linear
momentum. - explain .
c. Calculate the force needed to stop the car.
d. If the driver require 0.2s time more to stop the car then could he be able to avoid the
accident? – Analysis mathematically.

10. A road is curved of radius 200m. The width of the road is 1m and outer edge of the road is
14cm higher than the inner edge. A car driver is rounding the curve of the road at a speed 50
kmh1 . (g=9.80ms‒2).
a. Define moment of inertia.
b.Why does a ballerina bend her hands towards her body while rotating with high angular
velocity? Explain.
c. Determine the angle of banking.
d. Will the driver round the curve of the road safely if he drives the car at a speed mentionedin
the stem ? Give your opinion by mathematical analysis.

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 Subject: Physics 1st Paper
Chapter -05: Work , Energy &Power
1. When a stone of 1kg hit on the top of nail from 50cm above it penetrate some distance inside the ground.
The resistive force of the ground 254.8N.
a. Define positive work.
b. Frictional force is a nonconservative force– explain.

c. At what height kinetic energy of stone will be 2/3 of potential energy.

d. Varify mathemetically work energy theorem for the above stem.

2. v(m/s) F(N)

B
2 P Q
2
S R
A 1 1.75
C t(s)
O O x(m)
2 4 6 4 8
Area of QSR is 1
-1
D Fig-2
Fig-1
v-t and F-x graph of a body of mass 2 kg is given in above fig-1 and fig-2 respectively. Friction for
figure-1 is 0.2N.
a. Define zero work.
b. What is meant by the efficiency of an engine is 60% ?
c. Determine the applied force on the body at 1.5th second from fig-1.
d. Compare the work done for CD, PQ and QSR.

3.
4m

50m 30m

Look at the figure. Power of pump is 8kw and it's efficiency is 60%.
a) Define workless force.
b) Why is no work done when the earth orbits the sun? ‒Explain.
c) Calculate the work done to empty the well.
d) If a pump of 1HP is connected after lifting 50% water then how much time will be saved? Analyze
mathematically.

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4. A particle moves from point (-1, 1, 2) to (1, -1, 3) within 2s if a force F  6iˆ  3 ˆj  2kˆ N is applied of it.
(a) Define spring constant .
(b) Why does work is a scalar quantity? Explain .
(c) Calculate the power of the particle .
(d) Work done by the particle along Z-axis is less than along YZ surface. Verify it with Mathematical
analysis .

5. A brick is shown in figure . Its height is 0.05m and mass is 2 kg.

0.24m

0.12m
SB

a) What is efficiency ?
b) When an object falls , its kinetic energy increases-explain.
c) To build 5m height wall by keeping brick one over another how much work have to be done ?
d) How much work will be done if the length of brick is kept from horizontal to vertical – explain
your opinion with mathematically analysis.

6. A car of mass 1500 kg is moving with velocity 54 kmh-1 through the tilled road of inclination 3 .
The driver brakes the car after seeing a person at distance 51m away from him and car stops at
distance 1m before the person. Friction force is 1kN. The power of the engine of car is 100 kW .

54 kmh-1

300

a.What is restoring force?

b. If the momentum of a light object and a heavy object are same them whose kinetic energy will be
more? Explain.
c. Calculate the upward reaction force by the surface on the car .
d. The efficiency of the car is not more than 80% - Analyze it mathematically.

7. Afifa and Anika are the two sister of mass 60kg & 50kg. They reached the roof of the 3 rd floor of their
building from ground by stair. Anika took 55 sec to reach there. Afifa reached 5 sec later and said to
her sister, “Although you are faster than me but I am more powerful.”

a. What is variable force?

b. Workdone due to centripital force is zero. Why?
c. Calculate the workdone by Anika.
d. Do you think Afifa’s statement is true? Explain it mathematically.

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8. In Object of mass m is sliding down over a surface AD. Here m = 20kg, AE = 9m and AB = BC = CD.
Kinetic frictional force of the surface is 1.5N.

a. Define kilo-watt hour.

b. when the work done by restoring force will be negative – explain.
c. Calculate the amount off wore done by kinetic frictional force. When sliding down over the surface.
d. Verify mathematically whether the object obeys Principle of conservation of mechanical energy at
points B and C.

9. In the figure a simple pendulum is vibrating periodically. Here OA = 1m.

a. What is called conservative force?

b. Explain the relation among power, force and velocity.
c. Determine the force constant for the stem.
d. Does the pendulum in the stem follow Principle of conservation of mechanical energy at points
Bande? Give opinion with mathematical analysis.

Physics 1st Paper

Chapter 06: Gravitation and Gravity
1. An object of mass 200kg is taken at a certain height at point A from earth’s surface where the value of
gravitational acceleration is 75% of earths gravitation al acceleration. Then it is taken to a point B which is
150km deep inside the earth’s surface. [g = 9.8ms-1]

(a) What is Parking Orbit?

(b) ‘Acceleration due to gravity is zero at the center of the earth’ Explain it.
(c) Calculate the value of height of point A from earth’s surface.
(d) Will there be any change in weight of the object at point A and B? Analyze mathematically.

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2. Rony and Joy were discussing about the universe over phone. Rony lives in a country at pole and Joy
lives at 600 away towards the equator from the pole. Rony’s mass 75kg and Joy’s mass 65kg.

(a) Define escape velocity.

(b) Why the velocity is increased when a planet comes nearer to the sun. Explain it.
(c) If the distance from sun to the earth becomes half, then determine how many days make a year.
(d) If the time period of the diurnal motion of earth becomes 6 hours will there be any change in their
weight? explain mathematically.

3. A satellite is orbiting earth with 7.5 kms-1. The mass and radius of earth is 6×1024kg and 6400km
respectively.

(a) State Kepler’s first Law.

(b) Why G is called a universal constant.
(c) Calculate the height of the satellite from the earth’s surface.
(d) If the satellite is not geo stationary what step will you take to make it a geo stationary satellite? Analyze
mathematically.

4. Bangladesh launched a geo stationary satellite of mass 3500kg. Radius and mass of earth is 6400km and
6×1024kg respectively.

(a) What is a geo stationary satellite?

(b) The escape velocity of earth is 11.2 kms-1 what do you mean by that?
(c) Calculate the height of the launched satellite.
(d) How much the speed of the satellite to be changed if the magnitude of the height is doubled? Explain
mathematically.

5. The mass and radius of earth is 81 and 4 times that of the moon. The mass of the earth is 6×10 24kg and
radius of the earth is 6400km. Earth takes 24h for 1 complete rotation on about its own axis.

(a) Define artificial satellite.

(b) There is no influence of the rotational motion of the earth on the value of acceleration due to gravity at
pole– explain.
(c) Determine the escape velocity of moon.
(d) If the radius of the earth is suddenly halved then how the length of a day will be changed– analyze
mathematically.

6. A satellite of mass 120 kg is taken to certain height and given 3.6×109 J of kinetic energy. The mass of
the earth is 6×1024kg and radius of the earth is 6400km.

(a) Write down the dimension of G.

(b) State and explain the third law of falling body.
(c) Find the height of the satellite.
(d) Is the given kinetic energy being enough to send the satellite at space. Explain with mathematical logic.

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7. A

B
O

In the figure there is an object of mass 5kg at point A having weight of 48.9N. Earth's radius
OP=R=6400km. g=9.8ms-2. P is the point at earth surface.
(a) What is called gravitational intensity?
(b) State and explain Kepler's 2nd law of planetary motion.
(c) Find the distance of from P.
(d) If the earths angular velocity becomes 17 times of its previous value will some one at point B feel
weightless? Give opinion with mathematical analysis.

Physics 1st Paper

Chapter: 10
Ideal Gas
1. There is an unknown gas in a container.

P = 4.2x107 Nm-2
V = 10-3 m3
Crms = 1.5x103 ms-1
n = 2 mole

a. What is molar gas constant?

b. Why the volume of a gas becomes zero at absolute zero temperature?
c. Calculate the kinetic energy of the gas enclosed in the container at STP.
d. Mathematically prove that the gas enclosed in the container is nitrogen.

2. There is 0.064 kg of O2 gas in a jar at a temperature of 127o C. [ R = 8.31 Jmol-1K-1 , Cv = 20.775 Jmol-1K-1]
a. State Boyle’s law.
b. Explain the graph P vs of an ideal gas at constant temperature.
c. Calculate the final temperature of the gas when the root mean square velocity becomes twice.
d. How much heat will be generated from this system, analyze mathemarically.

3. At STP the number of molecules per centimeter cube of a gas is 3 x 1019 and the diameter of each molecule is
2.0 x 10-8 cm.
a. What is dew point?
b. Explain the equipartition principle of energy?
c. Determine the mean free path of the molecules of that gas.
d. According to the stimulus, if the number of molecules becomes 5 x 1020 per cm3 then what will be the change of
mean free path, explain mathematically.

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4. At one afternoon Orthy and her friends were gossiping beside a lake. All on a sudden Orthy noticed that a bubble
from the bottom of the lake of transparent water was coming out on the surface of water. After coming on the
surface the bubble took a large size. [Size of the bubble on the surface was 5times and the atmospheric pressure
was 105 Nm-2]. Density of the water = 1000 kg/m3.
a. What is called root mean square velocity?
b. What will happen if two ballons of same volume filled with air are kept at different temperatures? Explain.
c. Calculate the depth of the lake from the given data.
d. Prove, whether the stimulus obeys Boyle’s law or not.

5. Dry and wet bulb readings of a hygrometer for a specific day is given bellow:
Place Dry bulb Wet bulb Glaisher’s constant for air
temperature

Pabna 32.5o C 22o C 1.625

o o
Dhaka 28.6 C 20 C 1.664

At 14oC, 16oC 28oC, 30oC, 32oC and 34oC temperature saturated water vapour pressure are respectively
11.99, 13.63, 28.35, 31.83, 35.66 and 39.90 mmHg.

a. What is absolute humidity?

b. Write down the difference between gas and vapour.
c. Calculate the dew point at Pabna.
d. According to the stem, which place is more suitable? Give your opinion with mathematical argument.

6. Temperature in Cumilla at the day was 32o C and relative humidity was 50%. At one stage, surrounding area
become cold as temperature was decreased, then it reached to 14oC. After that, the temperature gradually
increased to 24oC. At this time water vapour in air increased to 25%. [At 30oC, 14oC and 24oC the saturated vapour
pressure was 32.75 mmHg, 11.50 mmHg and 22.32 mmHg respectively]

a. What is the kinetic theory of gases?

b. Why root mean square velocity is taken in case of gases?
c. What fraction of water vapour did condense due to decrease of temperature?
d. What would be the relative humidity when the temperature increased to 24oC? Analyze mathematically.

7. Hassan took a cylinder having 1 atmospheric pressure filled with 2000L of O2 gas. After a while, he reduced the
pressure equal to 72 cm mercury pressure and squeezed out the extra gas. The temperature of that day was 300K
and the molecular mass of O2 gas is 32 g mole-1 and universal gas constant R = 8.31 Jmol-1K-1 .

a. What do you mean by degrees of freedom?

b. Explain what will be the nature of graph of kinetic energy versus temperature of a gas.
c. Determine the mass of O2 .
d. After reducing the pressure whether the volume of 50g of O2 gas will be more or less than 60L, justify your
answer mathematically.

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 Physics 2nd Paper
Chapter -01 :Thermodynamics

1. Graphs are drawn bellow for 56gm N2 gas kept in two different cylinders. The cylinder of
first figure is heat conductor and for the second figure is heat insulator.

P P

V V

Fig 1 Fig 2

(a) Define thermodynamics.

(b) Why does the internal energy increase for adiabatic compression?
(c) Determine the value of T2 for figure–2.
(d) For which figure work done will be maximum– justify with mathematical analysis.

2. A carnot engine is working between 327°c 127°c. It absorbs 2×106J heat from the source.
(a) What is entropy.
(b) Write two differences between reversible and irreversible process.
(c) Find out the efficiency of the engine.
(d) If the efficiency is 1.5 times will there be any change in work done per cycle‒ explain with
mathematical logic.

3. A gas of amount 10 mole is expands from point A to B, C & D separately in three different
process. Here AC is a slow process and AD is a fast process. In AB process, internal energy
increases by 1J.

(a) What is Carnot Engine?

(b) Why does entropy of the universe increase? Explain.
(c) Calculate the value of for the following gas in the stem.
(d) In which process more heat will exchange? Analyze it mathematically.
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4. A water heater of resistance 100Ω is sunk into 1 litre water of 300C temperature .The
temperature of water increased upto 500C by 2A current flow through the water heater. After
that 1kg water of temperature 400C is mixed with it. Specific heat of water is 4200Jkg–1k–1.

a. Draw the indicator diagram for isobaric process .

b. Which of the following thermodynamic process is convenient in between isothermal and
adiabatic process?-explain .
c. Calculate the time require to increase the temperature of water from 300C to 500C ?
d. How does the concept of stem support thermal disorderliness of universe ? – analysis
mathematically.

5. A carnot's engine receives 1200 J heat from a source at temperature 227º C. After doing the
work rest of the heat rejects to the sink at temperature 27º C.

a. State Zeroth law of thermodynamics.

b. "In case of expansion of gas work done by isothermal process is more than that of
isobaric process".-Explain.
c. Determine the efficiency of the engine.
d. "Entropy remains constant for the engine mentioned in the stem." Justify it with
mathematical analysis.

6.

Points Pressure Volume Temperature

(ATM) (L) (k)
A 6 1 600
B 3 2 600
C 0.31 10 310
D 2.2 1.4 310

Fig. shows a Carnot’s cycle 1 mole di-atomic gas is used as working substance.

(a) Define thermal equilibrium.

(b) Work done in isochoric process is zero. Explain.
(c) Determine the efficiency of the engine.
(d) The ratio of work done of 1st step to 2nd step and 3rd to 4th step is not equal – justify with
mathematics.
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 Physics 2nd Paper
Chapter-02 : Electrostatics

1. A

AB  BC  AC  3m
O
B C

(a) Define electric dipole.

(b) Work done to move an electric charge in an equipotential surface is zero– Explain.
(c) Calculate the electric force between charges on BC line.
(d) If another  10c charge is placed at point A, the electric field intensity at point O will
become zero but the electric potential will not– Justify this statement with mathematics
analysis.

2.
C

4cm AB=BD=AD

A B
20cm ‒ 4µC
‒ 4µC

(a) What is electric dipole moment?

(b) Copper has a specific resistance of 1.56 108 m . What do you mean by that?
(c) Find the potential at point C due to charges at point A and B.
(d) Can the iron sphere at point D of  2C charge be lifted from ground due to charges at
point A and B-explain mathematically.

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3. A
+10C AB=1m
AC= m
+10C

C
B

(a) What is quantization of change?

(b) The surface charge density of a surface is 100Cm−2 ‒What do you mean by that?
(c) Find out the potential at point C.
(d) At point B if we replace +10C charge by ‒10C charge will there be any change in
resultant intensity‒ explain mathematically.

4. From the following stem give the answer of the questions.

A +10C D
AB = CD = 6m
AD = BC = 4m

B +6C C +4C

(a) What is capacitance?

(b) “Electric potential at a point in an electric field is 50V.” What do you mean by this?
(c) Determine the electric field intensity at the middle point of BC for the charges +6C and +4C.
(d) What will be the work done to transfer +4C charge from C to D ? Determine with
mathematical analysis.

5.
Q2=2nC Q1=1nC Q3= - 3nC

2×102m 4×102m
(a) Define dielectric constant
(b) Why is electric field created by unit charge not uniform?
(c) Calculate the resultant Coloumb's force on charge Q1
(d) If Q3 is perpendicular on Q1 at same distance then will the resultant coloumb's force
acting on Q1 be changed or not - explain with mathematical analysis .

6. The capacitance of the capacitor 1, 2 & 3 are 3 2 .

a) Define Electric Flux

b) Why does Gauss law is more effective than Coulomb’s law?
Explain.
c) Calculate the stored charge in capacitor.
d) How will you change orientation of capacitors so that maximum
energy will store? Analyze mathematically.

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7. A & B are the metal plates of area 3 is separated by
6mm. here the both capacitor is connected by external cell
220V. (AC=CB).

a) State Gauss Law.

b) Why doses capacitance increases with increasing of radius of
conductor? Explain.
c) Calculate the amount of stored charge within capacitor-1.
d) If the intermediate medium of capacitor-1 is organized as capacitor-2, then will the value of capacitance
vary? Analyze.

Physics 2nd Paper

Chapter : 3 ( Electric Current)
1. Look at the circuit.
I1

I2

a) What is Specific Resistance?

b) Why does current flow more easily through a thick wire than a thin wire? Explain.
c) Determine I1 and 12 .
d) What changes should be made to maintain 5A electrical current in the circuit? Explain with
mathematical analysis

2.

a) What is lost voltage?

b) What is difference between electric potential and electric potential energy? Explain.
c) Determine the voltage of the circuit.
d) If switch is Turn on how will the situation of the lamps be?- explain with mathematical analysis.

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3. Look at the figure.

a) What is internal resistance?

b) Why are cells connected in series in torch? Explain.
c) Calculate the current flows through the resistance from figure-1.
d) Is the main current of both circuits equal or not? Explain it with mathematical analysis.

4.

a) What is Loop?
b) Kirchoff’s first law obeys energy conservation law - Explain.
c) Using Kirchhoff’s Law calculate value I1 and I2.
d) Loops ABCD and EDCFE obeys Kirchhoff’s energy conservation law - verify it with mathematical
analysis.

5. A galvanometer distracts completely when 50 μA current flows through it.

a) What is shunt.
b) How a galvanometer can be converted into voltmeter.
c) What value of shunt is to be connected to a galvanometer so that 10% of total current flows through
the galvanometer.
d) If 0.4Ω shunt is connected with galvanometer then 0.42A current flows through it. In this case main
current will be more than 1A – verify it with mathematical analysis.

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6.

a) What is electromotive force.

b) Why are low voltage emf cells used in Wheatstone bridge? Explain.
c) What amount of resistance and how to be joined to the 4th arm to balance the both bridge?
d) Equivalent resistance of 2nd bridge is 12.84 Ω – verify it with mathematical analysis.

7. An immersion heater of 500W is immersed into 2 liter water of 200c temperature.

a) What is temperature co-efficient of resistance?
b) What is meant by mechanical equivalent of heat is 4.2 J/cal.
c) Calculate the required time to raise the temperature of water up to boiling point.
d) If water absorbed 7% heat produced by heater then the required time will be more—verify it with
mathematical analysis.

Physics 2nd Paper

Chapter: 06: Geometrical Optics

1. An object of radius 0.1mm is placed in front of a compound microscope. The focal length of objective
and eyepiece are 1cm & 2.5cm. The real and virtual image forms at 6cm and 25cm away from respective
lenses.
a) Define dispersion
b) Distinguish between microscope & telescope.
c) Calculate the length of tube.
d) Which lens will create more magnified image? Analyze it by calculating the area of image.

2. The focal length of objective and eyepiece of a compound microscope are 2mm & 7mm and their
distance is 0.2m. In eyepiece image forms at least distance of vision.

a) What is microscope?
b) Why does image form in compound microscope be virtual and inverted?
c) Calculate the position of real image from eyepiece.
d) If we interchange the position of two lens then will the device work as microscope? Analyze
mathematically.

3. The lens to lens distance and magnification of a telescope in normal focusing are 15cm & 10.

a) Define angular magnification.

b) Why does reflecting telescope be more useful than refracting telescope? Explain
c) Calculate the focal length of eyepiece.
d) If we take eyepiece 2cm towards objective then will final image form at least distance of vision?
Analyze mathematically

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4. A right angle prism of refractive index 2.924 is used in the
following figure. Here it is kept under water of refractive index 1.33.
Later, the whole apparatus is taken out from water for same light. Here
3 .

a) State Fermet Principle.

b) Though deviation angle of a prism vary with variation of incident
light but minimum deviation angle doesn’t. Why? Explain
c) Calculate the angle of minimum deviation for the following light
orientation.
d) Mathematically analyze that, the following light will propagate through BC surface after taking it out
from water

5. The power and refractive index of a biconvex lens is 2.5D & 1.6. An object is placed 50cm infront of
lens. Later, the whole apparatus is taken into water of refractive index 1.33.

a) Define prism angle

b) Explain the dispersion through prism.
c) Calculate the radius of curvature of the lens.
d) Will the position & type of image vary after taking it inside water? Analyze mathematically.

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