Set -1

Subject: Physics Full Marks: 75

Grade: XI Time: 3:00Hrs
Candidates are required to give their answer in their own words as far as practicable. The figures in
the margin indicate full marks.
Group A
1. Answer, in brief, any SIX questions: (6x2=12)
a) A bomb is to be dropped from a moving helicopter on the ground. Explain how can it hit the
target?

b) Can an object with constant acceleration reverse its direction? Explain.

c) When a wire is bent back and forth, it becomes hot. Why?

d) Explain why balloon filled with helium does not rise in air indefinitely but halts after a certain
height. Neglect winds.

e) A tiny liquid drop is spherical but a large drop has oval shape. Why?

f) What is the difference between accurate and precise measurement?

g) The sum and difference of two vectors are equal in magnitude. Prove that these vectors are
perpendicular to each other.

2. Answer, in brief, any two questions: (2x2=4)

a) How can water be boiled in paper cup?

b) Why is it sometimes possible to loosen caps on screw top bottles by dipping the cap briefly in
hot water?

c) Which has more atoms: a kilogram of hydrogen or a kilogram of iron?

3. Answer, in brief, any one questions: (1x2=2)

a) What are grazing incidence and grazing emergence?

b) Explain why parabolic mirrors are used in automobile search lights.

4. Answer, in brief, any one questions: (1x2=2)

a) Pointed ends are avoided in electric devices, why?
b) A charge particle is free to move in an electric field. Will it always move along electric lines of
force?
 Group B

5. Answer any three questions: (3x4=12)

a) State triangle law of vector addition. Obtain the expression for resultant of two vectors P and
Q inclined at angle θ.

b) Explain surface tension. Discuss molecular theory of surface tension.

c) Define elastic limit and young’s modulus of elasticity. Explain how would you determine
young’s modulus for a material in the form of wire.

d) Define projectile. Show that the path of projectile projected horizontally from top of tower is
parabolic. At what angle does it hit on the ground?

6. Answer any two questions: (2x4=8)

a) Define latent heat of fusion of ice. Describe the method for the measurement of it in the
laboratory.

b) State Boyle’s and Charle’s law and hence obtain the relationship for combined gas law.

c) Describe a method to determine the linear expansivity of a solid. Can the cubical expansivity
be derived from this value?

7. Answer any one question: (1x4=4)

a) Derive the mirror formula for a convex mirror.

b) Derive lens maker’s formula and define power of the lens.

8. Answer any one question: (1x4=4)

a) Define action of points. How can body be positively charged by method of induction?

b) Define electric flux. Mention some important properties of electric lines of force. State and
prove Gauss theorem.

Group C
9. Solve any three numerical problems: (3x4=12)
a) An airplane pilot wishes to fly due west. A wind of 80Km/hr is blowing toward the south. If
the speed of the plane in still air is 320Km/hr, in which direction should the pilot head?
What is the speed of plane with respect to the ground?

b) Four identical hollow cylindrical columns of mild steel support a big structure of mass
50,000Kg.The inner and outer radii of each column are 30cm and 40cm respectively.
Assuming the load distribution to be uniform, Calculate the compressional strain of each
column.( Young’s modulus of steel is 2x1011N/m2).

c) A cube floating on mercury has one fourth of its volume submerged. If enough water is added
to cover the cube, what fraction of its volume will remain immersed in mercury?
d) A stone is dropped from the top of a tall building and 1 sec later a second stone is thrown
vertically down with a velocity of 20m/s. When and where will the second stone overtake the
first?

10. Solve any two numerical problems: (2x4=8)

a) A steel cylinder has an aluminum alloy piston and at a temperature of 20 0C when the internal
diameter of the cylinder is exactly 10 cm, there is an all-round clearance of 0.05mm between
the piston and cylinder wall. At what temperature will the fit be perfect? (α steel=1.2x10-5K-1and
αAl alloy=1.6x10-5)

b) Find the result of mixing 10g of ice at -200C and 20g of water at 400C.(Sp.heat capacity of
ice=0.5cal/gC0)

c) A bucket full of water is kept in a room at constant temperature. The water in the bucket
cools from 550C to 500C in 5 mins and from 500C to 450C in 7 mins. Estimate the room
temperature. What time does it take to cool from 450C to 400C? (Neglect heat loss through
bucket)

11. A coin 2.54cm in diameter held 254cm from the eye just covers the full moon. What is
the diameter of the image of the moon formed by a concave mirror of radius of curvature
1.27m? (4)

12. Two charges of +1µC and -4µC are separated by a distance of 2m. Determine the
position of null point. (3)

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 Set - 2

Subject: Physics Full Marks: 75

Grade: XI Time: 3:00Hrs
Candidates are required to give their answer in their own words as far as practicable. The figures in
the margin indicate full marks.
Group A
1. Answer in brief any SIX questions: (6x2=12)
a) A stone is thrown vertically upward and then it returns to the thrower. Is it a projectile?

b) Two balls of different masses (one lighter and other heavier)are thrown vertically upward with
same initial speed. Which one will rise to the greater height?

c) Explain the following: “A thin steel needle floats on water but when a little soap solution is
carefully mixed with the water the needle sinks.”

d) What are centre of buoyancy and metacenter?

e) Can the walk of man be an example of resolution of vector?

f) What is elastic after effect?

g) Radius of spherical ball is 4.320.01 cm. Calculate the percentage error to estimate
measurement of volume of sphere.

2. Answer in brief any TWO questions: (2x2=4)

a) If you wet your hand and pick up an ice tray that is below 0 0C, your hands may stick to it.
This does not happened to wood, why?

b) Do you expect the gas in cooking gas cylinder to obey the ideal gas equation?

c) The difference between length of certain brass rod and that of steel rod is claimed to be
constant at all temperature. Is this possible?

3. Answer, in brief, any one question: (1x2=2)

a) A spherical air bubble in water can function as lens. Is it a converging or diverging lens? How
is its focal length related to its radius?

b) Does the angle of minimum deviation change if the prism is dipped into water?

4. Answer, in brief, any ONE question: (1x2=2)

a) A man inside an insulated hollow metallic cage does not receive a shock although it is
connected to a high voltage, explain why?

b) Why two electric lines of force never intersect each other?

 Group B
5. Answer any three questions: (3x4=12)
a) Show that the path followed by a projectile fired at an angle of α with a horizontal is a
parabolic and derives general expression for the time of flight and horizontal range.

b) Define centripetal force. Derive an expression for the force acting on body moving with
uniform speed along a circular path.

c) Define young’s modulus, bulk modulus, Modulus of rigidity and poisson’s ratio.

d) What causes the liquid rise or fall in a capillary tube? Derive an expression for rise or fall of
liquid in capillary tube.

6. Answer any two questions: (2x4=8)

a) State and explain Newton’s law of cooling. Describe with mathematical detail a method for the
measurement of specific heat capacity of a liquid.

b) Derive ideal gas equation and calculate the value of the universal gas constant.

c) Distinguish between real and apparent expansion of liquid. Describe a method to determine
real expansivity of liquid.

7. Answer any one questions: (1x4=4)

a) Define principal focus and the power of lens. Derive the formula for the focal length of two
thin lenses in contact.

b) Define minimum deviation. Prove that deviation produced by small angled prism is
independent of angle of incidence.

8. Answer any one questions: (1x4=4)

a) State Gauss law. Apply it to obtain an expression for electric field outside the charged
spherical conductor.

b) What do you mean by electrostatic induction. Show how body can be negatively charged by
method of induction?

Group C
9. Answer any three numerical problems: (3x4=12)
a) A railway track uses long welded steel rails which are prevented from expanding by friction in
the clamps. If the cross-sectional area of each rail is 75cm2 , what is the elastic energy stored
per kilometer of the track when its temperature is raised by 100C. (α for steel=1.2x10-5K-1)

b) A person moving toward east at the rate of 2m/s finds that the wind seems to blow directly
from the north . On doubling his speed, it appears to come from north east. Find the actual
speed and the direction of the rain.

c) Find the work done required to break up a drop of water of radius 5x10 -3m into eight drops of
water, assuming isothermal condition.(surface tension of water=72x10-3N/m)
d) A man who can swim in still water with a speed of 2m/s wants to cross a river 200m broad,
flowing with a speed of 1m/s. find(i)the time of crossing by shortest route and(ii)the minimum
time of crossing.

10. Answer any two numerical questions: (2x4=8)

a) 50g of water and an equal volume of kerosene (density 0.8 g/cm3) are placed one after
another, in the same calorimeter of water equivalent 10g. They are found to cool from 55 0C to
500C in 8mins and 4.5 mins respectively. What is specific heat of the kerosene?

b) The pendulum of a clock is made of brass whose linear expansivity is 1.9x10-5K-1. If the clock
keeps correct time at 150C, how many seconds per day will it lose at 20 0C?

c) Calculate how much steam from water boiling at 100oC will just melt 50 gm of wax at 200C.
(Melting point of wax=550C, sp. heat capacity of wax=0.7cal/g C0, sp. latent heat of fusion of
wax=35cal/g)

11. A narrow beam of light is incident normally on one face of an equilateral prism
(refractive index 1.45) and finally emerges from the prism. The prism is now
surrounded by water (refractive index 1.33). What is the angle between the directions
of the emergent beam in the two cases? (4)

12. Two charge-1µC and 2µC are placed at the corners A and B of an equilateral triangle
ABC of side 2m. Calculate the magnitude and direction of electric field at C.
(3)

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 Set - 3

Subject: Physics Full Marks: 75

Grade: XI Time: 3:00Hrs

Candidates are required to give their answer in their own words as far as practicable. The figures
in the margin indicate full marks.

Group A
1. Answer in brief, any six questions: [2x6=12]
a) What happens to the radius of orbit of earth if the sun is suddenly changed in to black hole?
b) Write the dimensional formula of the gravitational constant and the specific heat capacity.
c) How does the kinetic energy of the body changes if the momentum is halved?
d) Why are roads banked on curved path?
e) Why do we call the friction as the self-adjusting force?
f) What happens to the motion of rain when it falls on the earth?
g) We cannot move even a finger without disturbing all the stars. Explain.
h) What would be the effect on maximum range in doubling the initial velocity of a projectile?

2. Answer in brief, any three questions: [2x2=4]

a) Explain why a column of Hg in a thermometer first descent slightly and then rises when placed in
hot water?
b) Write the unit of universal gas constant and give its physical meaning.
c) Heating system made based on the circulation of steam is more effective in warming a building then
those based on circulation of hot water. Explain

3. Answer in brief, any one question: [2x1=2]

a) A prism is immersed in water. What happens to the value of angle of minimum deviation?
b) A thick lens suffers from chromatic aberration, while a thin lens doesn't do so. Why?

4. Answer in brief, any one question: [2x1=2]

a) A man inside an insulated metallic cage doesn't receive shock when the cage is highly charged.
Why?
b) The potential difference between two points in an electric field is 10V.What does it mean?

Group B
5. Answer any four questions [4×4=16]
a) What is elastic collision? Show that for an elastic collision in one dimension between the two bodies
the relative velocity of approach is equal to the relative velocity of separation.
b) Define angle of friction and the angle of repose. Show that the angle of friction is equal to the angle
of repose.
c) What is escape velocity? Find the expression for the escape velocity.
d) Define conical pendulum. Derive expressions for time period of the pendulum and tension in the
string.

6. Answer any two questions [3x4=12]

a) From the kinetic theory of gas prove that average pressure exerted by the gas molecule is given by
.

b) Define linear and cubical expansivity of liquid and establish the relation between them

c) Discuss methods of mixture to find the specific heat of solid.

7. Answer any one question [1x4=4]

a) Define lens maker formula and derive an expression for it.
b) What is lens formula? Find an expression for the lens formula for a concave lens forming virtual
image.

8. Answer any one question [1x4=4]

a) Find the expression for the electric field intensity outside the plane charged conductor and the field
intensity due to the infinite plane charged sheet. Or

b) Find the expression for the capacitance of two capacitors when they are connected in parallel and
in series.
 Group C
9. Solve any three of the following; [3x4=12]
a) A bullet is fired with a velocity of 100m/s from the ground at an angle 600 with the horizontal
calculate the horizontal range covered by the bullet also calculate the maximum height attained.
b) A bullet of mass 10 gm travelling horizontally with velocity of 300m/s strikes a block of mass 290
gm which rests on a rough horizontal floor. After impact the block and the bullet move together and
come to rest when the block has travelled a distance of 15 m calculate the coefficient of sliding friction
between the block and floor.
c) A particle of mass 0.1kg is rotating at the end of a string in vertical circle of radius 1.0m at a
constant speed of 5m/s. find the maximum and minimum tension in the string.
d) A 200kg satellite is lifted to an orbit of 2.2x104 km radius. If the radius and mass of earth are
6.37x106m and 5.98x1024 kg respectively. How much additional energy is required to lift the satellite?

10. Solve any two of the following [2x4=8]

a) Two bulb of equal volume are connected by a narrow tube and are filled with gas at STP. When one
bulb is kept in melting ice and other in boiling water, calculate the new pressure of the gas.
b) A glass flask of volume 400cm3 is just filled with mercury at 00C. How much mercury overflows
when the temperature of the system of the system is raised to 800C? Coefficient of cubical expansion
of glass 1.2x 10-5 / 0 C and that of mercury is 18x10-5/0 C
c) Determine the amount of heat required to convert 1kg of ice at -100Cto stem at 1000C (specific heat
of ice = 2100J/Kg K, specific latent heat of ice = 3.36x105J/kg specific latent heat of steam =
2.26x106J/kg).

11. A narrow beam of light is incident normally on one face of an equilateral prism (refractive
index 1.45) and finally emerges from the prism. The prism is now surrounded by water of
refractive index 1.33. What is the angle between the directions of the emergent beam in to cases?
[4]
12. Two charges +1 µC and -4 µC are separated by a distance of 2m. Determine the position of
null point. [3]
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 Set - 4

Subject: Physics Full Marks: 75

Grade: XI Time: 3:00Hrs
Candidates are required to give their answer in their own words as far as practicable. The figures
in the margin indicate full marks.

Group ‘A’
Q.1. Answer in brief, any SIX questions. [2 X 6 = 12]
a) What is the difference between accurate and precise measurement?
b) A ball having a momentum P hits a bat and its momentum becomes –P. What is the change in the
momentum of the ball?
c) State the condition of equilibrium of a system of coplanar forces.
d) Does the acceleration of a body moving in a circular path remain constant?
e) Sand it thrown on the covered with snow. Why?
f) Since the moon is constantly attracted towards the earth by the gravitational interaction, why doesn’t it crash
into the earth?
g) Explain in term of breaking stress why elephant has thicker legs as compared to human beings?
Q.2. Answer in brief, any TWO questions. [2 X 2 = 4]
a) Why are two thin blankets warmer than a single blanket of double the thickness?
b) Distinguish between saturated and unsaturated vapor pressure.
c) Does the coefficient of linear expansion depend on length? Explain.
Q.3. Answer in brief, any ONE question: [1 X 2 = 2]
a) Can a convex mirror ever from a real image? If so, explain with diagram.
b) What are grazing incidence and grazing emergence?
Q.4. Answer in brief, any ONE question: [2 X 1 = 2]
a) A man inside an insulated metallic cage does not receive shock when the cage is highly charged. Explain.
b) Is it possible to charge a capacitor to any potential?

Group ‘B’
Q.5. Answer any THREE questions: [4 X 3 = 12]
a) State the laws of friction. Also explain how you verify them experimentally.
b) Define elastic collision. Show that the two bodies having equal masses when collides in one dimension, they
just exchange their velocities.
c) What is SHM? Show that the motion of a bob of a simple pendulum is simple harmonic. Find its time
period.
d) What is capillarity? Deduce an expression for the rise of a liquid in simple tube.
Q.6. Answer any TWO questions: [4 X 2 = 8]
a) Define specific latent heat of fusion of a solid. Develop an expression for the latent heat of fusion of ice.
b) Define the coefficient of thermal conductivity of a substance. Describe Searle’s method for determination of
the thermal conductivity of a good conductor.
c) What is a Carnot engine? Derive an expression for its efficiency.

Q.7. Answer any ONE question: [4 X 1 = 4]

a) Define power of a lens. Derive the formula for the effective power of two thin lenses in contact.
b) Describe the construction and working of a compound microscope and hence derive an expression for its
magnifying power.
Q.8. Answer any ONE question: [4 X 1 = 4]
a) State Gauss law. Apply it to obtain an expression for electric field outside the charged special conductor.
b) Find the equivalent capacitance of two capacitor when they are in (i) Series and (ii) parallel.

Group ‘C’
Q.9. Solve any three numerical questions: [4 X 3 = 12]
a) A ballet dancer spins with 2.4 rev/s with her arms outstretched when the moment of inertia about the axis of
rotation is I. With her arms folded, the moment of inertia about the same axis becomes 0.6 I. Calculate the
new rate of spin.
b) A canoe has a velocity of 0.4 m/s south east relative to the earth. The canoe is on a river that is flowing 0.5
m/s east relative the earth. Find the magnitude and direction of the velocity relative to the river.
c) The sun has a mass 330,000 times that of the earth. For a person on earth, the average to the centre of the
sun is 23,500 times the distance to the center of the earth. In magnitude, what is the ratio of the sun’s
gravitational forces on you to the earth’s gravitational forces on you?
d) Castrol oil at 20oC has coefficient of viscosity 2.42 Nsm-2 and a density 940 Kgm-3. Calculate the terminal of
a steel ball of radius 2.0 mm falling under gravity in the oil.
Q.10. Solve any TWO questions: [4 X 2 = 8]
a) A ball of copper of specific heat capacity 400 Jkg-1K-1 weighting 400 gm is transferred from a furnace to 1
Kg of water at 20oC. The temperature of water rises to 50oC. What is the initial temperature of the ball?
b) An ideal gas initially at 4 atmosphere and 350 K is permitted to expand adiabatically to 1.5 times its initial
volume. Find the final pressure and temperature to 1.5 times its initial volume. Find the final pressure and
temperature if the gas is (i) monatomic and (ii) diatomic with Cv = 5/2 R.
c) At what temperature will the average speed of oxygen molecules be sufficient so as to escape from the
earth? Escape velocity from the earth is 11.2 Km/s and mass of one oxygen molecules is 5.34 X 10-26 Kg.

Q.11. A microscope is focused on the upper surface of a glass plate. A second plate is then placed
over the first. In order to focus on the bottom surface of the second plate, the microscope must
be raised 1 mm. In order to focus on the upper surface, it must be raised 2 mm farther. Find
the index of retardation of the second plate. [4]

Q.12. Two point charges +1 µC are placed at a distance of 0.12 m apart. Determine the point on the
line joining two charges where net forces acting on the positive charges are zero. [3]

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 Set -5
Subject: Physics Full Marks: 75

Grade: XI Time: 3:00 Hrs

Candidates are required to give their answer in their own words as far as practicable. The figures
in the margin indicate full marks.

Group- A

1. Answers in brief, any SIX questions. [2 X 6 = 12]

a) A body sitting on the chair placed on the floor of the room. Write two pair of action and reaction of
the force.

b) Is a dimensional correct equation necessarily being a correct physical relation? What about the
dimensionally wrong equation?

c) Why it is difficult to move a cycle with breaks on?

d) Why does ice float in water?

e) What will happen to the value of ‘g’ if the earth stops rotating?

f) Why the small liquid drops are spherical while large drops are flat?

g) Give two examples of motions in which acceleration is non-zero but velocity is zero.

2. Answer in brief, any TWO questions. [2 X 2 = 4]

a) When you come out of a river you feel cold. Why?

b) Why are dues forms in the early morning hours?

c) How it is that ice-cream appears cooler to the mouth then ice at 00c?

3. Answer in brief, any ONE questions. [1 X 2 = 2]

a) The sun is less bright at morning and evening as compare to at noon although it distance from the
observer is almost same, why?
b) When white light is dispersed by a prism, red light appears at the top of the spectrum whereas violet
at the bottom, why?

4. Answer in brief, any ONE questions. [1 X 2 = 2]

a) Two metal sphere one hollow and another solid of same radii and same material are charged to the
same potential, which of the two will have more charge?

b) Two capacitors of capacitance 1µf and 0.1 µf are charged to the same potential, which will give the
more intense electric shocks if touched?

Group- B

5. Answer any THREE questions: [4 X 3 = 12]

a) What are the laws of limiting friction? How would you verify them experimentally?

b) Derive an expression for the time period of a simple pendulum.

c) What is escape velocity? Derive an expression for the escape velocity on the earth’s surface.

d) Derive an expression of the terminal velocity of a small spherical ball dropped gently in a viscous
liquid.

6. Answer any TWO questions: [4 X 2 = 8]

a) Derive an expression for the pressure exerted by a gas on the wall of closed containing vessel on the
basis of kinetic theory of gas.

b) What is carnot engine? Derive an expression for its efficiency.

c) Define coefficient of linear and cubical expansion of substance and deduce the relation between
them.

7. Answer any ONE question: [4 X 1 = 4]

a) Derive the mirror formula for a concave mirror forming the virtual image.

b) With the help of clear ray diagram explain myopia and remedy.

8. Answer any ONE question: [4 X 1 = 4]

a) Define electric potential. Derive an expression for the potential due to a point charge at any point in
space.
b) Derive an expression for the energy stored in charged capacitor.

Group- C
9. Solve any THREE numerical questions: [4 X 3 = 12]

a) 0.15 kg glider is moving to the right on a frictionless horizontal air track with the speed of 0.80 m/s.
It has a head on collision with a 0.300 kg glider that is moving to the left with the speed of 2.2 m/s.
Find the final velocity (magnitude and direction) of each glider if the collision is elastic.

b) A stationary mass explodes into two parts of mass 4 units and 40 units respectively. If the large
mass has an initial kinetic energy 10J, what is the initial kinetic energy of than smaller mass?

c) The flywheel of a gasoline is required to give up 500J of kinetic energy while its angular velocity
decreases from 650rev/min to 520rev/min. what moment of inertia is required?

d) A rubber rod of catapult has a cross sectional area 1.00 sq.mm and total unscratched length is
10.0cm. It is stretched to 12 cm and then released to project a missile of mass 50g. Calculate the
velocities of projection, taking the Young’s modulus of rubber are 5.0x108 Nm-2.

10. Solve any TWO questions: [4 X 2 = 8]

a) A ball of copper of specific heat capacity 400 Jkg-1K-1 weighing 400grm is transformed from a
furnace to 1 kg of water at 200c. The temperature of water raises to500c. What is the original temp of
the ball?

b) A bar of 0.2m in length and cross section area 2.5x10-4 m-2 is ideally lagged. One end is maintained
at 373k while the other is maintained at 273k by immersing in melting ice. Calculate the rate at which
ice melts owing to the flow of heat along the bar.

c) Two glass bulbs of equal volume are joined by a narrow tube and are filled with the gas at STP.
When one bulb is kept in melting ice and other is placed on hot bath, the new pressure is 877.6mm of
Hg. Calculate the temperature of hot bath.

11. An erect image four times magnified is formed by a lens of focal length 15cm. Calculate the
position of object and image from lens. [4]

12. A 1 µf and 2 µf capacitors are connected in parallel across a 1200 V supply line. Find the
charge on each capacitor. The charged capacitors now disconnected from the line and form each
other and reconnected with the terminals of unlike sign together. Find final voltage across each.
[3]

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