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Half Yearly Examination, 2017-18: Physics Time: 3 Hrs. Class - XI M.M.: 70

This document contains the questions from a half-yearly physics examination for class 11 students. There are 26 multiple choice and numerical questions testing concepts in mechanics, motion, vectors, work, energy and other core topics. The questions range from 1 to 5 marks each and cover formulas, diagrams, word problems and derivations. General instructions are provided for the exam, specifying the number and type of questions, total marks, and time allotted.

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Half Yearly Examination, 2017-18: Physics Time: 3 Hrs. Class - XI M.M.: 70

This document contains the questions from a half-yearly physics examination for class 11 students. There are 26 multiple choice and numerical questions testing concepts in mechanics, motion, vectors, work, energy and other core topics. The questions range from 1 to 5 marks each and cover formulas, diagrams, word problems and derivations. General instructions are provided for the exam, specifying the number and type of questions, total marks, and time allotted.

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HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION, 2017-18

PHYSICS
Time : 3 hrs. Class - XI M.M. : 70
Date – 19.09.2017 (Tuesday)
Name of the student _________________________________________________ Section _____

General Instructions :
 All questions are compulsory.
 There are 26 questions in total. Q. Nos. 1 to 5 carry 1 mark each, Q. nos. 6 to 10 carry 2
marks each, Q. Nos. 11 to 22 carry 3 marks each, Q. No. 23 is a value based question
carrying 4 marks, Q. Nos. 24 to 26 carry 5 marks each.

Q.1 1 Parsec is how much light year.


Q.2 Write the dimension of Moment of force, Angular acceleration.
Q.3 Two bodies are thrown with the same initial velocity at angle α and (900 - α) with the
horizontal. What will be the ratio of the maximum heights attained by them?
Q.4 At what point of the projectile path speed is minimum? At what point maximum?
Q.5 A soda water bottle is freely falling. Will the bubbles of the gas rise in the water of the
bottle? Explain.
l
Q.6 Check the correctness of the equation dimensionally t = 2 . Where t is the time period,
g
‘l’ is effective length and ‘g’ is acceleration due to gravity.

Q.7 Find the value of  so that the vectors A  2 iˆ   ˆj  kˆ and B  4 iˆ  2 ˆj  2 kˆ are


perpendicular to each other.
Q.8 A boy playing on the roof of a 10 m high building throws a ball with a speed of 10 m / sec.
at an angle of 300 with horizontal. How far from the throwing point will the ball be at the
height of 10m from the ground. Given g = 10m/sec2
Q.9 A light string passes over a smooth pulley connects two blocks of masses m1 and m2
vertically. If the acceleration of the system is g/8 , find the ratio of the two masses.
Q.10 A bird is sitting on the floor of a closed glass cage and the cage is in the hand of the girl .
Will the girl experience any change in the weight of the cage when the bird flies upward
with an acceleration? Explain your answer.
Q.11 A body moving with velocity ‘u’ covers a distance ‘S’ in time ‘t’. It possesses acceleration
‘a’, derive the relation among the given physical quantities using calculus method.
Q.12 In successive measurements , the reading of the period of oscillation of a simple pendulum
were found to be 2.80S, 2.56S, 2.63S, 2.42S and 2.71S in an experiment.
Calculate:
i) Mean period of oscillation. ii) Absolute errors in different measurements
iii) Mean absolute error iv) relative error
v) percentage error
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Q.13 Determine in the given diagram the acceleration’ a’ of the system and the tensions T1 and
T2 of the strings . Assume that the table and the pulleys are frictionless and the strings are
massless. (g=9.8m/s2)

Q.14 On a long horizontally moving belt, a child runs to and fro with a speed of 9Km/hr. (with
respect to the belt ) between his father and mother located 50m apart on the moving belt.
The belt moves with a speed of 4 Km/hr. For an observer on a stationary platform outside,
what is the
i) Speed of the child running in the direction of the motion of the belt.
ii) Speed of the child running opposite to direction of the motion of the belt.
iii) Time taken by the child in i) and ii)
Q.15 A hunter aims his gun and fires a bullet directly at a monkey on a tree. At the instant the
bullet leaves the barrel of the gun, the monkey drops. Will the bullet hit the monkey?
Substantiate (give proper evidence to prove the truth of) your answer with proper reasoning.
Q.16 Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 30m/s. A women rides a bicycle at a speed of
10m/s in the north to south direction. What is the relative velocity of rain with respect to
women? What is the direction in which she should hold her umbrella to protect herself from
the rain?
Q.17 Two bodies A and B of masses 5 Kg and 10 Kg in contact with each other rest on a table
against a rigid partition. The coefficient of friction between the bodies and the table is 0.15.
A force of 200N is applied horizontally at A. What are i) the reaction of the partition ii) the
action reaction force between A and B.
Q.18 Show that Newton’s second law of motion is the real law of motion.
Q.19 Why is it easier to pull a lawn roller than to push it? Explain.
Q.20 State and derive the expression for law of conservation of linear momentum from Newton’s
third law of motion.
Q.21 Determine the angle of banking so as to minimize the wear and tear of the tyres of a car
negotiating a banked curved road.
Q.22 Derive relation between linear velocity and angular velocity of a body moving in a circular
path.
Q.23 Pratap was pulling a big box with the help of a rope attached to the box. He was unable to
pull it. Shyam his friend was standing near Pratap. He also started pulling the box along
with Pratap. The box was dragged to the desired place.
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i) Why was Pratap unable to pull the box?
ii) The box was dragged when both Shyam and Pratap pulled it. Explain why?
iii) What values are shown by Shyam?
Q.24 A projectile is projected at an angle  with the horizontal from the ground. Its velocity of
projection is u. Show that the path travelled by the projectile is parabolic. Also find the
i) Time of flight
ii) The maximum height
iii) The horizontal range
OR
A projectile is projected horizontally from certain height, with velocity u. Show that the
trajectory is parabolic. Also find the
i) Time of flight
ii) Horizontal range
iii) Velocity of projectile at any time
Q.25 Derive expression for work done against friction, when
i) A body slides on a horizontal surface
ii) A body slides up an inclined plane (without acceleration)
iii) A body slides down an inclined plane (without acceleration)
OR
State parallelogram law of vector addition. With proper diagram prove that two vectors A
and B inclined at an angle  is R = (A2 +B2+2AB Cos )1/2. And also find the direction of
their resultant.
Q.26 A body tied to one end of a sting is made to revolve in a vertical circle. Derive the
expression for the velocity of the body and tension in the string at any point. Hence find:
i) Tension at the bottom and top of the circle
ii) Minimum velocity at the lowest point to loop the loop
iii) Minimum velocity at the top.
OR
What is centripetal acceleration? Derive expression for the centripetal acceleration and
hence for centripetal force of a body moving in a circular path of radius ‘r’ with velocity
‘v’.

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