1.

Physical quantities are (a) quantities such as degrees, radians and steradians (b)
quantities such as length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature,
amount of substance, and luminous intensity (c) quantities such as pounds, dollars and
rupees (d) quantities such as kilos, pounds and gallons
Answer (b) quantities such as length, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic
temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity
2. Which of the following pairs has the same dimensions? (a) specific heat and latent heat
(b) lmpulse and momentum (c) surface tension and force (d) moment of lnertia and
torque
Answer: (b) lmpulse and momentum
3. The dimensions of kinetic energy is (a) [M 2L2T] (b) [ML 2T] (c) [ML 2T-2] (d) [ML 2T-
1]
Answer: (c) [ML 2T-2]
4. A force F is given by F = at + bt², where t is time. What are the dimensions of a and b?
(a) MLT-1 and MLT0 (b) MLT-3 and ML2T4 (c) MLT-4 and MLT1 (d) MLT-3 and MLT-4
Answer: (d) MLT-3 and MLT-4
5. The atmospheric pressure is 106 dyne/cm². What is its value in SI unit? (a) 105
newton/m² (b) 106 newton/m² (c) 104 newton/m² (d) 103 newton/m²
Answer: (a) 105 newton/m²
6. In a system of units if force (F), acceleration (A) and time (T) are taken as fundamentals
units then the dimensional formula of energy is (a) FA2T (b) FAT2 (c) FA2T (d) FAT
Answer Answer: (b) FAT2
7. If force (F), work (W) and velocity (v) are taken as fundamental quantities. What is the
dimensional formula of time (T)? (a) [WFv] (b) [WFv-1] (c) [W-1F -1v] (d) [WF-1v -1]
Answer: (d) [WF-1v -1]
8. The dimensions of kinetic energy is same as that of (a) force (b) pressure (c) work (d)
momentum
Answer: (c) work
9. Which of the following groups have different dimensions? (a) Potential difference, EMF,
voltage (b) Pressure, stress, Youngs modulus (c) Heat, energy, work done (d) Dipole
moment, electric flux, electric field
Answer: (d) Dipole moment, electric flux, electric field
10. ML-1T -2 is the dimensional formula of (a) magnetic induction (b) self-inductance
(c) electric potential (d) electric field
Answer: (a) magnetic induction
11. What is the dimensional formula of magnetic field? (a) MT-2A-1 (b) MT-1A-2 (c)
M-1L-2TA-1 (d) M-1LTA-2
Answer: (a) MT-2A-1
12. Electron volt is a unit of (a) charge (b) potential difference (c) energy (d)
magnetic force
Answer: (c) energy
13. The volume of a cube in m³ is equal to the surface area of the cube in m². The
volume of the cube is (a) 64 m³ (b) 216 m³ (c) 512 m³ (d) 196 m³
Answer: (b) 216 m³
14. In SI system the fundamental units are (a) meter, kilogram, second, ampere,
Kelvin, mole and candela (b) meter, kilogram, second, coulomb, Kelvin, mole and
candela (c) meter, Newton, second, ampere, Kelvin, mole and candela (d) meter,
kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin, mole and lux
Answer: (b) meter, kilogram, second, coulomb, Kelvin, mole and candela
15. Which one of the following represents the correct dimensions of the coefficient of
viscosity? (a) [ML-1T-2] (b) [MLT-1] (c) [ML-1T-1] (d) [ML-2T-2]
Answer: (c) [ML-1T-1]
16. A particle starting from the origin (0, 0) moves in a straight line in the (x, y)
plane. Its coordinates at a later time are (√ 3,3) the path of the particle makes with the
x-axis an angle of (a) 30 degree (b) 45 degree (c) 60 degree (d) 0 degree
Answer: (c) 60 degree
17. Resolution is (a) a measure of the bias in the instrument (b) None of these (c) the
smallest amount of input signal change that the instrument can detect reliably (d) a
measure of the systematic errors
Answer: (d) a measure of the systematic errors
18. Absolute error of the measurement is (a) the difference between the individual
measurement and the true value of the quantity cubed. (b) the difference between the
individual measurement and the true value of the quantity squared. (c) the difference
between two individual measurements and their mean (d) the difference between the
individual measurement and the true value of the quantity
Answer: (a) the difference between the individual measurement and the true value of
the quantity cubed.
19. Which of the following units denotes the dimensions [ML2/Q2], where Q
represents the electric charge? (a) Wb/m² (b) Henry(H) (c) H/m² (d) Weber(Wb)
Answer: (b) Henry(H)
20. Light year is a unit of (a) time (b) distance (c) sunlight intensity (d) mass
Answer: (b) distance
21. Which of the following is not the name of physical quantity? (a) Kilogram (b)
Density (c) Impulse (d) Energy
Answer: (a) Kilogram
22. The weight of a body is 12g. This statement is not correct because (a) The correct
symbol for the unit of weight has not been used. (b) The correct symbol for gram is gm.
(c) The weight should be expressed in kg. (d) Of some reason other than those given
above.
Answer: (a) The correct symbol for the unit of weight has not been used.
23. The density of a liquid is 13.6 g cm-3. Its value ip S.I. is (a) 13.6 kgm-3 (b) 136
kgm-3 (c) 13600 kgm-3 (d) 1360 kgm-3
Answer: (a) 13.6 kgm-3
24. If the unit of force and length are doubled, the unit of energy will be (a) 1/2 times
(b) 2 times (c) 4 times (d) 1/4 times
Answer: (c) 4 times
25. Which of the following have the same dimensions as v2r Where v is the speed of
the particle describing a circular path of radius r. (a) Force (b) Impulse (c) Acceleration
(d) Momentum
Answer: (c) Acceleration
26. Which of the following have the same dimensions as Plank’s constant? (a)
Moment of momentum (b) Moment of fierce (c) Momentum/distance (d)
Force/distance
Answer: (a) Moment of momentum
27. Which of the following is a dimensionless quantity, even when the measured
quantity is not dimensionless? (a) absolute error (b) Gross error (c) Relative error (d)
experimental error
Answer: (c) Relative error
28. Which of the following is not the name of a physical quantity? (a) Kilogram (6)
Density (c) energy (d) Impulse
Answer: (a) Kilogram
29. A laser signal is sent towards the moon with a speed of light C and returns after a
time f seconds. The distance of the moon from the observer is (a) ct (b) ct/2 (c) ct-2 (d)
ct-1
Answer: (b) ct/2
30. The volume of a cube in m3 is numerically equal to its surface area in m². The
volume of the cube is (a) 64m³ (b) 1000m³ (c) 216m³ (d) 512m³
Answer: (c) 216m³
31. Give that the displacement of a particle is given by x = A² sin² kt, where t denotes
the time. The unit of k is (a) radian (b) metre (c) hertz (d) second
Answer: (c) hertz
32. Which of the following is the unit of molar gas constant? (a) JK-1 mol-1 (b) J (c)
JK-1 (d) J mol-1
Answer: (a) JK-1 mol-1
33. The dimensional formula for angular momentum is same as that for: (a) torque
(b) Plank’s constant (c) gravitational constant (d) impulse
Answer: (b) Plank’s constant
34. Which of the following physical quantity is dimensionless? (a) angle (b) specific
gravity (c) strain (d) all of these
Answer: (d) all of these
35. Which one of the following is the unit of measure of the thickness of the ozone
layer of the atmosphere? (A) Knot (B) Dobson (C) Poise (D) Maxwell
Ans: (B) Dobson
36. ‘Light Year’ is– (A) The year in which February has 29 days (B) The distance
travelled by light in one year (C) The time which Sun rays take to reach the Earth (D)
The time in which a spacecraft reaches Moon from the Earth
Ans: (B) The distance travelled by light in one year
37. Which unit of measurement is multiplied by 0.39 to convert it to ‘inches? (A)
Millimetre (B) Centimetre (C) Metre (D) Decimetre
Ans: (B) Centimetre
38. How can the height of a person who is six feet tall, be expressed (approximately)
in nanometre? (A) 183 x 10⁶ nm (B) 234 x 10⁶ nm (C) 183 x 10⁷ nm (D) 181 x 10⁷ nm
Ans: (C) 183 x 10⁷ nm
39. A nanometre is equal to– (A) 10-⁶ cm (B) 10-⁷ cm (C) 10-⁸ cm (D) 10-⁹ met.
Ans: (D) 10-⁹ metre
40. Megawatt is the measuring unit of power which is– (A) Generated (B) Consumed
(C) Saved (D) Lost in transmission
Ans: (A) Generated
41. Which one of the following SI unit is not correctly matched? (A) Work ☞ Joule (B)
Force ☞ Newton (C) Mass ☞ kg (D) Pressure ☞ Dyne
Ans: (D) Pressure ☞ Dyne
42. One micron is equal to (A) 1/10 mm (B) 1/100 mm (C) 1/1000 mm (D) 1/10,000
mm
Ans: (C) 1/1000 mm
43. One micron represents a length of (A) 10-⁶ cm (B) 10-⁴ cm (C) 1 mm (D) 1 m
Ans: (B) 10-⁴ cm
44. Which one of the following is not correctly matched? (A) Decibel – Unit of sound
intensity (B) Horsepower – Unit of power (C) Nautical miles – Unit of naval distance (D)
Celsius – Unit of heat
Ans: (D) Celsius – Unit of heat
45. One pikogram is equal to (A) 10-⁶ gram (B) 10-⁹ gram (C) 10-¹² gram (D) 10-¹⁵
gram
Ans: (C) 10-¹² gram
46. What is the unit of atmospheric pressure? (A) Bar (B) Knot (C) Joule (D) Ohm
Ans: (A) Bar
47. 1 Kg/cm² pressure is equivalent to (A) 0.1 bar (B) 1.0 bar (C) 10.0 bar (D) 100.0
bar
Ans: (B) 1.0 bar
48. 1 barrel of oil is equals to which of the following? (A) 131 litre (B) 159 litre (C)
179 litre (D) 201 litre
Ans: (B) 159 litre
49. The smallest unit of length is (A) Micron (B) Nanometre (C) Angstrom (D)
Fermimetre
Ans: (D) Fermimetre
50. One Nanometer is equal to (A) 10-⁹ m (B) 10-⁶ m (C) 10-¹⁰ m (D) 10–⁵ m
Ans: (A) 10-⁹ m
51. What is measured in Cusec? (A) Purity of water (B) Depth of water (C) Flow of
water (D) Quantity of water
Ans: (C) Flow of water
52. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below
the lists. List-I (Physical quantities) (a) Acceleration (b) Force (C) Work done (d)
Impulse
List-II (Units) 1. Joule 2. Newton second 3. Newton 4. Metre/second
Code (a) (b) (c) (d) (A) 1 2 3 4 (B) 3 4 1 2 (C) 2 3 4 1 (D) 4 3 1 2
Ans: (D)
53. Farad is the unit of – (a)Luminosity (b)Wavelength (c)Permittivity (d)Inertia
Ans: (c) Permittivity
54. Electron volt is a unit of (a)Luminosity (b)Frequency (c)Force (d)Energy
Ans : (d) Energy
55. Joule second is the unit of (a)Force (b)Angular momentum (c)Energy (d)Power
Ans : (b) Angular momentum