CLASS: XI (PHYSICS) 042

MINIMUM LEARNING PROGRAMME FOR CBSE

SCHOOL EXAM.

By: Keshav Varshney

Note:- Questions written in bold are extra important. if you have less time (very less
time in fact), you should only focus on those questions

Chapter 3. Motion in a straight line

1. Define the following:

a. Speed

b. Velocity

c. Distance

d. Displacement

e. Uniform motion and uniform speed (non-uniform motion and non-uniform speed)

f. acceleration

2. Derive three equations of uniformly accelerated motion using algebraic method.

3. Derive three equations of uniformly accelerated motion using calculus method.

4. Derive three equations of uniformly accelerated motion using graphical method.

5. Speed time, velocity time, distance time, displacement time for all situations graph
(given in NCERT).

Chapter 4.Motion in a plane

1. What is a vector quantity? Define the following

a. Unit vector

b. Collinear vector or parallel vectors

c. Polar and axial vector

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d. Coplanar vectors

2. Define triangle law of vector addition by giving suitable examples.

3. Discuss parallelogram law of vector addition and derive a formula to find

magnitude and resultant of two vectors A and B inclined at an angle θ .

4. Explain resolution of vector into its rectangular components.

5. Explain two examples from daily life using components of vectors.

6. Explain dot product and cross product of vectors.

7. What is a projectile. Derive a relation for following quantities when a projectile is

fired with

velocity u from a height h in the horizontal direction:

a. Equation of path

b. Time of flight

c. Velocity at any instant

d. Range

e. Angle with vertical.

8. Derive a relation for following quantities when a projectile is fired with velocity
u with horizontal at an angle θ .

a. Equation of path

b. Time of flight

c. Maximum height attained

d. Velocity at any instant

e. Range

f. Maximum range

g. Angle with vertical.

9. Show that range for two complimentary angles is same when the projectile is
fired with same velocity at these two angles.

10. What is uniform circular motion and non-uniform circular motion?

11. Define centripetal acceleration and derive a relation for it.

12. Define angle velocity and angular acceleration.

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Chapter 5.Laws of motion
1. Define Newton’s first law

2. What is inertia? Discuss three types of inertia with examples.

3. What is momentum? What is its SI unit?

4. State Newton’s second law and derive F = ma from it.

5. Why is it easier to pull a lawn roller than to push it?

6. Discuss horse and cart problem.

7. Second law is the real law of motion. Explain why.

8. State newton’s third law and discuss some applications from daily life.

9. Explain the concept of apparent weight of a man in an accelerating elevator.

10. Two masses m andm 1 2 are connected to a string passing over a pulley. Derive
an

expression for acceleration of the masses and tension in the string.

11. What is friction. Explain the following by giving suitable examples.

a. Static friction

b. Limiting friction

c. Kinetic friction

12. Write laws of friction.

13. What is angle of friction? How is it related to coefficient of friction?

14. What is angle of repose? Derive an expression for it.

15. Derive an expression for acceleration of a body sliding down a rough inclined plane.

16. Derive an expression for work done to move a body up a rough inclined plane with
constant

velocity.

17. Derive an expression for work done to move a body on a rough horizontal surface
with constant

velocity.

18. Why friction is called necessary evil. Give some examples to support the statement.

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19. Explain some methods to reduce friction.

20. Explain the motion of a car on an unbanked road while turning.

21. Explain the banking or roads and railway tracks.

22. Explain why a cyclist bends on turns.

Chapter 6.Work energy power

1. A light body and a heavy body have same linear momentum. Which one has greater
K.E?

2. A truck and a car moving with same K.E are stopped by applying some retarding force
by means

of breaks. Which one will stop at a smaller distance?

3. If stretch in a spring of force constant k is doubled, calculate:

a. Ratio of final to initial force in the spring

b. Ratio of elastic energies stored in the two cases.

c. Work done in changing to the state of double stretch.

4. What is meant by work? Obtain an expression for work done by constant force.

5. Explain using examples, what is meant by positive work, negative work and zero
work?

6. What are conservative and non-conservative forces? Explain with examples.

7. Obtain an expression for K.E of a body moving uniformly.

8. What do you mean by potential energy? Obtain an expression for gravitational

potential energy.

9. What is mass energy equivalence?

10. State and explain work energy principle.

11. Explain what is meant by potential energy of spring obtain an expression for it.

12. State and establish principle of conservation of energy.

13. Discuss elastic collision in one dimension. Obtain expressions for velocities of
the two

bodies after such a collision.

14. What is inelastic collision?

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15. Define power. State and define its SI unit.

16. What is efficiency of a machine. Write its formula and SI unit.

Chapter7.System of particles and rotational motion

1. What is meant by centre of mass? Derive and expression for centre of mass of a
system of n particles (or 2 particles)

2. Derive three equation of rotational motion.

3. What is torque? Write its SI unit.

4. Derive an expression for Cartesian and polar coordinates of torque.

5. What is angular momentum? Write its SI unit.

6. Derive an expression for Cartesian and polar coordinates of Angular momentum.

7. Derive a relationship between torque and angular momentum.

8. What is moment of inertia. Derive a formula for it for a system of n particles

having masses m1, m2, m3……., mn rotating about a given axis.

9. What is radius of gyration. Obtain an expression for it.

10. Derive a relation between moment of inertia and torque.

11. Derive a relation between moment of inertia and angular momentum.

12. State and prove the law of conservation of angular momentum.

13. Explain why a dancer bends her hands inwards when she revolves around her body.

14. Explain why helicopter has two propellers.

15. Explain why a diver bends his body during jump and stretches when he is about to
touch water.

16. Explain why cat can jump from large height with getting injured.

17. Explain what would happen if all the ice on polar caps would melt.

18. Derive an expression for acceleration of a body rolling down a rough inclined
plane.

Chapter 8.Gravitation
1. What is the Newton’s law of gravitation? Write its mathematical expression giving the
meaning of each symbol used.

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2. Write the value, units and dimensions of universal gravitational constant.

3. What is acceleration due to gravity? Derive a formula for it in terms of mass and
radius of a given planet.

4. Discuss the variation of acceleration due to gravity with height. Hence, derive a
formula for percentage change in acceleration due to gravity for small heights.

5. Discuss the variation of acceleration due to gravity with depth. Hence, derive a
formula for percentage change in acceleration due to gravity for a depth d below
the surface of earth.

6. What is gravitational field intensity. Derive an expression for it and write its SI
units.

7. Define gravitational potential at a point. Derive an expression for gravitational

potential at a distance r due to a mass M.

8. What do you mean by gravitational potential energy of a system? Derive an

expression for gravitational potential energy of two bodies of masses M and m with
their centres separated by a distance r.

9. What is a satellite. What is the principle for launching a satellite?

10. Derive an expression for the following for a satellite

a. Orbital velocity.

b. Time period.

c. Height.

d. Total energy.

11. What is binding energy of a satellite. Write an expression for it.

12. What are geostationary satellites. What are the essential conditions for a satellite to
be geostationary? Write some uses of geostationary satellites.

13. What are polar satellites. Write some uses of polar satellites.

14. What do you mean by escape velocity? Derive an expression for escape velocity
in terms of parameters of a given planet.

15. State three laws of Kepler’s planetary motion.

16. Prove Kepler’s law of time periods.

17. Derive newton’s law of gravitation from Kepler’s third law.

18. What is weightlessness? In which situation body becomes weightless?

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Chapter 9.Mechanical properties of solids
1. Define stress and strain and give their SI units

2. Discuss three types of stress and strain.

3. State Hooke's law and define modulus of elasticity.

4. Discuss three types of moduli of elasticity and state their SI units.

5. Explain and draw stress strain curve for a stretched wire.

6. What is compressibility. Write its SI unit.

7. Discuss how elasticity helps in

a. Deciding the radius of rope of cranes.

b. To decide shape of pillars of flyovers and bridges.

c. Find the height of mountain.

8. What is elastic potential energy in stretched wire, derive an expression for it.

9. What is Poisson ratio, what is its SI unit?

Chapter 10.Mechanical properties of fluids

1. What is thrust? Write its SI unit.

2. Derive an expression for pressure at a depth h in a fluid.

3. Define surface tension. Write its SI unit.

4. What are cohesive and adhesive forces? Explain giving examples.

5. What is angle of contact?

6. Derive an expression for excess pressure inside a liquid drop.

7. Derive an expression for excess pressure inside a soap bubble.

8. What is capillarity? Derive Ascent formula.

9. How does surface tension vary with temperature? Explain giving examples.

10. What is viscosity?

11. What is coefficient of viscosity? Write its SI units and dimensions.

12. What is Stokes’s law? Prove using method of dimensions.

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13. What is terminal velocity? Derive an expression for terminal velocity acquired
by a body while falling freely in a viscous medium.

14. What is Reynold’s number? Write its value of the various types of flows.

15. Derive equation of continuity.

16. What are three types of flow, name and explain them.

17. State and prove Bernoulli’s theorem.

18. Explain magnus effect.

19. Explain why roofs of houses blow off during storm?

20. Why deep water runs slow?

21. Explain why we should not stand close to a moving train?

22. Explain the working on venturi meter.

23. State and prove Torricelli’s theorem.

24. What is surface energy? Derive an expression for it.

25.State and prove Pascal's law of transmission of fluid pressure.

Chapter 11.Thermal properties of matter

1. Derive relation between coefficient of linear expansion, areal expansion.

2. Derive relation between coefficient of linear expansion and volume expansion.

3. Discuss three units of temperature and write relation between any two.

4. Discuss three practical application of linear thermal expansion.

5. Define specific heat capacity and write it's SI unit

6. Define molar heat capacity and write it's SI unit

7. Define two principle specific heats of gas and discuss which is greater and why.

8. Define conduction and coefficient of thermal conductivity and write it's SI unit

9. Define convection and discuss the role of convection jn sea breeze and land
breeze

10. Discuss three important practical applications of thermal conductivity

11. What is principal of calorimetry.

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12. State and explain Newton’s law of cooling.

Chapter 12.Thermodynamics
1. State zeroth’s law of thermodynamics.

2. Name four types of thermodynamical processes.

3. What is an indicator diagram?

4. Derive an expression for work done by an ideal gas during isothermal reversible

expansion.

5. Derive an expression for work done by an ideal gas during adiabatic expansion.

6. What is the equation of state for:

a. Isothermal process

b. Adiabatic process

7. Explain why and adiabatic curve is steeper than an isothermal curve?

8. What is first law of thermodynamics. State in mathematically also.

9. State and prove Mayer’s formula or derive a relation between two principle
specific heats

of a gas.

10. What are limitations of first law of thermodynamics?

11. Write various statements of second law of thermodynamics.

12. What are heat engines? Derive an expression for efficiency of a heat engine.

13. Explain the working of refrigerator.

14. What is coefficient of performance of refrigerator?

15. Explain the working of Carnot engine.

16. State Carnot theorem.

Chapter 13.Kinetic theory of gases

1. State these gas laws and write their mathematical statements:

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a. Boyle’s law

b. Charle’s law

c. Gay lussac’s law

d. Ideal gas equation

e. Avogadro’s law

f. Graham’s law of diffusion

2. Derive an expression for pressure exerted by an ideal gas.

3. Explain these various speeds of gas molecules:

a. Root mean square speed

b. Average speed.

c. Most probable speed

4. What is degree of freedom? How does it depend on atomicity of a gas?

5. What is law of equipartition of energy?

6. Derive the values of Cp and Cp of a polyatomic gas.

7. What is mean free path? Derive an expression for it.

8. Explain Brownian motion.

Chapter 14.Oscillations
1. For an oscillating body, derive an expression for its and graphs

a. Displacement

b. Velocity

c. Acceleration

d. Force acting on it

e. Time period

f. Potential energy

g. Kinetic energy

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h. Total energy

2. Derive an expression for time period of a simple pendulum.

3. Derive an expression for time period of a liquid oscillating in a U tube.

4. Derive an expression for time period of a floating cylinder.

5. Derive an expression for the time period of a body dropped inside earth in a tunnel
which connects two diametrically opposite points.

6. Derive an expression for time period of a block connected to spring

7. Derive equivalent spring constant for a combination of springs connected in

a. Series

b. Parallel

8. Discuss damped simple harmonic motion. Write differential equation of such a

motion an displacement equation representing it.

9. Explain free, forced and resonant oscillations with the help of suitable examples.

Chapter 15.Waves

1. What are mechanical and electromagnetic waves? Explain giving examples.

2. Derive an expression for velocity of transverse wave on a stretched string using

method of dimensions.

3. Derive an expression for velocity of longitudinal wave in a gaseous medium using

method of dimensions.

4. Derive equation of a plane progressive wave.

5. Derive a relation between wave velocity and particle velocity.

6. Derive Newton’s formula for velocity of sound in gases. Why the value of velocity

derived by newton was wrong? What corrections did Laplace make to i t? Derive

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Laplace’s formula for velocity of sound in gases.

7. What are standing or stationary waves?

8. Discuss the formation of fundamental tones and overtones in the following:

a. Strings

b. Open organ pipes

c. Closed organ pipes

9. State the laws of vibration of strings.

10. What are beats. Give their analytical treatment. Derive an expression for beat

frequency and beat interval.

11. What is Doppler’s effects. Derive an expression for apparent frequency heard by

observer when observer is moving relative to source.

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