Schiller Senior Secondary School

Date: / /13
PPT 1(2013-14)
Grade: 12 Sc.
Time: 3 Hrs.
Subject: Physics
Marks: 25
Students Name .. Roll No.. Prepared By: Mr. Pankaj Sharma
General Instructions:
I. All questions are compulsory, read thoroughly before writing the answers.
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There are 30 questions in total. Questions 1 to 8 carry one mark each, questions 9 to 18
carry two marks each, questions 19 to 27 carry three marks each and questions 28 to 30
carry five marks each.
Use of calculators is not permitted.
The question paper contains 30 questions from the Physics Part 1, N.C.E.R.T. Text Book
for class XI

1. Round off to four significant figures (i) 36.879, (ii) 1.0084

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2. If x = at + bt2where x is in meters and t is in seconds. What are the units of a and b?

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3. Fill ups.
(i) 3.0m/s2 = --------------------- km/hr2
(ii) 6.67 10-11Nm2/kg2 = ------------------------- g-1cm3s-2

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4. Under what condition the displacement and the distance of a moving object will have the same magnitude.
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5. Shipra went from her home to school 2.5km away. On finding her school closed she returned to her home
immediately. What is her net displacement? What is the total distance covered by her?
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6. If two bodies stick together after collision will the collision be elastic or inelastic?

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7. The two ends of springbalance are pulled each by a force of 10kg.wt.What will be the reading of the
balance?
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8. What provides the centripetal force to a car taking a turn on a level road?

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9. State which of the following are dimensionally correct

a. K= m2v3
b. K= mv2
c. K= ma
d. K= (3/16) mv2

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10. If force (F) acceleration (A) and time (T) are taken as fundamental units, then find the dimension of energy.
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11. State and prove work energy theorem analytically?

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12. Displacement of a particle is given by the expression x = 3t2 + 7t 9, where x is in meter and t is in
seconds. What is acceleration?
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13. A car moving on a straight highway with speed of 126km/hr. is brought to stop within a distance of 200 m.
What is the retardation of the car (assumed uniform) and how long does it take for the car to stop?
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14. A light body and a heavy body have same linear momentum. Which one has greater K.E.?[2]
15. A force is being applied on a body but it causes no acceleration. What possibilities may be considered to
explain the observation?
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16. Establish the third equation of rotational motion

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17. A body is moving along Z axis of a co ordinate system is subjected to a constant force F is given by F =
-i+ 2j+ 3k N, Where i, j, k are unit vector along the x, y and z axis of the system respectively what is the work
done by this force in moving the body a distance of 4m along the Z axis?
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18. Explain why passengers are thrown forward form their seats when a speeding bus stops suddenly.
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19. Prove that in an elastic collision in one dimension the relative velocity of approach before impact is equal to
the relative velocity of separation after impact?
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20. When the Jupiter is at a distance of 824.7 million kilometers from the earth, its angular diameter is measured
to be 35.72 of arc calculate the diameter of Jupiter.
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21. (a) How is angular momentum related to linear momentum?
(b) Calculate M.I of a uniform circular disc of mass 500gm and radius 10cm about

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(i) Diameter (ii) axis tangent to the disc and parallel to diameter
22. What is meant by a positive work, negative work and zero work? Illustrate your answer with example?
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23. Four particles of mass 1kg, 2kg, 3kg and 4kg are placed at the four vertices A, B, C and D of square of side
1m. Find the position of centre of mass of the particle.
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24. (A) Define time of flight and horizontal range?
(B) From a certain height above the ground a stone A is dropped gently. Simultaneously another stone B is
fired horizontally. Which of the two stones will arrive on the ground earlier?
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25. A man weighs 70kg. He stands on a weighting machine in a lift, which is moving
a) Upwards with a uniform speed of 10m/s.
b) Downwards with a uniform acceleration of 5m/s2.
c) Upwards with a uniform acceleration of 5m/s2. Take g = 9.8m/s2.
What would be the readings on the scales in each case what would be the reading if the lift mechanism failed
and it came down freely under gravity?
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26. (a) State impulse momentum theorem?

(b) A ball of mass 0.1kg is thrown against a wall. It strikes the wall normally with a velocity of 30m/s and
rebounds with a velocity of 20m/s. calculate the impulse of the force exerted by the ball on the wall.
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27. A train runs along an unbanked circular bend of radius 30m at a speed of 54km/hr. The mass of the train is
106kg. What provides the necessary centripetal force required for this purpose? The engine or the rails? What is
the angle of banking required to prevent wearing out of the rail?
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28. What do you understand by errors of measurement? Discuss briefly that various type of errors.
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29. (a) What is the angle between A and B if A and B denote the adjacent sides of a parallelogram drawn
form a point and the area of the parallelogram is AB?
(b) State and prove triangular law of vector addition?
30. (a) Friction is a necessary evil. Comment.
(b) State the laws of friction

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