The volume of a cinema theatre is 100mx60mx20m and total acoustic absorption in it is 6800metric sabine.The reverberation time in that theatre is
1.5s
2s
3s
4s
A clock pendulum made of invar has a period of 0.5 s , at 200 C . If the clock is used in a climate where the temperature averages to 300 C how much time does the clock loose in each oscillation (for invar α = 9 x 10-70 C and g = constant
2.25 X 10-6 sec
2.25 X 10-7 sec
5 X 10-7 sec
1.125 X 10-6 sec
The frequency of a stretched uniform wire under tension is in resonance with the fundamental frequency of a closed tube. If the tension in the wire is increased by 8 N, it is in resonance with the first over- tone of the closed tube. The initial tension in the wire is
1 N
4 N
8 N
16 N
A man slides down on a telegraphic pole with an acceleration equal to one-fourth of acceleration due to gravity. The frictional force between man and pole is equal to in terms of man's weight w
w/4
w/2
3w/4
w
A car with a horn of frequency 620 Hz, travels towards a large wall with a speed 20 m/s. If velocity of sound of 330 m/s the frequency of echo of sound of horn as heard by driver
700 Hz
660 Hz
620 Hz
580 Hz
A horizontal beam of vertically polarized light of intensity 43W/m2 is sent through two polarizing sheets. The polarizing direction of the first is 600 to the vertical , and that of the second is horizontal. The intensity of the light transmitted by the pair of sheets is (nearly)
8W/m2
11W/m2
33W/m2
21.5W/m2
If the earth suddenly stops rotating, the value of g at equator would :
decrease
remain unchanged
increase
become zero
Two positive charges q1=4x10-6C and q2=9x10-6C are placed 10cm apart in air.The position of a third charge to be placed between them,such that there will be no resultant force on it is
6cm from q1
3cm from q1
4cm from q1
7cm from q1
In a metre bridge experiment, the ratio of the left gap resistance to right gap resistance is 2 : 3, the balance point from left is
60
50
40
20
Two strings x and y on a Veena playing the same note are slightly out of tune and produce 6 beats per second. The tension in x is slightly decreased and it is found tha the beats fall to 3 per second. If the original frequency of x is 324 Hz, the frequency of y is
618 Hz
518 Hz
330 Hz
318 Hz
Match the appropriate pairs from Lists I and II: List-I List-II 1.NItrogen molecules A.continuous spectrum 2.Incandescent solids B.Absorption spectrum 3.Fraunhoffer lines C.Band spectrum 4.Electric arc between iron rods D.Emission spectrum
1-C,2-A,3-B,4-D
1-B, 2-A, 3-D, 4-C
1-D, 2-A, 3-B, 4 -C
1-A, 2-C, 3-D, 4 -B
A body of weight "64N" is pushed with just enough force to start it moving across a horizontal floor and the same force continues to act afterwards, if the coefficients of static and dynamic friction are 0.6 and 0.4 respectively, the acceleration of the body is: (acceleration due to gravity = g)
g/6.4
0.64g
g/32
0.2g
The elementary particles heavier than nucleons are called
mesons
neutrons
hyperons
Leptons
The couple acting on a magnet of length 10 cm placed in a uniform magnetic field of intensity 40 N/Am such that the axis of the magnet makes 450 with the field direction is √2/10 Nm. The pole strength of the magnet in Weber is :
5 x 10-3
0.5
0.05
5.0
Two identical piano wires have a fundamental frequency of 600 c/s when kept under the same tension. What fractional increase in the tension of one wire will lead to the occurrence of 6 beats per second when both wires vibrate simultaneously
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
The neutral temperature of a thermo couple is5000C.If cold junction is at 300C the inversion temperature is
10300C
5300C
9700C
10000C
If the work done in stretching a wire by 1mm is 2J,the work necessary for stretching another wire of same material but with double radius of cross-section and half the length by 1mm(in joule) is:
16
8
4
1/4
A person aiming to reach the exactly opposite point on the bank of a stream is swimming with a speed of 0.5ms-1 at an angle of 1200 with the direction of flow of water.The speed of water in the stream, in ms-1, is:
1.00
1/√3
0.25
0.433
A uniform rod of length 8a and mass 6m lies on a smooth horizontal surface. Two point masses m and 2m moving in the same plane with speed 2 v and v repectively strike the rod perpendicularly at distances a and 2a from the mid point of the rod in the opposite directions and stick to the rod. The angular velocity of the system immediately after the collision is:
6v/32a
6v/33a
6v/40a
6v/41a
A motor of power P0 is used to deliver water at a certain rate through a given horizontal pipe. To increase the rate of flow of water through the same pipe n times, the power of the motor is increased to P1 The ratio of P1 to P0 is
n:1
n2 : 1
n3 : 1
n4 : 1
Two point charges -q and +q are located at points (0, 0, -a) and (0, 0, a) respectively. The electric potential at a point (0, 0, z), where z > a
qα/ 4πεoz2
q/ 4πεoα
2qα/ 4πεo (z2 - a2 )
2qα/ 4πεo (z2 + a2 )
A metal string is fixed between rigid supports. It is initially at negligible tension. Its youngs modulus is ‘Y’ density is ρ and coefficient of linear expansion is α. It is now cooled through a temperature ‘t’ transverse waves will move along it with a speed.
t√(ρ/Yα)
α√(Yt/ρ)
Y√(αt/ρ)
√(Yαt/ρ)
The magnitude of maximum acceleration is π times that of maximum velocity of a simple harmonic oscillator. The time period of the oscillator in seconds is
2
1
16 tuning forks are arranged in increasing order of frequency.Any two consecutive tuning forks when sounded together produce 8 beats per second.If the frequency of the last tuning fork is twice that of the first the frequency of the last tuning fork is
80
100
120
An ammeter whose resistance is 180 Ω shows full scale deflection when the current is 2mA.The shunt required to convert into an ammeter reading 20 mA is (in ohm)
18
0.1
10
Which of the following Statements is not correct when a junction diode is in forward bias ?
The width of depletion region decreases
Tree electrons on n-side will move towards the junction
Holes on p-side move towards the junction
Electrons on n-side and holes on p-side will move away from junction
A train is approaching the platform with a speed of 4 ms-1. Another train is leaving the platform with the same speed in opposite direction. The velocity of sound is 320ms-1. If both the trains sound their whistles at frequency 240 Hz, the number of beats heard per second by the passenger of the first train will be (nearly)
6
7
A sphere of radius 1m encloses a charge of 5μC. Another charge of -5μC is placed inside the sphere. The net electric flux would be
Double
Four times
Zero
Three times
Three charges –q, +q and –q are placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle of side a. The resultant electric force on a charge +q placed at the centroid O of the triangle is
3q2/4π?0a2
q2/4π?0a2
q2/2π?0a2
3q2/2π?0a2
The ratio of specific heats of a gas is γ.The change in internal energy of one mole of the gas, when the volume changes from V to 2V at constant pressure P is
γ-1 / PV
PV
PV / γ-1
PV / γ
A tangent galvanometer properly adjusted gives a deflection of 300 when a certain current is passed through it. When the current is changed, then it gives a deflection of 450. The ratio of the current in the two cases is:
2 : 3
1 : √2
1 : √3
√3 : 1
Two lenses of focal lengths +10cm, and -15cm when put in contact behave like a convex lens .They will have zero longitudinal chromatic aberration if their dispersive powers are in the ratio
+3/2
+2/3
-3/2
-1/2
An insulated cylindrical vessel filled with an insulated piston of negligible weight and negligible thickness at the midpoint of the vessel. The cylinder contains a gas at 0oC. When the gas is heated to 100oC, the piston moves through a length of 5 cm. Length of the cylindrical vessel in cm is
13.65
27.3
38.6
64.6
Work done by 0.1 mole of gas at 270C when it expands to double its volume at constant pressure is : (assume R = 2 cal/mol-1 K-1)
600 cal
42 cal
60 cal
546 cal
A cell in secondary circuit gives null deflection for 2.5 m length of potentiometer having 10 m length of wire If the length of the potentiometer wire is increased by 1 m without changing the cell in the primary, the position of the null point now is
3.5 m
3 m
2.75 m
2 m
If the length of a stretched string is shortened by 40% and the tension is increased by 44% then the ratio of the final and initial fundamental frequencies is
2:1
3:2
3:4
1:3
The equation of wave is y=10cos2π((t/0.02)-(x/10)),where ‘t’ is in seconds an x in cm.The phase difference between two points separated by a distance of 5cm at any instant is
π/2 rad
π/5 rad
π/3 rad
π rad
The waves are prepared by the following equations y1=5 sin2π(10t-0.1x) y2=10sin2 π(20t-0.2x) ratio of intensities I2/I1 will be
A Tuning fork A produces 6 beats per second with another fork B.On loading B with a little wax,it produces 5 beats per second with A If the frequency of A is 256 Hz,the frequency of B is
262 Hz
250 Hz
256 Hz
261 Hz
The coil in a MCG has an area of 4cm2 and 500 turns.The intensity of magnetic induction is 2T.when a current of 10-4A is passed through it,the deflection is 200.The couple per unit twist is(N-m)
5 x10-6
4 x10-6
2x10-6
3x10-6
A galvanometer of resistance 20Ω is to be shunted so that only 1% of the current passes through it. Shunt connected is
(99/20)Ω
(9/20)Ω
(20/99)Ω
(2/99)Ω
In a thermo couple the temperature of the cold junction is 150C.If the temperature of inversion is 4850C,the neutral temperature of the thermo couple is
2350C
9850C
9550C
2500C
Two unknown resistance X and Y are connected to left and right gaps of a meter bridge and the balancing point is obtained at 80 cm from left. When a 10Ω resistance is connected in parallel to X, the balance point is 50 cm from left. The values of X and Y respectively are
40 Ω, 9Ω
30 Ω, 7.5 Ω
20 Ω, 60 Ω
10Ω, 3Ω
A glass tube 1.5m long and open at both ends, is immersed vertically in a water tank completely. A tuning fork of 600Hz is vibrated and kept at the upper end of tube and tube is gradually raised out of water.The total number of resonances heard before when the tube comes out of water, taking velocity of sound as 330m/sec. is
12
Two trains are approaching each other on parallel tracks with same velocity.The whistle sound produced by one train is heard by a passenger in another train.If actual frequency of whistle is 620Hz and apparent increase its frequency is 100Hz,the velocity of one of the two trains is(Velocity of sound in air=335ms-1)
90kmph
72kmph
54kmph
36kmph
While connecting 6 cells in a battery in series,ina tape recorder,by mistake one cell is connected with reverse polarity.If the effective resistance of load is 24 ohm and internal resistance of each cell is one ohm and emf 1.5V,the current delivered by the battery is
0.4A
0.3A
0.2A
0.1A
Two tuning forks A and B give 6 beats per second .A resonates with a closed column of air 15 cm long and B with an open column 30.5 cm long in their fundamental harmonics.Their frequencies are
nA=366Hz,nB=360Hz
nA=466Hz,nB=460Hz
nA=566Hz,nB=560Hz
nA=766Hz,nB=760Hz
A block of mass 10kg lying on a smooth horizontal surface is being pulled by means of a rope of mass 2kg.If a force of 36N is applied at the end of the rope. The tension at the midpoint of the rope is
33N
30N
24N
12N
A 2 kg stone tied at the end of a string of 1 m length, is whirled along a vertical circle at a constant speed of 4 m/s. The tension in the string has a value of 52 N when the stone is :
at the top of the circle
half way down
at the bottom of the circle
none of the above
Two point charges are separated by 3 cm of air and 3 cm of a dielectric of relative permittivity 4.The equivalent air separation between them is (as far as their coulombic interaction is concerned)
6 cm
9 cm
12 cm
15 cm
A whistling engine is approaching a stationary observer with a velocity of 110m/s. The velocity of sound is 330m/s. The ratio of frequencies as heard by the observer as the engine approaches and recedes is
3:6
4:1
4:3
A light ray of wavelength λ is passing through a pin hole of diameter D and the effect is observed on a screen placed at a distance L from the pin hole. The approximations of geometrical optics are applicable if
D <λ
(Lλ / D2) = 1
(Lλ / D2) < < 1
(Lλ / D2) >> 1
An observer is moving away from a sound source of frequency 100 Hz. If the observer is moving with a velocity 49m/s and the speed of sound in air is 330m/s, the observed frequency is
149 Hz
100 Hz
91 Hz
85 Hz
The potential energy of a proton is 3.2x10-18J at a particular point. The electric potential at this point is
15V
20V
10V
5V
A motor cycle starts from rest and accelerates along a straight path at 2m/s2.At the starting point of the motor cycle, there is a stationary electric siren. How far has the motor cycle gone when the driver hears the frequency of the siren at 94% of its value when the motor cycle was at rest?(speed of sound=330ms-1)
98m
147m
196m
49m
A proton is projected with a velocity 107ms-1 ,at right angles to a uniform magnetic field of induction 100mT.The time(in seconds)taken by the proton to traverse 900 arc is:(Mass of proton=1.65x10-27kg and charge of proton = 1.6x10-19C
3.24x10-7
2.43 x10-7
1.62 x10-7
0.81 x10-7
An explosion of atomic bomb releases an energy of 7.6x1013J.If 200 MeV energy is released on fission of one 235U atom the number of uranium atoms undergoing fission,and the mass of uranium used in the bomb is
1.756x1024,976.66g
1.756x1014,956.66g
2.375x1012,826.66g
2.375x1024,926.66g
Two positive charges 12μC and 10μC are initially separated by 10cm.The work done in bringing the two charges 4cm closer is
7.2J
3.6J
8.4J
12.4J
In a Ramsden eyepiece of effective focal length 3 cm the focal length of eye lens, in cm, is :
1.5
8/3
3
In a compensated pendulum two rods of different metals are used with their lengths in ratio of 2 : 3. The coefficients of linear expansions for metals in the ratio is :
1 : 1
3 : 2
9 : 4
The frequency of a stretched uniform wire under tension is in resonance with the fundamental frequency of a closed tube.If the tension in the wire is increased by 8N, it is in resonance with first overtone of the closed tube.The initial tension in the wire is
16N
8N
4N
1N
The natural frequency of an I.-C circuit is 1,25,000 cycle/s. Then the capacitor C is replaced by another capacitor with a dielectric medium of dielectric constant K. In this case, the frequency decreases by 25 kHz. The value of K is
3.0
2.1
1.56
1.7
When an air bubble of radius r rises from the bottom to the surface of a lake. Its radius becomes 5r/4 (the pressure of the atmosphere is equal to the 10 m height to water column). If the temperature is constant and the surface tension is neglected the depth of the lake is
5.53 m
6.53 m
9.53 m
12.53 m
A steel wire can withstand a load up to 2940 N, A load of 150 kg, is suspended from a rigid support. The maximum angle through which the wire can be displaced from the mean position, so that the wire does not break when the load passes through the position of equilibrium, is
30o
60o
80o
85o
A motor car approaching a cliff with velocity of 90Kmph soundsthe horn and the echo is heard after 20 seconds.Assuming the velocity of sound in air to be 332m/s,the distance between the car and cliff when the horn is sounded is
3570m
3580m
3590m
3560m
A body of mass 5 kg makes an elastic collision with another body at rest and continues to move in the original direction after collision with a velocity equal to 1/10th of its original velocity. Then the mass of the second body is
4.09 kg
0.5 kg
5 kg
5.09 kg
A car of mass 400 kg and travelling at 72 kmph crashes into a truck of mass 4000 kg and travelling at 9 kmph, in the same direction. The car/bounces back at a speed of 18 kmph.The speed of truck after the impact is
9 kmph
18 kmph
27 kmph
36 kmph
A potentiometer having a 4m long wire is connected to the terminals of a battery of constant output voltage. A Leclanche cell has a balancing length of 1m. If the length of the potentiometer wire is increased by 1m, then the position of the null point is
1.5m
1.25m
10.05m
1.31m
The capacity of a parallel plate condenser consisting of two plates each 10 cm square and are separated by a distance of 2mm is (Take air as the medium between the plate):
88.5 x 10-13 F
44.42 x 10-12 F
4.42 x 10-11 F
8.85 x 10-13 F
The ratio of effective focal length of Huygens eye piece and the object distance of its field lens is
3:1
2:3
1:1
Along the x-axis, three charges q/2 , -q and q/2 are placed at x = 0, x = a and x = 2a respectively. The resultant electric potential at a point P located at a distance r from the charge -q ( a << r ) is ( εo is the permittivity of free space )
qα / 4πεor2
qα2 / 4πεor3
q(α2/4) / 4πεor3
q / 4πεor
A gun is aimed at a target in line with its barrel. The target is released and allowed to fall under gravity, at the instant, the gun is fired. The bullet will :
pass above the target
pass below the target
hit the target
certainly hit the target
A bar magnet of magnetic moment M and moment of inertia I is freely suspended such that the magnetic axial line is in the direction of magnetic meridian. If the magnet is displaced by a very small angle (θ), the angular acceleration is (Magnetic induction of earth's horizontal field = BH)
MBH θ / I
IBH θ /M
M θ / IBH
I θ /MBH
Two soap bubbles combine to form a single bubble. In this process, the change in volume and surface area are respectively V and A. If P is the atmospheric pressure, and T is the surface tension of the soap solution, the following relation is true .
4PV - 3TA = 0
3PV - 4TA = 0
3PV + 4TA = 0
A first order reaction has commenced with 0.2M solution of the reactants. If the molarity of the solution falls to 0.02M after 100 minutes the rate constant of the reaction is
2×10-2min-1
2.3×10-2min-1
4.6×10-2min-1
2.3×10-1 min-1
The magnetic induction at a point, distance x from the centre, on the axis of a circular current carrying coil is inversely proportional to (if x > > radius of coil) :
x
x2
x3
x3/2
A bomb is dropped from an aircraft travelling horizontally at 150m/s at a height of 490m. The horizontal distance travelled by the bomb before it hits the ground is (in metre):
1000
1200
1500
1800
A stone is projected vertically up to reach maximum height h, The ratio of its kinetic energy to its potential energy, at a height (4/5) h, will be :
5 : 4
4 : 5
1 : 4
4 : 1
A bullet of mass 10 g is fired horizontally with a velocity 1000ms-1 from a rifle situated at a height 50 m above the ground. If the bullet reaches the ground with a velocity 500ms-1, the work done against air resistance in the trajectory of the bullet is : (g=10ms-2)
5005J
3755J
3750J
17.5J
A wheel has a speed of 1200 revolution per minute and is made to slow down at a rate of 4 radian/sec2. The number of revolutions it makes before coming to rest is :
143
272
314
722
A train is approaching with a uniform velocity of 72kmph and the frequency of the whistle of that train is 480 Hz.The apparent increase in the frequency of that whistle heard by a stationary observer on the platform is(Velocity of sound in air is 340ms-1)
60Hz
45Hz
30Hz
15Hz
The maximum tension a rope can withstand is 60 kg wt The ratio of maximum acceleration with which two boys of masses 20 kg and 30 kg can climb up the rope at the same time is
1:2
A quantity of heat Q is supplied to a mono atomic ideal gas which expands at constant pressure. The fraction of heat that goes into work done by the gas is :
2/5
3/5
2/3
An electron beam travels with a velocity of 1.6 x 107 ms-1 perpendicularly to magnetic field of intensity 0.1 T. The radius of the path of the electron beam (me = 9 x 10-31 kg)
9 x 10-5 m
9 x 10-2 m
9 x 10-4 m
9 x 10-3 m
A proton, a deuteron (nucleus of 1H2) and an α-particle with same kinetic energy enter a region of uniform magnetic field moving at right angles to the field. The ratio of the radii of their circular paths is :
1 : 2 : 4
1 : √2 : 1
2 : √2 : 1
1 : 1 : 2
Two long straight conductors are held parallel to each other at a distance 0.3 m. If the conductors carry currents 2A and 8A in opposite directions, the distance of the neutral point from the conductor carrying smaller current is:
0.06 m
0.24 m
0.18 m
0.1 m
The magnetic induction and the intensity of magnetic field inside an iron core of an electromagnet are 1 Wb m-2 and 150 Am-1 respectively. The relative permeability of iron is :(μ0=4π x 10-7 henry/m)
106/4π
106/6π
105/4π
103/6π
Frequency of tuning fork A is 250 Hz. It produces 4 beats/sec with another tuning fork B. When A is filed, the beat frequency is 6 beats/sec. The frequency of B is
246 Hz
254 Hz
264 Hz
The rear side of truck is open and box of mass 50kg is placed at 3.2m away from the open end.The coefficient of friction between the box and the surface is 0.2. if the truck starts from rest and moves on a straight road with acceleration 2.1ms-2 the box falls off the truck after a time (g=10ms-2)
(8/√41)s
8s
√8s
A body is thrown horizontally from the top of a tower of 5 m height. It touches the ground at a distance of 10m from the foot of the tower. The initial velocity of the body is: (g = 10ms-2)
2.5 ms-1
5 ms-1
10 ms-1
20 ms-1
In Potentiometer experiment,the balancing length with a cell in the secondary circuit is found to be 480cm.when a resistor of 8 ohm is connected in parallel to the cell the balancing length is found to be 420cm.The internal resistance of the cell is
1.14Ω
2Ω
4.12Ω
56Ω
A source of sound is approaching a stationary observer with a velocity 1/10th of the velocity of sound in air so that apparent decrease in the wavelength of sound waves is 10cm.If the observer is approaching the same source of sound at rest with a velocity 1/5th of velocity of sound in air,the apparent increase in the frequency of sound is(velocity of sound in air=340m/s)
34Hz
51Hz
68Hz
85Hz
To obtain p-type extrinsic semi- conductor, the impurity element to be added to Germanium should be of valency :
5
An electric current passes through a long straight wire. At a distance 5cm from the wire, the magnetic field is B. The field at 20cm from the wire would be:
2B
B/4
B/2
B
A bar magnet of 10 cm long is kept with its north (N)-pole pointing North. A neutral point is formed at a distance of 15 cm from each pole. Given the horizontal component of earth's field is 0.4 Gauss, the pole strength of the magnet is
9 amp-m
6.75 amp-m
27 amp-m
13.5 amp-m
A bucket filled with water is tied to a rope of length 0.5 m and is rotated in a circular path in vertical plane. The least velocity it should have at the lowest point of circle so that water doesnot spill is, (g = 10 ms-2 )
√5 m/s
√10 m/s
5 m/s
2√5 m/s
A given mass of a gas is compressed isothermally until its pressure is doubled. It is then allowed to expand adiabatically until its original volume is restored and its pressure is then found to be 0.75 of its initial pressure.The ratio of the specific heats of the gas is approximately
1.20
1.41
1.67
1.83
A coil has an inductance of 0.05H and 100 turns and 0.02A current is passed through it.Flux linked with coil is
10-5Wb
10-4Wb
10-3Wb
10-2Wb
A bar-magnet of moment of inertia 49 x 10-2 kg-m2 vibrates in a magnetic field of induction 0.5 x10-4 T. The time period of vibration is 8.8 s. The magnetic moment of the bar magnet is
350 A-m2
490 A-m2
3300 A-m2
5000 A-m2
The photoelectric work function of a metal surface is 2eV.When light of frequency 1.5x1015Hz is incident on it,the maximum kinetic energy of the photo electrons approximately is
8eV
6 eV
2 eV
4eV