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Physics Sample Paper
Physics Sample Paper
Physics Sample Paper
PHYSICS
CLASS XII
S.No
Type of Question
1.
2.
3.
4.
No. of Questions
Total Marks
03
09
10
08
30
15
27
20
08
70
Maximum Marks: 70
General Instructions
a) All the questions are compulsory.
b) There are 26 questions in total.
c) Questions 1 to 8 are very short answer type questions and carry one mark each.
d) Questions 9 to 18 carry two marks each.
e) Questions 19 to 27 carry three marks each.
f) Questions 28 to 30 carry five marks each.
g) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been provided in one question
of two marks, one question of three marks and all three questions in five marks each. You
have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
h) Use of calculators is not permitted. However, you may use log tables if necessary.
i)
1. Why sky waves are not used in the transmission of television signals?
2. Give an example of decay.
3. Why does a metallic piece become very hot when it is surrounded by a coil carrying high
frequency alternating current?
4. What is the basic use of capacitor?
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26. Two circular coils X and Y having radii R and R/2 respectively are placed in horizontal plane
with their centres coinciding with each other. Coil X has a current I flowing through it in the
clockwise sense. What must be the current in coil Y to make the total magnetic field at the
common centre of the two coils, zero? With the same currents flowing in the two coils, if the
coil Y is now lifted vertically upwards through a distance R, what would be the net magnetic
field at the centre of coil Y?
27. (a) Deduce an expression for the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor when a conducting
slab is inserted between the plates. Assume that the slab thickness to be less than the plate
separation.
(b) A capacitor of 20 F and charged to 500 V is connected in parallel to another capacitor of
10 F charged to 200 V. Find the common potential.
28. Calculate the value of current I1, I2 and I3 in the circuit given below using Kirchhoffs law.
Or
Answer the following:
a) A virtual image, we always say cannot be caught on a screen. Yet, when we see a
virtual image we are obviously, bringing it on the screen of our eye. Is there a
contradiction?
b) Why must both objective and eye piece of a compound microscope have short focal
lens?
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c) When viewing through a compound microscope, our eye should be positioned not on
the eye piece but a short distance away from it for best viewing. Why?
29. State the principle which helps us to determine the shape of the wavefront at a later time from
its given shape at any time. Apply this principle to
(i) Show that a spherical/ plane wave front continues to propagate forward as a spherical/plane
wave front.
(ii) Derive Snells law of refraction by drawing the refracted wave front corresponding to a plane
wave front incident on the boundary separating a rarer medium from a denser medium.
30. If a Person has to study the input and output characteristics of a n-p-n silicon transistor in the
Common Emitter configuration. What kind of a circuit arrangement should he/she must use
for this purpose?
Draw the typical shape of input characteristics likely to be obtained by him/her. Also Explain
What do we understand by the cut off, active and saturation states of the transistor? and In which
of these states does the transistor not remain when being used as a switch?
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