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ACADEMIC YEAR 2015 16

TERMINAL EXAMINATION - II
Subject : PHYSICS
Grade
: XI

Marks : 70
Time : 3 hrs
Date :

21.03.2016

General Instructions :
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All the questions are compulsory.

There are 26 questions in total.
Questions 1 to 5 are very short answer type questions and carry one mark each.
Questions 6 to 10 carry two marks each.
Questions 11 to 22 carry three marks each.
Questions 23 is value based question carrying four marks.
Questions 24 to 26 carry five marks each.
Use of calculators is not permitted. However, you may use log tables if necessary.

SECTION - A
1.

Write down the dimensions of Viscosity coefficient.

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ur
A i 2 j 3k and B 2i j
2.

Prove that

are perpendicular to each other.

3.

What is Elastic fatigue?

4.

State Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics.

5.

A physical quantity P is related to four variables a, b, c and d as follows ;

d
2 3

P = ab / c
the percentage errors in a, b, c and d are 2%, 4%, 3% and 2%
respectively. What is the % error in P?

SECTION - B
6.

Draw the position time graph for following cases when :

(i) object is moving with positive acceleration
(ii) An object in under free fall.

7.

In a refrigerator, heat from inside at 277K is transferred to a room at 300K. How many
joules of heat shall be delivered to the room for each joule of electrical energy consumed
ideally?
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8.

Discuss the variation of acceleration due to gravity with altitude. How does the
expression modify when h << R?

9.

A projectile is fired in air making an angle with horizontal. Show that its path is
parabolic in nature.

10.

It is easier to pull a lawn roller than to push it. Explain using the resolution of forces.

SECTION C
11.

Explain why should the beams used in the construction of bridges have large depth and
small breadth.

12.

Derive equations of motion by Calculus method.

13.

Derive an expression for the potential energy of an elastic stretched spring.

14.

A liquid drop of diameter D breaks up into 27 tiny drops. Find the resulting change in
energy. Take surface tension of the liquid as T.

15.

Four sphere of diameter 2a and mass M each are placed with their centre on the four
corners of a square of side b. Calculate the moment of inertia of the system about one
side of the square taken as its axis.

16.

What is meant by coefficient of linear expansion and coefficient of cubical expansion?

Derive relationship between them.

17.

A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20m/s from the top of a building, the
height of point from where the ball is thrown is 25m from the ground.
(i) How high the ball will rise?
(ii) How long will it be before the ball hits the ground?

18.

State the laws of limiting friction. The coefficient of static friction between block A and the
table is 0.2. What would be the maximum mass of block B so that the two blocks do not
move. The string and the pulley are assumed to be smooth and massless. [g = 10m/s2]

19.

Show that in head on collision between two balls of equal masses moving along a
straight line, the balls simply exchange their velocities.

20.

Derive an expression for moment of inertia of a thin circular ring about an axis passing
through the centre and perpendicular to the plane of the ring.

21.

State Stokes law for the viscous drag experienced by the spherical body falling through
a viscous liquid. Why does a spherical body attain terminal speed. On what factors does
the terminal speed depend.

22.

The stress-strain graph for a metal wire is shown in figure. Up to the point E, the wire
returns to its original state O along the curve EPO when it is gradually unloaded. Point B
corresponds to the fracture of the wire.

(a) Up to which point on the curve is Hookes law obeyed? This point is sometimes
called proportionality limit
(b) Which point on the curve corresponds to elastic limit and yield point of the wire?
(c) Describe what happens when the wire is loaded upto a stress corresponding to the
point A on the graph, and then unloaded gradually. In particular, explain the dotted
curve.

SECTION - D
23.
Sonia and Mahima are good friends and living in a city near the equator.
Sonia went to a
country located near the north pole of the earth with her parents. Her friend
Mahima requested her to bring a gold necklace as gold was cheaper in that
country. Sonia purchased the necklace weighting 20 gm wt. and handed it
over to Mahima. When Mahima got necklace weighted from the local gold
Smith, its weight was less than 20 gm weight Mahima told Sonia that she was
cheating her. However, Sonia explained that weight of a body at equator is
less that at poles. Sonia asked Mahima to return the necklace to her because
she was not interested to spoil her friendship with Mahima.
(i)
Why the weight of necklace is less at equator than at poles?
(ii)
Comment on the attitude of Mahima.
(iii)
What values are shown by Sonia?

SECTION - E
24.

Derive an expression for the rise of liquid in a capillary tube and show that
the height of liquid column supported is inversely proportional to the
curvature of the tube.
OR

Water stands at depth H in a tank whose side walls are

vertical. A hole is made on one of the walls at a depth
h below the water surface.
(i) Calculate the velocity of efflux?
(ii) At what distance R from the foot of the wall does the
emerging stream of the water strike the floor?
(iii) For what value of h this range is maximum?

25.
What is an isothermal process? State two essential conditions for such a
process to take
place. Show analytically that work done by one mole of an ideal gas during

V2
V1
volume expansion from V1 to V2 at temperature T is given by W = RT loge
OR

(i) State first law of thermodynamics?

(ii) Define molar specific heat at constant volume and at constant pressure.
Derive
the
relation between them.
26.

Derive expression for maximum safe velocity with which a vehicle can travel
on banked road. Derive minimum angle of banking to travel without wear and
tear?
OR
A bob of mass m is suspended by a light string of length L. It is imparted a horizontal
velocity vo at the lowest point A such that it complete a semicircular trajectory in the
vertical plane with the string becoming slack only on reaching the top most point C.
Obtain an expression for

(i) vo
(ii) speed at point B & C
(iii) Ratio of KE (KB / KC) at B & C

All the Best