This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to physics concepts such as electricity, magnetism, capacitors, and inductors. The questions cover topics like calculating electric potential, electric field strength between charged plates, electric flux through a cube, using galvanometers and shunts, capacitors in series and parallel, cyclotrons, magnetic fields, inductance, LCR circuits, mutual inductance of solenoids, generators, heating due to resistance in an RLC circuit, and power in an RLC circuit with a capacitor.
This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to physics concepts such as electricity, magnetism, capacitors, and inductors. The questions cover topics like calculating electric potential, electric field strength between charged plates, electric flux through a cube, using galvanometers and shunts, capacitors in series and parallel, cyclotrons, magnetic fields, inductance, LCR circuits, mutual inductance of solenoids, generators, heating due to resistance in an RLC circuit, and power in an RLC circuit with a capacitor.
This document contains 20 multiple choice questions related to physics concepts such as electricity, magnetism, capacitors, and inductors. The questions cover topics like calculating electric potential, electric field strength between charged plates, electric flux through a cube, using galvanometers and shunts, capacitors in series and parallel, cyclotrons, magnetic fields, inductance, LCR circuits, mutual inductance of solenoids, generators, heating due to resistance in an RLC circuit, and power in an RLC circuit with a capacitor.
1. A spherical drop of mercury having an electrical potential of 2.
5V is obtained as a result of merging 125 identical
spherical droplets. The electric potential of each of the original small droplets is a) 0.1 V b) 0.2V c) 0.4V d) 0.5V 2. Two large parallel conducting plates are 10 cm apart and carry equal but opposite charges on their facing difference (in volts) between the plates? a) 10V b) 30V c) 20V d) 40V 2 3. A 0.5 𝜇𝐶 point charge is placed at the center of the cube. The electric flux is N-m /C through one side of the cube is approximately a) 0 b) 7.1 X 104 c) 9.4 X 104 d) 1.4 X 105 4. A galvanometer of resistance 100Ω contains 100 divisions. It gives a deflection of one division on passing a current of 10-4 A. find the resistance is ohms to be connected to it. So that it becomes a voltmeter of range 10V. a) 500/9Ω b)500 Ω c) 100/9 Ω d) 900 Ω 5. The deflection in a galvanometer falls from 50 divisions to 20 divisions after a 12Ω shunt is connected keeping current constant. What is the galvanometer resistance? a) 18Ω b)60/90 Ω c) 36/5 Ω d) 24/5 Ω 6. A galvanometer shows a reading of 0.65 mA. When a galvanometer is shunted with a 4 Ω resistance the deflection is reduced to 0.13 mA . if the galvanometer is further shunted with a 2Ω wire the new reading will be (the main current remains the same) a) 0.60 mA b) 0.08 mA c) 0.12 mA d) 0.05 mA 7. A capacitor stores 50𝜇𝐶 charge when connected across a battery. When the agp between the plates si filled with a dielectric a charge of 100𝜇𝐶 flows through the battery the dielectric constant of the material is a) 2.5 b) 2 c) 4 d) 3 8. A capacitor of capacitance of 2 𝜇𝐹 is charged to a potential difference of 200V after disconnecting the battery , it is connected in parallel with another uncharged capacitor . The final common potential is 20 V, the capacitance of second capacitor is a) 2 𝜇𝐹 b) 4 𝜇𝐹 c) 18 𝜇𝐹 d) 16 𝜇𝐹 9. A capacitor of 10 𝜇𝐹 is connected to source of 50V and then disconnected. When the space between the plates is filled with Teflon of dielectric constant 2.5 the new potential difference is a) 20V b) 20.8V c) 23.8V d) 25V 10. A cyclotron is accelerating proton where the applied magnetic field is 2T and the potential gap is 100keV To acquire a K.E of 20MeV the number of turns the proton has to move between the does is a) 200 b) 300 c) 150 d) 100 6 11. A proton is moving at 4 X 10 m/s trough a magnetic field of 0.2 T experience a magnetic force of magnitude 8 X 10-13 N. What is the radius of the helical path (in cm) followed by the proton? (Take mass of the proton as 1.6 X 10-27 Kg) a) 140 cm b) 125 cm c) 145 cm d) 185 cm 12. The magnetic field B is due to a current carrying circular loop of radius 12 cm at its center is 0.5 X 10-4 T. the magnetic field due to this loop at a point on the axis at a distance of 5 cm from the center. a) 3.9 X 10-5 T b) 5.2 X 10-5 T c) 2.1 X 10-5 T d) 9 X 10-5 T 13. A specimen of iron of permeability 8 X 10-3 wb/A/m is placed in a magnetic field of strength 160 A/m then magnetic induction in this iron is a) 20 X 103 wb/m2 b)5 X 10-5 wb/m2 c) 1.28 wb/m2 d)0.8 wb/m2 14. When a coil is connected to 100V battery current through coil is 2A. when same coil connected to 100V, 50Hz AC source current through coil is 1A. Calculate resistance and induction of this coil. a) 0.27 H b) 0.98 H c) 0.37H d) 0.47 H 15. A LCR series circuit with 100Ω resistance is connected to an AC source 200V and angular frequency lags behind the voltage by 60o. When only the inductance is removed the current leads the voltage by 600. Calculate the current and the power dissipated in the LCR circuit. a) 500W b) 900W c) 600W d) 400W 16. Two coaxial solenoids are made by winding thin insulated wire over a pipe of cross sectional area A=10 cm2 and the length l=20 cm . If one of the solenoids has 300 turns and other has 400 turns , their mutual inductance is (𝜇0 =4𝜋 X10-7 T m A-1) a) 2.4𝜋 X 10-5 H b) 4.8𝜋 X 10-4 H c) 4.8𝜋 X 10-5 H d) 2.4𝜋 X 10-5 H 17. A portable generator turning at 350 rad/s produced an EMF of 120V rms if an additional 500W light bulb is added to the circuit, what is the additional torque is required to keep the generator spinning at 350rad/s? a) 0.70 Nm b) 1.4 Nm c) 2.9 Nm d) 84 Nm 18. A 750 Hz 20V source is connected to resistance of 100Ω an inductance of 0.1803 H and a capacitance of 10𝜇𝐹 all in series the time in which the resistance(thermal capacity=2J/oC) will get heated by 10oC 19. A solenoid has 200 turns wound over a length of 0.30m. Its area of cross sectional is 1.2 X 10-3 m2 . Around its central section a coil of 300 turns in wound. If an initial current of 2A in the solenoids is reverted in 0.26 sec the emf induced in the coil is equal to a) 6 X 10-4 V b) 4.8 X 102 V c) 6 X 10-2 V d) 48 kV 20. A coil of inductance L=0.2H and of resistance R=6.28 Ω is connected to the mains alternating voltage of frequency 50 Hz. What can be the capacitance of the capacitor connected in series with the coil if the useful power has to remain unchanged? a) 10𝜇𝐹 b) 50 𝜇𝐹 c) 25 𝜇𝐹 d) 100 𝜇𝐹