SUMMER VACATION

HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK
CLASS – XII

ENGLISH

POSTER MAKING
1 Tourism Department, Government of Uttaranchal has launched an ambitious plan to
develop adventure sports and eco- tourism activities in the state. Prepare a suitable
poster for display at important public places /publication in newspapers.
2 You are Simar / Smriti of Lotus International School, Jodhpur. Your school is organizing
a workshop on “Prevention of Drug Abuse‟ in the coming week. Prepare a poster with
complete information for the students of class X-XII.

NOTICE WRITING
1 You are Sports Secretary of Lalwani Public School, Udaipur. Draft a notice in not more
than 50 words for your school notice board asking the students to give their names for
participation in various events to be held on the Annual Sports Day of your school.
Invent the details of the events. Sign as Lalit/Lalita.
2 You are Anoop/Arya, the cultural secretary of your school. As part of the national
heritage programme , the school has decided to put up a show on ancient art forms.
Write a notice to be put up on the school notice board inviting students to watch the
show and encourage the artists. Write the notice in not more than 50 words.
3 Every year in the central part of the city a flower show is held in the month of February.
Your school has received a circular from the District Collector inviting your students to
visit it. Write a notice in about 50 words informing the students about the show and
advising them to go and enjoy it. You are Navtej/Navita, Head Boy/Head Girl, Sunrise
Public School, Surat.

LETTER WRITING
1 You are the member of a youth club. Recently your club has purchased some furniture
from Nawab Furniture Depot, Kanpur. But after a week you have noticed some defects
in the furniture. Write a letter to the Manager of Nawab Furniture asking him to replace
it. You are Akbar /Amina
2 You have placed an order for a few books with City Central Book Shop, No. 10,
Paharganj, Delhi. You have not received the books so far. Write a letter to the bookshop
complaining about the non-compliance of your order.
3 Write a letter to the Manager, Oberoi International, Lucknow, to find out the rates for
conducting the wedding reception of your sister on their lawns, enquiring specifically
about the catering cost per head, service and decoration charges and advance to be
paid. You are Nandu/Nandini of Agra.
4 You are Rohit/Yasmin, a resident of 10, Civil Lines, Saharanpur. During your school
life, you participated in various curricular and co-curricular activities with meritorious
performance. Write a letter to the Principal of your school, requesting him to issue you a
testimonial including the details of your performance.

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 LITERATURE
Answer the following in 30-40 words.
1 What was the trouble with the people of Alsace according to M .Hamel? Now what, he
thought, would give the Germans to mock at them?
2 The people in the story the last lesson suddenly realize how precious their language is
to them. What shows you this? Why does this happen?
3 Describe the world inside the car and compare it to the activities taking place outside?
4 Why does the poet smile and what does she say while bidding good bye to her mother?
5 How did Charley ascertain that he had reached the 1894 world?
6 How did the Tiger King become the victim of the hundredth tiger?
Answer the following in 120- 150 words.
1 Do you think Charley was really a worried man as his psychiatrist friend and others
believed?
2 What did the French teacher tell his students in his last French lesson? What impact did
it have on them? Why?
3 Describe the efforts made by the Tiger King to achieve his target of killing a hundred
tigers.

PHYSICS

1. Derive the expression for an short dipole electric dipole prove that Eax = 2Eeq
2. Derive the expression for Torque and electric potential energy when dipole placed in
U.E.F.
3. State Gauss Theorem. Derive the expression.
(i) Electric field intensity due to line change (ii) Electric field intensity due to thin sheet (iii)
Electric field intensity due to spherical shell inside and outside
4 Define electric potential. Derive the expression for electric potential
(i) Due to point change (ii) Due to short dipole at any point
5. Draw equipotential surface for (i) +ve charge (ii) A dipole (iii) U.E.F
6. Define capacitance. Explain the principle of capacitance.
7. Derive the expression for parallel plate capacitance (i) When conducting slab introduced
in it. (ii) When dielectric slab introduced in it.
8. Derive the expression for total energy stored in parallel plate capacitor also define
energy density.
9. Define the term electric dipole moment. It is a scalar or vector? Deduce an expression
for the electric field at a point on the equatorial plane of electric dipole of length 2a
10 Name the physical quantities for which the following units are used
(i) N/C (ii) V/m (iii) C-m (iv) J/C. (v) Vm (vi) C/m
11. Draw three equipotential surfaces corresponding to a field that uniformly increases in
magnitude but remains constant along Z-direction. How are these surfaces different
from that of a constant electric field along Z-direction?
12. A spherical conducting shell of inner radius R1 and outer radius R2 has a charge Q. A
charge q is placed at the centre of the shell. (i) What is the surface charge density on
the (a) inner surface, (b) outer surface of the shell? (ii) Write the expression for the
electric field at a point to x > R2 from the centre of the shell.

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13. show that when a charged particle move in perpendicular U.E.F follow a parabolic
charge ?
14. The electric field components EX= due to a charge inside the cube of side 0.1 m
are shown below Where, = 500 N/C-m. Ey = 0, Ez = 0 Calculate (a) the flux through
the cube and (b) the charge inside the cube.(3)

15. Show that electric potential may be expressed as the negative of potential gradient
16 . (a) Determine the electrostatic potential energy of a system consisting of two charges
7μC and -2 μC (and with no external field ) placed at (-9cm,0,0) and (9cm,0,0)
respectively. (b) How much work is required to seprate the two charges infinitely away
from each other ? (c) suppose the same system of charges is now placed in an external
electric field E=A x 1/r2 where A=1.6 × 105Cm-2
17. Three point charges +q,+2q and -3q are placed at the vertices of an equitlateral
triangleABC of side L . if these charges are displaced to the mid points A1,B1 and C1
respectively, calculate the amout of work done in shifting the charges to new location
18. Show that the equipotential surfaces are closed together in the regions of strong field
and far apart in the regions of weak field. Draw equipotential surfaces for an electric
dipole.
19. Three concentric shells having radius a,b & c and surface charge density +σ , - σ and σ
. find out the potential at the surface a, b & c
20. DO NCERT PROBLEM OF CHAPTER - 1 AND 2

CHEMISTRY
THE SOLID STATE
1. What type of stoichiometric defects are shown by AgBr and AgI?
2. What type of defect can arise when a solid is heated?
3. Why does LiCl acquire pink colour when heated?
4. Which type of ionic substances show schottky defect in solids?
5. On heating a crystal of KCl in potassium vapour,the crystal starts exhibitting a violet
colour.What is this due to?
6. What type of substances would you make better permanent magnets:- Ferromagnetic
or Ferrimagnetic?
7. How the conductivity of an intrinsic semiconductor be increased?
8. Which point defect in its crystal unit alters the density of a solid?
9. What type of substances exhibits anti-ferromagnetism?
10. What type of alignment in crystal makes them ferromagnetic?
11. (a) What type of magnetism is shown in the following alignment of magnetic moments:-
Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic.
(b) What type of point defects are produced when AgCl is doped with CdCl2 ?

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12. An element occurs in BCC structure.It has a cell edge length of 250pm.Calculate the
molar mass if \ its density is 8.0g/cm3 .Also calculate the radius of an atom of this
element.
13. Copper crystallises with face-centred simple unit cell.If the radius of Cu atom is
129.8pm.Calculate the density of Cu metal. (Atomic mass of Cu=63.55u and
avogadro’s number,NA=6.022*10 mol ).
14. A solid is made up of two elements P and Q. Atoms of Q are in ccp arrangement while
atoms of P occupy all the tetrahedral sites. What is the formula of the compound?
15. In an ionic compound the anion (N-- ) form cubic close type of packing, while the cation
(M+ ) ions occupy 1/3 of the tetrahedral sites voids. Write the formula.
16. In a cubic close packed structure of a mixed oxide one eight of the tetrahedral void are
occupy by divalent ions X2+ while one half of the octahedral void are occupied by
trivalent ions Y3+ . What is the formula?
SOLUTION
1. Heptanes and octane form an ideal solution at 373k the vapour pressure of the pure
liquid at this temperature are 105.2kPa and 46.8kPa respectively. if the solution
contains 25g of heptanes and 28.5g of octane then calculate:
(i) Vapour pressure exerted by heptanes
(ii)Vapour pressure exerted by solution’
(iii)Mole fraction of octane in the vapour phase.
2. Ethylene glycol is a common automobile antifreeze . calculate freezing point of solution
containing 12.4g of this substance in 100g of water . would it be advisable to keep this
substance in the car radiator during the summer? ( Kf = 1.86, Kb = 0.512K kg/mol)
3. 100 mg of a protein is dissolved in just enough water to make 10 ml of solution. If this
solution has an osmotic pressure of 13.3 mm Hg at 25 o C what is the molar mass of the
protein?
4. Calculate the freezing point of depression expected for the 0.0711m aqueous solution
of sodium sulphate. if this solution actually freezes at -0.320oC what would be the value
of van’t Hoff factor?
5. Find the value of molarity and molality of the 15 % solution of sulphuric acid ?(d= 1.02g
per cm3)
6. The vapour pressure of the pure benzene at a certain temp. is 0.850 bar. A non volatile,
non electrolyte solid weighing 0.5g when added to 39g of benzene .Then the vapour
pressure of the solution is 0.845 bar. What is the molar mass of the solid substance ?
7. 18 g of glucose C6H12O6 is dissolved in the 1kg of water in a saucepan . at what
temperature will the water boil at 1.013 bar ?(Kb = .52)
8. The boiling point of benzene is 353.23. when 1.80g of non volatile solute was
dissolvedin 90g of benzene the boiling point is raised to 354.11k . calculate the molar
mass of the solute?( Kb = 2.53K kg mol-- )
9. 45g of ethylene glycol is mixed with 600g of water .calculate (a) the freezing point
depression and (b) the freezing point of the solution ?
10. 1g of a non electrolyte solute dissolved in 50g of benzene lowered the freezing point of
benzene by 0.40k. The freezing point depression constant of benzene is 5.12k kg/mole.
Find the molar mass of the solute.
11. A decimolar solution of potassium ferrocyanide is 50% dissociated at 300k . calculate
the osmotic pressure of the solution.

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12. What weight of the non volatile urea needs to be dissolved in 100g of water in order to
decrease the vapour pressure of the water by 25%? What will be molality of the
solution?
13. If nitrogen is bubbled through water at 293k how many millimoles of nitrogen gas would
dissolved in 1L of water? Assume that nitrogen exerts a partial pressure of 0.987 bar .
given that henry law constant for nitrogen at 293k is 76.48 k bar.
14. 0.5g KCl was dissolved in 100 g water and the solution originally at 20 oc froze at -
0.24oC calculate the percentage ionization of salt . Kf is 1.86k
15. Benzoic acid completely dimerises in benzene . what will be the vapour pressure of
solution containing 61g of benzoic acid per 500g benzene when the vapour pressure of
pure benzene at this temperature of experiment is 66.6torr?

MATHEMATICS
Relation and Functions
Ex. 1.1 page 5 : Q 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, eg. 12 (page 9)
Ex. 1.2 page 10,11: Q 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, eg. 25 (page 15)
Ex. 1.3 page 18: Q 2, 7, 8, 9, 13
Ex. 1.4 page 24: Q 6, 8, 11
Mis. Ex. Page 29: Q1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 13, 14
Inverse Trigonometric functions
Ex. 2.1 page 41, 42 : Q 3, 8, 11, 12, 14
Ex. 2.2 page 47, 48: Q 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 19, 21, eg. 11(P 50)
Mis. Ex. Page 51: eg. 13, Q 7, ,8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17
Matrices
Ex. 3.2 page 80,81: Q 7(II), 13, 18, 19, 21
Ex. 3.3 page 89: Q10(III), 11, 12, eg. 24 (P94)
Ex. 3.4 page 97: Q15, 17
Mis. Ex. Page 100: Q1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15
Determinants
Page 117, 118: eg 15, eg 16
Ex. 4.2 page 120-121: Q5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14
Ex 4.3 page 123: Q2, 4(II), 5
Ex 4.5 page 132: Q15, 17, 18
Ex 4.6 page 136: Q4, 11, 15, 16
Mis. Ex page 137: eg. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, Pg. 141-143, Q4, 6,7,12,13,14,15,16,17,19

BIOLOGY
ATTEMPT ALL THE QUESTIONS OF NCERT EXAMPLAR OF CHAPTERS 1,2, 8 AND 10 IN
A SEPARATE NOTEBOOK

INFORMATICS PRACTICES

1: Consider the given table : PRODUCT : and answer the following :

Product Product Name Price Quantity Total DOP

code amount
101 Biscuit 40 50 19-07-2009

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 102 Pulses 80 60 22-03-2008
103 Jam 120 90 08-03-2007
104 Cake 40 78 06-12-2008
105 Bread 30 67 03-01-2010
106 Butter 60 88 05-06-2008
107 Namkeen 90 345 05-03-2008
1. Display total amount of all products.
2. Check which Item has highest price.
3. Find the average price of all the items.
4. Display name of those items which are purchased after 2008.
5. Display first two character of product names.
6. Join productcode along with first two characters of product names.
2: Answer the following:
a) What is the purpose of Group by clause in Mysql? How is it different from order by
clause?
b) Table hospital has 4 rows and five columns what is the degree and cardinality of the
table?
c) What is the purpose of alter table command? How it is different from Update
command?
d) Differentiate between Alternate key and candidate key.
e) Define :
 Keyword
 Query
 Function
 DML
f) What is a constraint? Name two constraint used in MySQL.
g) What is foreign key? How will you define foreign key in your table?
h) What is data type? Name some data types available in MySQL.
i) How will you display system date as the result of a query?
j) Differentiate between Sysdate and Now function.
3: Write the usage of these functions with Syntax and Example:
 Date
 Month
 DayofWeek
 Round
 Truncate
 Sign
 Right
 Mid
 Length
 Ltrim

4: Consider the Table: Loan_Accounts and answer the queries from 1 to 20

AccNo Cust_Name Loan_Amount Instalments Int_Rate Start_Date

1 R.K. Gupta 300000 36 36 19-07-2009
2 S.P. Sharma 500000 48 48 22-03-2008
3 K.P. Jain 300000 36 36 08-03-2007
4 M.P. Yadav 800000 60 60 06-12-2008
5 S.P. Sinha 200000 36 36 03-01-2010
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 6 P. Sharma 700000 60 60 05-06-2008
7 K.S. Dhall 500000 48 48 05-03-2008

1. Display the details of all the loans with less than 40 instalments.
2. Display the AccNo and Loan_Amount of all the loans started before 01-04-2009.
3. Display the Int_Rate of all the loans started after 01-04-2009.
4. Display the details of all the loans whose rate of interest is NULL.
5. Display the details of all the loans whose rate of interest is not NULL.
6. Display the amounts of various loans from the table Loan_Accounts. A loan amount should
appear only once.
7. Display the number of instalments of various loans from the table Loan_Accounts. An
instalment should appear only once..
8. Display the details of all the loans started after 31-12-2008 for which the number of
installments are more than 36
9. Display the Cust_Name and Loan_Amount for all the loans which do not have number of
instalments 36.
10. Display the Cust_Name and Loan_Amount for all the loans for which the loan amount is less
than 500000 or int_rate is more than 12.
11. Display the details of all the loans which started in the year 2009.
12. Display the details of all the loans whose Loan_Amount is in the range 400000 to 500000.
13. Display the details of all the loans whose rate of interest is in the range 11% to 12%.
14. Display the Cust_Name and Loan_Amount for all the loans for which the number of
instalments are 24, 36, or 48 (Using IN operator)
15. Display the AccNo, Cust_Name, and Loan_Amount for all the loans for which the Cust_Name
ends with 'Sharma'.
16. Display the AccNo, Cust_Name, and Loan_Amount for all the loans for which the Cust_Name
ends with 'a'.
17. Display the AccNo, Cust_Name, and Loan_Amount for all the loans for which the Cust_Name
contains 'a' .
18. Display the details of all the loans in the descending order of their Start_Date
19. Put the interest rate 11.50% for all the loans for which interest rate is NULL.
20. Delete the records of all the loans of 'K.P. Jain'

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Topic -Prepare a project on diet (10-12 pages)
Sub topics
 Definition of diet
 Balanced diet
 Importance of diet
 Components of diet
 Nutritive and non-nutritive diet
 Pitfalls of diet
 Food intolerance
 Food myths
 Sportsman diet

Typography and Computer Application

1. Enter the data of five students and Prepare excel sheet

Name English Hindi Maths Total Marks Average

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 Maximum

Minimum

 To calculate total marks .

 To calculate average of total marks of five students by using functions
and formulas.
 To find maximum and minimum total marks .
 To arrange the total marks of students descending order by using sort
option.
 To display chart on the basis of name of the students and total marks.

2. Do practice of typing by using Typing tutor online or any online typing software.
3. Learn Unit 1 Correspondence and Unit 3 Ms Excel

PSYCHOLOGY

1. Differentiate between psychometric and information processing approaches to

intelligence.
2. Describe the structure of intellect model of intelligence.
3. What is intelligence quotient?
4. Describe the Hierarchical Model of Intelligence.
5. Discuss how interplay of nature and nurture influences intelligence.
6. Explain Triarchic theory of intelligence.
7. Differentiate between individual and group tests.
8. What are the misuses of intelligence test?
9. State the difference between intelligence, aptitude and achievement.
10. Describe the role of parents and society in the development of values.
11. Discuss the personality types given by Sheldon
12. What is personality? Briefly explain the features of personality.
13. State the characteristics of Type-A, Type-B, Type-C & Type-D personality.
14. What is a Trait?

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15. Describe the limitations of self-report measures.
16. Explain briefly the projective techniques with examples.
17. What are the three levels of consciousness proposed by Sigmund Freud?
18. What is Self-esteem?
19. The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was developed by?
20. ___________is a type of defence mechanism in which a person defends against
anxiety by adopting behaviours opposite to her/his true feeling

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