Sub: Physics

Class: 12 cbse.

MM : 35 TIME : 2 Hours

General Instructions:

(i) There are 12 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.

(ii) This question paper has three sections: Section A, Section B and Section C.

(iii) Section A contains three questions of two marks each, Section B contains eight questions of three
marks each, Section C contains one case study-based question of five marks.

(iv) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been provided in one question of two
marks and two questions of three marks. You have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.

(v) You may use log tables if necessary but use of calculator is not allowed.

SECTION A

1) State Hooke's law of elasticity

2) a)Define latent heat capacity. Give its unit.

b) State Stefan - Boltzmann law

3)Ten particles are moving at the speed of 2,3,4,5,5,5,6,6,7 and ms-1. Calculate rms speed, average
speed and most probable speed.

(OR)

A nurse measured the average heart beats of a patient and reported to the doctor in terms of time
period as 0.8 s. Express the heart beat of the patient in terms of number of beats measured per minute.

Section B

4)Derive an expression for the elastic energy stored per unit volume of a wire

5)State and prove Bernoulli's therom for a flow of incompressible , non-viscous and streamlined flow of
fluid

6)Explain why

(a)The angle of contact of mercury with glass is obtuse, while that of waterwith glass is acute.
(b)Water on a clean glass surface tends to spread out while mercury on thesame surface tends to form
drops. (Put differently, water wets glass whilemercury does not.)

(c)Surface tension of a liquid is independent of the area of the surface

(d)Water with detergent disolved in it should have small angles of contact.

(e)A drop of liquid under no external forces is always spherical in shape

(OR)

A hydraulic automobile lift is designed to lift cars with a maximum mass of 3000kg. The area of cross-
section of the piston carrying the load is 425 cm2. Whatmaximum pressure would the smaller piston
have to bear?

7) Two cylinders A and B of equal capacity are connected to each other via a stopcock.A contains a gas at
standard temperature and pressure. B is completely evacuated.The entire system is thermally insulated.
The stopcock is suddenly opened. Answerthe following :(a)What is the final pressure of the gas in A and
B ?(b)What is the change in internal energy of the gas ?(c)What is the change in the temperature of the
gas ?(d)Do the intermediate states of the system (before settling to the final equilibriumstate) lie on its
P-V-T surface ?

OR

Explain in detail Newton’s law of cooling

8) Explain in detail an adiabatic process

9) Explain the isobaric process and derive the work done in this process

10)Write down the postulates of Kinetic theory of games

11)a) A hydraulic lift is designed to lift cars of maximum mass 300 kg. The area of cross-section of piston
carrying the load is 4.25×10-2m2. What is the maximum pressure would be small piston

Read the case study given below and answer allthequestions:

The figure shows the different modes of transfer of heat, heat transfer is defined as the movement of
heat across the border of the system due to a difference in temperature between the system and its
surroundings. The temperature difference exists between the two systems, heat will find a way to
transfer from the higher to the lower system.

1)The sea breeze is caused by:

a)conduction

b)convection
c)radiation

d)none of these

2)At what factor heat absorbed on radiation by the body depends on?

a)distance between body

b)source of heat

c)its color

d)all of the above

3)When heat is transferred by molecular collision, it is referred to as heat transfer by:

a)convection

b)conduction

c)radiation

d)convection and radiation

4)Thermal conductivity of air with rise in temperature:

a)increase

b)decrease

c)constant

d)none of these

5)Mass transfer does not take place in-

a)conduction

b)convection

c)radiation

d)none of these