C.SHANKAR M.Sc., M.Ed., M.phil P.G.

TEACHER IN PHYSICS

12th STD Physics

BOOK BACK QUESTION – 2 MARKS
Unit-1 Electrostatics
1) What is meant by quantization of charges ?
2) Write down coulombs law in Vector form and mention what each
term represents.
3) What is meant by Superposition Principle ?
4) Define electric field.
5) Define electric dipole.
6) What is meant by electrostatic potential ?
7) State Gauss law.
8) Define Electric flux.
9) Define Capacitance. Give its unit.
10) What is corona discharge ?
11) Define electrostatic potential energy.
12) What is meant by Electrostatic energy density ?

UNIT-2 CURRENT ELECTRICITY

1) Why current is a scalar ?

2) Define current density.
3) Distinguish between drift velocity and mobility.
4) State microscopic form of ohm’s law.
5) State macroscopic form of ohm’s law.
6) What are Ohmic and non Ohmic devices ?
7) Define Electrical resistivity.
8) Define temperature coefficient of resistance.
9) What is electric power and electric energy ?
10) What do you meant by internal resistance of cell ?
11) What is Seebeck effect ?
12) What is Thomson effect ?
13) What is peliter effect ?

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UNIT-3 MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC EFFECTS

OF ELECTRIC CURRENT
1) Define magnetic flux.
2) What is Magnetic dipole moment ?
3) State Coulomb’s inverse law.
4) State Ampere’s circuital law.
5) Define ampere in terns of conductor
6) State Fleming’s Left Hand rule.
7) Is an ammeter connected in series or parallel in a circuit. Why ?

UNIT-4 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION AND

ALTERNATING CURRENT

1) What is meant by electromagnetic induction ?

2) State Fleming’s right hand rule.
3) Mention the ways of producing induced emf
4) What for and inductor is used ? Give some examples
5) What do you mean by self-induction ?
6) What is meant by mutual induction ?
7) What are step-up and step-down transformers ?
8) Define electric resonance.
9) How will you define RMS values of an alternating current .
10) What are phasors and phasor diagram ?
11) What is meant by resonant frequency ?
12) Define Q-factor.
13) What is watless current ?
14) Define Power factor.
15) What are LC oscillations ?

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UNIT-5 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES

1) What is displacement current ?

2) What are electromagnetic waves ?
3) Write down the integral form of modified Ampere’s circuital law
4) Write two uses of radio waves and Microwaves
5) Write two uses of visible spectrum and Gamma rays
6) What are fraunhofer lines ? How are they useful in the
identification of elements present in the sun ?
7) Write a notes on Ampere-Maxwell law
8) Why are electromagnetic waves are non-mechanical waves ?
9) Write two uses of IR rays.
10) Write two uses of UV rays.

UNIT-6 RAY OPTICS

1) State Snell’s law/ law of refraction.
2) What isangle of deviation due to refraction ?
3) What is principle of reversibility ?
4) What is relative refractive index ?
5) Why do stars twinkle ?
6) Arrive at lens equation from lens maker’s formula.
7) What is angle of minimum deviation ?
8) What is dispersion ?
9) What is Rayleigh’s scattering ?
10) Why does sky appear blue ?
11) What is the reason for reddish appearance of sky during sunset
and sunrise ?
12) Why do clouds appear white ?

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UNIT-7 WAVE OPTICS

1) Write a short note on quantum theory of light.
2) Define Wavefront.
3) State Huygen’s principle
4) What is interference of light ?
5) What is phase of a wave ?
6) Obtain the relation between phase difference and path difference.
7) What are coherent sources ?
8) What is intensity (or) amplitude division ?
9) How do source and images behave as coherent sources ?
10) What is bandwidth of inference pattern ?
11) What is diffraction ?
12) What is resolution ?
13) What is Rayleigh’s criterion ?
14) What is polarizer and analyzer ?
15) State Malus’ law.
16) What are near point and normal focusing ?
17) What is astigmatism ?what is its remedy ?

UNIT-8 DUAL NATURE OF RADIATION AND MATTER

1) Why do metals have a large number of free electrons

2) Define work function of a metal. Give its unit.
3) What is photoelectric effect ?
4) Define threshold frequency ?
5) State de Broglie hypothesis.
6) Define stoppinnng potential.
7) What is surface barrier ?
8) What is Bremsstrahlung ?

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UNIT-9 ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS

1) What are cathode rays?
2) What is meant by excitation energy ?
3) Define ionization energy and ionization potential ?
4) What is the distance of closest approach
5) Define impact parameter ?
6) Define atomic mass unit (u).
7) Define mass defect ?
8) What is Binding energy of nucleus ? Give expression.
9) Calculate the energy equivalent of 1 atomic mass unit ?
10) Give the physical meaning of Binding energy per nucleon.
11) Give symbolic representation of alpha, beta and gamma emission.
12) What is the mean life of a radia active nucleus ? Give expression.
13) Half life of radia active nucleus ? Give expression.

UNIT-10 ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION

1) Define forbidden energy gap ?
2) What do you mean by doping ?
3) A diode is an unidirectional device. Explain.
4) What do you mean by leakage current in Diode ?
5) Draw input and output waveforms of full wave rectifier.
6) What is meant by biasing ? Mention its types.
7) Define barrier potential.
8) What is rectification ?
9) What is integrated circuit ?
10) What is modulation ?
11) What is centre frequency ?

C.SHANKAR M.Sc., M.Ed., M.phil P.G. TEACHER IN PHYSICS