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2. A circular copper coil of mean radius 6.284 cm has 20 turns. If a current of 2 A is passed through this coil, find the
magnitude of the magnetic field at its centre. Also find the magnetic dipole moment of this current coil.
Given: µ0 = 4π × 10–7 Hm–1.
3. Two slits separated by 1 mm in Young’s double slit experiment are illuminated by the violet light of the wavelength 400
nm. The interference fringes are obtained on the screen placed at 1 m from the slits. Find the fringe width. If the violet
light is replaced by the red light of the wavelength 700 nm, find the percentage change in fringe width.
4. (a) Three resistors 3 W, 4 W and 12 W are connected in parallel. What is the effective resistance of the combination?
(b) If the combination is connected to a battery of emf 6 V and internal resistance 0.5 W, find the current drawn from the
battery and terminal potential difference across the battery.
5. In a circular parallel plate capacitor radius of each plate is 5 cm and they are separated by a distance of 2 mm. Calculate
the capacitance and the energy stored, when it is charged by connecting the battery of 200 V
(given ∈0 = 8.854 × 10 –12Fm -1).
6. A 100 W resistor is connected to a 220 V, 50 Hz AC supply. (a) What is the rms value of current in the circuit? (b) What is
the net power consumed over a full cycle?
7. (a) The peak voltage of an AC supply is 300 V. What is the rms voltage? (b) The rms value of current in an AC circuit is 10 A.
What is the peak current?
8. A 44 mH inductor is connected to 220 V, 50 Hz AC supply. Determine the rms value of the current in the circuit.
9. A 60 mF capacitor is connected to a 110 V, 60 Hz AC supply. Determine the rms value of the current in the circuit.
10. Obtain the resonant frequency w of a series LCR circuit with L = 2.0 H, C = 32 mF and R = 10 W. What is the Q-value of this
circuit?
11. A charged 30 mF capacitor is connected to a 27 mH inductor. What is the angular frequency of free oscillations of the
circuit?
12. A series LCR circuit with R = 20 W, L = 1.5 H and C = 35 mF is connected to a variable frequency 200 V AC supply. When the
frequency of the supply equals the natural frequency of the circuit, what is the average power transferred to the circuit in
one complete cycle?
13. A radio can tune over the frequency range of a portion of MW broadcast band: (800 kHz to 1200 kHz). If its LC circuit has
an effective inductance of 200 mH, what must be the range of its variable capacitor?
14. Figure shows a series LCR circuit connected to a variable frequency 230 V source. L = 5.0 H, C = 80 mF, R= 40 W. (a)
Determine the source frequency which drives the circuit in resonance. (b) Obtain the impedance of the circuit and the
amplitude of current at the resonating frequency. (c) Determine the rms potential drops across the three elements of the
circuit. Show that the potential drop across the LC combination is zero at the resonating frequency.
15. Monochromatic light of wavelength 589 nm is incident from air on a water surface. What are the wavelength, frequency
and speed of (a) reflected and (b) refracted light? Refractive index of water is 1.33.
16. (a) The refractive index of glass is 1.5. What is the speed of light in glass? (Speed of light in vacuum is 3x 10 8 m/s)
(b) Is the speed of light in glass independent of the colour of light? If not, which of the two colours red and violet travels
slower in a glass prism?
17. In a Young’s double-slit experiment, the slits are separated by 0.28 mm and the screen is placed 1.4 m away. The distance
between the central bright fringe and the fourth bright fringe is measured to be 1.2 cm. Determine the wavelength of light
used in the experiment.
18. In Young’s double-slit experiment using monochromatic light of wavelength p, the intensity of light at a point on the screen
where path difference is p is K units. What is the intensity of light at a point where path difference is p/3?
19. A beam of light consisting of two wavelengths 650 nm and 520 nm is used to obtain interference fringes in a Young’s
double-slit experiment. (a) Find the distance of the third bright fringe on the screen from the central maximum for
wavelength 650 nm. (b) What is the least distance from the central maximum where the bright fringes due to both the
wavelengths coincide?
20. In a double-slit experiment the angular width of a fringe is found to be 0.2° on a screen placed 1 m away. The wavelength of
light used is 600 nm. What will be the angular width of the fringe if the entire experimental apparatus is immersed in water?
Take refractive index of water to be 4/3.
21. Light of wavelength 5000 Å falls on a plane reflecting surface. What are the wavelength and frequency of the reflected
light? For what angle of incidence is the reflected ray normal to the incident ray?
22. Estimate the distance for which ray optics is good approximation for an aperture of 4 mm and wavelength 400 nm.
23. In double-slit experiment using light of wavelength 600 nm, the angular width of a fringe formed on a distant screen is
0.1º. What is the spacing between the two slits?
24. A parallel beam of light of wavelength 500 nm falls on a narrow slit and the resulting diffraction pattern is observed on a
screen 1 m away. It is observed that the first minimum is at a distance of 2.5 mm from the centre of the screen. Find the
width of the slit.
25. For the same objective, find the ratio of the least separation between two points to be distinguished by a microscope for
light of 5000 Å and electrons accelerated through 100 V used as the illuminating substance.
26. A radioactive isotope has a half-life of T years. How long will it take the activity to reduce to (a) 3.125% and (b) 1% of its
original value?
27. Obtain the amount of 27 60 Co necessary to provide a radioactive source of 8.0 mCi strength. The half-life of 27 60 Co is
5.3 yr.
28. The nucleus 10 23Ne decays by b - emission. Write down the b-decay equation and determine the maximum kinetic energy
of the electrons emitted. Given that m(10 23Ne) = 22.994466 u m( 11 23Na )= 22.989770 u.
29. A negligible small current is passed through a wire of length 15 m and uniform cross-section 6 x 10 -7 m2and its resistance is
measured to be 5.0 W. What is the resistivity of the material at the temperature of the experiment?
30. A storage battery of emf 8.0 V and internal resistance 0 5. W is being charged by a 120 V DC supply using a series resistor of
15 .5 W What is the terminal voltage of the battery during charging? What is the purpose of having a series resistor in the
charging circuit?
31. When the frequency of the incident light on a photo sensitive metal is changed from 7.6 × 10 14 Hz to 6 × 1014 Hz the value
of stopping potential changes by 0.66 V. Calculate Planck’s constant. [Note: Any form of Einstein’s P.E. Equation can be
considered]
32. The work function of zinc is 6.8 × 10–19 J. What is the threshold frequency for emission of photoelectrons from zinc?
33. The work function of caesium is 2.14 eV. Find (a) the threshold frequency for caesium, and (b) the wavelength of the
incident light if the photocurrent is brought to zero by a stopping potential of 0.60 V.
34. 4. A battery of internal resistance 3 Ω is connected to 20 Ω resistor and potential difference across the resistor is 10 V. If
another resistor of 30 Ω is connected in series with the first resistor and battery is again connected to the combination,
calculate the e.m.f. and terminal potential difference across the combination.
35. Two cells of emf 2 V and 4 V and internal resistance 1 Ω and 2 Ω respectively are connected in parallel so as to send the
current in the same direction through an external resistance of 10 Ω. Find the potential difference across 10 Ω resistor.
36. A 400 pF capacitor charged by a 100 V dc supply is disconnected from the supply and connected to another uncharged 400
pF capacitor calculate the loss of energy.
37. In a parallel plate capacitor with air between the plates, each plate has an area of 6 × 10 –3 m2 and the distance between
the plates is 3 mm. Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor. If this capacitor is connected to a 100 V supply, what is the
charge on each plate of the capacitor?] [Absolute permittivity of free space = 8.82 × 10 –12 Fm–1]
38. The plates of a parallel plate capacitor have an area of 90 cm2 each and are separated by 2.5 mm. The capacitor is charged
by connecting it to a 400 V supply. How much electrostatic energy is stored by the capacitor?
39. (a) Three resistors of resistance 2 Ω, 3 Ω and 4 Ω are combined in series. What is the total resistance of the combination?
(b) It this combination is connected to a battery of emf 10 V and negligible internal resistance, obtain the potential drop
across each resistor.
40. In Young's double slit experiment, fringes of certain width are produced on the screen kept at a certain distance from the
slits. When the screen is moved away from the slits by 0.1 m, fringe width increases by 6 × 10 –5 m. The separation between
the slits is 1 mm. Calculate the wavelength of the light used.
41. When two capacitors are connected in series and connected across 4 kV line, the energy stored in the system is 8 J. The
same capacitors, if connected in parallel across the same line, the energy stored is 36 J. Find the individual capacitances.
42. Calculate the shorted and longest wavelengths of Balmer series of hydrogen atom. Given R = 1.097 × 10 7 m–1
43. A wire having length 2.0 m diameter 1.0 mm and resistivity 1.963 × 10 –8 W m is connected in series with a battery of emf
3V and internal resistance 1W. Calculate the resistance of the wire and current in the circuit.
44. An inductor and a bulb are connected in series to an AC source of 220V, 50Hz. A current of 11A flows in the circuit and
phase angle between voltage and current is π / 4 radians. Calculate the impedance and inductance of the circuit.
45. In Young's double slit experiment while using a source of light of wavelength 4500 Å, the fringe width is 5mm. If the
distance between the screen and the plane of the slits is reduced to half, what should be the wavelength of light to get
fringe width 4mm?
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