Important Questions for Examinations SPHSS

1. Expression for electric field due to a dipole at:

(a) an axial point

(b) an equatorial point

2. Expression for drift velocity and its relation with electric current.

3. Temperature dependence of resistance for conductors, insulators and semiconductors.

4. Statement of Kirchhoff’s laws and application in deriving balancing condition for Wheatstone bridge.

5. Statement of Biot-Savart’s law and its application in deriving expression for magnetic field at the center of a current

carrying circular loop.

6. Statement of Ampere’s law and its application in deriving the magnetic field due to infinitely long current carrying

straight wire.

7. Moving coil galvanometer and its conversion into:

(a) an ammeter

(b) a voltmeter

8. Short notes on diamagnetic, paramagnetic and ferromagnetic substances

9. Statement of lenz’s law and show how it represents the law of conservation of energy.

10. Definition of self and mutual inductance. Expression for self inductance of a solenoid and the magnetic energy stored

in it.

11. Average and RMS value of AC

12. RLC series circuit and its resonance condition.

13. Transformer - its construction, working and energy losses associated with it.

14. Expression for displacement current.

15. Properties of EM waves.

16. Concept of TIR and its applications

17. Lens Makers formula for thin lenses.

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Important Questions for Examinations SPHSS

18. Combination of thin lenses in contact.

19. Variation of angle of deviation with angle of incidence by a prism. Derivation of Prism formula.

20. Huygen’s Principle and its application in proving the laws of reflection and refraction.

21. Experimental arrangement of Young’s Double slit experiment and interpretation of interference pattern.

22. Diffraction due to a single slit.

23. Laws of photoelectric effect and Einstein’s equation.

24. de-Broglie equation and its experimental verification.

25. Hydrogen spectrum resulting from Bohr’s model

26. Binding energy and Binding energy per nucleon curve.

27. Short note on nuclear fission

28. Intrinsic and Extrinsic semiconductors.

29. p-n junction and its characteristics in forward and reverse bias regions.

30. Diode as a half-wave and a full wave rectifier.

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