Aravali Public School
(Sr. Sec., Affiliated to CBSE, Co- Educational & Residential)
Sub: Physics MM: 40 Duration: 1 Hour
General Instructions
1. All questions are compulsory. There are 19 questions in all.
2. This question paper has four sections. Section A, Section B, Section C and Section D.
3. Section A contains five very short answer questions and three assertion reasoning MCQs of 1 mark each,
Section B contains five short answer questions of 2 marks each, Section C contains four short answer
questions of 3 marks each and Section D contains three long answer questions of 5 marks each.
SECTION – A
Q.1 A glass hemisphere of radius 10cm is placed over a spot on a table and viewed from above. Where does [1]
the spot appear to be?
Q.2 Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating? If yes, give any situation. [1]
Q.3 Does inertia of a body depend on any factor other than mass? Explain. [1]
Q.4 Calculate the orbital period of the electron in the first excited state of hydrogen atom. [1]
Q.5 Yellow light (λ=6000Ǻ) illuminates a single slit of width 10-4 m. Calculate the distance between the [1]
first dark lines on either side of the central maximum, when the diffraction pattern is viewed on a screen
kept 1.5 m away from the slit.
For question numbers 6, 7 and 8, two statements are given-one labelled Assertion (A) and the other
labelled Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the codes (a), (b), (c) and (d)
as given below.
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
b) Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
c) A is true but R is false
d) A is false but R is true
Q.6 (A) rocket in flight is an example of projectile. [1]
(R) rocket takes flight due to combustion of fuel and move under the gravity effect.
Q.7 (A) A current-carrying conductor experiences a force in a magnetic field. [1]
(R) The force acting on a current-carrying conductor in a magnetic field is due to interaction between
magnetic field produced by the current-carrying conductor and external magnetic field in which the
conductor is placed.
Q.8 (A) Electric field is always normal to the equi-potential surface and along the direction of increasing [1]
order of potential.
(R) Negative gradient of electric potential gives electric field.
Section – B
All questions are compulsory
Q.9 If the velocity at the maximum height of a projectile is half of its initial velocity “𝑢"of projection, then [2]
find its horizontal range.
Q.10 The ratio of the intensities at minima and maxima in the interference pattern is 9:25. What will be the [2]
ratio of the widths of the two slits in the Young's double slit experiment?
Q.11 A cell of emf 4 V and internal resistance 1Ω is connected to a d.c. source of 10 V through a resistor [2]
of 5Ω. Calculate the terminal voltage across the cell during charging.
Q.12 When a load of a wire is increased from 3 kg to 5 kg weight, the length of that wire changes from [2]
0.61mm to 1.02mm. Calculate the change in the elastic potential energy of the wire.
Q.13 Consider the collision depicted in Fig. to be between two billiard balls with equal masses m1 = m2 . The [2]
first ball is called the cue while the second ball is called the target. The billiard player wants to ‘sink’
the target ball in a corner pocket, which is at an angle θ2 = 37°. Assume that the collision is elastic and
that friction and rotational motion are not important. Obtain θ1 .
Section -C
All questions are compulsory
Q.14 The number of silicon atoms per m3 is 5 × 1028. This is doped simultaneously with 5 × 1022 atoms per [3]
m3 of Arsenic and 5 × 1020 per m3 atoms of Indium. Calculate the number of electrons and holes. Given
that ni = 1.5 × 1016 m-3. Is the material n-type or p-type?
Q.15 Two charges ±10μC are placed 5.00 mm apart. Determine the electric field at a point A, 20 cm away [3]
from the centre of the dipole on a line making an angle of 60⁰ with the dipole.
Q.16 Show that the maximum possible speed of a car to avoid slipping on a banked road is given by [3]
Q.17 Two identical billiard balls strike a rigid wall with the same speed but at different angles, and get
reflected without any change in speed, as shown in Fig. What is (i) the direction of the force on the wall [3]
due to each ball? (ii) the ratio of the magnitudes of impulses imparted to the balls by the wall?
Section – D
All questions are compulsory
Q.18 A photon of frequency υ posses an effective inertial mass m determined by its energy. Assume that it [5]
has a gravitational mass equal to this inertial mass. Accordingly, a photon emitted at the surface of a
star will lose energy when it escapes from the star’s gravitational field. Show that the frequency shift
Δυ 𝐺𝑀
Δυ of the photon when it escapes from the surface of the star to infinity is given by υ ≈ − 𝑅𝑐 2 For
Δυ <<< υ. Where G= gravitational constant, R= radius of the star, M= mass of the star and c= velocity
of light.
Q.19 In the given circuit find the current through the galvanometer. [5]
