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General Instructions: Physics

This document contains a physics exam with multiple choice and short answer questions. Some of the topics covered include: 1. Mechanical advantage, velocity ratio, units of measurement, density, heat transfer, light refraction, electricity, wave properties, sound, and nuclear physics. 2. Several questions involve calculating values like equivalent electrical resistance, heat transferred, latent heat of fusion, and distance based on time and speed of sound. 3. Diagrams are provided for questions involving light refraction through a glass block, electrical circuits, and the internal components of a cathode ray tube.

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General Instructions: Physics

This document contains a physics exam with multiple choice and short answer questions. Some of the topics covered include: 1. Mechanical advantage, velocity ratio, units of measurement, density, heat transfer, light refraction, electricity, wave properties, sound, and nuclear physics. 2. Several questions involve calculating values like equivalent electrical resistance, heat transferred, latent heat of fusion, and distance based on time and speed of sound. 3. Diagrams are provided for questions involving light refraction through a glass block, electrical circuits, and the internal components of a cathode ray tube.

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Physics:

General Instructions
1. Section I is compulsory. Attempt any four questions from Section II.
2. The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brakets [
].
SECTION I (40 Marks)
Attempt all questions from this Section
Question 1
(a) (i) What is the relationship between the mechanical advantage and the velocity
ratio for:
(1) An ideal machine; (2) A practical machine?
(ii) Which physical quantities do the following units represent?
(1) Dioptre; (2) Kelvin. [4]
(b) (i) The weights of two bodies are 2.0 N and 2.0 kgf respectively. What is the
mass of each body? (g = 10 ms-2)
(ii) If the power of a motor is 40 kW, at what speed can it raise a load of 20,000 N?
[4]
(c) (i) State the law of floatation.
(ii) A cube of ice whose side is 4.0 cm is allowed to melt. The volume of the water
formed is found to be 58.24 cm3. Find the density of ice. [4]
(d) (i) Does land cool at a slower or faster rate than water? Give one reason for your
answer.
(ii) Explain, why steam pipes warm a building more effectively than hot water pipes
in cold countries. [4]
(e) (i) A ray of light, after refraction through a concave lens, emerges parallel to the
principal axis. Draw a ray diagram to show the incident ray and its corresponding
emergent ray.
(ii) The velocity of light in diamond is 121,000 kms-1. What is its refractive index?
(Velocity of light in air is 3 108 m/s) [4]
(f) (i) What is the voltage of the electricity that is generally supplied to a house?

(ii) (1) The neck and bottom of a bottle have diameters 2 cm and 8 cm respectively.
The bottle is completely filled with kerosene. If the cork in the neck is pressed with a
force of I0 N, what force is exerted on the bottom of the bottle?
(2) Name the law or principle you have used to find this force. [4]
(g) (i) The ratio of the amplitudes of two waves is 4 : 9. What is the ratio of their
intensities?
(ii) A pendulum has a frequency of 5 vibrations per second. An observer starts the
pendulum and fires a gun simultaneously. He hears the echo from a cliff after 8
vibrations of the pendulum. If the velocity of sound in air is 340 ms-1, what is the
distance between the cliff and the observer? [4]
(h) (i) Which of the two wires of similar dimensions, copper or nichrome, would you
use for the electric heater element? Give reasons to justify your answer.
(ii) Two fuse wires of the same length are rated 5 A and 20 A. Which of the two fuse
wires is thicker and why? [4]
(h) (i) A flag is made up of three strips of cloth of yellow, white and cyan colours.
Name the colour of a particular light in which this flag will appear to be of a single
colour.
(ii) Explain, why radium paint, consisting of zinc sulphide and a trace of radium salt,
glows in the dark. [4]
(j) (i) An electric kettle is rated 2.5 kW, 250 V. Find the cost of running the kettle for
two hours at 60 paise per unit.
(ii) A mass of lead is embedded in a block of aluminium (2 mm thick). Radiations
from a radioactive source incident on the side of the block produce a shadow on a
flourescent screen placed beyond the block. The shadow of the block of aluminium
is fainter than the shadow of lead. Give the reason for this difference. [4]
Section - II (40 marks)
Answer any four questions from this section.
Question 2
(a) A jeweller claims that he makes ornaments of pure gold that has a relative
density of 19.3. He sells a bangle weighing 25.25 g to a person. The clever
customer weighs the bangle when immersed in water and finds that it weighs 23.07
g in water. With the help of suitable calculations, find out if the ornament is made of
pure gold or not. [4]

(b) Draw a labelled sketch of an acid battery hydrometer and explain how it indicates
whether a car battery needs recharging. [4]
(c) Give two reasons why the efficiency of a single movable pulley system is not
100%. [2]
Question 3
(a) A monochromatic point source of light 'O' is seen through a rectangular glass
block ABCD. Paths of two rays, in and outside the block, are shown in the figure
below.
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.

Does the source 'O' appear to be nearer or farther with respect to the surface
AB?
How does the shift depend on the thickness (AD or BC) of the block?
Justify your answer in (ii) with the help of an appropriate ray diagram.
For the same rectangular glass block, which colour from the visible spectra
will produce the maximum shift? [6]

(b) A postage stamp appears raised by 7.0 mm when placed under a rectangular
glass block of refractive index 1.5. Find the thickness of the glass block. [4]
Question 4
(a) State three characteristics of the image of an extended source, formed by a
concave lens. [3]
(b) (i) If a monochromatic beam of light, undergo minimum deviation through an
equiangular prism, how does the beam pass through the prism, with respect to its
base?
(ii) If white light is used in the same way as in (i) above, what change is expected in
the emergent beam? [2]
(c) (i) Sound made in front of a tall building 18 m away, is repeated. Name the
phenomenon and briefly explain it.
(ii) A tuning fork, held over an air column of a given length, produces a distinct
audible sound. What do you call this phenomenon? How does it occur? [5]
Question 5

(a) In a laboratory experiment for finding specific latent heat of ice, l00 g of water at
30C was taken in a calorimeter made of copper and of mass 10 g. When 10 g of ice
at 0C was added to the mixture and kept within the liquid till the ice melted
completely, the final temperature of the mixture was found to be 20C.
i.
ii.

iii.
iv.

What is the total quantity of water in the calorimeter at 200C?


Specific heat capacities of water and copper being 4.2 J/gC and 0.4 J/g0C
respectively, what quantity of heat would each release in cooling down to
200C from the initial stage?
Write an expression for the heat gained by ice on melting.
Calculate the value of the latent heat of fusion of ice from the data discussed
above. [6]

(b) Electrical power P is given by the expression: P = (Q V) / time


i.
ii.

What do the symbols Q and V represent?


Express 'Power' in terms of current and resistance explaining the symbols
used therein. [4]

Question 6 [5]
(a) With reference to the diagram given below, calculate: The equivalent resistance
between P and Q.
i.
ii.
iii.

The equivalent resistance between P and Q.


The reading of the ammeter.
The electrical power between P and Q.

(b) The diagram shows a coil connected to a centre zero galvanometer G. The
galvanometer shows, a deflection to the right when the N-pole of a powerful magnet
is moved to the right as shown: [5]

i.

Explain, why the deflection occurs in the galvanometer?

ii.
iii.
iv.

Does the direction of the current in the coil appear clockwise or anticlockwise
when viewed from the end A?
State the observation in G when the coil is moved away from N.
State the observation in G when, both the coil and the magnet, are moved to
the right at the same speed.

Question 7
(a) State two factors on which the rate of emission of thermions depends. [2]
(b) The isotope of 92U238decays by alpha emission to an isotope of Thermions (Th)
The thorium isotope decays by beta emission to an isotope of Protactamium (Pa).
Write down the equations to represent these two nuclear changes. [4]
(c) Draw a cathode ray tube consisting of a heater, a cathode, cylindrical anode and
a deflecting system. Show how you will connect a low tension battery of 6V and a
high tension one of 1000V to the electrodes of the tube. [4]

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