VASHISTA JUNIOR COLLEGE

(PHYSICS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS)

I. Very Short Answer type questions
1. What is physics? 26. By spinning egg on a table top, how will you distinguish an hard
2. What is the discovery of C.V. Raman? boiled egg from a raw egg?
3. What is Raman effect? 27. Why should a helicopter necessarily have two propellers?
4. What are the fundamental forced in nature? 28. A girl is swinging seated in a swing. What is the effect on the
5. What is the contribution of S. Chandrashekhar to Physics? frequency of oscillation if she stands?
6. Distinguish between accuracy and precision. 29. Will a pendulum clock gain or lose time, if taken to the top of
7. How can systematic errors can be minimized or eliminated? mountain?
8. Distinguish between fundamental units and derived units. 30. Can a simple pendulum be used in an artificial satellite?
9. Why do we have different units for the same physical quantity? 31. As go from one planet to another, how will
10. How is average velocity different from instantaneous velocity? a) The mass
11. Give an example when the velocity of an object is zero but its b) The weight of the body change?
acceleration is not zero. 32. What is the time period of revolution of a geo-stationary
12. The vertical component of a vector is equals to its horizontal satellite? Does it rotate from west to east or east to west?
component. What is the angle made by the vector with X-axis? 33. What are polar satellites?
13. Two forces of magnitude 3 units and 5 units act at 60 o with each 34. State the examples of nearly perfect and plastic bodies.
other. What is the magnitude of their resultant? 35. What is the principle behind the carburetor of an automobile?
14. A = i + j. what is the angle between the vector and X-axis? 36. What is magnus effect?
15. If P = 2i+4j+14k and Q = 4i+4j+10k. Find the magnitude of P+Q 37. Why are water drops and bubbles spherical?
16. What is inertia? What is the measure of inertia? 38. Give the expression for the excess pressure in a liquid drop.
17. When a bullet is fired from a gun the gun gives a kick in the 39. Give an expression for the soap bubble in air.
backward direction? Explain. 40. What is angle of contact?
18. If a bomb at rest explodes into two pieces, the pieces must travel 41. Give the expression for the excess pressure in an air bubble
in opposite direction. Explain. inside the liquid.
19. Why does a car with flattened tyre stop sooner than the one with 42. Can a substance contract on heating? Give an example.
inflattened tyre? 43. Why are gaps left between rails on a railway track?
20. A horse has to pull harder during the start of the motion than 44. Why are utensils coated black? Why is the bottom of the utensils
later. Explain. made of copper?
21. What happens to the co efficient of friction if the weight of the 45. State Weins displacement law.
body is doubled? 46. Ventilators are provided in rooms just below the roofs. Why?
22. State the relation between kinetic energy and momentum of the 47. The roof of buildings is often painted white during summer.
body. Why?
23. A body freely falling from a certain height (h), after striking a 48. In summer, when the valve of bicycle tube is open the escaping
smooth floor rebounds and rises to height ‘h/2’. What is the air appears cold, why?
coefficient of restitution between floor and the body? 49. Can a room be cooled by leaving the door of an electric
24. Is it necessary that a mass should be present at center of mass refrigerator open?
of any system? 50. A thermo flask containing a liquid shaken vigorously. What
25. Why are spokes provided in bicycle wheel? happens to its temperature?
51. Define mean free path. 53. The absolute temperature of a gas is increased by three times,
52. When does a real gas behaves like an ideal gas. what will be the increase in RMS velocity of the gas molecule.

II. Short Answer type questions.

1. What A parachutist flying in an aero plane jump when it 12. Define angular velocity, derive v = rω.
is at a height of 3 k above ground. He opens his parachute 13. State Kepler’s law of planetary motion.
when he is about 1 km above ground. Describe his 14. Derive the relation between acceleration due to gravity(g)
motion. at the surface of a planet and gravitational constant(G).
2. Show that the maximum height reached by a projectile 15. What is orbital velocity? Obtain an expression for it.
launched at an angle of 45o is one quarter of its range. 16. What is escape velocity? Obtain an expression for it.
3. State parallelogram law of vector addition. Derive an 17. What is a geo – stationary satellite? State its uses.
expression for the magnitude and direction of the 18. Define strain energy and derive the equation for the same.
resultant vector. 19. Describe the behavior of wire under gradually increasing
0
4. If |a + b| = |a - b|. prove the angle between a and b is 90 . load.
5. Show that the trajectory of an object thrown at certain 20. State and explain Newtons law of cooling. What are the
angle with the horizontal is a parabola. conditions applicable for Newtons law of cooling?
6. Why are shock absorbers used in motor cycles and cars? 21. In what way is the anomalous behavior of water
7. Mention the methods used to decrease friction. advantageous to aquatic animals?
8. Why is pulling the lawn roller preferred than pushing it? 22. Explain conduction, convection and radiation with
9. Show that in case of one-dimensional elastic collision, the examples.
relative velocity of approach of two colliding bodies 23. State and explain first law of thermodynamics.
before collision is equal to relative velocity of separation 24. Obtain an expression for the work done by an ideal gas
after collision. during iso thermal change.
10. Distinguish between center of mass and center of gravity. 25.Obtain an expression for the work done by an ideal gas
11. Define vector product. Explain the properties of vector during adiabatic change. Explain
products with two examples.
III. Long Answer type questions

1. Develop the notions of work and kinetic energy and show that it leads to work energy theorem.
A machine gun fire 360 bullets per minute, each bullet travels with a velocity of 600 m/s, if the mass of each
bullet is 5 gr, find the power of machine gun.
2. State and prove law od conservation of energy in case of freely falling body.
3. Define simple harmonic motion. Show that the motion of projectile of a particle performing uniform circular
motion, on any diameter is simple harmonic.
4. What is simple pendulum. Derive an equation for its time period. What is seconds pendulum?
5. Derive the equation for the kinetic energy and potential energy of a simple harmonic oscillator and show that the
total energy of a particle in simple harmonic motion is constant at any point on its path.
6. Explain reversible and irreversible process. Describe the working of Carnot heat engine. Obtain an expression for
its efficiency.
7. Define second law od thermodynamics. How heat engine different from a refrigerator.