CSIR NET-JRF Physics Test Series
CSIR NET-JRF Physics Test Series
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SECTION A
ANSWER ANY 15 QUESTONS
Q1. A circle of diameter 8cm is inscribed in a triangle ABC where ABC 90 0 . If BC 10cm then
the area of the triangle in square centimeters is
(a) 80cm 2 (b) 100cm 2 (c) 120cm 2 (d) 140cm 2
Q2. The natural numbers are divided into group as
Q5. If the area of a regular hexagon is equal to the area of an equilateral triangle of side 12cm , then
the length, in centimeter, of each side of hexagon is
Q7. How many pairs m, n of positive integers satisfy the equation m 2 105 n 2 ?
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Q9. How many times starting at 1.00 pm would the minute and hour hands of a clock make an angle
1 3
(a) (b) 1 (c) (d) 2
2 2
Q11. A four digit number is divisible by 9 . Exactly three consecutive digits of this number are the same.
How many such numbers are there?
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 16 (d) 20
Q12. 10 points are marked on a straight line and 11 points are marked on another straight line. How
many triangles can be constructed with vertices from among the above points?
(a) 495 (b) 550 (c) 1045 (d) 2475
Q13. Two persons A and B toss a coin alternatively till one of them gets Head and wins the game. If
A tosses the coin first then B ’s chance of winning the game is
1 1 5 5
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 3 11 12
Q14. Mukesh purchased 10 bicycles all at the same price. He sold six of these at a profit of 25% and
the remaining at a loss of 25% . If he made a total profit of 2000 , then his purchase price of a
bicycle, in rupees, is
(a) 2000 (b) 4000 (c) 6000 (d) 7000
Q15. Which number will come at the missing place ? .
2 5 3 4 5 6
4 24 6 33 8 ?
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Q17. A stone is thrown upward from the surface of the earth with a speed of 98m / s . At the same
time another stone is dropped from a tower of height 500m . After 4 seconds the relative speed
of stones is (acceleration due to gravity 9 8m / s 2 )
(a) 40 m / s (b) 49 m / s (c) 98 m / s (d) 80 m / s
Q18. If the radius as well as height of a right circular cylinder is increased by 100% then its volume
increases by
(a) 600% (b) 700% (c) 800% (d) 850%
Q19. A and B are two solid spheres such that the surface area of B is 300% higher than the
surface area of A . The volume of A is found to be K % lower than the volume of B . The
value of K must be
(a) 85 5 (b) 92 5 (c) 90 5 (d) 87 5
Q20. John gets Rs. 57 per hour of regular work and Rs. 114 per hours of overtime work. He works
altogether 172 hours and his income from overtime hours is 15% of his income from regular
hours. For how many hours did John work overtime?
(a) 8 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 12
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PART B
ANSWER ANY 20 QUESTONS
Q21. A Comet moves toward the sun with initial velocity v0 the mass of the sun is M and radius is R .
Find the total cross section for striking the Sun. (Take Sun to be at rest and ignore all other
bodies. Assume that Sun and Comet interacts via Kepler’s potential with gravitational constant
G .)
2GM 2GM
(a) R 2 1 2 (b) R 2 1 2
v0 R v0 R
2GM 2GM
(c) 4 R 2 1 2 (d) 4 R 2 1 2
v0 R v0 R
Q22. Three positively charged particles lie on a straight line at positions 0, 𝑥, 10 as indicated in the
figwe below. Their charges are 𝑄, 2𝑄 and 4𝑄 cm respectively
Q 2Q 4Q
0 x 10
If the charges at 𝑥 = 0 and 𝑥 = 10 are fixed and charge at 𝑥 is movable, the system will be in
equilibrium when 𝑥 =
dx
Q23. The given differential equation is, x 1 x , where ' ' is scalar, then how does x t
dt
behaves when 0 and t ?
(a) x t 1 (b) x t 1 (c) x t 0 (d) x t
𝐸= + 𝑘𝑥
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Q25. If generating function is given by F q, P q 2 P and Hamiltonian of the system is given by
p2 q4
H q, p where and are constants the new Hamiltonian as a function of Q, P is
2q 2 4
/ /
(c) 𝐾 + /
(d) 𝐾 − /
Q27. Four point charges ±𝑞 and ±𝑞 are placed at the corners of a rectangle of sides a and b are
as shown in the figure q1 q2
q2 q1
a
What is the magnitude of the dipole moment of the system?
(a) (𝑞 + 𝑞 )√𝑎 + 𝑏
(b) (𝑞 − 𝑞 )(𝑎 − 𝑏)
(c) (𝑞 + 𝑞 ) 𝑎 + (𝑞 − 𝑞 ) 𝑏
(d) The dipole moment will on the choice of origin.
Q28. The free energy difference between the superconducting and normal state given by
𝛽
Δ𝐹 = 𝛼|𝜓| + |𝜓|
2
|𝜓| is order parameter, 𝛼 and 𝛽 are constant
𝛼 > 0 in normal state of 𝛼 < 0 in superconducting state and 𝛽 >0 always, then minimum value
of Δ𝐹 is
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Q29. A thin disc has mass M radius R and mass per unit area kr 2 where r is the distance from
center. Its moment of inertia about an axis through its center of mass, perpendicular to its plane
is
MR 2 MR 2 2MR 2 MR 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
6 3 3 2
Q30. An ideal gas is compressed adiabatically from an initial volume 𝑉 to final Volume 𝛼𝑉 and a work
𝑊 is done on the system in doing so. The final pressure of gas will be =
)
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Q31. Vector function A 2r cos rˆ rˆ is given in cylindrical coordinates. Then which of the
y
following statements are true: (where c1 and c 2 are contours shown in figure).
(a) A dl 2 b 2 and A dl 2 a 2 c1
C1 C2 c2
a b x
(b) A dl b 2 and A d l a 2
C1 C2
A d l 2 b A dl 2 a
2 2
(c) and
C1 C2
(d) A dl b 2 and A dl a
2
C1 C2
2l l 1
(a) 0 (b) 2 l l 1 (c) 2l l 1 (d)
2
Q33. Two events E1 and E2 take place in an inertial frame S with respective time space coordinates
(in SI units): E1 t1 0, r1 0 and E2 t 2 0, x2 108 , y z 0, z 2 0 . Another inertial frame S is
moving with respect to S with a velocity v 0.8 ciˆ . The time difference t2 t1 as observed in
S
(a) 0 (b) 0.22 (c) 0.33 (d) 0.44
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Q34. A particle of unit mass moves along the x-axis under the influence of a potential, V x x x 2 2
. The particle is found to be in stable equilibrium at the point x 2 . If system behave quantum
mechanically then the energy difference between first excited state and ground state energy is
given by
3
(a) (b) (c) 2 (d)
2 2
Q35. Let P be a 3 3 matrix such that it is both symmetric and skew-symmetric. Which of the
following statements are true?
(a)The trace of matrix P is 1.
(b) The determinant of matrix P is 1
(c) P is an orthogonal matrix.
1 2 1
(d) Vectors 1 , 3 and 0 are three possible linearly independent eigenvectors of P .
1 4 0
Q36. Which of the following current densities, 𝐽⃗, can generate the magnetic vector potential 𝐴⃗ =
(𝑦 𝚤ˆ + 𝑥 𝚥ˆ) ?
(a) (𝑥𝚤ˆ + y𝚥ˆ) (b) (𝚤ˆ + 𝚥ˆ) (c) (𝚤ˆ − 𝚥ˆ) (d) (𝑥𝚤ˆ − y𝚥ˆ)
Q37. Consider a situation when 50gm of ice at −10∘ C is converted into steam at 100∘ C
Given
𝐶 = 2090 J kg k
𝐶 = 4180 J kg k
𝐿 = 3.35 × 10 J/kg
𝐿steam = 2.26 × 10 J/kg
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2 0 0 1
Q38. 0 0 0 . If Ĥ will measure on t 0 2 ,what will state after time t t t .
H
0
0 0 1 3
i 0 t i 2 0 t
exp exp
1 1
(a) r , t 2 (b) r , t 2
14 14
i 0 t i 0 t
3exp 3exp
i 0 t i 2 0 t
exp exp
1 1
(c) r , t 2 (d) r , t 2
14 14
i 2 0 t i 2 0 t
3exp 3exp
Q39. Consider four thermodynamic potential relation as following.
(i) 𝑑𝐹 = −𝑆𝑑𝑇 + 𝑃𝑑𝑉 (ii) 𝑑𝐹 = −𝑆𝑑𝑇 − 𝑃𝑑𝑉
(iii) 𝑑𝐺 = −𝑆𝑑𝑇 + 𝑉𝑑𝑃 (iv) 𝑑𝐻 = 𝑇𝑑𝑆 − 𝑉𝑑𝑃
then which of the following option is CORRECT,
(a) only (ii) is correct (b) (ii) and (iii) are correct
(c) (i) and (iii) are correct (d) (ii) and (iv) are correct
Q40. A particle moves in the xy plane such that x and y components of velocities at time t are
(b) The trajectory of the particle is a circle and centered at the origin.
(c) The relation between x and y co-ordinates is y x 1
(d) The trajectory of the particle is a straight line having positive slope.
Q41. Consider a system of microcanonical ensembles which has potential of the form
𝑉(𝑥) = 𝑘𝑥
𝑘 is constant
Then dependence of density of state over energy 𝐸 is given as
𝐷(𝐸) ∝ 𝐸
then value of 𝑧 is
(a) 1/4 (b) −1/2 (c) 1/2 (d) −1/4
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Q42. Consider a one-dimensional infinite square well
0 for 0 x a,
V x
otherwise
V0 for 0 x a / 4,
If a perturbation H P
0 otherwise
is applied, then the correction to the energy of the first excited state, to first order in V , is
nearest to
(a) 0.33 V0 (b) 0.25V0 (c) 0.2 V0 (d) 0.16 V0
Q44. An intrinsic semiconductor is doped with 1013 cm 3 which has lionization energy Ed of 1meV and
(a) 4.6 1019 m 3 (b) 0.46 1019 m 3 (c) 4.6 10 20 m 3 (d) 4.6 1021 m 3
Q45. A linear diatomic lattice of lattice constant ‘ a ’ with masses M and m (M > m) are coupled by a
force constant . The dispersion relation is given by
1/ 2
M m 2 M m ka
2
4 2
2
sin 2
Mm Mm Mm 2
Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
(a) The atoms vibrating in transverse mode correspond to the optical branch.
(b) The maximum frequency of the acoustic branch depends on the mass of the lighter atom m.
(c) The dispersion of frequency in the optical branch is smaller than that in the acoustic branch.
(d) No normal modes exist in the acoustic branch for any frequency greater than the maximum
frequency at k =
2
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PART C
ANSWER ANY 20 QUESTONS
Q46. Lagrangian of two system is given by
1 2 1 2 1 1
L1 mx kx kxx and L2 mx 2 kx 2 kxxt
2 2 2 2
(a) L1 describe harmonic oscillator and L2 describe damped oscillation
Q49. A small body of mass m and charge q is constrained to move without friction on the interior of
a cone of opening angle 2 . A charge q is fixed at the apex of the cone as shown in figure
below. There is no gravity. At equilibrium the particle is rotating in circular orbit of radius r0
z
r
q
z
q y
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Q50. A flux quantum (fluxoid) is approximately equal to 6 10 7 gauss-cm2. A type II superconductor is
placed in a small magnetic field, which is then slowly increased till the field starts penetrating the
4
superconductor. The strength of the field at this point is 105 gauss. The penetrating depth of
this superconductor is
0 0 0 0
(a) 100 A (b) 122 A (c) 150 A (d) 200 A
p2
Q51. The nth energy eigenvalues En of a one-dimensional Hamiltonian H x 6 (where 0 is
2m
a constant) in the WKB approximation, is proportional to
(a) 2 / 3 (b) 1/ 4 (c) 1/ 3 (d) 1/ 6
Q52. For the given circuit the frequency above which the gain will decrease by 20 dB per decade
is______________ kHz . 20 k
vin
vo
1000 pF
1k
2 k
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
the equation of state is t 0 cos . , sin . , , where , and , are
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
eigenstates of sz operator corresponding to eigen value , . The expectation value of sx on
2 2
state t is:
(a) sin cos B0t (b) sin sin B0t
2 2
(c) cos cos B0t (d) cos sin B0t
2 2
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Q55. A particle moves in periodic motion in one dimension under the influence of potential
V x k x where k is a constant. For energy E time period is T if energy is doubled the time
period is
of radius 𝑅, the time at which it will spiraled into is given by 𝜏, then which of the following
relation is correct?
given: (Use classical radiation theory)
Q57. A metal with body centered cubic (bcc) structure show the first (i.e. smallest angle) diffraction
peak at a Bragg angle of θ = 30o. The wavelength of X-ray used is 2.1 Ǻ. The volume of the
PRIMITIVE unit cell of the metal is
Q58. A body of rest mass m0 moving at speed v collide and stick to an identical body at rest. The
1
rest mass of mass M of the final clump is (take )
v2
1 2
c
(a) M m0 2 (b) M m0 2
(c) M m0 2 1 (d) M m0 2 1
Q59. In a non-magnetic dielectric medium with dielectric constant 𝜀 = 4, the electric field of a
propagating plane wave with 𝜔 = 10 rad/sec is given by
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Q60. According to single-particle shell model, which of the following statements is not true?
O is 0 .
(a) The ground state angular momentum and parity of 16
8
27 5
(b) The ground state angular momentum and parity of 13 Al is .
2
33 3
(c) The ground state angular momentum and parity of 16 S is .
2
3
(d) The configuration of neutrons in the ground state of 94 Be is .
2
Q61. Spin-orbit splitting of the Hydrogen 2p State is
(a) 10 eV (b) 10 eV (c) 10 eV (d) 10 eV
Q62. If the function f x cosh x sinh x , 1 x 1 is expanded in Fourier series and it is found that
k e2 1
a4 then the value of k is
e 1 16 2
1 1
(a) 1 (b) 1 (c) (d)
2 2
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Q65. The ground state of chlorine atom is 𝑃 / its magnetic moment will be,
given (𝜇 = Bohr magneton)
Q66. Using single particle shell model, the magnetic moment of nucleus 33
16 S is:
(a) 1.1478 N (b) 1.923 N (c) 2.362 N (d) 2.578 N
Q67. At 300K , for a diode current of 1mA , a certain germanium diode requires a forward bias of
0.1435V , whereas a certain silicon diode requires a forward bias 0.718V . Under the conditions
stated above, the closest approximation of the ratio of reserve saturation current in germanium
diode to that in silicon diode is
(a) 1 (b) 5 (c) 4 103 (d) 8 103
Q68. The Green’s function for the given differential equation y '' 2 y f x , 0 x 1,
y 0 0 y 1 with 0 is?
sin 1 sin x
, 0 x ,
(a) G x,
sin
sin 1 x sin , x 1.
sin
sin 1 sin x
, 0 x ,
(b) G x,
sin
sin 1 x sin , x 1.
sin
sin 1 x sin x
, 0 x ,
(c) G x,
sin
sin 1 sin , x 1.
sin
sin 1 sin
, 0 x ,
(d) G x,
sin
sin 1 x sin x , x 1.
sin
Q69. The 𝐽 = 0 → 𝐽 = 1 rotational absorption line occurs at 1.153 × 10 cycles/sec in C O, and
at 1.102 × 10 cycles/sec in C O. the mass number of unknown carbon isotopes is
(a) 11 (b) 14 (c) 13 (d) 15
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Q70. A particle and its antiparticle
I. Must have the same mass.
II. Can always annihilate into two photons.
Then which of the following option is correct?
(a) Only I (b) Only II (c) Both I and II (d) None of these
Q71. For the network shown in figure, the value of Ai is: (use re 6 )
20V
Q73. Ratio of population of upper and lower state in He-Ne laser that produces light of wavelength
6328 A∘ at 27∘ C is
(a) 10 (b) 10 (c) 10 (d) 10
Q75. Truth table for system of four NAND gates as shown in figure is
A
A B Y A B Y A B Y A B Y
(a) 0 0 0 (b) 0 0 0 (c) 0 0 1 (d) 0 0 1
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
1 1
1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1
1 1 0
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