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PART A
Q1. A couple lives in a house with their sons and daughters and no one else. The couple has four sons
and each of the sons has exactly two sisters. How many persons live in that house?
(a) 8 (b) 10 (c) 12 (d) 14
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Q2. A bank pays interest to its depositors compounded yearly. If a deposit becomes
Rs. 54,000/- at the end of 3rd year and Rs. 64,800/- at the end of 6th year, what is the principal
invested in the deposit?
(a) 40,000 (b) 42,500 (c) 45,000 (d) 48,000
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Q3. In the following  ABC , AB  7 cm, BC  15 cm and AC  12 cm . D is a point on BC such that
 ADC and  ABC are similar. Then AD (in cm) =
(a) 5.6 A

(b) 5.8 7 cm 12 cm

(c) 6.1 D
B C
(d) 6.4 15 cm
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Q4. Ten glass vases were to be packed one each in 10 boxes marked “Glass”. Twelve brass vases
were to be packed one each in 12 boxes marked “Brass”. Four vases and boxes got mixed up. A
customer orders 1 glass and 1 brass vase and is sent appropriately marked boxes. The chance that
the customer does not get the ordered vases in correctly marked boxes is
(a) 4 / 5 (b) 5 / 6 (c) 2 / 3 (d) 1/ 3
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Q5. Anwara, Bharati, Colin and Tarun commute by different modes of transport namely, Cycle (C),
Autorickshaw (A), Bus (B) and Train (T). The initials of the mode of transport and the name of
the person match in exactly two cases. If Tarun travels by Train, and Colin rides neither an
Autorickshaw nor a Bus, then
(a) Anwara rides an Autorikshaw (b) Anwara rides a Bus
(c) Bharati rides a Bus (d) Bharati rides a Cycle
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Q6. Rice production in six states A, B, C , D, E and F in two consecutive years are shown in the
diagram in linear scale

Previous Year
Drought Year

A B C D E F

Among the states that saw a fall in production in the drought year, the maximum and minimum
relative fall was, respectively, in states,
(a) D and F (b) C and B (c) C and E (d) D and A
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Q7. Based on the table, what is the maximum number of diamonds one can buy for Rs. 10 lakh?
Size (in carat) Rate (Rs. Lakh per carat) Number in stock
0.25 1 20
0.5 2 10
1 4 5
2 8 1

(a) 20 (b) 25 (c) 30 (d) 36

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Q8. For a disease, every infected person infects three others on the 5th day and recovers. On an
average, men and women are infected in the proportion 4:1. The total number of women who
were infected by the end of 35 days, is closest to
(a) 972 (b) 820 (c) 656 (d) 502
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Q9. The maximum tolerable exposure time for noise is given to be about 8 hours at 85 dB and
90 seconds at 110 dB . Assuming linear noise tolerance response of the ear, an increase of 3 dB
in noise level in this range would reduce the exposure time by roughly
(a) 45 min (b) 60 min (c) 90 min (d) 120 min
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Q10. Distance covered by cars, X and Y , with time is given below. Assuming constant acceleration
for each car, which of the following graphs shows that X had higher acceleration than Y ?

X X
Distance

Distance
(a) (b)

Y Y

Time Time

X
Y
Distance

Distance

X
(c) (d)
Y

Time Time
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Q11. PQRS is a rectangle inscribed in a quarter circle as shown. The area of shaded region is 24 cm 2
and PQ  6 cm . B
P
Q

A S R
The area of the quarter circle is
(a) 36  (b) 25  (c) 13 (d) 48 
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Q12. Area of the trapezium as shown in the figure, is

b


a
(a) ab  r tan 
2
(b) r  a  b  cos  (c) 2r  a  b  (d) r  a  b 

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Q13. From an initially full bucket, water is dripping continuously from the bottom. The centre of mass
of the bucket with water
(a) remains stationary (b) moves upward all the way
(c) moves downward all the way (d) moves downward first and then moves up
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Q14. Seven persons A, B, C , D, E , F and G are sitting in a row. E and B are sitting adjacent to each
other. F is sitting between D and G . If C is sitting four places left of F , who among the
following cannot be sitting at the centre?
(a) G (b) B (c) D (d) F
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Q15. Starting from the same point at the same instant of time, three cyclists P, Q and R move on a
circular path in the same direction with speeds 18, 27 and 36 km/h, respectively. The
circumference of the circular path is 5.4 km . After a lapse of how much time would they all meet
at the starting point again?
(a) 12 min (b) 24 min (c) 36 min (d) 48 min
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Q16. Supply of food to a community is reducing at a constant rate, as a result of which the population
is dying out. Ignoring other factors, which of these statements can be made about the long-term
trend for the population?
(a) It will eventually die out completely
(b) It will stabilise at a non-zero number
(c) It will increase after reaching a minimum
(d) It will fall and rise repeatedly
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Q17. A marksman had four successes in six attempts. What is the probability that he had three
consecutive successes?
(a) 9 /15 (b) 12 /15 (c) 13 /15 (d) 6 /15
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Q18. The scores of the six students of Group A in an examination are 38, 45, 42, 58, 62 and 55 . In
the same examination, the scores of the six students of Group B of size 7 are 38, 41, 44, 46, 49
and 52 , where one score is missing. If the arithmetic means of the scores of the two groups are
same, then what is the missing score?
(a) 80 (b) 65 (c) 63 (d) 62
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Q19. A wire is bent into the shape of a square enclosing an area M . If the same wire is bent to form a
circle, the area enclosed will be

4 2M 4M M
(a) (b) M (c) (d)
  2 2
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Q20. In a flight of 600 km , an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for the
trip was reduced by 200 km / h and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. What was the
scheduled duration of the flight?
(a) 1 hour (b) 1 hour 30 minutes
(c) 2 hours (d) 45 minutes
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PART B
Q21. A point mass m , is constrained to move on the inner surface of a paraboloid of revolution
x 2  y 2  az (where a  0 is a constant). When it spirals down the surface, under the influence
of gravity (along  z direction), the angular speed about the z - axis is proportional to
(a) 1 (independent of z ) (b) z
(c) z 1 (d) z 2
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1 2 1
Q22. Two coupled oscillators in a potential V  x, y   kx  2 xy  ky 2  k  2  can be decoupled
2 2
into two independent harmonic oscillators (coordinates: x, y ) by means of an appropriate

 x  x
transformation    S   . The transformation matrix S is
 y   y

 1   1 1 
 2 1    
2 2
(a)   (b) 
 1   1 1 
 1    
 2  2 2 

 1 1 
  
2 2  0 1
(c)  (d)  
 1 1  1 0 
 
 2 2 
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Q23. A heavy particle of rest mass M while moving along the positive z - direction, decays into two
identical light particles with rest mass m (where M  2m ). The maximum value of the
momentum that any one of the lighter particles can have in a direction perpendicular to the z -
direction, is
1 1
(a) C M 2  4m 2 (b) C M 2  2m 2
2 2
1
(c) C M 2  4m 2 (d) MC
2
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Q24. A frictionless horizontal circular table is spinning with a uniform angular velocity  about the
vertical axis through its centre. If a ball of radius a is placed on it at a distance r from the centre
of the table, its linear velocity will be
(a)  r rˆ  aˆ (b) r rˆ  aˆ (c) a rˆ  rˆ (d) 0 (zero)
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Q25. An inductor L , a capacitor C and a resistor R are connected in series to an AC source,
V  V0 sin t . If the net current is found to depend only on R , then

1 R2
(a) C  0 (b) L  0 (c)   1/ LC (d)    2
LC 4 L
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Q26. Three point charges q are placed at the corners of an equilateral triangle. Another point charge
Q is placed at the centroid of the triangle. If the force on each of the charges q vanishes, then
the ratio Q / q is
1 1 1
(a) 3 (b) (c) (d)
3 3 3 3
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Q27. Three infinitely long wires, each carrying equal current are placed in the xy - plane along
x  0,  d and  d . On the xy - plane, the magnetic field vanishes at

d  1 
(a) x   (b) x   d 1  
2  3

 1  d
(c) x   d 1   (d) x  
 3 3
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Q28. The following figure shows the intensity of the interference pattern in the Young’s double-slit
experiment with two slits of equal width is observed on a distant screen

5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Distance
If the separation between the slits is doubled and the width of each of the slits is halved, then the
new interference pattern is best represented by

(a) (b)

5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Distance Distance

(c) (d)

5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Distance Distance
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Q29. Let E  x, y, z , t   E0 cos  2 x  3 y  t  , where  is a constant, be the electric field of an

electromagnetic wave travelling in vacuum. Which of the following vectors is a valid choice for

E0 ?

3 3 2 2
(a) iˆ  ˆj (b) iˆ  ˆj (c) iˆ  ˆj (d) iˆ  ˆj
2 2 3 3
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 
Q30. Two time dependent non-zero vectors u  t  and v  t  , which are not initially parallel to each
 
 dv  du 
other, satisfy u   v   0 at all time t . If the area of the parallelogram formed by u  t 
dt dt

and v  t  be A  t  and the unit normal vector to it be n̂  t  , then

(a) A  t  increases linearly with t , but n̂  t  is a constant

 
(b) A  t  increases linearly with t , and n̂  t  rotates about u  t   v  t 
 
(c) A  t  is a constant, but n̂  t  rotates about u  t   v  t 

(d) A  t  and n̂  t  are constants

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Q31. A basket consists of an infinite number of red and black balls in the proportion p : 1  p  . Three

balls are drawn at random without replacement. The probability of their being two red and one
black is a maximum for
3 3 1 2
(a) p  (b) p  (c) p  (d) p 
4 5 2 3
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 a 2 ab ac 
 
Q32. The eigenvalues of the 3  3 matrix M   ab b 2 bc  are
 ac bc c 2 
 
(a) a 2  b 2  c 2 , 0, 0 (b) b 2  c 2 , a 2 , 0

(c) a 2  b 2 , c 2 , 0 (d) a 2  c 2 , b 2 , 0
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w2  2
Q33. A function of a complex variable z is defined by the integral f  z    dw , where  is a
 w z

circular contour of radius 3 , centred at origin, running counter-clockwise in the w - plane. The
value of the function at z   2  i  is

2 i
(a) 0 (b) 1  4i (c) 8  2 i (d)  
 2
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Q34. The temperatures of two perfect black bodies A and B are 400 K and 200 K , respectively. If
the surface area of A is twice that of B , the ratio of total power emitted by A to that by B is
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 32 (d) 16
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Q35. Two ideal gases in a box are initially separated by a partition. Let N1 , V1 and N 2 ,V2 be the

numbers of particles and volume occupied by the two systems. When the partition is removed,
the pressure of the mixture at an equilibrium temperature T , is
 N  N2   N  N2 
(a) k BT  1  (b) k BT  1 
 2 V1  V2    V1  V2 

N N  1 N N 
(c) k B T  1  2  (d) k BT  1  2 
 V1 V2  2  V1 V2 
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Q36. An idealised atom has a non-degenerate ground state at zero energy and a g -fold degenerate
excited state of energy E . In a non-interacting system of N such atoms, the population of the
E
excited state may exceed that of the ground state above a temperature T  . The
2k B ln 2
minimum value of g for which this is possible is
(a) 8 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 1
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Q37. The Hamiltonian of a system of N non-interacting particles, each of mass m , in one dimension
is
N
 p2  
H    i  xi4 
i 1  2m 4 

where   0 is a constant and pi and xi are the momentum and position respectively of the i -th
particle. The average internal energy of the system is
4 3 3 1
(a) k BT (b) k BT (c) kBT (d) k BT
3 4 2 3
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Q38. A 10 V battery is connected in series to a resistor R and a capacitor C , as shown the figure.
47 k

R
V  10 V
C 10  F

The initial charge on the capacitor is zero. The switch is turned on and the capacitor is allowed to
charge to its full capacity. The total work done by the battery in this process is
(a) 103 J (b) 2 103 J (c) 5  104 J (d) 47 102 J
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Q39. In the 3-bit register shown below, Q1 and Q3 are the least and the most significant bits of the
output, respectively.
Q3 Q2 Q1
Din  1
Q3 D3 Q2 D2 Q1 D1

CLK

If Q1 , Q2 and Q3 are set to zero initially, then the output after the arrival of the second falling
clock (CLK) edge is
(a) 001 (b) 100 (c) 011 (d) 110
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Q40. The Boolean equation Y  ABC  ABC  ABC  ABC is to be implemented using only two-
input NAND gates. The minimum number of gates required is
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6
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Q41. The temperature variation of the resistivity of four materials are shown in the following graphs.
Resistivity

Resistivity
A B

T1 T2 Temperature
T1 T2 Temperature
Resistivity

Resistivity
C D

T1 T2 Temperature
T1 T2 Temperature
The material that would make the most sensitive temperature sensor, when used at temperatures
between T1 and T2 , is
(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D
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Q42. Let n denote the energy eigenstates of a particle in a one-dimensional simple harmonic

1
potential V  x   m 2 x 2 .
2

If the particle is initially prepared in the state   t  0  

1
2
 0  1  , the minimum time after
which the oscillator will be found in the same state is
(a) 3 /  2  (b)  /  (c)  /  2  (d) 2 / 

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Q43. For the one dimensional potential wells A, B and C , as shown in the figure, let E A , EB and EC
denote the ground sate energies of a particle, respectively.
  

2V0
a a a
V0 V0

A B C
The correct ordering of the energies is
(a) EC  EB  E A (b) E A  EB  EC

(c) EB  EC  E A (d) EB  E A  EC

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Q44. An angular momentum eigenstate j , 0 is rotated by an infinitesimally small angle  about the

positive y -axis in the counter clockwise direction. The rotated state, to order  (upto a
normalisation constant), is
 
(a) j , 0  j  j  1  j ,1  j , 1  (b) j , 0  j  j  1  j ,1  j , 1 
2 2
  
(c) j , 0  j  j  1  j ,1  j , 1  (d) j , 0  j  j  1 j ,1  j  j  1 j , 1
2 2 2
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Q45. The wavelength of the first Balmer line of hydrogen is 656 nm . The wavelength of the

corresponding line for a hydrogenic atom with Z  6 and nuclear mass of 19.92 1027 kg is
(a) 18.2 nm (b) 109.3nm (c) 143.5 nm (d) 393.6 nm
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PART C
Q46. The state of an electron in a hydrogen atom is
1 1 1
  1, 0, 0  2,1, 0  3,1, 1
6 3 2
where n, l , m denotes common eigenstates of Hˆ , Lˆ2 and Lˆz operators in the standard notation.

In a measurement of Lˆz for the electron in this state, the result is recorded to be 0 . Subsequently

a measurement of energy is performed. The probability that the result is E2 (the energy of the

n  2 state) is
(a) 1 (b) 1/ 2 (c) 2 / 3 (d) 1/ 3
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 c
Q47. A particle with incoming wave vector k , after being scattered by the potential V  r   2 , goes
r

out with wave vector k  . The differential scattering cross-section, calculated in the first Born
 
approximation, depends on q  k  k  , as

(a) 1/ q 2 (b) 1/ q 4 (c) 1/ q (d) 1/ q 3 / 2

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Q48. A quantum particle in a one-dimensional infinite potential well, with boundaries at 0 and a , is
 a
perturbed by adding H     x   to the initial Hamiltonian. The correction to the energies of
 2
the ground and the first excited states (to first order in  ) are respectively
(a) 0 and 0 (b) 2  / a and 0 (c) 0 and 2  / a (d) 2  / a and 2  / a
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Q49. Spin fermions of mass m and 4m are in a harmonic potential V  x   kx 2 . Which
2 2
configuration of 4 such particles has the lowest value of the ground state energy?
(a) 4 particles of mass m
(b) 4 particles of mass 4m
(c) 1 particle of mass m and 3 particles of mass 4m
(d) 2 particles of mass m and 2 particles of mass 4m
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Q50. Falling drops of rain break up and coalesce with each other and finally achieve an approximately
spherical shape in the steady state. The radius of such a drop scales with the surface tension  as
(a) 1/  (b)  (c)  (d)  2
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Q51. The velocity v  x  of a particle moving in one dimension is given by v  x   v0 sin   , where
 x0 
v0 and x0 are positive constants of appropriate dimensions. If the particle is initially at x / x0  ,

where   1 , then, in the long time, it

(a) Executes an oscillatory motion around x  0

(b) Tends towards x  0
(c) Tends towards x  x0

(d) Executes an oscillatory motion around x  x0

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Q52. A pendulum executes small oscillations between angles  0 and  0 . If    d is the time

spent between  and   d , then    is best represented by

 
(a) (b)

0 0 0 0 0 0

 
(c) (d)

0 0 0 0 0 0
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Q53. Consider a particle with total energy E moving in one dimension in a potential V  x  as shown

in the figure below. V

Which of the following figures best represents the orbit of the particle in the phase space?
p p

(a) (b)

x x

p
p

(c) (d)
x x

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Q54. The energy density I of a black body radiation at temperature T is given by the Planck’s
8 2 h
distribution function I  , T   h
, where v is the frequency. The function I  , T 
c  kT
3

 e B  1
 
 
for two different temperatures T1 and T2 are shown below.

T2

I
T1


If the two curves coincide when I  , T  a is plotted against  b / T , then the values of a and b

are, respectively,
(a) 2 and 1 (b) 2 and 2 (c) 3 and 1 (d) 3 and 1
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Q55. For an ideal gas consisting of N distinguishable particles in a volume V , the probability of
finding exactly 2 particles in a volume  V  V , in the limit N ,V   , is

 NV 
2
  V   N V / V
2

(a) 2 N  V / V (b)  N  V / V   N V / V
2
(c) e (d)   e
2V 2  V 
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Q56. The Hamiltonian of a system of 3 spins is H  J  S1S 2  S 2 S3  , where Si  1 for i  1, 2,3 . Its

canonical partition function, at temperature T , is

2 2 3
 J   J   J   J 
(a) 2  2sinh  (b) 2  2 cosh  (c) 2  2 cosh  (d) 2  2 cosh 
 kBT   k BT   kBT   kBT 

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Q57. A certain two-dimensional solid crystallises to a square monoatomic lattice with lattice constant
a . Each atom can contribute an integer number of free conduction electrons. The minimum
number of electrons each atom must contribute such that the free electron Fermi circle at zero
temperature encloses the first Brillouin zone completely, is
(a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 4 (d) 2
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Q58. A tight binding model of electrons in one dimension has the dispersion relation
 
  k   2t 1  cos ka  , where t  0, a is the lattice constant and  k . Which of the
a a
 
following figures best represents the density of states over the range k ?
2a a
(a) (b)
density of states

density of states

 /2a  /a k  /2a  /a k

(c) (d)
density of states

density of states

 /2a  /a k  /2a  /a k
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Q59. A lattice is defined by the unit vectors a1  aiˆ, a2   iˆ  j and a3  akˆ , where a  0 is a
2 2
constant. The spacing between the 100  planes of the lattice is

(a) 3a / 2 (b) a / 2 (c) a (d) 2a

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Q60. A spacecraft of mass m  1000 kg has a fully reflecting sail that is oriented perpendicular to the

direction of the sun. The sun radiates 1026 W and has a mass M  1030 kg . Ignoring the effect of
the planets, for the gravitational pull of the sun to balance the radiation pressure on the sail, the
area of the sail will be
(a) 102 m 2 (b) 104 m 2 (c) 108 m 2 (d) 106 m 2
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Q61. The electric field due to a uniformly charged infinite line along the z - axis, as observed in the
   xiˆ  yjˆ
rest frame S of the line charge, is E  r   . In a frame M moving with a
2 0  x 2  y 2 

constant speed v with respect to S along the z - direction, the electric field E  is (in the

following   v / c and   1/ 1   2 )

(a) Ex  Ex and E y  E y (b) Ex   Ex and E y   E y

(c) Ex  Ex /  and E y  E y /  (d) Ex   Ex and E y   E y

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Q62. A parallel plate capacitor with rectangular plates of length l , breadth b and plate separation d ,
is held vertically on the surface of a dielectric liquid of dielectric constant  and density  as
shown in the figure. The length and breadth are large enough for edge effects to be neglected.
d

l
h

Dielectric liquid
The plates of the capacitor are kept at a constant voltage difference V . Ignoring effects of
surface tension, the height h upto which the liquid level rises inside the capacitor, is
V 2 0   1 V 2 0   1
(a) (b)
 gbd 2  gb 2

V 2 0   1 V 2 0   1
(c) (d)
2  gd 2  gd 2
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Q63. Using the following values of x and f  x 

x 0 0.5 1.0 1.5

f  x 1 a 0 5 / 4

f  x  dx , evaluated by the Trapezoidal rule, is 5 /16 . The value of a is

1.5
the integral I  
0

(a) 3 / 4 (b) 3 / 2 (c) 7 / 4 (d) 19 / 24

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Q64. The Green’s function for the differential equation  x  f  t  , satisfying the initial
dt 2
dx
conditions x  0    0   0 is
dt
0 for 0  t 
G  t ,   
sin  t    for t 

The solution of the differential equation when the source f  t     t  (the Heaviside step

function) is
(a) sin t (b) 1  sin t (c) 1  cos t (d) cos 2 t  1
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2
 dy  d y
2
Q65. The solution of the differential equation    2  e y , with the boundary conditions
 dx  dx
y  0   0 and y   0   1 , is

 x2 
(a)  ln   x  1 (b)  x ln  e  x 
 2 

(c)  xe  x (d)  x  x  1 e  x
2

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Q66. If we take the nuclear spin I into account, the total angular momentum is F  L  S  I , where
 
L and S are the orbital and spin angular momenta of the electron. The Hamiltonian of the
  
 
hydrogen atom is corrected by the additional interaction  I  L  S , where   0 is a constant.

The total angular momentum quantum number F of the p - orbital state with the lowest energy
is
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 1/ 2 (d) 3 / 2
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Q67. The absorption lines arising from pure rotational effects of HCl are observed at 83.03 cm 1 ,

103.73 cm 1 , 124.30 cm 1 , 145.03 cm 1 and 165.51 cm 1 . The moment of inertia of the HCl

molecule is (take  5.6 1044 kg -m )
2 c
(a) 1.11048 kg -m 2 (b) 2.8 1047 kg -m 2

(c) 2.8  1048 kg -m 2 (d) 1.1  1042 kg -m 2

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Q68. The energies of the 3 lowest states of an atom are E0  14 eV , E1  9 eV and E2  7 eV . The

Einstein coefficients are A10  3 108 s 1 , A20  1.2 108 s 1 and A21  8 107 s 1 . If a large number

of atoms are in the energy level E2 , the mean radiative lifetime of this excited state is

(a) 8.3 109 s (b) 1108 s (c) 0.5  108 s (d) 1.2 108 s
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Q69. Two voltmeters A and B with internal resistances 2 M  and 0.1 k are used to measure the
voltage drops VA and VB , respectively, across the resistor R in the circuit shown below.
100  R  100 

20 V 150  200 

The ratio VA /VB is

(a) 0.58 (b) 1.73 (c) 1 (d) 2

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Q70. The I -V characteristics of the diode D in the circuit below is given by

 kqVT 
I  I s  e B  1
 
 
where I s is the reverse saturation current, V is the voltage across the diode and T is the
D
absolute temperature.

R
Vin 
Vout


If the input voltage is Vin , then the output voltage Vout is

 qV  1  q Vin  I S R  
(a) I S R ln  in  1 (b) k B T ln  
 k BT  q  k BT 

1 V  1 V 
(c) k B T ln  in  1 (d)  k B T ln  in  1
q  IS R  q  IS R 
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Q71. A rod pivoted at one end is rotating clockwise 25 times a second in a plane. A video camera
which records at a rate of 30 frames per second is used to film the motion. To someone watching
the video, the apparent motion of the rod will seem to be
(a) 10 rotations per second in the clockwise direction
(b) 10 rotations per second in the anticlockwise direction
(c) 5 rotations per second in the clockwise direction
(d) 5 rotations per second in the anticlockwise direction
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Q72. In the circuit shown below, the gain of the op-amp in the middle of its bandwidth is 105 . A
sinusoidal voltage with angular frequency   100 rad/s is applied to the input of the op--amp.
R2  4 k 

C5F
vin 
R1  2 k  vout


The phase difference between the input and the output voltage is
(a) 5 / 4 (b) 3 / 4 (c)  / 2 (d) 
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Q73. Charged pions   decay to muons   and anti-muon neutrinos v ;       v . Take the rest

masses of a muon and a pion to be 105 MeV and 140 MeV , respectively. The probability that the
measurement of the muon spin along the direction of its momentum is positive, is closest to
(a) 0.5 (b) 0.75 (c) 1 (d) 0
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Q74. The binding energy B of a nucleus is approximated by the formula

B  a1 A  a2 A2 / 3  a3 Z 2 A1/ 3  a4  A  2Z  A1 , where Z is the atomic number and A is the

2

a4
mass number of the nucleus. If  30 . The atomic number Z for naturally stable isobars
a2
(constant value of A ) is
30 A 30 A 60 A 120 A
(a) (b) (c) (d)
60  A2 / 3 30  A2 / 3 120  A2 / 3 60  A2 / 3
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Q75. The magnetic moments of a proton and a neutron are 2.792  N and 1.913  N , where  N is the
19
nucleon magnetic moment. The values of the magnetic moments of the mirror nuclei 9 F10 and
19
10 Ne9 , respectively, in the Shell model, are closest to

(a) 23.652  N and 18.873  N (b) 26.283  N and 16.983  N

(c) 2.628  N and 1.887  N (d) 2.628  N and 1.887  N

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