Department of Nuclear Physics

Entrance Examination
Date: 11.07.2025
Time:11AM to 1PM
Part A (25 x 1 = 25 marks)

Each correct answer carries ONE mark.

An unanswered question carries ZERO mark.
Each wrong answer carries MINUS ⅓ mark

1. Paramagnetic curie point θ = ____?

 N  N  2 N  2 N
a) b) c) d)
3k B k BT 3k B kB

2. The spacing between principal planes of NaCl crystal is 2.82 Å. It is found that first order Bragg
reflection occurs at an angle of 10º. What is the wavelength of X-rays?

a) 0.98 Å b) 0.49 Å c) 1.43 Å d) 0.62 Å

3. Find the relative permeability of a ferromagnetic material, if a field of strength 300 A/m
produces a magnetization 4500 A/m in it.

a) 15 b) 16 c) 14 d) 1.5

4. Calculate the work function of sodium, in electron-volts, given that the threshold
wavelength is 6700 Å.

a) 2.85 eV b) 2.96 eV c) 1.27 eV d) 1.85 eV

5. Identify the correct statement for the following vectors a = −3iˆ + 2 ˆj and b = iˆ + 2 ˆj .

a) Both vectors are linearly dependent

b) Both vectors are orthogonal

c) Both vectors are linearly independent

d) Both vectors are normalized

6. In a photoconductive cell, as the intensity of the radiation increases ______ of semiconductor

material decreases.

a) Forbidden Energy gap b) Resistance

c) Hardness d) None of these

7. When monochromatic red light is used instead of blue light in a convex lens, its focal length
will ___.

a) increase b) decrease c) remain same d) half

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8. When a concave mirror of focal length f is immersed in water, its new focal length is ____.

a) 1.33f b) f /1.33 c) f d) None of these

9. Value of electric charge and strangeness of d-quark is ____.

2 2 1 1
a) + e, 0 b) − e, -1 c) − e, 0 d) + e, -1
3 3 3 3

10. Atomic packing factor for a simple cubic unit cell is _____.

a) π/8 b) π/6 c) √2 π/6 d) √2 π/8

11. The disintegration constant of a radioactive element is 0.00231 per day. Its half life period is
____.

a) 300 days b) 400 days c) 30 days d) 40 days

12. Consider an anti-symmetric tensor Pij with indices i and j running from 1 to 4. The number of
independent components of the tensor is _____.

a) 12 b) 10 c) 0 d) 6

13. Electric quadrupole moment is exhibited by ______.

a) ellipsoidal nuclei b) spherical nuclei

c) none of these d) both a & b

14. Hydrogen atom is excited from ground state to another state with principal quantum number
equal to 4. Then, the number of spectral lines in the emission spectra will be _____.

a) 4 b) 2 c) 3 d) 6

15. The voltage gain of an amplifier without feedback is 100. If negative feedback is introduced
with a feedback fraction β = 0.1, then the gain of the feedback amplifier is ____.

a) 9.09 b) 10.01 c) 100.1 d) 90.9

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16. Given, force = . What are the dimensions α, β?
density +  3

a) [ML2T-2], [ML-1/3] b) [M2L-2T-2], [M1/3L-1]

c) [M2L-2T-2], [M-1/3L-1] d) [ML-2T-2], [ML-1/3]

17. The quantum operator for energy is ____.

   
a) i b) −i c) i d) −i
t t x x

18. The rms value of the electric field of the light coming from the sun is 720 NC-1. The average
total energy density of the electromagnetic wave is _____.

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 a) 6.37 × 10-9 Jm-3 b) 3.37 × 10-9 Jm-3

c) 81.35 × 10-6 Jm-3 d) 4.58 × 10-6 Jm-3

19. A source of sound vibrating at frequency 400 Hz is rotated in a circle of radius 500/π cm at a
constant angular speed of 5 revolution per second. A listener situates himself in the plane of the
circle. Find the minimum frequency of the sound observed by the listener. (Speed of sound is
332 m/s)
a) 471 Hz b) 348 Hz c) 400 Hz d) 390 Hz

20. 100g of water is heated from 30ºC to 50ºC. Ignoring the slight expansion of the water, the
change in its internal energy is _____. (Specific heat of water is 4184 J/kg/K)
a) 6.3 kJ b) 2.1 kJ c) 8.4 kJ d) 4.2 kJ
21. Two electric bulbs marked 25 W - 220 V and 100 W - 220 V are connected in series to a 440
V supply. Which of the bulbs will fuse?
a) Both b) 25 W c) 100 W d) None of these

22. An object has an initial velocity 3iˆ + 4 ˆj and an acceleration of 0.4iˆ + 0.3 ˆj . Its speed after 10
sec is _____.

a) 10 units b) 7 units c) 10√2 units d) 7√2 units

23. A particle is projected at 60º to the horizontal with a kinetic energy K. The kinetic energy
at the highest point is ____.
a) K/4 b) 0 c) K d) K/2
24. Two gases separated by an impermeable but movable partition are allowed to freely
exchange energy. At equilibrium, the two sides will have the same
(a) pressure and temperature (b) volume and temperature
(c) pressure and volume (d) volume and energy
25. In one of the following circuits, negative feedback does not operate for a negative input.
Which one is it? The op amps are running from ± 15 V supplies.

a) b)

c) d)

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 Part B (25 x 3 = 75 marks)

Each correct answer carries THREE marks.

An unanswered question carries ZERO mark.
Each wrong answer carries MINUS ONE mark

26. At two points P and Q on screen in Young’s double slit experiment, waves from slits S1 and S2
have a path difference of 0 and λ/4, respectively. The ratio of intensities at P and Q will be
______.

a) 3:2 b) √2:1 c) 2:1 d) 4:1

 −2 −4 2 
 
27. If the matrix A =  −2 1 2  , then which of the following is not its eigen value?
 4 2 5 


a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) -5

28. Half-lives of two radioactive elements A and B are 20 min and 40 min, respectively. Initially,
the samples have equal number of nuclei. After 80 min, the ratio of decayed number of A and
B nuclei will be ____.

a) 5: 4 b) 4: 1 c) 1:4 d) 1: 16

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29. If electric potential due to some charge distribution is given by V = , when r is radial
r2
distance, then find electric field at (1,1,1).

a)
3
(
2 ˆ ˆ ˆ
i + j+k ) b)
3
(
2 ˆ ˆ ˆ
i + j+k ) c)
2
3
d) 0

30. In the circuit given below, the current in 1Ω resistor is ____.

a) 1.3 A b) -1.3 A

c) 0.13 A d) -0.13 A

31. The velocity of a particle is  =  o + gt + ft . If its position is x=0 at time t=0, then its
2

displacement after unit time (t=1) is _____.

a)  o + 2 g + 3 f b)  o + 3g + 2 f

g f g f
c)  o + + d)  o + +
2 3 3 2

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32. An aluminum sphere of 20 cm diameter is heated from 0ºC to 100ºC. Its volume changes by
_____. (Coefficient of linear expansion for Al is α = 23 × 10-6 /ºC)

a) 28.9 cc b) 2.89 cc c) 9.28 cc d) 49.8 cc

33. A block is kept on a frictionless inclined surface with

angle of inclination α. The incline is given an
acceleration a to keep the block stationary. Then, a is
equal to ___.

a) g/tanα b) g cosecα

c) g d) g tanα

34. During an adiabatic process, the pressure of a gas is found to be proportional to the cube of its
absolute temperature. The ratio Cp/Cv for the gas is ____.

a) 4/3 b) 3/2 c) 5/3 d) 1/2

35. In an oscillating L-C circuit, the maximum charge on the capacitor is Q. The charge on the
capacitor when the energy is stored equally between the electric and magnetic fields is _____.

a) Q/2 b) Q/√3 c) Q/√2 d) Q

36. The normalized ground state wavefunction of a hydrogen atom is given by

1 2 −r /a
 (r ) = e where a is the Bohr radius and r is the distance of the electron from the
4 a
3/2

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nucleus, located at the origin. The expectation value is _____.
r2

2 4 4 2
a) b) c) d)
a2 a2 a2 a2


x e
2 − x2
37. The integral dx is equal to ____.
0

   
a) b) c) d)
2 4 2 4

38. 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 Å. The volume of the
PRIMITIVE unit cell of the metal is ____.

a) 13.1 Å3 b) 26.2 Å3 c) 6.55 Å3 d) 2.97 Å3

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39. A Ge semiconductor is doped with acceptor impurity concentration of 1015 atoms/cm3. For the
given hole mobility of 1800 cm2/V-s, the resistivity of the material is ____.

a) 0.288 Ω cm b) 0.694 Ω cm c) 3.472 Ω cm d) 6.944 Ω cm

40. For Nickel the number density is 8 × 1023 atoms/cm3 and electronic configuration is 1s2 2s2 2p6
3s2 3p6 3d8 4s2. The value of the saturation magnetization of Nickel in its ferromagnetic state is
_____________ × 109 A/ m.

a) 2.21 b) 4.42 c) 8.84 d) 6.63

41. For the following circuit, what is the magnitude of

Vout if Vin = 1.5 V?

a) 0.015V b) 0.15V

c) 15V d) 150V

42. Two particles each of rest mass m collide head-on and stick together. Before collision, the speed
of each mass was 0.6c. The mass of the final entity is ____.

a) 5m/2 b) 52m/8 c) 5m/4 d) 25m/8

43. A 3-bit analog-to-digital converter is designed to digitize analog signals ranging from 0V to
10V. For this converter, the binary output corresponding to an input of 6V is _____.

a) 011 b) 101 c) 100 d) 010

44. Two charges q and 2q are placed along the x-axis

in front of a grounded, infinite conducting plane,
as shown in the figure. They are located
respectively at a distance of 0.5 m and 1.5 m
from the plane. The force acting on the charge q
is _____.

1 9q 2 1 q2
a) b)
4 o 2 4 o 2

1 5q 2 1 7q 2
c) d)
4 o 2 4 o 2

45. In case of a Geiger-Muller (GM) counter, which one of the following statements is CORRECT?

a) Multiplication factor of the detector is of the order of 1010

b) Type of the particles detected can be identified
c) Energy of the particles detected can be distinguished
d) Operating voltage of the detector is few tens of Volts

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 46. The decay  + → e+ +  is forbidden, because it violates

a) momentum and lepton number conservations

b) baryon and lepton number conservations
c) angular momentum conservation
d) lepton number conservation

47. Ship A is 10 km due west of ship B. Ship A is heading directly north at a speed of 30 km/h,
while ship B is heading in a direction 60° west of north at a speed of 20 km/h. The magnitude
of the velocity of ship B relative to ship A is _____.

a) 10 7 km/h b) 7 10 km/h c) 10 km/h d) 7 km/h

48. A man of height 1.8 m walks away from a lamp at a height of 6 m. If the man’s speed is 7 m/s,
find the speed in m/s at which the tip of the shadow moves.

a) 7 m/s b) 10 m/s c) 20 m/s d) 14 m/s

49. An electromagnetic wave in vacuum has the electric and magnetic fields E and B , which are
always perpendicular to each other. The direction of polarization is given by X and that of
wave propagation by k . Then,

a) X B and k (B E) b) X E and k ( E  B)

c) X B and k ( E  B) d) X E and k (B E)
50. Electromagnetic interactions are:

a) C conserving
b) C non-conserving but CP conserving
c) CP non-conserving but CPT conserving
d) CPT non-conserving

All the best!

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Some useful physical constants
Avogadro’s number, NA = 6.02 × 10-23 mole
Boltzmann constant, kB = 1.38 × 10-23 J/K
Permittivity of free space, ε0 = 8.85 × 10-12 F/m
Molar gas constant, R = 8.31 J/mol-K
Speed of light in vacuum, c = 3 × 108 m/s
Planck’s constant, h = 6.63 × 1034 J-s
Bohr magneton, μB = 9.21 × 10-21 Am2