Sample Question Paper for Half Yearly Exam- 2008-2009

Time : 3 hrs.

Subject : Physics

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All questions are compulsory.

Q1 Q8 each carry one mark.
Q9 Q18 each carry two mark.
Q19 Q27 each carry three mark.
Q28 Q30 each carry five mark.
There is internal choice in between the questions.

Q1.

The radius of a sphere is measured to be (2.1 0.5) cm. Calculate its surface area
with error limits.

Q2.

Draw a position time graph for stationary object .

Q3.

Find the mass of a body weighing 100 dyne. Take g = 10 m/s2 .

Q4.

What is the apparent weight of the body of mass m at (a) the highest and (b)
lowest point, if it is just looking the loop in a vertical circle.

Q5.

What is the angle between A and B, if A and B denote the adjacent sides of a
parallelogram drawn from a point and the area of the parallelogram is AB.

Q6.

If the ice on the polar caps of the earth melts, how will it affect the duration of the
day? Explain.

Q7.

A satellite revolving around earth loses height. How will its time period be
changed?

Q8.

Why is mercury preferred as a barometric substance over water?

Q9.

When the planet Jupiter is at a distance of 824.7 million Kilometers from the
Earth, its angular diameter is measured to be 35.72 of arc. Calculate the
diameter of Jupiter?

Q10. What is the ratio of the distance travelled by a body falling freely from rest in the
first, second, and third second of its fall.
Q11. With what acceleration (a) should a box descend so that a block of mass M
placed in it exerts a force Mg/4 on the floor of the box?
Q12. Explain how first and third law of motion is contained in 2nd law?
Q13. Find acceleration of a body down a rough inclined plane.

Q14. A molecule in a gas container hits the wall with speed 200 m/s at an angle
300 with the normal, and rebounds with the same speed. Is momentum
conserved in the collision? Is the collision elastic or inelastic?
Q15. Draw graph showing the variation of acceleration due to gravity with (a)
height above the surface of earth (b) depth below the surface of earth.
Q16. Two identical copper spheres of radius R are incontact with each other. If the
gravitational attraction between them is F, find the relation between F and R.
Q17. Suppose there existed a planet that went around the sun twice as fast as the
Earth. What would be its orbital size as compared to that of the Earth?
Q18. Why are the bridges declared unsafe after long years?
OR
Show that angular momentum of a particle about a given axis is twice the
product of mass of particle and Arial velocity of position vector of the particle.
Q19. The time period of oscillation of simple pendulum is given by t = 2 (L/g)1/2
. What is the accuracy in the determination of g if 10 cm length is known to
1 mm accuracy and 0.5 s time period is measured from time of 100
oscillations with a watch of 1 sec. resolution?
Q20. A person standing on a road has to hold his umbrella at 600 with the vertical
to
keep the rain away. He throws the umbrella and starts running at 20 ms1
. He finds that rain drops are hitting his head vertically. Find the speed of the
rain drops with respect to (a) the road (b) the moving person.
Q21. Define relative velocity of an object w.r.t another. Draw position-time graphs of
two objects moving along a straight line, when their relative velocity is (i) zero
and (ii) non-zero.
Q22. Define angle of friction and angle of repose and find the relation between
them.
Q23. Obtain an expression for minimum, velocity of projection of a body at the
lowest point for looping a vertical loop.
Q24. A car weighing 1120 Kg is going up an incline of 1 in 56 at the rate of 20 m in
2s. Find the power of the engine if frictional force is 64 N.
Q25. Three spheres each of radius R, mass m are kept at the three corners of an
equilateral triangle of side a. Find moment of inertia of all the three sphere
along any one side of the triangle.

Q26. Define Keplers law of period and hence deduce Newtons law of Gravitation
using it.
Q27. (a)

What is Pascals law for transmittion of pressure in a liquid?

(b)

Explain why the blood pressure in human being is greater at the feet
than at the brain.

(c)

Hydrostatic pressure is a scalar quantity even though pressure is force

divided by area and force is a vector.
OR

What you mean by Gravitational potential drive expression for the

gravitational potential on the surface of earth and find a point where
gravitational potential is 0.
Q28. (a)
What is centripetal acceleration? Find its magnitude and direction in
case of
uniform circular motion of an object.
(b)

The kinetic energy K of a particle moving along2 a circle of radius r

depends upon the distance covered (s) as, K=a s . What is the force
acting on the particle?
OR

(a)

Show that the path followed by a projectile fired horizontally is

parabolic.

(b)

Show that for two complementary angles of projection of a projectile

thrown with the same velocity. The horizontal ranges are equal.

(c)

For what angle of projection of a projectile the horizontal range is

maximum.

Q29. (a)
What do you mean by inelastic collision in one dimension? Show that
there is
loss of kinectic energy in inelastic collision.
(b)

A shot traveling at the rate of 100 ms1 is just able to pierce a plank 4 cm
thick. What velocity is required to just pierce a plank 9 cm thick?
OR

(c)

What do you mean by conservative and non-conservative forces? Show

that gravitation force is conservative force.