AC Generator & Transformer
The core of any transformer is laminated so as to
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AC Generator & Transformer
The core of any transformer is laminated so as to
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →LC Oscillations
In an oscillating circuit the maximum charge on the capacitor is . The charge on the capacitor when the energy is stored equally between the electric and magnetic field is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Energy of the Electron & Energy Levels
Which of the following atoms has the lowest ionization potential?
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Energy of the Electron & Energy Levels
If the binding energy of the electron in a hydrogen atom is the energy required to remove the electron from the first excited state of is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Transitions, Photon Emission & Excitation
The wavelengths involved in the spectrum of deuterium are slightly different from that of hydrogen spectrum, because
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Dielectrics
A sheet of aluminium foil of negligible thickness is introduced between the plates of a capacitor. The capacitance of the capacitor
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Energy Stored & Force between Plates
The work done in placing a charge of coulomb on a condenser of capacity micro-farad is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Electrical Power & Heating Effect
A volt, watt bulb is connected across a mains supply. The power consumed will be
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Electrical Power & Heating Effect
The thermo of a thermo -couple is at room temperature. A galvanometer of resistance, capable of detecting current as low as is connected with the thermo couple. The smallest temperature difference that can be detected by this system is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Electrical Power & Heating Effect
The negative pole of a Daniell cell, sending a constant current through a circuit, decreases in mass by in minutes. If the electrochemical equivalents of and are and respectively, the increase in the mass of the positive pole in this time is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Kirchhoff's Laws & Measuring Instruments
An ammeter reads upto ampere. Its internal resistance is . To increase the range to the value of the required shunt is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Kirchhoff's Laws & Measuring Instruments
A volt battery with negligible internal resistance is connected in a circuit as shown in the figure. The current , in the circuit will be

Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Ohm's Law, Resistivity & Temperature
The length of a given cylindrical wire is increased by . Due to the consequent decrease in diameter the change in the resistance of the wire will be
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Potentiometer
The length of a wire of a potentiometer is , and the of its standard cell is volt. It is employed to measure the of a battery whose internal resistance is If the balance point is obtained at from the positive end, the of the battery is
where is the current in the potentiometer wire.
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Photoelectric Effect: Einstein's Equation
Two identical photo-cathodes receive light of frequencies and . If the velocities of the photo electrons (of mass ) coming out are respectively and then
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Mutual Inductance
Two coils are placed close to each other. The mutual inductance of the pair of coils depends upon
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Self-Inductance & Energy
When the current changes from to in second, an of is inducted in a coil. The coefficient of self- induction of the coil is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Electric Charge & Coulomb's Law
Three charges and are placed as shown in the figure. The -component of the force on is proportional to

Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Electric Flux & Gauss's Law
If the electric flux entering and leaving an enclosed surface respectively is and the electric charge inside the surface will be
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Electric Potential & Equipotentials
A thin spherical conducting shell of radius has a charge Another charge is placed at the center of the shell. The electrostatic potential at a point at a distance from the center of the shell is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Escape Velocity
The escape velocity for a body projected vertically upwards from the surface of earth is If the body is projected at an angle of with the vertical, the escape velocity will be
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Newton's Law of Gravitation
Two spherical bodies of mass and & radii & respectively are released in free space with initial separation between their centers equal to . If they attract each other due to gravitational force only, then the distance covered by the smaller body just before collision is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Satellites - Orbital Velocity & Period
The time period of satellite of earth is hours. If the separation between the earth and the satellite is increased to times the previous value, the new time period will become
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Thermal Radiation: Black Body, Stefan & Wien
The earth radiates in the infra-red region of the spectrum. The spectrum is correctly given by
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Apparent Weight & Lift
A spring balance is attached to the ceiling of a lift. A man hangs his bag on the spring and the spring reads when the lift is stationary. If the lift moves downward with an acceleration of , the reading of the spring balance will be
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Connected Bodies & Pulleys
A block of mass is pulled along a horizontal frictionless surface by a rope of mass If a force is applied at the free end of the rope, the force exerted by the rope on the block is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Connected Bodies & Pulleys
A light spring balance hangs from the hook of the other light spring balance and a block of mass hangs from the former one. Then the true statement about the scale reading is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Equilibrium, Third Law & Frames
Three forces start acting simultaneously on a particle moving with velocity, These forces are represented in magnitude and direction by the three sides of a triangle . The particle will now move with velocity

Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Friction Basics
A horizontal force of is necessary to just hold a block stationary against a wall. The coefficient of friction between the block and the wall is . The weight of the block is

Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Friction Basics
A marble block of mass lying on ice when given a velocity of is stopped by friction in Then the coefficient of friction is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Impulse & Momentum Conservation
A rocket with a lift-off mass is blasted upwards with an initial acceleration of Then the initial thrust of the blast is
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Bar Magnet & Magnetic Moment
The magnetic lines of force inside a bar magnet
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Field of a Magnet & Magnet in a Uniform Field
A magnetic needle lying parallel to a magnetic field requires units of work to turn it through The torque needed to maintain the needle in this position will be:
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Vibration Magnetometer
A thin rectangular magnet suspended freely has a period of oscillation equal to Now it is broken into two equal halves (each having half of the original length) and one piece is made to oscillate freely in the same field. If its period of oscillation is the ratio is
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Elastic Potential Energy
A wire suspended vertically from one of its ends is stretched by attaching a weight of to the lower end. The weight stretches the wire by Then the elastic energy stored in the wire is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Equations of Kinematics
A car, moving with a speed of 50 km/hr, can be stopped by brakes after at least 6 m. If the same car is moving at a speed of 100 km/hr, the minimum stopping distance is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Velocity, Acceleration & Variable Motion
The co-ordinates of a moving particle at any time 't' are given by x = t3 and y = βt3. The speed of the particle at time 't' is given by
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Moving Charge in a Magnetic Field
A particle of mass and charge moving with velocitydescribes a circular path of radius when subjected to a uniform transverse magnetic field of induction The net work done by the field when the particle completes one full circle is
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Moving Charge in a Magnetic Field
A particle of charge coulomb moving with velocity along the -axis enters a region where a magnetic field of induction is along the -axis, and an electric field of magnitude is along the negative -axis. If the charged particle continues moving along the -axis, the magnitude of is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Law of Radioactive Decay
A radioactive sample at any instant has its disintegration rate disintegrations per minute. After minutes, the rate is disintegrations per minute. Then, the decay constant (per minute) is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Nuclear Fission & Fusion
In the nuclear fusion reaction
given that the repulsive potential energy between the two nuclei is , the temperature at which the gases must be heated to initiate the reaction is nearly
[ Boltzmann's Constant ]
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Nuclear Reactions & Q-value
When a nucleus originally at rest, decays by emitting an alpha particle having a speed the recoil speed of the residual nucleus is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Radioactive Decays: Alpha, Beta, Gamma
Which of the following radiations has the least wavelength?
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Radioactive Decays: Alpha, Beta, Gamma
Which of the following cannot be emitted by radioactive substances during their decay?
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Radioactive Decays: Alpha, Beta, Gamma
A nucleus with emits the following in a sequence:
Then of the resulting nucleus is
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Energy in SHM
A body executes simple harmonic motion. The potential energy the kinetic energy and total energy are measured as a function of displacement Which of the following statements is true?
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Periodic Motion & SHM Basics
The displacement of particle varies according to the relation
The amplitude of the particle is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Simple Pendulum
The length of a simple pendulum executing simple harmonic motion is increased by . The percentage increase in the time period of the pendulum of increased length is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Spring Systems
A mass is suspended from a spring of negligible mass. The spring is pulled a little and then released so that the mass executes of time period If the mass is increased by the time period becomes . Then the ratio of is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Spring Systems
Two particles and of equal masses are suspended from two massless springs of spring constant and , respectively. If the maximum velocities, during oscillation, are equal, the ratio of amplitude of and is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Projectile Basics & Trajectory
A boy playing on the roof of a 10 m high building throws a ball with a speed of 10 m/s at an angle of with the horizontal. How far from the throwing point will the ball be at the height of 10 m from the ground?
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Optical Instruments & the Eye
The image formed by an objective of a compound microscope is
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Reflection & Mirrors
To get three images of a single object, one should have two plane mirrors at an angle of
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Moment of Inertia & Radius of Gyration
A circular disc of radius is made from an iron plate of thickness and another disc of radius is made from an iron plate of thickness Then the relation between the moment of inertia and is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Rotational Kinetic Energy, Work & Power
A particle performing uniform circular motion has angular momentum . If its angular frequency is doubled & its kinetic energy halved, then the new angular momentum is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Torque, Couple & Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies
Let be the force acting on a particle having position vector andbe the torque of this force about the origin. Then
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Intrinsic & Extrinsic Semiconductors
A strip of copper and another of germanium are cooled from room temperature to The resistance of
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Intrinsic & Extrinsic Semiconductors
The difference in the variation of resistance with temperature in a metal and a semiconductor arises essentially due to the difference in the
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →P-N Junction Diode
In the middle of the depletion layer of a reverse- biased junction, the
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Heat Engines, Refrigerators & Second Law
''Heat cannot by itself flow from a body at lower temperature to a body at higher temperature'' is a statement or consequence of:
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Heat Engines, Refrigerators & Second Law
A carnot engine takes cal. of heat from a reservoir at and gives it to a sink at . The work done by the engine is
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Heat, Work & First Law of Thermodynamics
Which of the following parameters does not characterize the thermodynamic state of mattter?
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Thermodynamic Processes
During an adiabatic process, the pressure of a gas is found to be proportional to the cube of its absolute temperature. The ratio for the gas is
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Units & Dimensions
Dimensions of , where symbols have their usual meaning, are
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Units & Dimensions
The physical quantities not having same dimensions are
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Beats
A tuning fork of known frequency makes beats per second with the vibrating string of a piano. The beat frequency decreases to beats per second when the tension in the piano string is slightly increased. The frequency of the piano string before increasing the tension was
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Progressive Wave Equation
The displacement of a wave travelling in the -direction is given by
where is expressed in metres and in seconds. The speed of the wave - motion, in , is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Stationary Waves & Vibrating Strings
A metal wire of linear mass density of is stretched with a tension of between two rigid supports metre apart. The wire passes at its middle point between the poles of a permanent magnet, and it vibrates in resonance when carrying an alternating current of frequency The frequency of the alternating source is
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Superposition, Coherence & Intensity
To demonstrate the phenomenon of interference, we require two sources which emit radiation
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Power
A body is moved along a straight line by a machine delivering a constant power. The distance moved by the body in time is proportional to
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Spring & Elastic Energy
A spring of spring constant is stretched initially by from the unstretched position. Then the work required to stretch it further by another is
Answer: (b)
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