Pure R, L and C Circuits
A sinusoidal voltage V(t) = 100 sin (500t) is applied across a pure inductance of L = 0.02 H. The current through the coil is:
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Answer: (b)
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Pure R, L and C Circuits
A sinusoidal voltage V(t) = 100 sin (500t) is applied across a pure inductance of L = 0.02 H. The current through the coil is:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Capacitors in DC Circuits & RC
The circuit shown here has two batteries of 8.0 V and 16.0 V and three resistors 3 , 9 and 9 and a capacitor 5.0 F.

How much is the current I in the circuit in steady state?
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Dielectrics
The space between the plates of a parallel plate capacitor is filled with a 'dielectric' whose 'dielectric constant' varies with distance as per the relation:
K(x) = K0 + x ( = a constant)
The capacitance C, of this capacitor, would be related to its 'vacuum' capacitance C0 as per relation:
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Potentiometer
In the experiment of calibration of voltmeter, a standard cell of e.m.f. 1.1 volt is balanced against 440 cm of potentiometer wire. The potential difference across the ends of resistance is found to balance against 220 cm of the wire. The corresponding reading of voltmeter is 0.5 volt. The error in the reading of voltmeter will be:
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Photoelectric Experiment: Intensity, Stopping Potential & Graphs
A beam of light has two wavelengths 4972 and 6216 with a total intensity of 3.6 103 Wm equally distributed among the two wavelengths. The beam falls normally on an area of 1 cm2 of a clean metallic surface of work function 2.3 eV. Assume that there is no loss of light by reflection and that each capable photon ejects one electron. The number of photo electrons liberated in 2s is approximately:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Energy Density & Intensity
A lamp emits monochromatic green light uniformly in all directions. The lamp is 3% efficient in converting electrical power to electromagnetic waves and consumes 100 W of power. The amplitude of the electric field associated with the electromagnetic radiation at a distance of 5 m from the lamp will be nearly:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Electric Flux & Gauss's Law
A spherically symmetric charge distribution is characterised by a charge density having the following variation:
(r) = 0 for r < R
(r) = 0 for r R
Where r is the distance from the center of the charge distribution and 0 is a constant. The electric field at an internal point (r < R) is:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Velocity of Efflux (Torricelli)
A cylindrical vessel of cross-section A contains water to a height h. There is a hole in the bottom of radius 'a'. The time in which it will be emptied is:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Gravitational Potential & Energy

Two hypothetical planets of masses m1 and m2 are at rest when they are infinite distance apart. Because of the gravitational force they move towards each other along the line joining their centres. What is their speed when their separation is 'd'?
(Speed of m1 is 1 and that of m2 is 2)
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Molecular Speeds & Maxwell Distribution
At room temperature a diatomic gas is found to have an r.m.s. speed of 1930 ms. The gas is:
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Shear Modulus & Poisson's Ratio
Steel ruptures when a shear of 3.5 108 N m−2 is applied. The force needed to punch a 1 cm diameter hole in a steel sheet 0.3 cm thick is nearly:
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Relative Velocity
A Person climbs up a stalled escalator in 60 s. If standing on the same but escalator running with constant velocity he takes 40 s. How much time is taken by the person to walk up the moving escalator?
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Biot-Savart Law & Circular Coils
Consider two thin identical conducting wires covered with very thin insulating material. One of the wires is bent into a loop and produces magnetic field B1, at its center when a current I passes through it. The second wire is bent into a coil with three identical loops adjacent to each other and produces magnetic field B2 at the centre of the loops when current I/3 passes through it. The ratio B1: B2 is:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Moving Charge in a Magnetic Field
A positive charge 'q' of mass 'm' is moving along the + x axis. We wish to apply a uniform magnetic field B for time t so that the charge reverses its direction crossing the y axis at a distance d. Then:
Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Law of Radioactive Decay
A piece of bone of an animal from a ruin is found to have 14C activity of 12 disintegrations per minute per gm of its carbon content. The 14C activity of a living animal is 16 disintegrations per minute per gm. How long ago nearly did the animal die? (Given half life of 14C is t1/2 = 5760 years)
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Periodic Motion & SHM Basics
Which of the following expressions corresponds to simple harmonic motion along a straight line, where x is the displacement and a, b, c are positive constants?
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Spherical Surfaces & Thin Lenses
The refractive index of the material of a concave lens is . It is immersed in a medium of refractive index 1. A parallel beam of light is incident on the lens. The path of the emergent rays when 1 > is:
Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Angular Momentum & its Conservation
A particle is moving in a circular path of radius a, with a constant velocity as shown in the figure. The center of circle is marked by 'C'. The angular momentum from the origin O can be written as:

Answer: (a)
Full solution and similar questions →Special Purpose Diodes
For LED's to emit light in visible region of electromagnetic light, it should have energy band gap in the range of:
Answer: (d)
Full solution and similar questions →Excess Pressure: Drops & Bubbles
Two soap bubbles coalesce to form a single bubble. If V is the subsequent change in volume of contained air and S the change in total surface area, T is the surface tension and P atmospheric pressure, which of the following relation is correct?
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Heat Engines, Refrigerators & Second Law
A Carnot engine absorbs 1000 J of heat energy from a reservoir at 127oC and rejects 600 J of heat energy during each cycle. The efficiency of engine and temperature of sink will be:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Units & Dimensions
From the following combinations of physical constant (expressed through their usual symbols) the only combination, that would have the same value in different systems of unit, is:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Doppler Effect
A source of sound A emitting waves of frequency 1800 Hz is falling towards ground with a terminal speed . The observer B on the ground directly beneath the source receives waves of frequency 2150 Hz, The source A receives waves, reflected from ground, of frequency nearly: (Speed of sound = 343 m/s)
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Biprism, Thin Films & Other Devices
Interference pattern is observed at 'P' due to superimposition of two rays coming out from a source 'S' as shown in the figure. The value of for which maxima is obtained at 'P' is: (R is perfect reflecting surface):

Answer: (c)
Full solution and similar questions →Diffraction at a Single Slit
In an experiment of single slit diffraction pattern, first minimum for red light coincides with first maximum of some other wavelength. If wavelength of red light is 6600 , then wavelength of first maximum will be:
Answer: (b)
Full solution and similar questions →Spring & Elastic Energy
A spring of unstretched length has a mass m with one end fixed to a rigid support. Assuming spring to be made of a uniform wire, the kinetic energy possessed by it if its free end is pulled with uniform velocity is:
Answer: (d)
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