NAIDU SCIENCE COLLEGE

1ST YEAR ANNUAL PAPER

PHYSICS
TIME= 3HRS

F.M=70
SECTION-A

(1) Answer All Questions

(1 X 10=10)

(i) Write down the dimension of Boltzmann constant

(a) [T-1] (b) [M1L2T-2K-1]
(c) [M1L2T-2A-1]
(ii) What is the length of a seconds pendulum?
(a) 1m
(b) 103cm
(c)1cm

(d)[M1L2T-2K-1]
(d)1/100 m

(iii)What is the distance between a node and an antinode?

(a)
(b) /2
(c) /4

(d) /6

(iv)If the rise of height in two capillary tubes is 6.6cm and 2.2 cm, then the ratio of the first to second tube is
(a)1:1 (b) 3:1
(c) 1:3
(d) 2:1
(v) A closed bottle containing water at 300C is carried to the moon surface in a space ship. What will happen to the
water if the lid is opened on the moon surface?
(a) Water will boil (b) nothing will happen (c) water will decompose (d) water will freeze.
(vi)Centripetal force varies inversely as the ____________of time period of rotation.
(a) Square (b) Cube(d) Square root
(d) Inverse.
(vii)The K.E of a 2 kg mass and a 4 kg mass is the same. What is the ratio of the volume of 4kg mass to that of 2 kg
mass.
(a)

(b)

(c) 2 (d) 1

(viii)What is the angle between velocity and acceleration of a projectile at its highest point,
(a) 00
(b) 1800
(c) 900 (d)600
(ix)Convert 1200 F to Kelvin.
(a) 2897K
(b) 270K

(c) 2890 k (d) 2907 K

(x)What is the angular velocity of hour hand of a clock in rad/sec.

(a)

3600

(b)

2
3600

(c)

1800

(d)

60

2. Answer all

(1x10=10)

(i) What is the pressure inside a soap bubble in comparison to a liquid drop.
(ii) Under what condition

A .
B =0

(iii) A cyclist is moving with a velocity vturns along a circular path of radius r . His inclination with the vertical is
given by _________________________.
(iv) How does trees draw water from ground?
(v) Acceleration of a body is given by the slope of the position-time graph.

(change the underlined word if necessary

(vi) Action and reaction _________________ act on same body
(vii) Concept of temperature follow from ___________________ law of thermodynamics
(viii) Angle of contact for water glass pair is acute.
( change the underlined word if necessary)
(ix) how does velocity of sound in air vary with pressure?
(x) What is the unit and dimension of thermal conductivity?
SECTION-B
3. Answer any five

(2x5=10)

(i) A ball is thrown vertically upwards. Draw its height time and velocity time graph.
(ii) At what angle a+b and a-b act so that their resultant is

3 a2+ b2

(iii) A force of 7N acts on a body for 1min. What is te change in momentum produced in the body?
(iv) A very heavy body moving wit velocity 10m/s makes a head on collision with a very light body at rest. Treating
the collision to be elastic, find the velocities of the two after collision.
(v) Define angle of repose and show that it is equal to angle of friction.
(vi) What is the significance of Reynolds number?
(vii) How does the principle of Bernoullis equation explain lift of an aeroplane
(viii) A projectile is projected with a velocity u at an angle of

45 with the horizontal .What will be its kinetic

energy at the highest point?

(4) Answer any three

(3x3=9)

(i) Distinguish between a progressive and a stationary wave

(ii) What is terminal velocity and derive the formula for it.
(iii) What is Torricellis theorem derive it.
(iv) A wave is represented by y= 5 sin2(t/0.05 0.05x) find the wave length , amplitude, frequency and velocity of
the wave
(v) Prove that in S.H.M acceleration is directly proportional to the displacement.
(vi) What is equation of continuity. A liquid is flowing through a horizontal pipe of varying cross-section . the
velocity of flow is 25cm/s at a point, where the diameter of the pipe is 5cm .what will be the velocity of flow at
another pt. where the diameter is 1cm
SECTION C
(5) Write any three postulates of kinetic theory of gas . Deduce the expression for the pressure of an ideal gas on the
basis of kinetic theory of gases. (3+4)
OR
(b) Define surface tension and surface energy . Establish the relation between them and derive the expression for the
rise of water in a capillary tube. (2+2+3)
(6)(a) Two bodies of masses m1 and m2 moving with velocities u1 and u2 collide elastically . Calculate their
velocities after the collision. Discuss the case when (i) m1 and m2 (ii) m1 >> m2 (iii) m1<<m2. (4+3)
OR
(b) What is a centripetal force. Write its magnitude and direction and derive the velocity of a vehicle, moving in a
banked road with necessary diagram. (2+1+4)
(7)(a) What is Newtons formula for velocity of sound in air and give the Laplace correction for it.(4+3)
OR
(b) What is a simple pendulum and derive the expression for the time period of a simple pendulum. What is the nth
harmonic in case of a stretched string? (1+4+2)