F Sc (2nd year) Physics MCQ’s Chapter # 17

CHAPTER # 17. PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

8. Substances which break just after the elastic
1. What is the S.I unit of modules of elasticity of limit is reached are called:
substances? a) Ductile substances
a) Nm-2 b) Hard substances
b) Jm-2 c) Soft substances
c) Nm-1 d) Brittle substances
d) Being number, it has no unit
9. Cure temperature for iron is:
2. The bands in atom containing conductive a) 0 ℃
electrons, according to “band theory of solids” b) 570 ℃
is c) 750 ℃
a) Conduction band d) 1025 ℃
b) Valance band
c) Forbidden band 10. The SI unit of stress is same as that of:
d) None of these a) Momentum
b) Pressure
3. The substances which have partially filled c) Force
conduction bands are called: d) Length
a) Insulators
b) Semi-conductors 11. Which of the following has least energy gap?
c) Conductors a) Conductors
d) Super conductors b) Insulators
c) Semi-conductors
4. What type of impurity is to be added to the d) None of these
semi-condutor material to provide holes:
a) Monovalent 12. A magnetism produced by electrons within an
b) Trivalent atom is due to:
c) Tetravalent a) Spin motion of electrons
d) Pentavalent b) Orbital motion of electrons
c) Both Spin and orbital motion of electrons
5. Which of the following is an example of d) Vibratory motion of electrons
ductile substances:
a) Lead 13. If the conductivity of a material is high, then it
b) Copper is:
c) Glass a) An insulator
d) Lead and copper b) A semi-conductor
c) A good conductor
6. When a stress changes the shape of a body, it d) A super condutor
is called:
a) Volumetric stress 14. A substance having empty conduction band is
b) Shear stress called:
c) Tensile stress a) Semi-conductor
d) Compressional strees b) Conductor
c) Insulator
7. The ration of applied stress to volumetric d) None of these
strain is called:
a) Young’s modulus 15. The stress that produces change in length is
b) Shear modulus known as:
c) Bulk modulus a) Tensile stress
d) Tensile modulus b) Shear stress
c) Volumetic stress
d) Longitudenal stress

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16. What are the dimensions of stress?

a) MLT-2 24. The energy band occupied by the valence
b) ML-2T-1 electrons is called ________
c) ML-1T-2 a) Energy state
d) MLoT-1 b) Valence band
c) –ve energy state
17. Which one of the following physical quantities d) Conduction band
does not have the dimensions of force per
unit? 25. the substances having negative temperature
a) Stress coefficient of resistance is called:
b) Strains a) Conductors
c) Young’s modulus b) Insulators
d) Pressure c) Semi-conductor
d) None of these
18. Germanium is:
a) semi-conductor 26. The Curie temperature is that at which ______
b) conductor a) Semi conductor becomes conductors
c) insulator b) Ferromagnetic becomes paramagnetic
d) none of these c) Paramagnetic becomes diamagnetic
d) Metal becomes super conductor
19. unit of strain is:
𝑁 27. Materials in which valence electrons are
a) 𝑚 2
𝑁 tightly bound to their atoms at low temperature
b) 𝑚 are called _________
c) 𝑁 𝑚 a) Semi conductors
d) 𝑛𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡 b) Super conductors
c) Insulators
20. At curie temperature, iron becomes: d) Conductors
a) Ferromagnet
b) Diamagnet 28. The band theory of solids explains
c) Paramagnet satisfactorily the nature of
d) Super-conductor a) Electrical insulators alone
21. Materials that undergo plastic deformation b) Electrical conductors alone
before breaking are called ___________ c) Electrical semi conductors alone
a) Brittle d) All of the above
b) Ductile
c) Amorphous 29. A vacant or partially filled band is called
d) Polymers _____
a) Conduction band
22. Formation of large molecule by joining b) Valence band
small molecules is __________ c) Forbidden band
a) Fusion d) Empty band
b) Polymerization
c) Crystallization 30. A completely filled or partially filled band is
d) Subtraction called _______
a) Conduction band
23. Any alteration produced in shapes, length or b) Valence band
volume when a body is subjected to some c) Forbidden band
external force is called __________ d) Core band
a) Stiffness
b) Ductility
c) extension
d) deformation

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31. Which one has the greatest energy gap 39. The temperature at which conductors lose its
_______ resistivity is called
a) Semi-conductors a) Supper temperature
b) Conductors b) Kelvin temperature
c) Metals c) Critical temperature
d) Non-metals d) None

32. With increase in temperature, the 40. The magnetic domains are the small regions of
electrical conductivity of intrinsic semi conductors the order of
______ a) Millimeter
a) Decreases b) Micrometer
b) Increases c) Micron
c) Remain the same d) None of these
d) First increases, then decreases
41. N-type semi-conductor is obtained by doping
33. Holes can exists in_________ intrinsic semi-conductors with ___________
a) Conductors a) Tetravalent impurity atom
b) Insulators b) Trivalent impurity atom
c) Semi conductors c) Pentavalent impurity atom
d) All of the above d) Hexavalent impurity atom

34. In a semi conductors, the charge carriers 42. The first supper conductor was discovered by
are __________ a) Fermi
a) Holes only b) Kmaerling
b) Electrons only c) Weinberg
c) Electrons and holes both d) None
d) All of the above
43. Examples of brittle substances are
35. The net charge on N-type material is a) Glass
________ b) Copper
a) Positive c) Lead
b) Negative d) None
c) Both a & b
d) Neutral 44. Example of crystalline solids are also
a) Metals
36. The most stable material for making b) Ionic compounds
permanent magnet is: c) Ceramics
a) Iron d) All of them
b) Steel
c) Aluminum 45. a semi-conductor will behave as insulator
d) Copper when:
a) High potential difference is applied
37. Pentavalent impurities are called b) When its temperature is 0 k
a) Donor impurities c) Pentavalent impurity added
b) Acceptor impurities d) Trivalent impurity added
c) Sometimes donor and some times
d) Acceptors 46. The field of long bar magnet is like a
a) Solenoid
38. Minority carriers in N-type materials are b) Toroid
a) Electrons c) Pieces of magnet
b) Protons d) None
c) Neutrons
d) Holes

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47. The curie temperature of Iron is

a) 600oC 55. A current which demagnetize the material
b) 650oC completely is called
c) 700oC a) Applied current
d) 750oC b) Coercive current
c) Maximum current
48. The examples of diamagnetic are d) None of these
a) Water
b) Copper 56. The energy need to magnetize and
c) Antimony demagnetize the specimen during the each
d) All of them cycle of magnetizing current is
a) Value of current
49. Strain is dimensionless and has b) Value of demagnetizing current
a) Units c) Value of magnetic flux density
b) No units d) Area of the loop
c) S.I units
d) None 57. The temperature below which resistivity of
some materials becomes zero, is called:
50. The electrons occupying the outermost shell of a) Kelvin temperature
an atom and the electrons occupying in the b) Critical temperature
energy band are called c) Absolute zero temperature
a) Energy band d) Limiting temperature
b) Valence band
c) Forbidden energy band 58. A well known example of an intrinsic semi-
d) None of these conductor is:
a) Germanium
51. Conductors are those materials in which the b) Phosphorous
free electrons c) Aluminum
a) Very large d) Cobalt
b) Very small
c) Plenty of 59. The critical temperature for mercury is:
d) None of these a) 7.2 K
b) 4.2 K
52. The magnetism produced by electrons within c) 1.18 K
an atom is due to d) 3.7 K
a) Spin motion 60. Holes can exist in:
b) Orbital motion a) Super conductors
c) Spin & orbital motion b) Conductors
d) None of these c) Semi-conductors
d) Insulators
53. The combination of solenoid and a specimen
of iron inside it make a powerful magnet
called
a) Horse shoe magnet
b) Bar magnet
c) Electromagnet
d) None of these
54. the substance in which the atoms don’t form
magnetic dipole are called:
a) ferromagnetic
b) paramagnetic
c) diamagnetic
d) conductors