SRI MEDHAVI JUNIOR COLLEGE :: CHIRALA

SENIOR INTER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

PHYSICS
1. WAVES
1. Explain the formation of stationary waves in an air column enclosed in open pipe. Derive the equations for
the frequencies of the harmonics produced?
2. How are stationary waves formed in closed pipes? Explain the various modes of vibration and relations for
their Frequencies.
3. What is Doppler effect? Obtain an expression for the apparent Frequency of sand heard when the source is
in motion with Respect to an observer at rest?
4. What is Doppler shift? Obtain an expression for the apparent frequency of sand heard when the observer is
in motion with respect to a source at rest.
5. Explain the formation of stationary waves in stretched strings and hence deduce the laws of transverse
waves in stretched strings.
2. CURRENT ELECTRICITY
6. State kirchoff’s law for an electrical network. Using these laws deduce the condition for balance in a
wheatstone bridge.
7. State the working principle of potentiometer. Explain with the help of circuit diagram how the emf of two
primary cells are compared by using the potentiometer.
8. State the working principle of potentiometer. Explain with the help of circuit diagram how the potentiometer
is used to determine the internal resistance of the given primary cell?
3. NUCLEI
9. Explain the principle and working of a Nuclear reactor with the help of a labeled diagram.
10. What is radioactivity? State the law of radioactive decay. Show the radioactive decay is exponential in
nature.
11. Explain the source of stellar energy. Explain the carbon – nitrogen cycle, proton – proton cycle occurring in
stars.
4. RAY OPTICS
12. Explain the formation of a ‘mirage’.
13. Explain the formation of a ‘Rainbow’.
14. Define focal length of a concave mirror. Prove that the radius of cornature of a corcave mirror is double its
focal length.
15. Define critical angle. Explain total internal reflection using a neat diagram?
16. Why does the setting sun appear red?
17. With a neat labelled diagram explain the formation of image in a simple mivroscope?
18. What is the position of the object for a simple microscope? What is the maximum magnification of a simple
microscope for a realistic focal length?
 5. WAVE OPTICS
19. Derive the expression for the intensity at a point where interference of light occurs. Arrive at the conditions
for maximum and zero intensity?
20. How do you determine the resolving power of your eye?
21. Explain Doppler effect in light. Distinguish between red shift and blue shift.
22. Does the principle of conservation of energy hold for interference and diffraction phenomena? Explain
briefly?
23. Discuss the intensity of transmitted light when a Polaroid sheet is rotated between two crossed polaroids.
6. ELECTRIC CHARGES & FIELDS
24. State Gauss, law in electrostatics and explain its importance?
25. Derive on expression for the intensity of the electric field at a point on the axial line of an electric dipole?
26. Derive an expression for the intensity of the electric field at a point on the equatorial plane of an electric
dipole.
27. Define intensity of electric field at a point. Derive an expression for the intensity due to a point charge?
28. Derive the equation for the couple acting on an electric dipole in a uniform electric field?
29. State and explain Coulomb’s law in electricity.
7. ELECTRIC POTENTIAL & CAPACITE
30. Derive an expression for the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor?
31. Explain series and parallel combination of capacitors. Derive the formula for equivalent capacitance in each
combination.
32. Derive an expression for the electric potential due to a point charge.
33. Explain the behavior of dielectrics in an external fied.
8. MOVING CHARGES & MAGNETISON
34. State and explain Bio – Savart law?
35. Derive an expression for the magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron?
36. What are the basic components of a cyclotron? Mention its uses?
37. Find the magnetic induction due to a long current carrying conductor?
38. Derive an expression for the magnetic induction at the centre of a current carrying circular coil using Biot –
Savart law.
39. A current of 10 A passes through two very long wires held parallel to each other and separated by a distance
of 1m.What is the force per unit length between them?
9. ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
40. Describe the ways in which Eddy currents are used to advantage?
41. Obtain an expression for the emf induced across a conductor which is moved in a uniform magnetic field
which is perpendicular to the plane of motion?
42. Obtain an expression for the mutual inductance of two long Loaxial solenoids?
43. Obtain an expression for the magnetic energy stored in a solenoid in terms of the magnetic field, area and
length at the solenoid?
10. ATOMS
44. Explain the different types of spectral series?
45. What are the limitations of Bohr’s theory of hydrogen atom?
46. Derive an expression for potential and kinetic energy at an electron in any orbit of a hydrogen atom
according to Bohr’s atomic model. How does P.E. change with increasing n?
47. Describe Rutherford atom model. What are the draw backs of this model?
48. Write a short note on deBroglie’s explanation of Bohr’s second postulate of quantization.
11. SEMI CONDUCTOR
49. Describe now a semi conductor diode is used as a half wave rectifier?
50. What is rectification? Explain the working of a fallwave wave rectifier.
51. Distinguish between half – wave and full wave rectifier.
52. Draw and explain the current – voltage (1 – v) characteristic curves of a junction diode in forward and
reversebias?
53. (i) What are n – type and p – type semi conductors?
(ii) How is a semi conductor Junction formed?
54. Define NAND and NOR gates. Give their truth tables?
55. Explain the operation of not gate and give its truch tables?
56. Explain the working of LED and what are its advantages over conventional incandescent low power lamps?
57. Explain the working of solar cell and draw I – V characterstics.
PROBLEMS
1. A stretched wire of length 0.6 m is observed to vibrate with a frequency of 30 Hz in the fundamental mode.
If the string has a linear mass of 0.05 kg/m. find (a) the velocity of propagation of transverse waves in the
string (b) the tension in the string.
2. A closed organ pipe 70cm long is sounded. If the velocity of sound is 331m/s, what is the fundamental
frequency of vibration of the air column?
3. Two organ pipes of lengths 65 cm and 70 cm respectively, are sounded simultaneously. How many beats
per second will be produced between the fundamental frequencies of the two pipes?
(velocity of sound = 330m/s)
4. A steel wire 0.72m long has a mass of 5.0 × 10-3 kg. If the wire is under a tension of 60N. What is the speed
of transverse waves on the wire?
5. A wire of resistance 4R is bent in the form of a circle. What is the effective resistance between the ends of
the diameter?
6. In a potentiometer arrangement, a cell of emf 1.25V gives a balance point at 35.0cm length of the wire. If
the cell is replaced by another cell and the balance point shifts to 63.0cm, what is the emf of the second sell?
7. A battery of emf 10V and internal resistance 3Ω is connected to a resistor. If the current in the circuit is
0.5A. What is the resistance of the resistor? What is the terminal voltage of the battery when the circuit is
closed?
8. A cylindrical metallic wire is stretched to increase its length by 5%, calculate the percentage change in
resistance.
9. A current of 10A passes through two very long wires held parallel to each other and separated by a distance
of 1m. what 1 the force per unit length between them?
10. A 100 turn closely wound circular coil of radius 10cm carries a current of 3.2. a) What is the field at the
centre of the coil? b) What is the magnetic moment of the coil?
11. If the Earth’s magnetic field at the equator is about 410 -5T. What is its appropriate magnetic dipole moment?
(Radius of Earth = 6.4 × 106m)
12. The horizontal component of the earth’s magnetic field at a certain place is 2.6 × 10-5T and the angle of dip
is 600. What is the magnetic field of the earth at this location?
13. Current in a circuit falls from 5.0A to 0.0A in 0.1 sec. If an average emf of 200 V is induced, give an
estimate of the self – inductance of the circuit.
14. A pair of adjacent coils has a mutual inductance of 1.5H. If the current in one coil changes from 0 to 20A in
0.5s. What is the change of flux linkage with the other coil?
15. A power transmission line feeds input power at 2300V to a step down transformer with its primary windings
having 4000turns. What should be the number of turns in the secondary in order to get output power at
230V?
16. What is the de Broglie wave length associated with an electron, accelerated through a potential difference of
100 volts?
17. The work function of caesium is 2.14 eV. Find (a) the threshold frequency for caesium, and (b) the
wavelength of the incident light if the photocurrent is brought to zero by a stopping potential of 0.60V.
18. The wavelength of first member of Balmer series is 6563A. Calculate the wavelength of second member of
Lyman series.
19. A potentiometer wire is 5m long and a potential difference of 6V is maintained between its ends. Find the
emf of a cell which balances against a length of 180cm of the potentiometer wire.
2 MARKS
RAY OPTICS
1. What is dispersion? Which colour gets relatively more dispersed?
2. What is myopia? How can it be corrected?
3. What is hypermetropia? How can it be corrected?
4. What is optical density and how is it different from mass density?
5. Define ‘power’ of a convex lens. What is its unit?
6. Define focal length and redius of curvature of a concave lens.
7. A small angled prism of 40 deviates a ray through 2.480. Find the refractive index of the prism.
MOVING CHARGES
8. Distinguish between ammeter and voltmeter.
9. How do you convert a moving coil galvanometer into an ammeter?
10. How do you convert a moving coil galvanometer into a voltmeter?
11. What is the principle of a moving coil galvanometer?
12. What is the smallest value of current that can be measured with a moving coil galvanometer?
13. What is the importance of Oersted’s experiment?
14. State Ampere’s law and Biot – Savart law.
15. A circular coil of radius r having N turns carries a current i. What is its magnetic moment?
16. What is the force on a conductor of length L carrying a current I place in a magnetic field of induction B?
when does it become maximum?
MAGNETISM & MATTER
17. Define magnetic inclination of angle of dip.
18. Define magnetic declination.
19. Define Magnetic susceptibility. Mention its unit.
20. What happens to compass needles at the Earth’s pole?
21. Magnetic lines form continuous closed loops. Why?
22. What is the magnetic moment associated with a solenoid?
23. What are units of magnetic moment, magnetic induction and magnetic field?
ALTERNATING CURRENT
24. What is the phenomenon involved in the working of a transformer?
25. What type of transformer is used in a 6 V bed lamp?
26. What is transformer ratio?
27. A transformer converts 200V AC into 2000V AC. Calculate the number of turns in the secondary if the
primary has 10 turns.
28. Write the expression for the reactance of (i) an inductor (ii) a capacitor.
29. What is the phase difference between AC emf and AC current in the following.
30. What does an LCR series circuit have minimum impedance?
ELECTRO MAGNETIC WAVES
31. Give two uses of infrared rays.
32. Microwaves are used in Radars. Why?
33. What is the average wavelength of X – rays?
34. What are applications of microwaves?
35. How are micro waves produced?
36. If the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation is doubled, what happens to the energy of photon?
DUAL NATURE OF RADIATION & MATTER
37. What are Cathode rays?
38. What important fact did Millikan’s experiment establish?
39. What is work function?
40. What is photoelectric effect?
41. Give examples of photosensitive substances. Why are they called so?
42. Write down Einstein’s photoelectric equation.
43. Write down deBroglie’s relation and explain the terms therein.
44. State Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.
SEMI CONDUCTORS
45. What is an n – type semiconductor? What are the majority and minority charge carriers in it?
46. What are intrinsic and extrinsic semi – conductors?
47. What is a p – type semiconductor? What are the majority and minority charge carriers in it?
48. Draw the circuit symbols for p – n – p and n – p – n transistors.
49. Define amplifier and amplification factor.
50. Which gates are called universal gates?
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
51. Define modulation. Why is it necessary?
52. Mention the basic methods of modulation.
53. What is ‘World Wide Web’ (WWW)?
54. Which type of communication is employed in Mobile Phones?
55. Mention the frequency range of speech signals.
56. What is sky wave propagation?
57. What are the basic blocks of a communication system?