APEEJAY SCHOOL, FARIDABAD

TERM - I EXAMINATION, 2024-25

PRACTICE PAPER
CLASS: XI
SUBJECT- PHYSICS
Maximum Marks: 70 Time Allowed: 3 hours.
General Instructions:
(1) There are 33 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
(2) This question paper has five sections: Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D and Section E.
(3) All the sections are compulsory.
(4) Section A contains sixteen questions, twelve MCQ and four Assertion Reasoning based of 1 mark
each, Section B contains five questions of two marks each, Section C contains seven questions of three
marks each, Section D contains two case study-based questions of four marks each and Section E
contains three long answer questions of five marks each.
(5) There is no overall choice.
(6) Use of calculators is not allowed.
SECTION-A
1. A force F is given by F = at + bt², where t is time. What are the dimensions of a and b? 1
(a) MLT-1 and MLT0
(b) MLT-3 and ML2T4
(c) MLT-4 and MLT1
(d) MLT-3 and MLT-4
2. A 180-metre-long train is moving due north at a speed of 25 m/s. A small bird is flying duesouth, 1
a little above the train, with a speed of 5 m/s. The time taken by the bird to cross the train is
(a) 10 s
(b) 12 s
(c) 9 s
(d) 6 s
3. A machine gun fires a bullet of mass 40 g with a velocity of 1200 ms-1. The man holding it can 1
exert a maximum force on 144 N on the gum. How many maximum no of bullets can he fire per
second?
(a) one
(b) four
(c) two
(d) three
4. The value of g at a particular point is 9.8 m/sec² suppose the earth suddenly shrink uniformlyto 1
half its present size without losing any mass. The value of g at the same point (assuming that the
distance of the point from the centre of the earth does not shrink) will become
(a) 9.8 m/sec²
(b) 4.9 m/sec²
(c) 19.6 m/sec²
(d) 2.45 m/sec²
5. What is the ratio of the average acceleration during the intervals OA and AB in the velocity- 1
time graph as shown below?
 (a) ½
(b) ⅓
(c) 1
(d) 3
6. A ball is thrown upward with a certain speed. It passes through the same point at 3 second and 7 1
second from the start. The maximum height achieved by the ball is:
a) 500 m
b) 250 m
c) 125 m
d) 450 m

7. The angle of projection, for which the horizontal range and the maximum height of a projectile are 1
equal, is:
(a) 45°
(b) T = tan–14
(c) T = tan–1 (0.25)
(d) none of these.
8. According to Galileo’s experiment for a double inclined plane, if slope of second plane is zero and 1
planes are smooth, then a ball is released from rest on one of the planes rolls down and move on the
second plane …X… distance. Here, X is
(a) zero
(b) infinite
(c) equal to length of first plane
(d) None of these
9. The coefficient of restitution e for a perfectly elastic collision is 1
(a) 1
(b) 0
(c) infinity
(d) –1
10. A stationary bomb explodes into two parts of masses 3kg and 1kg. The total KE of the two part after 1
explosion is 2400 J. The KE of smaller part is
(a) 600 J
(b) 1800 J
(c) 1200 J
(d) 2160 J

11. The sum of kinetic and potential energy is when a missile is launched with a velocity less than the 1
escape velocity.

(a) 0
(b) Negative
(c) Positive
(d) None of these options

12. If the radius of earth is decreased keeping its mass constant, then the length of day will 1
(a) decrease
(b) Increase
(c) remain same
(d) cannot say

For Questions 13 to 16, two statements are given –one labelled Assertion (A) and other labelled
Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the options as given below.
a) If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is correct explanation of Assertion.
 b) If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
c) If Assertion is true but Reason is false.
d) If Assertion is false but Reason is true
13. Assertion: In projectile motion, the angle between the instantaneous velocity and 1
acceleration at the highest point is 180°.
Reason: At the highest point, velocity of projectile will be in horizontal direction only.
14. Assertion : If earth suddenly stops rotating about its axis, then the value of acceleration due to gravity 1
will become same at all the places.
Reason : The value of acceleration due to gravity depends upon the rotation of the earth.
15. Assertion: A man rowing a boat upstream is at rest with respect to the bank. He is doing no external 1
work.
Reason : Work done by constant force, W = F s cos θ
16. Assertion: A body becomes massless at the centre of earth. 1
Reason : This follows from g’ = g (1 – d/R)
SECTION-B
17. The oscillations of a simple pendulum depend on 2
(i) mass of the bob (m),
(ii) length of the string (1),
(iii) acceleration due to gravity (g)
Dimensionally show which of the above factors here had an influence upon the period and inwhat way?
18. An object is in uniform motion along a straight line. What will be its position-time graph if 2
(a) x0 = +ve, v = +ve,
(b) x0 = +ve, v = – ve,
The letters x0 and v represent the position of the object at time t = 0 and the uniform velocity of the
object respectively.
19. Find the value of p so that the vectors A=2 i + p j + k and B=4 i – 2 j -2 k are perpendicular to each 2
other.
20. Given figures are examples of some potential energy functions in one dimension. The total energy of 2
the particle is indicated by a cross on the ordinate axis. In each case, specify the regions, if any, in
which the particle cannot be found for the given energy. Also, indicate the minimum total energy the
particle must have in each case.

21. How far from Earth’s surface does the value of g decrease to 4 of its value on Earth’s surface, given 2
that the Earth’s radius is 6400 kilometres?
SECTION-C
22. Which of the following is a one-dimensional motion ? 3
(a) Motion of train running on a straight track (b) Motion of satellite (c) Motion of air particle (d)
Motion of snake
23. A projectile is fired horizontally with a velocity of 98 ms-1 from the top of a hill 490 m high. 3
Find:
(i) the velocity with which it strikes the ground.
(ii) the time is taken to reach the ground.
(iii) the distance of the target from the hill.
24. A mass of 4 kg is suspended by a rope of length 30 m from the ceiling. A force of 30 N in the horizontal 3
direction is applied at the mid-point of the rope. What is the angle, the rope makeswith the vertical in
equilibrium? Take g = 10 ms-2 and neglect the mass of the rope.
25. (a) State & prove work-energy theorem 3
(b) What is the source of the kinetic energy of the falling raindrops?
26. Figure shows the position-time graph of a particle of mass 4 kg. What is the (a) force on the particle for 3
t < 0, t > 4 s, 0 < t < 4 s? (b) impulse at t = 0 and t = 4 s? (Consider one-dimensional motion only).

27. A man can swim with a speed of 4.0 km h-1 in still water. How long does he take to cross a river 1.0 km 3
wide if the river flows steadily at 3.0 km h-1 and he makes his strokes normal to the river current? How
far down the river does he go when he reaches the other bank?
28. Figure gives the x-t plot of a particle executing one-dimensional simple harmonic motion. Give the 3
signs of position, velocity and acceleration variables of the particle at t = 0.3 s, 1.2 s, - 1.2 s.

SECTION-D
29. Read the passage given below and answer the following questions:
The time rate of change of position of the object in any direction is called speed of the object If an
object covers equal distances in equal intervals of time, then its speed is called uniform speed andifit
covers unequal distances in equal intervals of time, then its speed is called nonuniform or variable
speed. The ratio of the total distance travelled by the object to the total time taken is called average
speed of the object. The speed may be positive or zero but never negative. The speed-time graph of a
particle moving along a fixed direction is shown in following Fig.

(i) Distance travelled by the particle between 0 to 10 seconds

(a) 60 m (b) 50 m (c) 120 m (d) zero 1
(ii) Average speed between time interval 0 to 10 s 1
(a) 12 m/s (b) 6 m/s (c) 10 m/s (d) 60 m/s
(iii) The time when the speed was minimum 1
(a) at t = 0 s and t = 5 s (b) at t = 5 s and t = 20 s (c) at t = 5 s and t = 10 s (d) at t = 0 s and t = 10 s
(iv) The time when speed was maximum 1
(a) t = 0 s (b) t = 5 s(c) t = 10 s (d) t = 12 s
30. Read the passage given below and answer the following questions:
When we purchase a car, we are interested in the horse power of its engine. We know that an engine
with large horse power is the most effective in accelerating the automobile.
In many cases it is useful to know not just the total amount of work being done, but how
fast the work is done. We define power as the rate at which work is being done. Efficiency of
machine is defined as the ratio of work done by the machine to the work-done on the
machine in terms of power it may be written as efficiency equals to output power per unit time / Input
 power per unit time.
Answer the following questions:
(i) A lift of mass 200 kg moves upward with uniform velocity of 4.0 m/sec. If the efficiency 1
of motor is 70% the input power of the motor is.
(a) 11.20 KW (b) 7.84 KW (c) 5.49 KW (d) 4.63 KW
(ii) An engine pulls a car of mass 1500 kg on a level road at a constant speed of 5 ms-1. If the 1
frictional force is 500 N. What power does the engine generate?
(a) 5.0 KW (b) 7.5 KW (c) 10 KW (d) 2.5 KW
(iii) Where is the energy of a vertically projected body maximum? 1
(iv) Does the work done in raising a load onto a platform depend upon how fast it is raised? 1
SECTION-E
31. (a) Discuss the motion of a vehicle on a level road having a circular turn. 5
(b) What is the need for the banking of circular roads/tracks?
(c) An aircraft executes a horizontal loop at a speed of 720km/h with its wings banked at 30°.What is
the radius of the loop?
32. (a) State and prove parallelogram law of vector addition for coinitial vectors. Discuss the case of 5
maximum resultant.
(b) A man wants to cross the river to an exactly opposite point on the other bank. If he can row his
boat with twice the velocity of the current, then at what angle to the current, he must keep the boat
pointed.
33. (a) Derive an expression for acceleration due to gravity Earth at a height h above the surface of earth. 5
(b) Does the escape speed of a body from the earth depend on
(i) the mass of the body, (ii) the location from where it is projected,
(iii) the direction of projection, (iv) the height of the location from where the body is launched?
(c) A planet orbits around the Sun twice as fast as the Earth. What would be its orbital size as
compared to that of the Earth?