Note: Section I is compulsory.

Attempt any three (3) questions front Section I1 and any three parts
from Section
(SECTION I)
Write short answers to any EIGHT questions:
Flow can you identify which plate of a capacitor is positively charged?
Suppose that you follow an electric field line due to a positive point charge. Do electric field
and the potential increase or decrease?
Electric lines of forces never cross. Why?
What is potential at the midpoint of line joining two1 opposite equal charges?
What is Lorentz force?
How can you use a magnetic field to separate isotopes of chemical element?
Why the resistance of an ammeter should be very low?
Is it possible to orient a current loop in a uniform magnetic field such that the loop will not
tend to rotate? Explain.
What is back emf?
Show the and t have the same units.
Can step up transformer increase the power level?
Flow would you position a flat loop of wire in a changing magnetic field so that there is no
emf induced in the loop?

Write short answers to any EIGHT questions:

How the reception of a particular radio station is selected on your radio set?
How does doubling the frequency affect the reactance of an inductor and a capacitor?
A 100 p F capacitor is connected to an alternating voltage of 24 volts and frequency 50 Hz.
Find its reactance.
What is Curie temperature? Explain it with an example.
Differentiate between elastic deformation and plastic deformation.
Differentiate between ductile and brittle substances. Give an example for each.
Why charge carriers are not present in the depletion region?
Why ordinary silicon diode does not emit light?
Why is the base current in a transistor very small?
Why does the resistance of conductor rise with temperature?
What are the difficulties in testing whether the filament of lighted bulb obeys Ohms law?
A charge of 90 coulomb passes through a wire in one hour and fifteen minutes. What is the
current in the wire?

Write short answers to any SIX questions:

Find the de-Broglei wavelength of a proton moving at a speed of 40 m/sec.
A beam of red light and a beam of blue light have exactly the same energy. Which beam
contains the greater number of photons? Explain.
State the postulates of special theory of relativity.
What do you mean when we say that the atom is excited?
Define spectroscopy.
What are isotopes? What do they have in common and what are their differences?
 Define half life of a radioactive element. Also write the relation between half life and decay
constant.
Differentiate between Hadrons and Leptons.
A particle which produces more ionization is less penetrating. Why?

(SECTION II)
Question
(a) What are electric potentials? Find the electric potential at a point due to a point charge.
(b) The resistance of an iron wire at 0C is 1 x 104 . What is the resistance at 500C if the
temperature coefficient of resistance of iron is 5.2 x 10-3K-1?
Question
(a) State Amperes law and find relation for magnetic field due to current carrying solenoid.
(b) A square coil of side 16cm has 200 turns and rotates in a uniform magnetic field of magnitude
0.05T. If the peak emf is 12V, what is the angular velocity of the coil?

Question
(a) Describe A.C. through a capacitive circuit and find the relation for the reactance of capacitor.1
(b) A wire 2.5 m long and cross-section area 10 -5 m2 is stretched 1.5 mm by a force of 100 N in the
elastic region. Calculate (i) The strain (ii) Youngs modulus

Question
(a) Explain use of diode as full wave rectifier.
(b)
Question

(a) Discuss mass defect and binding energy and explain the stability of nuclei on the basis of binding
energy.
(b) The wavelength of K.X-ray from copper is 1.377 x 10-10 m. What is the energy difference between
the two levels from which this transition results?