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DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, CHANDIGARH

Sample Paper 2012-2013
Class : XI, Subject : Physics

Time: 3 hours MM: 70

General I nstructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Question numbers 1-8 are very short answer questions, carrying 1 mark each.
3. Question numbers 9-18 are short answer questions, each carrying 2 marks.
4. Question numbers 19-27 are also short answer questions, each carrying 3 marks.
5. Question numbers 28-30 are long answer questions, each carrying 5 marks.
6. Use of calculators is not permitted. However, you may use log tables, if necessary.
1. What is Random error?
2. What is the net force acting on a cork floating on water?
3. A spring is cut into two equal parts. What is the spring constant of each portion?

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4. Define coefficient of restitution.

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5. How does the value of acceleration due to gravity change when we move from
equator to poles?
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What happens to the potential energy of a gas during its expansion?
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7. Define wave function.
8. What is Doppler Effect in sound?
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9. Find number of joules in 10erg.

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10. A balloon is ascending at the rate of 14m/ s at a height of 98m above the ground
when a stone is dropped from it. After how much time and with what velocity the
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stone reaches the earth?

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11. A shell is fired at an angle of 300 to the horizontal with a velocity of 196m/ s. Find the
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time of flight and the maximum height attained.

12. What are the laws of limiting static friction?
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13. Find an expression for the rotational kinetic energy of a body.

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14. Explain Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.

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15. Find a relation between coefficient of linear expansion α and coefficient of superficial
expansion β.
16. What is a heat engine? Explain the efficiency of a heat engine.
17. State Zeroth law of thermodynamics. What are the conditions for an adiabatic
process to take place?
18. What is meant by resonance? Give two undesirable effects of resonance?
19. Drops of water fall from the roof of a building 9m high at regular intervals of time.
When the first drop reaches the bottom the fourth drop starts falling. Find the
distance of second and third drop from the roof.
20. What is work? Explain its types.
21. Kinetic energy of a body is changed by 100% . Find the percentage change in its
linear momentum.

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22. Find the location of centre of mass of CO molecule if the distance between the C and
O atoms in the molecule is 1.13 x 10-10m.
23. Find an expression for the angular momentum in Cartesian co-ordinate system.
24. What is geostationary satellite? How is it different from a polar satellite? What are
the conditions of a geostationary satellite?
25. State and prove Stoke’s law.
26. Explain conduction, convection, and radiation as the modes of transfer of heat.
27. John along with his friend Albert was coming back to his home from his office in a
bus when it started raining. The driver was driving the bus at high speed. When the
bus took a sharp turn it skid a little bit on the road. The driver had to control the bus
with great effort. John and his friend Albert advised the driver not to drive at high
speed especially on a rainy day and even on a normal day.
(a) Why did the bus skid when it took a sharp turn?
(b) What values do we get from these lines?

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28. Explain the applications of Bernoulli’s theorem.
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Explain linear, superficial, and cubical expansion.
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(a) Find an expression for the acceleration of a body moving up a rough surface.
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(b) Two masses m 1 and m 2 are tied to the two ends of an inextensible string and
placed over a frictionless pulley. Find an expression for the tension in the string and
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the acceleration of the masses.

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(a) A parachute of mass m is descending with a constant acceleration a. Find the

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mass which must be released from the parachute so that it starts ascending with
same acceleration.
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(b) A machine gun is mounted on the top of a car. The gun is firing 10 bullets per
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second each of mass 10g. The bullets are fired at a velocity of 500m/ s relative to
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the car. Find the acceleration and the force of the car at the instant when its
mass is 200kg.
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30. What is simple harmonic motion? Show that the motion of a dropped in a tunnel
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across the diameter of earth is simple harmonic in nature.

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(a) What are periodic functions? Are all periodic functions also harmonic in nature?
(b) What do you mean by superposition of waves? What is the condition for
formation of (i) standing waves (ii) beats?

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