TIFR Paper 2019 PDF

fiziks
Institute for NET/JRF, GATE, IIT‐JAM, M.Sc. Entrance, JEST, TIFR and GRE in Physics

TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH
GS 2019 ADMISSION TEST
Instructions for candidates for Integrated Ph.D. Programme in Physics

PLEASE READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT
THE QUESTIONS
 This test consists of TWO sections.
 SECTION A comprises 25 questions, numbered Q1 - Q25
These are questions on basic topics.
 SECTION B comprises 15 questions, numbered Q1 - Q15
These may require somewhat more thought/knowledge.
 ALL questions are Multiple-Choice Type. In each case, ONLY ONE option is correct.
Answer them by clicking the radio button next to the relevant option.
 If your calculated answer does not match any of the given options exactly, you may mark the
closest one if it is reasonably close.
 The grading scheme will be as follows:
Section A : +3 marks if correct; –1 mark if incorrect; 0 marks if not attempted
Section B : +5 marks if correct; 0 marks if incorrect or not attempted,
i.e. NO negative marks.
H.No. 40-D, Ground Floor, Jia Sarai, Near IIT, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
Website: www.physicsbyfiziks.com | Email: fiziks.physics@gmail.com
1
fiziks

SECTION A
Q1. Which of the following operations will transform a tetrahedron ABCD with vertices as listed
below z z
D
C
A A
C y B y
B D
x x
x y z
A 0 0 0
B 1 0 0
C 0 1 0
D 0 0 2
Into a tetrahedron ABCD with vertices as listed below
x y z
A 0 0 0
B 0 1 0
C 0 0 1
D 2 0 0
Up to suitable translation?

(a) A reflection in the xy plane, then a rotation about x axis by
2
(b) A reflection in the yz plane, then a rotation about xy plane

(c) A rotation about y axis by , then a reflection in the xz plane
2
 
(d) A rotation about x axis by then a rotation about z axis by
2 2
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
2
fiziks

Q2. A particle moving in one dimension, is placed in an asymmetric square well potential V  x  as
sketched below:
a V  x  a
x
The probability density p  x  in the ground state will most closely resemble
p p
(a) (b)
x x
0 a a 0 a a
p p
(c) (d)
x x
0 a a 0 a a
Q3. In a one-dimensional system, the boundary condition that the derivative of the wave function
  x  should be continuous at every point is applicable whenever
(a) There are bound or scattering states with definite momentum
(b) There is abound state and the potential is piecewise continuous.
(c) The wave function   x  is itself continuous everywhere
(d) There is a bounded state and the potential has no singularity anywhere
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
3
fiziks

Q4. A British coin has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the heads side and ‘ONE POUND’ written
on the tails side, while an Indian coin has a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the heads side and 10
RUPEES written on the tails side (see below)
These two coins are tossed simultaneously twice in succession.

The result of the first toss was ‘heads’ for both the coins. The probability that the result of the
second toss had a 10 RUPEES side is
1 4 2 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 7 3 5
Q5. The sketch shown below illustrates the apparatus and results for a famous experiment. The graph
on the right is a polar plot of the number of electrons received in the detector.
00 300
ELECTRON GUN G
D 
I  
Incident beam
DETECTOR 500
 700
T 900
Ni
(a) Electrons have spin half
(b) Electrons in a beam can behave as waves
(c) There are magnetic domains inside a nickel sample
(d) The energy levels of atoms in a metal are quantized
Q6. A beam of high energy neutrons is scattered from a metal lattice, where the spacing between
nuclei is around 0.4 nm . In order to see quantum diffraction effects, the energy of the neutrons
must be around
(a) 7.85 MeV (b) 5.11 meV (c) 78.5 meV (d) 511 keV
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
4
fiziks

Q7. Drawing power from a 12V car battery a 9V stabilized DC voltage is required to power a car
stereo system, attached to the terminals A and B , as shown in the figure.
If a Zener diode with ratings V2  9V and Pmax  0.27 W , is connected as shown in the figure, for
the above purpose, the minimum series resistance RS must be
RS
A
12V Vz  9 V RL
B
(a)111 (b) 97  (c)100  (d)103
Q8. Consider the following linear model of a molecule of hydrogen cyanide  HCN  depicted below
H C N
It follows that the molar specific heat of hydrogen cyanide gas at constant pressure must be
(a) 4.5 R (b) 5 R (c) 5.5 R (d) 6 R
Q9. A circular coil of conducting wire of radius a and n turns is placed in a uniform magnetic field

B along the axis of the coil and is then made to undergo simple harmonic oscillations along the
direction of the axis. The current through the coil will be best described by
(a) i t  (b) i t 
0 0
t t
i t  i t 
(c) (d)
0 0
t t
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
5
fiziks

Q10. Two bodies A and B of equal mass are suspended from two rigid supports by separate massless
springs having spring constants k1 and k2 respectively. If the bodies oscillate
vertically such that their maximum velocities are equal the ratio of the k1 k2
amplitude of oscillations of A to that of B is
A B
k k k k
(a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 1 (d) 2
k1 k2 k2 k1
Q11. An ideal gas engine is run according to the cycle shown in the s  T diagram below, where the
process from D to A is known to be isochoric (i.e. maintaining V  constant)
S D
A
B C
T
the corresponding cycle in the p  V diagram will most closely resemble
p p A
D
(a) (b)
C
B
D
A
B C
V V
p B p C
(c) (d)
D
A
C
B
D A
V V
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
6
fiziks

Q12. Consider a thermal ensemble at temperature T , which is composed of identical quantum
harmonic oscillator of frequency 0 with non overlapping wave function. The probability that
there will been even number of energy quanta in the system is
1 1
(a) (b)
exp  0 / k BT   1 exp   0 / k BT   1
1
(c) (d) tan h  0 / 2k BT 
exp   0 / k BT   1
Q13. A point charge q  0 is brought in front of a grounded conducting sphere. If the induced charge
density on the sphere is plotted such that the thickness of the black shading is proportional to the
charge, density the correct plot will most closely resemble
(a) (b)
q q
(c) q (d) q
Q14. A set of polynomials of order n are given by the formula

 x2  d n  x2 
pn  x    1 exp   n exp   
n
 2  dx  2 
The polynomial p7  x  of order n  7 is
(a) x 7  21x5  105 x 3  105 x  21

(b) x 6  21x5  105 x 4  105 x 3  21x 2  x
(c) x 7  21x5  105 x3  105 x
(d) x 7  21x5  105 x 4  35 x3  105 x
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
7
fiziks

Q15. A thermally insulated coffee mug contains 500 g of warm coffee at 800 C . Assuming that the
heat capacity of this liquid is 1 cal g 1 0C 1 and the latent heat of fusion for ice is 80 cal g 1 , the
amount of ice that must be dropped into the cup to convert it into cold coffee at 50 C is about
(a) 471 g (b) 469 g (c) 421 g (d) 441 g
Q16. A particle of mass m , moving in one dimension, satisfies the modified Schrödinger equation
 2 d 2 d d
 2
 i u  i
2m dx dx dt
Where u is the velocity of the substrate? If now, this particle is treated as a Gaussian wave
packet peaked at wave number k , its group velocity will be vg 
hk hk hk hk
(a) u (b)  u (c) u (d) u
m m m 2m
Q17. Consider the surface defined by ax 2  by 2  cz  d  0 , where a, b, c and d are constants. If n̂1
and n̂2 are unit normal vectors to the surface at the points  x, y, z   1,1, 0  and  0, 0,1
respectively and m̂ is a unit vector normal to both n̂1 and n̂2 , then m̂
 ai  bj aiˆ  bjˆ  ckˆ biˆ  ajˆ 2aiˆ  2bjˆ  ckˆ

(a) (b) (c) (d)
a 2  b2 a2  b2  c2 a 2  b2 4a 2  4b 2  c 2
Q18. The eigenvalues of a 3  3 matrix M are
1  2 2  1 3  1
and the eigenvectors are
1 1 1
e1  1 e2   1  e3   1
1  2  0
     
The matrix M is
1 1 0 1 0 0 
(a)  1 0 1  (b)  1 0 1
0 1 1  0 1 1 
   
0 1 1 1 0 1
(c)  1 0 0  (d)  0 1 1 
1 0 2 1 1 0
   
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
8
fiziks

Q19. The circuit shown below uses only NAND gates
C
A
B
The final output at C is

(a) A OR B (b) A XOR B
(c) A NOR B (d) A AND B

Q20. A plane electromagnetic wave travelling through vacuum has electric field E and magnetic field

B defined as
     
  
E  iˆ  ˆj E0 exp i t  k  x    
B  iˆ  ˆj  kˆ B0 exp i t  k  x 
where E0 and B0 are real constants. The time-averaged pointing vector will be given by
 
(a) S 
6 0

0 2 ˆ ˆ
E0 i  j  2kˆ  (b) S  
2
0 0

E0 B0 iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ 
  1 0 2
(c) S  
1 3 0 2 ˆ ˆ
2 0

E0 i  j  2kˆ  (d) S 
2 0

B0 iˆ  ˆj  2kˆ 
Q21. Consider three straight coplanar, parallel wires of infinite length where the distance between
adjacent where is d . Each wire carries a current I in the same direction. The perpendicular
distance from the middle wire (on either side) where the magnetic field vanishes is
2d d d 2d
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 3 3 3
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
9
fiziks

Q22. A particle of mass m is bounced on the ground with a velocity u making an angle of  with the
ground. The coefficient of restitution for collisions between the particle and the ground is  and
frictional effects are negligible both on the ground and in the air. The horizontal distance
travelled by the particle from the point of initial impact till it begins to slide along the ground is
u

u2  1  u2   
(a)   sin  (b)   sin 2
g  1   2g  1   
u2    u2   
(c)   tan 2 (d)   sin 2
g  1   g  1  
Q23. A particle of mass m is placed on an inclined plane making an adjustable angle  with the
horizontal, as shown in the figure. The coefficient of friction between the particle and the
inclined plane is  .
g
If the inclined plane is moving horizontally with a uniform acceleration a  (see figure), the

value of  for which the particle will remain at rest on the plane is
m

 g  a  a  g  a 
(a)   tan 1   (b)   tan 1  
 g  a   g  a 
 a  g   a  g 
(c)    cot 1   (d)   cot 1  
 a  g   a  g 
Q24. The three-dimensional object sketch on the right is made by taking a solid sphere
of uniform density (shaded) cavity (unshaded) as shown, which has diameter R
62 31 3 31
(a) MR 2 (b) MR 2 (c) MR 2 (d) MR 2
35 20 16 70
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
10
fiziks

Q25. The signal shown on the left side of the figure below is fed into the circuit shown on the right
side.
C
Vm A
0 Vin Vin R
Vm B
If the signal has time period  s and the circuit has a natural frequency  RC , then in the case when
 s   RC , the steady-state output will resemble
0 Vm
(a) (b)
Vm 0
2Vm Vm
2Vm
Vm
(c) (d) Vm
0
0
SECTION B
Q1. The electric charge density   r  inside a heavy spherical nucleus as a function of distance r
from the centre may be approximated most closely by

 r
 r
(a) (b)
r
0
0 r
 r  r
(c) (d)
0 0
r r
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
11
fiziks

Q2. An excited gas, consisting of spinless charged particles, is confined in an infinite square well
potential of width a , is found to radiate a spectrum whose  line (largest wavelength) has
a
wavelength 816 nm . If the width a of the well is halved to , the wavelength of the  line
2
(fourth-largest wavelength) will be
(a) 1.224  m (b) 26.112  m (c) 0.306  m (d) 1.088 g  m
Q3. The molar equation of state of a gas at temperature T , pressure P and volume V is given by
RT a
p 
V  b TV 2
where a and b are two constants and R is the gas constant. The critical temperature and
pressure for the gas will be
4a RT 8a RT
(a) Tc  , Pc  c (b) Tc  , Pc  c
27 Rb 4b 3Rb 8b
8a RT a RT
(c) Tc  , Pc  c (d) Tc  , Pc  c
27 Rb 8b 27 Rb b
Q4. A pendulum is created by hanging a heavy bob of mass m from a rigid support (taken as zero
level of potential) symmetrically using two massless inextensible strings each of length l making
an equilateral triangles as shown in the figure below
l
l l
m
A correct Lagrangian for the angular oscillations of the bob in the plane perpendicular to the
paper is
3 
(a) L  ml 2 2  mgl sec2   3mgl sin 2
8 2

(b) L  3ml 2 2  4mgl sin 2
2
3 
(c) L  ml 2 2  34mgl sin 2
8 2
3 2 mg 2 
(d) L  m  3 sin
4 l 2
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
12
fiziks

Q5. In a futuristic experiment, two rocket ships, each containing one astronaut Rakesh and Sunita
respectively, blasted off from the Earth’s surface simultaneously and travelled into space in
straight lines in opposite directions at uniform speeds of 0.3c and 0.5c respectively. They both
travelled in straight lines for some time then reversed direction smoothly and returned along the
same paths with the same speeds. It was found that they returned simultaneously after exactly
9.0 years. Which of the following a statement is correct?
(a) The ages of both Rakesh and Sunita increased by 9.0 years
(b) The ages of both Rakesh and Sunita increased by 3.06 years
(c) The age of Rakesh increased by about 8.6 years and that of Sunita by about 7.8 years
(d)The age of Rakesh increased by about 9.4 years and that of Sunita by about 10.4 years.
Q6. Consider a hydrogenic atom in its ground state ass conceived in Bohr’s
theory, where an electron of charge e is rotating about a central nucleus
r
of charge  Ze in a circular orbit of radius a  4 0  2 / Ze2in . In this
model, the magnetic field at a distance r from the nucleus, perpendicular
 a
to the orbit will be 
1/ 2 3/ 2
Ze 2  1  r 2  Ze 2  1  r 2 
(a) 2 0  1  2  (b) 2 0 1  2 
4  0 a  a  4  0 a  a 
3/ 2 1/ 2
Ze0  r 2  Ze 2 0 1  r 2 
(c) 1   (d) 1  
 0  a 2  16 2  0 a  a 2 
Q7. An array T has elements Tijkl where i, j , k , l  1, 2,3, 4 . It is given that
Tijkl  Tijkl  Tijlk  Tklij
for all values of i, j , k , l . The number of independent components in this array is

(a) 55 (b) 256 (c) 45 (d)1
dy
Q8. The differential equation x  xy  exp  x  , where y  e 2 at x  1 , has the solution y 
dx
(a) exp  x 2  x  (b) 1  x  exp  x   exp 1  x 
(c) exp 1  x 1  ln x  (d) exp  x  ln x  exp 1  x 
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
13
fiziks

Q9. The wave function of a non-relativistic particle of mass m in a one-dimensional potential V  x 
has the form

  x   ae a x
Where x denotes the absolute value of the coordinate x . The potential is V  x  
2a  1 
(a) 0 (b)  a    x  
m  2 
2  x  2a
(c)    (d)   x
m a m
Q10. A dielectric interface is formed by two homogeneous and isotropic dielectrics 1 and 2 with
4
dielectric constants and 1 respectively and it carries no residual free charge. A linearly
3
polarized electromagnetic wave is incident on the interface from dielectric1 at a point where the
unit normal to the surface is
1
2
nˆ  
3i  kˆ 
Pointing into the dielectric 1 . The incident wave, which is incident from 1 into 2 . Just before it
reaches the interface, has electric vector
   
E1  iE0 exp i  t  1 z 
 c 

where E0 is a real constant. The electric vector just after it crosses the interface is rotated from

E1 by an angle
4 1 2 
(a) csc 1 3 (b) sin 1 (c) tan 1 (d)
19 2 19 5 3 6
Q11. A perfectly straight tunnel is dug between any two points on the surface of the Earth, which can
be treated as static sphere of uniform density  . The tunnel does not necessarily pass through the
centre of the Earth. If a particle is allowed to slide without friction in this tunnel under the action
of the Earth’s gravity. It will execute simple harmonic motion with time period
3 3 3 6
(a) (b) (c) (d)
G 2G 2 G G
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
14
fiziks

Q12. Te diffraction pattern due to a double slit experiment with two identical slits is recorded in infra-
red laser radiation of wavelength 1.2  m on a specially prepared photographic plate at a distance
of 1.8 m from the centre of the slits. A photograph of the observed diffraction pattern is given
below.
The distance between the slits can be calculated as

(a) 4.32 mm (b) 5.04 mm (c) 5.76 mm (d) 9.36 mm
Q13. In an experiment to measure the Earth’s mean albedo (i.e. fraction of solar energy reflected back
into space), the solar constant (i.e., flux of solar energy incident upon the Earth) was measured
as 1.37 kWm 2 . Assuming the Earth to behave as a perfect blackbody at a uniform surface
temperature of 180 C the albedo is about

(a) 0.18 (b) 0.06 (c) 0.46 (d) 0.30
Q14. In a sample of germanium, at a temperature 77 K optical excitation create an average density of
1012 conduction electrons per cm3 . At this temperature, the electron and hole nobilities are equal
and given by
  0.5 104 cm 2 s 1V 4
The value of the Einstein diffusion coefficient for the electrons and holes is
(a) 3.3  102 m 2 s 1 (b) 6.6 103 m 2 s 1
(c) 3.3  103 m 2 s 1 (d) 1.65 103 m 2 s 1
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
15
fiziks

Q15. In an experiment performed to determine the width of a thin transparent film of refractive index
2.6 deposited uniformly on the upper surface of a thick transparent glass block of refractive
index 1.5 , a monochromatic laser beam of wavelength 550 nm was shone on the film at a
variable angle  with the normal to the surface. If the intensity of the reflected beam was
maximum whens, the thickness of the film may be inferred to be
 
1.5
(a) 1.12 g  m (b) 13.2  m (c) 0.48  m (d) 2.92  m
Phone: 011-26865455/+91-9871145498
16

TIFR Paper 2019 PDF

Încărcat de

Informații document

Titlu original

Drepturi de autor

Formate disponibile

Partajați acest document

Partajați sau inserați document

Opțiuni de partajare

Vi se pare util acest document?

Este necorespunzător acest conținut?

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

TIFR Paper 2019 PDF

Încărcat de

Drepturi de autor:

Formate disponibile

fiziks

Instructions for candidates for Integrated Ph.D. Programme in Physics

These two coins are tossed simultaneously twice in succession.

the above purpose, the minimum series resistance RS must be

(a)111 (b) 97  (c)100  (d)103

Q14. A set of polynomials of order n are given by the formula

(a) x 7  21x5  105 x 3  105 x  21

 ai  bj aiˆ  bjˆ  ckˆ biˆ  ajˆ 2aiˆ  2bjˆ  ckˆ

The final output at C is

 s   RC , the steady-state output will resemble

from the centre may be approximated most closely by

Q7. An array T has elements Tijkl where i, j , k , l  1, 2,3, 4 . It is given that

Tijkl  Tijkl  Tijlk  Tklij

for all values of i, j , k , l . The number of independent components in this array is

(c) exp 1  x 1  ln x  (d) exp  x  ln x  exp 1  x 

has the form

Where x denotes the absolute value of the coordinate x . The potential is V  x  

The distance between the slits can be calculated as

temperature of 180 C the albedo is about

(c) 3.3  103 m 2 s 1 (d) 1.65 103 m 2 s 1

(a) 1.12 g  m (b) 13.2  m (c) 0.48  m (d) 2.92  m

S-ar putea să vă placă și