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FACULTY RECRUITMENT TEST

CATEGORY-D
Formal School Education/IX, X / NSEJS/NTSE/ Foundation
for KVPY, Senior Olympiads, JEE Main & JEE Advanced
PHYSICS
PAPER B
Time: 1 Hour Maximum Marks: 40

Name:.................................................................................
Subject:...........................................

Marks:
Instructions
* Attempt all questions.

* Paper A has Two Parts I and II. Each question of Part I carries 2 marks and each
question of part II caries 4 marks.

* Calculators and log tables are not permitted.

PART I

1. A 2kg ball drops on floor from a height of 20 m and rebounds with 20% of the initial speed. Find the
impulse received by the ball.

2. A uniform chain of length L and mass M is lying on a smooth table and one-third of its length is
hanging vertically down over the edge of the table. If g is acceleration due to gravity, calculate the
work required to pull the hanging part on to the table.

3. Find the value of current i in the circuit shown in the figure.

15 A
i A 5 A
8 A
3 A


4. A ray of light falling at an angle of 50
o
is refracted through a prism in minimum deviation position. The
angle of the prism is 60
o
. Calculate the refractive index of the prism. Given that sin 50
o
= 0.766.

5. A block of mass 3 kg is resting on a horizontal plane
(coefficient of static friction = 1 2 3 ). A force F is applied to
the block as shown in the figure. Find the minimum magnitude
of F for which the block begins to slide. (g =
2
10 m/s )


m=3kg
F
60


6. A current of 2 A enters at the corner d of a square frame abcd of side 20
cm and leaves at the opposite corner b. A magnetic field B = 0.1 T exists
in the space in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the frame as
shown in the figure Find the magnitude and direction of the magnetic
forces on the four sides of the frame.

a b
c d


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7. Gravitational force between point masses m and M separated by a distance F. Now if a point mass
2m is placed next to m, what will be the (a) force on M due to m. (b) total force on M

8. In the figure shows the graph of the x-coordinate of a
particle going along the X-axis as a function of time. Find
(a) the average velocity during 0 to 10 s. (b) instantaneous
velocity at 2 sec

2.5
50
0
100
5.0 7.5 10.0 12.5
X (m)
Time (second)
(m)
15.0

9. A block of mass m is kept on a frictionless inclined wedge of mass
M with angle of inclination . The wedge is given an acceleration a
to keep the block stationary. Find the acceleration a.

a


10. A ball is dropped on a floor from a height of 2.0 m. After the collision it rises upto a height of 1.5m.
Assuming that 40% of mechanical energy lost goes as thermal energy into the ball. Calculate the rise
in temperature of the ball in the collision. Specific heat capacity of the ball is 800 J/K.
(Take g = 10m/s
2
)

PART II

11. A ball is thrown vertically upward with a velocity 20 m/s. Find the distance covered by the ball is 3 sec.

12. A point source of light B is placed at a distance L in front of the
centre of a mirror of width d hung vertically on a wall. A man
walks in front of the mirror along a line parallel to the mirror at a
distance 2L from it as shown. Find the greatest distance over
which he can see the image of the light source in the mirror.
L
2L
B d

13. A liquid of density is filled in a beaker of cross section A to a
height H and then a cylinder of mass M and cross-section a is
made to float in it as shown in figure. If the atmospheric pressure
is P
0
, find the pressure (a) at the top face B of the cylinder (b) at
the bottom face C of the cylinder and (c) at the base D of the
beaker (d) can ever these pressures be equal?

B
C
D
H
B


14. A small charged particle of mass m and charge q is suspended by an
insulated thread in front of a very large sheet of charge density . Find the
angle made by the thread with the vertical in equilibrium.


+ + +
+ + +
+ + +
+ + +

q
m

15. An artificial satellite of mass 100 kg is in circular orbit at 500 km above the earths surface. Take the
radius of the earth as 6.5 10
6
m.
(a) Find the acceleration due to gravity at any point along the satellite path.
(b) What is the centripetal acceleration of the satellite?

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