PUMDET-2018 82250001

Subject: Physics (Booklet Number)

Duration: 90 minutes Full Marks: 100

Instructions
1. All questions are of objective type having four answer options for each. Only one option is
correct. Correct answer will carry full marks 2. In case of incorrect answer or any
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1. The equation, 2x2+3xy+y2+3x+2y+1 = 0, represents
(A) An ellipse (B) A hyperbola
(C) A parabola (D) A pair of straight lines

2. The independent solutions of the equation −3 + 2 = 0 are

(A) x2 and x (B) e 2x and e − x (C) e2x and e x (D) sin2x and cosx

3. As p goes to ∞, the integral goes to

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) ∞

4. If is the position vector of any point on the surface of a cube, each side of which has
length L, then the surface integral ∯ ∙ has the value

(A) 0 (B) 3L2 (C) L3 (D) 3L3

5. Which one of the following matrices is hermitian?

0 1 0 0 1 0
0 − 0 −1 0 0
(A) (B) (C) (D)

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6. The value of the integral = ∮ , where the contour is the circle given by|&| = 4, is
"#$

(A)2πi (B) 0 (C) 1/2πi (D) 1

7. A non-trivial (i.e. x≠ 0 ) solution of the equation tanh - = .- is possible for

(A) k = 0 (B) 0 < . < 1 (C) . > 1 (D) . < 0
8
8.
Let 1 2 = 0 for 2 < 0 and 1 2 = 3 #456 7#9 for 2 ≥ 0 . Denote the Fourier transform of
f ( t ) by F(ω). Then |; < |$ is proportional to

5#56 5#56 @
(A) exp − (B) exp −
$@ $

(C) A (D) A
5#56 5#56
9 B9

9. A uniform thin rod of length d, mass m, is lying on a smooth horizontal table. A horizontal
impulse I is suddenly applied perpendicularly to the rod at one end. How far does the rod
travel during the time it takes to make one complete revolution?
md 2
(A) ( B) 2 πd / 3 ( C ) πd / 3 (D) I / d
I

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10. What is the number of quantities that remain invariant when a particle moves around a
centre under an attractive inverse-square (i. e. ; ∝ 1/ $ type central force?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 7

11. A moving proton collides with another proton which is initially at rest. If Mp be the mass of
a proton, what is the minimum kinetic energy that the moving proton must have in order to
make possible the reaction G + G → G + G + G + G̅ ?

(A)2JK L $ (B) 4JK L $ (C) 6JK L $ (D) None of these

12. According to the Newtonian theory of gravitation, the gravitational potential due to the Sun
OP
is given by N = − QRS , symbols having their usual significance. On introducing general
T
OPQRS U
relativistic corrections, the expression for ϕ becomes N = − + T . From dimensional
T
arguments K must be proportional to

ZPQRS [ \
(C) VJWXY L $ (D)
GM 2sun G 2 M2sun
(A) (B)
c2 c2 O

(c = Velocity of light)

13. The Hamiltonian for a particle is given by ] = G $

+ .- _ , symbols having their usual
$^
meanings. What is the formula for -` ?

(A)−.- a (B) −4.-

4 kx 4 kx 3
(C) − (D) −
m m

14. A particle moves in a medium which offers a resistance proportional to the cube of the
velocity of the particle. During a time t the velocity diminishes from v1 to v2. If no other
force is acting on the particle, the distance traversed by it in this time t is
bA b 7 $bA b 7 ZbAc #b c \7 ZbA #b \7
(A) (B) (C) (D)
$ bA b bA b bA b

15. The point of suspension of a simple pendulum of length l is not fixed but is attached to a
moving lift which falls with acceleration f. How many degrees of freedom does the system
have?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 0 (D) 3

16. Two equal inductors (each of inductance L), two equal capacitors (each of capacitance C)
and a resistor (resistance R) are connected in series and placed across an A. C. source whose
frequency can be varied. The resonance frequency of the circuit is
(A) (B) (C) (D)
$d√fg _d√fg d√fg i
$dhfg#
j

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17. Consider a cylinder of radius a and length L filled uniformly with a completely ionized gas
of charge density ρ moving parallel to the axis of the cylinder with velocity v. What is the
magnetic field at a distance r (<a) from the axis? (Neglect end effects).
l6 mbn l6 mbn l6 mbT
(A) k = 0 (B) k = (C) k = (D) k =
$ $T $

18. The two rails of a railway line are insulated from each other and from ground and are
connected by a microvoltmeter. What is its reading when a train travels with a velocity of 90
km/hr along the line, assuming that the vertical component of the geomagnetic field is 0.1
gauss and that the rails are separated by 1 metre?
(A) 1V (B) 250 mV (C) 250 µV (D) 100 µV

19. An infinite long, thin wire carrying a current I ampere is placed at a distance d metres from a
semi-infinite slab of soft iron. The wire is parallel to the surface of the iron slab. If we
assume that iron has infinite permeability (o = ∞ what is the force per unit length of the
wire?
q q
(A) ; = × 10#s Newtons/metre (B) ; = × 10#s Newtons/metre
$
q
(C) 0 (D) ; = × 10#s dynes/cm
$

20. An isolated metallic object is charged in vacuum to a potential V0, its electrostatic energy
becoming E0. It is then disconnected from the source of the potential, its charge (Q) being
left unchanged. It is then placed inside a large volume of a dielectric with dielectric constant
K. What is its new electrostatic energy?

(A) tu (D) tvw

QV0 E0
(B) (C)
K K

21. What is the lowest-frequency of normal-mode electromagnetic oscillation in a rectangular

cavity resonator of sides a, b, d along X, Y and Z direction with a<b<d? Assume that the
cavity has perfectly conducting walls. (c = Velocity of light).
[ [
(A) x = h +y + ∙ $ (B) x =
n $dn

[
(C) x = h +y + ∙ zL (D) x =
n $

22. For all metals, the relation between thermal conductivity (K),electrical conductivity (σ ) and
temperature (T) is
U U U
(A) = Constant (B) = Constant (C) = Constant (D) € ∝ t•
{ {• {•

23. The ruby laser produces a radiation with wavelength 6943Å and line-width 5 × 10#_ Å.
What is the coherence length for this system?
(A) 3 cm (B) 271.8 cm (C) 964.1 cm (D) 153.4 cm

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24. Suppose two events occur at x1 and x2 at the same time t according to a frame of reference .
According to the frame of reference ′ which is moving with a velocity … along the common
X-axis of the two frames these events occur at - † and -$† at times 2 † and 2$† . The origins of
the frames and ′ coincided at 2 = 2 † = 0. Then

(A) 2$† = 2 † (B) -$† = - †

‡ ‡
A# ∙ A# ∙
(C) 2$† − 2 † = ˆ
(D) -$† − - † = ˆ

h #‡ h #‡
ˆ ˆ

25. Assume that a source of light is moving towards an observer ‰ with velocity …. In the rest
frame of the source, the frequency of the emitted radiation is xŠ . What is the value of the
frequency recorded by the observer?

b νs
(A) x‹ = xŠ Œ1 + • (B) ν 0 =
[
 ν2 
1 − 2 
 c 

ν
1+
νs c
(C) ν 0 = (D) ν 0 = ν s .
ν ν
1− 1−
c c

26. The reciprocal lattice of a simple cubic structure is another simple cubic structure. If the
lattice constant of the direct lattice be a, what is the lattice constant of the reciprocal lattice?
1 1 2π
(A) a (B) (C) (D)
2πa a a

27. A thin-walled vessel of volume V is kept at constant temperature T. An ideal gas slowly
leaks out of the vessel through a hole of area A into surrounding vacuum. The mean velocity
of the gas molecules is …̅ . Find the time required for the pressure in the vessel to drop to 1/e
of its original value.
$Ž Ž Ž _Ž
(A) (B) (C) (D)
b•• b•• $b•• b••

28. A sphere, having moment of inertia (I) is suspended from a thin massless filament of
torsional rigidity c in a gas at temperature T. Let θ be the angle through which the sphere is
found to be rotated at some instant of time. What is the mean value of •••
‘$ ?
•••$ = .•/2L
(A) ‘ (B) •••
‘ $ = .•/L
(C) •••
‘ $ = .•/ •••$ = .•/√L
(D) ‘

29. Blackbody radiation at temperature Ti fills a cavity of volume V. The system expands
adiabatically and reversibly to a volume equal to 8V. The final temperature of the system is
given by
(A) •’ = •4 (B) •’ = •4 (C)•’ = •4 ”•8 (D) •’ = 2•4
“ $

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30. What is the efficiency of a reversible engine operating around the cycle illustrated?

Temperature

Entropy

(A) 20% (B) 33.3% (C) 17.5% (D) 15%

31. A solid body of density 5 gm.cm-3 melts at the pressure 5 × 10— dynes cm-2 and the absolute
temperature 300 K to form a liquid of density 2gm.cm-3. The latent heat of melting per gram
of the solid is10 Joules. What is the change of internal energy resulting from the melting of a
gram of the solid?
(A) 0.985 Joules (B) 0 (C) 9.85Joules (D) 2.355Joules

32. Consider an isothermal column of air near the earth. If T be the absolute temperature, and
n(z) be the density of molecules at the height z above the earth, then
^˜"
(A) • & = • 0 (B) • & = • 0 1 − )
™•
š›œ
Y
(C) • & = š›œ (D) • & = • 0 3 # •ž
•ž

[m, g (assumed constant)and k have their usual meanings]

33. For what value of energy (ε) is the occupation number of a state equal to ½ for a system
comprising of identical bosons? Assume chemical potential o > −.•.
(A) Ÿ = |o| (B) Ÿ = 0
(C) Ÿ = o + .•”•2 (D) Ÿ = o + .•”•3
[ T = Temperature of the system]

34. Estimate the minimum lens diameter required to resolve objects 1cm apart at a distance of
1000 metres? Assume that the wavelength of light is 550 nm.

(A) 10 cm (B) 2.54 cm (C) 6.71 cm (D) 3.36 cm

35. A projector makes the image of a slide on a screen 5 m from the lens. If the 2.5 cm
dimension of the slide is magnified to 1.2 m, what is the focal length of the lens?
(A) 5/49 m (B) 5/94 m (C) 1/10 m (D) 1/5 m

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36. Circularly polarized light is passed through a quarter-wave-plate. What is the general
polarization state of the outgoing light?
(A) Elliptically polarized light (B) Linearly polarized light
(C) Circularly polarized light (D) None of these

37. Suppose right-handed circularly polarized light (for which the electric field is seen to rotate
in the clockwise direction when the observer looks back towards the source) falls normally
on the bottom surface of a horizontal absorbing slab. The slab is suspended by a vertical
thread. If the circularly polarized light beam has a power of 1 watt and the wavelength of
light is 6200Å, and if all of this light is absorbed by the slab, what is the torque exerted on
the slab?
(A) 1× 10# Newton.m. (B) 1.645× 10# dyne.cm.
(C) 3.29 × 10# dyne.cm. (D)1.645 × 10# Newton.m.

38. Interference fringes are produced by a thin, wedge-shaped film of plastic of refractive index
1.4. If the angle of the wedge (α) is 20 seconds of arc and the distance between the fringes is
2.5mm, what is the wavelength of the incident light? [Assume that the light falls normally on
one face of the plastic.]
(A) 5460 Å (B) 6787 Å (C) 5893 Å (D) 6943 Å

39. For maximum polarization of light by reflection from a transparent dielectric medium
having refractive index 1.5, what is the angle between the reflected and the refracted rays?
(A) 56.3° (B) 90° (C) 41.8° (D) 60°

40. What type of aberration is present in lenses but absent from plane mirrors?
(A) Spherical aberration (B) Astigmatism
(C) Coma (D) Chromatic aberration

41. Consider a potential well for which w = w - = 0 if −1 < - < 1 and w = ∞ outside this
range. The wave function of a particle trapped in this well is given by
 πx 1 3πx
A cos + cos + sin 3πx, inside the well
ψ= 2 4 2
0, outside the well

What is the value of A? [You may assume that A is a real number].

1
(D) ¢ = h17
_s
(A) ¢ = 4h33 (B) ¢ =_ √15 (C) ¢=ha$ 32

42. What is the classical radius of an electron?

(A) 4.8 × 10# ¤
¥32 3¦ (B) 1 × 10# ¤ ¥32 3¦
(C) 1.6 × 10# ¤ ¥32 3¦ (D) 1. 4 × 10# ¤ ¥32 3¦

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43. A positron has the same mass as an electron but opposite charge and spin magnetic moment.
If the proton in a hydrogen atom is replaced by a positron, one gets a positronium atom.
What is its binding energy in the ground state?
(A) 13.6 eV (B) 6.8 eV (C) 27.2 eV (D) 0.0074 eV

44. The formula for the energy levels of a particle of mass m moving in one-dimensional
1
 mω x , x > 0
2 2
potential V = V ( x ) =  2
∞, x ≤ 0

is given by
(A) u^ = Œ¥ + • ℏ< ¥ = 0, 2, 4 … . .
$
a
(B) u^ = Œ2¥ + • ℏ< ¥ = 1, 3, 5 … . .
$
a
(C) u^ = Œ2¥ + • ℏ< ¥ = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 … . .
$

(D) None of these

45. Let ψlm be an eigenstate of L2 and Lz with eigenvalues l(l+1)ħ2 and mħ respectively. If N =
Zª + ª \«¬^ is also an eigenstate of L2 and Lz, then the eigenvalue of ª" for N is
(A) mħ (B) (m -1)ħ (C) (m+1)ħ (D) ϕ is not an eigenstate of Lz

46. What is the probability of decay during the 101st year of a radioactive atom having a mean
life of 103 years?
( A ) 10−3 ( B ) 10−1 ( C ) 10−3.1 ( D ) 10−2.9
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47. What accounts for the stability of bound neutrons in some nuclei, e. g. in 7 N?
(A) For these nuclei, the number of neutrons equals a magic number
(B) The principle of conservation of energy
(C) The Pauli exclusion principle
(D) The principle of conservation of angular momentum

48. If a beam of photons is passed through a Stern-Gerlach apparatus, into how many
component beams will it split?

(A) 2 (B) 1
(C) 3 (D) 1 or 2, depending on the state of polarization of the beam

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49. The number (1001.0101)2 is the same as

(A) (9.3125)10 (B) (9. 5)10

(C) (1001.0101)10 (D) None of these

50. If A, B and C are Boolean numbers, then ¢ + k ¢̅ + - equals

(A) BC (B) ¢̅k + k- (C) ¢̅k + ¢- (D) 1

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