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Q1. A heating element weighing 100 g made of a material with specific heat of 1 J/ (g oC) is
exposed to ambient air at 30o C and attains a steady state temperature of 130o C while
absorbing 100 W of electric power. Neglecting radiation, the time taken for the heating
element to cool to 129o C after the power is switched off is most nearly equal to
(a) 0.01 second (b) 0.1 second (c) 1.0 second (d) 10.0 second
Q2. A Carnot engine named A operates between temperatures T1 and T2 (T1 > T2). A second
Carnot engine named B uses all the heat rejected by the engine A as input and operates
between temperatures T2 and T3 (T2 > T3). The efficiency of this coupled engine system is
T2 T3 T3  T  T3 
(a) 1  (b) 1  (c) 1  (d) 1  2 1  
T1 T2 T1  T1  T2 
Q3. A vessel containing equal number of molecules of two monoatomic gases A and B is at
temperatures T. Their masses are m and 4m respectively. The root mean squared velocity
of the atoms in the mixture is
3 8kT 8kT 3 16kT 16kT

(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 m m 4 5m 5m
Q4. A block made of a metal with specific heat C resting on a horizontal wooden board is
imparted a speed v by an impulse. The metal block comes to rest due to friction with the
wooden board (coefficient of kinetic friction µ). If all the heat generated by the friction is
absorbed by the metal block, its temperature rises by
 2v 2 v 2 1 v2  v2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2C 2C 2 C 2C
Q5. A thin square sheet of copper (coefficient of linear
Copper sheet
expansion  ) of side 4a has a circular hole of radius a cut
out symmetrically as shown below:
If the temperature of the sheet is increased by an a
amount T , the area of the sheet changes by

(a) 16   a 2 T (b) 216   a 2 T
(c) 16   a 2 T (d) 216   a 2 T 4a

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Q6. The isothermal sound speed in a nearly ideal gas at temperature T is given to be c. If the
temperature of the gas is raised to 2T, the speed of isothermal sound is
1 1
(a) 2c (b) c (c) 2c (d) c
2 2
Q7. Which of the following is not an allowed set of quantum numbers for an electron in a
Hydrogen atom?
(a) n = 1, l = 0, m = 0, s = ½
(b) n = 2, l = 2, m = 1, s = ½
(c) n = 3, l = 1, m = -1, s = -½
(d) n = 4, l = 3, m = -2, s = ½
Q8. Electrons emitted from a hot filament are accelerated through a voltage drop of 100 V.
The wavelength of the electron is most nearly equal to
(a) 0.65 Ǻ (b) 1.23 Ǻ (c) 6.5 Ǻ (d) 12.3 Ǻ
Q9. A hydrogen atom in its ground state is placed in a uniform magnetic field of 10 T. Light
of which one of the following wavelengths is most likely to be absorbed?
(a) 0.05 mm (b) 0.27 mm (c) 0.54 mm (d) 1.07 mm
Q10. In an X-ray diffraction experiment on a material with lattice parameter 4.0 Ǻ, the first
peak is obtained at 2θ = 10 o. If the same experiment (with the same wavelength of X rays)
is performed on a second material with the same crystal structure but a lattice parameter
of 2.0 Ǻ the first peak will appear at a value of 2θ most nearly equal to
(a) 5 o (b) 10 o (c) 20o (d) 40 o
Q11. How many real solutions does the equation x – tanh βx = 0 have for β > 1?
(a) no solution (b) one solution (c) two solution (d) three solution
Q12. Consider the matrix
 0 1 0 0
 
 0 0 1 0
A
0 0 0 1

the eigenvalues of A are i   1 
 
1 0 0 0 
 
(a) 1,  i,  1, i (b) 1,  1, 0, 0 (c) 1, 1, 1, 1 (d) 1, 1, i,  i

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Q13. Let P be a n×n diagonalizable matrix which satisfies the equations

P2 = P, Tr(P) = n – 1
Det (P) is:
(a) n (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) n – 1
Q14. A point particle is moving in the (x, y) plane on a trajectory given in polar coordinates by
the equation
 
r sin    5
 4
The trajectory of the particle is
(a) a parabola (b) a straight line (c) a circle (d) a hyperbola
Q15. Let the amount of rainfall in 3 successive years in Bangalore be r1, r2, r3, (r1 ≠ r2 ≠ r3).
What is the probability that the rainfall in the third year exceeds each of the previous two
years, assuming that the amounts of rainfall in the three years are independent random
events?
(a) 1/2 (b) 1/6 (c) 1/3 (d) 1/27
Q16. Given i   1 , then i i is
(a) purely real (b) purely imaginary
(c) of the form x + iy with x ≠ 0, y ≠ 0 (d) not defined
2 3 4
1 1 1 1
Q17. The series 1  2   3   4   5   ......
2 2  2  2
(a) diverges (b) converges to 5 (c) converges to 3 (d) converges to 4
Q18. Consider a forced harmonic oscillator which obeys the differential equation,
d2y
 y  sin t .
dt 2
Which one of the following is the solution of the differential equation with initial
condition y(0) = 0?
t
(a) yt   6 sin t (b) yt   12 sin t  cos t
2
t t
(c) y t   12 sin t  cos t (d) y t   6 cos t  cos t
2 2

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Q19. The function z  x 2  y 2 has a

(a) local minimum at x = 0, y = 0
(b) local maximum at x = 0, y = 0
(c) saddle point at x = 0, y = 0
(d) all points on the line x = y are local minima
Q20. The partial derivative of the function x y with respect to y is
(a) yx  y 1 (b) x y ln x  (c) yx y (d) x  y 1 ln x 
Q21. Which one of the following expressions yields the best approximation for the derivate
df
for h  1
dx
 h  h
fx  f x  
f x  h   f x  2 2
(a) (b)  
h h
f x   f  x  h  f x  h   f x  h 
(c) (d)
h h
The value of lim xln x  where n is a positive integer is
n
Q22.
x 0
(a) 1 (b) - ∞ (c) + ∞ (d) 0

Q23. A particle of mass M decays at rest into a massless particle and another particle of mass
m. The magnitude of the momentum of each of these relativistic particles is:
c c
(a) M 2  4m 2 (b) M 2  4m 2
2 2
c c
(c)
2M

M 2  m2  (d)
2M

M 2  m2 
Q24. A pure sample of a radioactive isotope at 8:00 is found to have decayed to one half purity
at 9:00. It would have decayed to 10% purity at
(a) 11:19 (b) 12:19 (c) 11:32 (d) 12:32
Q25. The lifetime of a neutral pion in its rest frame is 8.4  10 -17 s. In an experiment its
lifetime appeared to be 42.0  10-17 s. What was its speed in the laboratory frame?
(a) 4 / 5c (b) 24 / 25c (c) 9 / 10c (d) c

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Q26. In the hydrogen atom the ratio of wavelengths of the Lyman-β transition (n = 3 to n = 1)
to Balmer-β transition (n = 4 to n = 2) is
(a) 27 / 128 (b) 3/8 (c) 27/256 (d) 3/16
Q27. A charge q is placed in front of an infinite metal plate at a distance d. If instead a charge
2q were to experience the same force, at what distance should it be placed from the plate?
(a) d (b) 2d (c) d/2 (d) 4d
Q28. A loop of radius r carries a uniformly distributed charge. Assuming the potential at
infinity to be zero, the ratio of the potential at a height 2r on the axis to that at a height 3r
is:
(a) 1/2 (b) 2 (c) 1 / 2 (d) 2
Q29. Two infinitely long parallel wires separated by 40 cm carry currents of 10 A and 20 A in
the same direction. The magnitude of the magnetic field midway between them is
(a) 10-5 T (b) 2  10 -5 T (c) 4  10 -5 T (d) 8  10 -5 T
Q30. Three capacitors each of capacitance 1 µF are connected to an AC source of frequency 50
Hz in series. The impedance is:
(a) 0.97 KΩ (b) 3.1 KΩ (c) 9.7 KΩ (d) 28.6 KΩ
Q31. A sodium source emits light at 589 nm which appears to an observer as a copper green
line of 522 nm, who was moving at
(a) 0.12 c towards the source (b) 0.12 c away from the source
(c) 0.06 c towards the source (d) 0.06 c away from the source
Q32. Which of the following force fields, given below in spherical polar coordinates, is not a
conservative force field?
eˆr eˆ sin 
(a) (b) (c) eˆ (d) cos eˆ r  sin  eˆ
r r r
Q33. The curl of the velocity field V = r  A, where r is the position vector and A is a constant
vector, is given by
(a) 0 (b) A (c) 2A (d) – 2A

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Q34. An object is made from a thin wire and is shaped like a square with a side length L and a
total mass M. What is the moment of inertia of this object around an axis that passes
through the centre of the square and is perpendicular to it?
7 1 4 16
(a) ML2 (b) ML2 (c) ML2 (d) ML2
6 3 3 3
Q35. The trajectory of a particle of mass m is described in the cylindrical polar coordinates by
z  0,    and r t   r0 sinh t  , where  and r0 are constant. The radial force is
(a) mr02 2 sinh  t  (b) mr0 2 sinh  t 
(c) mr0 2 cosh t  (d) 0

Q36. The Moon is moving away from the Earth at the rate of about 4 cm yr-1. If E denotes the
total orbital energy of the Earth-Moon system and L denotes the orbital angular
momentum then
dE dL dE dL
(a)  0 and 0 (b)  0 and 0
dt dt dt dt
dE dL dE dL
(c)  0 and 0 (d)  0 and 0
dt dt dt dt
Q37. Physicist discovers a new fundamental interaction mediated by a new kind of charge s.
Which one of the following potentials can never describe this new interaction?
 
(a) s1 s 2 log  r1  r2 , where   0  
(b) s1 s 2 sin  . r1  r2 
(c) s1 s 2
 
exp    r1
(d)
s1 s 2
exp   r 
2 r1  r2
Q38. A soap bubble is attached to a very thin pipe through which it slowly leaks. If the air loss
(volume per unit time) given by Q  P , where P is the excess pressure across the
tube, then which of the following expressions describe the evolution of radial
speed, vr  dr / dt of the bubble with radius r?
vr
(a) r 2 vr = constant (b) rv r = constant (c) = constant (d) r 3 vr = constant
r

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Q39. A simple pendulum, consisting of a small ball of mass m attached to a massless string
hanging vertically from the ceiling, is oscillating with an amplitude such that the
maximum tension in the string is related to the minimum tension by T max = 2Tmin. What is
the value of the maximum tension in the string?
(a) mg/2 (b) 3mg/2 (c) 3mg/4 (d) 3mg
Q40. A block of mass m is sliding down an inclined

surface of an object with a large mass M. The
surface continues into a circular path as
R H
shown in the figure. If all the surfaces are
frictionless then what is the minimum height
H such that the block slides without leaving
M
the surface anywhere?
(a) H = 5R/2 (b) H = (5 + m/M) R/2

(c) H = (5 + M/m) R/2 (d) H = 3R/2
Q41. A ladder of mass m is leaning against a wall, as shown in

the figure. A mass M is hung from the middle of the
ladder. The wall and the ground have a coefficient of
friction µ. What is the value of the angle α below which m
the ladder cannot remain in static equilibrium?

2 2
(a) tan   (b) cot   
1 2 m/ M  2
2 2
(c) tan   (d) cot  
M /m2 1  2

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Q42. A convex lens and a concave lens, each with a focal length of 4 cm are separated by a
distance of 6 cm along their axis as shown below:
f  4cm f  4cm
object
8 cm
6 cm
An object is placed 8 cm before the first lens. Its image is
(a) real and erect (b) virtual and erect
(c) real and inverted (d) virtual and inverted
Q43. A system consisting of a mass M attached to a spring with stiffness K is similar to a
circuit consisting of an inductor L and capacitor C. If the displacement X of the mass is
analogous to the charge Q on the capacitor, and this relation is represented by X  Q,
then
(a) M  L and K  C (b) M  1/L and K  1/C
(c) M  1/L and K  C (d) M  L and K  1/C
Q44. At normal incidence, a beam of light propagating in vacuum reflects off an interface with
a medium of refractive index n = 3.0. The fraction of energy reflected R is given by
2
 n 1
R 
 n 1
If the fractional error in the value of n is 1%, the fractional error in the estimation of R is
(a) 0.5 % (b) 1% (c) 1.5% (d) 2%
Q45. Electrons in a metal exhibit collective oscillatory motion known as Plasma oscillations. If
n is the number density, q the charge, m the mass and  0 the dielectric permittivity, then
the frequency of oscillation (in SI units) is given by
nq 2 nq nq 2 nq
(a) (b) (c) (d)
m 0 m 0 m 0 m 0

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Q46. Light propagating in medium with refractive index n1 is incident upon the interface with
a second medium of refractive index n2 such that n1 > n2 , as shown below.
n1 n2
z
0
The incident angle is adjusted so that the total internal reflection takes place in the first
medium. If E(z) and B(z) denote the amplitude of the electric and magnetic fields
respectively in the second medium (z > 0), then
(a) E(z)  0 and B(z)  0 (b) E(z) = 0 and B(z)  0
(c) E(z)  0 and B(z) = 0 (d) E(z) = 0 and B(z) = 0
Q47. A simple setup to study interference of light (Lloyd’s Mirror) consists of a

monochromatic point source S of wavelength  = 5000 Ǻ and a detector P separated from
it by a distance of D = 500 cm. A plane mirror MM' is placed above at a height h which is
initially adjusted to be h = 1 mm so that a bright fringe is observed at P.
M M
h  1 mm P
S
D  500 cm
By what distance must the mirror be moved vertically so that the next bright fringe is
observed at P?
(a) 25.0 µm (b) 12.5 µm (c) 6.25 µm (d) 3.12 µm

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Q48. Which one of the following figures is the correct representation of a full-wave rectifier
circuit consisting of two diodes, a load resistor and a centre-tapped transformer?
Figure 1 Figure 2
Figure 3 Figure 4
(a) Figure 1 (b) Figure 2 (c) Figure 3 (d) Figure 4

Q49. A circuit consists of a battery in series with two resistors, R1 = 1 KΩ and R2 = 4KΩ as
shown in figure. 1 K
R1
V0 R2 4 K
Let the voltage drops across R1 and R2 be V1 and V2 respectively. Two identical
laboratory voltmeters (with large, but finite input resistances) are simultaneously
connected across the resistors to sense the voltage drops. If V1' and V2' are the voltages
read by the meters, then
(a) V1'  V1 and V2'  V2 (b) V1'  V1 and V2'  V2
(c) V1'  V1 and V2'  V2 (d) V1'  V1 and V2'  V2

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Q50. An optical pyrometer gives an output voltage proportional to the incident radiation
intensity. When used to measure the temperature of a blackbody at 600 K, it reads 1.5 V.
If the temperature changes by 2K, the change in the output signal is
(a) 5 mV (b) 10 mV (c) 20 mV (d) 33 mV

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3 8kT 8kT 3 16kT 16kT

amount T , the area of the sheet changes by

(c) 16   a 2 T (d) 216   a 2 T 4a

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Q13. Let P be a n×n diagonalizable matrix which satisfies the equations

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Q19. The function z  x 2  y 2 has a

(a) 1 (b) - ∞ (c) + ∞ (d) 0

(a) 4 / 5c (b) 24 / 25c (c) 9 / 10c (d) c

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(a) mr02 2 sinh  t  (b) mr0 2 sinh  t 

(c) mr0 2 cosh t  (d) 0

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Q40. A block of mass m is sliding down an inclined

(a) H = 5R/2 (b) H = (5 + m/M) R/2

Q41. A ladder of mass m is leaning against a wall, as shown in

the ladder cannot remain in static equilibrium?

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Q47. A simple setup to study interference of light (Lloyd’s Mirror) consists of a

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(a) Figure 1 (b) Figure 2 (c) Figure 3 (d) Figure 4

(c) V1'  V1 and V2'  V2 (d) V1'  V1 and V2'  V2

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