JAIPURIAR SCHOOL, CBSE

SENIOR SECONDARY
SANPADA, SCHOOL
NAVI MUMBAI
(Senior Secondary School)
SANPADA, NAVI MUMBAI
Session 2014 - 2015
Session 2020 – 2021
PERIODIC TEST-II
Class: XI Sub: Physics
Time Allowed: 3 Hours Max. Marks – 70
Date: 06/10/2020

General Instructions:

a) All the questions are compulsory.

b) There are 37 questions in total.
c) Section A includes one word answer type questions and carry one mark each.
d) Section B includes short answer type questions carry two marks each.
e) Section C includes short answer type questions carry three marks each.
f) Section D includes very long answer type questions carry five marks each
h) Please Email the scanned (pdf format) answer sheets to
[email protected]
i) All Papers have to be scanned as a single attachment. Jpeg formats will
not be accepted.
j) The format of naming the answer sheet should be - Roll No. YY First Name
Last Name.

SECTION –A

1. Name the quantity that remains conserved in rocket propulsion. [1]

2. Which principle is associated with SONAR technology? [1]
3. What is meant by science? [1]
OR
Name the scientist who discovered the law of gravitation.
4 Name the weakest force in nature? [1]
OR
Give one example of non-dimensional variables.
5 Give one difference between science and technology. [1]
OR
What is the angle between the vectors A x B and B x A?

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6 What is nuclear force? [1]
OR
A bullet fired vertically upwards falls at the same place after some time.What
is the displacement of the bullet?
7. The velocity v of a particle depends on time t as: v= At2+Bt+c [1]
Where v is in m/s and t in second.
What are the units of A, B and C?
8. What are the dimensions of a and b in the relation : F= a + bx, [1]
Where F is force and x is distance?
9. Can there be physical quantity that has no units and no dimensions? [1]
10. What is the angle between velocity vector and acceleration vector in uniform [1]
circular motion?
11. A vector A is expressed as A = Axi + Ayj where Axand Ay are its components [1]
along x- axis and y – axis respectively. If vector A makes an angle O with x –
axis, then O is given by which expression?
12. A particle moves in a plane with uniform acceleration in a direction different [1]
from its initial velocity. What will be the trajectory followed by the particle?
13. What is the basis of the principle of homogeneity of dimensions? [1]
14. What is the angle between frictional force and instantaneous velocity of a [1]
body moving over a rough surface?
15. What is the angular velocity of the hour hand of a clock? [1]
16. What does the slope of displacement – time graph represent? [1]
17. At what angle to the horizontal should a ball be projected so that it covers the [1]
maximum range?
18. Name any two types of external forces which can act on a body even from a [1]
distance.
19. Write the dimensional formula for kinetic friction. [1]
20. A bus weighing 900 kg is at rest on the bus stand. What is the linear [1]
momentum of the bus?
SECTION -B

21. The motion of a particle of mass m is described by y = ut + ½ gt 2. Find the [2]

force acting on the particle.

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22. Two trains A and B of length 400 m each are moving on two parallel tracks [2]
with a uniform speed of 71 km h-1 in the same direction, with A ahead of B.
The driver of B decides to overtake A and accelerates by 1 ms-1. If after 50 s,
the guard of B just brushes past the driver of A, what was the original
distance between them?
23. A car moving along a straight highway with speed of 126 km h-1 is brought to [2]
a stop within a distance of 200 m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed
uniform), and how long does it take for the car to stop?
OR
A person is standing on a weighing machine placed near a door. What would
be the effect on the reading of the machine if a person:
(i) presses the edge of door upward ?
(ii) pulls downward ?
24. Give the magnitude and direction of the net force acting on a stone of mass [2]
0.1 kg,
(a) just after it is dropped from the window of a stationary train,
(b) just after it is dropped from the window of a train running at a constant
velocity of 36 km/h
OR
It is claimed that two cesium clocks, if allowed to run for 100 years, free from
any disturbance, may differ by only about 0.02 s. What does this imply for
the accuracy of the standard cesium clock in measuring a time - interval of 1
s?
25. Distinguish between position vector and displacement vector? [2]
26. Side of a cubical block is 2.805 m. Find its surface area and volume correct to [2]
appropriate significant figures.
27. What are coplanar vectors? [2]
OR
Distinguish between inertial mass, gravitational mass and weight of a body
SECTION –C

28. Read each statement below carefully and state, with reasons, if it is true or [3]
false:
a) the net acceleration of a particle in circular motion is always along the
radius of the circle towards the centre.

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 b) the velocity vector of a particle at a point is always along the tangent to the
path of the particle at that point.
c) the acceleration vector of a particle in uniform circular motion averaged
over one cycle is a null vector.
29. A jet airplane travelling at the speed of 500 km h-1 ejects its products of [3]
combustion at the speed of 1500 km h-1 relative to the jet plane. What is the
speed of the latter with respect to an observer on the ground?
OR
Draw the following graphs for an object under free fall:
a) Variation of acceleration with respect to time
b) Variation of velocity with respect to time
c) Variation of distance with respect to time
30. Mention the various sources of occurrence of errors, while taking [3]
measurements.
31. Write the difference between average acceleration and instantaneous [3]
acceleration
OR
The length and breadth of a rectangle are measured as (a+ ∆a) and
(b+ ∆b) respectively. Find the error in the measurement of area :
a) relative error
b) absolute error
32. Write the three difference between average speed and average velocity. [3]
33. Two bodies of different masses m1 and m2 are dropped from two different [3]
heights ‘a’ and ‘b’. What is the ratio of time taken by the two bodies to drop
through these distances?
34. Read each statement below carefully and state with reasons and examples, if [3]
it is true or false; A particle in one-dimensional motion
(a) with zero speed at an instant may have non-zero acceleration at that
instant.
(b) with, zero speed may have non-zero velocity.
(c) with constant speed must have zero acceleration,
OR

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 Look at the graphs (a) to (d) Fig. carefully and state, with reasons, which of
these cannot possibly represent one-dimensional motion of a particle.

SECTION –D

35. Establish the following inequalities geometrically or otherwise: [5]

OR
Two bodies are thrown with the same initial velocity at angles Q and (90 - Q )
with the horizontal. What will be the ratio of :
a) maximum heights attained by them?
b) horizontal ranges?
36. The radius of curvature of a concave mirror measured by spherometer is [5]
given by R=l2/6h+h/2. The values of l and h are 4cm and 0.065cm
respectively. Compute the error in measurement of radius of curvature.
OR,

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 Read each statement below carefully and state, with reasons, if it is true or
false:
(a) The net acceleration of a particle in circular motion is always along the
radius of the circle towards the centre.
(b) The velocity vector of a particle at a point is always along the tangent to
the path of the particle at that point.
(c) The acceleration vector of a particle in uniform circular motion averaged
over one cycle is a null vector
37. The position of a particle is given by [5]

OR
The relation between t and distance x is t = ax2 + bx where a and b are
constants. Express the instantaneous acceleration in terms of instantaneous
velocity.

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