ACCELERATED LEARNING PROGRAMME (ALP)

LAHORE, SAHIWAL, GUJRANWALA, FAISALABAD, MULTAN,

BHAWALPUR
RAWALPINDI , DERA GHAZI KHAN, AZAD KAHSMIR , SARGODHA

PHYSICS 10TH CLASS GUESS PAPERS

UNIT NO. 10 SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION AND WAVES.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. Which of the following is an example of simple harmonic motion.
a) The motion of simple pendulum
b) The motion of celling fan
c) The spinning of the Earth on its axis
d) A bouncing ball on a floor
2. If the mas of the bob of pendulum is increased by a factor of 3, the period of
the pendulum’s motion will. Most Important
a) Be increased by a factor of 2
b) Remain the same
c) Be decreased by a factor of 2
d) Be decreased by a factor of 4
3. Which if the following devices can be used to produce both transverse and
longitudinal wave? Most Important
a) A string
b) A ripple tank
c) A helical spring
d) A tuning fork
4. Waves transfer. Most Important
a) Energy
b) Frequency
c) Wavelength
d) Velocity
5. Which of the following is method of energy transfer?
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a) Conduction
b) Radiation
c) Wave motion
d) All of these
6. In a vacuum, all electromagnetic waves have the same.
a) Speed
b) Frequency
 c) Amplitude
d) Wavelength

7. Which of the following Characteristics of a wave is independent of the

other?
a) Speed
b) Frequency
c) Amplitude
d) Wavelength
8. The relation between v, f and ⋏ of a wave is. Most Important
a) Vf = ∧
b) f λ = v
c) v λ = f
d) v = λ/f
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. What is simple harmonic motion? What are the necessary conditions for a
body to execute simple harmonic motion?
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2. How can you define the term wave? Elaborate the difference between
mechanical and electromagnetic waves. Give examples of each.
3. Distinguish between longitudinal and transverse waves with suitable
examples. Most Important
Long Questions:
1. What meant by Simple Harmonic Motion? Prove that mass attached with a
spring performs simple Harmonic Motion.
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2. What is wave motion? Explain
3. Write a note on Ripple Tank. How can we generate straight waves and
circular waves with the help of Ripple Tank?
4. Find the time period and frequency of a simple pendulum 1.0 m long at a
location where
g = 10.0 ms-2.
5. A wave moves on a slinky with frequency of 4Hz and wavelength of 0.4 m.
What is the speed of wave.
6. The time period of a simple pendulum is 2 s. What will be its length on
Earth? What will be its length on the moon if gm = ge/6? Where ge = 10 ms-
2.
 7. A pendulum of length of 0.99 m is taken to the moon by an astronaut. The
time period of the pendulum is 4.9 s. What is the value of ‘g’ on the surface
of the moon?
8. Find the time periods of a simple pendulum of 1 meter length, placed on
Earth and on moon. The value of g on the surface of moon is 1/6th of its
value on Earth. Where ge is 10 ms-2
9. At one end of a Ripple tank 80 cm across, a 5 Hz vibrator produces waves
whose wavelength is 40 mm. Find the time the wave need to cross the tank.
10.What is the wavelength of the radio waves transmitted by an FM station at
90 MHz? Where 1 MHz= 106 Hz, and speed of radio wave is 3 x 108 ms-1
UNIT NO. 11 SOUND
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. Which is an example of longitudinal wave? Most Important
a) Sound wave
b) Light wave
c) Radio wave
d) Water wave
2. How does sound travel from its source to your ear?
a) By changes in air pressure
b) By vibrations in wires or strings
c) By electromagnetic wave
d) By infrared waves
3. Which form of energy is sound?
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a) Electrical
b) Mechanical
c) Thermal
d) Chemical
4. Astronauts in space need to communicate with each other by radio links
because.
a) Sound waves travel very slowly in space
b) Sound waves travel very fast in space
c) Sound waves cannot travel in space
d) Sound waves have low frequency in space
5. The loudness of a sound is most closely related to its.
a) Frequency
b) Period
c) Wavelength
 d) Amplitude
6. For a normal person, audible frequency range for sound wave lies between
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a) 10 Hz and 10 KHz
b) 20 Hz and 20 KHz
c) 25 Hz and 25 KHz
d) 30 Hz and 30 KHz
7. When the frequency of a sound wave is increased, which of the following
will decrease?
i. Wavelength ii. Period iii. Amplitude
a) I only b) iii only c) I and ii only d) I and iii only
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. What is the necessary condition for the production of sound?
2. What is the effect of the medium on the speed of sound? In which medium
sound travels faster air, solid or liquid? Justify your answer.
3. What do you understand by the longitudinal wave? Describe the
Longitudinal nature of sound waves.
4. What is the difference between the loudness and intensity of sound?
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Derive the relationship between the two.
5. What is the difference between frequency and pitch?
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Describe their relationship graphically
6. What is the audible frequency range for human ear? Does this
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range vary with the age of people? Explain
7. What are the uses of ultrasound in medicine?
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LONG QUESTION:
1. Give an experiment which shows that sound is produced due to vibration of
a body.
2. What do you understand by the longitudinal wave? Describe the longitudinal
nature of sound wave.
3. Explain the Characteristics of sound. Most Important
4. Calculate sound level.
5. How does speed of sound vary in different material?
6. Describe Audible Frequency Range. Or what is the range of audible
frequency of sound.
7. Define Ultrasonic and Write their uses.
 8. Calculate the intensity levels of the a) Faintest audible sound b) Rusting of
leaves.
9. Calculate the frequency of a sound wave of speed 340 ms-1 and wavelength
0.5 m. Most Important
10. A normal conversation involves sound intensities of about 3.0 x 10-6 Wm-
2, What is the decibel level for this intensity? What is the intensity of the
sound of 100 dB. Most Important
11.If at Anarkali bazaar Lahore , the sound level is 80 dB. What will be the
intensity of sound there. Most Important
12.A doctor counts 72 heartbeats in 1 min. Calculate the frequency and period
of the heartbeats. Most Important
13.A marine survey ship sends a sound wave straight to the sea bed. It receives
an echo 1.5 s Later. The speed of sound in sea water is 1500 ms-1. Find the
depth of the sea at this position. Most Important
14.A sound wave has a frequency of 2KHz and wavelength 35 cm. How long
will is take to travel 1.5 km?
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UNIT NO. 12 GEOMETRICAL OPTICS
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. If a ray of light in glass is incident on an air surface at an angle greater than
the critical angle, the ray will.
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a) Refract only
b) Reflect only
c) Partially refract and partially reflect
d) Diffract only
2. The critical angle for a beam of light passing from water into air is 48.8
degrees. This means that all light rays with an angle of incidence greater
than this angel will be. Most Important
a) Absorbed
b) Totally reflected
c) Partially reflected and partially transmitted
d) Totally transmitted
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. Define Refraction of light. Describe the passage of light through parallel
sided transparent material.
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 2. What is meant by refractive index of a material? How would you determine
the refractive index of a rectangular glass slab?
3. State the laws of refraction of light and show how they may be verified
using rectangular glass slab and pins
4. What is meant by the term total internal reflection? Most Important
5. State the condition for total internal reflection. Most Important
6. What is critical angle? Derive a relationship between the critical angle and
the refractive index of a substance.
7. Define the following terms applied to a lens:
i) Principal axis ii) Optical centre iii) Focal length.
LONG QUESTIONS:
1. What are Spherical mirrors? Also describe the type of spherical mirrors.
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2. Define the following terms used in Spherical mirrors.
3. Describe the reflection of light by spherical mirrors.
4. What are Law of Refraction? Also describe Snell’s law and cause of
refraction of light. Most Important
5. What is meant by total internal reflection? Write its conditions.
6. What is critical angle? Derive the relationship between critical angle and the
refractive index of substance.
7. Define total internal reflection. Also explain totally reflecting prism and
their uses.
8. What is Lens equation? How can we locate the image by lens equations?
9. A ray of light enters from air into glass surface. The angle of incidence is 30
o
If the refractive index of glass is 1.52, then find the angle of refraction r.
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10.Find the value of critical angle for water if the refracted angle is 90 o. The
refractive index of water is 1.33 and that of air is 1.
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11.An object 10.0 cm in front of a convex mirror forms an image 5.0 cm behind
the mirror. What is the focal length of the mirror.
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12.An object and its image in a concave mirror are the same height. Yet
inverted when the object is 20.0 cm from the mirror. What is the focal length
of the mirror. Most Important
13.An image of statue appears to be 11.5 cm behind a convex mirror with focal
length 13.5 cm. Find the distance from the statue to the mirror.
 14.An object 10 cm high is placed at a distance of 20 cm from a concave lens of
focal length 15 cm. Calculate the position and size of the image. Also state
the nature of the image. Most Important
15.A convex lens of focal length 6 cm to 12.10 A convex lens of focal length 6
cm Most Important
is to be used to form a virtual image three times the size of the object. Where
the lens must be placed.
16.The power of a convex lens is 5D. At what distance the object should be
placed from the lens so that its real and 2 times larger image is formed.
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UNIT NO. 13 ELECTROSTATISTICS
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. A positive electric charge. Most Important
a) Attract other positive charge
b) Repels other positive charge
c) Attracts a neutral charge
d) Repels a neutral charge
2. Five Joules of work is needed to shift 10 C of charge from one place to
another. The potential difference between the places in.
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a) 0.5 V
b) 2 V
c) 5 V
d) 10 V
3. Two small charged spheres are separated by 2 mm. Which of the following
would produce the greatest attractive force.
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a) + 1 q and + 4 q
b) -1 q and -4 q
c) +2 q and +2 q
d) +2 and -2 q
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. Describe the method of charged bodies by electrostatic induction.
2. Explain Coulomb’s law of electrostatics and write its mathematical form.
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3. What is meant by electric field and electric intensity?
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 4. Is electric intensity a vector quantity? What will be its direction
5. How would you define potential difference between two points? Define its
unit. Most Important
6. Show that potential difference can be described as energy transfer per
Unit charge between the two points Most Important
7. Derive the formula for the equivalent capacitance for a series combination
Of a number of capacitors. Most Important
8. Enlist some uses of capacitors. Most Important
LONG QUESTIONS:
1. State and explain Coulomb’s law. Most Important
2. What are capacitors? Describe its construction. Most Important
3. How are capacitors connected in Parallel? Describe the Most Important
Characteristic features of this combination.
4. How are capacitors connected in Series? Describe the features of this Most
Important
Combination.
5. Write the uses of capacitors. Most Important
6. Two bodies are oppositely charged with 500 µ C and 100 µ C. Find Most
Important
The force between the two charges if the distance between them in air is 0.5
m.
7. Three capacitors with capacitance of 3.0 pF, 4.0 pF, and 5.0 pF are arranged
in series combination to a battery of 6 V (1 pF = 10 -12 F). Find
a) The total capacitance of the series combination.
b) The quantity of charge across each capacitors.
c) The voltage across each capacitor.
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8. Two point charge q1 = 10 µ C and q2 = 5 µ C are placed at a distance of
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150 cm. Find the Coulomb’s force between them. Also find the direction of
this force.
9. Two charges repel each other with a force of 0.1 N when they are 5 cm
apart. Most Important
Find the forces between the same charges when they are 2 cm apart?
UNIT NO. 14 CURRENT ELECTRICITY
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
 1. What is the voltage across a 6 Ω resistor when 3 A of current passes through
it. Most Important
a) 2 V
b) 9 v
c) 18 V
d) 36 V
9. What happens to the intensity or the brightness of the lamp connected in
series as more and more lamps are added. Most Important
a) Increases
b) Decreases
c) Remains the same
d) Cannot be predicted
2. What is the power rating of a lamp connected to a 12 V source when it
carries Most Important
2.5 A?
a) 4.8 W
b) 14.5 W
c) 30 W
d) 60 W
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. What do u mean by the term e.m.f? Is it really force? Explain
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2. How can we differentiate between e.m.f. and potential difference?
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3. Explain Ohm’s law. What are its limitation? Most Important
4. Discuss the main features of parallel combination of resistors.
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5. Determine the equivalent resistance of series combination of resistors.
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6. Define and explain the term electric current. Most Important
7. Define Resistance and its units. Most Important
8. Explain the energy dissipation in a resistance. What is Joule’s law?
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LONG QUESTIONS:
1. Define and Explain Electric current. Most Important
2. Define and explain Ohm’s Law. What are its limitation?
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 3. Explain characteristics of Ohmic and non –Ohmic conductors.
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10.Describe the main features of parallel combination of resistors and also
determine the equivalent resistance. Most Important
4. State and explain the Joule’s law. Most Important
5. Define Electric power. Write its formula and unit. Most Important
6. Define kilowatt-hour and prove that IKWh= 3.6 MJ
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7. If 0.5 C charge passes through a wire in 10 s. then what will be the value of
current flowing through the wire.
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8. The resistance of a conductor wire is 10 MΩ . If a potential difference of
100 volt is applied across its ends, then find the value of current passing
through it in mA. Most Important

UNIT NO. 15 ELECTROMAGNETISM

MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. The presence of a magnetic field can be detected by a.
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a) Small mass
b) Stationary positive charge
c) Stationary negative charge
d) Magnetic compass
2. The turn ratios of a transformer is 10. It means.
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a) Is = 10 Ip
b) Ns = Np / 10
c) Ns = 10 Np
d) Vs = Vp /10
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. Demonstrate by an experiment that a magnetic field is produced around a
straight current – carrying conductor
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2. You are given an unmarked magnetized steel bar and bar magnet. Its north
and south ends are maked N and s respectively. State how you would
determine the polarity at each end of the unmarked bar.
3. Describe a simple experiment to demonstrate that a changing magnetic field
can induce e.m.f. in a circuit.
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 4. Describe the direction of an induced e.m.f. in a circuit? How does this
phenomenon relate to conservation of energy?
5. What do you understand by the term mutual induction?
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11.What is transformer? Explain the working of a transformer in connection
with mutual induction. Most Important
LONG QUESTIONS:
1. How current carrying coil rotate in a magnetic field.
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2. Define and explain Lenz’s law. Most Important
3. What is meant by mutual induction? Describe an experiment
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To explain this
4. What is Transformer? Explain its construction and working.
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5. A transformer is needed to convert a main 240 V supply into a 12 V supply.
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If there are 2000 turns on the primary coil, then find the number of turns on
the secondary coil.
12.A step-up transformer has a turn ratio of I00, An alternating supply of 20 V
is connected across the primary coil. What is the secondary voltage? Most
Important
UNIT NO. 16 BASIC ELECTRONICS
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. AND gate can be formed by using two. Most Important
a) NOT gate
b) OR gates
c) NOR gates
d) NAND gates
2. If X = A.B. then X is I When Most Important
a) A and B are 1
b) A or B is 0
c) A is 0 and B is 1
d) A is 1 and B is 0
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. Differentiate between analogue electronics and digital electronics.
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 13.Write down name Of five analogue and five digital devices that are
commonly used in every day life. Most Important
2. Write down some benefits of using digital electronics over analogue
electronics. Most Important
3. What are the three universal logic gates? Give their symbol sand truth tables.
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4. Explain AND operation. Most Important
5. Explain NOR gate Most Important
LONG QUESTIONS:
1. Explain AND operation. Most Important
2. Explain NOR gate Most Important
UNIT NO. 17 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICTION
TECHNOLOGY
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. In computer terminology information means.
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a) Any data
b) Raw data
c) Processed data
d) Large data
2. From which of the following we can get information almost about
everything. Most Important
a) Book
b) Teacher
c) Computers
d) Internet
3. What does the term e-mail stand for. Most Important
a) Emergency mail
b) Electronic mail
c) Extra mail
d) External mail
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. What is difference between data and information? Most Important
2. What do you understand information and communication technology.
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3. Differentiate between Primary memory and the secondary memory.
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 14.What is the difference between hardware and software? Name different
software’s. Most Important
4. What is internet? Internet is a useful source of knowledge and Most
Important
Information Discuss.
LONG QUESTIONS:
1. Define and explain information and communication technology. Most
Important
2. Discuss the components of computer based information system. In Most
Important
Detail.
3. Discuss the transmission of light signals through optical fibres in detail.
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4. Write a brief note on INTERNET. Most Important
5. What is Browser? Most important
6. Define Electronic Mail. Write down three advantages. Most Important
CHAPTER NO. 18 ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. Isotopes are atoms of same element with different. Most Important
a) Atomic mass
b) Atomic number
c) Number of protons
d) Number of electrons.
2. One of the isotopes of URANIUM IS 238U92 . The number of neutrons Most
Important
in this isotope is.
a) 92
b) 146
c) 330
d) 238
3. Which among the following radiations has more penetrating power? Most
Important
a) A beta particle
b) A gamma rays
c) An alpha particle
d) All have the same penetrating ability.
4. What happens to the atomic number of an element which emits one alpha
particle?
a) Increases by 1
b) Stays the same
c) Decreases by 2
d) Decreases by 1
5. The half -life of a certain isotope is 1 day. What is the quantity of the isotope
after 2 days ?
a) One –half
b) One- quarter
c) One-eighth
d) None of these
6. When Uranium (92 protons) ejects a beta particle, how many protons will be
in Most Important
the remaining nucleus?
a) 89 protons
b) 90 protons
c) 91 protons
d) 93 protons
7. Release of energy by the Sun in due to.
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a) Nuclear fission
b) Nuclear fusion
c) Burning of gases
d) Chemical reaction
8. When a heavy nucleus splits into two lighter nuclei, the process would.
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a) Release nuclear energy
b) Absorb nuclear energy
c) Release chemical energy
d) Absorb chemical energy

9. The reason carbon –dating works is that.

a) Plants and animals are such strong emitters of carbon -14
b) After a plant or animal dies, it stops taking in fresh carbon-14
c) There is so much non –radioactive carbon dioxide in the air
d) When plants or animals die, they absorb fresh carbon -14
REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1, What is the difference between atomic number and atomic mass Number?
Give symbolical representation of a nuclide Most Important
2. What do you mean by the term radioactivity? Why are some elements
radioactive
But some are not.
3. How can we make radioactive element artificially? Describe with a suitable
example
4. What are the three basic radioactive decay process and how do they
Differ from each other Most Important
5. Write the alpha decay process for Pa. Identify the parent and daughter nuclei
in this decay.
6. Explain whether the atomic number can increase during nuclear decay.
Support your answer
with an example.
7. What do you understanding by Half-Life of a radioactive element?
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8. Is radioactivity a spontaneous process? Elaborate your answer
With a simple experiment.
9. What is meant by back ground radiations? Enlist some sources of
background radiations
10. Describe two uses of radioisotopes in medicine, industry or research
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11. What are two common radiation hazards? Briefly describe the
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Precautions that are taken against them.
12. Nuclear Fusion reaction is more reliable and sustainable source of energy the
nuclear fission
chain reaction. Justify this statement with plausible arguments.
LONG QUESTIONS:
1. Define Isotopes. Write the names of Isotopes of Hydrogen.
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2. What are radio isotopes? Write their uses. Most Important
3. Define and explain Nuclear Fusion. Most Important
4. Cobalt -60 is a radioactive element with half-life of 5.25 years. What
fraction of the original sample will be left after 26 years?
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5. Half –Life of a radioactive element is 10 minutes. If the initial count rate is
368 counts per minute, find the time by which, count rate reaches 23 counts
per minutes.
6. A sample of certain radioactive element has a half-life of 1500 years
If it has an activity of 32000 counts per hour at the present time,
Then plot a graph of the activity of this sample over the period in which it
will reduce to 1/16 of its present value.
7. Ashes from a campfire deep in a cave show carbon-14 activity of only one-
eighth the activity of fresh wood. How long ago was that campfire made?