SAMPLE PAPER-04 (solved)

PHYSICS (Theory)
Class – XII

Time allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 70

General Instructions:
a) All the questions are compulsory.
b) There are 26 questions in total.
c) Questions 1 to 5 are very short answer type questions and carry one mark each.
d) Questions 6 to 10 carry two marks each.
e) Questions 11 to 22 carry three marks each.
f) Questions 23 to 26 carry five marks each.
g) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been provided in one question
of two marks, one question of three marks and all three questions in five marks each. You
have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
h) Use of calculators is not permitted. However, you may use log tables if necessary.
i) You may use the following values of physical constants wherever necessary:
c = 3 x108 m / s
h = 6.63 x10 −34 Js
e = 1.6 x10 −19 C
µo = 4π x10−7 TmA−1
1
= 9 x109 Nm 2C −2
4πε 0
me = 9.1x10 −31 kg

1. What is the basic cause of quantization of charges?

2. What are thermal neutrons?
3. What is the dimensional formula of LC ?
4. Give example of β decay.
5. A converging lens of refractive index 1.5 is kept in a liquid having same refractive index.
What would be power of lens in this medium?
6. S1 and S2 are two hollow concentric spheres enclosing charges q and 2q respectively.
(i) What is the ratio of electric flux through S1 and S2
(ii) How will the electric flux through sphere S1 change is a medium of dielectric constant 5
is introduced in the sphere S1 in place of air?

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7. Distinguish between paramagnetic, diamagnetic and ferromagnetic material.
8. State the laws of photoelectric effect. Explain it on the basis of Einstein equation.
9. Draw the graph showing the variation of inductive reactance and capacitive reactance with
frequency of applied a.c. voltage source.
10. The oscillating electric field of an electromagnetic wave is given by EY = 30 sin (2 x 1011t +
300πx) Vm-1. Finds the dirn of propagation of wave and write down the expression for
magnetic field?
11. A circular coil of radius 8cm and 20 turns rotates about its vertical diameter with an angular
speed of 50s-1. In uniform horizontal magnetic fields of magnitude 30 x 0-2 T. find the
maximum and average value of emf induced in the coil?
12. Draw a schematic arrangement of Geiger Marsden experimental setup. How does it explain
the size of nucleus?
13. Why is electrostatic potential constant throughout the volume of the conductor and has the
same value (as inside) on its surface?
14. Why a voltmeter is always connected in parallel with a circuit element across which voltage
is to be measured?
Or
A proton and an alpha particle having the same kinetic energy are allowed to pass through a
uniform magnetic field perpendicular to their direction of motion. Company the radii of the
paths of proton and alpha particle
15. Light falls from glass ( n = 1.5) to air. Find the angle of incidence from which the angle of
deviation is 900?
16.
a) Represent the AM process graphically.
b) Write its two advantages

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17. Why is the mass of a nucleus always less than the sum of the masses of its constituents,
neutrons and protons?
18. Define coefficient of mutual inductance of two cells. A secondary coil of n2 turns is wound on
a long solenoid of area of cross section A having a primary coil of n1 turns per unit length.
What is the mutual inductance of the two cells?
19.
a. What is transmission medium?
b. Explain the term short wave band and medium wave band.
c. What is a transducer?
20. Three point charges of +2µc and -3µc are kept at the vertices A,B and C respectively of an
equilateral triangle of side 20cm. what should be the sign and magnitude of the charge to be
placed at the mid-point M of side BC. So that charges at remains in equilibrium.
21.
a. What do you understand by the term ‘magnetic length’ and ‘geometric length’ of the
magnet?
b. How are the two related to each other?
c. Define angle of a dip at a given place.
22. The oscillating magnetic field in a plane electromagnetic wave is given by
Bγ = 8x10−6 sin(20x1011 t + 300π x)T . Calculate the wavelength of electromagnetic wave. Write

down the expression for oscillating electric field.

23. Ram had gone out of station, on a vacation for one week. After coming back, he tried to start
his car but failed. He realized that he needs to charge the battery of his car. He went to the
workshop to hire a battery charger. Ram connected the black lead of the battery charger to
the positive terminal of the car battery and the red lead to the negative terminal of the car
battery. The car battery was not charged. Ram thought over it and decided to reverse the
leads. Now he was successful in charging the car battery.
a. What according to you are the values displayed by Ram?
b. How should a battery charger be connected to a car battery?
24. Calculate the value of current I1, I2 and I3 in the circuit given below using Kirchhoff’s law.

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 Or
The diagram given below shows the field lines of a positive and negative point charge
respectively.

a) Give the signs of the potential difference VP – VQ; VB – VA.

b) Give the sign of the potential energy difference of a small negative charge between the
points Q and P; A and B.
c) Give the sign of the work done by the field in moving a small positive charge from Q to
P.
d) Give the sign of the work done by the external agency in moving a small negative
charge from B to A.
e) Does the kinetic energy of a small negative charge increase or decrease in going from B
to A?
25. An object is placed at (i) 10 cm; (ii) 5 cm in front of a concave mirror of radius of curvature
15 cm. Find the position, nature, and magnification of the image in each case.
Or
Answer the following:
a. A virtual image, we always say cannot be caught on a screen. Yet, when we see a
virtual image we are obviously, bringing it on the screen of our eye. Is there a
contradiction?

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 b. Why must both objective and eye piece of a compound microscope have short focal
lens?
c. When viewing through a compound microscope, our eye should be positioned not on
the eye piece but a short distance away from it for best viewing. Why?
26. You have learnt in the text how Huygens’s principle leads to the laws of reflection and
refraction. Use the same principle to deduce directly that a point object placed in front of a
plane mirror produces a virtual image whose distance from the mirror is equal to the object
distance from the mirror.
Or
Answer the following:
(a) In a single slit diffraction experiment, the width of the slit is made double the original
width. How does this affect the size and intensity of the central diffraction band?
(b) In what way is diffraction from each slit related to the interference pattern in a
double-slit experiment?
(c) When a tiny circular obstacle is placed in the path of light from a distant source, a
bright spot is seen at the centre of the shadow of the obstacle. Explain why?
(d) Two students are separated by a 7 m partition wall in a room 10 m high. If both light
and sound waves can bend around obstacles, how is it that the students are unable to
see each other even though they can converse easily?
(e) Ray optics is based on the assumption that light travels in a straight line. Diffraction
effects disprove this assumption. Yet the ray optics assumption is so commonly used
in understanding location and several other properties of images in optical
instruments. Justify?

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