REVISION ASSIGNMENT
1. Fundamental tone of same frequency is produced by an open organ pipe and a closed
organ pipe. What is the ratio of their lengths?
2. Find the magnitude and directions of the vectors i^+j^ and i^−j^.
3. Explain why small drops of mercury are spherical and large drops become flat?
4. A machine gun is mounted on the top of a tower 100 m high. At what angles should the
gun be inclined to cover a maximum range of firing on the ground below? The muzzle
speed of bullet is 150 m/s. Take g = 10 m/s2.
5. A geyser heats water flowing at the rate of 3.0 litres per minute from 2 7°C to 77°C. If the
geyser operates on a gas burner, what is the rate of consumption of the fuel if its heat of
combustion is 4.0 x 104 J/g?
6. Why is the specific heat capacity at constant pressure greater than specific heat at
constant volume?
7. Prove that the maximum horizontal range is four times the maximum height attained by
the projectile, when fired at an inclination so as to have maximum horizontal range.
8. Two exactly identical pendulums are oscillating with amplitude 2 cm and 6 cm. Calculate
the ratio of their energies of oscillations.
9. By using Stokes law, derive an expression for terminal velocity. On what factors does it
depend?
10. (a) Show that the coefficient of area expansion, (∆A/A)/∆T, of a rectangular sheet of the
solid is twice its linear expansivity α.
(b) A blacksmith fixes iron ring on the rim of the wooden wheel of a horse cart. The
diameter of the rim and the iron ring are 5.243 m and 5.231 m, respectively at 27 °C.
To what temperature should the ring be heated so as to fit the rim of the wheel?
11. What is the number of significant figures in 0.06900.
12. A wire stretches by a certain mount under a load. If the load and radius are both
increased to four times, find the stretch caused in the wire.
13. Why is the specific heat capacity at constant pressure greater than specific heat at
constant volume?
14. A transverse harmonic wave on a wire is expressed as:
y (x, t) = 3 sin (36t +0.018x +π/4)
(i) Give the initial phase at the origin.
(ii) Calculate the smallest distance between two adjacent crests in the wave.
[X and y are in cm and t in seconds. Assume the left to the right direction as the positive
direction of x]
15. Draw the following graphs for an object projected upward with a velocity u' which
comes back to the same point after some time:
(i) Acceleration versus time graph
(j) Speed versus time graph.
(k) Velocity versus time graph.
16. Define the acceleration due to gravity. Show that value of ‘g ‘decreases with altitude.
17. (a)Describe the principle and action of a hydraulic lift giving a simple diagram.
(b) A soap bubble is blown from a radius of 1 cm to 2 cm. Calculate the work done in
doing so, if the surface tension of the soap solution is 42 dyne/cm.
18. (i)Discuss the formation of harmonics in a stretched string. Show that in case of a
stretched string the first four harmonics are in the ratio [Link]
(ii) A steel rod 100 cm long is clamped at its middle. The fundamental frequency of
longitudinal vibrations of the rod as given to be 2.53 kHz. What is the speed of sound in
steel?
19. (a)State and prove Bernoulli’s Theorem. Explain its limitations.
(b) Water flows through a horizontal pipe of which the cross–section is
not constant. The pressure is 1cm of mercury where the velocity is 0.35m/s. Find the
pressure at a point where the velocity is 0.65m/s.
20. State the number of significant figures in the following:
(a) 0.007 m2 (b) 2.64 x 104 kg (c) 0.2370 g cm-3 (d) 6.320 J (e) 6.032 N m-2
21. A block of mass 1 kg is pushed up a surface inclined to horizontal at an angle of 30 0 by a
force of 10 N parallel to the inclined surface. The coefficient of friction between block
and the incline is 0.1. If the block is pushed up by 10 m along the incline, calculate
(a) work done against gravity
(b) work done against force of friction
(c) increase in potential energy
