INTERMEDIATE 1st YEAR PHYSICS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

PHYSICAL WORLD
VSAQ:
1. What are the fundamental forces in Nature?
2. What is the discovery of C.V. Raman?
3. What is the contribution of S. Chandrasekhar to Physics?
UNITS AND MEASUREMENTS
VSAQ:
4. Distinguish between accuracy and precision?
5. What are the different types of errors that can occur in a measurement?
6. What is dimensional analysis?
7. The velocity of a body is given by v At2 Bt C . If v and t are expressed in
SI, what are the units of A, B and C?

MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE

VSAQ:
8. The states of motion and rest are relative. Explain?
9. How is average velocity different from instantaneous velocity?
10. Give an example where the velocity of an object is zero but its acceleration is not
zero?
11. If the trajectory of a body is parabolic in one frame, can it be parabolic in another
frame that moves with a constant velocity with respect to the first frame? If not,
what can it be?
12. A spring with one end attached to a mass and the other to a rigid support is
stretched and released. When is the magnitude of acceleration a maximum?
SAQ:
1. A man runs across the roof of a tall building and jumps horizontally on to the
(lower) roof of an adjacent building. If his speed is 9ms-1 and the horizontal
distance between the buildings is 10 m and the height difference between the roofs
9m, will he be able to land on the next building? (Take g 10ms-2 )
2. A car travels the first third of a distance with a speed of 10 kmph, the second third
at 20 kmph and the last third at 60 kmph. What is its mean speed over the entire
distance?
3. A bullet moving with a speed of 150 ms1 strikes a tree and penetrates 3.5 cm before
stopping. What is the magnitude of its retardation in the tree and the time taken for
it to stop after striking the tree?

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 4. Drops of water fall at regular intervals from the roof of a building of height 16m.
The first drop strikes the ground at the same moment as the fifth drop leaves the
roof. Find the distances between successive drops?
5. A food packet is dropped from an aero plane, moving with a speed of 360 kmph in
a horizontal direction, from a height of 500m. Find (i) Its time of descent
(ii) The horizontal distance between the point at which the food packet reaches the
ground and the point above which it was dropped?
MOTION IN A PLANE
VSAQ:
13. The vertical component of a vector is equal to its horizontal component. What is
the angle made by the vector with X-axis?
14. Two forces of magnitudes 3 units and 5 units act at 600 with each other. What is
the magnitude of their resultant?
15. A i j . What is the angle between the vector and x-axis?
16. If p 2ˆi 4ˆj14kˆ and q 4ˆi 4ˆj10kˆ . find the magnitude of p + q
17. If |a+b| = |a−b| , prove that the angle between a and b is 900 ?

SAQ:
6. State parallelogram law of vectors. Derive an expression for the magnitude and
direction of the resultant vector?
7. What is relative motion? Explain it?
8. Define unit vector, null vector and position vector?
9. Show that the trajectory of an object thrown at certain angle with the horizontal is
a parabola?
10. Show that the maximum height and range of a projectile are

respectively where the terms have their regular meanings?

LAWS OF MOTION
VSAQ:
18. What is inertia? What gives the measure of inertia?
19. When a bullet is fired from a gun, the gun gives a kick in the backward direction.
Explain.
20. Why does a heavy rifle not recoil as strongly as a light rifle using the same
cartridges?
21. If a bomb at rest explodes into two pieces, the pieces must travel in opposite
directions. Explain.
22. Why does the car with flattened tyre stop sooner than the one with inflated tyres?
23. A horse has to pull harder during the start of the motion than later. Explain?

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SAQ:

11. Explain advantages and disadvantages of Friction?

12. Mention the methods used to decrease friction?
13. Why is pulling the lawn roller is preferred to pushing it?
14. Calculate the time needed for a net force of 5N to change the velocity of a 10kg
mass by 2m/s
15. A bomb initially at rest at a height of 40m above the ground suddenly explodes in
to two identical fragments. One of them starts moving vertically downwards with
an initial speed of 10m/s. If acceleration due to gravity is 10m / s2 . What is the
separation between the fragments 2s after the explosion?
WORK, POWER AND ENERGY

VSAQ:
24. Define work, power and energy. State their S.I Units?
LAQ:
1. What is potential energy? Derive an expression for the gravitational
potential energy.
2. What are Collisions? Explain the possible the types of Collisions. Develop
the theory of one dimensional elastic collisions?
3. Show that in the case of one dimensional elastic collision, the relative
velocity of approach of two colliding bodies before collision is equal to
the relative velocity of separation after collision?
4. Develop the notions of work and kinetic energy and show that it leads
workenergy theorem?
5. State the law of conservation of energy and verify in the case of a freely
Falling body. What are the conditions under which the law of
conservation of energy is applicable?
PROBLEMS:
1. A machine gun fires 360 bullets per minute and each bullet travels with a
velocity of 6000ms1 . If the mass of each bullet is 5gm, find the power of the
machine gun?
2. A pump is required to lift 600kg of water per minute from a well 25m deep
and to eject it with a speed of 50ms-1 . Calculate the power required to
perform the above task?
3. A body freely falling from a certain height ‘h’ after striking a smooth floor
rebounds and rises to a height h/2 . What is the coefficient of restitution
between the floor and the body?

SYSTEM OF PARTICLES AND ROTATIONAL MOTION

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VSAQ:
25. Why are spokes provided in a bicycle wheel?
26. By spinning eggs on a table top, how will you distinguish a hardboiled egg from a
raw egg?
27. If the polar ice caps of the earth were to melt, what would the effect of the length
of the day be?
SAQ:
16. Distinguish between centre of mass and centre of gravity?
17. State And Prove Parallel Axes Theorem?
18. State And Prove Perpendicular Axes Theorem?
19. State and prove the principle of conservation of angular momentum. Explain the
principle of conservation of angular momentum with examples?
OSCILLATIONS
VSAQ:
28. Define Simple Harmonic Motion?
LAQ:
6. Show that the projection of uniform circular motion on any diameter is simple
harmonic.
7. Show that the motion of a simple pendulum is simple harmonic and hence derive
an equation for its time period. What is second’s pendulum?
8. Derive the equation for the kinetic energy and potential energy of a simple
harmonic oscillator and show that the total energy of a particle in simple
harmonic motion is constant at any point on its path.
PROBLEMS:
4. A body describes simple harmonic motion with an amplitude of 5cm and a period
of [Link] the acceleration and velocity of the body when the displacement is
a) 5cm b) 3cm c) 0 cm
5. Calculate the change in the length of a simple pendulum of length 1m, when its
period of oscillation changes from 2s to 1.5s?
6. A freely falling body takes 2 seconds to reach the ground on a planet, when it is
dropped from a height of 8m. If the period of a simple pendulum is seconds on
the planet, calculate the length of the pendulum?
GRAVITATION
SAQ:
20. State Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
21. What is Orbital velocity? Obtain an expression for it?
22. What is escape velocity? Obtain expression for it?
23. What is a Geo Stationary satellite? State its uses?

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS

SAQ:

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 24. Define stress, strain,modulii of elasticity and Poisson's Ratio?
25. Describe the behavior of a wire under gradually increasing load.
26. Define strain energy and derive the equation for the same.
27. Define Hooke’s Law of Elasticity. Describe the experiment to determine the
Young’s modulus of the material of the wire.
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS
VSAQ:
29. Define co-efficient of viscosity. What are its units and dimensions?
30. Explain Surface Tension and surface energy?
31. What is Angle of Contact?
32. Why are drops and bubbles are spherical?
33. What are water proofing agents and water wetting agents? What do they do?
34. Mention any two examples that obey Bernoulli's theorem and. justify them.
35. Explain hydraulic lift and hydraulic brakes?
36. What is Reynolds number? What is its significance?
37. Explain dynamic lift with examples.
THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER
VSAQ:
38. What is the temperature for which the readings on Kelvin and Fahrenheit scales
are same?
39. Why gap are left between rails on a railway track?
40. Why utensils are coated black? Why the bottoms of the utensils are made of
Copper?
41. State the different modes of transmission of heat. Which of these modes require
medium?
42. Define emissive power and emissivity.
43. Define absorptive power of a body. What is the absorptive power of a perfect
black body?
44. What is Green House Effect? Explain Global Warming?
45. Pendulum clocks generally go fast in winter and slow in summer. Why?
46. In what way is the anomalous behavior of water advantageous to aquatic animals?
LAQ:
9. State Boyle’s law and Charles’ law. Hence derive ideal gas equation. Which of
the two laws is better for the purpose of thermometry and why?
10. State and explain Newton's Law of cooling. State the conditions under which
Newton's Law of cooling is applicable.
A body cools down from 60ºC to 50ºC in 5 minutes and to 40ºC in another 8
minutes. Find the temperature of the surroundings.
THERMODYNAMICS

VSAQ:

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 47. State 1) Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics 2)first law of Thermodynamics 3)
Second law of thermo dynamics.
48. In summer, when the valve of a bicycle tube is opened, the escaping air appears
cold.
49. Explain the following processes 1. Isothermal Process 2. Adiabatic Process
3. Isochoric Process 4. Isobaric Process.
50. Explain the following processes. i) Cyclic process with [Link]) Non-cyclic
process with example
LAQ:
11. Derive the relation between the two heat capacities of a gas (Cp- CV = R)
12. Explain reversible and Irreversible Processes. How is heat engine different from
refrigerator
Kinetic Theory of Gases
VSAQ:
48. Explain the kinetic interpretation of Temperature?
49. Explain the concept of absolute zero of temperature on the basis of kinetic
theory
51. Prove that the average kinetic energy of a molecule of an ideal gas is directly
proportional to the absolute temperature of the gas.
52. What is the ratio of r.m.s. speed of oxygen and hydrogen molecules at the same
temperature?

TOTAL: VSAQ: 52
SAQ: 27
LAQ: 12
PROBLEMS: 06

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