PLUS ONE PHYSICS
ASTER 2025
Units and Measurement
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3 List any two physical quantities having same dimension.
7 According to Vanderwall’s real gas equation
MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE
1 For a moving body distance is always -------------------
a) equal to displacement.
b) less than displacement.
c) greater than or equal to displacement.
d) less than or equal to displacement.
2. The slope of position – time graph of a particle gives.........
(Acceleration ,Displacement ,Velocity,Momentum )
3. The area under the velocity -time graph gives --------------
4. Area under acceleration -time graph is...........?
5. Four pairs of initial and final positions of a body along an x axis are given. Which pair gives a
positive displacement of the body ?
(a) –10 m, +15 m (b) –5 m, –12 m (c) 2 m, –5 m (d) 2 m, 1m
6. Acceleration is the time rate of change of velocity. Give an example of a body possessing zero
velocity and still accelerating.
7. From a height an object A thrown up with a speed 40m/s and other object B thrown downwards
with same speed. Which one will reach the ground with more speed?
[Link] the position time graph for -
a) State of rest
b) State of uniform motion
c)State of uniform accelaration
9. Look at the graph in fig. (a) and fig.(b) carefully and state which of these can’t possible
one-dimensional motion with reasons
10. Show that area under the velocity-time graph of an object moving with constant acceleration in
a straight line in certain time interval is equal to the distance covered by the object in that interval.
[Link] position - time graph of two objects A and B are shown below.
(a) Which body has greater velocity?
(b) Find the ratio of velocities of A and B.
[Link] is defined as the rate of change of displacement.
a) Distinguish between average velocity and instantaneous velocity.
b) When does the average velocity becomes equal to the instantaneous velocity?
[Link] breaks are applied on a moving vehicle, it stops after travelling a distance. This distance is
called stopping distance.
a) Derive an expression for stopping distance in terms of initial velocity and retardation
b) If the initial speed is doubled keeping the retardation same, by how much will the
stopping distance change?
[Link] – time graph of a body is given below.
a) Which portion of the graph represents uniform retardation?
(i) OA (ii)AB (iii) BC (iv) OC
b) Find the displacement in time 2s to 7s.
MOTION IN A PLANE
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2. A vector divided by its magnitude is called -------------------
3. The physical quantity which is constant at any point in projectile motion is..........
4. From a height an object A is dropped, at the same time another object B is thrown horizontally
with a velocity 20m/s from the same point. Which one will reach the ground first?
5. An object is projected with a velocity u at an angle 20° with horizontal. To get the same range
another object projected from the same point with same velocity at an angle of........
[Link] range of a projectile is 1.6 m. Then the velocity of projection will be..... (g=10m/s2)
7. The physical quantity which is constant at any point in projectile motion is..........
a)Velocity b)Acceleration c)Kinetic energy d)Linear momentum
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9.A particle is projected up into the air from the point with a speed of 20 m/s at an angle of
projection 30°. What is the maximum height reached by it.?
[Link] vectors of equal magnitude have a resultant with magnitude equal to either of them , what is
the angle between the two vectors ?
11. With the help of a diagram derive the expression for the resultant of two vectors in
parallelogram law of vector addition (Derive the law of cosines)
12.A man throws a stone up into air at an angle 'θ' with the horizontal. Draw the path of the
projectile and mark directions of velocity and acceleration at the highest position.
Derive an expression for the maximum height reached by the stone.
[Link] a body in uniform circular motion derive the expression for centripetal acceleration with the
help of a neat diagram
LAWS OF MOTION
1. Two bodies of masses 4 kg and 5 kg are acted upon by the same force. If the acceleration of
lighter body is 2 m/s2, the acceleration of heavier body is
2. A block is placed above a table. The frictional force acting on it is....
a) static friction. b) kinetic friction. c) Rolling friction. d)No friction.
3. The area under force time graph is.......
[Link] the law of conservation of Linear momentum
[Link] billiard balls each of mass 0.05 kg moving in opposite direction with speed 6 m/s collide
and rebound with same speed. What is the impulse imparted to each ball due to other?
6. An athlete runs over a certain distance before taking long jump. Why?
7.A person drives a car along a circular track on a level ground.
(a)Derive an expression for the maximum safe speed of the car.
(b) Why do we give banking to curved roads?
8. To reduce friction and accident by skidding the roads are banked at curves.
(a)What is meant by banking of roads?
(b)Sketch the schematic diagram of a vehicle on a banked road with friction and mark the
various forces.
(c) Derive an expression for maximum safe speed of a vehicle on a banked road with friction.
9. Rocket propulsion is based on the principle.........?
10. We are familiar with Newton’s laws of motion.
a) State Newton’s second law of motion.
b) Using the above law, explain:
i. Impulse – momentum principle
ii. Law of conservation of linear momentum
WORK ENERGY & POWER
1. Gravitational force is a .......................force (Conservative, Non Conservative)
2.. When a conservative force does positive work on a body, the potential energy of the body..........
3. Relation between kinetic energy and momentum is.......
4. A man holds a heavy object weighing 50kg perfectly still for an hour. Calculate the work done by
him.
5. Two bodies of masses m 1 and m2 have the same linear momentum. What is the ratio of their
kinetic energies ?
6. Find out the sign of work done in the following cases:
a) Work done by a man in lifting a bucket out of well.
b) Work done by friction on a body sliding down an inclined plane.
c) Work done by an applied force on a body moving on a rough horizontal surface.
d) Work done by the resistive force of air on a vibrating pendulum.
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8.A truck and a car are moving with the same kinetic energy are stopped by applying same
retarding force by means of brakes. Which one will stop at a smaller distance.
[Link] that the potential energy of a body is completely converted into kinetic energy during its
free fall under the gravity.
Draw graphically the variation of kinetic energy and potential energy and total energy with the
height of the body in the above case.
[Link] quantity that remains constant in all types of collisions is .......
SYSTEMS OF PARTICLES AND ROTATIONAL MOTION
1. Dimensional Formula of Angular momentum is....
2. Angular momentum has the same dimensional formula as that of.......
3. The rotational analogue of force is------------------
4. In pure rotational motion every particle of the body has the same angular velocity at any instant
of [Link] whether this statement is True or False.
5. The rotational analogue of mass is called............
6. The demonstration of conservation of angular momentum is schematically shown in the figures.
Identify the figure which has more angular velocity.
7. A cat is able to land on her feet after a fall. Which principle of physics is being used by her?
8. Derive the relation between torque and angular momentum .
9.A wheel of mass 1000 kg and radius 1 m is rotating at the rate of 420 r.p.m. What is the constant
torque required to stop the wheel in 14 rotations, assuming the mass to be concentrated at the rim of
the wheel?
[Link] polar ice melts what will happen to the duration of a day?
GRAVITATION
[Link] acceleration due to gravity-----------with increase of altitude.
[Link] acceleration due to gravity ----------with increase of depth.
3. At the centre of earth , the acceleration due to gravity ,g= -------
4. Acceleration due to gravity is independent of ............ (Mass of earth / mass of body)
5. Escape speed of an object from the moon.......
6. What will be the period of a simple pendulum, if this experiment is performed inside a satellite?
7. A planet moves around the sun in an elliptical orbit with the sun at one of its foci. The physical
quantity associated with the motion of the planet that remains constant with time is:..............
(velocity, centripetal force, linear momentum, angular momentum)
8. Draw a graph showing the variation of ‘g’ with depth and height from the surface of the earth.
[Link] kinetic energy of a satellite revolving around earth is 200MJ. What is its potential energy?
[Link] the height at which g become 1/3 of g at the surface?(Radius of earth is =6400km)
11.A Saturn year is 29.5 times the earth year. How far is the saturn from the sun if the earth is
1.50×108 km away from the sun?
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS
[Link] of elasticity for a rigid body is -------------
2. For ductile materials , ultimate stress point and fracture points are -----------(very close/far apart)
3. The ratio of lateral strain to longitudinal strain is called.........
4. The reciprocal of bulk modulus is called.......
5. When a spring balances are continuously used for long time, they show wrong reading. Explain
Why?
[Link] Stress-Strain graph of two materials A and B are shown below.
(a)State the law which relates stress with strain.
(b)Which of the two materials is more ductile?
[Link] is more elastic, steel or rubber? Why?
8.A load 2 kg produces an extension of 1.5mm in a wire of length 4.5m. The radius of the wire is
0.3mm. Calculate the Young’s modulus of the material of the wire.
9.A spherical ball contracts by volume 0.01%, when subjected to a normal uniform pressure of 10 7
Pa. Calculate the bulk modulus of the material of the ball.
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS
[Link] hydraulic lift is based on which of the following
2. Pressure is a.... quantity(Scalar/Vector)
[Link] of continuity is in accordance with........
4. Bernoulli's theorem is in accordance with......
[Link] of gases..........................with temperature, whereas viscosity of liquids...................with
temperature
6. Is Bernoulli’s Theorem valid for viscous liquids?
7. When air is blown in between the two light weight balls which are hanging sideways will they
attract or repel? Explain Why
8. Why bullets are given cylindrical shape?
[Link] areas of the pistons in a hydraulic machine are 5cm2 and 625cm 2 . What force on the smaller
piston will support a load of 1250N on the larger piston?
[Link] soap bubbles A and B are blown at the end of a tube as shown in figure. What will happen
when the block C is removed.
[Link] does the small water drop acquire a spherical shape?
12. Washing of cloths is easier in warm water than cold water. Why?
[Link] the phenomenon
[Link] rain drops are falling with uniform velocity?
THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER
1. How does the heat energy from the sun reach the earth ?
[Link] is the anomalous behaviour shown by water?
[Link] of heat required to change the state from solid to liquid without changing temperature is
called.......
4. The process of changing solid directly to vapour is called ................
[Link] what temperature do Celsius and Fahrenheit scales coincide?
6. How does the boiling point of water change with pressure?
7.A steel beam of length 5m is kept at a temperature of 20 0C. On a hot day, the temperature rises to
400C. What is the change in its length due to thermal expansion? (Coefficient to linear expansion
of steel is 1.2 × 10-5/0C)
8. Burns from steam are usually more serious than boiling water. Why?
[Link] an equation for coefficient of linear expansion? Show that coefficient of volume expansion
is thrice its coefficient of linear expansion.
10. Invar is used for making pendulum clocks. Why?
[Link] are in restaurant waiting for your friend and ordered coffee. it has arrived. do you add sugar
in your friend's coffee and then wait for him or do you add sugar after the arrives? explain with
respect to the concept of cooling.
[Link] time taken by a hot body to cool from 700c to 600c is 6 minutes. The surrounding
temperature is 250c. What will be the time taken by the body to cool from 60 0c to 500c?
THERMODYNAMICS
1. Write the relation among heat energy, work done and change in internal energy.
2. Is it possible to increase the temperature of a gas without giving it heat ?
[Link] what factors, the efficiency of a Carnot engine depends?
4.A refrigerator transfers heat from a cold body to a hot body. Does this not violate the second law
of thermodynamics?
[Link] is the heat supplied to a system equal to the increase in its internal energy ?
6. Calculate the efficiency of a carnot engine working between steam point and ice point.
7.P-V diagram of a gas is shown in the figure. In this figure AB represents isobaric process and AD
represents isothermal process.
a) Explain isobaric process and isothermal process.
b) Using the above graph, find the process in which the work done
is maximum. Give the reason.
8.A Carnot engine working between 527° C and 127° C has a work output of 800 J per cycle. How
much heat is supplied to the engine from the source per cycle ?
[Link] Cp is greater than Cv for a gas?
KINETIC THEORY OF GASES
1. On decreasing the density of the gas, the mean free path________ (Increases/decreases)
2. Equation for r m s velocity of ideal gas vrms = ................
3. At what temperature, the rms velocity of a gas molecule becomes double the value at STP?
4. What is the temperature when all molecular motion ceases?
[Link] the law of equipartition of energy.
6. Find the ratio of kinetic energy of helium molecule to that of hydrogen molecule at NTP .
OSCILLATIONS
[Link] is the time period of a second’s pendulum?
[Link] is the frequency of a simple pendulum mounted in a cabin that is freely falling under
gravity?
3. A simple pendulum is taken from the equator to the pole,its period..................
[Link] one of the following relationships between the acceleration ‘a’ and the displacement ‘x’ of
a particle involve simple harmonic motion?
a) a = 5x b) a = -200 x 2 c) a = -5x d) a = 100 x3
[Link] acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the moon is 1.7 m/s 2 .What is the time period of
a simple pendulum on the moon, if its time period on the earth is 3.5 second?
6.A girl is swinging on a swing in the sitting position. How will the period of swing be affected if
she stands up?
7. Draw the graph showing the variation of KE, PE and Total energy of a particle executing SHM
with displacement from the mean point.
8. Prove that the oscillations of a simple pendulum are simple harmonic
[Link] a SHM, time period T=2s. If displacement from the mean position is 10 cm, calculate the
instantaneous acceleration.
WAVES
[Link] of wave number k is...............
[Link] a wave is moving along +X direction, what is the expression for representing it ?
[Link] Newton –Laplace equation in terms of temperature
4. What is the formula for the speed of transverse waves in a string?
[Link] wires of same length and thickness are tied between two points with one tightly and the other
loosely. Through which wire velocity of wave will be greater?
[Link] is the general expression for the speed of longitudinal waves in a medium?
[Link] the case of a string clamped at both the ends what is the ratio of the frequencies of the different
modes?
8. In the case of a closed pipe how many nodes are there in the nth mode?
9. What is the temperature at which the velocity of sound in air is twice the velocity at 0oC?
10. How pressure is effected on velocity of sound
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a)Is it is travelling or stationary wave?
b)What is the initial phase at the origin?
c)What are its amplitude and frequency?
d)If it is a travelling wave, what are the speed and direction of its propagation?
