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Common Half Yearly Examination 2023
Standard 12
inne: 3.00 Hours PHYSICS Marks: 70
Part- I
Answer all the questions 15x1=15
Choose the appropriate answer from the given four alternatives and write the
option code and the corresponding answer.
L) Half-lives of two radioactive elements Aand B are 20 minutes and 40 minutes
respectively. Initially the samples have equal number of nuclei. After 80
minutes the ratio of decayed numbers of Aand B nuclei will be:
a) 4 : 1 b) 1:4 C)5: 4 d) 1: 16
2) The unit of Planck's constant h is that of
a) work b) force
c) linear momentum d) angular momentum
3) The RMS voltage and frequency of the alternating source V= 230 Sin 314 t is
c) 230 V, 50 Hz d) 162.6V, 25 Hz
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a) 162.6 V. 50 Hz b) 230 V, 314 Hz
4) The colour code for a 56 ks2 carbon resistor with tolerance value 5% is
a) Green Blue Orange Gold b) Yellow Green Red Gold
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c) Yellow Green Orange Silver d) Green Yellow Red Silver
5) In Joule's law of heating, when R and t are constant, if the H is taken along
the y-axis and 1 along the x-axis, the graph is
a) straight line b) Parabola c) Circle d) ellipse
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6) The vertical component of Earths' magnetic field at a place is equal to the
horizontal component. What is the value of angle of dip at this place?
30° b) 45° c) 600 d) 900
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7) Fraunhofer lines are an example of ........ specturm.
a) Line emission b) Line absorption
c) Band emission d) Band absorption
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S) A dipole (5uc- 5uc) is seperated by 8 mm. The electric potential at a point
20 mm along its equation line will be....... volt.
a) 9 x 104 b) 18 x 104 c) 18 x 105 d) zero
9) The blue pr1nt for making ultra durable synthetic material is mimicked from
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a) totUs leaf b) Morpho butterfly
c) Parrot fish d) Peacock feather
i ) The particle which qves mass D
to protons and neutrons are ........
) Higgs particle b) Einstein article c) Nano particle d) Bulk particle
1) Annan of height 6 feet wants to buy a plane mirror to see his full image. The
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Iminimurn heigth of the mirror that he should buy is
a) 3 feet b) 6 feet c) 9 feet d) 1.5 feet
12) The nucleus is approximately spherical in shape. Then the surface area of
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nucleus having mass number A varies as
a) A b) A C) A d)
) In an electron microscope, the electrons are accelerated by a voItage of 14
KV. If the voltage is changed to 224 KV, then the de Broglie wave length
associated with the electrons would
a) Increase by 2 times b) decrease by 2 times
c) decrease by 4 times d) Increase by 4 times
14) Two coherent monochromatic light beams of intensities I and 4 I are
superposed. The maximum and minimum possible intesities in the resulting
beam are
a) 5 Iand I b) 5 Iand 3 I c) 9I and d) 9 I and 3 I
15) Consider the junction diode is ideal. The value of current flowing through AB is
+4V 6
a) 0 A b) 10-2 A C) 10 I A d) 10 A
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Part - II
Answer any 6 questions. Question No. 22 is compulsory. 6x2=12
16) Write a short note on electrostatic shielding.
17) Distinguish between drift velocity and mobility.
18) Acoil of 200 turns carriers a current of 0 4 A If the magnetic flux of 4 mWb
is linked with the coil, find the inductance of the coil
19) Why do clouds appear white?
20) List the uses of polaroids
21) Define work function of a metal. Give its units
22) The radius of 5th ortbit of hydrogen atom is 13.25 A°. Calcuate the de brogi
wavelength of the electron orbitting in the 5th orbit?
23) What is meant by skip zone?
24) Mention any two advantages and disadvantages of Roboties
Part- III
Answer any 6 questions. Question No. 29 is compulsory. 6x3=18
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25) Obtain the expression for eneray stored in the parallel plate caption
26) Compute the torque experienced by a magnetic needle in a uniform magnetic
field.
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27) Mention the various losses in a tranformer.
28) Write down the properties of electromegnetic waves
29) A biconvex lens has radiof curvature 20 cm and 15 cm for the two Curved
Surfaces. The refractor index of the material of the lens s 1.5
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a) What is its focal length?
b) Will the focal length change if the lens is flipped by the sIde
30) Discuss about Nicol prism
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31) Gve the constrUCtion and working of photo emisSive cell
32) Explain the variation of average binding energy with the mass number using
graph and discuss about its features
33) Prove the following Boolean expressions using the laws and
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theorrs of Boolean algeb
) (A BA B| A
) A(A+B)- AB
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) (A + B) (A + C) = A + Bc
Part - Iv
Answer all the questions. 5XS=25
34) a) Explain in detail the construction and working of a Van-de-Graaff generator
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b) DerIve the expression for pharse angle between the applied voltatge and
current in a series RLC Circuit
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35) a) Obtain the equation for bandwidth in Young's double slit experiment
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b) Desribe the function of a trensistor as an amplifier with the neat CHCuit
diagram. Sketch the input and output wave forns.
36) a) Explain the determination of the internal resistnce of a celi using
potentiometer
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b) Describe the working of nuclear reactor with block diagram
37) a) Find the magnetic induction due to a long straigth conductor using
Armpere's circuited law.
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b) What is absorption spectra? Give their types
38) a) Explain and derive the equation for apparent depth
(OR)
b) Describe briefly Davisson- Germer experiment Which demonstrated the
wave nature of etlectrons.
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