Revision Questions on class XI

Long Answer Questions

Unit # 7 – Bulk Properties of Matter
Q1. Define the term Stress and explain its types.
Q2. Define the term Strain and explain its types.
Q3*. State and Prove Hooke’s Law.
Q4. Define modulus of elasticity. Explain and define its types.
*Q5. Discuss experimental determination of Young’s modulus of elasticity of a wire.
Q6. Describe stress-strain relation for a loaded steel wire and hence explain the terms
elastic limit, permanent set, yield point and tensile strength.
Q7. Explain
(a) Ductile material
(b) Brittle material and
(c) Elastomers using stress-strain curve.
Q8. Explain
(a) Elastic after effect and
(b) Elastic fatigue with illustrations
Q9. What do you understand by potential energy stored in a stretched wire? Find a
relation for it and hence determine the elastic potential energy per unit volume of the
wire.
*Q10. Why hollow shaft is more elastic than solid shaft made up of same and equal
material?
*Q11. Why Girders are made up of I shapes?
*Q12. Define Poission ratio. What are its theoretical and practical values? Show that
for perfectly elastic wire, its value is 0.5.
Q13. What is hydrostatic pressure? Is its scalar or vector? What are its units? Derive
expression for pressure exerted by a liquid column.
Q14. State and prove Pascal law.
Q15. State Pascal law. Explain and construction of
(a) Hydraulic lift
(b) Hydraulic brakes.
Q16. Define Surface tension. Is it scalar or vector?
Q17. Define surface energy and hence derive relation between surface tension and
surface energy.
Q18. Explain molecular theory of surface tension.
*Q19. Show that excess pressure on the concave side of a liquid surface is always more
than the pressure on convex side.
*Q20. Obtain excess pressure due to
(a) Inside a liquid drop
(b) Inside a soap bubble.
(c) Inside an air bubble in water.
*Q21. Derive an expression for
(a) Radius of curvature of common surface of contact; when two soap bubbles come
in contact.
(b) Radius of new soap bubble formed, when two soap bubbles coalesce.
*Q22. Define capillarity. Hence deduce ascent formula. Discuss the case when the
capillary will be of insufficient height.
*Q23. Define angle of contact. On what factors does it depend?
*Q24. Define
(a) Newton’s formula of viscosity.
(b) Coefficient of viscosity.
*Q25. State and prove Poiseuille’s law.
*Q26. State and prove Stoke’s law.
*Q27. Define terminal velocity. Deduce the expression for it using Stoke’s law.
*Q28. What are various types of flow?
*Q29. What is streamline? Give its three properties? Why two streamlines does not
intersect?
*Q30. What are various energies associated with an ideal liquid?
*Q31. State and prove equation of continuity.
*Q32. Why still water runs deep?
*Q33. Define critical velocity. Hence derive its formula.
*Q34. What is Reynolds’s number? What is its physical significance?
*Q35. State and prove Bernoulli’s theorem? What are its limitations?
*Q36. Using Bernoulli’s theorem, prove
(a) Explain the working of atomizer.
(b) The blowing of huts in heavy storms.
(c) Flight of an airfoil.
(d) Swinging of a spinning cricket ball i.e. Magnus effect.
*Q37. Explain actions of soaps and detergents.
Q38. Define
(a) Thermal coefficient of linear expansion
(b) Thermal coefficient of superficial expansion
(c) Thermal coefficient of cubical expansion
Hence obtain the relation between them
Q39. Define the following
(a) Specific heat or Specific heat capacity
(b) Heat capacity
(c) Latent heat
(d) Latent heat of fusion.
(e) Latent heat of vaporization.
(f) Water equivalent
(g) *Thermal conduction
(h) *Thermal convection
(i) *Thermal radiation
(j) *Thermal conductivity
Q40. *State Newton’s law of cooling.

Unit # 8; Heat and Thermodynamics

Q1. What is isothermal process? What does slope of an isothermal process indicate?
Derive the expression for work done during isothermal process.
Q2. What is adiabatic process? What does slope of an adiabatic process indicate?
Derive the expression for work done during adiabatic process.
Q3. Write down the equation for isothermal process. Hence derive the expression for its
slope.
Q4. Write down the equation for adiabatic process. Hence derive the expression for its
slope.
Q5. Show that adiabatic curve is steeper than isothermal curve.
Q6. Derive the expression for
(a) Bulk modulus of elasticity for an isothermal process.
(b) Bulk modulus of elasticity for an adiabatic process.
Q7. For an adiabatic process, obtain relation between
(a) Temperature and volume
(b) Temperature and pressure
Q8. Show that adiabatic expansion results into cooling.
Q9. Why air coming out of a burst tyre feels cooler?
Q10. State Zeroth law of thermodynamics. What it is named so?
Q11. State first law of thermodynamics. What are its limitations?
Q12. State second law of thermodynamics
Q13. Define Cp and Cv. Which of the two is greater and why for a gas. Hence obtain
the relation between the two.
Q14. Discuss any three applications of first law of thermodynamics.
Q15. ** Describe a Carnot cycle and derive an expression for efficiency of Carnot
engine.
Q16. **Explain briefly the working and principle of refrigerator and obtain an
expression for its coefficient of performance.
Q17. Why two isotherms cannot intersect?
Q18. Prove that adiabatic curve is steeper than isothermal curve.
Unit # 9 Kinetic Theory of Gases
Q1. Stat postulates of kinetic theory of gases.
Q2. Find the expression for pressure exerted by an ideal gas and establish its relation
with kinetic energy of gas.
Q3. From kinetic theory of gases, explain the kinetic interpretation of temperature and
absolute zero.
Q4. From kinetic theory of gases, derive
(a) Boyle’s law
(b) Charles Law
(c) Gas equation
(d) Gay Lussac’s law
(e) Avogadro’s hypothesis.
(f) Dalton’s law of partial pressure.
Q5. Explain the concept of mean free path. Hence derive the relation for it.
Q6. Explain what is meant by Brownian motion? On what factors does it depend?
Q7. State law of equi-partition of energy.
Q8. What is meant by degree of freedom? Hence calculate the specific heat ratio of
mono-atomic gas.
Q9. What is meant by degree of freedom? Hence calculate the specific heat ratio of di-
atomic gas.
Q10. What is meant by degree of freedom? Hence calculate the specific heat ratio of tri-
atomic non-linear gas.
Q11. What is meant by degree of freedom? Hence calculate the specific heat ratio of tri-
atomic linear gas.
Q12. What is meant by degree of freedom? Hence calculate the specific heat ratio for
an ideal gas.

Unit # 10; Waves and Oscillations

Q1. Distinguish clearly between harmonic and non-harmonic oscillations.
Q2. Find the total energy of the particle executing SHM. Show graphically the variation
of P.E. and K.E. with time in SHM. What are the frequencies of these energies wrt the
frequency of SHM?
Q3. * Obtain characteristics of SHM as projection of particle moving in uniform circle
on one of its diameter.
Q4. What is simple pendulum? Find the expression for time period and frequency of
SHM.
Q5. Explain the oscillations of a loaded spring and find the relations between time
period and frequency in case of
(a) Vertical spring
(b) Horizontal spring.
Q6. What is spring factor? Obtain its value when the springs are
(a) In series and
(b) In parallel.
*Q7. Distinguish between free, forced and resonant oscillations with examples.
Q8. A periodic motion cannot be oscillatory motion. Explain.
Q9. What is phase relation between displacement, velocity and acceleration in SHM.
*Q10. Discuss newton’s formula of velocity of Sound in gases. What was the
percentage error in it. Also explain how this error was rectified by Laplace.
*Q11. Explain how velocity of sound in gases depends on
(a) Temperature
(b) Pressure
(c) Humidity
(d) Atomicity
(e) Velocity of wind
*Q12. Give three properties of
(a) Travelling wave
(b) Standing wave
*Q13. Discuss the formation of standing waves in
(a) Strings
(b) Open organ pipe
(c) Close organ pipe
Also find ratio of first three harmonics

Numericals as per class teaching