List of top Physics Questions asked in BITSAT

With rise in temperature, the Young's modulus of elasticity:

Two wires of the same material (Young’s modulus \( Y \)) and same length \( L \) but radii \( R \) and \( 2R \) respectively, are joined end to end and a weight \( W \) is suspended from the combination. The elastic potential energy in the system is: 


 

The kinetic energy of a satellite in its orbit around Earth is \( E \). What should be the kinetic energy of the satellite to escape Earth's gravity?
For a particle inside a uniform spherical shell, the gravitational force on the particle is:
A body which is initially at rest at a height \( R \) above the surface of the Earth of radius \( R \), falls freely towards the Earth. The velocity on reaching the surface of the Earth is:
The moment of inertia of a cube of mass \( m \) and side \( a \) about one of its edges is equal to:
Two bodies of mass \( 1 \) kg and \( 3 \) kg have position vectors \( \hat{i} + 2\hat{j} + \hat{k} \) and \( -3\hat{i} - 2\hat{j} + \hat{k} \) respectively. The magnitude of the position vector of the center of mass of this system will be similar to the magnitude of which vector?
A ball falling freely from a height of \( 4.9 \) m/s hits a horizontal surface. If \( e = \frac{3}{4} \), then the ball will hit the surface the second time after:
A particle of mass \( 2 \) kg is on a smooth horizontal table and moves in a circular path of radius \( 0.6 \) m. The height of the table from the ground is \( 0.8 \) m. If the angular speed of the particle is \( 12 \) rad/s, the magnitude of its angular momentum about a point on the ground right under the center of the circle is:
A spherical ball of mass \( 20 \) kg is stationary at the top of a hill of height \( 100 \) m. It rolls down a smooth surface to the ground, then climbs up another hill of height \( 30 \) m and finally rolls down to a horizontal base at a height of \( 20 \) m above the ground. The velocity attained by the ball is:

An ideal massless spring \( S \) can be compressed \( 1 \) m by a force of \( 100 \) N in equilibrium. The same spring is placed at the bottom of a frictionless inclined plane inclined at \( 30^\circ \) to the horizontal. A \( 10 \) kg block \( M \) is released from rest at the top of the incline and is brought to rest momentarily after compressing the spring by \( 2 \) m. If \( g = 10 \) m/s\( ^2 \), what is the speed of the mass just before it touches the spring? 
 

A pendulum of mass \( 1 \) kg and length \( l = 1 \) m is released from rest at an angle \( \theta = 60^\circ \). The power delivered by all the forces acting on the bob at angle \( \theta = 30^\circ \) will be (Take, \( g = 10 \) m/s\( ^2 \)):

A force of \( F = 0.5 \) N is applied on the lower block as shown in the figure. The work done by the lower block on the upper block for a displacement of 3 m of the upper block with respect to the ground is (Take, \( g = 10 \) m/s\( ^2 \)): 
 

A person of mass \( 60 \) kg is inside a lift of mass \( 940 \) kg. The lift starts moving upwards with an acceleration of \( 1.0 \) m/s\( ^2 \). If \( g = 10 \) m/s\( ^2 \), the tension in the supporting cable is:

A block of mass 1 kg is pushed up a surface inclined to horizontal at an angle of \( 60^\circ \) by a force of 10 N parallel to the inclined surface. When the block is pushed up by 10 m along the inclined surface, the work done against frictional force is: 
 


[Given: \( g = 10 \) m/s\( ^2 \), \( \mu_s = 0.1 \)] 
 

A light string passing over a smooth light pulley connects two blocks of masses \( m_1 \) and \( m_2 \) (where \( m_2>m_1 \)). If the acceleration of the system is \( \frac{g}{\sqrt{2}} \), then the ratio of the masses \( \frac{m_1}{m_2} \) is:
A body is thrown with a velocity of \( 9.8 \) m/s making an angle of \( 30^\circ \) with the horizontal. It will hit the ground after a time:
A particle of mass \( m \) is projected with a velocity \( u \) making an angle of \( 30^\circ \) with the horizontal. The magnitude of angular momentum of the projectile about the point of projection when the particle is at its maximum height \( h \) is:
A rigid body rotates about a fixed axis with variable angular velocity \( \omega = \alpha - \beta t \) at time \( t \), where \( \alpha, \beta \) are constants. The angle through which it rotates before it stops is:
A projectile is projected with velocity of \( 40 \) m/s at an angle \( \theta \) with the horizontal. If \( R \) is the horizontal range covered by the projectile and after \( t \) seconds its inclination with horizontal becomes zero, then the value of \( \cot \theta \) is:
[Take, \( g = 10 \) m/s\( ^2 \)]
The distance travelled by a particle starting from rest and moving with an acceleration \( \frac{4}{3} \) ms\(^{-2} \), in the third second is:
The dimensions of the coefficient of self-inductance are:
The dimensional formula of latent heat is:
You measure two quantities as \( A = 1.0 \,m \pm 0.2 \,m \), \( B = 2.0 \,m \pm 0.2 \,m \). We should report the correct value for \( \sqrt{AB} \) as:

An object moves with speed \( v_1 \), \( v_2 \), and \( v_3 \) along a line segment \( AB \), \( BC \), and \( CD \) respectively as shown in the figure. Where \( AB = BC \) and \( AD = 3 AB \), then the average speed of the object will be: