List of top Physics Questions asked in JEE Main

A simple harmonic oscillator of angular frequency $2 \,rad \,s^{-1}$ is acted upon by an external force $F= \sin\, t \,N$. If the oscillator is at rest in its equilibrium position at $t\, =\, 0$, its position at later times is proportional to :

A pendulum made of a uniform wire of cross sectional area $A$ has time period $T$. When an additional mass $M$ is added to its bob, the time period changes to $T_M$. If the Young's modulus of the material of the wire is $Y$ then $\frac{1}{Y}$ is equal to ( $g =$ gravitational acceleration)

Two stones are thrown up simultaneously from the edge of a cliff $240\, m$ high with initial speed of $10\, m/s$ and $40\, m/s$ respectively. Which of the following graph best represents the time variation of relative position of the second stone with respect to the first? (Assume stones do not rebound after hitting the ground and neglect air resistance, take $g=10\, m/s^2$)

A thin convex lens of focal length ' $f'$ is put on a plane mirror as shown in the figure. When an object is kept at a distance ' $a$ ' from the lens-mirror combination, its image is formed at a distance $\frac{a}{3}$ in front of the combination. The value of ' $a$ ' is

In an ideal gas at temperature $T$, the average force that a molecule applies on the walls of a closed container depends on $T$ as $T^q$. A good estimate for $q$ is :

For plane electromagnetic waves propagating in the $z$ direction, which one of the following combination gives the correct possible direction for $\vec{E}$ and $\vec{B}$ field respectively ?

In the electric network shown, when no current flows through the $4\, \Omega$ resistor in the arm $EB$, the potential difference between the points $A$ and $D$ will be :

When $5\,V$ potential difference is applied across a wire of length $0.1\,m$, the drift speed of electrons is $2.5\times10^{-4}$ $ms^{-1}$. If the electron density in the wire is $8\times10^{28}\, m^{-3}$ the resistivity of the material is close to

Consider a spherical shell of radius $R$ at temperature $T$. The black body radiation inside it can be considered as an ideal gas of photons with internal energy per unit volume $u=\frac{U}{V} ? T^4$ and pressure $p=\frac{1}{3}\bigg(\frac{U}{V}\bigg)$ If the shell now undergoes an adiabatic expansion, the relation between $T$ and $R$ is

Consider an ideal gas confined in an isolated closed chamber. As the gas undergoes an adiabatic expansion, the average time of collision between molecules increases as $V^q$ , where $V$ is the volume of the gas. The value of $q$ is $\bigg(\gamma =\frac{C_p}{C_v}\bigg)$

A solid body of constant heat capacity $1 \, J/^{\circ}C$ is being heated by keeping it in contact with reservoirs in two ways (i) Sequentially keeping in contact with $2$ reservoirs such that each reservoir supplies same amount of heat. (ii) Sequentially keeping in contact with $8$ reservoirs such that each reservoir supplies same amount of heat. In both the cases, body is brought from initial temperature $100^{\circ}C$ to final temperature $200^{\circ}C$. Entropy change of the body in the two cases respectively, is

As an electron makes a transition from an excited state to the ground state of a hydrogen- like atom/ion

A long cylindrical shell carries positive surface charge $\sigma$ in the upper half and negative surface charge $-\sigma$ in the lower half. The electric field lines around the cylinder will look like figure given in: (figures are schematic and not drawn to scale)

A thin disc of radius $b\, = \,2a$ has a concentric hole of radius '$a$' in it (see figure). It carries uniform surface charge '$\sigma$' on it. If the electric field on its axis at height '$h$' $(h < < a)$ from its centre is given as '$Ch$' then value of '$C$' is :

A short bar magnet is placed in the magnetic meridian of the earth with north pole pointing north. Neutral points are found at a distance of $30 \,cm$ from the magnet on the East - West line, drawn through the middle point of the magnet. The magnetic moment of the magnet in $Am^2$ is close to : (Given $\frac{\mu_{0}}{4\pi}=10^{-7}$ in SI units and $B_H$ = Horizontal component of earth's magnetic field = $3.6 \times 10^{-5}$ Tesla.)

Assuming human pupil to have a radius of $0.25\, cm$ and a comfortable viewing distance of $25\, cm$, the minimum separation between two objects that human eye can resolve at $500\, nm$ wavelength is

If the capacitance of a nanocapacitor is measured in terms of a unit $'u'$ made by combining the electronic charge $V$, Bohr radius $'a_0'$, Planck's constant $'h'$ and speed of light $'c'$ then :

An $LCR$ circuit is equivalent to a damped pendulum. In an $LCR$ circuit the capacitor is charged to $Q _{0}$ and then connected to the $L$ and R as shown below :

R If a student plots graphs of the square of maximum charge $\left( Q _{\max }^{2}\right)$ on the capacitor with time $(t) $ for two different values $L_{1}$ and $L_{2}$ $\left(L_{1}>L_{2}\right)$ of $L$ then which of the following represents this graph correctly ? (Plots are shematic and not drawn to scale)

On a hot summer night, the refractive index of air is smallest near the ground and increases with height from the ground. When a light beam is directed horizontally, the Huygens principle leads us to conclude that as it travels, the light beam

An experiment takes $10\, min$ to raise the temperature of water in a container from $0^{\circ} C$ to $100^{\circ} C$ and another $55\, min$ to convert it totally into steam by a heater supplying heat at a uniform rate. Neglecting the specific heat of the container and taking specific heat of water to be $1\, cal / g { }^{\circ} C$, the heat of vaporisation according to this experiment will come out to be

A parallel plate capacitor is made of two circular plates separated by a distance of 5 mm and with a dielectric of dielectric constant 2.2 between them. When the electric field in the dielectric is $3 \times 10^4 \,V/m$, the charge density of the positive plate will be close to

Assume that an electric field $\vec{E}=30 x^{2} \hat{i}$ exists in space. Then the potential difference $V_{A}-V_{O'}$ where $V_{O}$ is the potential at the origin and $V_{A}$ the potential at $x=2 \,m$ is

A Zener diode is connected to a battery and a load as shown below : The currents $I, I_z$ and $I_L$ are respectively

When the rms voltages $V _{ L }, V _{ C }$ and $V _{ R }$ are measured respectively across the inductor $L ,$ the capacitor $C$ and the resistor $R$ in a series LCR circuit connected to an AC source, it is found that the ratio $V _{ L }: V _{ C }: V _{ R }=1: 2: 3$. If the rms voltage of the AC sources is $100 \,V ,$ the $V _{ R }$ is close to:

A square frame of side 10 cm and a long straight wire carrying current 1 A are in the plane of the paper. Starting from close to the wire, the frame moves towards the right with a constant speed of 10 ms (see figure). The e.m.f induced at the time the left arm of the frame is at x = 10 cm from the wire is :