List of top Physics Questions

Two metallic plates form a parallel plate capacitor. The distance between the plates is ‘d’. A metal sheet of thickness d/2 and of area equal to area of each plate is introduced between the plates. What will be the ratio of the new capacitance to the original capacitance of the capacitor?

Given below are two statements:

Statement-I : Susceptibilities of paramagnetic and ferromagnetic substances increase with decrease in temperature.

Statement-II : Diamagnetism is a result of orbital motions of electrons developing magnetic moments opposite to the applied magnetic field.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:-

A long solenoid carrying a current produces a magnetic field B along its axis. If the current is doubled and the number of turns per cm is halved, the new value of magnetic field will be equal to
A sinusoidal voltage V(t) = 210 sin 3000 t volt is applied to a series LCR circuit in which L = 10 mH, C = 25 μF and R = 100 Ω. The phase difference (Φ) between the applied voltage and resultant current will be:
The electromagnetic waves travel in a medium at a speed of 2.0 × 108 m/s. The relative permeability of the medium is 1.0. The relative permittivity of the medium will be
A proton, a neutron, an electron and an α-particle have same energy. If λp, λn, λe and λα are the de Broglie’s wavelengths of proton, neutron, electron and α particle respectively, then choose the correct relation from the following:

A baseband signal of 3.5 MHz frequency is modulated with a carrier signal of 3.5 GHz frequency using amplitude modulation method. What should be the minimum size of antenna required to transmit the modulated signal?

A Carnot engine whose heat sinks at 27°C, has an efficiency of 25%. By how many degrees should the temperature of the source be changed to increase the efficiency by 100% of the original efficiency?
The magnetic field at the centre of a circular coil of radius r, due to current I flowing through it, is B. The magnetic field at a point along the axis at a distance \(\frac{r}{2}\) from the centre is :

Two identical thin biconvex lenses of focal length 15 cm and refractive index 1.5 are in contact with each other. The space between the lenses is filled with a liquid of refractive index 1.25. The focal length of the combination is ___ cm.

A transistor is used in common-emitter mode in an amplifier circuit. When a signal of 10 mV is added to the base-emitter voltage, the base current changes by 10 mA and the collector current changes by 1.5 mA. The load resistance is 5 kW. The voltage gain of the transistor will be ___.

A projectile is launched at an angle ‘α’ with the horizontal with a velocity \(20\) \(ms^{–1}\). After \(1 0\) \(s\), its inclination with horizontal is ‘β’. The value of tanβ will be (\(g\) = \(10\) \(ms^{–2}\)).
As shown in the figure an inductor of inductance 200 mH is connected to an AC source of emf 220 V and frequency 50 Hz. The instantaneous voltage of the source is 0 V when the peak value of current is\(\sqrt{\frac{a}{\pi}}\).The value of a is ___

Sodium light of wavelengths 650 nm and 655 nm is used to study diffraction at a single slit of aperture 0.5 mm. The distance between the slit and the screen is 2.0 m. The separation between the positions of the first maxima of diffraction pattern obtained in the two cases is _____ × 10–5 m.

A girl standing on road holds her umbrella at 45° with the vertical to keep the rain away. If she starts running without umbrella with a speed of \(15\sqrt2\) \(kmh^{–1}\), the rain drops hit herhead vertically. The speed of rain drops with respect to the moving girl is
Two blocks of masses 10 kg and 30 kg are placed on the same straight line with coordinates(0, 0) cm and (x, 0) cm respectively. The block of 10 kg is moved on the same line through a distance of 6 cm towards the other block. The distance through which the block of 30 kg must be moved to keep the position of Centre of mass of the system unchanged is
A \(72\) Ω galvanometer is shunted by a resistance of \(8\) Ω. The percentage of the total current which passes through the galvanometer is
What percentage of kinetic energy of a moving particle is transferred to a stationary particle when it strikes the stationary particle of 5 times its mass? (Assume the collision to be head-on elastic collision)
Given below are two statements.
Statement-I: The law of gravitation holds good for any pair of bodies in the universe.
Statement-II: The weight of any person becomes zero when the person is at the centre of the earth.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

Match List I with List II

 List I List II
AFacsimileIStatic Document Image
BGuided media ChannelIILocal Broadcast Radio
CFrequency ModulationIIIRectangular wave
DDigital SingleIVOptical Fiber
The susceptibility of a paramagnetic material is \(99\). The permeability of the material in Wb/A-m, is 
[Permeability of free space \(μ_0\) = \(4π × 10^{–7}\) Wb/A-m]
A long straight wire with a circular cross-section having radius R, is carrying a steady current I. The current I is uniformly distributed across this cross-section. Then the variation of magnetic field due to current I with distance r (r < R) from its centre

When light of frequency twice the threshold frequency is incident on the metal plate, the maximum velocity of emitted electron is v1. When the frequency of incident radiation is increased to five times the threshold value, the maximum velocity of emitted electron becomes v2. If v2 = x v1, the value of x will be ________.

The electric field in an electromagnetic wave is given by \(E = 56.5\ sin ω(t – \frac xc)\ NC^{–1}\). Find the intensity of the wave if it is propagating along x-axis in the free space. (Given \(∈_0 = 8.85 × 10^{–12} C^2N^{–1}m^{–2}\))

From the top of a tower, a ball is thrown vertically upward which reaches the ground in 6 s. A second ball thrown vertically downward from the same position with the same speed reaches the ground in 1.5 s. A third ball released, from the rest from the same location, will reach the ground in ____ s.