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As shown in the figure, a potentiometer wire of resistance 20 Ω and length 300 cm is connected with resistance box (R.B.) and a standard cell of emf 4 V. For a resistance ‘R‘ of resistance box introduced into the circuit, the null point for a cell of 20 mV is found to be 60 cm. The value of ‘R ‘ is Ω.
a potentiometer wire of resistance 20 Ω
Two electric dipoles of dipole moments 1.2 × 10–30 C-m and 2.4 × 10–30 C-m are placed in two different uniform electric fields of strength 5 × 104 NC–1 and 15 × 104 NC–1 respectively. The ratio of maximum torque experienced by the electric dipoles will be 1:x. The value of x is _______
The frequency of echo will be _______ Hz if the train blowing a whistle of frequency 320 Hz is moving with a velocity of 36 km/h towards a hill from which an echo is heard by the train driver. Velocity of sound in air is 330 m/s.
The diameter of an air bubble which was initially 2 mm, rises steadily through a solution of density 1750 kg m–3 at the rate of 0.35 cms–1. The coefficient of viscosity of the solution is _______ poise (in nearest integer). (The density of air is negligible).
A block of mass ‘m’ (as shown in figure) moving with kinetic energy E compresses a spring through a distance 25 cm when its speed is halved. The value of spring constant of used spring will be nE Nm–1 for n = _______.
A block of mass ‘m’
Four identical discs each of mass ‘M’ and diameter ‘a’ are arranged in a small plane as shown in the figure. If the moment of inertia of the system about OO’ is (\(\frac{x}{4}\)) Ma2. Then, the value of x will be _______.
Four identical discs each of mass ‘M’ and diameter ‘a’
The root mean square speed of smoke particles of mass 5 × 10-17 in their Brownian motion in air at NTP is approximately. [Given k = 1.38 × 10-23 JK-1]
Light enters from air into a given medium at an angle of 45° with interface of the air-medium surface. After refraction, the light ray is deviated through an angle of 15° from its original direction. The refractive index of the medium is
Nearly 10% of the power of a 110 W light bulb is converted to visible radiation. The change in average intensities of visible radiation, at a distance of 1 m from the bulb to a distance of 5 m is a × 10–2 W.m2. The value of ‘a‘ will be _____.
A metal wire of length 0.5 m and cross-sectional area 10–4 m2 has breaking stress 5 × 108 Nm–2. A block of 10 kg is attached at one end of the string and is rotating in a horizontal circle. The maximum linear velocity of block will be _____ ms–1
The velocity of a small ball of mass 0.3 g and density 8 g/cc when dropped in a container filled with glycerine becomes constant after some time. If the density of glycerine is 1.3 g/cc, then the value of viscous force acting on the ball will be x × 10–4 N. The value of x is _______. [use g = 10 m/s2]
A modulating signal 2sin (6.28 × 106) t is added to the carrier signal 4sin(12.56 × 109) t for amplitude modulation. The combined signal is passed through a non-linear square law device. The output is then passed through a band pass filter. The bandwidth of the output signal of band pass filter will be ______MHz.
The speed of a transverse wave passing through a string of length 50 cm and mass 10 g is 60 ms–1. The area of cross-section of the wire is 2.0 mm2 and its Young’s modulus is 1.2 × 1011 Nm–2. The extension of the wire over its natural length due to its tension will be x × 10–5 m. The value of x is _____.
The metallic bob of simple pendulum has the relative density 5. The time period of this pendulum is 10 s. If the metallic bob is immersed in water, then the new time period becomes 5√x s. The value of x will be _____.
Two radioactive materials A and B have decay constants 25λ and 16λ respectively. If initially they have the same number of nuclei, then the ratio of the number of nuclei of B to that of A will be ‘e’ after a time \(\frac{1}{(aλ)}\). The value of a is _____.
A capacitor of capacitance 500 μF is charged completely using a dc supply of 100 V. It is now connected to an inductor of inductance 50 mH to form an LC circuit. The maximum current in the LC circuit will be ______A.
Two identical thin metal plates has charge q1 and q2 respectively such that q1 > q2. The plates were brought close to each other to form a parallel plate capacitor of capacitance C. The potential difference between them is
A 1 m long wire is broken into two unequal parts X and Y. The X part of the wire is stretched into another wire W. Length of W is twice the length of X and the resistance of W is twice that of Y. Find the ratio of length of X and Y.

A wire X of length 50 cm carrying a current of 2 A is placed parallel to a long wire Y of length 5 m. The wire Y carries a current of 3 A. The distance between two wires is 5 cm and currents flow in the same direction. The force acting on the wire Y is

A wire X of length 50 cm carrying a current of 2 A is placed parallel to a long wire Y of length 5 m

An unpolarised light beam of intensity 2I0 is passed through a polaroid P and then through another polaroid Q which is oriented in such a way that its passing axis makes an angle of 30° relative to that of P. The intensity of the emergent light is

A thermodynamic system is taken from an original state D to an intermediate state E by the linear process shown in the figure. Its volume is then reduced to the original volume from E to F by an isobaric process. The total work done by the gas from D to E to F will be

A thermodynamic system is taken from an original state D to an intermediate state

A tube of length 50 cm is filled completely with an incompressible liquid of mass 250 g and closed at both ends. The tube is then rotated in horizontal plane about one of its ends with a uniform angular velocity x√F rad s−1. If F be the force exerted by the liquid at the other end then the value of x will be______.
Let \(T_1\) and \(T_2\) be the energy of an electron in the first and second excited states of the hydrogen atom, respectively. According to Bohr’s model of an atom; the ratio T1:T2 is:
Mass numbers of two nuclei are in the ratio of \(4 : 3\). Their nuclear densities will be in the ratio of

A cyclotron is used to accelerate protons.If the operating magnetic field is 1.0 T and the radius of the cyclotron ‘dees’ is 60 cm,the kinetic energy of the accelerated protons in MeV will be
\([Use\ m_p = 1.6×10^{-27}\ kg, e = 1.6×10^{-19}C]\)