List of top Physics Questions

Given below are two statements :

Statement I: An elevator can go up or down with uniform speed when its weight is balanced with the tension of its cable

Statement II: Force exerted by the floor of an elevator on the foot of a person standing on it is more than his/her weight when the elevator goes down with increasing speed

In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A horizontal bridge is built across a river. A student standing on the bridge throws a small ball vertically upwards with a velocity $4\ ms^{-1}$. The ball strikes the water surface after $4s$. The height of bridge above water surface is
(Take: $g=10\ ms^{-2}$)

Expression for an electric field is given by $\overrightarrow{ E }=4000 x^2 i \frac{ V }{ m }$ The electric flux through the cube of side $20 cm$ when placed in electric field (as shown in the figure) is ___$V cm$

Three vessels of equal volume contain gases at the same temperature and pressure. The first vessel contains neon (monoatomic), the second contains chlorine (diatomic) and the third contains uranium hexafluoride (polyatomic). Arrange these on the basis of their root mean square speed ($ V_{\text{rms}} $) and choose the correct answer from the options given below:

As shown in the figure, a very long conducting wire is bent in a semi-circular shape from A to B. The magnetic field at point P for steady current configuration is given by:

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

A particle is moving with constant speed in a circular path. When the particle turns by an angle $90\degree$ , the ratio of instantaneous velocity to its average velocity is $π : x\sqrt2$. The value of x will be -

Match List I with List II :

	List I		List II
A	3 Translational degrees of freedom	I	Monoatomic gases
B	3 Translational, 2 rotational degrees of freedoms	II	Polyatomic gases
C	3 Translational, 2 rotational and 1 vibrational degrees of freedom	III	Rigid diatomic gases
D	3 Translational, 3 rotational and more than one vibrational degrees of freedom	IV	Nonrigid diatomic gases

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A wire of resistance 160 Ω is melted and drawn in wire of one-fourth of its length. The new resistance of the wire will be

A passenger sitting in a train A moving at 90 km/h observes another train B moving in the opposite direction for 8 s. If the velocity of train B is 54 km/h, then the length of train B is:

Identify the graph from the following showing the temperature dependence of resistivity for a typical semiconductor?

In the given circuit $C_1 = 2μF, C_2 = 0.2μF, C_3 = 2μF, C_4 = 4μF, C_5 = 2μF, C_6 = 2μF$. The charge stored on capacitor $C_4$ is _____ $μC$

A vehicle travels $4 \, km$ with speed of $3\, km / h$ and another $4 \, km$ with speed of $5\, km / h$, then it's average speed is

Two long parallel wires carrying currents $8 A$ and $15 A$ in opposite directions are placed at a distance of $7 cm$ from each other A point $P$ is at equidistant from both the wires such that the lines joining the point $P$ to the wires are perpendicular to each other The magnitude of magnetic field at $P$ is___$\times 10^{-6} T$(Given : $\sqrt{2}=1.4$ )

A square loop of area $25\ cm^2$ has a resistance of $10\ Ω$. The loop is placed in uniform magnetic field of magnitude $40.0 \ T$. The plane of loop is perpendicular to the magnetic field. The work done in pulling the loop out of the magnetic field slowly and uniformly in $1.0$ sec, will be

In a series LCR circuit, the inductance L is 10 mH, Capacitance C is 1μF and resistance R is 100Ω. The frequency at which resonance occurs is

A bullet is fired from a gun at the speed of 280 ms^-1 in the direction 30° above the horizontal. The maximum height attained by the bullet is
(g = 9.8 ms^-2, sin 30° = 0.5)

If $\vec{P}=3 \hat{i}+\sqrt{3} \hat{j}+2 \hat{k}$ and $\vec{Q}=4 \hat{i}+\sqrt{3} \hat{j}+25 \hat{k}$ then, The unit vector in the direction of $\vec{P} \times \vec{Q}$ is $\frac{1}{x}(\sqrt{3} i+\hat{j}-2 \sqrt{3} \hat{k})$ The value of $x$ is

Calculate the maximum acceleration of a moving car so that a body lying on the floor of the car remains stationary. The coefficient of static friction between the body and the floor is 0.15 (g=10ms^-2).

When vector $\overrightarrow A = 2\hat i+3\hat J+2\hat k$ is subtracted from vector $\overrightarrow B$ , it gives a vector equal to $2\hat j$ . Then the magnitude of vector $\overrightarrow B$ will be :

Two resistances are given as $R_1=(10 ±0.5) Ω$ and $R_2= (15±0.5) Ω$. The percentage error in the measurement of equivalent resistance when they are connected in parallel is -

The work functions of Caesium (Cs), Potassium (K) and Sodium (Na) are 2.14eV, 2.30 eV and 2.75eV respectively. If incident electromagnetic radiation has an incident energy of 2.20eV, which of these photosensitive surfaces may emit photoelectrons?

A vehicle travels half the distance with speed θ and the remaining distance with speed 2θ. its average speed is

If the position of a particle is changing with time as r=t²-2t (m). Find the velocity at t=2s.

A football player is moving southward and suddenly turns eastward with the same speed to avoid an opponent. The force that acts on the player while turning is: