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1. Questions written in red are not in syllabus for current session but these
topics are discussed in your school, you have to prepare them.
2. Questions in bold are very important.
3. Questions with purple colour are most important. If you have less time
focus on these only.

UNITS AND DIMENSIONS

1. Write four advantages of SI system.

2. What are three system of units commonly used?
3. Indirect methods of measurements
a. Large distances
i. Discuss LASER method*
ii. Discuss RADAR method*
iii. Discuss Echo method*
iv. Discuss Kepler method*
v. Discuss Copernicus method*
vi. Discuss trigonometric method*
vii. Discuss Parallax method
b. Small distances
i. Size of molecule of oleic acid
4. What are advantages of Method of dimensional analysis for deriving relationship between
physics quantities.
5. What are errors? How they are categorized?
6. Define the following with examples:
a. Absolute errors
b. Mean absolute error
c. Fractional error or relative error
d. Percentage error
7. Explain combination of errors and their propagation in
a. Sum
b. Difference
c. Product
 d. Division
e. Exponent
of physical quantities.
8. What are significant figures? Discuss rules of counting significant figures.
9. Discuss the rules to obtain number of significant figures in
a. Sum and difference
b. Multiplication and division of physical quantities.
10. Differentiate between accuracy and precision.

MOTION IN A SRAIGHT LINE

1. Define the following:

a. Speed
b. Velocity
c. Distance
d. Displacement
e. Uniform motion and uniform speed (non-uniform motion and non-uniform speed)
f. acceleration
2. Derive three equations of uniformly accelerated motion using algebraic method.
3. Derive three equations of uniformly accelerated motion using calculus method.
4. Derive three equations of uniformly accelerated motion using graphical method.
5. Speed time, velocity time, distance time, displacement time for all situations (given in
NCERT).
6. What is relative velocity? How relative velocity is calculated. Draw velocity time
graph to show the motion of two bodies moving relative to each other.

MOTION IN A PLANE

1. What is a vector quantity? Define the following

a. Unit vector
b. Collinear vector or parallel vectors
c. Polar and axial vector
d. Coplanar vectors
2. Define triangle law of vector addition by giving suitable examples.
3. Discuss parallelogram law of vector addition and derive a formula to find
magnitude and resultant of two vectors A and B inclined at an angle θ .
4. Explain resolution of vector into its rectangular components.
5. Explain two examples from daily life using components of vectors.
6. Explain dot product and cross product of vectors.
7. What is a projectile. Derive a relation for following quantities when a projectile is
fired with velocity u from a height h in the horizontal direction:
a. Equation of path
b. Time of flight
c. Velocity at any instant
d. Range
e. Angle with vertical.
8. Derive a relation for following quantities when a projectile is fired with velocity u
with horizontal at an angle θ .
a. Equation of path
b. Time of flight
c. Maximum height attained
d. Velocity at any instant
e. Range
f. Maximum range
g. Angle with vertical.
9. Show that range for two complimentary angles is same when the projectile is fired
with same velocity at these two angles.
10. What is uniform circular motion and non-uniform circular motion?
11. Define centripetal acceleration and derive a relation for it.
12. Define angle velocity and angular acceleration.

LAWS OF MOTION

1. Define Newton’s first law

2. What is inertia? Discuss three types of inertia with examples.
3. What is momentum? What is its SI unit?
4. State Newton’s second law and derive F = ma from it.
5. Why is it easier to pull a lawn roller than to push it?
6. Discuss horse and cart problem.
7. Second law is the real law of motion. Explain why.
8. State newton’s third law and discuss some applications from daily life.
9. Explain the concept of apparent weight of a man in an accelerating elevator.
10. Two masses m1 and m2 are connected to a string passing over a pulley. Derive an
expression for acceleration of the masses and tension in the string.
11. What is friction. Explain the following by giving suitable examples.
a. Static friction
b. Limiting friction
c. Kinetic friction
12. Write laws of friction.
13. What is angle of friction? How is it related to coefficient of friction?
14. What is angle of repose? Derive an expression for it.
15. Derive an expression for acceleration of a body sliding down a rough inclined plane.
16. Derive an expression for work done to move a body up a rough inclined plane with
constant velocity.
17. Derive an expression for work done to move a body on a rough horizontal surface with
constant velocity.
18. Why friction is called necessary evil. Give some examples to support the statement.
19. Explain some methods to reduce friction.
20. Explain the motion of a car on an unbanked road while turning.
21. Explain the banking or roads and railway tracks.
22. Explain why a cyclist bends on turns.

WORK ENERGY AND POWER

1. A light body and a heavy body have same linear momentum. Which one has greater K.E?
2. A truck and a car moving with same K.E are stopped by applying some retarding force by
means of breaks. Which one will stop at a smaller distance?
3. If stretch in a spring of force constant k is doubled, calculate:
a. Ratio of final to initial force in the spring
b. Ratio of elastic energies stored in the two cases.
c. Work done in changing to the state of double stretch.
4. The momentum of a body is increased by 50%. What is the percentage change in its K.E?
[25%]
5. A force F is related to the position of a particle by the relation F = ( 10x 2 )N. Find the work
done by the force when the particle moves from x = 2m to x = 4m.[Ans. 186.7J]
6. A bullet of mass 0.01 kg and travelling at a speed of 500m/s strikes a block of mass 2kg
which is dispended by a string of length 5m. The centre of quality of the block is found to
 rise a vertical distance of 0.1m what is the speed of the bullet after it emerges from the
block? [220 m/s]
7. What is meant by work? Obtain an expression for work done by constant force.
8. Explain using examples, what is meant by positive work, negative work and zero work?
9. What are conservative and non-conservative forces? Explain with examples.
10. Obtain an expression for K.E of a body moving uniformly.
11. What do you mean by potential energy? Obtain an expression for gravitational 2. A truck
and a car moving with same K.E are stopped by applying some retarding force by means
of breaks. Which one will stop at a smaller distance? [equal]
12. What is mass energy equivalence?
13. State and explain work energy principle.
14. Explain what is meant by potential energy of spring obtain an expression for it.
15. State and establish principle of conservation of energy.
16. Discuss elastic collision in one dimension. Obtain expressions for velocities of the
two bodies after such a collision.
17. Define power. State and define its SI unit.
18. What is efficiency of a machine. Write its formula and SI unit.

SYSTEM OF PARTICLES AND ROTATIONAL MOTION

1. What is meant by centre of mass? Derive and expression for centre of mass of a
system of n particles (or 2 particles)
2. Derive three equation of rotational motion.
3. What is torque? Write its SI unit.
4. Derive an expression for cartesian and polar coordinates of torque.
5. What is angular momentum? Write its SI unit.
6. Derive an expression for cartesian and polar coordinates of Angular momentum.
7. Derive a relationship between torque and angular momentum.
8. What is moment of inertia. Derive a formula for it for a system of n particles having
masses m1, m2, m3……., mn rotating about a given axis.
9. What is radius of gyration. Obtain an expression for it.
10. Derive a relation between moment of inertia and torque.
11. Derive a relation between moment of inertia and angular momentum.
12. State and prove the law of conservation of angular momentum.
13. Explain why a dancer bends her hands inwards when she revolves around her body.
14. Explain why helicopter has two propellors.
15. Explain why a diver bends his body during jump and stretches when he is about to touch
water.
16. Explain why cat can jump from large height with getting injured.
17. Explain what would happen if all the ice on polar caps would melt.
18. Derive an expression for acceleration of a body rolling down a rough inclined plane.

GRAVTITATION

1. What is the Newton’s law of gravitation? Write its mathematical expression giving the
meaning of each symbol used.
2. Write the value, units and dimensions of universal gravitational constant.
3. What is acceleration due to gravity? Derive a formula for it in terms of mass and
radius of a given planet.
4. Discuss the variation of acceleration due to gravity with height. Hence, derive a
formula for percentage change in acceleration due to gravity for small heights.
5. Discuss the variation of acceleration due to gravity with depth. Hence, derive a
formula for percentage change in acceleration due to gravity for a depth d below
the surface of earth.
6. What is gravitational field intensity. Derive an expression for it and write its SI units.
7. Define gravitational potential at a point. Derive an expression for gravitational
potential at a distance r due to a mass M.
8. What do you mean by gravitational potential energy of a system? Derive an
expression for gravitational potential energy of two bodies of masses M and m with
their centres separated by a distance r.
9. What is a satellite. What is the principle for launching a satellite?
10. Derive an expression for the following for a satellite
a. Orbital velocity.
b. Time period.
c. Height.
d. Total energy.
11. What is binding energy of a satellite. Write an expression for it.
12. What are geostationary satellites. What are the essential conditions for a satellite to be
geostationary? Write some uses of geostationary satellites.
13. What are polar satellites. Write some uses of polar satellites.
14. What do you mean by escape velocity? Derive an expression for escape velocity in
terms of parameters of a given planet.
15. State three laws of Kepler’s planetary motion.
16. Prove Kepler’s law of time periods.
17. Derive newton’s law of gravitation from Kepler’s third law.
18. What is weightlessness? In which situation body becomes weightless?