1. A man is standing between two parallel cliffs and fires a gun.

If he hears first and

second echos after 1.5 s and 3.5 s respectively, the distance between the cliffs is
(velocity of sound in air = 340 ms–1)
(a) 1190 m (b) 850 m
(c) 595 m (d) 510 m
2. The fundamental frequency of a closed pipe is 220 Hz. If three-fourth of the pipe is
filled with water, the frequency of the first overtone of the pipe now is
(a) 220 Hz (b) 440 Hz
(c) 880 Hz (d) 1760 Hz
3. The temperature of the top of a frozen lake is –15°C. What is the temperature of
the water in the lake in contact with the ice layer?
(a) 0°C (b) 4°C
(c) –15°C (d) –7.5°C
4. The terminal colours of the rainbow are
(a) violet and red
(b) violet and green
(c) red and green
(d) red and blue
5. The three primary colours are
(a) violet, green and red
(b) indigo, blue and orange
(c) blue, green and red
(d) blue, yellow and red
6. The velocity of sound at same temperature is maximum in
(a) H2 (b) N2
(c) O2 (d) NH3
7. The unit for energy is
(a) watt (b) joule
(c) joule per second (d) Newton
8. If a spring of spring constant k is halved then the new constant is
(a) 2k (b) k/2
(c) 4k (d) k/4
9. Beats are produced at the regions of
(a) constructive interference
(b) destructive interference
(c) both constructive and destructive interference
(d) none of the above
10. The intense factor of a 40dB sound compared to a 80 dB sound is
(a) 10 (b) 104
(c) 10 3 (d) None
11. The unit for moment of inertia is
(a) kg m–2 (b) kg m
(c) kg m 2 (d) kg m–1
12. The unit for pressure is
 (a) watt (b) newton
(c) pascal (d) ampere
13. A tube closed at one end and containing air produces, when excited the
fundamental note of frequency, 512 Hz. If the tube is open at both ends the
fundamental frequency that can be excited (in Hz) is
(a) 1024 (b) 812
(c) 256 (d) 128
14. The fundamental frequency of a string stretched with a weight of 4 kg is 256 Hz. The
weight required to produce its octave is
(a) 4 kg wt (b) 8 kg wt
(c) 12 kg wt (d) 16 kg wt
15. The unit of pressure is
(a) watt (b) Newton
(c) pascal (d) ampere
16. A simple pendulum suspended from the ceiling of a train has a period T when the
train is at rest. When the train is accelerating with a uniform acceleration the time
period of simple pendulum will
(a) decrease
(b) increase
(c) remain unchanged
(d) become infinite
17. A wave is represented by the equation
y = 7 sin[π(2x – 2t)]
where x is in metres and t in seconds.The speed of the wave is
(a) 7 ms–1 (b) 2 ms–1
(c) 1 ms –1 (d) 4 ms–1
18. A mass suspended from a spring executes simple harmonic motion. When the
body is at half the amplitude far from the mean position, the ratio of the kinetic
energy and the potential energy of the body will be
(a) 1 : 3 (b) 3 : 1
(c) 1 : 4 (d) 1 : 2
19. The waves moving from a sitar to a listener in air are
(a) longitudinal and progressive
(b) longitudinal and stationary
(c) transverse and progressive
(d) transverse and stationary
20. Which one of the following equations represents a wave?
(a) y = a(wt – kx) (b) y = a sin wt
(c) y = a cos kx
(d) y = a sin(at – bx + c)
21. Sound travelling at 340 ms–1 enters water where the speed of sound becomes
1480 ms–1. Critical angle for total reflection is
(a) 10.3° (b) 13.3°
(c) 86.7° (d) 89.7°
22. Ultrasonic signals sent from SONAR returns to it after reflection from a rock after a
lapse of 1 s. If the velocity of ultrasound in water is 1600 ms–1, the depth of the rock
in water is
(a) 300 m (b) 400 m
(c) 500 m (d) 800 m
23. In Doppler effect, if the source moves towards the observer, the spectral line is shifted
towards the
(a) blue end of the spectrum
(b) red end of the spectrum
(c) either end of the spectrum
(d) none of these
24. The value of the universal gravitational constant, G is
(a) 6.67 × 1011 Nm2/kg2
(b) 6.67 × 10+9 Nm2/kg2
(c) 6.67 × 10–9 Nm2/kg2
(d) 6.67 × 10+11 Nm2/kg2
25. A particle of mass 40 g executes a simple harmonic motion of amplitude 2.0 cm. If
the time period is 0.20 s, the total mechanical energy of the system is
(a) 79×10–3J (b) 7.9×10–3J
(c) 7.9 J (d) 79 J
26. A bottle weighing 200 g and of area of cross-section 50 cm2, and height 4 cm
oscillates on the surface of water in vertical position. Its frequency of oscillation is
(a) 1.5 s–1 (b) 2.5 s–1
(c) 3.5 s–1 (d) 4.5 s–1
27. A transverse wave passes through a string with the equation
y = 10 sinπ(0.02x – 2.00t),
where x is in metres and t in seconds. The maximum velocity of the particles in
wave motion is
(a) 63 ms–1 (b) 100 ms–1
(c) 78 ms–1 (d) 121 ms–1
28. The velocity of neutron in nuclear reactor is retarded by
(a) Ordinary water (b) Heavy water
(c) Mercury (d) Alcohol
29. The mode of vibrations produced in a pipe, closed at one end, is
(a) odd harmonics only
(b) even harmonics only
(c) both odd and even harmonics
(d) alternate odd harmonics only
30. The velocity of sound in gas is dependent of
(a) pressure (b) temperature
(c) density (d) humidity
31. Sound waves in air is always
(a) longitudinal (b) transverse
(c) stationary (d) electromagnetic
32. A stationary sound wave has frequency 165 Hz (speed of sound in air = 330 ms–1) then
distance between two consecutive nodes is
(a) 2 m (b) 1m
(c) 0.5m (d) 4 m
33. A tube of length 1.05 m is closed at one end. If the velocity of sound in air is
336 ms–1, then the fundamental and the next higher overtone is
(a) 80, 160 (b) 80, 240
(c) 160, 320 (d) 160, 480
34. A spring is compressed by 10 cm when a mass of 1 kg hanged from it. Now, with
the same mass if the spring is pulled and then released, its time period is [g =
10 ms–2]
(a) π/5 (b) 2π/5
(c) π/10 (d) π
35. The velocity of sound is …. the density of the medium
(a) directly proportional to
(b) inversely proportional to
(c) directly proportional to the square root of
(d) inversely proportional to the square root of
36. In which radioactive disintegration, neutron dissociates intoproton and electron?
(a) He++ emission
(b) β emission
(c) γ emission
(d) positron emission
37. The splitting of line into groups under the effect of electric or magnetic field is called
(a) Zeeman’s effect
(b) Bohr’s effect
(c) Heisenberg’s effect
(d) magnetic effect
38. When Ge crystals are doped with phosphorus atom, then it becomes
(a) an insulator (b) π type
(c) v type
(d) a superconductor
39. Which one of the following statements regarding shooting stars is incorrect?
(a) they are meteors
(b) they are the debris which got separated from a comet
(c) They emit light due to extremely high temperature caused by friction while
they are passing through earth’s atmosphere
(d) they are a kind of a star
40. A particle A has charge + q and a particle B has charge + 4q with each of them having
the same mass m. When allowed to fall from rest through the same electric potential
difference, the ratio of their speeds vA/vB will become
(a) 2 : 1 (b) 1 : 2
(c) 1 : 4 (d) 4 : 1.
41. Black hole is a
 (a) hole in the ozone layer of atmophere
(b) hole in the earth’s centre
(c) highly dense matter available in the atmosphere
(d) hole in troposphere
42. A radioactive substance has a half-life of 60 minutes. During 3 hours the percentage of
the material that have decayed would be
(a) 12.5 % (b) 87.5 %
(c) 8.5 % (d) 25.1 %
43. A radioactive reaction is 92U238 → 82Pb206. How many α and β particles are
emitted?
(a) 10α , 6β
(b) 4 proton, 8 neutron
(c) 6 electron, 8 proton
(d) 6β, 8αα
44. In a common-base amplifier circuit, calculate the change in base current if that in
the emitter current is 2 mA and α = 0.98.
(a) 0.04 mA (b) 1.96 mA
(c) 9.8 mA (d) 2 mA
45. The element used for radioactive carbon dating for more than 5600 years is
(a) C-14 (b) U-234
(c) U-238 (d) Po-94
46. When a beam of accelerated electrons hits a target, a continuous X-ray spectrum is
emitted from the target. Which one of the following wavelengths is absent in the X-ray
spectrum if the X-ray tube is operating at 40,000 volts?
(a) 1.5 Å (b) 0.5 Å
(c) 0.25 Å (d) 1.0 Å
47. In a full-wave rectifier with input frequency 50 Hz the ripple in the output is mainly
of the frequency (in Hz)
(a) 25 (b) 50
(c) 100 (d) None
48. An image of the sun is formed by a lens of focal length of 30 cm on the metal
surface of a photoelectric cell and a photoelectric current (I) is produced. The lens
forming the image is then replaced by another of the same diameter but of focal
length 15 cm. The photoelectric current in this case is
(a) I/2 (b) I
(c) 2I (d) 4I
49. In the Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom the lowest orbit corresponds to
(a) infinite energy
(b) the maximum energy
(c) the minimum energy
(d) zero energy
50. After two hours, one-sixteenth of the starting amount of a certain radioactive
isotope remained undecayed. The half-life of the isotope is
(a) 15 min. (b) 30 min.
 (c) 45 min. (d) 1 hour
51. If we consider electrons and photons of the same wavelength, then they will have
the same
(a) velocity
(b) angular momentum
(c) energy
(d) momentum
52. The velocity of sound is maximum in
(a) a gas
(b) a liquid
(c) a solid
(d) none of the above
53. In good conductors of electricity the type of bonding that exists is
(a) ionic (b) vander waals
(c) covalent (d) metallic
54. When a hydrogen atom is raised from the ground state to an excited state
(a) PE increases and KE decreases
(b) PE decreases and KE increases
(c) both KE and PE increases
(d) both KE and PE decreases.
55. The distance between the body centered atom and a corner atom in sodium (a =
4.225 Å) is
(a) 3.66 Å (b) 3.17 Å
(c) 2.99 Å (d) 2.54 Å.
56. The wavelength of the most strongly emitted radiation in the continuous spectrum
of a back is
(a) directly proportional to its absolute temperature
(b) not dependent on its temperature
(c) inversely proportional to its absolute temperature
(d) directly proportional to its temperature in Celcius scale
57. The wavelength used in radar is
(a) 10 metre (b) less than 5 cm
(c) 100 metre (d) 1000 km

58. A nucleus ruptures into two nuclear parts which have their velocity ratio equal to 2
: 1. What will be the ratio of their nuclear size (nuclear radius)?
(a) 21/3 : 1 (b) 1 : 21/3
(c) 31/2 : 1 (d) 1 : 31/2
59. A truth table is given below. Which of the following gates have this type of truth
table?
A B Y
0 0 1
1 0 0
0 1 0
 1 1 0
(a) XOR gate (b) NOR gate
(c) AND gate (d) OR gate
60. The zero of Kelvin scale is
(a) O°C (b) –100°C
(c) –273°C (d) –200°C

Answer Keys

1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (a) 5. (c) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (b)
11. (c) 12. (c) 13. (a) 14. (d) 15. (c) 16. (a) 17. (c) 18. (b) 19. (a) 20. (d)
21. (a) 22. (d) 23. (a) 24. (d) 25. (b) 26. (b) 27. (a) 28. (b) 29. (a) 30. (a)
31. (a) 32. (b) 33. (b) 34. (a) 35. (d) 36. (b) 37. (a) 38. (c) 39. (d) 40. (b)
41. (c) 42. (b) 43. (d) 44. (a) 45. (a) 46. (c) 47. (c) 48. (d) 49. (c) 50. (b)
51. (d) 52. (c) 53. (d) 54. (a) 55. (a) 56. (c) 57. (b) 58. (b) 59. (b) 60. (c)