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NET June 2017
PART A
Q1. An ant starts at the origin and moves along the y -axis and covers a distance l . This is its
first stage in its journey. Every subsequent stage requires the ant to turn right and move a
distance which is half of its previous stage. What would be its coordinates at the end of
its 5th stage?
3l 13l 13l 3l
(a) , (b) ,
8 16 16 8
13l 3l 3l 13l
(c) , (d) ,
8 16 16 8
Q2. In a group of siblings there are seven sisters and each sister has one brother. How many
siblings are there in total?
(a) 15 (b) 14 (c) 8 (d) 7
Q3. What is the average value of y for the range of x shown in the following plot?
y
2
1 0 1
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Q6. A job interview is taking place with 21 male and 17 female candidates. Candidates are
called randomly. What is the minimum number of candidates to be called lo ensure that at
least two males or two females have been interviewed?
(a) 17 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 21
Q7. The graph shows cumulative frequency % of
Cumulative frequency %
research scholars and the number of papers 100
(Research Scholars)
published by them. Which of the following 80
statements is true? 60
40
(a) Majority of the scholars published more than 4
20
papers.
(b) 60 % of the scholars published at least 2 papers. 0 2 4 6 8 10
Number of papers
(c) 80 % of the scholars published at least 6 papers. published
(d) 30% of scholar’s have not published any paper.
Q8. A tells only lies on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and speaks only the truth for the
rest of the week. B tells only lies on Thursday; Friday and Saturday and speaks only the
truth for the rest of the week. If today both of them state that they have lied yesterday,
what day is it today? /
(a) Monday (b) Thursday (c) Sunday (d) Tuesday
Q9. A fair die was thrown three times and the outcome was repeatedly six. If the die is thrown
again, what is the probability of getting six?
(a) 1/ 6 (b) 1/ 216 (c) 1/1296 (d) 1
Q10. Which is the odd one out based on a divisibility test?
154, 286, 363, 474, 572, 682
(a) 474 (b) 572 (c) 682 (d) 154
Q11. My birthday is in January. What would be a sufficient number of questions with
‘Yes/No’ answers that will enable one to find my birth date?
(a) 6 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 2
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Q12. A square is drawn with one of its sides as the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle as
shown in the figure. What is the area of the shaded circle?
3cm
4 cm
25 25 25 25
(a) cm 2 (b) cm 2 (c) cm 2 (d) cm 2
1 2 3 4
Q13. What should be added to the product of the two numbers 983713 and 983719 to make it
a perfect square?
(a) 9 (b) 13 (c) 19 (d) 27
Q14. In ABC , AB AC and BAC 900 ; EF AB and DF AC . The total area of the
shaded region is A
D
E
B C
F
(c) N 2 (d) N N
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Q17. Two identical wheels B and C move on the periphery of circle A . Both start at the same
point on A and return to it, B moving inside A and C outside it. Which is the correct
statement? A C
(a) B wears out times C B
(b) C wears out times B
(c) B and C wear out about equally
(d) C wears out two times B
Q18. Which of the following is the odd one out?
(a) Isosceles triangle (b) Square
(c) Regular hexagon (d) Rectangle
Q19. Find the missing word: A, AB,...... , ABBABAAB
(a) AABB (b) ABAB (c) ABBA (d) BAAB
Q20. A 100 m long train crosses a bridge 200 m long and 20 m wide bridge in 20 seconds.
What is the speed of the train in km/hr?
(a) 45 (b) 36 (c) 54 (d) 57.6
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PART B
Q21. Which of the following can not be the eigenvalues of a real 3 3 matrix
(a) 2i, 0, 2i (b) 1,1,1 (c) ei , e i ,1 (d) i, 1, 0
1 1 x
1 1
e y / 2 , 0 y e y / 2 , 0 y
2 2
(a) (b)
2 2 y 2 2 2 y
1 1
e y / 2 , 0 y e y / , 0 y
2 2
(c) (d)
2 2 2 2 y
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Q26. The Hamiltonian for a system described by the generalised coordinate x and generalised
momentum p is
p2 1
H x2 p 2 x2
2 1 2 x 2
1 2
x 2 x 1 2 x 2 x 2
1 1 1
2
(c) (d) x 2 2 x 2 x 2 x
2 2 2 1 2 x 2
Q27. An inertial observer sees two events E1 and E2 happening at the same location but 6 s
apart in time. Another observer moving with a constant velocity v (with respect to the
first one) sees the same events to be 9 s apart. The spatial distance between the events,
as measured by the second observer, is approximately
(a) 300 m (b) 1000 m (c) 2000 m (d) 2700 m
Q28. A ball weighing 100 gm , released from a height of 5 m , bounces perfectly elastically off
a plate. The collision time between the ball and the plate is 0.5 s . The average force on
the plate is approximately
(a) 3 N (b) 2 N (c) 5 N (d) 4 N
Q29. A solid vertical rod, of length L and cross-sectional area A , is made of a material of
Young’s modulus Y . The rod is loaded with a mass M , and, as a result, extends by a
small amount L in the equilibrium condition. The mass is then suddenly reduced to
M / 2 . As a result the rod will undergo longitudinal oscillation with an angular frequency
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Q31. Consider a potential barrier A of height V0 and width b , and another potential barrier B
of height 2V0 and the same width b . The ratio TA / TB of tunnelling probabilities TA and
(a) exp 1.99 0.99 8 mV0b 2 / 2
(b) exp 1.98 0.98
8 mV0b 2 / 2
(c) exp
2.99 0.99 8 mV0b 2 / 2
(d) exp
2.98 0.98 8 mV0b 2 / 2
Q32. A constant perturbation H is applied to a system for time t (where H t )
leading to a transition from a state with energy Ei to another with energy E f . If the time
Q34. Two long hollow co-axial conducting cylinders of radii R1 and R2 R1 R2 are placed
2R1 2R2
The inner cylinder carries a charge per unit length and the outer cylinder carries a
charge per unit length. The electrostatic energy per unit length of this system is
2 2
(a)
0
ln R2 / R1 (b)
4 0
R22 / R12
2 2
(c) ln R2 / R1 (d) ln R2 / R1
4 0 2 0
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Q35. A set of N concentric circular loops of wire, each carrying a steady current I in the
same direction, is arranged in a plane. The radius of the first loop is r1 a and the radius
of the n th loop is given by rn nrn 1 . The magnitude B of the magnetic field at the centre
(c) 0 I e 2 1 / 8a (d) 0 I e 1 / 2a
Q36. An electromagnetic wave (of wavelength 0 in free space) travels through an absorbing
I
medium with dielectric permittivity given by R i I where 3 . If the skin
R
0
depth is , the ratio of the amplitude of electric field E to that of the magnetic field B ,
4
in the medium (in ohms) is
(a) 120 (b) 377 (c) 30 2 (d) 30
Q37. The vector potential A ke at rrˆ (where a and k are constants) corresponding to an
electromagnetic field is changed to A ke at rrˆ . This will be a gauge transformation if
the corresponding change in the scalar potential is
G G G G
(a) S (b) S (c) V (d)
T N ,P T N ,P P N ,T N P ,T
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Q39. A box, separated by a movable wall, has two compartments filled by a monoatomic gas
CP
of . Initially the volumes of the two compartments are equal, but the pressures are
CV
3P0 and P0 respectively. When the wall is allowed to move, the final pressures in the two
compartments become equal. The final pressure is
2 2 31/
(c) 1 31/ P0
1
(a) P0 (b) 3 P0 (d) 1/
P0
3 3 2 1 3
Q40. A gas of photons inside a cavity of volume V is in equilibrium at temperature T . If the
temperature of the cavity is changed to 2T , the radiation pressure will change by a factor
of
(a) 2 (b) 16 (c) 8 (d) 4
Q41. In a thermodynamic system in equilibrium, each molecule can exist in three possible
states with probabilities 1/ 2, 1/ 3 and 1/ 6 respectively. The entropy per molecule is
1 2
(a) k B ln 3 (b) k B ln 2 k B ln 3
2 3
2 1 1 1
(c) k B ln 2 k B ln 3 (d) k B ln 2 k B ln 3
3 2 2 6
Q42. In the n -channel JFET shown in figure below, Vi 2V , C 10 pF , VDD 16 V and
RD 2k . VDD
RD
D C
VO
Vi
G
S
If the drain D - source S saturation current I DSS is 10 mA and the pinch-off voltage VP is
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Q43. The gain of the circuit given below is .
RC
C
R V
Vin
a Vout
b
V
ground
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PART C
Q46. The Green’s function satisfying
d2
g x, x0 x x0
dx 2
with the boundary conditions g L, x0 0 g L, x0 , is
1 1
2 L x0 L x L , L x x0 2 L x0 L x L , L x x0
(a) (b)
1 x L x L , x0 x L 1 x L x L , x0 x L
2 L 0 2 L 0
1
2 L L x0 x L , L x x0
1
(c) (d) x L x L , L x L
1 x L L x , x0 x L
2L
2 L 0
i z
Q47. Let x , y , z be the Pauli matrices and x x y y z z exp
2
i z
x x y y z z exp .
2
Then the coordinates are related as follows
x cos sin 0 x x cos sin 0 x
(a) y sin cos 0 y (b) y sin cos 0 y
z 0 1 z z 0 1 z
0 0
cos 2 sin 0 cos 2 sin 0
x 2 x 2
x x
(c) y sin cos 0 y (d) y sin cos 0 y
2 2 2 2
z z z z
1 1
0 0
0 0
Q48. The interval 0,1 is divided into 2n parts of equal length to calculate the integral
1 1
e
i 2 x
dx using Simpson’s rule. What is the minimum value of n for the result to be
0 3
exact?
(a) (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
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Q49. Which of the following sets of 3 3 matrices (in which a and b are real numbers) forms
a group under matrix multiplication?
1 0 a 1 a 0
(a) 0 1 0 ; a, b (b) 0 1 b ; a, b
b 0 1
0 0 1
1 0 a 1 a 0
(c) 0 1 b ; a, b (d) b 1 0 ; a, b
0 0 1
0 0 1
Q50. The Lagrangian of a free relativistic particle (in one dimension) of mass m is given by
the time and is a constant, that is, the new coordinate is a combination of the old
coordinate and momentum at a shifted time. The new canonical momentum P t can be
expressed as
(a) p t q t (b) p t q t
1 1
(c) p t q t (d) p t q t
2 2
Q52. The energy of a one-dimensional system, governed by the Lagrangian
1 2 1 2n
L mx kx
2 2
where k and n are two positive constants, is E0 . The time period of oscillation
satisfies
1 1 1 n 1 n2 1 1 n
(a) k n
(b) k 2n
E
0
2n
(c) k 2n
E
0
2n
(d) k E n
0
2n
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Q53. An electron is decelerated at a constant rate starting from an initial velocity u (where
u c ) to u / 2 during which it travels a distance s . The amount of energy lost to
radiation is
0 e 2u 2 0 e 2u 2 0 e 2u 0 e 2 u
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 mc 2 s 6 mc 2 s 8 mcs 16 mcs
Q54. The figure below describes the arrangement of slits and screens in a Young’s double slit
experiment. The width of the slit in S1 is a and the slits in S2 are of negligible width.
S1 S2
screen
b
2b a a
2b
2a
2a O x
b b
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Q56. Consider the potential
V r i V0 a 3 r ri
3
where ri are the position vectors of the vertices of a cube of length a centered at the
2
origin and V0 is a constant. If V0 a 2 , the total scattering cross-section, in the low-
m
energy limit, is
2
mV0 a 2
2 16a 2 mV0 a 2
(a) 16a (b)
2
2 2
2
64a 2 mV0 a 2 64a 2 mV0 a 2
(c) (d)
2 2 2
A a x , a x a
2 2
x
0 otherwise
5 1 5
(a) (b) (c) (d)
14 2 7
Q59. In the usual notation n l m for the states of a hydrogen like atom, consider the
spontaneous transitions 210 10 0 and 310 10 0 . If t1 and t2 are the lifetimes
t1
of the first and second decaying states respectively, then the ratio is proportional to
t2
3 3 3 3
32 27 2 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
27 32 3 2
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Q60. A random variable n obeys Poisson statistics. The probability of finding n 0 is 106 .
The expectation value of n is nearest to
(a) 14 (b) 106 (c) e (d) 102
Q61. The single particle energy levels of a non-interacting three-dimensional isotropic system,
labelled by momentum k , are proportional to k 3 . The ratio P / of the average pressure
P to the energy density at a fixed temperature, is
(a) 1/ 3 (b) 2 / 3 (c) 1 (d) 3
Q62. The Hamiltonian for three Ising spins S0 , S1 and S2 , taking values 1 , is
H JS0 S1 S 2
terms of k BT , is
1
1 cosh 2 J
(a) (b) 2 J 1 cosh 2 J
2 sinh 2 J
sinh 2 J
(c) 2 / (d) 2 J
1 cosh 2 J
Q63. Let I 0 be the saturation current, the ideality factor and vF and vR the forward and
reverse potentials respectively, for a diode. The ratio RR / RF of its reverse and forward
vR qv vF qv
(a) exp F (b) exp F
vF k BT vR k BT
vR qv vF qv
(c) exp F (d) exp F
vF k BT vR k BT
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Q64. In the figures below, X and Y are one bit inputs. The circuit which corresponds to a one
bit comparator is
X
X Y
(a) Y
X Y
X Y
X
X Y
(b)
X Y
Y X Y
X
X Y
(c)
X Y
Y X Y
X
X Y
(d) Y
X Y
Y X Y
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Q65. Both the data points and a linear fit to the current vs voltage of a resistor are shown in the
graph below. 1
I (amps)
0 V volts 25
If the error in the slope is 1.255 103 1 , then the value of resistance estimated from the
graph is
(a) 0.04 0.8 (b) 25.0 0.8
Q66. In the following operational amplifier circuit Cin 10 nF , Rin 20 k , RF 200 k and
RF
CF 100 pF .
CF
Ri Ci
Vin
Vout
Q68. If the coefficient of stimulated emission for a particular transition is 2.11019 m3W 1s 3
0
and the emitted photon is at wavelength 3000 A , then the lifetime of the excited state is
approximately
(a) 20 ns (b) 40 ns (c) 80 ns (d) 100 ns
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Q69. If the binding energies of the electron in the K and L shells of silver atom are 25.4 keV
and 3.34 keV , respectively, then the kinetic energy of the Auger electron will be
approximately
(a) 22 keV (b) 9.3 keV (c) 10.5 keV (d) 18.7 keV
Q70. The energy gap and lattice constant of an indirect band gap semiconductor are1.875 eV
and 0.52 nm , respectively. For simplicity take the dielectric constant of the material to be
unity. When it is excited by broadband radiation, an electron initially in the valence band
at k 0 makes a transition to the conduction band. The wavevector of the electron in the
conduction band, in terms of the wavevector kmax at the edge of the Brillouin zone, after
the transition is closest to
(a) kmax /10 (b) kmax /100 (c) kmax /1000 (d) 0
Q71. The electrical conductivity of copper is approximately 95% of the electrical conductivity
of silver, while the electron density in silver is approximately 70 % of the electron
density in copper. In Drude’s model, the approximate ratio Cu / Ag of the mean collision
t 1 t
(a) 0 exp (b) 0 1 exp
2
0 t
(c) (d) 0 cosh
t
1 exp
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Q74. The range of the nuclear force between two nucleons due to the exchange of pions is
1.40 fm . If the mass of pion is 140 MeV / c 2 and the mass of the rho-meson is
770 MeV / c 2 , then the range of the force due to exchange of rho-mesons is
(a) 1.40 fm (b) 7.70 fm (c) 0.25 fm (d) 0.18 fm
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