BOOKBACK ONEMARK QUESTIONS

I Multiple choice questions

UNIT I Electrostatics
1 Two identical point charges of magnitude -q are fixed as shown in the figure below.
A third charge +qis placed midway between the two charges at the point P.
Suppose this charge +q is displaced a small distance from the point P in the
directions indicated by the arrows, in which direction(s) will +q be stable with
respect to the displacement?

(a) A1 and A2 (b) B1 and B2 (c) both directions (d) No stable

2. Which charge configuration produces a uniform electric field?
(a) point Charge (b) infinite uniform line charge
(c) uniformly charged infinite plane (d) uniformly charged spherical shell
3 What is the ratio of the charges
for the following electric field line pattern?
(a) (b) 5
(c) (d)
4 An electric dipole is placed at an alignment angle of 30° with an electric field of
. It experiences torque equal to 8 Nm. The charge on the dipole if the
dipole length is 1 cm is
(a) 4 mC (b) 8 mC (c)5 mC (d) 7 mC
5. Four Gaussian surfaces are given below
with charges inside each Gaussian surface.
Rank the electric flux through
each Gaussian surface in increasing order

(a) D<C<B< A (b) A < B =C<D

(c) C<A =B<D (d) D>C>B>A

6. The total electric flux for the following

closed surface which is kept inside water
(a) (b)
(c) (d)

7 Two identical conducting balls having positive charges , and are separated
by a center to center distance r. If they are made to touch each other and then
separated to the same distance, the force between them will be
(a) less than before (b) same as before (c) more than before (d) zero
8 Rank the electrostatic potential energies for the given system of charges in
increasing order.
(a) 1=4<2<3 (b) 2= 4<3<1 (c) 2 =3<1<4 (d) 3<1<2<4
9 An electric field E=10xi exists in a certain region of space. Then the
potential difference where V0 is the potential at the origin and VA is the
potential at x =2 m is
(a) 10 J (b)-20 J (c) +20 J (d)-10 J
10. A thin conducting spherical shell of radius R has a charge Q which is uniformly
Distributed The correct plot for electrostatic potential due to this spherical shell is
its surface.

11. Two points A and B are maintained at a potential of 7 V and -4 V respectively.The

work done in moving 50 electrons from A to B is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
12. If voltage applied on a capacitor is increased from V to 2V, choose the correct
conclusion.
(a) Q remains the same, C is doubled (b) Q is doubled, C doubled
(c) C remains same, Q doubled (d) Both Q and C remain same
13. A parallel plate capacitor stores a charge Q at a voltage V. Suppose the area of the
parallel plate capacitor and the distance between the plates are each doubled then
which is the quantity that will change?
(a) Capacitance (b) Charge (c) Voltage (d) Energy density

14. Three capacitors are connected in

triangle as shown in the figure.
The equivalent capacitance
between the points A and C is
(a) 1 F (b) 2 F
(c) 3 F (d)

15. Two metallic spheres of radii 1 cm and 3 cm are given charges of

and respectively. If these are connected by a conducting wire, the final
charge on the bigger sphere is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
UNIT II Current Electricity
1. The following graph shows current versus
voltage values of some unknown conductor.
What is the resistance of this conductor?

(a) 2 ohm (b) 4 ohm

(c) 8 ohm (d)l ohm

2. A wire of resistance 2 ohms per meter is bent to form

a circle of radius Im. The equivalent resistance
between its diametrically opposite points, A and B
as shown in the figure is
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
3. A toaster operating at 240 V has a resistance of 120 The power is
a) 400 W b) 2 W c) 480 W d) 240 W
4. A carbon resistor of (47 4.7)k to be marked with rings of different colours for its
identification. The colour code sequence will be
a) Yellow Green Violet Gold b) Yellow - Violet -Orange Silver
c) Violet Yellow - Orange – Silver d) Green Orange Violet- Gold
5. What is the value of resistance of the following resistor?
(a)100 K (b)10 K
(c) 1 K (d)1000 K

6. Two wires of A and B with circular cross section made up of the same material with
equal lengths. Suppose then what is the ratio of radius of wire A to that
of B?
(a)3 (b) (c) (d)
7. A wire connected to a power supply of 230 V has power dissipation . Suppose the
wire is cut into two equal pieces and connected parallel to the same power supply.
In this case power is dissipation is , The ratio is
(a)1 (b) 2 (c)3 (d) 4
8. In India electricity is supplied for domestic use at 220 V. It is supplied at 110 V in
USA. Ifthe resistance of a 60W bulb for use in India is R, the resistance of a 60W
bulb for use in USA will be
(a) R (b) 2R (c) (d)
9 In a large building, there are 15 bulbs of 40W, 5 bulbs of 100W, 5 fans of 80W and
1 heater of IkW are connected. The voltage of electric mains is 220V. The minimum
capacity of the main fuse of the building will be
(a) 14 A (b) 8 A (c) 10 A
(d) 12 A
10. There is a current of 1.0 A in
the circuit shown below. What is the
resistance of P?
a) 1.50 b) 2.50
c) 3.5 d) 4.5

11. What is the current out of the battery?

a) 1A b) 2A
c) 3A d) 4A

12. The coefficient of temperature resistance of a wire is 0.00125 per °C At 20 °C, its
resistance is 1 . The resistance of the wire will be 2 at
a) 800 °C b) 700 °C c) 850 °C d) 820 °C
13. The internal resistance of a 2.1 V cell which gives a current of 0.2 A through a
resistance of 10 is
a) 0.20 b) 0.5 c) 0.8 d) 1.0
14. A piece of copper and another of germanium are cooled from room temperature to
80 K. The resistance of
a) each of them increases b) each of them decreases
c) copper increases and germanium decreases
d) copper decreases and germanium increases
15. In Joule's heating law, when I and t are constant, if the H is taken along the y axis
and along the x axis, the graph is
a) straight line b) parabola c) circle d) ellipse
UNIT III Magnetism and magnetic effects of electric current
1. The magnetic field at the center O of the following current loop is

(a) (b)
(c) (d)

2. An electron moves straight inside a charged parallel plate capacitor of uniform

charge density . The time taken by the electron to cross the parallel plate capacitor
when the plates of the capacitor are kept under constant magnetic field of induction
is
(a) (b)
(c) (d)

3. The force experienced by a particle having mass m and charge q accelerated

through a potential difference V when it is kept under perpendicular magnetic
field is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4. A circular coil of radius 5 cm and 50 turns carries a current of 3 ampere. The
magnetic dipole moment of the coil is
a) 10 amp- (b) 1.2 amp – (c) 0.5 amp - (d) 0.8 amp-
5. A thin insulated wire forms a plane spiral of N =100 tight turns carrying current
I= 8 m A (milli ampere). The radii of inside and outside turns are a=50 mm and
b =100 mm respectively.The magnetic induction at the center of the spiral is
(a) 5 T (b) 7 T (c) 8 T (d) 10 T
6. Three wires of equal lengths are bent in the form of loops. One of the loops is circle,
another is a semi-circle and the third one is a square. They are placed in a uniform
magnetic field and same electric current is passed through them. Which of the
following loop configuration will experience greater torque?
(a) circle (b) semi-circle (c) square (d) all of them
7. Two identical coils, each with N turns and radius R are placed coaxially distance R
as shown in the figure. If I is the current passing through the loops in the same
direction, then the magnetic field at a point P which is at exactly at distance
between two coils is
(a) (b)

(c) (d)

8. A wire of length carries a current I along the Y direction and magnetic field is
given by + )T . The magnitude of Lorentz force acting on the wire is

(a) (b) (c) (d)

9. A bar magnet of length and magnetic moment is bent in the form of an arc as
shown in figure. The new magnetic dipole moment will be

(a) (b)

(c) (d)
10. A non-conducting charged ring of charge q, mass m and radius r is rotated with
constant angular speed . Find the ratio of its magnetic moment with angular
momentum is
(a) (b) (c) (d)

11. The BH curve for a ferromagnetic material is shown

in the figure. The material is
placed inside a long solenoid which contains 1000
turns/cm. The current that should be passed in
the solenonid to demagnetize the ferromagnet
completely is

(a) 1.00 m A (milli ampere) (b) 1.25 mA

(c) 1.50 mA (d) 1.75 mA

12. Two short bar magnets have magnetic moments 1.20 A and 1.00 A
respectively. They are kept on horizontal table parallel to each other with their
north poles pointing towards the south. They have a common magnetic equator and
are separated by a distance of 20.0 cm. The value of the resultant horizontal
magnetic induction at the mid-point O of the line joining their centers is (Horizontal
components of Earth's magnetic induction is )
(a) (b) (c) (d)
13. The vertical component of Earths magnetic field at a place is equal to the horizontal
component. What is the value of angle of dip at this place?
(a) 300 (b) 450 (c) 600 (d) 900
14. A flat dielectric disc of radius R carries an excess charge on its surface. The surface
charge density is a. The disc rotates about an axis perpendicular to its plane
passing through the center with angular velocity . Find the magnitude of the
torque on the disc if it is placed in a uniform magnetic field whose strength is B
which is directed perpendicular to the axis of rotation
(a) (b) (c) (d)
15. The potential energy of magnetic dipole whose dipole moment is
Am kept in uniform magnetic field
(a) –0.1 J (b) –0.8 J (c) 0.1 J (d) 0.8 J
UNIT IV Electromagnetic Induction And Alternating Current
1. An electron moves on a straight line path XY as shown in the figure. The coil abcd
is adjacent to the path of the electron. What will be the direction of current, if any,
induced in the coil?

(a) The will its current reverse direction

as the electron goes past the coil
(b) No current will be induced
(c) abcd
(d) adcb
2. A thin semi-circular conducting ring (PQR) of radius r is falling with its plane
vertical in a horizontal magnetic field B, as shown in the figure. The potential
difference developed across the ring when its speed v, is

(a) Zero
(b) and P is at higher potential
(c) and R is at higher potential
(d) 2rBv and R is at higher potential

3 The flux linked with a coil at any instant t is given by . The

induced emf at t= 3s is
a) -190V (b) -10 V (c) 10 V (d) 190 V
4 When the current changes from +2A to -2A in 0.05 s, an emf of 8 V is induced in a
coil. The co-efficient of self-induction of the coil is
(a) 0.2 H (b) 0.4 H (c) 0.8 H (d) 0.1 H
5. The current i flowing in a coil varies with time as shown in the figure. The
variation of induced emf with time would be

6. A circular coil with a cross-sectional area of 4 cm2 has 10 turns. It is placed at the
centre of a long solenoid that has 15 turns/cm and a cross-sectional area of 10
cm2. The axis of the coil coincides with the axis of the solenoid. What is their
mutual inductance?
(a) 7.54 H (b) 8.54 H (c) 9.54 H (d) 10.54 H
7. In a transformer, the number of turns in the primary and the secondary are 410
and 1230 respectively. If the current in primary is 6A, then that in the secondary
coil is
(a) 2 A (b) 18 A (c) 12 A (d) 1 A
8. A step-down transformer reduces the supply voltage from 220 V to 11 V and
increase the current from 6 A to 100 A. Then its efficiency is
(a) 1.2 (b) 0.83 (c) 0.12 (d) 0.9
9. In an electrical circuit, R, L, C and AC voltage source are all connected in series.
When L is removed from the circuit, the phase difference between the voltage and
current in the circuit is Instead, if C is removed from the circuit, the phase
difference is again .The power factor of the circuit is
 (a) (b) (c) 1 (d)
10. In a series RL circuit, the resistance and inductive reactance are the same. Then
the phase difference between the voltage and current in the circuit is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
11. In a series resonant RLC circuit, the voltage across 100 resistor is 40 V The
resonant frequency w is 250 rad/s. If the value of Cis 4 then the voltage across L
is
(a) 600 V (b) 4000 V (c) 400V (d) 1 V
12. An inductor 20 mH, a capacitor 50 F and a resistor 40 are connected in series
across a source of emf v =10 sin340 t. The power loss in AC circuit is
(a) 0.76 W (b) 0.89 W (c) 0.46 W (d) 0.67 W
13. The instantaneous values of alternating current and voltage in a circuit are
A and V The average power in watts consumed
in the circuit is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
14. In an oscillating LC circuit, the maximum charge on the capacitor is Q The charge
on the capacitor when the energy is stored equally between the electric and
magnetic fields is
(a) (b) (c) (d) Q
15. H inductor is connected to a capacitor of capacitance C. The value of C in order
to impart maximum power at 50 Hz is
(a) 50 F (b) 0.5 F (c) 500 F (d) 5 F
UNIT V Electromagnetic waves
1 The dimension of is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2. If the amplitude of the magnetic field is T, then amplitude of the electric field
for a electromagnetic waves is
(a) 100 (b) 300 (c) 600 (d) 900
3. Which of the following electromagnetic radiation is used for viewing objects through
fog
(a) microwave (b) gamma rays (c) X- rays (d) infrared
4. Which of the following are false for electromagnetic waves to
(a) transverse (b) mechanical waves (c) longitudinal
(d) produced by accelerating charges
5. Consider an oscillator which has a charged particle and oscillates about position
with a of 300 MHz. The wavelength of electromagnetic waves produced by this
oscillator is
(a) 1 m (b) 10 m (c) 100 m (d) 1000 m
6. The electric and the magnetic field, associated with an electromagnetic on a wave,
propagating along X axis can be represented by
(a) (b)
(c) (a)
7. In an electromagnetic wave in free space the rms value of the electric field is 3 V m.
The peak value of the magnetic field is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
8. An e.m. wave is propagating in a medium with a velocity . The
instantaneous oscillating electric field of this e.m. wave is along +y-axis, then the
direction of oscillating magnetic field of the e.m. wave will be along:
(a) –y direction (b) –x direction (c) +z direction (d) –z direction
9. If the magnetic monopole exists, then which of the Maxwell's equation to be
modified?.
(a) (b)
 (c) (d)
10. Fraunhofer lines are an example of _______ spectrum.
(a) line emission (b) line absorption (c) band emission (d) band absorption
11. Which of the following is an electromagnetic wave?
(a) rays (b) – rays (c) -rays (d) all of them
12. Which one of them is used to produce a propagating electromagnetic wave?.
(a) an accelerating charge (b) a charge moving at constant velocity
(c) a stationary charge (d) an uncharged particle
13. Let be the electric field of plane electromagnetic wave, the value
of is
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
14. Which of the following is NOT true for electromagnetic waves?
(a) it transport energy (b) it transport momentum
(c) it transport angular momentum
(d) in vacuum, it travels with different speeds which depend on their frequency
15. The electric and magnetic fields of an electromagnetic wave are
(a) in phase and perpendicular to each other
(b) out of phase and not perpendicular to each other
(c) in phase and not perpendicular to each other
(d) out of phase and perpendicular to each other

UNIT 6 Ray Optics

1. The speed of light in an isotropic medium depends on,
(a) its intensity (b)its wavelength
(c) the nature of propagation (d) the motion of the source w.r.to medium
2. A rod of length 10 cm lies along the principal axis of a concave mirror of focal
length 10 cm in such a way that its end closer to the pole is 20 cm from the mirror.
The length of the image is,
(a) 2.5 cm (b) 5cm (c) 10 cm (d) 15cm
3. An object is placed in front of a convex mirror of focal length of f and the maximum
and minimum distance of an object from the mirror such that the image formed is
real and magnified
(a) 2f and c (b) c and (c) f and O (d) None of these
4. For light incident from air onto a slab of refractive index 2. Maximum possible angle
of refraction is,
(a) 300 (b) 450 (c) 600 (d) 900
5. If the velocity and wavelength of light in air is Va and , and that in water is Vw,
And then the refractive index of water is,
(a) (b) (c) (d)
6. Stars twinkle due to,
(a) reflection (b) total internal reflection (c) refraction (d) polarisation
7. When a biconvex lens of glass having refractive index 1.47 is dipped in liquid, it
acts as a plane sheet of glass. This implies that the liquid must have refractive
index
(a) less than one (b) less than that of glass
(c) greater than that of glass (d) equal to that of glass
8. The radius of curvature of curved surface at a thin plano convex lens is 10cm and
the refractive index is 1.5. If the plane surface is silvered, then the focal length will
be,
(a) 5 cm (b) 10 cm (c) 15 cm (d) 20 cm
9. An air bubble in glass slab of refractive index 1.5 (near normal incidence) is 5 cm
deep when viewed from one surface and 3 cm deep when viewed from the opposite
face. The thickness of the slab is,
(a) 8 cm (b) 10 cm (c) 12 cm (d) 16 cm
10. A ray of light travelling in a transparent medium of refractive index n falls, on a
 surface separating the medium from air at an angle of incidents of 45. The ray can
undergo total internal reflection for the following n,
(a) n = 1.25 (b) n = 1.33 (c) n = 1.4 (d) n = 1.5
UNIT 7 Wave Optics
1. A plane glass is placed over a various coloured letters (violet, green, yellow red) The
letter which appears to be raised more is,
(a) red (b) yellow (c) green (d) violet
2. Two point white dots are I mm apart on a black paper. They are viewed by eye of
pupil diameter 3 mm approximately The maximum distance at which these dots
can be resolved by the eye is, [take wavelength of light, A 500 nm
(a) 1 m (b) 5 m (c) 3 m (d) 6 m
3. In a Young's double-slit experiment, the slit separation is doubled. To maintain the
same fringe spacing on the screen, the screen-to-slit distance D must be changed
to,
(a) 2D (b) (c) (b)
4. Two coherent monochromatic light beams of intensities I and 4I are superposed.
The maximum and minimum possible intensities in the resulting beam are

(a) 5I and I (b) 5I and 3I (c) 9I and I (d) 9I and 3I

5. When light is incident on a soap film of thickness cm, the wavelength of
light reflected maximum in the visible region is 5320 A0. Refractive index of the film
will be,
(a) 1.22 (b) 1.33 (c) 1.51 (d) 1.83
6. First diffraction minimum due to a single slit of width cm is at 30°. Then
wavelength of light used is
(a) 400 A0 (b) 500 A0 (c) 600 A0 (d) 700 A0
7. A ray of light strikes a glass plate at an angle 600. If the reflected and refracted rays
are perpendicular to each other,the refractive index of the glass is,
(a) (b) (c) (d) 2
8. One of the of Young's double slits is covered with a glass plate as shown in figure.
The position of central maximum will,
(a) get shifted downwards
(b) get shifted upwards
(c) will remain the same
(d) data insufficient to conclude
9. Light transmitted by Nicol prism is
(a) partially polarised (b) unpolarised
(c) plane polarized (d) elliptically polarised
10. The transverse nature of light is shown in,
(a) interference (b) diffraction (c) scattering (d) polarisation

UNIT 8 Dual Nature of Radiation and Matter

1. The wavelength of an electron and of a photon of same energy E are related by
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2. In an electron microscope, the electrons are accelerated by a voltage of 14 kV. If the
voltage is changed to 224 kV, then the de Broglie wavelength associated with the
electrons would
(a) increase by 2 times (b) decrease by 2 times
(c) decrease by 4 times (d) increase by 4 times
3. Aparticle of mass has the same wavelength as an electron moving with a
velocity The velocity of the particle is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4. When a metallic surface is illuminated with radiation of wavelength , the stopping
potential is V. If the same surface is illuminated with radiation of wavelength 2 ,
 the stopping potential is . The threshold wavelength for the metallic surface is
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) (d) 3
5. If a light of wavelength 330 nm is incident on a metal with work function 3.55 eV,
the electrons are emitted. Then the wavelength of the emitted electron is
(Take h= Js)
(a) (b) (c) (d)
6. A photoelectric surface is illuminated successively by monochromatic light of
wavelength à and. If the maximum kinetic energy of the emitted photoelectrons in
the second case is 3 times that in the first case, the work function at the surface of
material is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
7. In photoelectric emission, a radiation whose frequency is 4 times threshold
frequency of a certain metal is incident on the metal. Then the maximum possible
velocity of the emitted electron will be
(a) (b) (c) (d)
8. Two radiations with photon energies 0.9eVand 3.3 eV respectively are falling on a
metallic surface successively. If the work function of the metal is 0.6 eV, then the
ratio of maximum speeds of emitted electrons will be
a) 1:4 b) 1:3 c) 1:1 d)1:9
9. A light source of wavelength 520 nm emits photons per second while
the second source of 460 nm produces photons per second. Then the
ratio of power of second source to that of first source is
a) 1.00 b) 1.02 c) 1.5 d) 0.98
10. The mean wavelength of light from sun is taken to be 550 nm and its mean power
is .The number of photons received by the human eye per second on the
average from sunlight is of the order of
a) b) c) d)
11. The threshold wavelength for a metal surface whose photoelectric work function is
3.313 eV is
a) 4125 A0 b) 3750 A0 c) 6000 A0 d) 2062.5 A0
12. Alight of wavelength 500 nm is incident on a sensitive plate of photoelectric work
function 1.235 eV. The kinetic energy of the photo electrons emitted is be
(Take h= Js)
(a) 0.58 Ev b) 2.48 eV c) 1.24 eV d) 1.16 eV
13. Photons of wavelength are incident on a metal. The most energetic electrons ejected
from the metal are bent into a circular arc of radius R by a perpendicular magnetic
field having magnitude B. The work function of the metal is
(a) (b) ) (c) (d)
14. The work functions for metals A, Band C 1.92 eV, 2.0 eV and 5.0 eV are
respectively. The metals which will emit photoelectrons for a radiation of
wavelength 4100 A0 is/are
(a) A only (b) both A and B (c) all these metals (d) none
15. Emission of electrons by the absorption of heat energy is called……. emission
(a) photoelectric (b) field (c) thermionic (d) secondary
UNIT 9 Atomic and Nuclear physics
1. Suppose an alpha particle accelerated by a potential of V volt is allowed to collide
with a nucleus whose atomic number is Z, then the distance of closest approach of
alpha particle to the nucleus is
(a) 14.4 A0 (b) 14.4 A0 (c) 1.44 A0 (d) 1.44 A0
2. In a hydrogen atom, the electron revolving in the fourth orbit, has angular
momentum equal to
(a) h (b) (c) (d)
3. Atomic number of H-like atom with ionization potential 122.4 V for n= 1 is
(a)1 (b)2 (c) 3 (d) 4
4 The ratio between the first three orbits of hydrogen atom is
(a) 1:2:3 (b) 2:4:6 (c) 1:4:9 (d) 1:3:5
5. The charge of cathode rays is
(a) positive (b) negative (c) neutral (d) not defined
6. In J.J.Thomson e/m experiment, a beam of electron is replaced by that of muons
(particle with same charge as that of electrons but mass 208 times that of less than
the sum of the masses of all electrons). No deflection condition is achieved only if
(a) B is increased by 208 times (b) B is decreased by 208 times
(c) B is increased by 14.4 times (d) B is decreased by 14.4 times
7. The ratio of the wavelengths for the transition from n =2 to n =1 in Li++,
He+ and H is
(a)1: 2:3 (b) 1: 4:9 (c) 3:2:1 (d) 4: 9:36
8. The electric potential between proton and an electron is given by where
is a constant.Assume that Bohr atom model is applicable to potential, then
Variation of radius of nth orbit , with the principal quantum number n is
(a) (b) (c) (d)
9. If the nuclear radius of is 3.6 fermi, the approximate nuclear radius of is
(a) 2.4 (b) 1.2 (c) 4.8 (d)3.6
10. The nucleus is approximately spherical in shape. Then the surface area of nucleus
having mass number A varies as
(a) (b) (c) (d)
11. The mass of a nucleus is 0.042 u less than the sum of the masses of all its
nucleons.The binding energy per nucleon of nucleus is nearly
(a) 46 MeV (b) 5.6 MeV (c) 3.9MeV (d)23 MeV
12. denotes the mass of the proton and denotes mass of a neutron.A given
nucleus of binding energy B,contains Z protons and N neutrons The mass M(N,Z) of
the nucleus is given by(where c is the speed of light)
(a) M(N,Z)= N +Z -B (b) M(N,Z)= N +Z +B
(c) M(N,Z)= N +Z -B (d) M(N,Z)= N +Z +B
13. A radioactive nucleus (initial number A and atomic number Z)emits 2 and 2
positrons. The ratio of number of neutrons to that of proton in the final nucleus will
be
(a) (b) (c) (d)
14. The half-life period of a radioactive element A is same as the mean life time of
another radioactive element B. Initially both have the same number of atoms. Then
a) A and B have the same decay rate initially
(b) A and B decay at the same rate always
(c) B will decay at faster rate than A
(d) A will decay at faster rate than B.
15. A system consists of nucleus at t=0. The number of nuclei remaining after half of
a half-life (that is, at timet )
(a) (b) (c) (d)

UNIT 10 Electronics and communication

1. The barrier potential of a silicon diode is approximately
(a) 0.7 V (b)0.3V (c) 2.0 V (d) 2.2V
2. Doping a semiconductor results in
(a)The decrease in mobile charge carriers (b)The change in chemical properties
(c) The change in the crystal structure (d) The breaking of the covalent bond
3. In an unbiased p-n junction , the majority charge carriers (that is holes) in the p
region diffuse into n-region because of
(a) the potential difference across the p-n junction
(b)the higher hole concentration in p –region than that in n-region
 (c) The attraction of free electrons of n-region
(d) the higher concentration of electrons in the n –region than that in p-region
4. If a positive half-wave rectified voltage is fed to a load resistor, which part of a cycle
the load current will flow?
(a) 00-900 (b) 900-1800 (c)00-1800 (d)00-3600
5. The zener diode is primarily used as
(a) Rectifier (b) Amplifier (c) Oscillator (d) Voltage regulator
6. The principle in which a solar cell operates
(a) Diffusion (b) Recombination (c) Photovoltaic action (d) Carrier flow
7. The light emitted in an LED is due to
(a) Recombination of charge carriers (b)Reflection of light due to lens action
(c) Amplification of light falling at the junction (d) Large current capacity
8. The barrier of optional of a p-n junction depends on i) type of semiconductor
material ii) amount of doping iii) temperature .which one of the following is correct?
(a) (i) and (ii) only (b) (ii) only (c)(ii) and (iii) only (d) (i) ,(ii) and (iii)
9. To obtain sustained oscillation in an oscillator,
(a) Feedback should be positive (b) Feedback factor must be unity
(c) Phase shift must be 0 or 2 (d) All the above
10. If the input to the NOT gate is A = 1011, its output is
(a) 0100 (b) 1000 (c) 1100 (d) 0011
11. Which one of the following represents forward bias diode?

12. The given electrical network is equivalent to

(a) AND gate (b) OR gate (c) NOR gate (d) NOT gate

13. The output of the following circuit is when the input ABC is
(a) 101 (b) 100 (c) 110 (d)010

14. The variation of frequency of carrier wave with respect to the

amplitude of the modulating signal is called-
(a) Amplitude modulation (b) Frequency modulation
(c) Phase modulation (d)Pulse width modulation
15. The frequency range of 3 MHz to 30MHz is used for
(a) Ground wave propagation (b) Space wave propagation
(e)Sky wave propagation (d) Satellite communication
 UNIT 11 Recent Developments in Physics
1. The particle size of ZnO material is 30 nm. Based on the dimension it is classified
as
(a) Bulk material b) Nanomaterial e) Soft material d) Magnetic material
2. Which one of the following is the natural nanomaterial
a) Peacock feather b) Peacock beak c) Grain of sand d) Skin of the Whale
3. The blue print for making ultra durable synthetic material is mimicked from
(a) Lotus leaf (b) Morpho butterfly (c) Parrot fish (d) Peacock feather
4. The method of making nanomaterial by assembling the atoms is called
(a) Top down approach (b) Bottom up approach
(c) Cross down approach (d) Diagonal approach
5. "Sky wax" is an application of nano product in the field of
(a) Medicine (b) Textile (c) Sports (d) Automotive industry
6. The materials used in Robotics are
(a) Aluminium and silver (b) Silver and gold
(c) Copper and gold (d) Steel and aluminum
7. The alloys used for muscle wires in Robots are
(a) Shape memory alloys (b) Gold copper alloys
(c) Gold silver alloys (d) Two dimensional alloys
8. The technology used for stopping the brain from processing pain is
(a) Precision medicine (b) Wireless brain sensor
(c) Virtual reality (d) Radiology
9. The particle which gives mass to protons and neutrons are
(a) Higgs particle (b) Einstein particle
(c) Nanoparticle (d) Bulk particle
10. The gravitational waves were theoretically proposed by
(a) Conrad Rontgen (b) Marie Curie (c) Albert Einstein (d) Edward Purcell