DEHRADUN PUBLIC SCHOOL

ASSIGNMENT(2017-18)
SUBJECT – : PHYSICS (042)
CLASS –XI

CHAPTER 1 (PHYSICAL WORLD)

1. What is Physics? Discuss the relation between Physics & technology.

2. Give two advancements made in technology on the basis of Physics.
3. Name a few developments in Physics which have a direct impact on daily life.
4. State fundamental forces in nature.
5. What is the main aim of Science?

CHAPTER 2 (UNITS AND MEASUREMENTS)

1. What do you understand by derived physical quantities?

2. Write the dimensions of (a,b) in the relation E = (b-x2)/at, where E is energy, x is distance and t is
time.
3. The time period of oscillation of simple pendulum in an experiment is recorded as 2.56 s, 2.62 s,
2.70 s, 2.58 s, 2.45 s respectively. Find the time period, absolute error in each observation &
percentage error.
4. Write down the number of significant figures in the following: (i) 3286 N (ii) 7100 kg (iii) 64.000
m (iv) 0.04192 Nm-1.
5. The radius of a sphere is measured to be (5.3 ± 0.1)cm. Calculate the percentage error in the
measurement of its volume.
6. Check the dimensional consistency of following equations:
(i) = √ (ii) T = 2π√
7. Assuming the critical velocity v of viscous fluid flowing through a tube depends only upon its
density ρ, radius of the tube r & the coefficient of viscosity of fluid η, show by the method of
dimensions thatv= Kη/ρr
CHAPTER 3 (MOTION IN A STRAIGHT LINE)

1. The distance travelled by a body varies directly proportional to the square of time. What type of
motion this body has?
2. Find the distance travelled by the uniformly accelerated object moving in one dimension in nth
second.
3. A balloon starts rising from the ground with an acceleration of 1.25 ms -2. After 8 s, a stone is
released from the balloon. Find the time taken by the stone to reach the ground after its release.
Take g = 10 ms-2.
4. A particle travels half the distance with a speed vo. The remaining part of the distance was
covered with speed v1 for half the time and with speed v2 for the other half of the time. Find the
average speed of the particle averaged over the whole time of motion.
5. Can the speed of a body change if its velocity is constant? Explain.
6. Deduce the equations of motion by calculus method.
7. Chandigarh and Ambala are connected with a regular bus service. A bus leaving in either direction
every T minutes. A boy cycling with a speed of 10 km/h from Chandigarh to Ambala notices that a

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 bus crosses him after every 15 min towards Ambala and after every 5 minutes towards
Chandigarh. Calculate the time T and the speed of the buses. Assume that speed of buses is
constant.
8. If the time displacement graph of a particle is parallel to the time axis what will be velocity of the
particle?

CHAPTER 4 (MOTION IN A PLANE)

1. At what angle the two forces (F1 + F2) & (F1 – F2) act so that the resultant is √2(F12 + F22).
2. Two forces each of 4 N acts on a body at an angle of 60 0. Find the magnitude and the direction of
the resultant force acting on the body.
3. Explain (i) negative vector (ii) co-initial vector (iii) orthogonal unit vector (iv) equal vector.
4. Is it possible to accelerate a particle if it is travelling at constant speed?
5. Show that there are two angles of projection for which the horizontal range is same.
6. What is centripetal acceleration? Find its magnitude & direction in case of a uniform circular
motion of an object.
7. Calculate the angular speed of the second hand of a clock. If the length of the seconds hand is 4
cm, calculate the speed of the tip of the second hand.
8. A ball is projected horizontally from the top of the tower of height 100 m with a velocity of 5 m/s.
Calculate the time taken by the ball to reach the ground.

CHAPTER 5 (LAWS OF MOTION)

1. Write and explain the types of inertia with example.

2. Write three consequences of Newton’s second law of motion.
3. Why a cricket player lowers his hands while catching a cricket ball?
4. Why does a heavy gun recoil so strongly as a light gun firing the same bullet?
5. Derive an expression for work done when a body is made to slide up a rough inclined plane.
6. Why does a pilot not fall down, when his aeroplane loops a vertical loop?
7. A golf ball of mass 60 g at rest is hit with a striker. Find the impulse of the hit if the ball stops after
travelling a horizontal distance of 50 m with a uniform retardation of 4 ms-2.
8. Write the laws of limiting friction.

CHAPTER 6 (WORK, ENERGY AND POWER)

1. Explain the natures of work done with two examples of each.

2. Define conservative & non conservative forces with example.
3. A man rowing a boat upstream is at rest with respect to the shore. Is any work being done in this
case?
4. A cake of mud is thrown on a wall where it sticks. What happens to its initial kinetic energy?
5. Discuss elastic collision in one dimension. Obtain expression for velocities of the two bodies after
such a collision.
6. From where does the energy in a water fall come?
7. A ball falls under gravity from a height of 10 m with an initial downward velocity u. It collides
with the ground, loses 50% of its energy in collision and then rises back to the same height. Find
the initial velocity u.
8. A motor can pump up water to fill a tank of volume 500 m3 in 25 minutes, which is placed at a
height of 20 m. If efficiency of the motor is 40%, calculate the power of the motor.
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CHAPTER – 7 (SYSTEM OF PARTICLES AND ROTATIONAL MOTION)

1. What do you mean by centre of mass of a system? Obtain an expression for the centre of mass
of a system consisting of two particles.
2. From a uniform disc of radius R, a circular hole of radius R/2 is cut out. The centre of the hole is
at R/2 from the centre of the original disc. Locate the centre of mass of the resulting flat body.
3. Two masses 6 & 2 units are at positions 6ı̂ - 7ȷ̂ and 2 ı̂ + 5ȷ̂ - 8k respectively. Deduce the position
of their centre of mass.
4. Calculate moment of inertia of a circular disc of radius 10 cm, thickness 5 mm and uniform
density 8 g/cc about a transverse axis through the centre of the disc.
5. A uniform metal bar of length 70 cm and mass 4.0 kg is placed horizontallyon two knife-edges
pivoted at 10 cm from each end of the rod. A 6.0 kg weight is suspended at 30 cm from one end.
Find the reactions at the knife-edges. g = 9.8 N/kg.
6. State and prove theorems of parallel and perpendicular axes.
7. A body of mass 1.0 kg is rotating on a circular path of diameter 2.0 m at the rate of 10 rotations
in 3.14s. Calculate (i) angular momentum and (ii) rotational kinetic energy of the body.
8. Two bodies of masses 1 kg and 2 kg are located at (1,2) & (-1,3) respectively Calculate the co-
ordinates of the centre of mass.

CHAPTER – 8 (GRAVITATION)

1. What do you mean by escape velocity? Derive the formula for escape velocity of a particle from
a planet of mass M and radius R.
2. State Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. What conclusions were drawn by Newton from these
laws?
3. Suppose there existed a planet that went around the sun twice as fast as the earth. What would
be its orbital size as compared to that of the earth?
4. If the radius of earth is 6400 km and acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s 2, then calculate
mass and density of earth.
5. At what point above the surface of earth, the gravitational potential is -5.12 x 107 Jkg-1 and the
acceleration due to gravity is 6.4 ms-2. Assuming the mean radius of the earth to be 6400 km,
calculate the height of this point above the earth’s surface.
6. A body of height equal to the radius of the surface of the earth. With what velocity be it thrown
so that it goes out of the gravitational field of the earth? Mass of earth = 6 X 1024kg; radius of
earth = 6.4 X 106m; G = 6.67 X 10-11 Nm2kg-2.
7. With what velocity must a body be thrown upward from the surface of the earth so that it
reaches a height of 10 Re? Earth’s mass = 6 x 1024 kg, radius of earth = 6.4 x 106 m & G = 6.67 x
10-11 Nm2kg-2.
8. Show that weight of all the bodies at the centre of earth is zero.

CHAPTER – 9 (MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS)

1. Prove that the work done in stretching a wire is given by W = (½)stress x strain x volume.
2. What force is required to stretch a steel wire 1 sq.cm in cross section to double its length?
Ysteel = 2 X 1011Nm-2.

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 3. The mass of a lift is 2000 kg and it is fastened by thick wires of iron. If the maximum
acceleration of the lift be 1.2 m/s2 and the maximum safe stress of wire be 2.8 x 108N/m2, then
what should be the minimum diameter of the wire? G = 9.8 m/s2.
4. A rubber ball is taken at a depth of 300 m in a deep lake. Its volume decreases by 0.15%.
Calculate the bulk modulus of elasticity of rubber. The density of water of lake is 1.0 x
103kg/m3 and g = 10m/s2.
5. Why are springs made of steel and not of copper?
6. Two identical solid balls, one of ivory & the other of wet-clay, are dropped from the same
height on the floor. Which will rise to a greater height after striking the floor and why?
7. The ratio stress/strain remains constant for small deformation. What will be the effect on this
ratio when the deformation made is very large?
8. What is the effect of temperature on Young’s modulus?

CHAPTER – 10 (MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS)

1. Obtain an expression for the pressure exerted by a liquid column.

2. A soap bubble is formed at one end, and a smaller soap bubble at the other end of a bent tube.
Which of the bubbles will expand and why?
3. A flask contains glycerine & the other contains water. Both are stirred vigorously & placed on
the table. In which flask will the liquid come to rest earlier & why?
4. Deduce an expression for the excess pressure inside a soap bubble.
5. Derive formula for the rise of water in capillary tube.
6. An air bubble of radius 0.1mm is moving upwards in water with a velocity of 0.35 cm/s. If the
density of water is 1.0 x 103 kg/m3 and gravitational acceleration is 9.8m/s2 and the density of
the air is negligible, then find out the coefficient of viscosity of water.
7. What is the effect of impurities on the surface tension of liquid?
8. Water is flowing through two horizontal pipes of different diameters which are connected
together. In the first pipe the speed of water is 4.0 m/s & the pressure is 2.0 x 10 4N/m2.
Calculate the speed & pressure of water in the second pipe. The diameters of the pipes are 3.0
cm & 6.0 cm respectively.

CHAPTER – 11 (THERMAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER)

1. The coefficient of volume expansion of glycerine is 49 x 10-50C. Find the fractional change in its
density for 300Crise in temperature.
2. State and explain Newton’s law of cooling.
3. Which mode of transfer of heat is quickest?
4. At 00C, the mass of 1.000m3 volume of mercury is 13,600 kg. Find the density of mercury at
1000C. The coefficient of cubical expansion of mercury is 1.8 x 10-4 0C.
5. When a drop of water falls on a very hot iron, it takes quite long to evaporate. Why?
6. We take our right hand 5 cm above 500 W live bulb, and the left hand at the same distance
below the bulb. The right hand feels more heat. Why?
7. Calculate the difference in temperatures between two sides of an iron plate 20 mm thick, when
heat is conducted at the rate of 6 X 105cal.min-1m-2. K for metal is 0.2 cal. s-1cm-1K-1.
8. A specific gravity glass bottle is marked with its volume along with a temperature. Why?

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CHAPTER – 12 (THERMODYNAMICS)

1. A block of ice is dropped from a height h. One-tenth of its mass melts when it strikes the
ground. Calculate h. Latent heat of ice = 3.4 x 105J/kg, g = 10 N/kg.
2. Describe Carnot’s reversible heat engine and obtain an expression for its efficiency. Can you
realize it in practice?
3. Do the number of degrees of freedom of a gas molecule change on raising temperature of the
gas?
4. When we rub our hands together, they are warmed but only upto a final maximum
temperature. Why?
5. What is an adiabatic process? Establish for a perfect gas the relation connecting absolute
temperature T and volume V for adiabatic change.
6. Calculate the rise in temperature of water which falls from a height 100 m, if 80% of the
energy due to fall is converted into heat and retained by water. (J = 4.2 J/cal, g = 9.8 m/s 2)
7. Find the amount of work done to increase the temperature of one mole of an ideal gas by
300C, if it is expanding under the condition V α T2/3. Given R = 1.99 cal/(mol - K).
8. A Carnot engine whose heat sink is at 270C has an efficiency of 40%. By how many degrees
should the temperature of source be changed to increase the efficiency by 10% of the original
efficiency?

CHAPTER – 13 (KINETIC THEORY)

1. The density of carbon dioxide gas at 00C and at a pressure of 1.0 x 105 Nm-2 is 1.98 kgm-3.
Find the rms speed of its molecules at 00C & 300C. Pressure is constant
2. State the law of equipartition of energy. Prove that for an ideal gas = 1 + (2/f), where f is no.
of degrees of freedom of gas molecules.
3. At what temperature will the average velocity of oxygen molecules be sufficient so as to
escape from the earth? Escape velocity from the earth is 11.0 km/s and the mass of one
molecule of oxygen is 5.34 x 10-26kg.
4. Molar volume is the volume occupied by 1 mole of any (ideal) gas at standard temperature.
Show that it is 22.4 litres.
5. The absolute temperature of the gas is increased 3 times. What will be the increase in root
mean square velocity of the gas molecules?
6. Estimate the fraction of molecular volume to the actual volume occupied by oxygen gas at
NTP. Take the diameter of an oxygen molecule to be 3 A0.
7. Find the temperature at which rms velocity of a gas is half of its value at 0 0C, pressure
remaining constant.

CHAPTER -14 (OSCILLATIONS)

1. A body of mass 0.4 kg when suspended by an ideal spring increases the length of the spring
by 2 cm. What will the time period when a body of 2 kg is suspended by this spring?
2. The acceleration of a particle executing SHM is 20 cm/s 2 at a distance 5 cm from its
equilibrium position. Calculate its time period
What is the difference between forced vibrations and resonant vibrations?

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 3. The periodic time of a body executing SHM is 2 s. After how much interval from t=0, will its
displacement be half of its amplitude?
4. What do you understand by restoring force acting on a vibrating body? Give its one example.
5. The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of moon is 1.7 m/s 2. What is the time period of
simple pendulum on the surface of moon if its time period on the surface of the earth is 3.5 s?
6. When an army crosses a suspension bridge then the soldiers break steps, why?
7. A particle executing SHM of period 8 s. After what time of its passing through the mean
position will the energy be half kinetic and half potential?

CHAPTER – 15 (WAVES)

1. Write Newton’s formula for the speed of longitudinal waves in any gas. Discuss Laplace’s
correction to this formula.
2. Derive the formula for the effect of temperature on the speed of sound waves.
3. As in sound, can beats be observed by two light sources? Explain.
4. A policeman blows a whistle of frequency 400 Hz as a car speeds past him with a velocity of
54 km/h. Find the change in frequency as heard by the driver of the car just as he passes the
policeman. Velocity of sound in air is 350 m/s.
5. 16 tuning forks are arranged in the order of increasing frequency. Any two successive forks
give 8 beats per second when sounded together. If the last fork gives the octave of the first,
then determine the frequency of the first fork.
6. To hear the beats clearly, what should be the maximum difference in the frequencies of the
two sound sources?
7. Derive the equation for the stationary wave. Explain the conditions for formation of
antinodes and nodes. Show that the distance between two consecutive antinodes or nodes is
equal to half of the wavelength.
8. The speed of sound waves depends on the temperature but speed of light does not. Why?

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