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NTSE Question Bank

FLOATING BODIES
1. If the mass of a body is 12.1 g and the density is 2.2 g/cc, its volume is
(A) 5.5 cm3 (B) 8 cc (C) 11 cc (D) 55 cc
2. Aluminium has a density of 2.7 g/cc. The mass of 15 cc of aluminum is
(A) 45 g (B) 40.5 g (C) 80 g (D) 11g
3. Brine has a density of 1.2 g/cc/ 40 cc of it are mixed with 30 cc of water. The density of solution is

(A) 2.11 g/cc (B) 1.11 g/cc (C) 12.2 g/cc (D) 2.4 g/cc
4. 60 cc of a liquid of relative density 1.4 are mixed with 40 cc of another liquid of relative density
0.8. The density of the mixture is
(A) 1.16 g/cc (B) 2.26 g/cc (C) 11.6 g/cc (D) 116 g/cc
5. If a force of 10 N acts on surfaces of areas in the ratio 1 : 2, then the ratio of thrusts is
(A) 1 : 2 (B) 2 : 1 (C) 3 : 1 (D) 1 : 1
6. The height of mercury which exerts the same pressure as 20 cm of water column, is
(A) 1.47 cm (B) 14.8 cm (C) 148 cm (D) none of these
7. The buoyant force depends on the
(A) depth of a liquid (B) density of a liquid (C) colour of a liquid (D) none of these
8. The hot air balloon rises because it is
(A) denser than air (B) less dense than air
(C) equally dense than air (D) none
9. A force of 50 N is applied on a nail of area 0.001 sq. cm. Then the thrust is
(A) 50 N (B) 100 N (C) 0.05 N (D) 10 N
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10. A body floats with rd of its volume outside water and th of its volume outside liquid, then the
3 4
density of the liquid is
3 8 9 4
(A) g/cc (B) g/cc (C) g/cc (D) g/cc
8 3 4 9
11. A piece of wood floats in water. What happens to it in alcohol?
(A) floats higher (B) stays as before (C) sinks (D) sinks and rises

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12. A boat full of iron nails is floating on water in a lake. When the iron nails are removed, the water
level
(A) rises (B) falls
(C) remains the same (D) nothing can be said
13. An ice cube is floating in a glass of water. What happens to the water level when the ice melts?
(A) rises (B) falls
(C) remains same (D) first rises and then falls
14. A solid weighs 32 gf in air and 28.8 g f in water. The R.D. of the solid is
(A) 8.9 (B) 10 (C) 29.12 (D) 20
15. A body of mass 50 kg has a volume 0.049 m3. The buoyant force on it is
(A) 50 kg f (B) 50 N (C) 49 N (D) 49 kg f
16. If the density of a metal is 8.2 g/cc, its relative density is
1
(A) 8.2 (B) (C) 0.82 (D) none of these
8.2
17. The SI unit of pressure is
(A) atmosphere (B) dyne/cm2 (C) pascal (D) mm of Hg
18. If two masses A and B have their masses in the ratio 1 : 4 and their volumes are equal, then the
densities have the ratio
(A) 1 : 4 (B) 4 : 1 (C) 2 : 1 (D) 3 : 1
19. The pressure exerted by a liquid of height h is given by (symbols have their usual meanings)
h h
(A) (B) hdg (C) (D) hg
dg d
20. If the density of a block is 981 kg/m3, it shall
(A) sink in water (B) float in water
(C) float completely immersed in water (D) float completely out of water
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21. The R.D. of a metal block is 2.7 × 10 kg/m. It is immersed in water. Then the block
(A) sinks (B) floats
(C) is partially immersed (D) has no part immersed
22. As the density of a series of liquids increases, the upthrust on the iron rod submerged
(A) increases (B) decreases
(C) remains constant (D) nothing can be said
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23. A block of wood floats in water with of its volume submerged. Its relative density is
3
1 2 4 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
3 3 3 9
24. The SI unit of thrust is
(A) N (B) dyne (C) kg wt (D) N m–2

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25. Pressure cannot be measured in

(A) N m–2 (B) bar (C) Pa (D) kg wt
26. The total force exerted by the body perpendicular to the surface is called
(A) pressure (B) thrust (C) impulse (D) none of these
27. Pascal is the unit for
(A) pressure (B) thrust (C) buoyant force (D) none of these
28. At sea level, atmospheric pressure is
(A) 76 cm of Hg column (B) 76 m of Hg column
(C) 0.76 cm of Hg column (D) 76 cm of water column
29. 1 million is equal to
1
(A) 100 N m–2 (B) 110 N m–2 (C) 1 N m–2 (D) N m–2
100
30. Atmospheric pressure is measured by a
(A) doctor’s thermometer (B) speedometer
(C) mercury barometer (D) none of these
31. The mercury barometer was invented by
(A) celsius (B) fahrenheit (C) torricelli (D) bernoulli
32. The weather forecasting department uses-as the unit of pressure
(A) bar (B) N m–2 (C) Pa (D) mm of Hg
33. The atmospheric pressure at the surface of the earth is about
(A) 103 N m–2 (B) 105 N m–2 (C) 10–3 N m–2 (D) 10–5 N m–2
34. The SI unit of density is
(A) kg m–3 (B) g cm–3 (C) kg wt cm–3 (D) none of water
35. Which of the following physical quantities has no unit?
(A) relative density (B) density (C) pressure (D) thrust
36. The ratio of SI units to CGS units of density is
(A) 103 (B) 102 (C) 10–2 (D) 10–3
37. The density of water is
(A) 10–3 kg m–3 (B) 10–2 kg m–3 (C) 102 kg m–3 (D) 103 kg m–3
38. Any solid will sink in water if its relative density is
(A) less than unity (B) equal to unity (C) greater than unity (D) infinite
39. Any solid will not sink in water if its relative density is
(A) less than 1 (B) equal to 1 (C) greater than 1 (D) infinite
40. The buoyant force depends upon
(A) density of the liquid (B) volume of the body inside the liquid
(C) value of g at that place (D) all the above

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41. Buoyant force does not depend on

(A) the density of the liquid (B) the density of the body
(C) total volume of the body (D) shape of the body
42. Two stretched membranes of areas 2m and 3m2 are placed in a liquid at the same depth. Then the
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ratio of the pressure on them is

(A) 1 : 1 (B) 2 : 3
(C) 2 : 3 (D) nothing can be decided
43. A person is carrying a bucket of water in one hand a piece of plaster in the other. After transferring
the plaster to the bucket (where it floats) the person will carry
(A) same load as before (B) less load as before
(C) more load as before
(D) either less or more load depending on the density of the plaster
44. A raft of wood (density 600 kg/m3) of mass 120 kg floats in water. How much weight can be put
on the raft to make it “just sink”?
(A) 40 kg (B) 80 kg (C) 160 kg (D) 240 kg
45. A wooden cube floats in water partially immersed when 200 g weight is put on the cube, it gets
further immersed by 2 cm. What is the length of side of the cube?
(A) 25 cm (B) 15 cm (C) 10 cm (D) 5 cm
46. A boat having a length of 3 m and breadth 2 m is floating on a lake. The boat sinks by one cm
when a person gets on it. The mass of the person is
(A) 60 kg (B) 120 kg (C) 140 kg (D) none of these
47. Raju is sitting in a boat which is floating on a pond. If Raju drinks some water from the pond, the
level of water in the pond
(A) decrease (B) increases
(C) remains unchanged (D) nothing can be decided
48. A body partly immersed, floats in a liquid contained in a beaker. The beaker is kept inside a lift
falling freely under gravity. The upthrust on the body due to liquid is
(A) zero (B) equal to weight of body in air
(C) equal to weight of liquid displaced (D) equal to weight of immersed part of body
49. The fraction of a floating body of volume V0 and density d0 above the surface of liquid of density
d will be
d d d  d0 d0
(A) (B) 0 (C) (D)
d0 d d d  d0
50. The most characteristic property of liquids is
(A) elasticity (B) fluidity
(C) formlessness (D) volume conservation
51. A weightless bag is filled with 10 kg of water and then weighed in water. The reading of the
spring balance is
(A) 10 kg wt (B) 5 kg wt (C) 1.6 kg wt. (D) zero

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52. Two metallic spheres of different materials immersed in water experience equal upthrust. Then
both the spheres have equal
(A) weights in air (B) densities (C) volumes (D) mass
53. The pressure at a point inside a fluid at rest,
(A) dependent on the height of the fluid column
(B) dependent on the density of the fluid
(C) equal in all directions
(D) all the above are true
54. When an object is made to float in two different liquids of density d1 and d2, the lengths of the
object seen above the liquid surface are l1 and l2 respectively. Which of the following is the correct
alternative?
(A) d2 > d1, if l1 > l2 (B) d1 > d2, if l2 > l1 (C) d1 < d2, if l2 > l1 (D) d2 < d1, if l2 > l1
55. Kerosene lamp glows continuously until the kerosene is exhausted. This is due to the phenomenon
of _____________.
(A) anomalous expansion (B) capillarity
(C) thermal expansion (D) both (A) and (B)
56. A liquid whose density is twice the density of mercury is used as a barometric liquid. Then one
atmosphere pressure equals __________ cm of the liquid.
(A) 76 (B) 38 (C) 152 (D) 380
57. when two liquids ‘A’ and ‘B’ of equal weight are filled inside two identical containers, the height
of the liquid column a is greater than the height of the liquid column B. If PA and PB are the
pressures exerted by A and B at the bottom of the containers respectively, and d A, dB are the
densities of A and B respectively which of the following statements is true?
(A) PA > PB (B) PA < PB (C) PA = PB (D) dA > dB
58. The atmospheric pressure at a given place is dependent on
(A) the height of the air column (B) the temperature
(C) humidity (D) all the above
59. A spring balance shows 100 gf reading when a metallic sphere is suspended from its hook. When
the balance is lowered such that the sphere is immersed in water, the reading shown by the balance
is 75 gf. The relative density of the material of the sphere is
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4
60. An object just floats in water. If common salt is added into the water.
(A) the volume of the object immersed in the liquid decrease
(B) the object sinks
(C) the object first sinks and then floats up
(D) cannot be determined
61. A rubber balloon filled with hydrogen gas is left free in air. Then the balloon
(A) escapes into space
(B) ascends upto a certain height in air and floats
(C) ascends upto a certain height and then descends back to ground
(D) ascends upto acertain height and explodes

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62. The radius of a press cylinder in a hydraulic press is doublet eh diameter of the pump cylinder.
Then
(A) mechanical advantage is 16
(B) the work done on the load is equal to the work done by the effort
(C) mechanical advantage is 4
(D) both (A) and (B)
63. A substance floats in water, but sinks in coconut oil. The density of the substance
(A) is less than the density of water
(B) is greater than the density of oil
(C) both (A) and (B)
(D) cannot be decided based on the given information
64. The centre of gravity and the centre of buoyancy of a floating body in stable equilibrium
(i) are always same
(ii) are always along a same vertical line
(A) only (i) is true (B) only (ii) is true
(C) both (i) and (ii) are true (D) both (i) and (ii) are false
65. In the case of the liquids that do not wet the walls of the vessel ______________.
(A) cohesive forces are larger than adhesive forces
(B) adhesive forces are larger than cohesive forces
(C) both adhesive and cohesive forces are equal in magnitude
(D) none of the above
66. When an object of weight W is immersed in a liquid, its weight in the liquid is found to be W1.
When it is immersed in water, the weight of the water displaced is found to be W2. The relative
density of the liquid is
W2 W  W1 W2 W  W2
(A) (B) (C) (D)
W1 W2 W  W1 W1
67. The pressure exerted by a liquid column at the bottom of the container at a point inside a fluid is
(A) does not depend on the area of cross-section of container
(B) dependent on the density of the fluid
(C) equal in all directions
(D) all the above are true
68. A manometer is connected to a gas container. Then the mercury level rises by 2 cm in the arm of
the manometer which is not connected to the container. If the atmospheric pressure is 76 cm of Hg
then the pressure of the gas is ___________ cm of Hg.
(A) 80 (B) 76 (C) 72 (D) 78
69. The radius of the press cylinder in a hydraulic press is equal to the diameter of its pump cylinder.
Its mechanical advantage is ______.
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

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70. Among the following liquids, the pressure inside them at a given depth is the highest in
__________ at a constant temperature.
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4
71. Which of the following is used to punch holes in thick metallic block?
(A) drilling machine (B) hydraulic press (C) hammer and anvil (D) all the above
72. A liquid whose density is twice the density of mercury is used as a barometric liquid. Then one
atmosphere pressure equals ___________ cm of the liquid.
(A) 76 (B) 38 (C) 152 (D) 380
73. When a force is applied in the downward direction for a short duration on a body floating with its
entire volume in water, the body will then
(A) float with some part of it above the surface of water
(B) oscillate in vertical direction
(C) sink to the bottom
(D) oscillate in horizontal direction
74. When equal quantities of an oil, water and mercury are poured into a baker, the order in which the
liquids arrange themselves from bottom to top is
(A) mercury, water, oil (B) water, mercury, oil
(C) water, oil, mercury (D) mercury, oil, water
75. In a hydrometer, the floatation bulb is large in size compared to the size of the gravity bulb
because
(A) it lowers the centre of gravity (B) it decrease the buoyancy of liquids
(C) it displaces a large amount of liquid and thus does not allow the hydrometer to sink completely
in the liquid
(D) none of these
76. A metal block of volume 500 cm3 and density 2 g cm–3 is suspended from a spring balance and
one fourth of its volume is immersed in water. The reading on the spring balance is ________N.
(Take g = 10 ms–2)
(A) 8.575 (B) 10.175 (C) 500 (D) 8.750
77. Sudden fall in atmospheric pressure by a large value indicates_______.
(A) arrival of storm (B) arrival of dust-storm
(C) fair weather (D) none of the above
78. Two stretched membranes of area 10 cm2 and 20 cm2 are held horizontally in a liquid, at the same
height. The ratio of pressures on them is ___________.
(A) 1 : 2 (B) 2 : 1 (C) 1 : 4 (D) 1 : 1
79. In a mercury barometer, if a tube containing mercury is tilted, then
(A) vertical height of the mercury column remains same
(B) the length of mercury column in the tube increases
(C) the vertical height of the mercury column decreases
(D) both (A) and (B)
80. At a higher altitudes, the atmospheric pressure is lesser as, at higher altitudes
(A) the length of air column exerting the pressure is less
(B) density of air decreases
(C) acceleration due to gravity decreases
(D) all the above
40. The branch of physics which deals with the study of fluids at rest is called
(A) statistics (B) hydrostatics (C) hydrodynamics (D) none of these
41. The branch of physics which deals with the study of fluids in motion is called
(A) dynamics (B) hydrostatics (C) hydrodynamics (D) none of these

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42. The SI units of thrust and pressure are respectively given by

(A) N, Nm2 (B) N, Nm2 (C) Nm–1, Nm–2 (D) Nm–2, N
43. Pins and nails are made to have pointed ends in order to have …… area of contact between the
pointed ends and the given surface.
(A) infinite (B) least (C) largest (D) none of these
44. The bags and suitcases are provided with …….. handles so that small pressure is exerted on the
hand while carrying them.
(A) broad (B) long (C) small (D) heavy
45. 1 Nm –2 equals
(A) l Pa (B) 0.1 Pa (C) 0.01 Pa (D) 10 Pa
46. It is difficult to walk bare feet on a sandy ground as the sand
(A) flies off (B) yields under our weight
(C) balances our weight (D) reduces our weight
47. SI unit of hydrostatic pressure is
(A) Pa (B) Nm–1 (C) Nm (D) kg wt m–2
48. Pressure is a
(A) scalar quantity (B) vector quantity
(C) normal force (D) all the above are wrong
49. Which of the following is different from others?
(A) bar (B) torr (C) kg wt (D) Pa
50. I torr is equal to
1
(A) 1 mm of mercury column (B) mm of mercury column
10
(C) 10 mm of mercury column (D) none of these
51. 1 bar is the unit of
(A) blood pressure (B) liquid pressure
(C) atmospheric pressure (D) all the above
52. 1 bar is equal to
(A) 105 Pa (B) 103 Pa (C) 10–3 Pa (D) 10–5 Pa
53. The atmosphere exerts a pressure of P on the surface of the earth. Then P equals
(A) 1.01 × 105 Nm–2 (B) 1.01 × l07 Nm–2
(C) 1.01 × l0 –5 Nm–2 (D) 1.01 × l0–7 Nm–2
54. Atmospheric pressure at sea level is about
(A) l03 Nm–2 (B) 104 Nm–2 (C) l05 Nm–2 (D) 106 Nm–2
55. The upward force acting on the body immersed in a fluid is called
(A) hydrostatic pressure (B) buoyant force
(C) true weight (D) net force

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