65 Restate QUESTION PAPER SERIES CODE Centro of Exam. A ‘Name of Candidate : Signature of Tavigilater ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 2013 M.Sc. PHYSICS [ Field of Study Code : SPSM (226) ] Time Allowed : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES: Candidates must read carefully the following instructions before attempting the Question Paper (Write your Name and Registration Number in the space provided for the purpose on the top of this ‘Question Paper and in the Answer Sheet (ii) Please darken the appropriate Circle of Question Ps (ii) AML questions are compulsory, {iv} Answer all 25 questions in the Answer Sheet provided for the purpose by darkening the correct choice, ie, {a) or (b) oF (¢} or (d) with BALLPOINT PEN only against the corresponding Circle. Any overwriting of alteration will be treated as wrong answer (e) Bach correct answer carries 4 marks, There will be negative marking and 4/3 marks will be deducted for each wrong answer. 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Series Code on the Answer Sheet. 165-AUseful Physical Constants : Acceleration due to gravity, g = 9-81 m/s? Avogadro number, N,= 6-022 x 1079 /mol Boltzmann constant, ky = 38x10 J/K Charge of electron, e = 1-6x 10719 ¢ Gravitational constant, G = 6-67% 107! N-m?2/ke? Mean radius of the earth, R, = 6-37x 10° m Permittivity of vacuum, ¢, = 8-85x 1071? F/m Planck constant, h = 6-63x 10" J-s Rest mass of electron, m, = 9-11x 10S! kg Rest mass of neutron, m, = 1-67x 10°? kg Speed of light in vacuum, c = 3x 10% m/s Stefan-Boltzmann constant, ¢ = 5:67%10°8 W/m?-K* Universal gas constant, R = 8-31 J/mol-K Conversion Factors : 1 calorie = 4-23 Lev=16x10 J 165-A 3 [P.T.O.1. A train of mass M is travelling with uniform velocity on a level line, The last carriage, whose mass is m, becomes uncoupled at an instant. The driver discovers it after travelling a distance land stops the engine. The resistance to the motion is uniform and proportional to the weight. The pull of the engine is uniform. When both parts of the train come to rest, the distance between them is Let u, P, T be the set of standard thermodynamic variables respectively denoting the chemical potential, pressure and temperature of a fluid. If s and v be respectively the entropy and volume per particle and n= 1/v, then identify the correct thermodynamic relation, fa) du=-sdT+vdP (b) dy =-Tds+vaP () du=saT+ Pav (@) du=Tds~ Pav 3. The equation of state of an ideal gas is p=nkgT, where p is the thermodynamic pressure and n= N/Vis the thermodynamic variable for the number of particles per unit volume. The n dependence of the free energy f per unit volume of the ideal gas is obtained by the following expression, where ¢, is temperature-dependent constant (a) nkgTlinn+ep) (b) 2nk,Tininn tc] 3 (Skat fd) 3nk,? /65-A 5 [P-7.0.165-A Identify the correct statement. (a) The entropy of a system always increases when it undergoes an irreversible process {b) The entropy of a system always decreases when it undergoes an irreversible process (c)__ The second law of thermodynamics follows directly from principle of conservation of energy (4) The internal energy of an ideal gas depends on its temperature ‘An ideal gas undergoes an isothermal expansion (at a constant temperature T) to double its volume, The change in the entropy per mole is (a 2R (0) -RIn2 (c) Ring R a 2 @ 3 A simple pendulum consisting of a point mass m tied to a massless string of length [ executes small oscillations of frequency wand amplitude 4 ~= 18. The average (over a complete time period T= 2n/w of the pendulum) tension on the string is mA20? omg mA2q? ee eeal mA? 0? (mgt ma?u? 8a165-A Consider the potential field V(x, y) which is 0 and -V, (Vj > 0) respectively in the regions of ygreater and less than zero, Let @ and 8” be the angles of incidence and refraction of the particle with the y-axis at the point of incidence as it crosses the x-axis. The ratio sin{@) /sin(@’) is given (in terms of A = V, /E) by y WV, Zo fa) yl i po) 14-2 {b) +E yy » © we aa, +o id) E Consider the simple Bohr model of the H atom. Its ground state (n= I) has an energy of 13-6 eV, The wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation emitted when the atom makes a transition from the first excited (n= 2) state to the ground state is (a) 1221075 cm ) 2-44. x10°5 em (co) 622x105 cm (a 4-32x10°$ em Radon has a half-life of 3°8 days. If we start with 1024 gm of radon, the amount of it which will be left after 38 days is fa) 10 gm (b) 10° gm () 10% gm (4) 10° gm. 7 [P.7.0.10. aL. 12. 165-A A capacitor with capacitance C is charged to a voltage V. If it is fully discharged by shorting through a resistor R, the total heat generated in the resistor is Loy2 dey’ @ 5 (oy) teve 4 () cv? (a) dependent on & The flux of electric field through a circle of radius R placed in the x-y plane with its centre at the origin due to a point charge Q placed at (QQ, d) is Q t 2 [-aestope ) 22 ) 2c a? + RAPA od Grey R ee 2 @ 25 eg ‘The electric field of an electromagnetic wave is n by E = iE, sin(ky- ot) where k and w respectively denote the wave vector and angular frequency of the wave. i, jand & respectively denote the unit vectors in the x, y and z directions. The magnetic field B of the wave is given by (@) FE ksin(ky- ot) ©) Jey costky-«t) © -k Footy ot) fa) 022% singey- ot) 713. The contour integral ,2# (e-1)? where the contour C is a circle of radius 2, is obtained as (a) 2ni (o) 0 () oxi (a) 4ni 34, Consider the earth as a uniform (density) sphere of total mass M and radius R.A small object slides along a tunnel connecting two points on the surface of the earth and is acted upon only by the gravitational force due to the earth. Using the value of the acceleration due to gravity as 9:81 metre/sec? and the radius of the earth R= 6-37x 10% m, the time to slide between the two points is Yoo (a) 21-1 min (b} 84-4 min (©) 422 min (d) 633 sec 1S, What is the value of the definite integral {° (cin x)‘ de ? (a) a (b) od 0 3 1 (a) s 165-A 9 {P.T.0.16. Let 2, f=}, 2, 3) be the eigenvalues of the matrix 2-1-3 -1 1 2 32 3 3 The sum ‘A? is equal to a (a) 14 (b) 42 j@ 6 (@) 0 17, Consider the magnetic field B= a.,(fy+ jx) and two vector potentials A, = g(ixe— jy2} 4 oe Lik : and A, =-K P(x? ~ y2), where ag is a constant and i, j, & represent the unit vectors along the cartesian axes. Identify the correct statement. {a} Only A, produces the magnetic field B but not A, {b) Only A, produces the magnetic field B but not A, (c)_ Neither 4, nor A, produces the magnetic field B (d) Both A, and A, produce the magnetic field B 18. The kinetic energy of a free relativistic particle is defined as E-mgc”, where E and my are respectively its total énergy and rest mass. Let ube the speed of the particle when its kinetic energy is half of its rest mass energy. Then the ratio u/c is fa) (b) ) (a) /65-A 1019, 21. 165-A If the age of the universe is 10! years, the humans have existed for 10° years. If we take the age of the universe to be a day, how many seconds have the humans existed? (a) 240 sec (b) 86-40 sec () 864 sec {d) 24 sec ‘The mass density and momentum density in a fluid at position 7 at time f, respectively denoted by p(, t) and gi7, t), are related by the continuity equation 2 +¥-3=0 The above equation is a consequence of the law of conservation of (@) near momentum (b) mass (energy (@) angular momentum If the number of seconds in a year of 365 days is taken as rx 107 seconds, the percentage error in this approximation would be close to (a) 48 {b) 0-048 () 0:38 id) 23 1 [P.10.22. Consider a regular arrangement of identical spheres in a face-centred cubic (fec} structure in which the centres of the respective spheres are located at each of the eight corners and the centres of the six surfaces of a unit cube. The fraction of each cubic unit cell occupied by the spheres in the close-pack configuration is (a) 0-50 {b) 0-62 (9) 0-74 (a) 088 23, Ina simple model of an intrinsic semiconductor without doping, we assume that there are N, states (all having same energy E,) in valence band and N, states (all having same energy E,) in the conduction band. The probability of occupying an electronic state of energy E at temperature T is given by the Fermi-Dirac distribution keg? number of electrons and holes in the conduction band and the valence band respectively are equal. Assuming that the Fermi level 2, lies in the gap between the valence and conduction band and is far from both compared to kgT, it follows that the difference E, -(E, + E,)/2 is given by EAE, ofeof EJ} wihete By te the Fermi energy, At equilibrium, the average Be Fe >> kel EB fa) ket N, & “Ping © @) 165-A 1224. For an ideal p-n junction diode with sharp boundary between two semiconducting materials, the current jis related to the potential difference V across the diode by the relation islet 1) where ¢ is the electronic charge and T is the temperature; i, is a material-dependent Constant. The junction is termed respectively as forward and reverse biased depending on whether V is positive or negative. At temperature T, the magnitude of the current changes by a factor f for changing from forward to backward bias of the voltage which is equal to ty Mal gar e wy 2%", ) Bing ky? Se? oy Kee ky? ay Se? (a) “Bing 28. In a photoelectric effect experiment, a stream of photons of frequency f and intensity (energy per unit time) is incident on the photocathode to produce a photocurrent i If the frequency f is steadily reduced without any change of intensity, the plot of current vs frequency looks like @ ‘f— f | __ f @ ¢ J < f (a) i f kee 165-A 13 [P.7.0,