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MBBS PREPARATION d) at low temperature and high pressure
Nuclear physics 16. The mean density of the nuclei is proportional to:
1. ‘A’ stands for atomic mass number and ‘Z’ for atomic number. The number of electrons in an a) mass number b) atomic number c) the number of nucleons d) none of the above
atom is 17. Artificial disintegration with -particles of which of the following led to the discovery of
a) A–Z b) A + Z c) Z d) A neutron?
2. Which of the following is NOT an elementary particle? a) Be b) N c) Na d) Ba
a) -particle b) -particle c) -particle d) Muon 18. Who is credited with the discovery of proton?
3. Cosmic rays originate: a) Chadwick b) Rutherford c) Millikan d) Thomson
a) on the sun b) in the solar system but not on the sun 19. In stable nuclei, the number of neutrons (N) is related to the number of protons Z in neutral
c) outside the solar system d) in the centre of the universe atom in general as
4. Which of the following is used as a moderator in the reactor at Trombay? a) N < Z b) N = Z c) N > Z d) N  Z
a) Heavy water b) Graphite c) Ordinary water d) Beryllium oxide 20. What is the cause of the fractional atomic weight of elements?
5. Which of the following is not conserved in nuclear reactions? a) Isotopes b) Isobars c) Nucleons d) Electrons
a) Charge b) Mass c) Momentum d) Nucleons 21. What is the rest m ass energy of electron?
6. What is the number of neutrons in 17C37? a) 1 eV b) 0.51 eV c) 0.051 MeV d) 5.1 MeV
a)17 b) 20 c) 37 d) 54 22. What is average binding energy of a njucleus?
7. Which of the following is NOT the use of Bainbridge mass spectrograph? a) 8 eV b) 8 keV c) 8MeV d) 8BeV
a) To separate isotopes of an element b) To identift the isotopes of different elements 23. Which of the following is NOT conserved in nuclear decay?
c) To measure atomic masses d) To determine the relative percentage of the a) Number of the fundamental particles b) Mass number
isotopes c) Atomic number d) Nucleon number
8. Who discovered nuclear fission? 24. How many radioactive disintegration per second is called Rutherford?
a) Rutherford b) Bohr c) Hahn and Strassmann d) Becquerel a) 102 b) 104 c) 106 d) 108
9. At what temperature the fusion occurs? 25. What are -rays?
a) 3102K b) 3103K c) 3105K d) 3106K a) Singly ionized gas atoms b) Helium nuclei
10. What is the main source of energy on the sun? c) fast moving electrons d) Electromagnetic waves
a) The burning of hydrogen in the oxygen 26. Which of the following isotopes is used for the treatment of cancer?
b) fission of uranium present in the sun a) K40 b) Co60 c) Sr90 d) I131
c) The energy liberated in the fusion of protons during the synthesis of heavier nuclei 27. A radioactive isotope zX decays in series by emitting 3 -particles and 2 -particles. The
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d) Gravitational contraction resultant isotope will be:

11. The fusion of hydrogen into helium is more likely to take place a) z-3YA-13 b) z-4YA-12 c) z-5YA-11 d) z-6YA-11
a) at high temperature and high pressure 28. Atomic mass number of an elements is 232 and its atomic number is 90. The end products of
b) at high temperature and low pressure this radioactive element is an isotope of lead (Atomic mass 208 and atomic number 82). The
c) at low temperature and low pressure number of  and -particle emitted is
d) at low temperature and high pressure a) =3, =3 b) =6, =4 c) =6, =0 d) =4, =6
12. Who discovered nuclear fission? 29. What determines the half life of a radioactive sample?
a) Rutherford b) Bohr c) Hahn and Strassmann d) Becquerel a) Temperature b) Pressure c) Nature of substance d) all of above
13. At what temperature the fusion occurs? 30. What determines the half life of the radioactive elements?
a) 3 102 K b) 3 103 K c) 3 105 K d) 3 106 K a) Atomic number b) Mass number c) Temperature d) None of the above
14. What is the main source of energy on the sun? 31. The half life period of radioactive nuclide is 3 hours. In 9 hours, its acivity wll be reduced by a
a) The burning of hydrogen in the oxygen factor of
b) Fission of uranium present in the sun a) 1/9 b) 1/27 c) 1/6 d) 1/8
c) The energy liberated in the fusion of protons during the synthesis of heavier nuclei 32. The volume of the nucleons is proportional to
d) Gravitational contraction a) atomic number b) number of neutrons
15. The fusion of hydrogen in to helium is more likely to take place c) number of protons d) mass number
a) at high temperature and high pressure 33. Which of the following is best nuclear fuel for the nuclear reactor?
b) at high temperature and low pressure a) Thorium-236 b) Plutonium-239 c) Uranium-236 d) Neptumium-239
34. A certain radioactive substance has a half-live of 5 years. Thus for a nucleus in a sample of the
element, the probability of decay in ten years is
a) 50% b) 75% c) 100% d) 60%
35. A freshly prepared radioactive source of half-life 2 hours emits radiation of intensity which is
64 times the permissible safe level. The minimum time after which it would be possible to
work safely with the source is:
a) 6 hours b) 12 hours c) 24 hours d) 128 hours
36. The nucleus 6C12 absorbs and energetic neutron and emits a beta particle (). The resulting
nucleus is
a) 7N14 b) 5B13 c) 7N13 d) 6C13
37. The energy of a hydrogen atom in its ground state is -13.6eV. The energy of the level
corresponding to the quantum number n=5 is:
a) -0.54 eV b) -5.40 eV c) -0.85 eV d) -2.72 eV
38. In the raction represented by zXAz-2YA-4z-2YA-4z-1KA-4 the decays in the sequence are
a) ,, b) ,, c) ,, d) ,,
39. When a hydrogen atom is bombarded, the atom is excited to the n=4 state of hydrogen atom.
The energy released when the atom falls from n=4 state to the ground state is
a) 1.275 eV b) 12.75 eV c) 5 eV d) 8 eV
40. The ionization energy of Hydrogen atom is 13.6 eV Following Bhr’s theory the energy
corresponding to a transition between the 3rd and the 4th orbit is
a) 3.40 eV b) 1.51 eV c) 0.85 eV d) 0.66 eV
41. Hydrogen atoms are excited from ground state of the principal quantum number 4. Then the
number of spectral lines observed will be
a) 3 b) 6 c) 5 d) 2
42. The mass number of He is 4 and that for sulphur is 32. The radius of sulphur nucleus is larger
than that of helium, by times
a) 8 b) 4 c) 2 d) 8
43. A radioactive reaction is 92U23882Pb206. How many  and  particles are emitted?
a) 10, 6 b) 4 protons, 8 neutrons
c) 6 electrons, 8 neutrons d) 6, 8
44. In the Bohr’s model of the hydrogen atom, the lowest orbit corresponds to
a) infinite energy b) the maximum energy
c) the minimum energy d) zero energy
45. According to Bohr’s principle the relation between main quantum number (n) and radius (r) of
orbit is
a) r  1/n b) r  n c) r  n2 d) r  1/n2