Half Yearly Exam 2016-2017

Class- XI
Subject- Physics
Time Period: 03:00 Hours

Total Marks-70

General Instructions:
1) All questions are compulsory.
2) There are 26 questions in total. Questions 1 to 5 are very short answer type questions and carry
one mark each.
3) Questions 6 to 10 carry 2 marks each, questions 11 to 22 carry 3 marks each and questions 24 to
26 carry 5 marks each.
4) Question 23 is a value based question carrying 4 marks.
5) Use of calculator is not permitted. However, you may use log tables if necessary.
1.
2.
3.
4.

Plot the graph between displacement and time for uniformly accelerated motion.
What is the Pascals law?
What do you mean by pressure? Give its S.I unit and dimension.
What is a geostationary satellite? Give an example.
Or
What is an artificially satellite? Give an example.
5. If the errors involved in the measurements of a side and mass of a cube are 3% and
4% respectively. What is the maximum percentage error in the density of the
material?
6. Name and state the conservation principle on which the recoiling of a gun is based.
7. Why are the passengers thrown outwards when a car in which they are travelling
suddenly takes a circular turn?
Or
Why do passengers fall in backward direction when a bus suddenly starts moving
from the rest position?
8. A light body and a heavy body have the same momentum, which one will have
greater kinetic energy? Explain Mathematically.
9. What is meant by banking of road? What is need of banking of road?
10. The radii of two planets are R and 2R respectively and their densities and /2
respectively. What is the ratio of acceleration due to gravity at their surfaces?
11. We generally use I-shape beam for construction. Why?
12. Assuming that mass M of the largest stone that can be moved by a flowing river
depends upon the velocity v, the density of water , and acceleration due to
gravity g. Using dimensional analysis Show that M varies with the sixth power of
the velocity of flow.

13. The displacement(in meter)of a particle moving along x-axis is given by

x = 18t + 5t2
Calculate
I.
The instantaneous velocity at t=4 sec
II.
Average velocity between t=4 sec and t=5sec.
III.
Instantaneous acceleration.
14. Determine a net work done by force F=2i+j+k taking displacement d=ij+2k.
15. Define centripetal Force. Give its direction. Write the expression for the centripetal
acceleration in terms of linear velocity v. If the time period of rotation of a body in
a circular path is increased by three times then what is the effect on the centripetal
acceleration.
16. Define the term work. Name and define SI unit of work. Give the sign of the work
done by the force in the following case with explanation.
I.
Work done by gravitational force in lifting a bucket out of a well by means of
II.

a rope tied to the bucket.

Work done by an applied force on a body moving on a rough horizontal plane

with uniform velocity.

17. State and prove Work Kinetic energy theorem.
18. Define escape velocity. Obtain an expression for the escape velocity of a body from
the surface of the earth.
Or
What is Law of Periods & state and prove it.
19. Define orbital velocity. If earth attract two different objects which have Mass M A
and MB with same gravitational force those are placed at same distance from earth.
Find the ratio of mass of both objects.
20. Plot a graph showing the variation of acceleration due to gravity with the distance
from the centre of the earth. The weight of a body on the surface of earth is 250 N.
Calculate its weight at distance equal to half of the radius of earth below the
surface of earth. (Radius of earth = 6400 km).
21. Explain the Stress-Strain Curve. Define Youngs modulus. Give SI unit and
dimension of Bulk Modulus and Strain.
22. Define elastic and inelastic collision. Show that in case of one dimensional elastic
collision of two bodies, the relative velocity of separation after the collision is equal
to the relative velocity of approach before the collision.
23. Having seen a big stone falling from the top of a tower Ravi pulled his friend Kiran
away. The stone hit Ravi slightly and he got hurt. But he was saved from a major
accident.

I.
II.

What made Ravi act in such a way.

From the top of a tower 100 m in height, a ball is dropped freely and at the
same time another ball is projected vertically upwards from the ground with

a velocity of 25 m/s. finds when and where the two balls meet.
(Take g = 10 m/sec2.)
24. Differentiate velocity and speed with suitable examples. Plot graph for uniform
velocity and non-uniform acceleration. A body starts accelerating uniformly with
acceleration a with an initial velocity u and travels in a straight line. Derive an
equation for the distance covered by it in nth second of its motion.
Or
A ball is dropped from the roof of a tower of height h. The total distance covered by
it in the last second of its motion is equal to the distance covered by it in first three
seconds, what is the value of h? (g = 10 m/s2)

25. A body is projected at an angle with the horizontal with velocity u.

I.
Derive an expression for its (i) time of flight (ii) horizontal range.
II.
Show that there are two angles of projection for which the horizontal range
is same.
Or
A senior physics class conducting a research project on projectile motion
constructs a device that can launch a cricket ball. The launching device is designed
so that the ball can be launched at ground level with an initial velocity of 28 m s 1 at
an angle of 30 to the horizontal. Calculate
I.
The horizontal component of the velocity of the ball: after 2.0 s.
II.
The highest range and Maximum height
III.
Another angle where he get same range
26. State the principle of conservation of energy. Show that the total mechanical
energy of a body falling freely from a height remains constant throughout its motion.
Or
State and prove "The Bernoulli's Theorem". On which principle the Bernoullis
theorems work? How many Pascal in 1 Torricelli?

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