POKHARA UNIVERSITY

Level: Bachelor Semester – Fall Year : 2005

Programme: BE Full Marks: 100
Course: Physics Time : 3hrs.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far
as practicable.
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Attempt all the questions.

1. a) Show that the average power transmitted by a sinusoidal wave on 8

stretched string is directly proportional to the product of the squares
of its amplitude and angular frequency.
b) A loudspeaker diaphragm is vibrating in simple harmonic motion with 7
a frequency of 440 Hz and a maximum displacement of 7.5 mm. What
is the angular frequency and maximum speed?
2. a) Define Doppler effect. Derive the expression for the frequency as 8
received by listener when (i) source is moving towards the stationary
listener (ii) listener is moving towards the stationary source.
OR
How does the speed of sound vary with temperature, pressure and
other quantities? Derive the formula by using Laplace correction.
b) The dispersive powers of crown and flint glasses are 0.016 and 0.032 7
respectively. Calculate the focal lengths of the lenses made of crown
and flint glasses which form an achromatic doublet of equivalent focal
length 20 cm when placed in contact.
3. a) What is plane diffraction grating? How a grating can be used to 5
determine the wavelength of monochromatic light? (No derivation)
b) Newton's rings that are formed by sodium light between the flat glass 5
plate and convex lens are viewed normally from above. What will be
the order of the dark ring, which will have double the diameter of that
of 40th dark ring?
c) What should be the thickness of quarter wave plate if n O=1.554 and 5
nE=1.5543 for the wavelength of light 6000Å?

4. a) Define electric intensity. Find the intensity due to dipole. 8

OR
Define capacitance. Calculate the equivalent capacitance for series
and parallel combination.
 b) A current of 1.2x10-4 A is flowing through a wire of diameter 0.25 7
mm. What is the drift velocity if the number of free electrons per unit
volume is 8.47x1028 m-3? What will be drift velocity for the same
current if the diameter is made double?
5. a) State Biot-Savart's law and apply to calculate the flux density of 8
magnetic field due to an infinite long straight conductor. Can the
result for the infinite long straight conductor be used for a conductor
of finite length?
OR
Derive the expression for force per unit length between two infinite
current carrying conductors. Define one ampere current.
b) What is the initial rate of increase of current and final saturation 7
current in an RL circuit with L = 15 mH, R = 24 Ω and emf = 10 V?
6. a) Write the equation of LCR circuit with AC source and find the 8
expression for the peak value of current.
b) A 1.5 mF capacitor is charged to a potential of 25 V. The charging 7
battery is now disconnected and the capacitor is now joined to 10 mH
coil. What is the peak value of current for LC oscillations.
7. Answer Any Two in brief: 52
 
a) Find the relation between three magnetic field vectors B , H and

M .
b) What is Brewster's law?
c) Write down the Maxwell equations physical meanings.