HSEB Short Questions (Class 11)

HSEB 2065
1. Answer in brief six questions. [6x2=12]
(a) Scaler product of two vectors is zero. What is the angle between them?
(b) A swimmer wants to reach to a point just opposite to the other bank of the river. How should he
swim and why?
(c) Why a wrench of longer arm is preferred in comparison to a wrench of short arm?
(d) Why a man getting out of bus should moving bus most run in the same direction for a certain
distance?]
(e) A pendulum clock is taken into moon. Will it gain or lose time?
(f) Distinguish between specific gravity and Density.
2. Answer in brief any two questions. [2x2=4]]
(a) Why are glass windows possible to be cracked in very cold region?
(b) Air escaping out of the air hose at gas station always feels cold. Why?
(c) Which has more molecules a kg of Hydrogen or a kg of Oxygen?
3. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]
(a) A spherical mirror is immersed in water. Will its focal length change?
(b) Can you ever have situation in which light rays goes without deviation through the prism?
4. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]
(a) A man inside insulated metallic cage doesn't receive shock when the cage is highly charged.
Why?
(b) How will you arrange three capacitors each having capacity of 2 microfarad, to get a capacitor of
capacity 3 microfarad.
HSEB 2066
1. Answer in brief any six questions. [6x2=12]
(a) Can an object with constant acceleration reverse its direction? Explain.
(b) When the heavy truck collides with a passenger car, the occupants of the car are more likely to
be hurt than truck driver. Why?
(c) If the sun somehow collapse to form black whole, what would be effect of this event on the orbit
of the earth?
(d) A body is moving in a circular path with constant speed. Is the motion simple harmonic? Why?
(e) A boy can lift a maximum load of 250 N. How many liters of mercury(13600 Kg/m^3) can he lift if
contained in a identical vessel.
(f) Explain in terms of breaking stress, why the elephants has thicker legs as compared to human
beings?
(g) When the smooth flowing of water comes out of a faucet, it narrows as it falls. Explain why it
happens.
2. Answer in brief any two questions. [2x2=4]

(a) Why are two thin blankets warmer than a single blanket of double thickness?
(b) When a metallic block with hole in it is heated, why doesn't the material around the hole expand
into the hole and make it smaller?
(c) Why does the temperature of the gas drops during adiabatic process?
3. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]
(a) What is the cause of dispersion of light?
(b) Why is sky blue?
4. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]
(a) If the electric field is zero throughout the region, is the potential zero in the region or not.
(b) Is the dielectric constant, the same as dielectric strength? Explain with example.

HSEB 2067
1. Answer in brief any six questions
a) What is the difference between accurate and precise measurement?
b) If vector C is added to sum of vector A and vector B. For C= A+B to be true, what's the angle
between vectors A and B.(0 degree)
c) Explain why the cyclist inclines himself to the vertical while moving round in a circular path?

d) If the sun somehow collapse to form black whole, what would be effect of this event on the orbit of
the earth?
e) During pregnancy, women often develop back pains from leaning backward while walking. Why
do they have to walk this way?
f) The tip of the nib of the pen is spilt. Why?
g) Explain why suction effect is experienced by a person standing close to the platform at a station
when the fast train passes?
2. Answer in brief any two questions
a) During high fever, a wet cloth is kept in forehead of the person. Why?
b) Why is triple point taken as standard fixed point in the modern thermometry?
c) A system is taken from state a to state b along the three path. In which path the work done is
maximum??
3. Answer in brief any one question.

a) A convex lens is immersed in the water. Will its focal length change? explain.
b) The sun looks red during sun set and sun rise why?
4. Answer is brief any one question.
a) Some of the free electrons in a good conductor move at the speed of 10^6 or faster. Why don't
they fly out of conductor completely?
b) Differentiate dielectric constant and dielectric strength.

HSEB 2068
1. Answer in brief any six questions:
a) If the scaler product of two vectors is equal to the magnitude of their vector product, find the angle
between them.
b) From a high tower, one ball is dropped from the rest and the secod ball is simultaneously
projected horizantally. Neglecting air resistance, which ball will reach the ground earlier?
c) Explain why a man cariing a load on his back leans forward?
d) What are elastic and inelastice collisions? Give examples of each.
e) If the force of the gravity acts on all bodies in proportion to their masses, why does not a heavy
body falls faster than a light body?
f) What will happen if a capillary tube of insufficient height is dipped into water?
g) Explain why soldiers are ordered to break steps while crossing bridge?
2. Answer in brief any two questions
a) Define absolute temperature.
b) Explain why dews are formed in clear nights but not in cloudy night.
c) Air escaping from air hose at a gas station always feels cold. Why?
3. Answer in brief any one question.
a) The sun is less bright is evening and morning as compared to noon although its distance from the
observer is almost same.
b) What is chromatic abberation? Why a mirror cannot give to chromatic abberation?
4. Answer in brief any one question.
a) What do you mean by quantization of charge?
b) Distinguish between Dielectric strength and Dielectric constant.
HSEB 2069
1. Answer in brief any six questions. [6x2=12]
(a) How does the kinetic energy of a body change if its momentum is halved?

(b) If the sun some how collapsed to form a black-hole, what effect would this event have on the
orbit of the earth?
(c) Can the direction of the velocity of a body be changed when its acceleration is constant?
(d) If A and B are non-zero vectors, is it possible for A X B and A.B both to be zero? Explain.
(e) In hot air ballooning, a large balloon is filled with air heated by a gas burner at the bottom. Why
must the air be heated?
(f) A man drops his briefcase in an elevator but it does not fall to the floor.What can be concluded
about the situation?(g) An ice cube floats in a glass of water. When the ice melts, will the water level
in the glass rise, fall or remain unchanged?Explain.
2. Answer in brief any two questions. [2x2=4]
(a) Frozen water pipes often burst, will a mercury thermometer break if the temperature of the
thermometer is brought below the freezing point of mercury?
(b) If you add heat to an object, do you necessarily increase its temperature? Justify your answer.
(c) Why are the polar regions much cooler than the equatorial regions despite the fact that the polar
regions are periodically tilted towards sun?
3. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]
(a) Can a convex mirror ever form real image? Justify your answer.
(b) A large object when taken away from your eye appears smaller. Why?
4. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]
(a) Why is it dangerous to take shelter under a tree during lightning?
(b) Can two electric lines of force ever intersect each other? Explain.

Answer of Physics Short Questions 2065 '11

1. Answer in brief six questions. [6x2=12]
(a) Scalar product of two vectors is zero. What is the angle between them?
==> Let A and B be two vectors and X be the angle between them. Then,
scalar product= A.B= ABcosX
Magnitude of Vector Product= |A X B|= ABsinX
According to question,
A.B=|A X B|
or, ABcosX= ABsinX
or, tan X= 1
or, X= 45 degree.
(b) A swimmer wants to reach to a point just opposite to the other bank of the river. How should he
swim and why?

===> Let Vr be the velocity of river and Vm be the velocity of man in still river then to reach just
opposite point the man should swim making angle of Tan-1( Vr/Vm) with horizontal so that the
resultant of two velocities take him to the just opposite point.
(Figure is must.)
(c) Why a wrench of longer arm is preferred in comparison to a wrench of short arm?
===> Torque is turning effect or moment of force which is given by,
Torque= F X S
where, F is force applied and S is the perpendicular distance from action of the point from the
fulcrum.If arm of wrench is longer, S is longer so that small force may have large turning effect of
torque. So, a wrench of longer arm is preferred in comparison to a wrench of short arm
(d) Why a man getting out of bus should moving bus most run in the same direction for a certain
distance?
==> When the man gets out of bus, his lower part of body suddenly comes in rest but his upper part
of body tries to be in motion due to inertia of motion and may have serious accident. To avoid this, a
man getting out of bus should moving bus most run in the same direction for a certain distance
( try to avoid this type of question)
(e) A pendulum clock is taken into moon. Will it gain or lose time?
===> Time period of pendulum T is given by,
T= 2*pi root( l/g)
where, l is effect length of string and g is acceleration due to gravity.
When the simple pendulum is taken into moon, the value of g decreases. So, The time period
increases. Hence, the pendulum will lose time.
(f) Distinguish between specific gravity and Density.
==> Do in table
- Specific gravity is ratio of density of material to the density of pure water at 4 degree celsius. It has
no unit.
- Density is mass per unit volume. Its unit is kg/m^3.

2. Answer in brief any two questions. [2x2=4]

(a) Why are glass windows possible to be cracked in very cold region?
==> There is temperature difference inside and outside the room. The inner part of glass tends to
expand whereas the outer part of the glass tends to contract. Due to this, glass windows possible to
be cracked in very cold region.
(b) Air escaping out of the air hose at gas station always feels cold. Why?
==> The air escaping out from the air hose is adiabatic process. In adiabatic process dQ= 0,as,
dQ= dU+ dW
dU= -dW
the external work is done is expense of internal energy. As, internal energy decreases, temperature
also decreases hence feels cold as,
dU= CvndT
(c) Which has more molecules a kg of Hydrogen or a kg of Oxygen?
==> We know that the no. of molecules depends upon mole;
no. of moles= given weight/ molecular weight
As the given weight is same, the no. of molecules will be more for hydrogen as it has less molecular
weight.
3. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]
(a) A spherical mirror is immersed in water. Will its focal length change?
- We know that, focal length (f)= R/2.
So, it is independent to the refractive index of the medium. So, the focal length of the spherical
mirror doesn't change.
(b) Can you ever have situation in which light rays goes without deviation through the prism?
==> Yes, when a prism which is made of material having refractive index mui is placed in the
medium with the refractive index then, there will have situation in which light rays goes without
deviation through the prism.
4. Answer in brief any one question. [1x2=2]

(a) A man inside insulated metallic cage doesn't receive shock when the cage is highly charged.
Why?
==>
Gauss' law, which states that the flux is equal to net charge enclosed divided by Eo(permittivity in
vacuum) It is clear from the problem that there is no charge inside the sphere, because the charge
always reside outside the bodies. When there is no charge inside, implies the flux is zero. Hence, A
man inside insulated metallic cage doesn't receive shock when the cage is highly chargedWhen the
flux is zero, then electric field is also zero.
(b) How will you arrange three capacitors each having capacity of 2 microfarad, to get a capacitor of
capacity 3 microfarad.
==> Let C1 C2 C3 be the capacitance of the capacitors then,C1= C2= C3= 2
If C1 and C2 are connected in series,
Cs= C1* C2/ (C1+ C2)= 1and, the follwing combination is connected in parallel with C3,
Ceq= Cs+ C3= 1+2=3