Unit 2: properties of matter & thermal physics

Part A- Two mark questions:

Properties of matter
1. Define elasticity
2. Define stress and strain.
3. List out the types of strain.
4. Define tensile or longitudinal strain.
5. Define shearing strain
6. Define shearing stress or tangential stress
7. Define shearing stress
8. Define volumetric strain.
9. Define Hookes law.
10. Define Youngs modulus.
11. Define bulk modulus.
12. Define rigidity modulus.
13. Define Poissons ratio.
14. Give the relation between the three modulii.
15. Define elastic limit and plastic limit.
16. Define elastic fatigue.
17. Define yield point.
18. What are the factors affecting elasticity.
19. What is meant by annealing?
20. What is the relation between bulk modulus and compressibility?
21. What is cantilever?
22. What are I-shape girders?
23. What are the applications of I-shape girders?
24. What are the advantages of I-shape girders?
25. What is moment of a force?
26. Define torque.
27. Define beam.
28. Define neutral axis.
29. What are the affects of hammering and annealing on elasticity of a material?
30. What is bending moment of beam?
31. What do you infer from stress-strain diagram?
32. How do temperature and impurity in a material affect the elasticity of the materials?
Thermal Physics
What are the basic entities responsible for thermal conduction of a solid
Define coefficient of thermal conductivity.
Distinguish between heat conduction and electrical conduction.
Distinguish between conduction and convection.
Define radiation and give example.
What is meant by temperature gradient?
Define thermal diffusivity.
8. Define Newtons law of cooling.
9. Define the unit for thermal conductivity.
10. Give the methods of determining the thermal conductivity of good and bad conductors.
11. What is the principle employed in Searles method?
12. What is the basic principle employed in Lees disc method for bad conductors?
13. Why the specimen used to determine thermal conductivity of a bad conductor should have a
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14. What is meant by thermal resistance?
15. What is radial flow of heat?
16. Define specific heat capacity.
Part B 16 Mark Questions
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Describe with necessary theory, the method to determine the Youngs modulus of the
material of a rectangular bar by uniform bending. [8 or 10 mark] (including experiment
for 16 mark)
What is cantilever? Obtain expression for the depression at the loaded end of cantilever
whose other end is fixed assuming that its own weight is not effective in bending. [8 or 10
mark] (including experiment for 16 mark)
Derive an expression for the internal bending moment of a beam in terms of radius of
curvature? [6 or 8 mark]
Derive an expression for depression at the free end of a cantilever, due to load. Describe an
experiment to determine the Youngs modulus of the cantilever material using this
expression. [16]
Write a short note on stress strain diagram.[8 or 10 mark] [Draw a stress strain diagram
and explain from Hooke's law obey regin up to brittle property]
Expalin the factors affecting elasticity [8]
How will you classify three types of elastic modulii? Explain. [8] [First start from
Hooke's law, then explain three types elastic modulai in terms of three tyue of stress
and strain]
Describe an experiment to determine the Youngs modulus of a beam using bending of
beams?[6 or 8 mark] [i.e experiment of cantilever]
Explain about I- shape girders and mention its advandages and applications [ 8]

Thermal Physics
1. Derive a differential equation to describe the heat conduction along a uniform bar. Hence
obtain the steady solution of it. [16] (rectilinear heat flow with 3 special cases)
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Obtain an expression for the quantity of heat conducted radially out of a hollow cylinder.
Using this, explain how the thermal conductivity of rubber can be determined.[8+8] (radial
heat flow ]
3. Derive the equation for heat conduction along a bar and solve it for steady state condition.
[16] (rectilinear heat flow with 3 special cases)
4. Discuss with necessary theory the method of determining the thermal conductivity in the
form of the tube. [8 or 10] (radial heat flow ) (for 16 mark include ruber tube method)
5. Derive an expression for thermal conductivity of the material of a thick pipe through which
a hot liquid is flowing. [8 or 10] (radial heat flow ) (for 16 mark include ruber tube
method)
6. Derive the equation for one-dimensional flow of heat and solve it under steady state
condition. [16] (rectilinear heat flow with 3 special cases)
7. Derive an expression for the quantity of heat flow through a metal slab whose faces are kept
at two different temperatures. Use this expression to determine the thermal conductivity of a
bad conductor by lees disc method.
8. Derive an expression for the radial flow of heat through a cylindrical tube.[8 or 10]
9. Describe lees disc method to find the co-efficient of thermal conductivity of a bad

conductor.[16]
10. What is meant by radial flow method? Describe any one of the method to find the thermal
conductivity of a bad conductor. [16]
11. How will you determine the thermal conductivity of a poor conductor experimentally?
[Lee's disc method]
12. Explain the experimental method used to determine the thermal conductivity of a bad
conductor based on the principle of radial flow of heat.[6 or 8 rmark only for Ruber tube
method] (for 16 mark start with radial heat flow)
13. Define thermal conductivity and derive the expression for heat conduction through
compound media for both (i) bodies are series and (ii) bodies are parallel.