MOCK CET : 2009

(PHYSICS)
1. Which of the following is a derived quantity ?
1) mass 2) velocity 3) length 4) time

2. A body of mass 50 kg acquires a speed of 20 ms 1 under a force of 100N in time

1) 5 s 2) 10 s 3) 15 s 4) 20 s
3. When an object is projected at angle  , the horizontal range equals the maximum height reached.
The value of  must be

1) tan1 2 2) tan1 4 3) sin1 4 4) cos1 4

4. A long spring is stretched by 2 cm. Its potential energy is U. If the spring is stretched by 10 cm, the
potential energy stored in it will be
1) U/25 2) U/5 3) 5U 4) 25U
5. The spin drier of a washing machine revolving at 900 rpm slows down uniformly to 300 rpm while
making 50 revolutions. Its angular acceleration (rev/sec2) is
1) 5 2) 3 3) 2 4) 2.5
6. The distances traveled by a body falling from rest in the first, second and third seconds are in the ratio
1) 1 : 2 : 3 2) 1 : 3 : 5 3) 1 : 4 : 9 4) none of these
7. In which of the following pairs of forces, the resultant cannot be 5N ?
1) 2N and 3N 2) 2N and 2N 3) 2N and 7N 4) 5N and 5N
8. Work done in blowing a soap bubble from a radius of 10 cm to 20 cm is (T = 0.025 Nm–1)
1) 6  103 J 2) 6  103 J 3) 3  103 J 4) 6 /   103 J
9. By What percentage should the pressure of a given mass of gas be increased so as to decrease its
volume by 10% at a constant temperature
1) 8.1% 2) 9.1% 3) 10.1% 4) 11.1%
10. Two rods A and B having the same cross-section have been joined end to end. Each rod is of the
same length and the ratio of their thermal conductivities is 2 : 1. The left end of A and right end of B are
kept at 0°C and 36°C respectively. The temperature at the junction of the rods will be
1) 6°C 2) 12°C 3) 36°C 4) 72°C
11. The temperature of source and sink of a Carnot engine are 327°C and 27°C respectively. The efficiency
of the engine is

 27  27
1) 1    2) 3) 0.5 4) 0.7
 327  327

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12. A simple harmonic oscillator has time period T. The time taken by it to travel from the extreme position
to half the amplitude is
1) T/6 2) T/4 3) T/3 4) T/2
13. An open pipe and a closed pipe of the same fundamental frequency f are joined to form a single closed
pipe whose fundamental frequency is
1) 2f 2) f/2 3) f/3 4) 3f

14. Two sounds of intensities 10 10 watt m 1 and 10 6 watt m 2 respectively have got the same
frequency. These two sounds differ by
1) 101dB 2) 104 dB 3) 4db 4) 40 db
15. The colour of a star is related to its
1) shape 2) size 3) temperature 4) distance from sun
16. If ‘n’ represents the refractive index when a ray of light goes from medium i to medium j, then the
product 2 n1  3 2
n  4 3
n

1) 3 n1 2) 3 n 2 3) 1 /1 n 4 4) 4 n 2
17. The base of a tank is a horizontal glass plate 8 cm thick (n = 1.6). Above this is a layer of liquid of
thickness 4.5 cm (n = 1.5) and upon this floats a layer of water 12 cm thick (n = 4/3). Looking from the
above, the apparent position of the spot on the bottom of the tank is
1) 17 cm 2) 13/3 cm 3) 24.5 cm 4) 31 cm
18. An ink dot on a glass sphere is observed from the side diametrically opposite to it. It appears
1) nearer 2) farther 3) at the same distance 4) on the nearer surface
19. The graph shows the variation of magnification m
produced by a convex lens with the image distance v.
The focal length of the lens is m
c
1) b/c 2) c/b
3) a 4) ab/c a b v

20. The angle of a prism is A and that of minimum deviation is (180° – 2A). Then the refractive index of the
material of the prism is

A A A A

1) cot   2) tan   3) cot   4) sin  
4 2 2 2
21. Speed of light in vacuum depends on
1) speed of the soruce 2) speed of the observer 3) frequency of light 4) none of these

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22. The amplitudes of two interfering light waves are 5 units and 3 units respectively. The ratio of the
intensities of bright and dark bands is
1) 5 : 3 2) 3 : 5 3) 1 : 16 4) 16 : 1
23. In Young’s double slit interference experiment, the distance between two sources is 0.1mm. The
0
distance of the screen from the source is 20 cms. Wavelength of light used is 5460 A . Then the
angular position of the first dark fringe is
1) 0.08° 2) 0.16° 3) 0.20° 4) 0.32°
24. Diffraction of light takes place with
1) transverse waves only 2) longitudinal waves only
3) both transverse and longitudinal waves 4) neither transverse nor longitudinal waves
25. The aperture of a telescope is 5m. If the separation between the moon and the earth is 4  105 km
and the wavelength of visible light is about 500 nm, the minimum separation between objects on the
surface of the moon which can be just resolved is about
1) 1m 2) 10m 3) 50m 4) 200m
26. A polarizer and an analyzer are oriented so that the amount of light is maximum. When the analyzer is
rotated through 30°, the intensity becomes _____________ time the maximum value
1) 0.75 2) 0.50 3) 0.25 4) 0

27. If C is the critical angle for a transparent material and i p is the polarizing angle for its surface, then

1) sin C  tan i p 2) sin i p  tan C 3) cosec C  tan i p 4) sec C  tan i p

28. Two charges of 1C and 5C are placed at some distance in air. The ratio of the forces acting on them is
1) 1 : 25 2) 1 : 5 3) 1 : 1 4) 5 : 1
29. The figure shows electric lines of force emerging from a charged body. If the electric fields at point A
and B are E A and EB respectively and the distance
between points A and B is r, then
1) E A  EB 2) E A  EB
3) E A  EB 4) can not be predicted
30. Electric field on the axis of a small electric dipole at a distance r is E1 and E2 at a distance of 2r on a
line of perpendicular bisector. Then E2/E1 =
1) –1/8 2) –1/16 3) –1/4 4) 1/8
31. 64 small drops of water having the same charge and same radius are combined to form one big drop.
The ratio of capacitance of big drop to small drop is
1) 4 : 1 2) 2 : 1 3) 1 : 4 4) 1 : 2
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32. A parallel plate capacitor with air as medium between the plates has a capacitance of 10 F . The
area of the capacitor is divided into two equal halves and filled with two medium having dielectric
constants 2 and 4 respectively. The modified capacitance is
1) 10 F 2) 20 F 3) 30 F 4) 40 F
33. Two conductors of capacities 3 and 5 units are charged until their potentials are 5 and 7 units
respectively. If the two conductors are now connected by a wire, their common potential will be
1) 5.26 2) 6.25 3) 7.34 4) 6.0
34. The colour bands on a resistor are green, blue, orange and silver. The resistance of the resistor is
1) 56k   10% 2) 5.6k   20% 3) 56k   20% 4) 5600k   5%
35. When a resistance of 2 is connected across the terminals of a battery, the current is 0.5A. When
the resistance across the terminals is 5 , the current is 0.25A. The internal resistance of the cell is
1) 0.5 2) 0.75 3) 1 4) 1.5
36. What is the p.d. between A and B shown in the figure ? 6V 2  9V
A VVVV B
3A 3A

1) –9V 2) 21V 3) 9V 4) –21V

37. The magnetic field dB due to a current element at a distant point is
       
0 i dl  r
  0 i 2 dl  r
  0 dl  r    i  dl  r 
1) dB  2) dB  3) dB  2 4) dB  0
4 r2 4 r2 4i  r2 4 r3
38. The magnetic field at a distance r from a long wire carrying current l is 0.4 tesla. The magnetic field at
a distance 2r is
1) 0.1 tesla 2) 0.2 tesla 3) 0.8 tesla 4) 1.6 tesla
39. The field normal to the plane of a coil of radius r which carries a current l measured on the axis of the
coil at a small distance h from the centre of the coil is smaler than the field at the centre by a fraction

3h 2 2h 2 3r 2 2r 2
1) 2) 3) 4)
2r 2 3r 2 2h 2 3h 2
40. If 90% of the current has to flow through the shunt connected to a galvanometer, the ratio of the
galvanometer resistance to that of the shunt is
1) 4 : 1 2) 9 : 1 3) 8 : 1 4) 2 : 3
41. In electromagnetic induction, the induced charge is independent of
1) change of flux 2) time 3) resistance of the coil 4) none of these

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42. A magnetic field of 2  102T acts at right angles to a coil of area 100 cm 2 with 50 turns. The average
emf induced in the coil is 0.1V, when it is removed from the field in the time t. The value of t is
1) 0.1s 2) 0.01s 3) 1s 4) 10s
43. A 1mH inductance and 10 F capacitance when connected in series to a source, possess equal
reactance. The angular frequency of the a.c. source is
1) 104 2) 100 3) 10 4) 200 
44. A step-down transformer is used to reduce 220V supply to 11V. The primary draws 5A of current, while
the secondary 90A. The efficiency of the transformer is
1) 20% 2) 40% 3) 70% 4) 90%
45. Finger prints on a piece of paper may be detected by sprinkling fluorescent powder on the paper and
the looking it under
1) dark light 2) sun light 3) infra-red light 4) ultraviolet rays
46. The work function of a photo emissive substance is 6.6eV. The longest wavelength of radiation that
can cause photoelectron emission from the surface of the substace is approximately
1) 220 nm 2) 187 nm 3) 235 nm 4) 400 nm
47. If the kinetic energy of a moving particle is E, then the de-Broglie wavelength is

2mE h hE
1)   h 2mE 2)   3)   4)  
h 2mE 2mE
48. The atom that participate in ruby laser action are of
1) aluminium 2) chromium 3) oxygen 4) neon
49. If E represents the kinetic energy of an orbital electron and r represents the radius of the orbit, then

1 1 1
1) Ek   r 2) Ek  3) Ek   4) Ek 
r r r2

 
50. Hydrogen (H), deuerium (D), singly ionised He   and double ionised lithium  Li  al have one
electron around nucleus. Consider n = 2 to n = 1 transition. The wave lengths of emitted radiations are
1, 2 , 3 and  4 respectively. Then, approximately

1) 1  2  43  9 4 2) 41  2 2  23   4

3) 1  2 2  2 2 3  3 2  4 4) 1  2  2 3  3  4

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51. Which of the following can have a charge q = ne, where n is a fraction and e is the electronic charge.
1) quark 2) sigma 3) tau 4) neutrons
52. A particle moving velocity 1/10th of that light will cross a nucleus in about
1) 108 s 2) 1012 s 3) v 4) 1020 s

53. Energy released in the fission of a single U 235 nucleus is 200MeV. The fission rate of U 235 fuelled
reactor operating at a power level of 5W is

1) 1.56  1010 s 1 2) 1.56  1011s 1 3) 1.56  1016 s 1 4) 1.56  1017 s 1

54. Three radioactive substances have their activity in the ratio 1 : 3 : 5. The substances are heated to
double its temperature. Then, the activities will be
1) 5 : 3 : 1 2) 3 : 1 : 5 3) 3 : 5 : 1 4) 1 : 3 : 5

55. In the series of radioactive decay starting from 90Th 234 and ending on 82 Pb210 the number of  and
 particles emitted are

1)   3,   3 2)   6,   4 3)   6,   0 4)   4,   6

56. In a transistor, the emitter current IE , collector current IC and base current IB are related by

1) IE  IB  IC 2) IC  IE  IB 3) IB  IC  IE 4) IC  IB  IE
57. The collector supply in a common emitter amplifier is 8 volts and the voltage drop across the load of
800  is 0.4V. If   0.96 , then what is the base current ?

1) 20A 2) 21A 3) 22 A 4) 24 A
58. Decimal number 53 is equal to binary number
1) 11 11 11 2) 10 10 10 3) 10 11 10 4) 11 01 01
59. The ratio of the ac component to the dc component in the output voltage of a rectifier is called
1) current gain 2) voltage gain 3) amplification factor 4) ripple factor
60. In Davission - Germer experiment, the nickel crystal behaves like a
1) three dimensional diffraction grating 2) metallic foil
3) absorption plane 4) an emission plane

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