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NET December 2015
PART ‘A’
Q1. In each of the following groups of words is a hidden number, based on which you should arrange
them in descending order. Pick the correct answer:
E. Papers I Xeroxed
F. Wi-Fi veteran
G. Yourself ourselves
H. Breaks even
(a) H, F, G, H (b) E, G, F, H (c) H, F, G, E (d) H, E, F, G
Q2. The number of squares in the figure is
(a) 30
(b) 29
(c) 25
(d) 20
Q3. A shopkeeper purchases a product for Rs. 100 and sells it making a profit of 10% . The customer
resells it to the same shopkeeper incurring a loss of 10% . In these dealings the shopkeeper
makes
(a) no profit, no loss (b) Rs. 11
(c) Re. 1 (d) Rs. 20
Q4. Five congruent rectangles are drawn inside a big rectangle of perimeter 165 as shown. What is
the perimeter of one of the five rectangles?
(a) 37
(b) 75
(c) 15
(d) 165
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Q5. A person walks downhill at 10 km / h , uphill at 6 km / h and on the plane at 7.5 km / h . If the
person takes 3 hours to go from a place A to another place B , and 1 hour on the way back, the
distance between A and B is
(a) 15 km
(b) 23.5 km
(c) 16 km
(d) Given data is insufficient to calculate distance.
Q6. A vessel is partially filled with water. More water is added to it at a rate directly proportional to
dV
time i.e., t . Which of the following graphs depicts correctly the variation of total volume
dt
V of water with time t ?
(a) V (b) V
0 t 0 t
(c) V (d) V
0 t 0 t
Q7. At one instant, the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock are one over the other in between
the markings for 5 and 6 on the dial. At this instant, the tip of the minute hand
(a) is closer to the marking for 6
(b) is equidistant from the markings for 5 and 6
(c) is closer to marking for 5
(d) is equidistant from the markings for 11 and 12
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Q8. A bird leaves its nest and flies away. Its distance x from the nest is plotted as a function of time
t . Which of the following plots cannot be right?
(a) (b)
x x
nest t nest t
(c) (d)
x x
nest t nest t
Q9. A cubical cardboard box made of 1cm thick card board has outer side of 29 cm . A tight-fitting
cubical box of the same thickness is placed inside it, then another one inside it and so on. How
many cubical boxes will be there in the entire set?
(a) 29 (b) 28 (c) 15 (d) 14
Q10. Secondary colours are made by a mixture of three primary colours, Red, Green and Blue, in
different proportions; each of the primary colours comes in 8 possible levels. Grey corresponds
to equal proportions of Red, Green and Blue. How many shades of grey exist ii this scheme?
(a) 83 (b) 8 (c) 38 (d) 8 3
Q11. The triangle formed by the lines y x, y 1 x and x 0 in a two dimensional plane is ( x and
y axes have the same scale)
(a) isosceles and right-angled (b) isosceles but not right-angled
(c) right-angled but not isosceles (d) neither isosceles nor right angled
Q12. There are two buckets A and B . Initially A has 2 liters of water and B is empty. At every
1
hour 1 liter of water is transferred from A to B followed by returning liter back to A from
2
B half an hour later. The earliest A will get empty is in:
(a) 5 h (b) 4 h (c) 3 h (d) 2 h
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Q13. Statement A: The following statement is true
Statement B: The preceding statement is false
Choose the correct inference from the following:
(a) Statements A and B are always true
(b) Statements A and B can be true if there is at least one statement between A and B
(c) Statements A and B can be true if there are at least two statements between A and B
(d) Statements A and B can never be true, independently
Q14. A car is moving at 60 km / h . The instantaneous velocity of the upper most points of its wheels is
(a) 60 km / h forward (b) 120 km / h forward
(c) 60 km / h backward (d) 120 km / h backward
Q15. If D I M 1501
C I V I L 157
L I V I D 557
C I V I C 207
What is V I M ?
(a) Cannot be found (b) 1009
(c) 1006 (d) 509
Q16. A living cell has a protoplasm which is water based and demarcated by a lipid bilayer membrane.
1
If a cell is pierced up to th of its diameter with a very sharp needle, after taking the needle out
5
(a) no effect will be observed.
(b) protoplasm will leak out from the hole made by the needle for a few minutes until the cell
heals the wound.
(c) protoplasm will keep on leaking out till the cell is dead.
(d) the cell will burst like a balloon.
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Q17. Density of a rice grain is 1.5 g / cc and bulk density of rice heap is 0.80 g / cc . If a 1 litre
container is completely filled with rice, what will be the approximate volume of pore space in the
container?
(a) 350 cc (b) 465 cc (c) 550 cc (d) 665 cc
Q18. A turtle starts swimming from a point A located on the circumference of a circular pond. After
swimming for 4 meters in a straight line it hits point B on the circumference or the pond. From
there it changes direction and swims for 3 meters in a straight line and arrives at point D
diametrically opposite to point A . How far is point D from A ?
(a) 3 m (b) 4 m (c) 7 m (d) 5 m
Q19. Four circles of unit radius each are drawn such that each one touches two others and their centres
lie on the vertices of a square. The area of the region enclosed between the circles is
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
Q20. A film projector and microscope give equal magnification. But a film projector is not used to see
living cells because
(a) a living cell cannot be placed in a film projector.
(b) the viewer’s eye is close to a microscope whereas it is far away from the projector’s screen.
(c) a microscope produces a virtual image whereas a projector produces a real image.
(d) a microscope has greater resolving power than a projector.
PART ‘B’
Q21. In the scattering of some elementary particles, the scattering cross-section is found to depend
on the total energy E and the fundamental constants h (Planck’s constant) and c (the speed of
light in vacuum). Using dimensional analysis, the dependence of on these quantities is given
by
2
hc hc hc hc
(a) (b) 3 / 2 (c) (d)
E E E E
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Q22. If y , then x is
tanh x
y 1 y 1
(a) ln (b) ln
y 1 y 1
y 1 y 1
(c) ln (d) ln
y 1 y 1
z
Q23. The function of a complex variable z has
sin z 2
(a) a simple pole at 0 and poles of order 2 at n for n 1, 2,3...
derivative), what is f k ?
(a) i k i k 2 (b) k k 2
(c) i k k 2 (d) i k i k 2
dx
Q25. The solution of the differential equation 2 1 x 2 , with initial condition x 0 at t 0 is
dt
sin 2t , 0 t 4 sin 2t , 0 t 2
(a) x (b) x
sinh 2t , 1,
t t
4 2
sin 2t , 0 t 4
(c) x (d) x 1 cos 2t , t 0
1,
t
4
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Q26. A particle moves in three dimensional space in a central potential V r kr 4 where k is a
each, are placed at the points a, a and a, a . The principal moments of inertia of the
system are
(a) 2m 2 , 4ma 2 (b) 4ma 2 ,8ma 2
(a)
k
,
2m m
3k
(b)
k
2m
13 73
5k k k 6k
(c) , (d) ,
2m m 2m m
Q29. Consider a particle of mass m moving with a speed v . If TR denotes the relativistic kinetic
Q V0 a 2 V0 a
(c) 2 (d)
4 0 r r r
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Q31. Consider a charge Q at the origin of 3 - dimensional coordinate system. The flux
of the electric field through the curved surface of a cone that has a height h and a
circular base of radius R (as shown in the figure) is h
Q Q hQ QR Q
(a) (b) (c) (d) R
0 2 0 R 0 2h 0
Q32. Given a uniform magnetic field B B0 kˆ (where B0 is a constant), a possible choice for the
magnetic vector potential A is
Q33. A beam of unpolarized light in a medium with dielectric constant 1 is reflected from a plane
interface formed with another medium of dielectric constant 2 3 1 . The two media have
identical magnetic permeability. If the angle of incidence is 600 , then the reflected light
(a) is plane polarized perpendicular to the plane of incidence
(b) is plane polarized parallel to the plane of incidence
(c) is circularly polarized
(d) has the same polarization as the incident light
Q34. A Hermitian operator O has two normalized eigenstates 1 and 2 with eigenvalues 1 and 2 ,
respectively. The two states u cos 1 sin 2 and v cos 1 sin 2 are such that
v O 7 / 4 and u v 0 . Which of the following are possible values of and ?
(a) and (b) and
6 3 6 3
(c) and (d) and
4 4 3 6
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Q35. The ground state energy of a particle of mass m in the potential V x V0 cosh , where L
L
2
and V0 are constants (with V0 ) is approximately
2ml 2
2V0 V0
(a) V0 (b) V0
L m L m
V0 V0
(c) V0 (d) V0
4L m 2L m
Q36. Let nlm denote the eigenstates of a hydrogen atom in the usual notation. The state
1
2 200 3 211 7 210 5 211
5
is an eigenstate of
(a) L2 , but not of the Hamiltonian or Lz
1
Q37. The Hamiltonian for a spin- particle at rest is given by H E0 z x , where x and z
2
are Pauli spin matrices and E0 and are constants. The eigenvalues of this Hamiltonian are
(a) E0 1 2 (b) E0 1 2
1
(c) E0 (doubly degenerate) (d) E0 1 2
2
Q38. The heat capacity of (the interior of a refrigerator is 4.2 kJ / K . The minimum’ work that must
be done to lower the internal temperature from 18o C to 17 o C when the outside temperature is
27o C will be
(a) 2.20 kJ (b) 0.80 kJ (c) 0.30 kJ (d) 0.14 kJ
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Q39. For a system of independent non interacting one-dimensional oscillators, the value of the free
energy per oscillator, in the limit T 0 , is
1 3
(a) (b) (c) (d) 0
2 2
Q40. The partition function of a system of N Ising spins is Z 1N 2N where 1 and 2 are
functions of temperature, but are independent of N . If 1 2 , the free energy per spin in the
limit N is
(a) k BT ln 1 (b) k BT ln 2
2
(c) k BT ln 12 (d) k BT ln 1
1
Q41. The Hamiltonian of a system of N non interacting spin - particles is H 0 B i Siz , where
2
Siz 1 are components of i th spin along an external magnetic field B . At a temperature T
0 B
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Q43. In the schematic figure given below the initial values of 4 bit shift registers A and B are 1011
and 0010 respectively The values at SOA . and SOB after the pulse T2 are respectively.
T0 T1 T2
CLOCK
SHIFT
(a) 1110 and1001 (b) 1101 and1001
(c) 1101 and 1100 (d) 1110 and 1100
Q44. If the parameters y and x are related by y log x , then the circuit that can be used to produce
(a) y (b) y
Vo Vo
(c) (d)
y y
Vo Vo
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Q45. Two data sets A and B consist of 60 and 10 readings of a voltage measured using voltmeters
of resolution of 1 mV and 0.5 mV respectively. The uncertainty in the mean voltage obtained
from the data sets A and B are U A and U B , respectively. If the uncertainty of the mean of the
PART ‘C’
Q46. The Hermite polynomial H n x satisfies the differential equation
d 2Hn dH n
2
2x 2nH n x 0
dx dx
The corresponding generating function
1
G t , x n 0 H n x t n satisfies the equation
n!
2G G G 2G G G
(a) 2x 2t 0 (b) 2x 2t 2 0
x 2
x t x 2
x t
2G G G 2G G 2G
(c) 2x 2 0 (d) 2x 2 0
x 2
x t x 2 x xt
Q47. A function f x satisfies the differential equation
d2 f
2
2 f x a
dx
where is positive. The Fourier transform f k f dx eikx f x of f , and the solution of
(a)
eika
k
2 2
and
1 x a
2
e e
xa
(b)
eika
k
2 2
and
1 x a
2
e
(c)
eika
k
2 2
and
1 i x a
2
e e
i x a
(d)
eika
k
2 2
and
1
2i
e x a ei x a
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Q48. For a dynamical system governed by the equation 2 1 x 2 , with x 1
dt
(a) x 1 and x 1 are both unstable fixed points
(b) x 1 and x 1 are both stable fixed points
(c) x 1 is an unstable fixed point and x 1 is a stable fixed points
(d) x 1 is a stable fixed point and x 1 is a unstable fixed points
8 1 1
Q49. The value of the integral 0 x 5
2
dx , valuated using Simpson’s rule with h 2 is
3
(a) 0.565 (b) 0.620 (c) 0.698 (d) 0.736
Q50. A canonical transformation p, q P, Q is performed on the Hamiltonian
1 1
H 2
m 2 q 2 via the generating function
2mp 2
1
F m q 2 cot Q . If Q 0 0 , which of the following graphs shows schematically the
2
dependence of Q t on t ?
(a) (b)
Q t
Q t
(c) (d)
Q t Q t
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Q51. A distant source, emitting radiation of frequency moves with a velocity source
4c / 5
4c
in a certain direction with respect to a receiver (as shown in the figure).
5
3
The upper cut-off frequency of the receiver is . Let the angle as
2
Receiver
shown. For the receiver to detect the radiation, should at least be
1 3 2 2
(a) cos 1 (b) cos 1 (c) cos 1 (d) cos 1
2 4 5 3
Q52. The Lagrangian of a particle moving in a plane s given in Cartesian coordinates as
L xy
x 2 y 2
In polar coordinates the expression for the canonical momentum pr (conjugate to the radial
coordinate r ) is
(a) r sin r cos (b) r cos r sin
(c) 2r cos r sin 2 (d) r sin 2 r cos 2
Q53. A small magnetic needle is kept at 0, 0 with its moment along the x -axis. Another small
magnetic needle is at the point 1,1 and is free to rotate in the xy - plane. In equilibrium the
where A is a positive constant, 0 the resonant frequency and the damping coefficient. For an
that 1 ).
0
(a) There is negligible absorption of the wave
(b) The wave propagation is highly dispersive
(c) There is strong absorption of the electromagnetic wave
(d) The group velocity and the phase velocity will have opposite sign
Q56. A hydrogen atom is subjected to the perturbation
2r
V pert r cos
a0
where a0 is the Bohr radius. The change in the ground state energy to first order in
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 2 2 4
Q57. A positron is suddenly absorbed by the nucleus of a tritium H atom to turn the latter into a
3
1
He ion. If the electron in the tritium atom was initially in the ground state, the probability that
the resulting He ion will be in its ground state is
8 128 512
(a) 1 (b) (c) (d)
9 243 729
Q58. The product of the uncertainties Lx Ly for a particle in the state a 1,1 b 1, 1 where
3 1
(c) a and b (d) a b
2 2
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Q59. The ground state energy of a particle in potential V x g x , estimated using the trail
wavefunction
c 2
5 a x ,
x a
2
x a
0, x a
(where g and c are constants) is
1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3 1/ 3
15 2 g 2 5 2 g 2 3 2 g 2 7 2 g 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
16 m 6 m 4 m 8 m
1
Q60. An ensemble of non-interacting spin - particles is in contact with a heat bath at temperature T
2
and is subjected to an external magnetic field. Each particle can be in one of the two quantum
states of energies 0 . If the mean energy per particle is 0 / 2 , then the free energy per
particle is
(a) 2 0
ln 4 / 3 (b) 0 ln 3/ 2 (c) 2 0 ln 2 (d) 0
ln 2
ln 3 ln 3
Q61. Which of the following graphs shows the qualitative dependence of the free energy f h, T of a
critical temperature?
f
(a) f (b)
h
h
f f
(c) (d)
h h
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Q62. Consider a random walker on a square lattice. At each step the walker moves to a nearest
neighbour site with equal probability for each of the four sites. The walker starts at the origin and
takes 3 steps. The probability that during this walk no site is visited more than one is
(a) 12 / 27 (b) 27 / 64 (c) 3/ 8 (d) 9 /16
Q63. Consider an n - MOSFET with the following parameters: current drive 15V
strength K 60 A / V 2 , breakdown voltage BVDS 10 V , ratio of effective 80 k
W VDS
gate width to the channel length 5 and threshold voltage Vth 0.5V . 1.2 V
L
In the circuit given below, this n - MOSFET is operating in the
(a) ohmic region (b) cut-off region
(c) saturation region (d) breakdown
Q64. The state diagram corresponding to the following circuit is
x D A
y
CLOCK
Flip Flop
0 1 0 1
01,10,11 01,11
0 1
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Q65. A sinusoidal signal of peak to peak amplitude 1V and unknown time period is input to the
following circuit for 5 seconds duration. If the counter measures a value 3E8 H in hexadecimal
measurements of the wavelength and the angle are 0.01 nm and 10 respectively, then the error in
calculating the inter-planar spacing will approximately be
(a) 1.1 102 nm (b) 1.3 104 nm (c) 2.5 102 nm (d) 2.0 10 3 nm
Q67. The dispersion relation of electrons in a 3-dimensional lattice in the tight binding approximation
is given by,
k cos k x a cos k y a cos k z a
where a is the lattice constant and , , are constants with dimension of energy. The effective
mass tensor at the corner of the first Brillouin zone , , is
a a a
1 1
0 0 0 0
2
1
2
1
(a) 2 0 0 (b) 2 0 0
a a
1 1
0 0 0 0
1 1
0 0 0 0
2 1 2 1
(c) 2 0 0 (d) 2 0 0
a a
1 1
0 0 0 0
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Q68. A thin metal film of dimension 2 mm 2 mm contains 4 1012 electrons. The magnitude of the
Fermi wavevector of the system, in the free electron approximation, is
(a) 2 107 cm 1 (b) 2 107 cm 1 (c) 107 cm 1 (d) 2 107 cm 1
Q69. For an electron moving through a one-dimensional periodic lattice of periodicity a , which of the
following corresponds to an energy eigenfunction consistent with Bloch’s theorem?
x x x 2 x
(a) x A exp i cos (b) x A exp i cos
a 2a a a
2 x 2 x x x
(c) x A exp i i cosh (d) x A exp i i
a a a 2a
Q71. For a two level system, the population of atoms in the upper and lower levels are 3 1018 and
0.7 1018 , respectively. If the coefficient of stimulated emission is 3.0 105 m 3 / W -s 3 and the
energy density is 9.0 J / m3 -Hz , the rate of stimulated emission will be
(a) 6.3 1016 s 1 (b) 4.1 1016 s 1 (c) 2.7 1016 s 1 (d) 1.8 1016 s 1
Q72. The first ionization potential of K is 4.34 eV , the electron affinity of CI is 3.82 eV and the
equilibrium separation of KCI is 0.3 nm . The required to dissociate
a KCI molecule into a K and a CI atom is
(a) 8.62 eV (b) 8.16 eV (c) 4.28 eV (d) 4.14 eV
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Q73. Consider the following processes involving free particles
(i) n p e ve (ii) p n
(iii) p n 0 0 (iv) p ve n e
angular momentum. Given that R0 1.2 fm , what is the value in barn, of the quadrupole
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moment of the Al nucleus in the shell model?
(a) 0.043 (b) 0.023 (c) 0.915 (d) 0
Q75. Of the nuclei of mass number A 125 , the binding energy calculated from the liquid drop model
(given that the coefficients for the Coulomb and the asymmetry energy are ac 0.7 MeV and
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