1. Estimate the volume of a water molecule.

2. The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of moon is 1.7 m/s2. What is the time period
of a simple pendulum on the surface of moon if its time period on the surface of earth is 3.5s?
3. A man can swim with a speed of 4 km/h in still water. How long does he take to cross a
river 1 km wide if the river flows steadily at 3 km/h and he makes his strokes normal to the
river current?
4. On a two-lane road, car A is travelling with a speed of 36 km h-1. Two cars B and C
approach car A in opposite directions with a speed of 54 km h-1 each. At a certain instant,
when the distance AB is equal to AC, both being 1 km, B decides to overtake A before C
does. What minimum acceleration of car B is required to avoid an accident?
5. A rocket is moving at a speed of 200 m/s towards a stationary target. While movingit emits a
wave of frequency 1000 Hz. Some of the sound reaching the target gets reflected back to
the rocket as an echo. Calculate the frequency of the sound as detected by the target.
6. A batsman hits back a ball straight in the direction of the bowler without changing its initial
speed of 12 m/s. If the mass of the ball is 0.15 kg, determine the impusle imparted to the ball.
7. A steel wire 0.72 m long has a mass of 5X10-3 kg. If the wire is under a tension of 60 N.
What is the speed of transverse waves on the wire?
8. A steam engine delivers 5.4X108J of work per minute and services 3.6X109J of heat per
minute from its boiler. What is the efficiency of the engine? How much heat is wasted per
minute?
9. A particle starts from origin at t=0 with a velocity 5i m/s and moves in x-y plane under the
action of a force which produces a constant acceleration of 3i+2j m/s2. What is the speed of
the particle at this time?
10.A jet airplane travelling at the speed of 500 km/h ejects its products of combustion at the
speed of 1500 km/h relative to the jet plane. What is the speed of the latter with respect to an
observer on the ground?
11.For a damped oscillator, the mass m of the block is 200 g, k=90 N/m and damping constant
b is 40 g/s. Calculate the period of oscillation.
12.A steel wire 0.72 m long has a mass of 5X10-3 kg. If the wire is under a tension of 60 N.
What is the speed of transverse waves on the wire?
13.Estimate the speed of sound in air at standard temperature and pressure. The mass of 1 mole
of air is 29 X 10-3 kg.
14.An air bubble of volume 1 cm3 rises from the bottom of a lake 40m deep at a temperature of
12C. To what volume does it grow when it reaches the surface, which is at a temperature of
35C?
15.A ball is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity of 20 m/s from the top of a multistorey
building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is 25 m from the ground.
How high will the ball rise?
16.Toricelli’s barometer used mercury. Pascal duplicated it using French wine of density 984
kg/m3. Determine the height of the wine column for normal atmospheric pressure.
17.A stone of mass 0.25 kg tied to the end of a string is whirled around in a circle of radius
1.5m with a speed of 40 revolutions/minute in a horizontal plane. What is the tension in the
string?
18.The ceiling of a long hall is 25m high. What is the maximum horizontal distance that a ball
thrown with a speed of 40 m/s can go without hitting the ceiling of the hall?On a two-lane
road, car A is travelling with a speed of 36 km h-1. Two cars B and C approach car A in
opposite directions with a speed of 54 km h-1 each. At a certain instant, when the distance
AB is equal to AC, both being 1 km, B decides to overtake A before C does. What minimum
acceleration of car B is required to avoid an accident?
19.At what temperature is the root mean square speed of an atom in an argon gas cylinder equal
to the rms speed of a helium gas atom at -20C? Atomic mass of Ar=39.9 u, of He=4 u
20.A motor pumps up 1000 kg of water through a height of 10 m in 5 s. If the efficiency of the
motor is 60 %, calculate the power of the motor in kilowatt.
21.A motorboat is racing towards north at 25 km/h and the water currect in that region is 10
km/h in the direction of 60o east of south. Find the resultant velocity of the boat.
22.A hole is drilled in a copper sheet. The diameter of the hole is 4.24cm at 27oC. What is the
change in the diameter of the hole when the sheet is heated to 227 oC? Coefficient of linear
expansion of copper = 1.7 X 10-5 /K
23.A stone of mass 0.25 kg tied to the end of a string is whirled around in a circle of radius
1.5m with a speed of 40 revolutions/minute in a horizontal plane. What is the tension in the
string?
24.Uranium has two isotopes of masses 235 and 238 units. If both are present in Uranium
hexaflouride gas, which would have the larger average speed?
25.The terminal velocity of a copper ball of radius 2 nm falling through a tank of oil at 20 oC is
6.5 cm/s. Compute the viscosity of oil at 20oC. Density of oil is 1.5 X 103 kg/m3, density of
copper is 8.9 X 103 kg/m3
26.Toricelli’s barometer used mercury. Pascal duplicated it using French
wine of density 984 kg/m3. Determine the height of the wine column for
normal atmospheric pressure.

27.A motor pumps up 1000 kg of water through a height of 10 m in 5 s. If the

efficiency of the motor is 60 %, calculate the power of the motor in
kilowatt.

28.The average depth of Indian ocean is about 3000m Calculate the fractional
compression ΔV/V of water at the bottom of the ocean. Give the answer in
percentage. Take g=10 m/s2

29.The terminal velocity of a copper ball of radius 2 nm falling through a

 tank of oil at 20oC is 6.5 cm/s. Compute the viscosity of oil at 20oC.
Density of oil is 1.5 X 103 kg/m3, density of copper is 8.9 X 103 kg/m3

30.A body cools from 80oC to 50oC in 5 minutes. Calculate the time taken to
cool from 60oC to 30oC. Temperature of surroundings is 20oC.

31.A bullet of mass 0.04 kg moving with a speed of 90m/s enters a heavy
wooden block and is stopped after a distance of 60cm. What is the average
resistive force exerted by the block on the bullet?

32.A geyser heats water flowing at the rate of 3 l/min from 27 oC to 77 oC.
If the geyser operates on a gas burner, what is the rate of consumption of
the fuel if its heat of combustion is 4X104 J/g?

33.Two sitar strings A and B playing the note ‘Dha’ are slightly out of
tune and produce beats of frequency 5 Hz. The tension of the string B is
slightly increased and the beat frequency is found to decrease to 3 Hz.
What is the original frequency of B if the frequency of A is 427 Hz?

34.Compute the fractional change in volume of a glass slab when subjected to

a hydraulic pressure of 10 atm.

35.A geyser heats water flowing at the rate of 3 l/min from 27 oC to 77 oC.
If the geyser operates on a gas burner, what is the rate of consumption of
the fuel if its heat of combustion is 4X104 J/g?

36.A body of mass 2kg travels according to the law x(t)=pt+qt2+rt3 where p=3
m/s2, q=4 m/s2 and r=5m/s2. What is the force acting on the body at t=2s?

37.The flow of blood in a large artery of an anesthetised dog is diverted

through a venturi meter. The wider part of the mter has a cross sectional
area equal to that of the artery A=8mm2. The narrower part has an area
a=4mm2. The pressure drop in the artery is 24 Ps. What is the speed of the
blood in the artery?

38. What amount of heat must be supplied to 2X10-2 kg of nitrogen at room

temperature to raise its temperature by 45oC at constant pressure? Given:
molecular mass of N2=28, R=8.3 J/mol K

39.A 5kg collar is attached to a spring of spring constant 500 N/m. It slides
without friction over a horizontal rod. The collar is displaced from its
equilibrium position by 10 cm and released. Calculate the maximum
acceleration of the collar.

40.A hole is drilled in a copper sheet. The diameter of the hole is 4.24cm at
27oC. What is the change in the diameter of the hole when the sheet is
heated to 227oC? Coefficient of linear expansion of copper = 1.7 X 10-5 /K

41.A refrigerator is to maintain eatables kept inside at 9oC. If room

 temperature is 36oC, calculate the coefficient of performance.

42.The average depth of Indian ocean is about 3000m Calculate the fractional
compression ΔV/V of water at the bottom of the ocean. Give the answer in
percentage. Take g=10 m/s2

43.A copper wire of length 2.2 m and a steel wire of length 1.6 m both of
diameter 3 mm are connected end to end. When stretched by a load, the net
elongation is found to be 0.7 mm. Obtain the load applied.

44.A wave travelling along s string is described as y(x, t)=0.005 sin(80x-3t)

in which numerical constants are in SI units. Calculate the amplitude and
wavelength of the wave.

45.A body of mass 2kg travels according to the law x(t)=pt+qt2+rt3 where p=3
m/s2, q=4 m/s2 and r=5m/s2. What is the force acting on the body at t=2s?

46.What amount of heat must be supplied to 2X10-2 kg of nitrogen at room

temperature to raise its temperature by 45oC at constant pressure? Given:
molecular mass of N2=28

47.Two sitar strings A and B playing the note ‘Dha’ are slightly out of tune and produce beats
of frequency 5 Hz. The tension of the string B is slightly increased and the beat frequency is
found to decrease to 3 Hz. What is the original frequency of B if the frequency of A is 427
Hz?

48. A steam engine delivers 5.4X108J of work per minute and services 3.6X109
J of heat per minute from its boiler. What is the efficiency of the engine?
How much heat is wasted per minute?
49.A blacksmith fixes iron ring on the rim of a wooden wheel of a horse cart.
The diameter of the rim and the iron ring are 5.243m and 5.231m
respectively at 27oC. To what temperature should the ring be heated so as
to fit the rim of the wheel?
50.What is the pressure inside a drop of mercury of radius 3 mm at room
temperature? Surface tension of mercury at that temperature 20oC is
4.65X10-1 N/m. Atmospheric pressure is 1.01 X 105 Pa.