HALF YEARLY EXAM 2023-24

NAME: SUBJECT: PHYSICS

CLASS:XI M. MARKS:70

General Instructions:
a. All questions are compulsory
b. This question paper is divided into four sections – A, B, C,D and E.
c. Section A contains 18 questions of 1 mark each, Section B contains 7 questions of 2 marks each,
d. Section C contains 5 questions of 3 marks each and Section D contains 3 questions of 5 marks each.
e. Section E contains 2 question of case study each of 4 marks.
f. Internal choices have been given in Section B and C. You have to attempt only one of the alternatives in all
such questions
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Section A (1x18)

Q1.The number of significant figures in 0.06900 is

a) 5 b) 4 c) 2 d) 3

Q2. Which of the following pairs of physical quantities does not have same dimensional formula?

a) Work and torque. b) Angular momentum and Planck’s constant.

c) Tension and surface tension. d) Impulse and linear momentum.

Q3. For the motion with uniform velocity, the slope of the velocity-time graph is equal to

a)1 m/s b) Zero c)Initial velocity d) Final velocity

Q4. Unit of acceleration is _ _ _ _ _

a)m2s b) m/s c) m/s 2 d) m/s3

Q5. Which among the following is a scalar quantity?

a)Force b) Mass c) Momentum d)Velocity

Q6. What is the formula to find linear momentum?

a)Linear momentum = 2(Mass + Velocity) b) Linear momentum = Mass / Velocity

c) Linear momentum = Mass * Velocity d) Linear momentum = Mass – Velocity
Q7.Which is the type of inertia?

a)Inertia of rest b) Inertia of motion c) Inertia of direction d) All the above options

Q8.The dimensions of kinetic energy is

a) [M 2L2T] b) [ML 2T] c) [ML 2T-2] d) [ML 2T-1]

Q9. In SI system the fundamental units are

a) meter, kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin, mole and candela
b) meter, kilogram, second, coulomb, Kelvin, mole and candela
c) meter, Newton, second, ampere, Kelvin, mole and candela
d) meter, kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin, mole and flux

Q10. The force required to produce an acceleration of 2 m/s² on a mass of 2 kg is

a) 4 N b) 10 N c) 22 N d) 18 N

Directions: Each of these questions contain two statements, Assertion and Reason. Each of these questions
also has four alternative choices, only one of which is the correct answer. You have to select one of the codes
(a), (b), (c) and (d) given below.
(a) Assertion is correct, reason is correct; reason is a correct explanation for assertion.
(b) Assertion is correct, reason is correct; reason is not a correct explanation for assertion
(c) Assertion is correct, reason is incorrect
(d) Assertion is incorrect, reason is correct.

Q11. Assertion : In projectile motion, the angle between the instantaneous velocity and acceleration at the
highest point is 180°.
Reason : At the highest point, velocity of projectile will be in horizontal direction only.

Q12. Assertion : Two particles of different mass, projected with same velocity at same angles. The maximum
height attained by both the particle will be same.
Reason : The maximum height of projectile is independent of particle mass.

Q13. Assertion : Dimensional constants are the quantities whose values are constant.
Reason : Dimensional constants are dimensionless.

Q14. Assertion : Number of significant figures in 0.005 is one and that in 0.500 is three
Reason : This is because zeros are not significant.

Q15. Assertion : On a rainy day, it is difficult to drive a car or bus at high speed.
Reason : The value of coefficient of friction is lowered due to wetting of the surface.

Q16. Assertion : A rocket works on the principle of conservation of linear momentum.

Reason : Whenever there is change in momentum of one body, the same change occurs in the momentum of
the second body of the same system but in the opposite direction.
Q17. Assertion : Displacement of a body is vector sum of the area under velocity– time graph.
Reason : Displacement is a vector quantity.

Q18. Assertion : Position-time graph of a stationary object is a straight line parallel to time axis.
Reason : For a stationary object, position does not change with time.

SECTION B (2x7)
Q19. Draw the position – time graph for an object in uniform motion and object at rest.

Q20. Derive the equation for velocity time relation using calculus method.

Q21. A car has initial velocity 72 km /h. it is accelerated at 2m/s. calculate final velocity and distance
travelled by car after 3s.

Q22.State Keplers three laws.

Q23. Two forces of 5 N towards east and 7 N towards south acts on a particle. Find the resultant force.

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Q24. Consider an equation 𝒎𝒗 2 = mgh, were m is the mass of the body ,v is its velocity, g Is acceleration
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due to gravity. Check whether this equation is dimensionally correct?

Q25. What is the acceleration of a train travelling at 50 m/s as it goes round a curve of 250 m.

Or

Q25. State the number of significant figures in the following:

1)0.007 2) 2.64 x 1024 3) 0.2370 4) 6.320

SECTION C (3x5)

Q 26. Derive an expression for time period (t) of a simple pendulum. Which may depend upon
mass of the bob (m), length of pendulum (l) and acceleration due to gravity.

Q27. The motion of particle is described by the equation x= t +a + bt2 ,were a = 10 cm , b = 3cm. Find
instantaneous velocity at time 3 s.

Q28. Write the dimensional formula of :

1)Energy 2) pressure 3 ) momentum

Q29. Convert 1 erg into dyne?

Q30. An artificial satellite of mass 2500 kg is orbiting around the earth with a speed of 4 km/s
at a distanceof 104 km from the earth . Calculate centripetal force.
 Or
Q30. A cricketer can throw a ball to maximum horizontal distance of 100m . how much high above the
ground can the cricketer throw the small ball?

SECTION D (5 x3)
Q31. i)Derive the equation for maximum possible speed of a car on a banked road?
ii)a cyclist speeding at 18 km/h on a level road takes a sharp circular turn of radius 3m without reducing
the speed . The co-efficient of static friction between the tyres and the road is 0.1. Will the cyclist slip while
taking the turn?

Q32.i)Find the magnitude and direction of the resultant of two vector A and B in terms of their magnitudes
and angle θ between them.
ii) Define the term scalar and vector quantities and also there example?

Q33.i) With the help of graphical method derive the equation for displacement time relation equation of
motion.

ii)The position of an object moving along x axis is given by x= a + bt 2 where a = 8.5 m b= 2.5 ms-2 and t is
measured in seconds . What is its velocity at t=0 s and t= 2.0s . What is the average velocity between t=2.0s
and t=4.0 s?

SECTION E (case study) (4x2)

Q34.We consider the motion of a projectile. An object that is in flight after being thrown or projected is called
a projectile. Such a projectile might be a football, a cricket ball, a baseball or any other object. The motion of a
projectile may be thought of as the result of two separate, simultaneously occurring components of motions.
One component is along a horizontal direction without any acceleration and the other along the vertical
direction with constant acceleration due to the force of gravity. It was Galileo who first stated this
independency of the horizontal and the vertical components of projectile motion in his Dialogue on the great
world systems.

Horizontal range of a projectile: The horizontal distance travelled by a projectile from its initial position (x = y
= 0) to the position where it passes y = 0 during its fall is called the horizontal range, R. It is the distance
travelled during the time of flight Tf . Therefore, the range
R is R = (v0 cos θ0) (Tf)
R = (v0 cos θ0) (2 v0 sin θ0)/g
R = (v02 sin 2 θ0)/g
This shows that for a given projection velocity, R is maximum when sin 2θ0 is maximum, i.e., when θ0 = 450.
The maximum horizontal range is, therefore
R= v02/g
Maximum height of a projectile: Maximum height that can be achieved during projectile and it is given by
Hm = (v0 sin θ0)2/2g
i) Range in projectile motion is maximum when θ0

a) 450 b) 00 c) 900 d) None of these

ii) What is projectile motion?

iii) What is horizontal range of projectile? Give its formula

iv) What is maximum height of projectile? Give its formula

Q35. What do aching feet, a falling apple, and the orbit of the Moon have in common? Each is caused by the
gravitational force. Our feet are strained by supporting our weight—the force of Earth’s gravity on us. An
apple falls from a tree because of the same force acting a few meters above Earth’s surface. And the Moon
orbits Earth because gravity is able to supply the necessary centripetal force at a distance of hundreds of
millions of meters. In fact, the same force causes planets to orbit the Sun, stars to orbit the center of the
galaxy, and galaxies to cluster together. Gravity is another example of underlying simplicity in nature. It is the
weakest of the four basic forces found in nature, and in some ways the least understood. It is a force that acts
at a distance, without physical contact, and is expressed by a formula that is valid everywhere in the universe,
for masses and distances that vary from the tiny to the immense. Sir Isaac Newton was the first scientist to
precisely define the gravitational force, and to show that it could explain both falling bodies and astronomical
motions. But Newton was not the first to suspect that the same force caused both our weight and the motion
of planets. His forerunner Galileo Galilei had contended that falling bodies and planetary motions had the
same cause. Some of Newton’s contemporaries, such as Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren, and Edmund Halley,
had also made some progress toward understanding gravitation.But Newton was the first to propose an exact
mathematical form and to use that form to show that the motion of heavenly bodies should be conic
sections—circles, ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas.

i) Two astronauts are floating in gravitational free space after having lost contact with their

spaceship. The two will __

a) move towards each other b) move away from each other

c)will become stationary d) keep floating at the same distance between them

ii) Two spheres of masses m and M are situated in air and the gravitational force between them is F. The
space around the masses is now filled with a liquid of specific gravity 3. The
gravitational force will now be

a) 3F b) F c) F/3 d) F/9
iii. Who among the following first gave the experimental velocity of G?

(a) Cavendish (b) Copernicus (c) Brook Taylor (d) none of these

iv) If the distance between the earth and the sun were half its present value, the number of day in a year
would have been

(a) 64.5 (b) 129 (c) 182.5 (d) 730

v) A ball of weight W is thrown vertically upwards. The apparent w eight during the upward

motion will be

(a) zero (b) more than W (c) less than W (d) W