FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION-2011 TIME -2 HRS STANDARD-X FULL MARKS-100 PHYSICS SECTION-A(Answer all the questions) (3+3+4)X5 Question-1

a. A horse has to pull the cart harder during first few steps of motion. Explain why? b. Proper inflation of tyres saves fuel. Explain. c. What are the effects that a force can produce? Give examples of each effect. Question-2 a. Express torque mathematically. b. A force produces change in linear motion or translation of a body. What does the moment of a force do? c. What is meant by equilibrium? State the necessary condition for a body to be in equilibrium under the action of a set of parallel forces. Question-3 a. Explain briefly how you can verify the principle of moments. b. Explain why a mini bus is more likely to topple over when the roof is heavily loaded than when the roof is empty. c. What are centripetal and centrifugal forces? Question-4 a. The mechanical advantage of a machine is 5 and its efficiency is 80%. It is used to lift a load of 200 kgf. Calculate the effort required and velocity ratio. b. A woman applies a force of 60 N to draw a 5 kg bucket of water from a well, using a fixed pulley. Assuming that all the extra forces apply is to overcome frictional forces, calculate the force of friction, and M A and efficiency. c. Define the terms load, effort, work input and work output with reference to machines. What are the SI units for each. Question-5 a. Derive the relation between efficiency, M A, and V R. b. Name the three classifications of levers and give two examples for each. c. What is a pulley? Name three different types of pulley systems. Draw three level diagrams. What is the V R in each case? Section - B (Attempt any five) (3+3+4)X5 Question-6 a. A man drops a 10 Kg rock from the top of a 5 m ladder. What is its Kinetic Energy when it reaches the ground? What is its speed just before it hits the ground? b. An engine can pump 30,000 liters of water to vertical hight of 45 meters in 10 m. (g = 9.8 2 m/s ). Calculate the work done by the machine its power (Density of water 103 Kgm-3, 1000 liter = 1m3) c. Under what condition is the work done (a) Zero (b) negative and (c) positive. Give one example of each. Question-7 a. What is the work done by a boy of mass m when he climbs up a stair case of vertical height h. b. Differentiate between work and power. c. What do you understand by the law of conversation of energy? Discuss how it works in the case of a simple pendulum? Question-8 a. Watching the sun set on a beach, one can see the sun for several minutes after it has actually set explain. b. Why do diamonds dazzle in light?

c. What is mirage? Why it is observed in hot deserts? Question-9 a. A concave mirror and a convex lens are held in water. What changes, if any do you expect in their focal length? b. What is the difference between a double convex and a bi-convex lens? c. Give two characteristics of the virtual image formed by a convex lens. Question-10 a. How will you investigate the existence of the radiation beyond the red and violet extremes of the spectrum? b. What is the cause of dispersion? c.What is meant by (a)dispersion in a prism,(b)spectrum? Draw a ray diagram to illustrate these. Question-11a.What is the main difference between a convex lens and a concave lens regarding its refraction property? b.What is refraction? What is the cause of refraction? c. State Snells law of refraction of light.

Std -IX PHYSICS Question-1a. What are fundamental and derived physical quantities? b. Explain how you will measure the time period of a simple pendulum? c. What is the time period of a simple pendulum? What are the factors on which it depends? Question-2a.Calcuate the length of seconds pendulum on the surface of moon , when acceleration due to gravity on moon is 1.63m/s2 . b. Two pendulums P and Q of lengths 2m and 4m are made to oscillate. Which pendulum will make more oscillations and why? c. Define pitch and least count. Question-3a.Mention briefly the six steps in plotting a graph. b. What does a straight line graph signify? What does the slope of such a graph give?how is slope calculated? c. A

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FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION-2011 TIME -2 HRS STANDARD-X FULL MARKS-100 MATHEMATICS Section-A (Answer all the questions) Find the smallest value of x for which Where Solve the linear inequation and represent the solution set on the number line 2x-27 15-7x 1, x N Solve : Find the nature of the roots of the following equation. If they are real, find them.

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Section-B (Answer all the questions) 13. A man invest Rs. 20000 at the beginning of every year in a bank and earns 10% annual interest, compounded at the end of the year. What will be his balance at the end of three years? 14. At what rate p.a compounded would Rs. 80000 amount to Rs. 88200 in 2 years, interest being compounded yearly? Also find the amount after three years at the above rate of compounded interest. 15. A man buys a plot of land for Rs. 150000. If the value of the land appreciated by 12% every year, then find the profit that man will make by selling the plot after two years. 16. If the rate of sale tax increases by 5%, the selling price of an article goes up by Rs. 40 Find the marked price of the article. 17. Mr. Siv Kumar has a savings bank account in Punjab National Bank. His pass book has the following entries. Date Particulars Withdrawals Deposits Balance Rs. P. Rs. P. Rs P st 1 April 1997 B/F 3220.00 15 April By transfer 2010.00 5230.00 th 8 May to cheque 298.00 4932.00 15 July By cheque 4628.00 9560.00 29 July By cash 5440.00 15000.00 10 September to self 6980.00 8020.00 10 Jan 1998 By cash 8000.00 16020.00 Calculate the Interest due to him at the end of the financial year (31 Mar 1998) at the rate of 6% p.a.