PREVIOUS YEARS,QUESTIONS PAGE -36

1.Assign reason for the following ;

(i)Phosphorus doped silicon is a semi-conductor.
(ii)Schottky defect lowers the density of a solid.
(iiI)Some of the very old glass objects appear slightly milky instead of being transparent
2. (a) whit reference to crystal structure, what meant by coordination number
(B) what is the coordination number of atms.
(i)in a cubic close packed ?structure.
(ii) in a body cent red cubic structure?
3. what is a semiconductor ?Describe two main types of semiconductors, giving
examples and their
distinctive features.
4. Calculate the efficiency (percentage of volume occupied and unoccupied) of
packing in case of a metal crystal for simple cubic.
5. Aluminium crystallizes in a cubic close-packed structure .Its metallic redius is
125pm.
(a)What is the length of the side of the unit cell ?
(b)How many unit cells are there in 1.00 cm3 of aluminium ?
6.(a)Determine the type of cubic lattice to which a given crystal belongs if it has
edge length of 290pm and density is7.80g cm -3 (molecular mass =56 g mol-1)
(B) Why dose zinc oxide exhibit enhanced electrical conductivity on heating ?
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
7 .An element A(atomic mass 100 ) having bcc structure has unit cell edge 400 pm .
calculate the density of A and the number of unit cells for 10 g of A.[N a =6.023 1023]
8. The nearest neighbouring silver atoms in the silver crystals are 2.87 10- 10 m
apart .what is the density of silver ?Sil
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
49.Why bends in a wire do not affect its resistance ?
50.What is the order of magnitude of number density of free electrons in a metal ?
51.What is the order of resistivity of conductors ?
52. What is the ratio of resistivity of a typical insulator to that of a metal?
53.Name tw54.Name two parameters determining the resistivity of a material?
54.Name two parameters determining the resistivity of a material?
55.What happens to the drift velocity vd of electron and to the resistivity R, if length
of the conductor is doubled (keeping potential difference unchanged )?
56.Give an example of non-ohmic devices which show up negative resistance.

57.Why cant we use eight ordinary cells connected in series to get a 12 V supply
instead of a battery of e.m.f. 12 V?
58.Why resistance becomes more in series combination ?
59.Why resistance becomes less in parallel combination?
60.What is a shunt ?
61.Resistance of the human body is of the order of 10 ko. why does one experience
a strong shock when one accidentally touches the live wire of say 240 V supply ?
62.Which has greater resistance (i)milliammeter or ammeter and (ii)millivoltmeter
or voltmeter ?
63.Why do we prefer a potentiometer of measure e.m.f of a cell rather than a
voltmeter ?
64.Why should the specific resistance of a potentiometer ?
65.How can we increase the sensitivity of a potentiometer ?
66.How will you make a potentiometer of given wire length more sensitive by using
a resistance box?
67.When is the wheatstones bridge most sensitive ?
68.Using meter bridge, it is advised to obtain null point in the middle of the wire
.Why ?
69.What do you mean by end erro in a metre bridge ?
70.Wheatstone bridge is considered unsuitable for the measurement of very low
resistances. Why?
71.Why is wheatstone bridge method considered unsuitable for the measurement
of very high resistance?
72.What happens if the galvanometer and cell are interchanged at the balance
point of the bridge?
73.Why dose the terminal potential difference of a cell become zero when it is short
circuited?
74.Under what conditions will the terminal potential difference of a cell be greater
than its e.m.f?
75.Under what conditions will the terminal potential difference of a cell be less than
its e.m.f?
76.Under what condition (s) will there be a constant potential gradient along the
length of a wire carrying current?
77.Assuminhg that electrons are free inside a a solid sketch graphically the
distribution n(V) of electrons with speed v.?
78.Two wire of equal length .one of copper and the other of manganin . have the
same resistance ,which wire is thicker?

79.Difine conductance of a material .give its s.l.units ?

80.Difine conductivity of a material .give its s.l.untis ?
81.How dose conductivity of a semiconductor increase with temperature?
82.A simple voltaic cell has an e.m.f. equal to 1.0.V.when the circuit is open .is
there a net field which would give rise to a force on a test charges ?(i)inside the
electrolyte of the cell (ii) outside the cell ?
83.Is there a net field inside the cell when the circuit is closed and a steady current
passes through ?Explain?
84.Dose resistance of a wire depend upon amount of current flowing through it?
85.Give example of non-ohmic electrolyte?
86. Give example of ohmic electrolyte.?
87.Three identical resistors R1,R2and R3 are connected to a battery as shown in
figure .what will be
The ratio of voltages across R1 and R3 ?

SELF-EVALUATION TEST-2(BASED ON UNITS

7&8)
1.What do you mean by atomicity of charge?
2.After two hors, one sixteenth of the initial amount of a certain radioactive isotope
remains
undecayed what is the half-life of isotope ?
3.Do all the photons have same mass.?
4.Kinetic energy of q-particle incident on gold foil is doubled. How does the
distance of closest approach change.?