Homi Jahangir Bhabha

(1909 to 1966)
● He was an Indian born scientist who
played an important part in discovery
of quantum theory.
● Bhabha belongs to a wealthy parsi
family of West india. Got his doctrate
from university of Cambridge in 1934.
● He worked with Neil Bohr and Walter
Heitter.
● He makes a breakthrough in understanding of cascade theory
of electron showers and cosmic radiations.
● Bhabha started his research centre in india at Banglore in
1940.
● Bhabha was the first chairperson of atomic energy commission
in 1948.
● In his guidance, scientists of india made their first atomic
bomb and an atomic reactor at Trombay near Bombay in 1956.
● Bhabha got many awards from indian as well as foreign
universities and he was an associate of National Academy of
Sciences (US). Bhabha was killed in an air crash accident on 24
Jan 1966 in Swittzerland. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
(BARC); Bombay is named in honour of Dr. Homi Jahangir
Bhabha.
CROSSWORD
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1. The rise or depression of liquid in capilary.
3. The curve or surface formed by the reflection of parallel ray of
light in large aperture concave mirror.
4. The phenomenon of wavering of sound intensity when two
waves of nearly same frequencies and amplitude. 1 2 3 4
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8. To cover a surface with some non-conducting material.
9. Ratio of output to input work
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energy.
14. Unit of energy in the CGS system.
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16. Energy associated with charged particles in electric field.
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2. Closeness of a measurement to the standard value of that

quantity.
5. The light ray which stricks any surface
6. Device that changes forces needed to do work.
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7. Study of the effect of stationary magnetic poles.
10. DC potential difference that would produce the same 14
heating effects. 15
11. The reciprocal of capacitance
12. The point on the surface of the earth which lies directly above
focus of earthquake. 16
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1 Speed of a motor boat in still water is 4 times the speed of January 2017 issue Answer
river. Normally the motor boat takes 1 min to cross the river Crossword
to the part straight across the river. At one day, due to a 1 F U 2S E 3P 4 U N D 5M E A N 6 L I F E L U M E N
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problem with engine, the motor boat is not able to run at full I 7P O L E 8 I S O T O N E S 9E
power and it takes 4 min to cross the river. By what factor Q T N N
speed of boat in still water is reduced. N I E D
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2 A frictionless track is having a
r
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horizontal part and a semicircular C 10
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vertical part of radius r. r v A E P I
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An object when given an initial N N M A G N E T I T E C
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speed v, moves in the track and then falls back to its initial
F R S M R
position. What must be minimum length of horizontal part? 13 I E I E O
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(Take r = 0.5 m) A G O P C
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3 A small ball is moving on a slope R
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consists of two circular areas of O E N T R O P Y I S

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radius 0.5 m connected together H S D
Slope
as shown. E L
If the small ball starts from rest, R R A
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determine the distance A H Y D R O S T A T I C S
R R P
covered over the slope. Y

4 An iceberg nearly in form of a regular upright

pyramid of which 10 m shows above water
surface. If density of ice is 900 kgm–3,
find time period of oscillation of
pyramid in water of density
1000 kgm–3.

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or a smartphone which runs the app or game. VR-HMD units comes along with a head tracking
Individual eye focus
system and headphones for total immersion into
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Displays can
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view with perpendicular
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Each LCD displays polarized
Audio image for each eye. Images
head are polarized at an angle
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