NET December 2016 Part A: F, On A Moving Ball, Is Proportional To Its Velocity

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NET December 2016 SET-B
Part A
Q1. Find out the missing pattern.
 18 2
5 7 ? 3 6  9
2  7

2 7 14 14
(a) 7  (b)  2 (c) 7  (d) 2 7
14 14 2 

Q2. Seeds when soaked in water gain about 20% by weight and 10% by volume. By what
factor does the density increase?
(a) 1.20 (b) 1.10 (c) 1.11 (d) 1.09
Q3. Retarding frictional force, f , on a moving ball, is proportional to its velocity, V . Two

identical balls roll down identical slopes  A & B  from different heights. Compare the

retarding forces and the velocities of the balls at the bases of the slopes.

A B

(a) f A  f B ;VA  VB (b) f A  f B ; VB  VA

(c) f B  f A ; VB  VA (d) f B  f A ; VA  VB

Q4. Two cockroaches of the same species have the same thickness but different lengths and
widths. Their ability to survive in oxygen deficert environments will be compromises if
(a) their thickness increases, and the rest of the size remains the same.
(b) their thickness remains unchanged, but their length increases.
(c) their thickness remains unchanged, but their width decreases.
(d) their thickness decreases, but the rest of the size remains unchanged.

  
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Q5. The bar chart shows number of seats won by four political parties in a state legislative
assembly. 50
35 35

seats
20

party

Which of the following pie-charts correctly depicts this information?


(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Q6. The random errors associated with the measurement of P and Q are 10% and 2%
P
respectively, What is the percentage random error in ?
Q
(a) 12.0 (b) 9.8 (c) 8.0 (d) 10.2
Q7. In how many distinguishable ways can the letters of the word CHANCE be arranged?
(a) 120 (b) 720 (c) 360 (d) 240
Q8. Which of the following graphs correctly shows the speed and the corresponding distance
covered by an object moving along a straight line?

speed distance
(a) (b)
speed, distance

speed, distance

0, 0 time 0, 0 time

  
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(c) (d)
speed, distance

speed, distance
0, 0 time 0, 0 time
Q9. A normal TV screen has a width to height ratio of 4 : 3 , while a high definition TV screen
has a ratio of 16 : 9 . What is the approximate ratio of their diagonals, if the heights of the
two types of screens are the same?
(a) 5 : 9 (b) 5 :18 (c) 5 :15 (d) 5 : 6
Q10. Comparing numerical values, which of the following is different from the rest?
(a) The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
(b) The sum of the three angles of a plane triangle expressed in radians.
22
(c) .
7
(d) The net volume of a hemisphere of unit radius, and a cone of unit radius and unit
height
1 1
Q11. A river is 4.1km wide. A bridge built across it has of its length on one-bank and of
7 8
its length on the other bank. What is the total length of the bridge?
(a) 5.1 km (b) 4.9 km (c) 5.6 km (d) 5.4 km
Q12. OA, OB , and OC are radii of the quarter circle shown in the figure. AB is also equal to
A
the radius.
B

?
O C
what is angle OCB ?
(a) 600 (b) 750 (c) 550 (d) 650

  
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Q13. Intravenous (IV) fluid has to be administered to a child of 12 kg with dehydration, at a
dose of 20 mg of fluid per kg of body weight, in 1 hour. What should be the drip rate (in
drops/min of IV fluid? (1mg  20 drops)
(a) 7 (b) 80 (c) 120 (d) 4
Q14. A hall with a high roof is supported by an array of identical columns such that, to a
person lying on the floor and looking at the ceiling, the columns appear parallel to each
other. Which of the following designs conforms to this?
ROOF ROOF
(a) (b)

FLOOR FLOOR

ROOF ROOF
(c) (d)

FLOOR FLOOR

Q15. The sum of digits of a two-digit number is 9 . If the fraction formed by taking 9 less than
3
the number as numerator and 9 more than the number as denominator is , what is the
4
number?
(a) 36 (b) 63 (c) 45 (d) 54

  
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Q16. The distance between X and Y is 1000 km . A person flies from X at 8 A.M. local time
and reaches Y at 10 A.M. local time. He flies back after a halt of 4 hours at Y and
reaches X at 4 P.M. local time on the same day. What is his average speed for the
duration he is in the air?
(a) 500 km/hour
(b) 250 km/hour
(c) 750 km/hour
(d) cannot be calculated with the given information
Q17. If a person travels x% faster than normal, he reaches y minutes earlier than normal.
What is his normal time of travel?
 100   x 
(a)   1 y minutes (b)   1 y minutes
 x   100 

 y   100 
(c)   1 x minutes (d)   1 x minutes
 100   y 
Q18. A and B walk up an escalator one step at a time, while the escalator itself moves up at a
constant speed. A walks twice as fast as B . A reaches the top in 40 steps and B in 30
steps. How many steps of the escalator can be seen when it is not moving?
(a) 30 (b) 40 (c) 50 (d) 60
Q19. Two iron spheres of radii 12 cm and 1cm are melted and fused. Two new spheres are
made without any loss of iron. Their possible radii could be
(a) 9 and 4 cm (b) 9 and10 cm
(c) 8 and 5cm (d) 2 and11cm
Q20. A man buys alcohol at Rs 75 / cL , adds water, and sells it at Rs. 75 / cL making a profit of
50 % . What is the ratio of alcohol to water?
(a) 2 :1 (b) 1: 2 (c) 3 : 2 (d) 2 : 3

  
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Part B
Q21. A ball of mass m is dropped from a tall building with zero initial velocity. In addition to
gravity, the ball experiences a damping force of the form  , where  is its
instantaneous velocity and  is a constant. Given the values m  10 kg ,   10 kg / s , ,

and g  10 m / s 2 the distance travelled (in metres) in time t in seconds, is

(a) 10  t  1  e  t  (b) 10  t  1  e t 

(c) 5t 2  1  et  (d) 5t 2

1 3 2
 
Q22. The matrix M   3 1 0  satisfies the equation
0 0 1
 
(a) M 3  M 2  10M  12 I  0 (b) M 3  M 2  12 M  10 I  0
(c) M 3  M 2  10M  10 I  0 (d) M 3  M 2  10 M  10 I  0
Q23. The Laplace transform of
t
 , 0t T
f t   T
 1 t T

is
 1  e  sT  1  e 
 sT
1  e   sT
1  e 
sT

(a) (b) (c) (d)


s 2T s 2T s 2T s 2T
Q24. A relativistic particle moves with a constant velocity v with respect to the laboratory
frame. In time  , measured in the rest frame of the particle, the distance that it travels in
the laboratory frame is

c v2 v
(a) v (b) (c) v 1  (d)
v2 c2 v2
1 1
c2 c2

  
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Q25. A particle in two dimensions is in a potential V  x, y   x  2 y . Which of the following

(apart from the total energy of the particle) is also a constant of motion?
(a) p y  2 px (b) px  2 p y

(c) px  2 p y (d) p y  2 px

Q26. The dynamics of a particle governed by the Lagrangian


1 2 1 2
L mx  kx  kxxt
 describes
2 2
(a) an undamped simple harmonic oscillator
(b) a damped harmonic oscillator with a time varying damping factor
(c) an undamped harmonic oscillator with a time dependent frequency
(d) a free particle
Q27. The parabolic coordinates  ,  are related to the Cartesian coordinates  x, y  by

x   and y  
1 2
2
   2  . The Lagrangian of a two-dimensional simple harmonic

oscillator of mass m and angular frequency  is

m    2   2  2   2  
1  2
(a)
2
 
(b)
1
2 
 
m  2   2    2   2   2  2   2  
1
4 
 
m  2   2   2   2   2 
1 1
(c)
2  2 
 1 
m  2   2   2   2   2 
1
(d)
2  4 
Q28. Consider two radioactive atoms, each of which has a decay rate of 1 per year. The
probability that at least one of them decays in the first two years is

(d) 1  e 2 
1 3 2
(a) (b) (c) 1  e 4
4 4

  
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 1
Q29. The Fourier transform  dxf  x eikx of the function f  x   2 is
 x 2
 2k    2k
(a) 2 e (b) 2 e  2k
(c) e 2k
(d) e
2 2
Q30. A screen has two slits, each of width w with their centres at a
distance 2w apart. It is illuminated by a monochromatic plane w
wave travelling along the x -axis. w 
x
The intensity of the interference pattern, measured on a distant
w
screen, at an angle
n
 to the x -axis is
w
(a) zero for n  1, 2,3...
(b) maximum for n  1, 2,3...
1 3 5
(c) maximum for n  , , ...
2 2 2
(d) zero for n  0 only
Q31. The electric field of an electromagnetic wave is

E  z , t   E0 cos  kz  t  iˆ  2 E0 sin  kz  t  ˆj

where  and k are positive constants. This represents


(a) a linearly polarised wave travelling in the positive z -direction
(b) a circularly polarised wave travelling in the negative z -direction
(c) an elliptically polarised wave travelling in the negative z -direction
(d) an unpolarised wave travelling in the positive z -direction
Q32. Consider the two lowest normalized energy eigenfunctions  0  x  and  1  x  of a one

d 0
dimensional system. They satisfy  0  x    0*  x  and  1  x    , where  is a real
dx
constant. The expectation value of the momentum operator in the state  1 is

  2
(a)  (b) 0 (c) (d)
 2
 2
2
  
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d
Q33. Consider the operator a  x  acting on smooth functions of x . The commutator
dx
 , cos x  is
(a)  sin x (b) cos x (c)  cos x (d) 0
1 1
Q34. Let a   x  ip  and a†   x  ip  be the lowering and raising operators of a
2 2
simple harmonic oscillator in units where the mass, angular frequency and  have been
set to unity. If 0 is the ground state of the oscillator and  is a complex constant, the

expectation value of  x  in the state   exp   a †   *a  0 , is

(a)  (b)  
2 1
(c)
1
   *  (d)
1
   * 

2
2i 2
   
Q35. Consider the operator   p  qA , where p is the momentum operator,

A   Ax , Ay , Az  is the vector potential and q denotes the electric charge. If

B   Bx , By , Bz  denotes the magnetic field, the z -component of the vector operator
 
   is
(a) iqBz  q  Ax p y  Ay px  (b) iqBz  q  Ax p y  Ay px 

(c) iqBz (d) iqBz

Q36. A conducting circular disc of radius r and resistivity  rotates with an angular velocity
 in a magnetic field B perpendicular to it. A voltmeter is connected as shown in the
figure below. Assuming its internal resistance to be infinite, the reading on the voltmeter
(a) depends on  , B, r and 
B
(b) depends on  , B and r but not on 
(c) is zero because the flux through the loop is not
changing
r V
(d) is zero because a current the flows in the direction
of B
  
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Q37. The charge per unit length of a circular wire of radius a in the xy -plane, with its centre at
the origin, is   0 cos  , where 0 is a constant and the angle  is measured from the

positive x -axis. The electric field at the centre of the circle is


 0  0
(a) E   iˆ (b) E  iˆ
4 0  4 0 
 0  0
(c) E   ˆj (d) E  kˆ
4 0  4 0 
Q38. The partition function of a two-level system governed by the Hamiltonian
  
H 
   
is


(a) 2sinh   2   2
(b) 2 cosh       2 2

(c) cosh        sinh   


 2   2 
1 2 2

2 

(d)
1

2
 
cosh   2   2  sinh   2   2 
 
Q39. A silica particle of radius 0.1  m is put in a container of water at T  300 K . The

densities of silica and water are 2000 kg / m3 and 1000 kg / m3 , respectively. Due to
thermal fluctuations, the particle is not always at the bottom of the container. The average
height of the particle above the base of the container is approximately
(a) 103 m (b) 3 104 m (c) 104 m (d) 5 105 m

  
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Q40. Which of the following circuits implements the Boolean function
F  A, B, C    1, 2, 4, 6  ?

C I0 C I0
(a) I1 4  1 (b) I1 4  1

I MUX
2
F I MUX
2
F

I 3 S1 S0 I 3 S1 S0

A B A B

C I0 0 I0
(c) I1 4  1 (d) I1 4  1
1
I MUX
2
F I MUX
2
F

I 3 S1 S0 C I 3 S1 S0

A B A B
Q41. A pair of parallel glass plates separated by a distance d is illuminated by white light as
shown in the figure below. Also shown is the graph of the intensity of the reflected light
I as a function of the wavelength  recorded by a spectrometer.

spectrometer

partially incident
reflecting mirror white light

air gap
glass plates
d

  
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1
0.8

0.6

Intensity 0.4

0.2

0
490 500 510 520 530

Assuming that the interference takes place only between light reflected by the bottom
surface of the top plate and the top surface of bottom plate, the distance d is closest to
(a) 12  m (b) 24  m (c) 60  m (d) 120  m

  aV  
Q42. The I  V characteristics of a device can be expressed as I  I s exp    1 , where T
  T  
is the temperature and a and I s are constants independent of T and V . Which one of

the following plots is correct for a fixed applied voltage V ?

3 2
1
2
(a) (b)
log 1

log 1

1 1
2
0 3 3
1 2 3 0 1 2
aV / T aV / T

2 4
3
1
2
log 1

log 1

(c) 0 (d) 1
1 0
1
2 2
3 3 3 3
0 1 2 0 1 2
aV / T aV / T
  
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Q43. The active medium in a blue LED (light emitting diode) is a Gax In1 x N alloy. The band

gaps of GaN and InN are 3.5 eV and 1.5 eV respectively. If the band gap of Gax In1 x N

varies approximately linearly with x , the value of x required for the emission of blue
light of wavelength 400 nm is (take hc  1200 eV -nm )
(a) 0.95 (b) 0.75 (c) 0.50 (d) 0.33
Q44. Consider a gas of N classical particles in a two-dimensional square box of side L . If the
total energy of the gas is E , the entropy (apart from an additive constant) is
 L2 E   LE 
(a) Nk B ln   (b) Nk B ln  
 N   N 

L E  E
(c) 2 Nk B ln   (d) L2 k B ln  
 N  N

Q45. Consider a continuous time random walk. If a step has taken place at time t  0 , the
probability that the next step takes place between t and t  dt is given by bt dt , where b
is a constant. What is the average time between successive steps?

2  1  
(a) (b) (c) (d)
b b 2 b 2b

  
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PART C
Q46. Given the values sin 450  0.7071, sin 500  0.7660, sin 550  0.8192 and

sin 600  0.8660 , the approximate value of sin 520 , computed by Newton’s forward
difference method, is
(a) 0.804 (b) 0.776 (c) 0.788 (d) 0.798
f 2 f
Q47. Let f  x, t  be a solution of the heat equation  D 2 in one dimension. The initial
t x

condition at t  0 is f  x, 0   e x for   x   . Then for all t  0, f  x, t  is given by


2

 
 dx e  x 
2
[Useful integral: ]
 
2 2
x x
1  1 
(a) e 1 Dt (b) e 1 2 Dt
1  Dt 1  2 Dt
2
x x2
1  
(c) e 1 4 Dt (d) e 1 Dt

1  4 Dt
Q48. After a perfectly elastic collision of two identical balls, one of which was initially at rest,
the velocities of both the balls are non zero. The angle  between the final, velocities (in
the lab frame) is

(a)   (b)   
2
 
(c) 0    (d)  
2 2
k
Q49. Consider circular orbits in a central force potential V  r    , where k  0 and
rn
0  n  2 . If the time period of a circular orbit of radius R is T1 and that of radius 2 R is

T2
T2 , then
T1
n 2 n
n 1
(a) 2 2 (b) 2 3 (c) 2 2 (d) 2n

  
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c
Q50. Consider a radioactive nucleus that is travelling at a speed with respect to the lab
2
frame. It emits  -rays of frequency v0 in its rest frame. There is a stationary detector,

(which is not on the path of the nucleus) in the lab. If a  -ray photon is emitted when the
nucleus is closest to the detector, its observed frequency at the detector is

3 1 1 2
(a) v0 (b) v0 (c) v0 (d) v0
2 3 2 3
Q51. Suppose that free charges are present in a material of dielectric constant  10 and
resistively   1011   m . Using Ohm’s law and the equation of continuity for charge, the
1
time required for the charge density inside the material to decay by is closest to
e
(a) 106 S (b) 106 S (c) 1012 S (d) 10 S
Q52. A particle with charge q moves with a uniform angular velocity  in a circular orbit of
radius a in the xy - plane, around a fixed charge  q , which is at the centre of the orbit at

 0, 0, 0  . Let the intensity of radiation at the point  0, 0, R  be I1 and at  2 R, 0, 0  be ‘ I 2

I2
The ratio for R  a , is
I1
1 1
(a) 4 (b) (c) (d) 8
4 8
Q53. A parallel plate capacitor is formed by two circular conducting plates of radius a
separated by a distance d , where d  a . It is being slowly charged by a current that is
nearly constant. At an instant when the current is I , the magnetic induction between the
a
plates at a distance from the centre of the plate, is
2
0 I 0 I 0 I 0 I
(a) (b) (c) (d)
a 2 a a 4 a

  
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Q54. Two uniformly charged insulating solid spheres A and B , both of radius a , carry total
charges Q and Q , respectively. The spheres are placed touching each other as shown
in the figure.    
 A   B 
If the potential at the centre of the sphere A is VA and that at the
   
centre of B is VB then the difference VA  VB is

Q Q Q Q
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 0 a 2 0 a 2 0 a 4 0 a
3
Q55. A stable asymptotic solution of the equation xn 1  1  is x  2 . If we take
1  xn
n 1
xn  2 n and xn 1  2 n 1 , where n and n 1 are both small, the ratio is
n
approximately
1 1 1 2
(a)  (b)  (c)  (d) 
2 4 3 3
Q56. The 2  2 identity matrix I and the Pauli matrices  x ,  y ,  z do not form a group under
matrix multiplication. The minimum number of 2  2 matrices, which includes these four
matrices, and form a group (under matrix multiplication) is
(a) 20 (b) 8 (c) 12 (d) 16
Q57. The dynamics of a free relativistic particle of mass m is governed by the Dirac
   
Hamiltonian H  c . p   mc 2 , where p is the momentum operator and    x ,  y ,  z 

and  are four 4  4 Dirac matrices. The acceleration operator can be expressed as
2ic   
(a)  cp   H  (b) 2ic 2

ic  2ic  
(c) H (d)   cp   H 
 

  
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Q58. A particle of charge q in one dimension is in a simple harmonic potential with angular
2
t
 
frequency  . It is subjected to a time- dependent electric field E  t   Ae  
, where A

and  are positive constants and   1 . If in the distant past t   the particle was
in its ground state, the probability that it will be in the first excited state as t   is
proportional to
1 1
  2  2 1
2
(a) e (b) e 2 (c) 0 (d)
 
2

Q59. Consider a random walk on an infinite two-dimensional


triangular lattice, a part of which is shown in the figure below.
If the probabilities of moving to any of the nearest neighbour
sites are equal, what is the probability that the walker returns to
the starting position at the end of exactly three steps?
1 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
36 216 18 12
Q60. An atom has a non-degenerate ground-state and a doubly-degenerate excited state. The
energy difference between the two states is  . The specific heat at very low temperatures
   1 is given by
(a) k B    (b) k B e  

(c) 2k B    e 
2
(d) k B

Q61. The electrons in graphene can be thought of as a two-dimensional gas with a linear
 
energy-momentum relation E  p v , where p   px , p y  and v is a constant. If  is the

number of electrons per unit area, the energy per unit area is proportional to
(a)  3/ 2 (b)  (c)  1/ 3 (d)  2

  
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Q62. In the circuit below, the input voltage Vi is 2V ,Vcc  16 V , R2  2k  and RL  10 k 
VCC


Vi  R1 RL
R2

The value of R1 required to deliver 10 mW of power across RL is

(a) 12k  (b) 4k  (c) 8k  (d) 14 k 

Q63. Two sinusoidal signals are sent to an analog multiplier of scale factor 1V 1 followed by a
low pass filter (LPF).

V1  5cos 100t 

LPF
Multiplier fC  5Hz
Vout

V2  20 cos 100t   / 3

If the roll-off frequency of the LPF is f c  5 Hz , the output voltage Vout is

(a) 5V (b) 25V (c) 100 V (d) 50V


Q64. The resistance of a sample is measured as a function of temperature, and the data are
shown below.
T  0C 2 4 6 8
R  90 105 110 115

The slope of R vs T graph, using a linear least-squares fit to the data, will be
6 4 2 8
(a) 0
(b) 0
(c) 0
(d) 0
C C C C
  
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Q65. A particle is scattered by a central potential V  r   V0 re   r , where V0 and  are positive
 
constants. If the momentum transfer q is such that q  q   , the scattering cross-

section in the Born approximation, as q   , depends on q as

dn
 x e dx  n 
n ax
[You may use e ax dx ]
da
(a) q 8 (b) q 2 (c) q 2 (d) q 6

Q66. A particle in one dimension is in a potential V  x   A  x  a  . Its wavefunction   x  is

d
continuous everywhere. The discontinuity in at x  a is
dx

(b) A   a     a  
2m
(a) A  a 
2
2
(c) A (d) 0
2m
Q67. Consider a hexagonal lattice with basis vectors as shown in the figure below.
y

x

a2 a
1

a
If the lattice spacing is a  1 , the reciprocal lattice vectors are

 4   2 2   4   2 2 
(a)  ,0,   ,  (b)  ,0,  , 
 3   3 3  3   3 3

 4   2   2 2   2 
(c)  0,  ,  ,  (d)  ,  ,  2 , 
 3   3  3 3  3

  
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Q68. In the L  S coupling scheme, the terms arising from two non-equivalent p -electrons are

(a) 3S , 1P, 3P, 1D, 3D (b) 1S , 3S , 1P, 1D

(c) 1S , 3S , 3P, 3D (d) 1S , 3S , 1P, 3P, 1D, 3D


Q69. The total spin of a hydrogen atom is due to the contribution of the spins of the electron
and the proton. In the high temperature limit, the ratio of the number of atoms in the spin-
1 state to the number in the spin- 0 state is
1 1
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) (d)
2 3
Q70. A two level system in a thermal (black body) environment can decay from the excited
state by both spontaneous and thermally stimulated emission. At room temperature
 300 K  , the frequency below which thermal emission dominates over spontaneous

emission is nearest to
(a) 1013 Hz (b) 108 Hz (c) 105 Hz (d) 1011 Hz
Q71. What should be the minimum energy of a photon for it to split an  -particle at rest into a
tritium and a proton?
4
(The masses of 2 He, 13 H and 1
1 H are 4.0026 amu,3.0161 amu and 1.0073 amu

respectively, and 1 amu  938 MeV )


(a) 32.2 MeV (b) 3MeV (c) 19.3 MeV (d) 931.5 MeV
Q72. Which of the following reaction(s) is/are allowed by the conservation laws?
(i)    n   0  K 
(ii)    p   0  K 0
(a) both (i) and (ii) (b) only (i)
(c) only (ii) (d) neither (i) nor (ii)

  
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Q73. A particle, which is a composite state of three quarks u , d and s , has electric charge,
spin and strangeness respectively, equal to
1 1 1
(a) 1, , 1 (b) 0, 0, 1 (c) 0, , 1 (d) 1,   1
2 2 2
Q74. Consider a one-dimensional chain of atoms with lattice constant a . The energy of an
electron with wave-vector k is   k      cos  ka  , where  and  are constants. If

an electric field E is applied in the positive x -direction, the time dependent velocity of
an electron is
(In the following B is the constant)
 eE 
(a) Proportional to cos  B  at  (b) proportional to E
  

 eE 
(c) independent of E (d) proportional to sin  B  at 
  
Q75. A thin rectangular conducting plate of length a and width b is placed in the xy -plane in
two different orientations as shown in the figures below. In both cases a magnetic field B
is applied in the z -direction and a current flows in the x direction due to the applied
voltage V . b
y B

B
x a
V1 a
V1 b

   
V V
If the Hall voltage across the y -direction in the two cases satisfy V2  2V1 the ratio a : b
must be
(a) 1: 2 (b) 1: 2 (c) 2 :1 (d) 2 :1

  
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