PHYSICS

1. Five balls, numbered 1 to 5, are suspended using separate threads. Pairs (1, 2), (2, 4), (4, 1) show
electrostatic attraction, while pairs (2, 3) and (4, 5) show repulsion. Therefore ball 1 :
(A) Must be positively charged (B) Must be negatively charged
(C) May be neutral (D) Must be made of metal

2. A total charge of 20 C is divided into two parts and placed at some distance apart. If the charges
experience maximum coulombian repulsion, the charges should be :

(A) 5C, 15C (B) 10C, 10C (C) 12C, 8C (D)

3. Two point charges a & b, whose magnitudes are same are positioned at a certain distance from each
other with a at origin. Graph is drawn between electric field strength at points between a & b and
distance x from a. E is taken positive if it is along the line joining from a to b. From the graph, it can be
decided that

(A) a is positive, b is negative (B) a and b both are positive

(C) a and b both are negative (D) a is negative, b is positive

4. A solid sphere of radius R has a volume charge density  = 0 r2 ( Where 0 is a constant and r is the
distance from centre). At a distance x from its centre (for x < R), the electric field is directly
proportional to :
(A) 1/x2 (B) 1/x (C) x3 (D) x2

5. A charged particle ‘q’ is shot from a large distance with speed v towards a fixed charged particle Q. It
approaches Q upto a closest distance r and then returns. If q were given a speed ‘2v’, the closest
distance of approach would be :

(A) r (B) 2r (C) (D)

6. For an infinite line of charge having charge density  lying along x-axis, the work required in moving
charge q from C to A along arc CA is :

(A) loge (B) loge (C) loge 2 (D) loge

7. Three charges +4q, Q and q are placed in a straight line of length  at points at distance 0, /2 and
 respectively from one end of line. What should be the value of Q in order to make the net force on q
to be zero?
(A) –q (B) –2q (C) –q/2 (D) 4q
8. A simple pendulum has a length  & mass of bob m. The bob is given a charge q coulomb. The
pendulum is suspended in a uniform horizontal electric field of strength E as shown in figure, then
calculate the time period of oscillation when the bob is slightly displaced from its mean position.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

9. Charges 2Q and –Q are placed as shown in figure. The point at which electric field intensity is zero
will be:

(A) Somewhere between –Q and 2Q

(B) Somewhere on the left of –Q
(C) Somewhere on the right of 2Q
(D) Somewhere on the perpendicular bisector of line joining –Q and 2Q

10. The maximum electric field intensity on the axis of a uniformly charged ring of charge q and radius R
will be :

(A) (B) (C) (D)

11. A charged particle of charge q and mass m is released from rest in a uniform electric field E.
Neglecting the effect of gravity, the kinetic energy of the charged particle after time ‘t’ seconds is

(A) (B) (C) (D)

12. A flat circular fixed disc has a charge +Q uniformly distributed on the disc. A charge +q is thrown with
kinetic energy K, towards the disc along its axis. The charge q :
(A) may hit the disc at the centre
(B) may return back along its path after touching the disc
(C) may return back along its path without touching the disc
(D) any of the above three situations is possible depending on the magnitude of K

13. At a certain distance from a point charge, the electric field is 500 V/m and the potential is 3000 V.
What is the distance ?
(A) 6 m (B) 12 m (C) 36 m (D) 144 m
14. A semicircular ring of radius 0.5 m is uniformly charged with a total charge of 1.5 × 10 –9 coul. The
electric potential at the centre of this ring is :
(A) 27 V (B) 13.5 V (C) 54 V (D) 45.5 V

15. A 5 coulomb charge experiences a constant force of 2000 N when moved between two points
separated by a distance of 2 cm in a uniform electric field. The potential difference between these two
points is:
(A) 8 V (B) 200 V (C) 800 V (D) 20,000 V

16. A stone is thrown vertically upward with an initial speed u from the top of a tower, reaches the ground
with a speed 3u. The height of the tower is:

(A) (B) (C) (D)

17. It was calculated that a shell when fired from a gun with a certain velocity and at an angle of elevation

rad should strike a given target in the same horizontal plane. In actual practice, it was found that a
hill just prevented the trajectory. At what angle of elevation should the gun be fired to hit the target.

(A) rad (B) rad (C) rad (D) rad.

18. The speed at the maximum height of a projectile is half of its initial speed u. Its range on the horizontal
plane is:

(A) (B) (C) (D)

19. Two billiard balls are rolling on a flat table. One has velocity components v x = 1m/s, vy = m/s and
the other has components vx = 2m/s and vy = 2 m/s. If both the balls start moving from the same point,
the angle between their path is -
(A) 60° (B) 45° (C) 22.5° (D) 15°

20. A boat is rowed across a river (perpendicular to river flow) at the rate of 9 km/hr. The river flows at the
rate of 12 km/hr. The velocity of boat in km/hr is:
(A) 14 (B) 15 (C) 16 (D) 17

21. A particle moving in straight line, traversed half the distance with a velocity v 0. The remaining part of
the distance was covered with velocity v 1 for half the time and with velocity v 2 for the other half of the
time. Mean velocity of the particle averaged over the whole time of motion comes out to be

, where a and b are positive integers. Find a + b.

22. A man walking with a speed v = 2 m/s constant in magnitude and direction passes under a lantern
hanging at a height H above the ground (consider lantern as a point source). Find the velocity in m/s
with which the edge of the shadow of the man's head moves over the ground, if his height is 'h' given
that H = 3h.

23. The displacement of a particle moving on a straight line is given by x = 16t – 2t 2. Distance travelIed by

the particle during the first 2 sec. is S1 and during first 6 sec. is S2. Find
24. A particle is thrown upwards from ground. It experiences a constant air resistance which can produce
a retardation of 2 m/s2 opposite to the direction of velocity of particle. The ratio of time of ascent to the

time of descent is . Where  and  are integers. Find minimum value of  +  [ g = 10 m/s2 ]

25. A lift is descending with uniform acceleration. To measure the acceleration, a person in the lift drops a
coin at the moment when lift was descending with speed 6 ft/s. The coin is 5 ft above the floor of the
lift at time it is dropped. The person observes that the coin strikes the floor in 1 second. Calculate from
these data, the acceleration of the lift in ft/s2. [Take g = 32 ft/s2]

26. Two small balls of masses 3m and 2m and each having charges Q are connected by a string passing
over a fixed pulley. Calculate the acceleration of the balls (in m/sec 2) if the whole assembly is located

in a uniform electric field E = acting vertically downwards. Neglect any interaction between the
balls. Take g = 10 m/s2

27. Two like charged, infinitely long parallel wires with the same linear charge density of 3 10-8 C/cm
are 2 cm apart. The work done against electrostatic force per unit length to be done in bringing them

closer by 1 cm is J/m: Find the integer closest to x.

28. A solid conductor sphere having a charge Q is surrounded by an uncharged concentric conducting
hollow spherical shell. Let the potential difference between the surface of the solid sphere and that of
the outer surface of the hollow shell be 30V. If the shell is now given a charge –3Q, the new potential
difference between the same two surfaces is x V Find the value of x :

29. Two identical particles of mass m carry a charge Q each. Initially, one is at rest on a smooth
horizontal plane and the other is projected along the plane directly towards the first particle from a

large distance, with a speed V. The closest distance of approach is . Find the value of x :

30. A hollow sphere having uniform charge density  (charge per unit volume) is shown in figure. If b = 2a

and potential difference between A and B is . Then find the value of n :