June - 2019 - Question
June - 2019 - Question
June - 2019 - Question
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Q5. The nine numbers x1 , x2 , x3 ...x9 , are in ascending order. Their average m is strictly greater
than all the first eight numbers. Which of the following is true?
(a) Average x1 , x2 ...x9 , m m and Average x2 , x3 ,...x9 m
Q6. Which among the following diagrams represents women, mothers, human beings?
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Q7. A boy and a girl make the following statements, of which at most one is correct:
The one in a white shirt says: “I am a girl” (statement – I)
The one in a blue shirt says: “I am a boy” (statement – II)
Which of the following is the correct inference?
(a) Statement – I is correct but statement – II is incorrect
(b) Statement – II is correct but statement – I is incorrect
(c) Both statement I and II are incorrect
(d) The correctness of the statements I and II cannot be ascertained
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Q13. An open rectangular box is made by excluding the four identical corners of a piece of
paper as shown in the diagram and folding it along the dotted lines
10 cm
10 cm
40 cm
40 cm
3
The capacity of the box (in cm ) is
(a) 8000 (b) 1000 (c) 4000 (d) 6000
Q14. Which of the following is the largest?
250 ,340 , 430 ,520
0, 0 Energy spent
The ratio of energy gained to energy spent will be the maximum
(a) At a point where the slope of the curve is the maximum
(b) At a point where the slope of the curve is unity
(c) At a point on the curve where the tangent passes through the origin
(d) At the highest point on the curve
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Q16. The length of a cylinder is measured 10 times yielding 10 distinct values. For this set of
values, consider the following statements
A. Five of these values will lie above the mean and five below it
B. Five of these values will lie above median and five below it
C. At least one value will lie above the mean
D. At least one value will lie at the median
Which of the statements are necessarily correct?
(a) B and C (b) A and C (c) B and D (d) A,C and D
Q17. In the given circle, O is the centre, PAO 40o , PBQ 30o and outer angle
AOB 220o . P Q
Then AQB is 0
30
0 0
40 220
O
B
A
A B
G2
Water flows from A to B through two channels. Gates G1 and G2 , are operated
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Q20. Point A on a wheel of radius r touches the horizontal plane at point P . It rolls without
slipping, till point A is at the highest position in the first turn. What is the final distance
AP ? A
A
P
initial final
(a) 2r (b) r 1
2
(c) r 4
2
(d) 2r 1
2
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PART- B
Q21. An object is dropped on a cushion from a height 10 m above it. On being hit, the cushion
is depressed by 0.1 m . Assuming that the cushion provides a constant resistive force, the
deceleration of the object after hitting the cushion, in terms of the acceleration due to
gravity g is
(a) 10 g (b) 50 g (c) 100 g (d) g
Q22. A turn-table is rotating with a constant angular velocity 0 . In the rotating frame fixed to
the turntable, a particle moves radially outwards at a constant speed v0 . The acceleration
of the particle in the r coordinates, as seen from an inertial frame, the origin of which is
at the centre of the turntable, is
(a) r02 rˆ (b) 2r02 rˆ v00ˆ
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Q25. The infinite square-well potential of a particle in a box of size a is modified as shown in
the figure below (assume a )
a
The energy of the ground state, compared to the ground state energy before the
perturbation was added
(a) Increases by a team of order (b) Decreases by a term of order
(c) Increases by a term of order 2 (d) Decreases by a term of order 2
Q26. A quantum particle of mass m in one dimension, confined to a rigid box as shown in the
figure, is in its ground state. An infinitesimally thin wall is very slowly raised to infinity
at the centre of the box, in such a way that the system remains in its ground state at all
times. Assuming that no energy is lost in raising the wall, the work done on the system
when the wall is fully raised, eventually separating the original box into two
compartments, is
L O L L O L
3
2 2
2 2
2 2
(a) (b) (c) (d) 0
8mL2 8mL 2
2mL2
Q27. The wavefunction of a free particle of mass m , constrained to move in the interval
L x L , is x A L x L x , where A is the normalization constant. The
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probability that the particle will be found to have the energy is
2mL2
1 1 1
(a) 0 (b) (c) (d)
2 2 3
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a b x
V1
V2
If the particle was moving from x to x , which of the following graphs gives
the best qualitative representation of the wavefunction of this particle?
x x
(a) (b)
x x
a b a b
(c) x (d) x
x x
a b a b
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Q30. Consider a planar wire loop as an n -sided regular polygon, in which R is the distance
from the centre to a vertex. If a steady current I flows through the wire, the magnitude of
the magnetic field at the centre of the Loop is
0 I 2 0 nI 0 nI 2 0 nI
(a) sin (b) sin (c) tan (d) tan
2R n 4 R n 2 R n 2 R n
Q31. Two coherent plane electromagnetic waves of wavelength 0.5 m (both have the same
amplitude and are linearly polarized along the z -direction) fall on the y 0 plane. Their
wave vectors k1 and k1 are as shown in the figure
y
k1 k 2
If the angle is 30o , the fringe spacing of the interference pattern produced on the plane
is
(a) 1.0 m (b) 0.29 m (c) 0.58 m (d) 0.5 m
Q32. Which of the following is not a correct boundary condition at an interface between two
homogeneous dielectric media? (In the following n̂ is a unit vector normal to the
interface, and js , are the surface charge and current densities, respectively.)
(a) nˆ D1 D2 0
(b) nˆ H1 H 2 js
(c) n̂ D1 D2
(d) nˆ B1 B2 0
Q33. The permittivity tensor of a uniaxial anisotropic medium, in the standard Cartesian basis,
4 0 0 0
is 0 4 0 0 where 0 is a constant. The wave number of an electromagnetic
0 9 0
0
plane wave polarized along the x -direction, and propagating along the y -direction in
this medium (in terms of the wave number k0 of the wave in vacuum) is
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Q34. The element of a 3 3 matrix A are the products if its row and column indices Aij ij
14 14 14
(a) 7, 7, 0 (b) 7, 4,3 (c) 14, 0, 0 (d) , ,
3 3 3
Q35. In the following circuit, each device D may be an insulator with probability p or a
(b) 1 p
4
(a) 2 p p 3
(c) 1 p p 2
2
(d) 1 p 1 p 3
dy
Q36. The solution of the differential equation x 1 x y e x with the boundary
dx
condition y x 1 0 , is
(a)
x 1 e x (b)
x 1 e x
x x2
(c)
1 x e x (d) x 1 e x
2
2
x
d
Q37. The value of the definite integral
0 5 4 cos
is
4 2
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 3 3
Q38. In a system comprising of approximately 1023 distinguishable particles, each particle may
occupy any of 20 distinct states. The maximum value of the entropy per particle is
nearest to
(a) 20k B (b) 3k B (c) 10 ln 2 k B (d) 20 ln 2 k B
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T1 T1 T2
(a) (b)
P(Vx)
P(Vx)
T2
0 0
Vx Vx
(c) (d)
P(Vx)
T1 T2 P(Vx) T1 T2
0 0
Vx Vx
Q40. The equation of state of an ideal gas is pV RT . At very low temperatures, the volume
1 V
expansion coefficient at constant pressure
V T
1 1
(a) Diverges as (b) Diverges as
T2 T
(c) Vanishes as T (d) Is independent of the temperature
1 2
Q41. The Hamiltonian of a classical nonlinear one dimensional oscillator is H p x4 ,
2m
where 0 is a constant. The specific heat of a collection of a collection of N
independent such oscillators is
3Nk B 3Nk B Nk B
(a) (b) (c) Nk B (d)
2 4 2
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Q42. In an experiment to measure the acceleration due to gravity g using a simple pendulum,
the length and time period of the pendulum are measured to three significant figures. The
mean value of g and the uncertainty g of the measurements are then estimated using a
3
0
2 t
The power dissipated across the resistor is
(a) 12.5W (b) 9W (c) 25 W (d) 21.5W
Q44. An npn -transistor is connected in a voltage divider configuration as shown in the figure
below. 20V
RC 5 k
R1 80 k
C
50
B
R2 20 k E
RE 1k
If the resistor R2 is disconnected, the voltages VB at the base and VC at the collector
change as follows.
(a) both VB and VC increase (b) both VB and VC decrease
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PART - C
Q45. Let Y denote the output in the following logical Circuit.
A
G1
B
G2 Y
C
D
If Y AB C D , the gates G1 and G2 must, respectively, be
(a) OR and NAND (b) NOR and OR
(c) AND and NAND (d) NAND and OR
Q46. A solid spherical Cork of radius R and specific gravity 0.5 floats on water. The cork is
pushed down so that its Centre of mass is at a distance h (where 0 h R ) below the
surface of water, and Then released. The volume of the part of the cork above water level
2 1
is R 3 cos 0 cos3 0 where 0 is the angle as shown in the figure.
3 3
Water level
h 0
R
At the moment of release, the dependence of the upward force on the cork on h is
3 3 3 3
h 1 h h 1 h h 2 h h 2 h
(a) (b) (c) (d)
R 3 R R 3 R R 3 R R 3 R
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Q47. Two particles of masses m1 and m2 are connected by a massless thread of length l as
g m2
The particle of mass in on the plane undergoes a circular motion with radius r0 and
its radial coordinate is found to oscillate about r0 . The frequency of the oscillations is
dt 4
2 2 d x
dt 2
4 A4 x 0
For A , the particle will
(a) Eventually come to rest at the origin
(b) Eventually drift to infinity x
2m
are positive constants. The energy En of the nth level for large n , depends on n as
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Q50. In the partial wave expansion, the differential scattering cross-section is given by
2
d
d cos
2l 1 e
l
i i
sin l Pl cos
where is the scattering angle. For a certain neutron-nucleus scattering. It is found that
the two lowest phase shifts 0 and 1 corresponding to s -wave and p -wave,
0
respectively, satisfy 1 . Assuming that the other phase shifts are negligibly small,
2
the differential cross-section reaches its minimum for cos equal to
2 1
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) cos 2 1 (d) cos 2 1
3 3
Q51. A charged, spin-less particle of mass m is subjected to an attractive potential
V x, y , z
1
2
k x 2 y 2 z 2 , where k is a positive constant. Now a perturbation in the
form of a weak magnetic field B B0 kˆ (where B0 is a constant) is switched on. Into how
many distinct levels will the second excited state of the unperturbed Hamiltonian split?
(a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 1
Q52. The elastic scattering of a charged particle of mass m off an atom can be approximated
by the potential V r e r / R where and R are positive constants.
r
If the wave number of the incoming particle is k and the scattering angle is 2 , the
differential cross-section in the Born approximation is
m 2 2 R 4 m 2 2 R 4
(a) (b)
4 4 1 k 3 R 2 sin 2
4 2k 2 R 2 sin 2
2
2m 2 2 R 4 4m 2 2 R 4
(c) (d)
4 2k 2 R 2 2sin 2
4 1 4k 2 R 2 sin 2
2
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Q53. The wave number k and the angular frequency of a wave are related by the dispersion
relation 2 k k 3 where and are positive constants. The wave number for
which the phase velocity equals the group velocity, is
1 1
(a) 3 (b) (c) (d)
2 3
Q54. A inertial observer A at rest measures the electric and magnetic field E , 0, 0 and
and B , By , . Then in units c 1, Ex and By are given, respectively, by
L L
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x 2 x A cos t ,
Q57. The equation of motion of a forced simple harmonic oscillator is
where A is a constant. At resonance the amplitude of oscillations at large times
(a) saturates to a finite value (b) increases with time as t
(c) increases linearly with time (d) increases exponentially with time
2 1 1
Q58. The operator A has a matrix representation in the basis spanned by and
1 2 0
0 1 1 1 1
. In another basis spanned by and , the matrix representation of A
1 2 1 2 1
is
2 0 3 0 3 1 3 0
(a) (b) (c) (d)
0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1
d
Q59. The operator x x , where x is the Dirac delta function, acts on the space of real
dx
-valued square-integrable functions on the real line. This operator is equivalent to
(a) x (b) x (c) x (d) 0
Q60. At each time step, a random walker in one dimension either remains at the same point
1 3
with probability , or moves by a distance to the right or left with probabilities
4 8
each. After N time steps, its root mean squared displacement is
9N 3N 3N
(a) N (b) (c) (d)
16 4 8
Q61. The Hamiltonian of three Ising spins S1 , S 2 and S3 , each taking values 1 , is
H J S1S 2 S 2 S3 hS1 , where J and h are positive constants. The mean value of
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the band gap of the semiconductor, V is the voltage drop across the diode, T is the
temperature of the diode operating near room temperature and, and K are constants.
A diode is used as a thermal sensor in the circuit shown below.
V
I
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3a0
(a) a0 (b) (c) 3a0 (d) 2a0
2
Q67. A bound electron and hole pair interacting via Coulomb interaction in a semiconductor is
called an exciton. The effective masses of an electron and a hole are about 0.1 me and
0.5me respectively, where me is the rest mass of the electron. The dielectric constant of
the semiconductor is 10 . Assuming that the energy levels of the excitons are hydrogen-
like, the binding energy of an exciton (in units of the Rydberg constant) is closest to
(a) 2 103 (b) 2 104 (c) 8 104 (d) 3 103
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Q68. Consider an array of atoms in one dimension with an ensemble averaged periodic density
distribution as shown in the figure.
x
1/
a 2a 3a 4a x
If k is the wave number and S k , denotes the Fourier transform of the density-
S k,
density correlation function, the ratio is
S k , 0
k k
(a) cos (b) cos 2
2 2
2 k 4 k
(c) sin (d) sin 2
k 2 k 2
2
2
Q69. A doubly charged ion in the angular momentum state J 2, J 3 1 meets a gas of
1
polarized electrons S3 and gets neutralized. If the orbital angular momentum
2
transferred in the process is zero, the probability that the neutral atom is in the
J 2, J 3 2 state is
2 2 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
5 3 5 3
o
Q70. The range of the inter-atomic potential in gaseous hydrogen is approximately 5 A . In
thermal equilibrium, the maximum temperature for which the atom-atom scattering is
dominantly s -wave, is
(a) 500 K (b) 100 K (c) 1 K (d) 1mK
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Q71. The energy levels corresponding to the rotational motion of a molecule are
E J BJ J 1 cm 1 where J 0,1, 2,... , and B is a constant. Pure rotational Raman
transitions follow the selection rule J 0, 2 . When the molecule is irradiated, the
parity 0 state. If the mean life-time of this decay is 1022 s , the spin-parity of the excited
state of the nucleus is
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 0 (d) 4
Q74. The elastic scattering of a neutrino e by an electron e , i.e. the reaction
GF d 3 x e x e x e x e x
1
H int
2
The cross-section of the above process depends on the centre of mass energy E , as
1
(a) (b) E 2 (c) E (d) E
E2
Q75. The mean life-time of the following decays:
0 , 0 , e e v , are , and respectively.
They satisfy
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
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