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Objective questions

Moderate
1. Identify which of the following quantities is not a vector:

(a) Force, (b) momentum, (c) acceleration (d) work, (e) weight.
Answer: d
2. Which of the following is not a scalar field?
(a) Displacement of a mosquito in space
(b) Light intensity in a drawing room
(c) Temperature distribution in your classroom
(d) Atmospheric pressure in a given region
(e) Humidity of a city
Answer: a
3. Which of these is correct?
(a) A X A = |A|2
(b) A X B + B X A = 0
(c) A • B • C = B • C • A
(d) ax..ay = az
(e) ak = ax - ay
where ak is a unit vector.
Answer: b
4. Which of the following identities is not valid?
(a) a(b + c) = ab + bc
(b) a X (b + c) = a X b + a X c
(c) a • b = b • a
(d) c • (a X b) = - b • (a X c)
(e) aA • aB = cos θAB
Answer: a
5. Let F = 2ax – 6ay + 10az and G = ax + Gy ay + 5az. If F and G have the same unit
vector, Gy is
(a) 6 (c) 0
(b) - 3 (d) 6
Answer: b
6. Given that A = ax + α ay + az and B = α ax + ay + az, if A and B are normal to
each other, α is
(a) - 2 (b) -1/2 (c) 0 (d) 1 (e) 2
Answer: b
7. The component of 6ax + 2ay -3az along 3ax — 4ay
(a) -12ax - 9ay - 3az
(b) 30ax - 40ay
(c) 10/7
(d) 2
Answer: d

8. Given A =- 6ax + 3ay + 2az, the projection of A along ay is


(a) -12
(b) - 4
(c) 3
(d) 7

Answer: c

9. Which of the following is a meaningless combination?


(a) grad div
(b) div curl
(c) curl divergence
(d) curl grad
(e) div curl
Answer: c
10. Which of the following is zero?
(a) grad div
(b) div grad
(c) curl grad
(d) curl curl
Answer:c

11 Given field A = 3x2yz ax + x3z ay + (x3y - 2z)az, it can be said that A is


(a) Harmonic
(b) Divergenceless
(c) Solenoidal
(d) Rotational
(e) Conservative
Answer: e

Easy

11. Stokes's theorem is applicable only when a closed path exists and the
vector field and its derivatives are continuous within the path.
(a) True
(b) False
(c) Not necessarily
(d)
Answer: a
12. If a vector field Q is solenoidal, which of these is true?

Answer: b
13. The curl of a vector field A =2y ax
(a) -2 az
(b) 2ay
(c) 2ax
(d) 3ax

Answer: a

14. The divergence of A=2x ax


(a) 3
(b) 2
(c ) 4
(e) 5

Answer: 2
15. If C= A-B, then dot product of C with itself

(a) C2 = A2+ B2-2ABcosθ


(b) C2 = A2- B2-2ABcosθ
(c) C2 = A2+ B2+2ABcosθ
(d) C2 = A2- B2+2ABcosθ
Answer: a

16. Find The gradient of r  x 2  y 2  z 2

(a) r  (b) 2 r  (c) 3 r  (d) 4 r  3 r^


Answer: a
17. A =-y ax + x ay, the curl of A
(a) 2 az (b) 3az (c) -2az (d) -3az
Answer: a

18. Laplacian of the scalar fields V = x2y + xyz


(a) 2x
(b) 2y
(c) 3z
(d) 3y

Answer: b

19. For solenoidal field A


(a)   A  0
(b) .A  0
(c)   (  A)  0
(d)  2 A  0
Answer: b
20. For irrotational field A
(a)   A  0
(b) .A  0
(c)   (  A)  0
(d)  2 A  0
Answer: a

21.   (  A) is
(a)   A   2 A
(b)   A   2 A
(c )   A   . A
(d)   A    A
Answer: a
22. Laplacian of V,  2V is
(a)   v
(b) .v 
(c)   v  v
(d)   v  v
Answer: b
23. Given W = x2y2 + xyz,  W at (2,-1,0)
(a) 4ax-8ay-2az
(b) 3ax-8ay-3az
(c ) 2ax-8ay-2az

(d) 3ax-8ay-2az
Answer: a
24. A position vector is given by A=3ax+4ay+5az, the unit vector in the direction of
the position vector is
(a) 0.424 ax+0.707 ay+0.566 az
(b) 0.566ax+0.707 ay+0.424 az
(c ) 0.707ax+0.424 ay+0.566az
(e) 0.424ax+0.566 ay+0.707az
Answer: d
25. A vector is given by A= 6ax+pay+8az, if the unit vector along A is
0.424ax+0.707ay+0.566az. What should be the value of P?
(a) 6 (b) 8 (c ) 10 (d) 12

Answer: c

Difficult

26. Two vectors are given by A= 3ax+4ay and B= 5ax+12ay. The angle between the
vectors is nearest to

(a) 120 (b) 140 (c) 160 (d) 180


Answer: b
27. Two vectors are described by A=2ax+3ay+6az and B=pax+qay+9az. For the
vectors to be parallel the value of p and q should be
(a) p=3, q=3 (b) p=3, q=9 (c) p=4.5,q=3 (d) p=3, q=4.5
Answer: d
28. The angle between two vectors A= 3ax+4ay and B=pax+qay is 150, What is the
ratio of p to q?
(a) 1.732 (b) - 1.732 (c) 0.677 (d) -0.577
Answer: a
29. A scalar function is given by v=xyz. The magnitude of the gradient at (1,-1,1)
is equal to
(a) 2 3 (b) 3 / 2 (c) 1 / 3 (d) 3

Answer: d
30. The divergence of A=xy(ax+ay) at (1,3) is equal to
(a) 1 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 2

Answer: b

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