Physics Test – Half Test - I

Topic: - NCERT BOOK-1

Time: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 70

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
(i) All questions are compulsory. There are 26 questions in all.
(ii) This question paper has five sections: Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D and
Section E.
(iii) Section A contains five questions of one mark each, Section B contains five questions of
two marks each, Section C contains twelve questions of three marks each, Section D
contains one value based question of four marks and Section E contains three questions
of five marks each.
(iv) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been provided in one
question of two marks, one question of three marks and all three questions of five marks.
You have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
(v) Use of calculators is not permitted. However, you may use log tables if necessary.

SECTION – A (1 mark each)

1. An electron does not suffer any deflection while passing through a region of magnetic field.
What is the direction of the magnetic field?
2. Why is induced electric field due to changing magnetic flux more readily observable than the
induced magnetic fields due to changing electric fields?
3. What happens to the drift velocity of electrons and to the resistance, if length of a conductor
is doubled keeping potential difference unchanged?
4. How can the rms voltage of an AC circuit be non-zero when its average value is zero?
Explain.
5. Define capacitor reactance. Write its S.I. units.

SECTION – B (2 mark each)

6. The oscillating magnetic field in a plane electromagnetic wave is given by

By = (8 × 10–6) sin [2 × 1011t + 300px] T
(i) Calculate the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave.
(ii) Write down the expression for the oscillating electric field.

7. Two circular segments of a metallic wire having radii r1 and r2 are joined to form a wire
loop. The two segments subtend an angle θ at the centre O. If a current I passes through the
wire loop in the direction as shown in figure, find the magnetic field at the centre O.

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 8. A magnetising field of 1500 A m–1 produces a flux of 2.4 × 10–5 weber in a bar of iron of
cross-sectional area 0.5 cm2. Calculate the permeability and susceptibility of the iron bar
used.
9. Consider two conducting spheres of radii R1 and R2 with R1 > R2. If the two are at the same
potential, the larger sphere has more charge than the smaller sphere. State whether the
charge density of the smaller sphere is more or less than that of the larger one.
10. A current I carrying loop consists of 3 identical quarter circles of radius R, lying in the positive
quadrants of the XY-, YZ- and ZX-planes with their centres at the origin, joined together. Find
the direction and magnitude of B at the origin.

SECTION – C (3 mark each)

11. Calculate the current drawn from the battery by the network of resistors shown in the given
figure.

12. (i) Can a capacitor of suitable capacitance replace a choke coil in an ac circuit?
(ii) A resistor of 200 Ω and a capacitor of 15 μF are connected in series to a 220 V, 50 Hz as
source. Find the rms voltage across the resistor and the capacitor.
13. From the network shown in figure, find the value of the capacitance C if the equivalent
capacitance between points A and B is to be 1 μF. All the capacitances are in μF.

14. In a potentiometer, a standard cell of emf 5 V and of negligible resistance maintains a steady
current through the potentiometer wire of length 5 m. Two primary cells of emf E1 and E2
are joined in series with (a) same polarity, and (b) opposite polarity. The combination is
connected through a galvanometer and a jockey to the potentiometer. The balancing
lengths in the two cases are found to be 350 cm and 50 cm respectively.
(i)Draw the necessary circuit diagram.
(ii) Find the value of the emfs of the two cells
15. Show that the frequency of revolution of a charged particle (in the x – y plane), in a uniform
magnetic field B( B  Bkˆ) , is independent of its speed. Which particle-machine makes use
of this fact? What is the frequency of the alternating electric field used in this machine?
16. Distinguish between soft and hard ferromagnetic materials. Draw their hysteresis loops.
Give examples of each type.

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 17. Two point charges + 4e and + e are fixed at a distance a apart. Where a third point charge q
should be placed on the line joining the two charges that it may be in equilibrium? In which
case the equilibrium will be stable and in which unstable?
18. Derive an expression for the torque on an electric dipole placed in a uniform electric field.
Hence define dipole moment.
19. In the figure, a long uniform potentiometer wire AB is having a constant potential gradient
along its length. The null points for the two primary cells of emfs e1 and e2 connected in the
manner shown are obtained at a distance of 120 cm and 300 cm from the end A. Find (i)
e1/e2 and (ii) position of null point for the cell e1. How is the sensitivity of a potentiometer
increased?

20. Using Kirchhoff’s rules determine the value of unknown resistance R in the circuit so that no
current flows through 4W resistance. Also find the potential difference between A and D.

21. Define the term electric potential due to a point charge. Find the electric potential at the
centre of a square of side 2m, having charges 100 mC, –50 mC, 20 mC and – 60 mC at the
four corners of the square.
22. A long solenoid S has n turns per meter, with diameter a. At the centre of this coil we place a
smaller coil of N turns and diameter b (where b < a). If the current in the solenoid increases
linearly, with time, what is the induced emf appearing in the smaller coil. Plot graph showing
nature of variation in emf, if current varies as a function of mt2 + C.

SECTION – D (4 mark each)

23. Mr. Sharma purchase heater marked with 80V – 800 W. He wanted to operate it on 100 V –
50 Hz ac supply. He calculated inductance of the choke required for operating that heater.
(a) Specify the nature of Mr. Sharma.
(b) How Mr. Sharma could have calculated the value of inductance? Explain.

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SECTION – E (5 mark each)

24. Describe briefly, with the help of a labelled diagram, the basic elements of an A.C. generator.
State its underlying principle. Show diagrammatically how an alternating emf is generated by
a loop of wire rotating in a magnetic field. Write the expression for the instaneous value of
the emf induced in the rotating loop.

OR

A series LCR circuit is connected to an source having voltage v = vm sin t . Derive the
expression for the instantaneous current I and its phase relationship to the applied voltage.
Obtain the condition for resonance to occur. Define ‘power factor’. State the conditions
under which it is (i) maximum and (ii) minimum.

25. (a) Derive the expression for the torque on a rectangular current carrying loop suspended in
a uniform magnetic field. (b) A proton and a deuteron having equal momenta enter in a
region of uniform magnetic field at right angle to the direction of the field. Depict their
trajectories in the field.
OR
(a) A small compass needle of magnetic moment ‘m’ is free to turn about an axis
perpendicular to the direction of uniform magnetic field ‘B’. The moment of inertia of the
needle about the axis is ‘I’. The needle is slightly disturbed from its stable position and then
released. Prove that it executes simple harmonic motion. Hence deduce the expression for
its time period.
(b) A compass needle, free to a turn in a vertical plane orients itself with its axis vertical at a
certain place on the earth. Find out the values of (i) horizontal component of earth’s
magnetic field and (ii) angle of dip at the place.

26. (a) State the working principle of a potentiometer. With the help of the circuit diagram,
explain how a potentiometer is used to compare the e.m.f.’s of two primary cells. Obtain the
required expression used for comparing the e.m.f.’s.
(b) Write two possible causes for one sided deflection in a potentiometer experiment.
OR

(a) State Kirchhoff’s rules for an electric network. Using Kirchhoff’s rules, obtain the balance
condition in terms of the resistances of four arms of Wheatstone bridge.
(b) In the meter bridge experimental set up, shown in the figure, the null point ‘D’ is
obtained at a distance of 40 cm from end A of the meter bridge. If a resistance of 10
connected in series with R1, null point is obtained at AD = 60 cm. Calculate the values of R1
and R2.

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