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SECTION I
Question 1
(a) Mention any two differences between the mass and weight of a body.
(b) State the amount of work done by an object when it moves in a circular path for one complete rotation. Give a reason to justify your answer.
(c) A uniform metre scale is kept in equilibrium when supported at the 60 cm mark and a mass M is suspended from the 90 cm mark as shown in the figure.
State with reasons, whether the weight of the scale is greater than, less than or equal to the weight of mass M.
(d) Draw a graph showing the relationship between acceleration and mass for a constant force.
(e) The speed-time graph of a moving car is as shown in the figure below:-
Calculate :-
(i) the distance covered by the car in 5 seconds.
(ii) the acceleration of the car.
Question 2
(a) Will the pressure exerted by water on a diver at a certain depth in the sea, be the same, more, or less than the pressure exerted on him in a river at the same depth? Justify your answer.
(b) Mention one similarity and one difference between the lens of a photographic camera and that of the human eye.
(c) An object is placed in front of a convex lens such that the image formed has the same size as that of the object. Draw a ray diagram to illustrate this.
(d) Give two reasons as to why copper is preferred over other metals for making calorimeters.
(e) Calculate the height through which a body of mass 0.5 kg should be lifted if the energy spent for doing so is 1.0 joule. (g = l0 ms-2).
Question 3
(a) Explain why musical instruments like the guitar are provided with a hollow box.
(b) A wire of uniform thickness with a resistance of 27 is cut into three equal piece and they are joined in parallel. Find the resistance of the parallel combination.
(c) Draw a labelled diagram of a three-pin socket.
(d) A room has window panes made of a special glass which can reflect green light, transmit red light, scatter blue light and absorb all the other colours of light. The room is illuminated with white light from the inside. What colour will the window pane appear when seen from:
i. inside the room
ii. outside the room ?
(e) What is Newton's colour disc ? What does the Newton's colour disc experiment establish about the nature of white light ?
SECTION II
Question 5
(a) Show that for the free fall of a body, the sum of the mechanical energy at any point in its path is constant.
(b) Name the type of single pulley that can act as a force multiplier. Draw a labelled diagram of the above named pulley.
(c) A pulley system has a velocity ratio of 4 and an efficiency of 90%.
Calculate :-
i. the mechanical advantage of the system.
ii. the effort required to raise a load of 300 N by the system.
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