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CBSE Class 11 Physics Practice Paper Set VIII

Practice Paper
Class XI
Subject Physics
Set VIII
Time: 3 Hours Maximum Marks: 70
General Instructions

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(a) All questions are compulsory.

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(b) There are 26 questions in all. Question number 1 to 5 carry one mark each, question number

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6 to 10 carry two marks each, question number 11 to 22 carry three marks each, question

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number 23 carry four marks and question number 24 to 26 carry 5 marks each.

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(c) There is no overall choice. However, internal choices have been provided in some questions.
(d) Use of calculator is not permitted.

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Question 1: Name the state of matter has volume elasticity?

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Question 2: Explain why railway tracks are laid on large sized wooden, iron or cement sleepers.

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Question 3: What is the effect of temperature on thermal conductivity of substances?

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Question 4: Explain the effect of solute on the surface tension of liquid?

Question 5: What is the Bulk modulus for a perfect rigid body?

Question 6: If a capillary tube is dipped in water in a state of weightlessness, will the rise of
water in capillary tube be different to the observed under normal condition?

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Question 7: A hollow rod and a solid rod of same length, same material and same outer diameter
are given same amount of heat. Which will show less expansion and why?

Question 8: Find the height of mercury level in a barometer which is set up in a sealed cabin on
the moon containing air at our usual atmospheric pressure.

Question 9: Two absolute scales X and Y have triple points of water defined to be 200 X and

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350 Y. What is the relation between TX and TY?

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sometime the temperature become constant. Explain.

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Question 9: When we switch on an electric heater then heat is generated continuously but after

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Question 10: Explain the difference between solid friction and viscosity.

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Question 11: Is the rate of cooling the same thing as the rate of loss of heat? Explain with

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reason.

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Question 12: Compute the fractional change in volume of a glass slab, when subjected to a
hydraulic pressure of 10 atmospheres. Bulk modulus of elasticity of glass = 37 109 Nm-2 and 1
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atm = 1.013 10 Pa.

Question 13: A soap bubble of radius r is blown up to form a bubble of radius 3 r under
isothermal conditions. What is the energy spent in doing so if the surface tension of soap solution
is S.

Question 14: 10 g of ice is added in 40 g of water at 15oC. Calculate the temperature of the
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mixture. Sp. Heat of water = 4.2 10 J kg and latent heat of fusion of ice = 3.36 10 J kg .

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CBSE Class 11 Physics Practice Paper Set VIII

Question 14: If a drop of liquid breaks into smaller droplets, it results in lowering of temperature
of droplets. Let a drop of radius R, break into N droplets each of radius r. Find the drop in
temperature.

Question 15: The youngs modulus for steel is much more than that for rubber. For the same
longitudinal strain, which one will have greater tensile stress?

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Question 16: Cooling curves are drawn for three liquids a, b, c shown in the figure given below.
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For which liquid specific heat is least?

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Question 17: The free surface of oil in a tanker, at rest, is horizontal. If the tanker starts
accelerating the free surface of oil will be titled by an angle and the acceleration is a ms then,
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find the slope of the free surface?

Question 18: A body initially at 80oC cools to 64oC in 5 minutes and to 52oC in 10 minutes.
What is the temperature of the surroundings?

Question 19: Two soap bubbles of radii r1 and r2 are in contact. Derive an expression to find the
radius of the interface when these bubbles are in contact.

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CBSE Class 11 Physics Practice Paper Set VIII

Question 20: Draw a graph showing the variation of monochromatic emittance (E) of the black
body with the wavelength () of the radiation emitted. Also explain each curve in the graph.

Question 21: The tension in a string holding a solid block below the surface of a liquid (as
shown in the figure is T0. What will be the tension in the string if the system has upward
acceleration ?

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Question 22: Two syringes of different cross-sections (without needles) filled with water are

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connected with a tightly fitted rubber tube filled with water. Diameters of the smaller piston and

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larger piston are 1.0 cm and 3.0 cm respectively.

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(a) Find the force on the larger piston when a force of 10 N is applied to the smaller piston.

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(b) The smaller piston is pushed in through 6.0 cm, how much does the larger piston move out?

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Question 23: One day Harioms little brother was crying. He took a piece of camphor and put it
in water. By seeing the camphor piece dancing on the surface of water, his little brother stopped
crying.
(a)Why do small piece of camphor dance on the surface of water?
(b) What qualities you observed in Hariom?

Question 24: Derive an expression to find the expression of elastic potential energy stored in a
stretched wire. An aluminium wire of 4.0 m in length is stretched through 2.0 mm. The area of
cross-section of the wire is 2 mm2 . If Youngs modulus of aluminium wire is 2.0 1011 N/m2
then, calculate the elastic potential energy stored in the wire.

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Question 24: Derive an expression to calculate the excess pressure inside an air bubble in a
liquid. An air bubble of radius 1 mm is inside a liquid. The surface of the liquid is 0.075 N/m and
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density 10 Kg/m . Calculate the excess pressure inside the bubble if the bubble is at a depth of
0.1 m from the surface of the liquid.

Question 25: What is a perfect black body? What do you understand by black body radiations?
State and explain Stefans law?

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Question 25: Point out the basic differences between convection, conduction and radiation?

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Which is the fastest mode of heat transfer and why?

Question 26: What do you understand by intermolecular forces? How many types of

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intermolecular forces are there? With the help of a graph explain its variation with intermolecular

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distance.

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Question 26: State and prove Bernoullis theorem. What are the limitations of Bernoullis

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theorem? Water is flowing with a speed of 1 m/s in a horizontal pipe with cross-sectional area

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decreasing from 0.02 m to 0.01 m at pressure 200 Pascal. Find the pressure at smaller cross-

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section?

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