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XI-CBSE

Physics Units & Measurements

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1) A car covered a distance at 182 Km from Delhi to Agra in 5.5 hours. What is its average speed? Express it in appropriate number of significance figures. 2) Fill in the blanks by suitable conversion of units (a) 1 kg m2 s-2 = g cm2 s-2 (b) 1 m = ..... ly (c) 3.0 m s-2 = .... km h-2 (d) G = 6.67 10-11 N m2 (Kg)-2 =..(cm)3 s-2 g-1 3) State the number of significant figures in the following : (a) 0.007 m2 (b) 2.64 1024kg (c) 0.2370 g cm-3 (d) 6.320 J (e) 6.032 N m-2 (f) 0.0006032 m 4) The length, breadth and thickness of a rectangular sheet of metal are 4.234 m, 1.005 m, and 2.01 cm respectively. Give the area and volume of the sheet to correct significant figures. 5) Youngs modulus of steel is 200 GPa. Express it in dynes cm2. Here dynes are the C.G.S unit of force. 6) The moon is observed from two diametrically opposite points A and B on the earth. The angle subtended at the moon by the two directions of observation is 154. Given the diameter of the earth to be about 1.276X10m. Compute the distance of the moon from the earth 7) learn units for all the physical quantities 8) learn to derive dimensional formulae for all the physical quantities 9) The moon subtends an angle of 57 minutes at the base line equal to the radius of the earth. What is the distance of the moon from earth? Radius of earth = 6.4 x 106m. 10) The length, breadth and thickness of a rectangular sheet of metal are 4.234 m, 1.005 m, and 2.01 cm respectively. Give the area and volume of the sheet to correct significant figures. Kinematics 11) The kinetic energy of an object can never be negative. Why? 12) A car and a truck are moving on a level road so that their linear momenta are equal. Which one is moving faster? 13) Two projectiles A and B are projected with velocities 2 v and v respectively. They have the same range. If A is thrown at angle of 150 with the horizontal, then what is the angle of projection of B? 14) An object is projected at an angle 300 with the horizontal with a velocity v so that the range is R. What is the other angle of projection with the same velocity for which range is same? 15) Define uniform velocity of an object moving along a straight line. What will be shape of velocity time and position time graphs of such a motion? 16) A projectile is thrown with a velocity 5 m/s at an angle of 30 with the horizontal. What is the maximum height attained by it? (Take g=10ms-2). 17) Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 35m/s. A man is running with a speed of 12 m/s in east to west direction. What is the speed and direction of rain w.r.t man. 18) A person standing on a road has to hold his umbrella at 600 with the vertical to keep the rain away. He throws the umbrella and starts running at 20 ms1.He finds that rain drops are hitting his head vertically. Find the speed of the rain drops with respect to (a) the road (b) the moving person. 19) What is centripetal acceleration? Find its magnitude and direction in case of uniform circular motion of an object.(b) The kinetic energy K of a particle moving along a circle of radius r depends upon the distance covered (s) as, K=a.s2 . What is the force acting on the particle? 20) What is the ratio of A.B to A X B when angle between A and B is 300? 21) Rain is falling vertically with a speed of 30m/s. A man is running with a speed of 10 m/s from west to east. What is the direction what is the direction in which he should hold the umbrella?

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XI-CBSE

Physics

Revision worksheet-1

22) A balloon is ascending at the rate of 4.9m/s. A pocket is dropped from the balloon when situated at a height of 245m. How long does it take the packet to reach the ground? What is its final velocity? 23) A car moving on a straight highway with speed of 126km/hr. is brought to stop within a distance of 200m. What is the retardation of the car (assumed uniform) and how long does it take for the car to stop? 24) A particle is moving along a straight line and its position is given by the relation x = (t3 - 6t 2 -15t + 40)m Find (a) The time at which velocity is zero. (b) Position and displacement of the particle at that point. (c) Acceleration for the particle at that line. 25) Two balls are thrown simultaneously, A vertically upwards with a speed of 20 m/s from the ground and B vertically downwards from a height of 40 m with the same speed and along the same line of action. At what points do the balls collide? (Take g=10ms). 26) A stone is dropped from the top of a cliff and is found to ravel 44.1m diving the last second before it reaches the ground. What is the height of the cliff? g = 9.8m/s2 27) State and prove triangular law of vector addition? 28) State and prove parallelogram law of vector addition 29) A body of mass m is thrown with velocity 'u ' at angle of 300 to the horizontal and another body B of the same mass is thrown with velocity u at an angle of 600 to the horizontal. Find the ratio of the horizontal range and maximum height of A and B? 30) At what point of projectile motion (i) potential energy maximum (ii) Kinetic energy maximum (iii) total mechanical energy is maximum 31) (a) Derive the equation S = ut + at2 using graphical method. (b) A ball is thrown vertically upward with a velocity 20 m/s from the top of a multistory building. The height of the point from where the ball is thrown is 25 m from the ground, i) How high the ball rise? ii) With what velocity strike the ground ? 32) (a)Show that the path followed by a projectile fired horizontally is parabolic. (b) Show that for two complementary angles of projection of a projectile thrown with the same velocity. The horizontal ranges are equal. (c) For what angle of projection of a projectile the horizontal range is maximum.

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