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SUCCESS STUDY CIRCLE

ASSIGNMENT (PHYSICS)
NO………………………………………………NAME………………………………………………DAT
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1. If pressure at half the depth of a lake is equal to 2/3 pressure at the bottom of the lake then what is the depth of the
lake
(a) 10 m (b) 20 m (c) 60 m (d) 30 m
2. Two solids A and B float in water. It is observed that A floats with half its volume immersed and B floats with 2/3
of its volume immersed. Compare the densities of A and B
(a) 4:3 (b) 2:3 (c) 3: 4 (d) 1:3
3. A U-tube in which the cross-sectional area of the limb on the left is one quarter, the limb on the right contains
mercury
(density 13.6 g/cm3). The level of mercury in the narrow limb is at a distance of 36 cm from the upper end of the
tube.
What will be the rise in the level of mercury in the right limb if the left limb is filled to the top with water
(a) 1.2 cm (b) 2.35 cm (c) 0.56 cm (d) 0.8 cm
4. Equal masses of water and a liquid of density 2 are mixed together, then the mixture has a density of
(a) 2/3 (b) 4/3 (c) 3/2 (d) 3
5. A metallic block of density 5 gm cm–3 and having dimensions 5 cm × 5 cm × 5 cm is weighed in water. Its apparent
weight will be
(a) 5 × 5 × 5 × 5 gf (b) 4 × 4 × 4 × 4 gf (c) 5 × 4 × 4 × 4 gf (d) 4 × 5 × 5
× 5 gf
6. An iceberg is floating in sea water. The density of ice is 0.92 gm/cm3 and that of sea water is 1.03g/cm3. What
percentage of the iceberg will be below the surface of water
(a) 3% (b) 11% (c) 89% (d) 92%
7. A silver ingot weighing 2.1 kg is held by a string so as to be completely immersed in a liquid of relative density 0.8.
The relative density of silver is 10.5. The tension in the string in kg-wt is
(a) 1.6 (b) 1.94 (c) 3.1 (d) 5.25
8. Why a small iron needle sinks in water while a large iron ship floats ?
9. A man is sitting in a boat which is floating in a pond. If the man drinks some water from the pond, what will
happen to the level of water in the pond?
10. A cubical block is floating in a liquid with half of its volume immersed in the liquid. When the whole system
accelerates upwards with acceleration of g/3, the fraction of volume immersed in the liquid will be
1 3 2 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 8 3 4
11. A sample of metal weighs 210 gm in air, 180 gm in water and 120 gm in liquid. Then relative density (RD) of
1
(a) Metal is 3 (b) Metal is 7 (c) Liquid is 3 (d) Liquid is
3
12. Two solids A and B float in water. It is observed that A floats with half its volume immersed and B floats with 2/3
of its volume immersed. Compare the densities of A and B
(a) 4 : 3 (b) 2 : 3 (c) 3 : 4 (d) 1 : 3
13. A vessel contains oil (density = 0.8 gm/cm3) over mercury (density = 13.6 gm/cm3). A homogeneous sphere floats
with half of its volume immersed in mercury and the other half in oil. The density of the material of the sphere
in gm/cm3 is [IIT-JEE 198
(a) 3.3 (b) 6.4 (c) 7.2 (d) 12.8
14. Why does a uniform wooden stick or log float horizontally? If enough iron is added to one end, it will float
vertically; explain this also.
15. An ice cube is floating in beaker of water .When ice melts the water level will be
(a) rise (b) go down (c) remains constant (d) rise or fall depending on size of cube
16. The pressure at the bottom of a tank containing a liquid does not depend on [Kerala (Engg.) 2002]
(a) Acceleration due to gravity (b) Height of the liquid column
(c) Area of the bottom surface (d) Nature of the liquid
17. When a large bubble rises from the bottom of a lake to the surface. Its radius doubles. If atmospheric pressure
is equal to that of column of water height H, then the depth of lake is
(a) H (b) 2H (c) 7H (d) 8H
18. The volume of an air bubble becomes three times as it rises from the bottom of a lake to its surface. Assuming
atmospheric pressure to be 75 cm of Hg and the density of water to be 1/10 of the density of mercury, the depth
of the lake is [AMU 1995]
(a) 5 m (b) 10 m (c) 15 m (d) 20 m
19. The value of g at a place decreases by 2%. The barometric height of mercury
(a) Increases by 2% (b) Decreases by 2%
(c) Remains unchanged (d) Sometimes increases and sometimes
decreases
20. Two stretched membranes of area 2 cm2 and 3 cm2 are placed in a liquid at the same depth. The ratio of pressures on
them is
(a) 1 : 1 (b) 2 : 3 (c) 3 : 2 (d) 22 : 32
21. Three identical vessels are filled to the same height with three different liquids A, B and C ( A   B   C ) . The
pressure at the base will be
(a) Equal in all vessels (b)Maximum in vessel A (c) Maximum in vessel B (d) Maximum in vessel C
22. Three identical vessels are filled with equal masses of three different liquids A, B and C ( A   B   C ) . The
pressure at the base will be
(a) Equal in all vessels (b) Maximum in vessel A (c) Maximum in vessel B (d) Maximum in vessel C
23. A barometer kept in a stationary elevator reads 76 cm. If the elevator starts accelerating up the reading will be
(a) Zero (b) Equal to 76 cm (c) More than 76 cm (d) Less than 76
cm
24. Pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished to every portion of the fluid and the walls of
the containing vessel. This law was first formulated by
(a) Bernoulli (b) Archimedes (c) Boyle (d) Pascal
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25. Two solids A and B float in water. It is observed that A floats with of its body immersed in water and B
2
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floats with of its volume above the water level. The ratio of the density of A to that of B is
4
(a) 4 : 3 (b) 2 : 3 (c) 3 : 4 (d) 1 : 2
26. A boat carrying steel balls is floating on the surface of water in a tank. If the balls are thrown into the tank one
by one, how will it affect the level of water
(a) It will remain unchanged (b) It will rise (c) It will fall (d)
27. Two pieces of metal when immersed in a liquid have equal upthrust on them; then
(a) Both pieces must have equal weights (b) Both pieces must have equal densities
(c) Both pieces must have equal volumes (d) Both are floating to the same depth
28. A wooden cylinder floats vertically in water with half of its length immersed. The density of wood is
(a) Equal of that of water (b) Half the density of water
(c) Double the density of water (d) The question is incomplete
29. If W be the weight of a body of density  in vacuum then its apparent weight in air of density  is
W   W  
(a) (b) W   1 (c)  (d) W 1  
     

30. A spherical ball of radius r and relative density 0.5 is floating in equilibrium in water with half of it immersed
in water. The work done in pushing the ball down so that whole of it is just immersed in water is : (where  is
5 4 3 2 4
the density of water) (a)  r 4 g (b) 0 . 5 rg (c) r g (d) r g
12 3 3
31. A hollow sphere of volume V is floating on water surface with half immersed in it. What should be the
minimum volume of water poured inside the sphere so that the sphere now sinks into the water
(a) V / 2 (b) V / 3 (c) V / 4 (d) V
32. A rectangular block is 5 cm × 5 cm × 10cm in size. The block is floating in water with 5 cm side vertical. If it
floats with 10 cm side vertical, what change will occur in the level of water?
(a) No change (b) It will rise
(c) It will fall (d) It may rise or fall depending on the density of
block
33. A wooden stick 2m long is floating on the surface of water. The surface tension of water 0.07 N/m. By putting
soap solution on one side of the sticks the surface tension is reduced to 0.06 N/m. The net force on the stick
will be [Pb. PMT 2002]
(a) 0.07 N (b) 0.06 N (c) 0.01 N (d) 0.02 N
34. Two small drops of mercury, each of radius R, coalesce to form a single large drop. The ratio of the total surface
energies before and after the change is [AIIMS 2003]
(a) 1 : 21 / 3 (b) 21 / 3 : 1 (c) 2 : 1 (d) 1 : 2
35. Radius of a soap bubble is increased from R to 2R work done in this process in terms of surface tension i
(a) 24 R 2 S (b) 48 R 2 S (c) 12 R 2 S (d) 36 R 2 S
36. The pressure inside a small air bubble of radius 0.1mm situated just below the surface of water will be equal to
(Take surface tension of water 70  10 3 Nm 1 and atmospheric pressure  1.013  10 5 Nm  2 ) [AMU
(Med.) 2002]
(a) 2.054  10 3 Pa (b) 1.027  10 3 Pa (c) 1.027  10 5 Pa (d) 2.054  10 5 Pa
37. If the radius of a soap bubble is four times that of another, then the ratio of their excess pressures will be [AIIMS
2000]
(a) 1 : 4 (b) 4 : 1 (c) 16 : 1 (d) 1 : 16
38. The spherical shape of rain-drop is due to [CPMT 1976, 90; CPMT 2001; NCERT 1982; AIIMS 1998; MHCET 2000; DCE
1999; AFMC 1999,
(a) Density of the liquid (b) Surface tension (c) Atmospheric pressure (d) Gravity
39. At which of the following temperatures, the value of surface tension of water is minimum [MP PMT/PET 1998]
o o o o
(a) 4 C (b) 25 C (c) 50 C (d) 75 C
40. Force necessary to pull a circular plate of 5cm radius from water surface for which surface tension is 75
dynes/cm, is [MP PMT 1991]
(a) 30 dynes (b) 60 dynes (c) 750 dynes (d) 750 dynes
41. A square frame of side L is dipped in a liquid. On taking it out, a membrane is formed. If the surface tension of
the liquid is T, the force acting on the frame will be
(a) 2TL (b) 4TL (c) 8TL (d) 10TL
42. Ball pen and fountain pen depend respectively upon the principle of
(a) Surface tension and viscosity (b) Surface tension and gravity
(c) Gravitation and surface tension (d) Surface tension and surface tension

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