TOPPER SURE SHOT SAMPLE PAPER 6

PHYSICS
XII

Time: Three hours Max. Marks: 70

General Instructions
(a) All questions are compulsory.
(b) There are 30 questions in total. Questions 1 to 8 carry one mark each,
questions 9 to 18 carry two marks each, questions 19 to 27 carry
three marks each and questions 28 to 30 carry five marks each.
(c) There is no overall choice.
(d) Use of calculators is not permitted.
(e) You may use the following physical constants wherever necessary.

e = 1.6 ×10−19 C
c = 3 ×108 ms −1
h = 6.6 ×10−34 Js
µo = 4λ ×10−7 TmA−1
k B = 1.38 ×1023 JK −1
N A = 6.023 ×1023 / mole
mn = 1.6 ×10−27 kg

1. What is the force between two straight conductors if they carry current in
opposite direction?
(1 mark)

2. A coil is removed from a magnetic field (a) rapidly (b) slowly. In which
case, more work will be done? (1 mark)

3. An electron moves in a circle with uniform speed in a stationary magnetic

field normal to the plane of the circle. If the field magnitude is made to
increase with time, will the electron speed up or speed down? (1 Mark)
4. The TV transmission tower at particular station has a height of 120 m.
What is its coverage range? (1 Mark)

5. How does the focal length of a convex lens change if monochromatic red
light is used instead of monochromatic blue light?
(1 Mark)

6. What is the approximate thickness of gold foil in particle scattering

experiment?
(1 Mark)

7. How does the energy gap in an intrinsic semiconductor change, when

doped with a trivalent impurity?
(1 Mark)

8. Which special type of diode can act as a voltage regulator? Give the
symbol of this diode.
(1 Mark)

9. What is the force on charged particles when it is moving at right angles to

the applied magnetic field?
(2 Marks)

10. Why is it necessary to use satellite for long distance T.V. transmission?
Give reasons.
(2 Marks)

11. A small telescope has an objective lens of focal length 144 cm and an
eye-piece of focal length 6.0 cm. What is the magnifying power of the
telescope? What is the separation between the objective and the eye-piece?
(2 Marks)

12. What will be the minimum electrostatic force between two charged
particles placed at a distance of 1m apart?
(2 Marks)

13. (a) For a given carbon resistor, the first strip is blue, second strip is
orange, third and fourth strips are green and gold respectively. What is its
resistance?
(b) Give atleast two examples of elements which do not obey Ohm's law.

(2 Marks)
14. A circuit shown in the fig. has potential 6V, 3V, and 2V at points A, B and
C respectively. Find the potential at point O.

(2 Marks)

15. What will be the wavelength of an electron of energy 1000 eV?

(2 Marks)

16. For photoelectric effect in a metal, the figure shows the plot of cut-off
voltage versus frequency of incident radiation. Calculate:
a) The threshold frequency.
b) The work function for metal.

(2 Marks)
17. What will be the ratio of the radii of two nuclei of mass numbers A1 and
A 2?
(2 Marks)

18. Name the type of modulation scheme preferred for digital

communication.
How does the power radiated by an antenna vary with wavelength?
(2 Marks)

19.(a) A magnet is dropped down a long vertical copper tube. What will
happen to its ultimate motion?
(b) A cylindrical bar magnet is kept along the axis of a circular coil. Will there
be a current induced in the coil if the magnet is rotated about its axis?

(3 Marks)

20. A capacitor, resistor and inductor of 40 mH are connected in series to an

a.c. source of frequency 60 Hz. Calculate the capacitance of the capacitor, if
current is in phase with the voltage.
(3 Marks)

21. A convex lens made of a material of refractive index n1 is kept in a

medium of refractive index n2. A parallel beam of light is incident on the lens.
Complete the path of rays of light emerging from the convex lens if (i) n1 >
n2, (ii) n1 = n2, (iii) n1 < n2.
(3 Marks)

22. (a) The refractive index of a medium is . What is the angle of

refraction, if the unpolarised light is incident on it at the polarising angle of
the medium?
(b) What are coherent sources of light? Draw the variation of intensity with
position in the Young’s double slit experiment.
(3 Marks)

23. A dipole consisting of an electron and a proton separated by a distance

2x10-5m is situated in the electric field intensity of 4x105 NC-1 at an angle
of 30 with the field. Calculate the dipole moment and the torque acting on it.
(3 Marks)
24. Four metallic plates each with surface area ‘A’ and interplate separation
‘d’ are placed as shown. Alternate plates are connected to points A and B.
What is the equivalent capacitance of the system?

(3 Marks)

25. Resistance between the points A and B is given in the following figure,
reduce the following network to get the equivalent resistance.

(3 Marks)

26. A 12.5 MeV α- particle approaching a gold nucleus is deflected back by

1800. How close does it approach the nucleus?
(3 Marks)

27. What is satellite communication? Explain its working.

(3 Marks)
28.
(a) A straight conducting rod of length 0.06m and mass 30g is suspended by
two vertical wires at its ends. A current of 1 A is set up in the rod. Find
(i) what magnetic field should be set up normal to the conductor so that
tension in the wire is zero?
(ii) what will be the total tension in the wire if the direction of the current is
reversed

(b) A galvanometer has a resistance of 55 ohms. It gives full-scale deflection

by a current of 10 milliamperes. What resistance must be connected across it
to enable it to read 1 ampere?
(5 Marks)

29. Following figure shows an experimental set up similar to Young’s double

slit experiment to observe interference of light.

Here SS2-SS1= . Write the condition of (i) Constructive (ii) Destructive

interference at any point P in terms of path difference.
Does the central fringe observed in the above set up lie above or below O?
Give reason in support of your answer.

(5 Marks)

30. (a) Discuss how the OR gate is realized from the NOR gate. Write the
truth table & Boolean expression for the OR gate .
(b) The potential difference across the collector of a transistor, used in
common emitter mode is 1.5V, with the collector resistance of 3kΩ.
Find (i) the emitter, and (ii) the base current, if the d.c. gain of the transistor
is 50.
(5 Marks)