Science (English Medium) कक्षा ११ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Physics

Two pendulums with identical bobs and lengths are suspended from a common support such that in rest position the two bobs are in contact (Figure). One of the bobs is released after being displaced by 10° so that it collides elastically head-on with the other bob.

1. Describe the motion of two bobs.
2. Draw a graph showing variation in energy of either pendulum with time, for 0 ≤ t ≤ 2T, where T is the period of each pendulum.

When a disc rotates with uniform angular velocity, which of the following is not true?

Which of the following are true?

1. A polar satellite goes around the earth’s pole in north- south direction.
2. A geostationary satellite goes around the earth in east-west direction.
3. A geostationary satellite goes around the earth in west-east direction.
4. A polar satellite goes around the earth in east-west direction.

What is the angle between the equatorial plane and the orbital plane of polar satellite?

What is the angle between the equatorial plane and the orbital plane of geostationary satellite?

Mean solar day is the time interval between two successive noon when sun passes through zenith point (meridian). Sidereal day is the time interval between two successive transit of a distant star through the zenith point (meridian). By drawing appropriate diagram showing earth’s spin and orbital motion, show that mean solar day is four minutes longer than the sidereal day. In other words, distant stars would rise 4 minutes early every successive day.

A satellite is to be placed in equatorial geostationary orbit around earth for communication.

1. Calculate height of such a satellite.
2. Find out the minimum number of satellites that are needed to cover entire earth so that at least one satellites is visible from any point on the equator.

[M = 6 × 10²⁴ kg, R = 6400 km, T = 24 h, G = 6.67 × 10^–11 SI units]

A glass full of hot milk is poured on the table. It begins to cool gradually. Which of the following is correct?

1. The rate of cooling is constant till milk attains the temperature of the surrounding.
2. The temperature of milk falls off exponentially with time.
3. While cooling, there is a flow of heat from milk to the surrounding as well as from surrounding to the milk but the net flow of heat is from milk to the surounding and that is why it cools.
4. All three phenomenon, conduction, convection and radiation are responsible for the loss of heat from milk to the surroundings.

Is the bulb of a thermometer made of diathermic or adiabatic wall?

One day in the morning, Ramesh filled up 1/3 bucket of hot water from geyser, to take bath. Remaining 2/3 was to be filled by cold water (at room temperature) to bring mixture to a comfortable temperature. Suddenly Ramesh had to attend to something which would take some times, say 5-10 minutes before he could take bath. Now he had two options: (i) fill the remaining bucket completely by cold water and then attend to the work, (ii) first attend to the work and fill the remaining bucket just before taking bath. Which option do you think would have kept water warmer? Explain.

Which of the processes described below are irreversible?

1. The increase in temprature of an iron rod by hammering it.
2. A gas in a small cantainer at a temprature T₁ is brought in contact with a big reservoir at a higher temprature T₂ which increases the temprature of the gas.
3. A quasi-static isothermal expansion of an ideal gas in cylinder fitted with a frictionless piston.
4. An ideal gas is enclosed in a piston cylinder arrangement with adiabatic walls. A weight W is added to the piston, resulting in compression of gas.

Answer carefully, with reason:

Is the total linear momentum conserved during the short time of an inelastic collision of two balls ?

Action and reaction

(a) act on two different objects
(b) have equal magnitude
(c) have opposite directions
(d) have resultant zero.

For most of the surfaces used in daily life, the friction coefficient is less than 1. Is it always necessary that the friction coefficient is less than 1?

What is the average friction force when a person has a usual 1 km walk?

Why is it difficult to walk on solid ice?

Spring fitted doors close by themselves when released. You want to keep the door open for a long time, say for an hour. If you put a half kg stone in front of the open door, it does not help. The stone slides with the door and the door gets closed. However, if you sandwitch a 20 g piece of wood in the small gap between the door and the floor, the door stays open. Explain why a much lighter piece of wood is able to keep the door open while the heavy stone fails.

A classroom demonstration of Newton's first law is as follows : A glass is covered with a plastic card and a coin is placed on the card. The card is given a quick strike and the coin falls in the glass. (a) Should the friction coefficient between the card and the coin be small or large? (b) Should the coin be light or heavy? (c) Why does the experiment fail if the card is gently pushed?