HSC Science (Computer Science) इयत्ता १२ वी - Maharashtra State Board Important Questions

The resolving power of a telescope depends upon the ______.

When longitudinal wave is incident at the boundary of denser medium, then............................

1. compression reflects as a compression.
2. compression reflects as a rarefaction.
3. rarefaction reflects as a compression.
4. longitudinal wave reflects as transverse wave.

A sonometer wire is in unison with a tuning fork of frequency 125 Hz when it is stretched by a weight. When the weight is completely immersed in water, 8 beats are heard per second. Find the specific gravity of the material of the weight.

The equation of a progressive wave is y = 7 sin (4t - 0.02x), where x and y are in cms and time t in seconds. The maximum velocity of a particle is _______.

Wavelengths of two notes in the air are`[70/153]^m` and `[70/157]^m`. Each of  these notes produces 8 beats per second with a tuning fork of fixed frequency. Find the velocity of sound in the air and frequency of the tuning fork.

If numerical aperture of a microscope is increased, then its ______.

When a transverse wave on a string is reflected from the free end, the phase change produced is ..............

(a) zero rad

(b) ` pi/2 ` rad

(c) `(3pi)/4` rad

(d) `pi`  rad

A train blows a whistle of frequency 640 Hz in air. Find the difference in apparent frequencies of the whistle for a stationary observer, when the train moves towards and away from the observer with the speed of 72 Km/hour. [Speed of sound in air = 340 m/s.]

The equation of simple harmonic progressive wave is given by `y=0.05sinpi[20t-x/6]` where all quantities are in S. I. units. Calculate the displacement of a particle at 5 m from origin and at the instant 0.1 second.

A wire of density ‘ρ’ and Young’s modulus ‘Y’ is stretched between two rigid supports separated by a distance ‘L’ under tension ‘T’. Derive an expression for its frequency in fundamental mode. Hence show that `n=1/(2L)sqrt((Yl)/(rhoL))` where symbols have their usual meanings

Let n₁ and n₂ be the two slightly different frequencies of two sound waves. The time interval between waxing and immediate next waning is ______.

(A) `1/(n_1-n_2)`

(B) `2/(n_1-n_2)`

(C) `(n_1-n_2)/2`

(D) `1/(2(n_1-n_2))`  

A sine wave of wavelength λ is travelling in a medium. What is the minimum distance between two particles of the medium which always have the same speed?

(A)`lambda`

(B)`lambda/2`

(C)`lambda/3`

(D)`lambda/4`

A transverse wave is produced on a stretched string 0.9 m long and fixed at its ends. Find the speed of the transverse wave, when the string vibrates while emitting the second overtone of frequency 324 Hz.

In Doppler effect of light, the term “red shift” is used for ______.

(A) frequency increase

(B) frequency decrease

(C) wavelength decrease

(D) frequency and wavelength increase

A set of 12 tuning forks is arranged in order of increasing frequencies. Each fork produces Y beats per second with the previous one. The last is an octave of the first. The fifth fork
has a frequency of 90 Hz. Find Y and frequency of the first and the last tuning forks.

Doppler effect is not applicable when _______.
(A) source and observer are at rest.
(B) there is a relative motion between source and observer.
(C) both are moving in opposite directions.
(D) both are moving in same direction with different velocities

The working of RADAR is based on ...............

a) resonance

b) speed of a star

c) Doppler effect

d) speed of rotation of sun

Derive an expression for one dimensional simple harmonic progressive wave travelling in the
direction of positive X-axis. Express it in ‘two’ different forms.

Apparent frequency of the sound heard by a listener is less than the actual frequency of sound emitted by source. In this case _______.

(A) listener moves towards source

(B) source moves towards listener

(C) listener moves away from the source.

(D) source and listener move towards each other.

State any four applications of Doppler effect