HSC Science इयत्ता १२ - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions for Physics

A spark plug in a bike or a car is used to ignite the air-fuel mixture in the engine. It consists of two electrodes separated by a gap of around 0.6 mm gap as shown in the figure.

To create the spark, an electric field of magnitude 3 x 10⁶Vm^-1 is required,

1. What potential difference must be applied to produce the spark?
2. If the gap is increased, does the potential difference increase, decrease or remains the same?
3. Find the potential difference if the gap is 1 mm.

A point charge of +10 µC is placed at a distance of 20 cm from another identical point charge of +10 µC. A point charge of -2 µC is moved from point a to b as shown in the figure. Calculate the change in potential energy of the system? Interpret your result.

What is meant by hysteresis?

In a transformer, the number of turns in the primary and the secondary are 410 and 1230 respectively. If the current in primary is 6A, then that in the secondary coil is

A step-down transformer reduces the supply voltage from 220 V to 11 V and increase the current from 6 A to 100 A. Then its efficiency is

In a series resonant RLC circuit, the voltage across 100 Ω resistor is 40 V. The resonant frequency ω is 250 rad/s. If the value of C is 4 µF, then the voltage across L is

What are step-up and step-down transformers?

Explain the construction of transformer.

Explain the working of the transformer.

Mention the various energy losses in a transformer.

Give the advantage of AC in long distance power transmission with an illustration.

Find out the phase relationship between voltage and current in a pure inductive circuit.

A step-down transformer connected to the main supply of 220 V is used to operate 11V,88W lamp. Calculate

1. Voltage transformation ratio and
2. Current in the primary

A 200V/120V step-down transformer of 90% efficiency is connected to an induction stove of resistance 40 Ω. Find the current drawn by the primary of the transformer.

The 300 turn primary of a transformer has resistance 0.82 Ω and the resistance of its secondary of 1200 turns is 6.2 Ω. Find the voltage across the primary if the power output from the secondary at 1600V is 32 kW. Calculate the power losses in both coils when the transformer efficiency is 80%

An object is placed in front of a convex mirror of focal length of f and the maximum and minimum distance of an object from the mirror such that the image formed is real and magnified.

The radius of curvature of curved surface at a thin planoconvex lens is 10 cm and the refractive index is 1.5. If the plane surface is silvered, then the focal length will be.

Two coherent monochromatic light beams of intensities I and 4I are superposed. The maximum and minimum possible intensities in the resulting beam are ______.

First diffraction minimum due to a single slit of width 1.0 × 10^-5 cm is at 30°. Then wavelength of light used is ______.

What are primary focus and secondary focus of convex lens?