MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A loudspeaker is playing music in a room. The door to the room is open and has a width of 0.80 m. Sound waves of many different frequencies pass thro...

2024 Summer

5

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A stationary sound wave is set up between a loudspeaker and a wall. A microphone is connected to a cathode-ray oscilloscope (CRO) and is moved along ...

2024 Summer

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

For a wire, Hooke's law is obeyed for a tension $F$ and extension $x$. The Young modulus for the material of the wire is $E$. Which expression repres...

2024 Summer

5

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A guitar string is plucked. Which statement describes the resulting waves?

2024 Summer

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A plane polarised wave has amplitude $A$. The wave is incident normally on a polarising filter. The transmission axis of the filter is at angle $\the...

2024 Summer

3

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

A stationary sound wave is formed in the air column inside a tube that is open at both ends. The stationary wave has three nodes. How many antinodes...

2024 Summer

5

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

Light of frequency $6.7 \times 10^{14}\, \text{Hz}$ in a vacuum is incident normally on a diffraction grating that contains $4.0 \times 10^{5}\, \text...

2024 Summer

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

The siren of a moving police car emits a sound wave with a frequency of 440 Hz. A stationary observer hears sound of frequency 494 Hz. The speed of so...

2024 Summer

3

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

What happens when two waves superpose at a point?

2024 Winter

4

MCQ

CH15 - SUPERPOSITION

Waves P and Q have the same amplitude. The waves meet in phase at point X and interfere to give a resultant wave with intensity $I$. The amplitude of...

2024 Winter

3

MCQ

CH1 - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES & UNITS

Which is an SI base unit?

2015 Summer

2

MCQ

CH1 - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES & UNITS

Which pair contains one vector and one scalar quantity?

2015 Summer

2

MCQ

CH1 - PHYSICAL QUANTITIES & UNITS

When a constant braking force is applied to a vehicle moving at speed $v$, the distance $d$ moved by the vehicle in coming to rest is given by the exp...

2015 Summer

4

MCQ

CH2 - MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

A whale produces sound waves of frequency 5 Hz. The waves are detected by a microphone and displayed on an oscilloscope. What is the time-base setting...

2015 Summer

2

MCQ

CH2 - MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

The angular deflection of the needle of an ammeter varies with the current in the ammeter as shown in the graph. Which diagram could represent the ap...

2015 Summer

2

MCQ

CH2 - MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES

The strain energy $W$ of a spring is determined from its spring constant $k$ and extension $x$. The spring obeys Hooke's law and the value of $W$ is c...

2015 Summer

2

MCQ

CH3 - KINEMATICS

A sphere is released and falls. Its initial acceleration reduces until it eventually begins to travel at constant terminal velocity. Which displacemen...

2015 Summer

3

MCQ

CH3 - KINEMATICS

An insect jumps with an initial vertical velocity of 1.0 $\text{m s}^{-1}$, reaching a maximum height of 3.5 $\times 10^{-2} \text{m}$. Assume the dec...

2015 Summer

2

MCQ

CH3 - KINEMATICS

A body having uniform acceleration $a$ increases its velocity from $u$ to $v$ in time $t$. Which expression would not give a correct value for the bo...

2015 Summer

4

MCQ

CH4 - DYNAMICS

What is a reasonable estimate of the average gravitational force acting on a fully grown woman standing on the Earth?

2015 Summer

2