Physics Past Questions And Answers
Energy losses through eddy currents are reduced by using
- A. low resistance wires
- B. insulated soft iron wires
- C. few turns of wires
- D. high resistance wires
A machine whose efficiency is 75% is used to lift a load of 1000N. Calculate the effort put in to the machine if it has a Velocity ratio of 4.
- A. 343.32N
- B. 233.33N
- C. 333.33N
- D. 334.33N
The equation PaVbTc= constant reduces to Charles Law if
- A. a=1, b=1and c=0
- B. a=1, b=0 and c=-1
- C. a=0, b=1 and c=1
- D. a=0, b=1 and c=-1
Body floats in fluid when its …………………
- A. Displaces its own volume of the liquid (fluid)
- B. Displaces its own weight of the fluid
- C. Displace its own density of the fluid
- D. Is no longer subjected to gravity
Plane waves through a narrow gap emerge as circular waves. This phenomenon is known as
- A. interference
- B. dispersion
- C. refraction
- D. diffraction
A body of mass 5kg falls from a height of 10m above the ground. What is the kinetic energy of the body just before it strikes the ground? (Neglect energy losses and take gravity as 10ms-2)
- A. 5J
- B. 25J
- C. 250J
- D. 500J
An object 0 lies at a distance m in front of concave mirror of focal length f. If m< f, then the final image obtained will be
- A. virtual and diminished
- B. magnified and erect
- C. real and inverted
- D. diminished and erect
Two isotopes of uranium are designed as \(^{238}U\) and \(^{235}U\). The numbers 238 and 235 represent their
- A. atomic numbers
- B. nucleon numbers
- C. proton numbers
- D. neutron numbers
The area under a velocity-time graph represents
- A. speed
- B. acceleration
- C. moment
- D. distance
Calculate the energy of the third level of an atom if the ground state energy is - 24.8eV
- A. -9.20eV
- B. -8.20eV
- C. -2.75eV
- D. -1.75eV

