Sunday 3 May 2015

Physics for competitive exams – 2

1. Fuel for nuclear reactors is    - Plutonium

2. The man talking on the surface of the moon    - Can not hear the sound of each other

3. X-rays were discovered by  - Rontgen

4. The theory of electrolysis was propounded by   - Faraday

5. Primary colours are     – Red, blue and green
                                                                                  
6. The earth moves round the sun in an elliptical path and not in circular one, so the distance between the two is not fixed but keeps on varying as the earth goes around the sun. The speed of the earth in its orbital path around the sun            - Decreases when the distance between the sun and the earth increases and vice versa

7. Kinetic energy is the energy possessed by the body by virtue of its motion, potential energy is possessed by the body by virtue of its    - Position or shape

8. A ray of light from air enters water, then through a thick layer of glass placed below water. After passing through glass, it again comes out in air medium. Then the final emergent ray will    - Suffer lateral displacement

9. Water in a reservoir exerts pressure  - In all directions

10. Welding is to joint two pieces of metals by raising the temperature at the joint by means of the external heat of heavy electric current, soldering  is  - To use an alloy for joining metal

11. Two objects losing the same weight when immersed in water must have the same  - Volume

12. Mention the ray which appears to originate out side of the earth    - Cosmic ray

13. What is always contained in amalgams   - Mercury

14. Sound travels fastest in  - Steel

15.Short radio waves are not dangerous, while cosmic rays, Ultra-violet rays, X-rays and gamma rays are dangerous.           

16. Jet engines are     - Reaction engine

17. Water is used in hot water bottles because   - It has high specific heat

18. Hydrogen bomb is based on the phenomenon of   - Nuclear fusion

19. The rate of loss of heat by a hot body depends upon   - its radiating area, its temperature, its nature of radiating surface -all of the above factors

20. Comets are luminous celestial bodies moving around the   - Sun

21. It takes less time for food to be cooked in a pressure cooker. It is because   - Boiling point of water increases

22. The process in which no heat changes takes place is  - An adiabatic process

23. The name of the Galaxy in which the earth is a planet is   - The Milky Way

24. Two pieces of gold and silver weighing 100 gm. Each are immersed in a liquid. Then what will happen   - Gold piece will weigh more

25. An athlete claimed that his timing for a 100 meter dash should be corrected because the starting signal was given by a gun fired from a point 10 m away from him and the time keeper was standing close to the gun. The error due to this could be     - 0.03 sec.

26. The material used in the manufacture of lead pencil is  - Graphite

27. Woolen clothes keep us warm in winter because they  - Prevent the heat of the body from escaping

28. Water pipes are apt to burst in cold weather because   - The water in the pipe freezes into ice and expands

29. Metal tea pots have wooden handles because  - Wood is bad conductor of heat

30. A sextant is used to measure   - Height of an object

31. The image of anything seen through an ordinary looking glass is    - laterally inverted

32. The principle involved in the absorption of ink or water by a piece of blotting papers is   - Capillary action

33. When a man circles round the earth in a satellite then his     - Mass remains constant but weight becomes zero

34. The colour of a star is an indication of its  - Temperature

35. The tides in the ocean are due to    - Gravitational pull of the moon


36. For stable equilibrium of a floating body it is necessary that its metacentric should be  - above of its centre of gravity 

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