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What is the unit of Luminous Intensity?

  • cadela
  • caladela
  • cdanela
  • candela (correct)

Who presented the wave theory of light?

  • Huygens (correct)
  • Maxwell
  • Compton
  • Newton

What is the dimension of angular velocity?

  • [MLT-2]
  • M L T-1 (correct)
  • M-1 L1 T2
  • [M-1L-1T-1]

What is the unit of mass in the SI system?

<p>Kilogram (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In which year did Einstein present his theory of relativity?

<p>1905 (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the dimension of strain?

<p>[MLT2] (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the potential energy of the raised mass?

<p>316.5 J (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the energy of the body at point C compared to point A?

<p>equal to its energy at A (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens to the potential energy between two protons when they are brought closer together?

<p>it increases (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the engine power of the car moving at 25 m/sec with a total frictional force of 1000 N?

<p>250 joule sec-1 (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the power of a person weighing 500 N who can run up a flight of 40 stairs in 5 seconds?

<p>3000 J sec-1 (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one horsepower equivalent to?

<p>746 W (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the direction of the streamlines the same as the direction of?

<p>velocity (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the condition known as when different streamlines cannot cross each other?

<p>continuity condition (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the path followed by a particle of fluid in a steady flow?

<p>streamline (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the time required to complete one vibration called?

<p>time period (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the force that opposes the applied force producing the displacement in a spring?

<p>restoring force (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the number of vibrations completed by a body in one second called?

<p>frequency (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a double slit experiment, what do we observe?

<p>Polarized fringes (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the path difference dependent on when light is incident normally on a thin film?

<p>All of the above (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which property of light does not change with the nature of the medium?

<p>Frequency (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How long does it take for light to reach the Earth from the Sun?

<p>8 minutes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who is credited with the discovery of the photoelectric effect?

<p>Einstein (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the shape of the wave front formed by a point source of light in a homogeneous medium?

<p>Spherical (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a thing that emits its own light?

<p>Luminous (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In a double slit experiment, what happens if one of the two slits is covered?

<p>No interference fringes are observed (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the condition for destructive interference in Young's double slit experiment?

<p>d sin θ = (m + ½)λ : (m = 0, ±1, ±2,...) (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the position of the mth bright fringe in Young's double slit experiment?

<p>ym = mλD/d (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the separation between two successive bright fringes or dark fringes in Young's double slit experiment?

<p>λD/d (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the property not found in both sound and light waves?

<p>Polarisation (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for a lens that converges a beam of parallel rays to a point?

<p>Converging lens (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for the point where incident parallel rays converge or appear to diverge after passing through a lens?

<p>Focus (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the unit of power of a lens?

<p>Dioptre (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the power of a concave lens of 10 cm focal length?

<p>-10 dioptre (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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