DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL

SESSION 2023 - 2024

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATION (SAMPLE PAPER)
SUBJECT: PHYSICS CODE :( 042) SET-II
Time: 03 hrs. Max. Marks: 70
Date: _____________ Name: _________________________ Grade: XI Sec _____

General Instructions
(1) There are 33 questions in all. All questions are compulsory.
(2) This question paper has five sections: Section A, Section B, Section C, Section D and Section E.
(3) All the sections are compulsory.
(4) Section A contains sixteen questions, twelve MCQ and four Assertion Reasoning based of 1 mark each,
Section B contains five questions of two marks each, Section C contains seven questions of three marks
each, Section D contains two case study based questions of four marks each and Section E contains three
long answer questions of five marks each.
(5) There is no overall choice. However, an internal choice has been provided in one question in Section B,
one question in Section C, one question in each CBQ in Section D and all three questions in Section E. You
have to attempt only one of the choices in such questions.
(6) Use of calculators is not allowed.

SECTION-A

Q.1 Find the value of 100 J on a system which has 20 cm, 250 g and half minute as fundamental units of
length, mass and time.
(a) 9 × 10–6 new units (b) 2.16 × 106 new units
(c) 9 × 106 new units (d) 100 new units
Q.2 The number of significant figures in 0.06900 is –
(a) 5 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 3
Q.3 Two bullets are fired simultaneously horizontally and with different speeds from the same place.
Which bullet will hit the ground first?
(a) The slower one (b) The faster one
(c) Both will reach simultaneously (d) Depends on the masses
Q.4 One body is dropped while a second body is thrown downwards with initial velocity of
1m/s simultaneously. The separation between these is 18 m after a time
(a) 4.5 s (b) 9 s (c) 18 s (d) 36 s
Q.5 A particle is moving eastward with a velocity of 5 ms-1 in 10 seconds, the velocity changes to 5
m/s northward. The average acceleration in this time is
(a) zero (b) 1/√2 ms-2 towards north
(c) 1/√2 ms-2 towards north-east (d) 1/√2 ms-2 towards north-west
Q.6 The following forces are acting on a particle
(i) (2i + 3j – 2k) N, (ii) (3i + j – 3k)N and (iii) (-5i – 2j + k)N, the particle will move in
(a) x-y plane (b) x-z plane (c) y-z plane (d) aong x-axis
Q.7 Lubrication reduces friction because
(а) the relative motion is between the liquid and solid.
(b) laws of limiting friction are not applicable.
 (c) lubricant molecules act as ball bearings.
(d) none of the above.
Q.8 A car sometimes overturns while taking a turn. When it overturn, it is
(a) the inner wheel, which leaves the ground first
(b) the outer wheel, which leaves the ground first
(c) both the wheels leaves the ground simultaneously
(d) either wheel, which leave the ground first
Q.9 A ball is dropped from a height of 15 m. It gets embedded in sand by 10 mm and then stops. Which
of the following is conserved?
(a) Temperature (b) Momentum (c) Kinetic energy (d) Both (a) and (c)
Q.10 A man weighing 50 kgf carries a load of 10 kgf to the top of the building in 5 minutes. The work
done by him is 105 J. If he carries the same load in 10 minutes, the work done by him will be:
(a) 105 J (b) 5 × 105 J (c) 12 × 105 J (d) 2.5 × 105 J
Q.11 When torque acting on a system is zero, then which of the following should not change?
(a) Linear velocity (b) Angular momentum
(c) Angular displacement (d) Force acting on the body
Q.12 The moment of inertia of a body does not depend upon
(a) the mass of the body (b) the axis of rotation of the body
(c) the distribution of the mass in the body (d) the angular velocity of the body
For Questions 13 to 16, two statements are given –one labelled Assertion (A) and other labelled
Reason (R). Select the correct answer to these questions from the options as given below.
a) If both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is correct explanation of Assertion.
b) If both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of
Assertion.
c) If Assertion is true but Reason is false.
d) If both Assertion and Reason are false.
Q.13 Assertion : If dot product and cross product of A and B are zero, it implies that one of the
vector A and B must be a null vector
Reason : Null vector is a vector with zero magnitude.
Q.14 Assertion : When we change the unit of measurement of a quantity, its numerical value changes.
Reason : Smaller the unit of measurement smaller is its numerical value.
Q.15 Assertion : On a rainy day, it is difficult to drive a car or bus at high speed.
Reason : The value of coefficient of friction is lowered due to wetting of the surface.
Q.16 Assertion : When you lean behind over the hind legs of the chair, the chair falls back after a certain
angle.
Reason : Centre of mass lying outside the system makes the system unstable.

SECTION-B
Q.17 Give an example of
(a) a physical quantity which has a unit but no dimensions.
(b) a physical quantity which has neither unit nor dimensions.
(c) a constant which has a unit.
(d) a constant which has no unit.
Q.18 If the unit of force is 100 N, unit of length is 10 m and unit of time is 100 s, what is the unit of mass
in this system of units?

Q.19 a) What is the angle between AxB and BxA?

 b) Can the resultant of two vectors of different magnitudes be zero? Justify.

Q.20 A 50 g bullet is fired from a 10 kg gun with a speed of 500 ms–1. What is the speed of the recoil of
the gun?
Q.21 It is easier to pull a roller than to push it. Why?
OR
A force of 98 N is just required to move a mass of 45 kg on a rough horizontal surface. Find the
coefficient of friction and angle of friction?

SECTION-C
Q.22 The frequency of vibration of a string depends of on, (i) tension in the string (ii) mass per unit length
of string, (iii) vibrating length of the string. Establish dimensionally the relation for frequency.
Q.23 Define centripetal acceleration. Derive an expression for the centripetal acceleration of a particle
moving with constant speed v along a circular path of radius r
Q.24 A batsman deflects a ball by an angle of 45° without changing its initial speed which is equal to 54
km/h. What is the impulse imparted to the ball? (Mass of the ball is 0.15 kg.)
Q.25 The bob of a pendulum is released from a horizontal position. If the length of the pendulum is 1.5 m,
what is the speed with which the bob arrives at the lowermost point, given that it dissipated 5% of its
initial energy against air resistance?
Q.26 A elastic spring is compressed by an amount x. Show that its P.E. is 1/2 kx2 where k is the spring
constant.
Q.27 Three masses 3, 4 and 5 kg are located at the corners of an equilateral triangle of side 1m. Locate the
centre of mass of the system.
Q.28 An electron of mass 9 × 10-31 kg revolves in a circle of radius 0.53 Ȧ around the nucleus of hydrogen
with a velocity of 2.2 × 106 m/s. Show that its angular momentum is equal to h/2π, where h is
Planck’s constant of value 6.6 × 10-34 Js.
OR
A cord is wound around the circumference of wheel of radius ′r′. The axis of the wheel is horizontal
and moment of inertia about it is ′l′. The weight ′mg′ is attached to the end of the cord and falls from
rest. After falling through a distance ′h′, determine the angular velocity of the wheel.

SECTION D
Case Study Based Questions
Q.29 Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
Potential Energy of Spring
There are many types of spring. Important among these are helical and spiral springs as shown in
figure.

Usually, we assume that the springs are massless. Therefore, work done is stored in the spring in the
form of elastic potential energy of the spring. Thus, potential energy of a spring is the energy
associated with the state of compression or expansion of an elastic spring.

(i) The ratio of spring constants of two springs is 2 : 3. What is the ratio of their potential
energy, if they are stretched by the same force?
(a) 2 : 3 (b) 3 : 2 (c) 4 : 9 (d) 9 : 4
(ii) The potential energy of a body is increases in which of the following cases?
(a) If work is done by conservative force
 (b) If work is done against conservative force
(c) If work is done by non-conservative force
(d) If work is done against non- conservative force
(iii) The potential energy of a spring when stretched through a distance x is 10 J. What is the
amount of work done on the same spring to stretch it through an additional distance x?
(a) 10 J (b) 20 J (c) 30 J (d) 40 J
OR
The potential energy of a spring increases by 15 J when stretched by 3 cm. If it is stretched by
4 cm, the increase in potential energy is
(a) 27 J (b) 30 J (c) 33 J (d) 36 J

Q.30 Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
Centre of Mass
The centre of mass of a body or a system of bodies is the point which moves as though all of the
mass were concentrated there and all external forces were applied to it. Hence, a point at which the
entire mass of the body or system of bodies is supposed to be concentrated is known as the centre of
mass.
If a system consists of more than one particle (or bodies) and net external force on the system in a
particular direction is zero with centre of mass at rest. Then, the centre of mass will not move along
that direction. Even though some particles of the system may move along that direction.

(i) The centre of mass of a system of two particles divides, the distance between them
(a) in inverse ratio of square of masses of particles
(b) in direct ratio of square of masses of particles
(c) in inverse ratio of masses of particles
(d) in direct ratio of masses of particles

(ii) All the particles of a body are situated at a distance R from the origin. The distance of centre of
mass of the body from the origin is
(a) = R (b) ≤ R (c) > R (d) ≥ R

(iii) Two balls of same masses start moving towards each other due to gravitational attraction, if the
initial distance between them is L. Then, they meet at

(a) L/2 (b) L (c) L/3 (d) L/4

OR

(iv) Two bodies of masses 1 kg and 2 kg are lying in xy-plane at (-1, 2) and (2, 4), respectively.
What are the coordinates of the centre of mass?
(a) 1, (b) (1, 0) (c) (0, 1) (d) None of these

SECTION-E
Q.31 (i) Derive an equation for the distance covered by a uniformly accelerated body in nth second of its
motion.
(ii) A body covers 12m in 2 nd second and 20m in 4th second. How much distance will it cover in 4
seconds after the 5th second?
OR
 A ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity of 100 m/s. After how much time will it return?
Draw velocity time graph for the ball and find from the graph
(i) The maximum height attained by the ball
(ii) Height of the ball after 15s.

Q.32 (i) State and prove parallelogram law of vector addition

(ii) Find the angle between two vectors (P+Q) and (P-Q) if resultant of the vectors is given by
R2=3P2+Q2
OR
(i) If A= (2i+3j-k) m and B= (i+2j+2k) m, find the magnitude and component of vector A along
vector B
(ii)If the projection of 2i+4j-2k on i+2j-αk is zero, then find the value of α

Q.33 (i) What is meant by banking of roads?

(ii)What is the need for banking of a road?
(iii)Obtain an expression for the maximum speed with which a vehicle can safely negotiate a curved
banked road at an angle θ. The coefficient of friction between the wheels and road is µ
OR
Discuss the motion of body in a vertical circle. Derive the expressions for velocity and tension in the
string at any point. Hence find
(i) Tension at the bottom and the top of a circle
(ii) Minimum velocity at the lowest point for looping the loop
(iii) Minimum velocity at the top.