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  • A car parked in the sun with its windows closed gets terribly hot inside. This is due to


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  • A. the heat emitted by the engine
  • B. the greenhouse effect
  • C. the good conducting power of the metal body
  • D. the double layered wind shield

  • Correct Answer
  • the greenhouse effect 

    Explanation

    The green house effect. The waves of smaller wavelength from the sun enter inside the car through the glass windows and are absorbed. The waves of larger wavelength emitted from inside cannot get out through the glass, but remain inside and make it terribly hot.


  • Physics problems


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    • 1. Which is the liquid that shows Capillary fall?
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    • 2. Which is the strongest force in the universe?
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    • 3. Learned indian classical vocalists do not like the accompaniment of a harmonium because

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    • A. tempered scale is used in the harmonium
    • B. diatonic scale is used in the harmonium
    • C. notes of the harmonium are too shrill
    • D. intensity of the notes of the harmonium is too large
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    • 4. Which one of the following groups have quantities that do not have the same dimensions

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    • A. pressure, stress
    • B. velocity, speed
    • C. force, impulse
    • D. work, energy
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    • 5. Which of the following physical quantities have the same dimensions

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    • A. momentum and impulse
    • B. power and young modulus
    • C. Energy and angular Momentum
    • D. force constant and moment of inertia
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    • 6. During thunderstorm you are travelling in a car. To protect yourself from the lightning you will have to

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    • A. remain in the car
    • B. get out of the car and lie flat in the ground
    • C. abandon the car and take shelter under a nearby tree
    • D. touch the nearest electric pole
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    • 7. An atom bomb based upon the principal of ________

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    • A. Nuclear fission
    • B. Nuclear fussion
    • C. Controlled chain reaction
    • D. None of these
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    • 8. Lightning heats the surrounding air to

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    • A. 300 deg Cent
    • B. 3000 deg Cent
    • C. 30000 deg Cent
    • D. 300000 deg Cent
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    • 9. The absorption of ink by blotting paper involves

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    • A. viscosity of ink
    • B. diffusion of ink through the blotting
    • C. capillary action phenomenon
    • D. siphon action
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    • 10. A ball is thrown vertically upward from the ground. It crosses a point at the height of 25 m twice at an interval of 4 seconds. The ball was thrown with the velocity of

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    • A. 18 m/s
    • B. 25 m/s
    • C. 30 m/s
    • D. 36 m/s
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