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  • A boy sitting in a train moving with a uniform velocity drops a coin outside. A man standing outside the train will find the trajectory of the coin to be


  • Options
  • A. a parabola
  • B. a horizontal straight line
  • C. a vertical straight line
  • D. a circle

  • Correct Answer
  • a parabola 

    Explanation

    Parabola, because when the coin is dropped at a particular point, it has the same velocity as the running train. So, by Newton's first law, it continues its motion horizontally with that velocity. But then, it is also pulled down by earth's gravity continuously. In this situation its horizontal motion gives way to the parabolic motion until it reaches the ground.


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    • 1. When one enters a dark room after being in bright light one is not able to see anything clearly for a while because

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    • A. the retina of the eye moves forward
    • B. the retina of the eye moves backward
    • C. the iris is unable to dilate the pupil immediately to be able to see things
    • D. the eye has no power of accommodation
    • Discuss
    • 2. Hot water is poured simultaneously in four metallic tumblers painted outside with different points. After some time the water will be found to have cooled most in the tumbler painted.

    • Options
    • A. rough white
    • B. rough black
    • C. shining white
    • D. shining black
    • Discuss
    • 3. A capillary tube is partially dipped vertically in a vessel containing water. Due to capillarity water rises in the tube. The height of water rise in the tube can be increased by

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    • A. decreasing the radius of the capillary tube
    • B. increasing the radius of the capillary tube
    • C. increasing the height of water in the vessel
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 4. The electrical domestic tube light gives white fluorescent light because of

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    • A. colision between molecules of filled gas under electric current
    • B. heavy current
    • C. vacuum inside the tube
    • D. falling of ultra violet rays on the white inner coating of the tube
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    • 5. Pick out the only vector quantity

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    • A. pressure
    • B. impulse
    • C. gravitational potential
    • D. co-efficient of friction
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    • 6. In the case of bodies falling under gravity which of the following remains constant at a given place?

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    • A. Kinetic energy
    • B. Potential energy
    • C. acceleration
    • D. all the above
    • Discuss
    • 7. A boy is swinging a ball attached to a string in a horizontal circle.If the string snaps

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    • A. the ball will travel towards the center of the circle and fall down
    • B. it will continue to travel along a tangent to the circle at the point the ball was at the time of snapping and finally fall down
    • C. it will fall down at the same place where the string breaks
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. In case of uniform circular motion, the acceleration is

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    • A. Variable in magnitude but constant in direction
    • B. Constant in magnitude and directed radially inwards
    • C. Variable in magnitude but tangential to the circle
    • D. Zero
    • Discuss
    • 9. What is refractive index ?

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    • A. it is defined as the ratio of speed of light in the medium to the speed of light in vacuum.
    • B. it is defined as the product of speed of light in medium and in vacuum.
    • C. it is defined as the ratio of speed of light in vacuum to the speed of light in the medium .
    • D. None of above
    • Discuss
    • 10. A hunter on the ground wishes to shoot a bird on a tree at a distance with his rifle. He has to point the rifle

    • Options
    • A. at the lower alevation than the bird
    • B. at a higher alevation than the bird
    • C. In the same direction as the bird
    • D. vertically upwards
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