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A cannon after firing recoils due to
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Correct option: C
Newton’s third law of motion
Option C is correct because the recoil of a cannon after firing is a direct application of Newton's third law of motion (action-reaction).
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A truck tows a trailer of mass at a speed of on a level road. The tension in the coupling is . What is the power expended on the trailer?
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the power expended is calculated by multiplying the tension in the coupling (force) by the speed of the trailer.
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The mass of a body measured by a physical balance in the lift at rest is found to be m. If the lift is going up with an acceleration a, its mass will be measured as
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Correct option: C
m
Option C is correct because the mass of an object is an intrinsic property and does not change with acceleration due to gravity or the motion of the lift.
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Newton's second and third laws of motion lead to the conservation of
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Correct option: A
Linear momentum
Option A (Linear momentum) is correct because Newton's second and third laws directly imply the conservation of linear momentum in a closed system.
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An aircraft executes a horizontal loop at a speed of with its wings banked at . What is the radius of the loop?
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is the radius calculated using the formula relating the banking angle, speed, and radius of the loop.
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A truck is moving on a frictionless surface with uniform velocity of . A leak occurs in the water tank of the truck at the rate of What is the speed of truck after 50 s if the mass of truck is 100 kg and mass of water in truck initially was 100 kg?
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Correct option: D
None of these
Option D (None of these) is correct because the speed of the truck increases due to the leaking water, calculated using the concept of thrust force and variable mass.
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Assertion: When an object is released out of an accelerated train, there is no horizontal force or acceleration on the stone.
Reason: Force acting on a body at a given time is calculated by the situation at the location of the body at that time.
Reason: Force acting on a body at a given time is calculated by the situation at the location of the body at that time.
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Correct option: A
If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion
Option A (If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion) is correct. The stone has no horizontal force acting on it once released, and this is because the forces are determined by the object's location at that time.
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A machine gun fires a bullet of 10 g with a speed of A person holding the gun can exert a maximum force of 100 N on it. The number of bullets that can be fired from the gun per second is
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Correct option: B
100
Option B (100) is correct because the number of bullets fired per second is determined by the maximum force the person can exert and the momentum change of each bullet.
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A 500 kg horse pulls a cart of mass 1500 kg along a level road with an acceleration of . If the coefficient of sliding friction is 0.2, then the force exerted by the horse in forward direction is
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Correct option: D
6000 N
Option D (6000 N) is correct because the force exerted by the horse is the sum of the force required to accelerate the cart and horse and the force to overcome friction.
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Pendulum after some time becomes slow in motion and finally stops due to
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Correct option: A
Air friction
Option A (Air friction) is correct because air friction opposes the motion of the pendulum, causing it to lose energy and eventually stop.
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Statement-I: A man in a closed cabin falling freely does not experience gravity
Statement-II: Inertial and gravitational mass have equivalence
Statement-II: Inertial and gravitational mass have equivalence
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Correct option: A
Statement-I is true and statement-II is true
Option A (Statement-I is true and statement-II is true) is correct because a freely falling observer does not experience gravity, and inertial and gravitational mass are equivalent according to the equivalence principle.
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When a body is stationary
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Correct option: C
the combination of forces acting on it balances each other
Option C (the combination of forces acting on it balances each other) is correct because, according to Newton's first law, a stationary body experiences balanced forces resulting in zero net force.
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A body is moving with a speed of and a force is needed to stop it in a distance . If the speed of the body is , the force needed to stop it in the same distance will be
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Correct option: D
Option D (9F) is correct because the force needed to stop the body is proportional to the square of its velocity.
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A rocket is fired with a speed from the earth surface. What will be its speed at interstellar space?
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it is derived from the conservation of mechanical energy, considering the initial kinetic and potential energy and the final kinetic energy at interstellar space.
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Select the wrong statement(s) from the following.
I. Newton's laws of motion hold good for both inertial and non-inertial frames
II. During explosion, linear momentum is conserved
III. Force of friction is zero when no driving force is applied
I. Newton's laws of motion hold good for both inertial and non-inertial frames
II. During explosion, linear momentum is conserved
III. Force of friction is zero when no driving force is applied
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Correct option: A
I only
Option A (I only) is correct because Newton's laws of motion are only valid in inertial frames of reference.
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A lorry starting from rest moving with acceleration , has a trolley long. A box is placed at from the open end and coefficient of friction between box and lorry is 0.02 . The distance covered by the lorry by the time the box falls off the trolley is
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Correct option: A
Option C () is correct because the apparent frequency is calculated using the Doppler effect formula, considering the velocities of both the source and the observer.
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Assertion (A) : Speed of a particle moving in a circle varies with time as, . Such type of circular motion is not possible.
Reason (R) : Speed cannot change linearly with time.
Reason (R) : Speed cannot change linearly with time.
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Correct option: C
If Assertion is true, but the Reason is false.
Option C is correct because the assertion is true; negative speed is not possible, but the reason is false; speed can change linearly with time (constant acceleration).
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An initially stationary device lying on a frictionless floor explodes into two pieces and slides across the floor. One piece is moving in positive -direction, then other piece is moving in
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Correct option: C
Negative -direction
Option C (Negative -direction) is correct because, according to the law of conservation of momentum, if one piece moves in the positive x-direction, the other must move in the negative x-direction to maintain zero total momentum.
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Inside a horizontally moving box, an experimenter finds that when an object is placed on a smooth horizontal table and is released, it moves with an acceleration of . In this box, if 1-kg body is suspended with a light string, the tension in the string in equilibrium position. (w.r.t. experimenter) will be (take )
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because the tension in the string is the resultant of the gravitational force and the pseudo force due to the box's acceleration.
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A disc revolves in a horizontal plane at a steady rate of 3 rad/s. A coin will remain on the disc if kept at a distance of 20 cm from the axis of rotation. The coefficient of friction ( ) is:
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Correct option: D
0.18
Option D (0.18) is correct because it is calculated by equating the centripetal force to the frictional force and solving for the coefficient of friction.
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Rocket engines lift a rocket from the earth surface because hot gas with high velocity
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Correct option: C
react against the rocket and push it up
Option C is correct because the rocket is propelled upwards due to the reaction force from the high-velocity exhaust gases.
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A nucleus of mass breaks into 3 nuclei with a mass defect of . Find the speed of each daughter nuclei if they have equal mass.
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is derived from equating the total kinetic energy of the fragments to the energy released from the mass defect.
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A body of mass moving with a constant velocity hits another body of the mass moving with same velocity but in the opposite direction, and sticks to it. The velocity of the compound body after collision is :
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Correct option: C
Zero
Option C (Zero) is correct because, according to the conservation of momentum, the total momentum after the collision is zero, resulting in zero velocity.
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A machine gun fires a bullet of mass 40 grams with a velocity . The man holding it can
exert a maximum force of 144 N on the gun. The number of bullets he can fire per second at the most is
exert a maximum force of 144 N on the gun. The number of bullets he can fire per second at the most is
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Correct option: A
3
Option A (3) is correct because it's the maximum number of bullets that can be fired per second based on the force the man can exert.
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In case of uniform circular motion which of the following physical quantity do not remain constant
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Correct option: B
Momentum
Option B is correct because in uniform circular motion, speed and kinetic energy are constant, but momentum changes direction.
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Assertion: A rocket in flight is an illustration of the application of the principle of conservation of linear momentum of a system of varying mass.
Reason: The linear momentum of the exhaust gases becomes irrelevant, as these gases no longer remain a part of the rocket.
Reason: The linear momentum of the exhaust gases becomes irrelevant, as these gases no longer remain a part of the rocket.
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Correct option: C
If assertion is true, but reason is false.
The assertion is true, but the reason is false. The linear momentum of the exhaust gases is relevant and must be considered for the conservation of linear momentum.
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Which motion does not require force to maintain it?
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Correct option: C
Uniform straight line motion
Option C is correct because, according to Newton's first law, an object in uniform straight-line motion requires no net force to maintain its motion.
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Assertion (A) A particle of mass at rest decay into two particles of masses and , having non-zero velocities will have ratio of de-Broglie wavelengths unity.
Reason (R) Here we cannot apply conservation of linear momentum.
Reason (R) Here we cannot apply conservation of linear momentum.
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Correct option: C
If Assertion is true but Reason is false.
Option C is correct. The assertion is true because the ratio of de Broglie wavelengths is unity due to conservation of momentum. The reason is false because conservation of linear momentum *can* be applied.
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Assertion: The words 'action' and 'reaction' in the third law of motion stand for simultaneous mutual forces between a pair of objects.
Reason: In this context action always precede or cause reaction.
Reason: In this context action always precede or cause reaction.
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Correct option: C
If assertion is true but reason is false
Assertion is true because action and reaction are simultaneous mutual forces. Reason is false because action does not precede or cause reaction; they occur simultaneously.
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A thief stole a box full of valuable articles of weight w and while carrying it on his head jumped down from a wall of height from the ground. Before he reaches the ground, he experienced a load
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Correct option: A
Zero
Option A (Zero) is correct because both the thief and the box are in free fall, experiencing weightlessness.
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