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125 Physics Important Questions with Answers
Physics Important Questions with Answers Part 1
Questions 1-30
1) Who invented electric bulb?
Answer: Thomas Alva Edison.
2) Who first made an electro magnet?
Answer: William Sturgeon.
3) Who discovered that the flow of electric current influences a magnetic needle?
Answer: Oersted – in 1820.
4) Who determined the quantity of electric charge in an electron?
Answer: Robert Andrews Millikan.
5) Who developed the law of attraction or repulsion of electric charges?
Answer: Coulomb.
6) Who artificially made radio isotopes?
Answer: Irene curie, Frederic Joliot.
7) Who 1st predicted the existence of Isotopes?
Answer: Frederick Soddy.
8) Who discovered the existence of the nucleus inside the atom?
Answer: Ernest Rutherford -in 1911.
9) Who is the enunciator of modem atomic theory?
Answer: John Dalton.
10) Who made the first nuclear reactor?
Answer: Enrico Fermi.
11) Who is the father of the concept of atom?
Answer: Dalton.
12) Who first used the word ‘electric’?
Answer: William Gilbert.
13) Who proved the existence of seven colors in sunlight?
Answer: Sir. Isaac Newton.
14) Who proved that light travels faster than sound?
Answer: Ole Romer.
15) Who first made artificial dye from coal tar?
Answer: W.H. Perkin.
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16) Which instrument is used to demonstrate Archimedes principle?
Answer: Cartesian diver.
17) When was nuclear fission discovered?
Answer: In 1938 by Lise Meitner (Austria) and Otto Hahn (Germany).
18) Who tried to prove that air is weightless?
Answer: Voltaire.
19) Who was the Indian scientist awarded Nobel – prize for physics?
Answer: Dr. C.V. Raman, in 1930.
20) Who invented Radar?
Answer: Albert H. Taylor.
21) Who propounded the theory of electrolysis?
Answer: Michael Faraday.
22) Who first measured the velocity of light?
Answer: Romer.
23) Who invented Calculating Machine?
Answer: Wilhelm Schickard.
24) Who discovered Airplane?
Answer: Wilbur and Orville Wright
25) Who invented Airship?
Answer: Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
26) Who was the first to suggest this idea “Radiant energy can be emitted and absorbed by atoms only in discrete amounts called ‘quanta’ ”?
Answer: Max Planck.
27) Who first contemplated “the speed of light is the same no matter how it is measured”?
Answer: Albert Einstein.
28) Who was the first to suggest that matter and energy are inter changeable?
Answer: Albert Einstein.
29) Who first formulated the idea that ‘a moving rod contracts in the direction of its motion’?
Answer: Lorentz and Fitzgerald independently.
30) Who first proposed the concept of atomic number?
Answer: Henry Moseley.
Physics Important Questions with Answers Part 2
Questions 31-60
31) Who, in 1829, was the first scientist to suggest that the spectral line should be used as a standard of length?
Answer: Jacques Babinet.
32) Who formulated the idea ‘the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving’?
Answer: Edwin Hubble.
33) Who gave the idea, “the light in proceeding from point to point travels along the route which minimizes file time required”?
Answer: Pierre de Fermat.
34) Who was the first to think, “The period of oscillation of a pendulum is independent of its amplitude”?
Answer: Galileo.
35) Who was the first to give the idea, “Each pure substance has its own characteristic spectrum”?
Answer: Gustav Kirchhoff.
36) Who was first to think about “A pivoted magnetic needle placed parallel to a wire carrying an electric current makes oscillation”?
Answer: Hans Christian Oersted.
37) Who was first to suggest “A planet moves most quickly when it is closest to the sun, but slows down as it moves farther away”?
Answer: Johannes Kepler.
38) “Regular strokes of the pendulum could be utilized in the accurate measurement of time”
Who was the first to advance this idea?
Answer: Galileo Galilee.
39) 8 Nov. 1895 is an important date in the history of physics. What is it?
Answer: Roentgen discovered the X-rays.
40) In 1752, Benjamin Franklin conducted the famous kite experiment. What did it suggest?
Answer: Lightning is a form of electricity.
41) In which year did Luigi Galvani discover, albeit accidently, the action of electricity on the muscles of a dissected frog?
Answer: 1771.
42) What is the important event which took place in 1665?
Answer: The discovery of Newtonian laws of gravitation.
43) For given value of n, what is the maximum number of electrons in an orbit?
Answer: 2n2.
44) What is the speed of an electron in the orbit of hydrogen atom in the ground state?
Answer: C/137.
45) Which is the best laboratory approximation to an ideal black body?
Answer: A hollow enclosure blackened inside with soot and having a small hole.
46) From where fraunhofer, lines are observed in the spectrum?
Answer: The sun.
47) Why is the fraunhofer lines present in the spectrum?
Answer: Vapors of elements present in atmosphere absorb certain colors.
48) Write an example of sources that give discrete emission spectrum:
Answer: Mercury Vapor lamp.
49) Which is the longest wavelength?
Answer: Infra-red radiation.
50) Light from a distant star is examined with a spectroscope. What does the spectrum show?
Answer: Temperature of star.
51) From where Band spectrum is obtained?
Answer: Molecules In the gaseous state of matter.
52) Which type of spectra is produced in a candle flame, an electric bulb and a kerosene oil lamp?
Answer: Continuous spectra.
53) In which color, wavelength of 5450 A0 occurs?
Answer: Green.
54) What is the velocity of an electron in ground state?
Answer: 2 x 106m/s.
55) The energy of an electron in the first orbit of hydrogen atom is -13.6 ev. What is the energy of the electron in the fourth orbit?
Answer: -0.85 ev.
56) Name an object which has no potential, energy but has only kinetic energy:
Answer: A running vehicle.
57) What do you mean by a potential energy?
Answer: Potential energy is the stored energy.
58) What is the escape velocity from the moon?
Answer: 2.37 km/s.
59) Which is the direction of rotation of a synchronous satellite of earth?
Answer: West to east.
60) Which force is needed to change the direction of a moving body?
Answer: External unbalanced.
Physics Important Questions with Answers Part 3
Questions 61-90
61) The momentum of a body depends on what?
Answer: Its mass and velocity.
62) What is the formula for potential energy?
Answer: mgh.
63) What is the co-efficient of restitution e for a perfectly, elastic collision?
Answer: 1.
64) What is the co-efficient of restitution e for a perfectly inelastic collision?
Answer: 0.
65) How many times is the energy increased if the unit of force and length be each increased by four times?
Answer: 16 times.
66) What is the mechanical advantage in a machine where a resistance W is overcome by applying an effort p?
Answer: w/p.
67) How much work a man does when he pushes a wall and fails to displace it?
Answer: No work at all.
68) Why does an athlete run some distance before taking a long jump?
Answer: By running the athlete gives himself larger inertia of motion.
69) Which force done by the system will increase the potential energy of the system?
Answer: A conservative force.
70) Two particles of masses 1 g and 4 g are moving with equal linear momenta. What is the ratio of their kinetic energies?
Answer: 4.
71) When do the period of oscillation gets doubled in a simple pendulum?
Answer: The length is made four times.
72) An increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid’s potential energy is a principle named as?
Answer: Bernoulli’s theorem.
73) In a constant temperature process the product of pressure and volume is constant, what is this law called?
Answer: Boyle’s law.
74) Dimensional expression ML2T-3 is of which physical quantity?
Answer: Power.
75) The first Asian to win noble prize in the science, for his work on scattering of light?
Answer: C.V Raman.
76) The energy lost as heat, in reversing the magnetization of the material is?
Answer: Hysteresis loss.
77) An electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave can be termed as what?
Answer: Electronic Oscillator.
78) Flow of liquid through a pipeline can be related with what?
Answer: Reynolds Number (Re).
79) Among the following, how is shear modulus denoted?
a. g
b. u
Answer: a.
80) When a bullet rises vertically upward, what is the change that happens to its kinetic energy ?
Answer: It decreases.
81) What are the factors affecting the rate at which the energy radiated by a body?
Answer: All the above factors.
82) What is the range of gravitational potential energy of the universe?
Answer: 1068 J.
83) The energy is having a dimensional formula as _
Answer: ML2 T-2.
84) For what measurement is the ‘Becquerel’ used?
Answer: Activity of a radionuclide.
85) The Theory of Relativity was proposed by whom?
a. Albert Einstein
b. Albert A.Michelson
Answer: a.
86) The area swept by the planet’s orbital radius in equal intervals of time is equal, is stated in which law?
Answer: Kepler’s Law of period.
87) Which among the following is an example of speed of a longitudinal wave?
a. Light wave.
b. Sound wave
Answer: b.
88) The process of fusing and refreezing of ice is termed as _
Answer: Regelation.
89) The middleweight particles were named as ‘meson’, by whom?
Answer: Homi J. Bhabha.
90) A measure of comparative power ratio or relative loudness is called as _
Answer: Bel.
Physics Important Questions with Answers Part 4
Questions 91-125
91) What is the standard unit of dose?
Answer: Sievert.
92) Contrast image reproduction is measured as _
Answer: Gamma.
93) The idea of Principia written by Isaac Newton was formed with the support of which person?
Answer: Edmund Halley.
94) The amount of energy required to raise temperature by one unit (1°C), is termed as _
Answer: Specific heat capacity.
95) What was the subject ‘physics’ called in earlier times?
Answer: Natural Philosophy.
96) Name any one element, other than ‘As’ and ‘Sb’, which can be used as impurity with germanium to form n-type semiconductor?
Answer: Phosphorus.
97) How is the energy gap in a conductor?
Answer: Zero.
98) The optical science was first described by whom in the early ages?
Answer: Robert Grosseteste.
99) An Italian philosopher who said that ‘the sun might be an ordinary star’ was burnt to death, name it?
Answer: Giordano Bruno.
100) The kinetic energy v/s speed graph is in which shape?
Answer: Parabola.
101) The minimum amount of energy required to remove the most loosely bonded electron is called as?
Answer: Ionisation energy.
102) When does the value of energy becomes zero for an electron?
Answer: Far away from the nucleus.
103) The vacant space of a solid’s, electronic energy level is _
Answer: Hole.
104) A petrol engine used to mix petrol and air in certain ratio for combustion, is called _
Answer: Carburettor.
105) What is the potential energy of an electron when it is far away from the nucleus?
Answer: Zero.
106) The book Hydrodynamic containing the explanation of Bernoulli’s theorem was published by whom in the year 1738?
Answer: Daniel Bernoulli.
107) What is the energy equivalent of the mass of an electron?
Answer: Mass of an electron = 0.0511 eV.
108) Name the scientist who first proposed the wave theory of light?
Answer: Christian Huygens.
109) Acceleration due to gravity measured in Gal is equal to _
Answer: 1 cm/s2.
110) A barn of nuclei is equal to _
Answer: 10-24 cm2.
111) Magnetic flux density is measured in _
Answer: Tesla.
112) How is the mass of an electron get converted to energy?
Answer: Combining it with a positron.
113) What is the term used to refer the exchange of energy between a particle and an electromagnetic wave?
Answer: Radiation heat.
114) The unit of Viscosity in the CGS system is _
Answer: Poise.
115) Around the nucleus, surrounds the electron with a total energy _
Answer: Less than zero.
116) 1022J of energy can be related equal to which among the following?
Answer: Solar energy received per day on the earth.
117) What is the reciprocal of the impedance of an electric current?
Answer: Admittance.
118) Why is 8th November 1895 regarded as special day of physics?
Answer: W. Roentgen discovered X-rays.
119) The unit ‘Nit’ is used in what?
Answer: Luminance.
120) Among the following, the unit of sound absorption is _
Answer: Sabin.
121) 2 December 1942 is known for:
Answer: The creation of the first controlled chain reaction.
122) The Standard Unit of measurement of magnetic field strength is _
Answer: Ampère per metre.
123) An engine develops 10 kw of power. How much time will it take to lift a mass of 200 kg to height of 40 meter (g = 10 ms2)
Answer: 8 sec.
124) What is called the energy, which an electron acquires when accelerated through a potential difference of 1 voit?
Answer: 1 e v.
125) What is called the perpendicular distance from effort to fulcrum?
Answer: Effort arm.
