Physics MCQs

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Bats use SONAR (Sound Navigation & Ranging).Sonar is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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“Fermi” is the unit of length. The femtometre is an SI unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁵ metres, which means a quadrillionth of one.

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The north pole of a magnet in a compass points north because it is attracted to the Earth’s magnetic south pole, which is located near Earth’s geographic north pole. The geographic north pole of earth corresponds to magnetic south pole and geographic south pole of earth corresponds to magnetic north pole. The direction in which a compass needle points is known as magnetic north. This is not exactly the direction of the North Magnetic Pole. Instead, the compass aligns itself to the local geomagnetic field, which varies in a complex manner over the Earth’s surface. The angular difference between magnetic north and true north (defined in reference to the Geographic North Pole), at any particular location on the Earth’s surface, is called the magnetic declination. Most map coordinate systems are based on true north, and magnetic declination is often shown on map legends so that the direction of true north can be determined from north as indicated by a compass.

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Inertia is the property of matter that is why it continues in its existing state of either rest or motion. It can be changed by an external force. Here in the question the coin falls in the glass even after the cardboard is flicked because it maintains its rest position by the nature of inertia.

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To calculate the distance of the object from the source of sound based on the time taken for the echo, we can use the formula for distance traveled by sound:

Distance = (Speed of Sound × Time) / 2

The speed of sound in air at normal room temperature (20°C) is approximately 343 meters per second (m/s).

Given that the time taken in the echo is 5 seconds, we can plug the values into the formula:

Distance = (343 m/s × 5 s) / 2 Distance = 1715 meters / 2 Distance ≈ 857.5 meters

So, the approximate distance of the object from the source of sound is approximately 857.5 meters.

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Gravitational Forces are the weakest forces in nature. They obey inverse square law as they vary inversely as the square of the distance between the two bodies. They are central forces and conservative forces. They operate over very long distances having an infinite range.

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J.J Thompson was the first scientist to discover and identify the electrons and to make the discovery of the first subatomic particle. He was also the first scientist to find evidence for isotopes of a stable (non-radioactive) element in 1913, as part of his exploration into the composition of canal rays (positive ions). His experiments to determine the nature of positively charged particles led to the development of the mass spectrograph. J.J Thompson belonged to United Kingdom. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his work on the conduction of electricity in gases.

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Two vectors are said to be equal if they have equal magnitude and same direction. Two vectors are said to be co-initial if their initial point is common.

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Two vectors are said to be collinear if they are acting along the parallel straight lines. The collinear vectors may or may not have equal magnitude.

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The Time of Flight, Horizontal Range and the Maximum Height of an object are independent of mass of the object during the projectile motion.