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PART-A
Q1. There is an equilateral triangle in the XY plane with its centre at the origin. The distance
of its sides from the origin is 3.5 cm. The area of its circumcircle in cm2 is
(a) 38.5 (b) 49 (c) 63.65 (d) 154

Q2. A sphere of iron of radius R/2 fixed to one end of a string was lowered into water in a
cylindrical container of base radius R to keep exactly half the sphere dipped. The rise in
the level of water in the container will be

(a) R/3 (b) R/4 (c) R/8 (d) R/12

Q3. A crystal grows by stacking of unit cells of 10 × 20 × 5 nm size as shown in the diagram
given below. How many unit cells will make a crystal of 1 cm3 volume?
5 nm

20 nm
10 nm
Unit Cell (not to scale)
5 nm

10 nm 20 nm
Crystal (not to scale)

(a) 10 6 (b) 109 (c) 1012 (d) 1018

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1 1 1
Q4. What is the value of    .... to  ?
1 2 2  3 3  4
(a) 2 / 3 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 

Q5. A solid cylinder of basal area A was held dipped in water in a cylindrical vessel of basal
area 2 A vertically such that a length h of the cylinder is immersed. The lower tip of the
cylinder is at a height h from the base of the vessel. What will be the height of water in
the vessel when the cylinder is taken out?

h
h
3 4 5
(a) 2 h (b) h (c) h (d) h
2 3 4

Q6. Of all the triangles that can be inscribed in a semicircle of radius R with the diameter as
one side, the biggest one has the area
(a) R 2 (b) R 2 2 (c) R 2 3 (d) 2R 2

Q7. Choose the largest number:

(a) 2 500 (b) 3 400 (c) 4 300 (d) 5 200

Q8. A daily sheet calendar of the year 2013 contains sheets of 10  10 cm size. All the sheets
of the calendar are spread over the floor of a room of 5m × 7.3 m size. What percentage
of the floor will be covered by these sheets?
(a) 0.1 (b) 1 (c) 10 (d) 100

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Q9. How many rectangles (which are not squares) are there in the following figure?
(a) 56
(b) 70
(c) 86
(d) 100
Q10. Define a  b  lcma, b   gcd a, b  and a  b  a b  b a . What is the value of
1  2  3  4? Here lcm = least common multiple and gcd = greatest common
divisor.
(a) 145 (b) 286 (c) 436 (d) 572

Q11. A square pyramid is to be made using a wire such that only one strand of wire is used for
each edge. What is the minimum number of times that the wire has to be cut in order to
make the pyramid?
(a) 3 (b) 7 (c) 2 (d) 1

Q12. A crow is flying along a horizontal circle of radius R at a height R above the horizontal
ground. Each of a number of men on the ground found that the angular height of the crow
 
was a fixed angle   45o when it was closest to him. Then all these men must be on a
circle on the ground with a radius
(a) R  R sin  (b) R  R cos (c) R  R tan  (d) R  R cot 

Q13. How many pairs of positive integers have gcd 20 and lcm 600?
(gcd = greatest common divisor; lcm = least common multiple)
(a) 4 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) 7

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Q14. During an evening party, when Ms. Black, Ms. Brown and Ms. White met, Ms. Brown
remarked, “it is interesting that our dresses are white, black or brown, but for each of us
the name does not match the colour of the dress!”. Ms. White replied, “But your white
dress does not suit you!”. Pick the correct answer
(a) Ms. White’s dress was brown (b) Ms. Black’s dress was white
(c) Ms. White’s dress was black (d) Ms. Black’s dress was black

Q15. Two integers are picked at random from the first 15 positive integers without
replacement. What is the probability that the sum of the two numbers is 20?
3 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 21 105 20
Q16. Identify the next figure in the sequence

(a) (b) (c) (d)

Q17. In a customer survey conducted during Monday to Friday, of the customers who asked
for child care facilities in super markets, 23% were men and the rest, women. Among
them 19.9% of the women and 8.8% of the men were willing to pay for the facilities.
A. What is the ratio of the men to women customers who wanted child care facilities?
B. If the survey had been conducted during the weekend instead, how will the result
change?
With the above data,
(a) Only A can be answered (b) Only B can be answered
(c) Both A and B can be answered (d) Neither A nor B can be answered

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Q18. The map given below shows contour lines which connect points of equal ground surface
elevation in a region. Inverted ‘V’ shaped portions of contour lines represent a valley
along which a river flows. What is the downstream direction of the river?

N
200
100
100
SCALE  1 : 5000

(a) North (b) South (c) East (d) West

Q19. During a summer vacation, of 20 friends from a hostel, each wrote a letter to each of all
others. The total number of letters written was
(a) 20 (b) 400 (c) 200 (d) 380

Q20. A person has to cross a square field by going from A to C. The person is only allowed to
move towards the east or towards the north or use a combination of these movements.
The total distance traveled by the person
(a) depends on the length of each step D C
NORTH
(b) depends on the total number of steps
(c) is different for different paths   EAST

(d) is the same for all paths

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PART-B

Q21. Two identical bosons of mass m are placed in a one-dimensional potential

1
V x   m 2 x 2 . The bosons interact via a weak potential,
2

V12  V0 exp  mx1  x 2  / 4
2

where x1 and x2 denote coordinates of the particles. Given that the ground state
1
mx 2
 m  4 
wavefunction of the harmonic oscillator is 0  x     e 2
. The ground state
  
energy of the two-boson system, to the first order in V0 , is

V0 
(a)   2V0 (b)  

1

  2  
(c)   V0 1   (d)   V0 1  
   

Q22. Ten grams of ice at 0°C is added to a beaker containing 30 grams of water at 25°C. What
is the final temperature of the system when it comes to thermal equilibrium? (The
specific heat of water is 1 cal/gm/°C and latent heat of melting of ice is 80 cal/gm)
(a) 0°C (b) 7.5°C (c) 12.5°C (d) -1.25°C

Q23. A vessel has two compartments of volume V1 and V2 , containing an ideal gas at pressures

p1 and p 2 , and temperatures T1 and T2 respectively. If the wall separating the

compartments is removed, the resulting equilibrium temperature will be
p1T1  p 2T2 V1T1  V2T2
(a) (b)
p1  p 2 V1  V2

p1V1  p 2V2 1/ 2
(c) (d) T1T2 
 p1V1 / T1    p2V2 / T2 

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Q24. For temperature T1  T2 , the qualitative temperature dependence of the probability

distribution F v  of the speed v of a molecule in three dimensions is correctly
represented by the following figure:

T2
T1
F(V)

F(V)
T1 T2
(a) (b)

T1
F(V)

F(V)

T2 T1
T2
(c) (d)

V V

Q25. A system of non-interacting spin-1/2 charged particles are placed in an external magnetic
field. At low temperature T , the leading behavior of the excess energy above the ground
state energy, depends on T as: ( c is a constant)
(a) cT (b) cT 3 (c) e  c / T (d) c (is independent of T )

Q26. The acceleration due to gravity g is determined by measuring the time period T and the
length L of a simple pendulum. If the uncertainties in the measurements of T and L are
T and L respectively, the fractional error g / g in measuring g is best approximated
by
L T L 2 T
(a)  (b) 
L T L T
2 2 2 2
L T  L   2 T 
(c)  (d)    
L T  L   T 

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Q27. A silicon transistor with built-in voltage 0.7 V is used in the circuit shown, with
VBB  9.7V , RB  300k, VCC  12V and RC  2k . Which of the following figures
correctly represents the load line and quiescent Q point?

RC

RB 
 
VCC
V BB


iC iC
   mA  
32 35 6 35
(a) 32 (b) 32
Q
30 Q
30
0 9.7 VCE V  0 12 VCE V 

iC iC
mA   A  
6 35 32 Q 35
(c) Q
32 (d) 32
30 30
0 12 VCE V  0 9. 7 VCE V 

Q28. If the analog input to an 8-bit successive approximation ADC is increased from 1.0 V to
2.0 V, then the conversion time will
(a) remain unchanged (b) double
(c) decrease to half its original value (d) increase four times

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Q29. The insulation resistance R of an insulated cable is measured by connecting it in parallel

with a capacitor C , a voltmeter, and battery B as shown. The voltage across the cable
dropped from 150 V to 15 V, 1000 seconds after the switch S is closed. If the capacitance
of the cable is 5F then its insulation resistance is approximately
S


B V R C


(a) 109  (b) 108  (c) 10 7  (d) 10 6 

Q30. The approximation cos  1 is valid up to 3 decimal places as long as  is less than:

(take 180 o /   57.29 o )

(a) 1.28° (b) 1.81° (c) 3.28° (d) 4.01°

Q31. The area of a disc in its rest frame S is equal to 1 (in some units). The disc will appear
distorted to an observer O moving with a speed u with respect to S along the plane of the
disc. The area of the disc measured in the rest frame of the observer O is ( c is the speed
of light in vacuum)
1/ 2 1 / 2 1
 u2   u2   u2   u2 
(a) 1  2  (b) 1  2  (c) 1  2  (d) 1  2 
 c   c   c   c 

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Q32. A particle of charge e and mass m is located at the midpoint of the line joining two fixed
collinear dipoles with unit charges as shown in the figure. (The particle is constrained to
move only along the line joining the dipoles). Assuming that the length of the dipoles is
much shorter than their separation, the natural frequency of oscillation of the particle is
R R

  e, m  

2d 2d
2 2 2
6e R 6e R 6e 2 d 2 6e 2 d
(a) (b) (c) (d)
 0 md 5  0 md 4  0 mR 5  0 mR 4

Q33. A current I is created by a narrow beam of protons moving in vacuum with constant
 
velocity u . The direction and magnitude, respectively, of the Poynting vector S outside
the beam at a radial distance r (much larger than the width of the beam) from the axis,
are
   I2    I2
(a) S  u and S   (b) S ||  u  and S  
4 2  0 u r 2 4 2  0 u r 4
   I2    I2
(c) S || u and S   (d) S || u and S  
4 2  0 u r 2 4 2  0 u r 4


Q34. If the electric and magnetic fields are unchanged when the potential A changes (in
  
suitable units) according to A  A  r̂ , where r  r t r̂ , then the scalar potential  must
simultaneously change to
(a)   r (b)   r (c)    r /  t (d)    r /  t

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Q35. Consider an axially symmetric static charge distribution of the form,

2
r 
   0  0  e r / r0 cos 2 
r
The radial component of the dipole moment due to this charge distribution is
(a) 2 0 r04 (b)  0 r04 (c)  0 r04 (d)  0 r04 / 2

Q36. In a basis in which the z-component S z of the spin is diagonal, an electron is in a spin
state
 1  i  / 6 
   
 2 / 3 

The probabilities that a measurement of S z will yield the values  / 2 and   / 2 are,
respectively,
(a) 1/2 and 1/2 (b) 2/3 and 1/3 (c) 1/4 and 3/4 (d) 1/3 and 2/3

Q37. Consider the normalized state  of a particle in a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator:

  b1 0  b2 1

where 0 and 1 denote the ground and first excited states respectively, and b1 and b2

are real constants. The expectation value of the displacement x in the state  will be a

minimum when
1 1
(a) b2  0, b1  1 (b) b2  b1 (c) b2  b1 (d) b2  b1
2 2

Q38.  
A muon   from cosmic rays is trapped by a proton to form a hydrogen-like atom.
Given that a muon is approximately 200 times heavier than an electron, the longest
wavelength of the spectral line (in the analogue of the Lyman series) of such an atom will
be
o o o o
(a) 5.62 A (b) 6.67 A (c) 3.75 A (d) 13.3 A

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Q39. The un-normalized wavefunction of a particle in a spherically symmetric potential is

given by

 r   zf r 
where f r  is a function of the radial variable r . The eigenvalue of the operator

L2 (namely the square of the orbital angular momentum) is
(a)  2 / 4 (b)  2 / 2 (c)  2 (d) 2 2

Q40. Given that


tn 2

 H n x 
n 0 n!
 e t 2 tx

the value of H 4 0 is

(a) 12 (b) 6 (c) 24 (d) – 6

Q41. A unit vector n̂ on the xy -plane is at an angle of 120° with respect to iˆ . The angle
 
between the vectors u  a iˆ  b nˆ and v  anˆ  b iˆ will be 60° if

(a) b  3a / 2 (b) b  2a / 3 (c) b  a / 2 (d) b  a

Q42. With z  x  iy, which of the following functions f  x, y  is NOT a (complex) analytic
function of z ?


(a) f x, y   x  iy  8 4  x 2  y 2  2ixy
3
 7

7 3
(b) f  x, y    x  iy  1  x  iy 


(c) f  x, y   x 2  y 2  2ixy  3 
5

4 6
(d) f  x, y   1  x  iy  2  x  iy 

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Q43. A planet of mass m and an angular momentum L moves in a circular orbit in a potential,
V r   k / r , where k is a constant. If it is slightly perturbed radially, the angular
frequency of radial oscillations is
(a) mk 2 / 2 L3 (b) mk 2 / L3 (c) 2 mk 2 / L3 (d) 3mk 2 / L3

Q44. The Lagrangian of a particle of mass m moving in one dimension is given by

1
L mx 2  bx
2
where b is a positive constant. The coordinate of the particle xt  at time t is given by: (in
following c1 and c2 are constants)
b 2
(a)  t  c1t  c2 (b) c1t  c2
2m
 bt   bt   bt   bt 
(c) c1 cos   c 2 sin   (d) c1 cosh   c 2 sinh 
m m m m

Q45. A uniform cylinder of radius r and length l , and a uniform sphere of radius R are
released on an inclined plane when their centres of mass are at the same height. If they
roll down without slipping, and if the sphere reaches the bottom of the plane with a speed
V , then the speed of the cylinder when it reaches the bottom is:

14rl r 4V 14
(a) V (b) 4V (c) (d) V
15R 2 15R 15 15

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PART-C

Q46. The components of a vector potential A   A0 , A1 , A2 , A3  are given by

A  k  xyz, yzt , zxt , xyt 

where k is a constant. The three components of the electric field are

(a) k  yz, zx, xy  (b) k  x, y, z  (c) 0, 0, 0  (d) k  xt , yt , zt 

Q47. In the Born approximation, the scattering amplitude f   for the Yukawa potential

e   r
V r  
r

is given by: (in the following b  2k sin , E   2 k 2 / 2m )
2
2m 2m 2m 2m
(a)  (b)  (c)  (d) 

2  2  b 
2 2 
  2  b2
2
 2  2  b2 
2  2  b2 
3

Q48. If  nlm denotes the eigenfunciton of the Hamiltonian with a potential V  V r  then the

expectation value of the operator L2x  L2y in the state

1
 
5

3 211   210  15 211 
is
(a) 39 2 / 25 (b) 13 2 / 25 (c) 2 2 (d) 26 2 / 25

Q49. An oscillating current I t   I 0 exp it  flows in the direction of the y-axis through a
thin metal sheet of area 1.0 cm2 kept in the xy -plane. The rate of total energy radiated per
unit area from the surfaces of the metal sheet at a distance of 100 m is

(a) I 0 / 12 0 c 3   
(b) I 02 2 / 12 0 c 3

(c) I 02  / 12 c 
0
3
(d) I 0 2 / 24 c 
0
3

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Q50. Consider a two-dimensional infinite square well

0 0  x  a, 0 ya
V x , y   
 otherwise
Its normalized Eigenfunctions are

2  n xx   n y y 
 n x , n y  x, y   sin  sin 
a  a   a 

where n x , n y  1,2,3, …..If a perturbation

 a a
V 0 x , 0 y
H '  0 2 2
 0 otherwise

is applied, then the correction to the energy of the first excited state to order V0 is

V0 V0  64 
(a)
4
(b)
4 1  9 2 
 
V0  16  V0  32 
(c)
4 1  9 2  (d)
4 1  9 2 

Q51. Consider a system of two Ising spins S1 and S 2 taking values  1 with interaction energy
given by    JS1 S 2 , when it is in thermal equilibrium at temperature T . For large T ,
the average energy of the system varies as C / k B T , with C given by

(a)  2J 2 (b)  J 2 (c) J 2 (d) 4 J

Q52. Consider three particles A, B and C , each with an attribute S that can take two
values  1 . Let S A  1, S B  1 and S C  1 at a given instant. In the next instant, each S

value can change to  S with probability1 / 3 . The probability that S A  S B  S C remains

unchanged is
(a) 2 / 3 (b) 1 / 3 (c) 2 / 9 (d) 4 / 9

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Q53. The bound on the ground state energy of the Hamiltonian with an attractive delta-
function potential, namely
2 d 2
H   a  x 
2m dx 2
using the variational principle with the trial wavefunction   x   A exp  bx 2 is 

 
 Note :  e t dt   a  1
t a

 0 
(a)  ma 2 / 4  2 (b)  ma 2 / 2  2

(c)  ma 2 /   2 (d)  ma 2 / 5  2
Q54. Consider two different systems each with three identical non-interacting particles. Both
have single particle states with energies  0 ,3 0 and 5 0 ,  0  0  . One system is populated

1
by spin  fermions and the other by bosons. What is the value of E F  E B where EB
2
and EB are the ground state energies of the fermionic and bosonic systems respectively?
(a) 6 0 (b) 2 0 (c) 4 0 (d)  0

Q55. The input to a lock-in amplifier has the form Vi t   Vi sin  t   i  where Vi ,  ,  i are the
amplitude, frequency and phase of the input signal respectively. This signal is multiplied
by a reference signal of the same frequency  , amplitude Vr and phase  r . If the
multiplied signal is fed to a low pass filter of cut-off frequency  , the final output signal
is
1
(a) ViVr cos i   r 
2
 1 
(b) ViVr cos i   r   cos  t   i   r 
 2 
(c) ViVr sin  i   r 

 1 
(d) ViVr cos i   r   cos  t   i   r 
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Q56. The solution of the partial differential equation

2 2
u  x , t   u  x, t   0
t 2 x 2
satisfying the boundary conditions u 0, t   0  u L, t  and initial conditions

u x,0  sinx / L  and u  x, t  t 0  sin 2x / L  is
t
L
(a) sin  x / L  cos t / L   sin 2x / L  cos2 t / L 
2
(b) 2 sin x / L  cos t / L   sin x / L  cos2 t / L 
L
(c) sin x / L  cos2 t / L   sin 2x / L sin  t / L 

L
(d) sin x / L  cos t / L   sin 2x / L sin 2 t / L 
2

Q57. Consider the hydrogen-deuterium molecule HD. If the mean distance between the two
atoms is 0.08 nm and the mass of the hydrogen atom is 938 MeV / c 2 , then the energy
difference E between the two lowest rotational states is approximately
(a) 10 1 eV (b) 10 2 eV (c) 2  10 2 eV (d) 10 3 eV

Q58. Four digital outputs V , P, T and H monitor the speed v , tyre pressure p , temperature t
and relative humidity h of a car. These outputs switch from 0 to 1 when the values of the
parameters exceed 85 km/hr, 2 bar, 40 0 C and 50%, respectively. A logic circuit that is
used to switch ON a lamp at the output E is shown below.

P
E

H
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Which of the following condition will switch the lamp ON?

(a) v  85km / hr, p  2 bar, t  40 0 C , h  50%

(b) v  85km / hr, p  2 bar, t  40 0 C , h  50%

(c) v  85km / hr, p  2 bar, t  40 0 C , h  50%

(d) v  85km / hr, p  2 bar, t  40 0 C , h  50%

Q59. The solution of the differential equation

dx
 x2
dt
with the initial condition x0  1 will blow up as t tends to
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) ½ (d) 

Q60. Let u be a random variable uniformly distributed in the interval 0,1 and V  c ln u ,
where c is a real constant. If V is to be exponentially distributed in the interval
[0, ) with unit standard deviation, then the value of c should be
(a) ln 2 (b) ½ (c) 1 (d) -1

1
Q61. The inverse Laplace transforms of is
s s  1
2

1 2 t 1 2
(a) t e (b) t  1  e t
2 2
1 2
(c) t 1  e t (d)
2

t 1  e t 

Q62. The number of degrees of freedom of a rigid body in d space-dimensions is

(a) 2 d (b) 6 (c) d d  1 / 2 (d) d !

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Q63. A particle of mass m is at the stable equilibrium position of its potential energy
V  x   ax  bx 3
where a, b are positive constants. The minimum velocity that has to be imparted to the
particle to render its motion unstable is

(a) 64a 3 / 9m 2 b  (b) 64a 3 / 279m 2 b 

1/ 4 1/ 4

(c) 16a 3 / 27m 2 b  (d) 3a 3 / 64m 2 b 

1/ 4 1/ 4

Q64. If the operators A and B satisfy the commutation relation  A, B  I , where I is the
identity operator, then
 
(a) e A , B  e A   
(b) e A , B  e B , A 
(c) e , B   e
A B
,A  (d) e , B   I
A

Q65. A system is governed by the Hamiltonian

1
H  p x  ay 2  1  p x  bx2
2 2
where a and b are constants and p x , p y are momenta conjugate to x and y respectively.

For what values of a and b will the quantities  p x  3 y  and  p y  2 x  be conserved?

(a) a  3, b  2 (b) a  3, b  2

(c) a  2, b  3 (d) a  2, b  3

Q66. Using the frequency-dependent Drude formula, what is the effective kinetic inductance of
a metallic wire that is to be used as a transmission line? [In the following, the electron
mass is m , density of electrons is n , and the length and cross-sectional area of the wire
 and A respectively.]


(a) mA / ne 2  (b) zero (c) m / ne 2 A  
(d) m A / ne 2  2 

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Q67. The phonon dispersion for the following one-dimensional diatomic lattice with masses
M 1 and M 2 (as shown in the figure)
K

M1 M2 M1 M2
is given by

 1 1  4M 1 M 2  qa  
 2 q   K    1  1  sin 2   
 M 1 M 2   M 1  M 2  2
 2  

where a is the lattice parameter and K is the spring constant. The velocity of sound is

K M 1  M 2  K
(a) a (b) a
2M 1M 2 2 M 1  M 2 

K M 1  M 2  KM 1 M 2
(c) a (d) a
2 M 1  M 2 
3
M 1M 2

Q68. The binding energy of a light nucleus Z , A in MeV is given by the approximate formula

B A, Z   16 A  20 A 2/3 3
 Z 2 A 1 / 3  30
N  Z  2

4 A
where N  A  Z is the neutron number. The value of Z of the most stable isobar for a
given A is
1 1 1
A A2 / 3  A A A2 / 3  A A4 / 3 
(a) 1   (b) (c) 1   (d) 1  
2 160  2 2 120  2 64 
Q69. Muons are produced through the annihilation of particle a and its antiplarticle, namely the
process
a  a    
A muon has a rest mass of 105 MeV/c2 and its proper life time is 2  s . If the center of
mass energy of the collision is 2.1 GeV in the laboratory frame that coincides with the
center-of-mass frame, then the fraction of muons that will decay before they reach a
detector placed 6 km away from the interaction point is
(a) e 1 (b) 1  e 1 (c) 1  e 2 (d) e 10

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Q70. The conductors in a 0.75 km long two-wire transmission line are separated by a centre-to-
centre distance of 0.2 m. If each conductor has a diameter of 4 cm, then the capacitance
of the line is
(a) 8.85 F (b) 88.5 nF (c) 8.85 pF (d) 8.85 nF

Q71. The electron dispersion relation for a one-dimensional metal is given by

 ka 1 2 
 k  2 0 sin 2  sin ka 
 2 6 
where k is the momentum, a is the lattice constant,  0 is a constant having dimensions of

energy and ka   . If the average number of electrons per atom in the conduction band

is 1/3, then the Fermi energy is

(a)  0 / 4 (b)  0 (c) 2 0 / 3 (d) 5 0 / 3

Q72. The electronic energy levels in a hydrogen atom are given by E n  13.6 / n 2 eV. If a

selective excitation to the n  100 level is to be made using a laser, the maximum
allowed frequency line-width of the laser is
(a) 6.5 MHz (b) 6.5 GHz (c) 6.5 Hz (d) 6.5 kHz

Q73. If the energy dispersion of a two-dimensional electron system is E  uk where u is the
velocity and k is the momentum, then the density of states DE  depends on the energy
as
(a) 1 / E (b) E (c) E (d) constant

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Q74. Consider the laser resonator cavity shown in the figure.

R1  1 R2  R
l

M1 P M2

If I 1 is the intensity of the radiation at mirror M 1 and  is the gain coefficient of the
medium between the mirrors, then the energy density of photons in the plane P at a
distance x from M 1 is

(a) I 1 / c e x (b) I 1 / c ex


(c) I 1 / c  ex  e x  (d) I 1 / c e 2x

Q75. A spin-1/2 particle A undergoes the delay

A BC D
where it is known that B and C are also spin-1/2 particles. The complete set of allowed
values of the spin of the particle D is
1 3 5
(a) ,1, , 2, , 3, ... (b) 0, 1
2 2 2
1 1 3 5 7
(c) only (d) , , , ,....
2 2 2 2 2

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