The engine of a train moving with speed towards a platform sounds a whistle at frequency . The frequency heard by a passenger inside the train is: (neglect air speed. Speed of sound in air )

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The engine of a train moving with speed towards a platform sounds a whistle at frequency . The frequency heard by a passenger inside the train is: (neglect air speed. Speed of sound in air )
An air bubble of volume rises from the bottom of a lake deep to the surface at a temperature of . The atmospheric pressure is the density of water is and . There is no difference of the temperature of water at the depth of and on the surface. The volume of air bubble when it reaches the surface will be:
In a reflecting telescope, a secondary mirror is used to:
An organ pipe long is open at both ends. The speed of sound in air is . The frequency of the second harmonic is ___________ .
For the logic circuit shown, the output waveform at is:





An electric dipole of dipole moment is placed in a uniform electric field of in such a way that dipole moment is along electric field. The work done in rotating dipole by in this field will be ___________ .
A charge particle moving in magnetic field B, has the components of velocity along B as well as perpendicular to B. The path of the charge particle will be
The momentum of a body is increased by . The percentage increase in the kinetic energy of the body is ___________ .
An oscillating LC circuit consists of a inductor and a capacitor. If the maximum charge to the capacitor is . The maximum current in the circuit will be ___________
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: If be the total energy of a satellite moving around the earth, then its potential energy will be .
Statement II: The kinetic energy of a satellite revolving in an orbit is equal to the half the magnitude of total energy .
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below
Certain galvanometers have a fixed core made of non magnetic metallic material. The function of this metallic material is
A nucleus with mass number 242 and binding energy per nucleon as breaks into two fragment each with mass number 121. If each fragment nucleus has binding energy per nucleon as , the total gain in binding energy is _________ .
Two forces having magnitude and are perpendicular to each other. The magnitude of their resultant is:
In this figure the resistance of the coil of galvanometer G is . The emf of the cell is . The ratio of potential difference across and is:

Graphical variation of electric field due to a uniformly charged insulating solid sphere of radius , with distance from the centre O is represented by:





A TV transmitting antenna is high and the receiving antenna is at the ground level. If the radius of the earth is , the surface area covered by the transmitting antenna is approximately:
An air bubble of diameter rises steadily through a solution of density at the rate of . The co-efficient of viscosity of the solution (neglect density of air) is ___________ Pas (given, ).
For a nucleus having mass number and atomic number
A. The surface energy per nucleon .
B. The Coulomb contribution to the binding energy
C. The volume energy
D. Decrease in the binding energy is proportional to surface area.
E. While estimating the surface energy, it is assumed that each nucleon interacts with 12 nucleons. ( and are constants)
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
The moment of inertia of a semicircular ring about an axis, passing through the center and perpendicular to the plane of ring, is , where is the radius and is the mass of the semicircular ring. The value of will be __________.
Two projectiles A and B are thrown with initial velocities of and at angles and with the horizontal respectively. The ratio of their ranges respectively is
At any instant the velocity of a particle of mass is . If the force acting on the particle at is . Then the value of will be:
Given below are two statements:
Statement I: If heat is added to a system, its temperature must increase.
Statement II: If positive work is done by a system in a thermodynamic process, its volume must increase.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below
A current of flows through a wire of cross-sectional area . The number of free electrons in a cubic meter are . The drift velocity of the electrons is __________ (given, charge on electron ).
The weight of a body on the earth is . Then weight of the body when taken to a depth half of the radius of the earth will be:
A cylindrical wire of mass has length and radius . The maximum error in its density will be:
Dimension of should be equal to
The magnetic intensity at the center of a long current carrying solenoid is found to be . If the number of turns is 8 per cm, then the current flowing through the solenoid is __________ A.
Two vertical parallel mirrors A and B are separated by . A point object is placed at a distance of from mirror . The distance of the second nearest image behind mirror A from the mirror is _________ .

An aluminium rod with Young's modulus undergoes elastic strain of . The energy per unit volume stored in the rod in SI unit is:
Proton and electron (e) will have same de-Broglie wavelength when the ratio of their momentum is (assume, ):
The correct order of electronegativity for given elements is:
Match List I with List II:

| LIST I (Reagent) | LIST II (Product) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | ![]() |
I. | ![]() |
| B. | II. | ![]() |
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| C. | III. | ![]() |
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| D. | IV. | ![]() |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
What is the value of ?
The correct order of spin only magnetic moments for the following complex ions is
Match List I with List II:
| LIST I (Species) |
LIST II (Maximum allowed concentration in ppm in drinking water) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| A. | I. | < 50 ppm | |
| B. | II. | < 5 ppm | |
| C. | III. | < 2 ppm | |
| D. | IV. | < 500 ppm |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R.
Assertion A: Butan -1- ol has higher boiling point than ethoxyethane.
Reason R: Extensive hydrogen bonding leads to stronger association of molecules.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Which of the following complex is octahedral, diamagnetic and the most stable?
The water gas on reacting with cobalt as a catalyst forms
The reaction
occurs in which of the given galvanic cell.
What is the purpose of adding gypsum to cement?
Match List I with List II:
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Saccharin | I. | High potency sweetener |
| B. | Aspartame | II. | First artificial sweetening agent |
| C. | Alitame | III. | Stable at cooking temperature |
| D. | Sucralose | IV. | Unstable at cooking temperature |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
In chromyl chloride, the number of d-electrons present on chromium is same as in
(Given at no. of )
Which halogen is known to cause the reaction given below :
Sulphur (S) containing amino acids from the following are:
(a) isoleucine (b) cysteine (c) lysine (d) methionine (e) glutamic acid
of an organic compound with carbon will produce __________ of on complete combustion.
Match List I with List II:
| LIST I (Reagents used) | LIST II (Compound with Functional group detected) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | Alkaline solution of copper sulphate and sodium citrate | I. | ![]() |
| B. | Neutral | II. | ![]() |
| C. | Alkaline chloroform solution | III. | ![]() |
| D. | Potassium iodide and sodium hypochlorite | IV. | ![]() |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Three bulbs are filled with and as shown in the picture. The bulbs are connected through pipes of zero volume. When the stopcocks are opened and the temperature is kept constant throughout, the pressure of the system is found to be ___________ atm. (Nearest integer)
The number of given statement/s which is/are correct is __________.
(A) The stronger the temperature dependence of the rate constant, the higher is the activation energy.
(B) If a reaction has zero activation energy, its rate is independent of temperature.
(C) The stronger the temperature dependence of the rate constant, the smaller is the activation energy.
(D) If there is no correlation between the temperature and the rate constant then it means that the reaction has negative activation energy.
The titration curve of weak acid vs. strong base with phenolphthalein as indictor) is shown below. The .
Given:

The number of following statement/s which is/are correct about phenolphthalein is ___________
A. It can be used as an indicator for the titration of weak acid with weak base.
B. It begins to change colour at
C. It is a weak organic base
D. It is colourless in acidic medium
The major product formed in the following reaction is:





The number of following factors which affect the percent covalent character of the ionic bond is _________
(A) Polarising power of cation
(B) Extent of distortion of anion
(C) Polarisability of the anion
(D) Polarising power of anion
Molar mass of the hydrocarbon (X) which on ozonolysis consumes one mole of per mole of and gives one mole each of ethanal and propanone is _________
(Molar mass of )
When a electric heater is immersed in a gas for 100 s in a constant volume container with adiabatic walls, the temperature of the gas rises by . The heat capacity of the given gas is ___________ (Nearest integer)
Choose the halogen which is most reactive towards reaction in the given compounds (A, B, C & D)

The number of following statement/s which is/are incorrect is ___________
(A) Line emission spectra are used to study the electronic structure
(B) The emission spectra of atoms in the gas phase show a continuous spread of wavelength from red to violet
(C) An absorption spectrum is like the photographic negative of an emission spectrum
(D) The element helium was discovered in the sun by spectroscopic method
The vapour pressure vs. temperature curve for a solution solvent system is shown below.

The boiling point of the solvent is __________ .
Which of the following represent the Freundlich adsorption isotherms?


Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Which of the following metals can be extracted through alkali leaching technique?
Given below are two statements:
Statement I : Lithium and Magnesium do not form superoxide
Statement II : The ionic radius of is larger than ionic radius of
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
reacts with to form
.
__________
Let be the focus of the parabola and the line intersect the parabola at two points and .
Let the point be the centroid of the triangle . If , then is :
If for , then and are the roots of the equation :
Let the mean and variance of 8 numbers be and respectively. If , then is equal to _____________.
If the equation of the plane containing the line
and perpendicular to the plane
is , then is equal to :
In a bolt factory, machines and manufacture respectively and of the total bolts. Of their output 3, 4 and 2 percent are respectively defective bolts. A bolt is drawn at random from the product. If the bolt drawn is found the defective, then the probability that it is manufactured by the machine is :
Let be the values of for which the points and are at equal distance from the plane . If , then the distance of the point from the line is ____________.
If the points with position vectors are collinear, then is equal to :
Consider a circle . Let its mirror image in the line be another circle . Let be the radius of . Then is equal to _________.
Let denote the greatest integer . Then \frac{2}{\pi} \int_\limits{\pi / 6}^{5 \pi / 6}(8[\operatorname{cosec} x]-5[\cot x]) d x is equal to __________.
Negation of is :
The number of ways, in which 5 girls and 7 boys can be seated at a round table so that no two girls sit together, is :
Let the number of elements in sets and be five and two respectively. Then the number of subsets of each having at least 3 and at most 6 elements is :
\lim_\limits{x \rightarrow 0}\left(\left(\frac{\left(1-\cos ^{2}(3 x)\right.}{\cos ^{3}(4 x)}\right)\left(\frac{\sin ^{3}(4 x)}{\left(\log _{e}(2 x+1)\right)^{5}}\right)\right) is equal to _____________.
Let and be the relation defined on such that is odd positive integer or . The minimum number of elements that must be added to the relation , so that it is a symmetric relation, is equal to ____________.
Let denote the greatest integer . If the constant term in the expansion of is , then is equal to ___________.
The number of arrangements of the letters of the word "INDEPENDENCE" in which all the vowels always occur together is :
Let be the circumcenter of the triangle formed by the lines
, and
.
Then is equal to :
Let . Then is equal to
If the coefficients of three consecutive terms in the expansion of are in the ratio , then the coefficient of the fourth term is
The shortest distance between the lines and is :
Let . If , then is equal to :
Let and . If , then equal to :
If is the greatest term in the sequence , then is equal to _____________.
The area of the region is :
Let . If \lim_\limits{x \rightarrow \infty} I(x)=0, then is equal to :
The largest natural number such that divides is ___________.
Let be the three roots of the equation . If , then is equal to :
Let and be vectors such that . If
, then is equal to _______________.
Let and \sum_\limits{j=1}^{n} S_{j}^{2}=\frac{n}{A}\left(B n^{2}+C n+D\right), where and has least value. Then
If the solution curve of the differential equation passes through the points and , then is equal to ____________.