
In the given circuit, the voltage across load resistance (R) is :

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In the given circuit, the voltage across load resistance (R) is :
A particle of charge '' and mass '' moves in a circle of radius '' around an infinitely long line charge of linear charge density ''. Then time period will be given as :
(Consider as Coulomb's constant)
If three moles of monoatomic gas is mixed with two moles of a diatomic gas , the value of adiabatic exponent for the mixture is
Escape velocity of a body from earth is . If the radius of a planet be onethird the radius of earth and mass be one-sixth that of earth, the escape velocity from the planet is :
A simple pendulum is placed at a place where its distance from the earth's surface is equal to the radius of the earth. If the length of the string is , then the time period of small oscillations will be __________ s. [take ]
A big drop is formed by coalescing 1000 small identical drops of water. If be the total surface energy of 1000 small drops of water and be the surface energy of single big drop of water, then is where ________.
A block of ice at is slowly heated and converted to steam at . Which of the following curves represent the phenomenon qualitatively:




A point source is emitting sound waves of intensity at the origin. The difference in intensity (magnitude only) at two points located at a distances of and from the origin respectively will be _________ .
Two discs of moment of inertia and , about their central axes & normal to their planes, rotating with angular speeds & respectively are brought into contact face to face with their axes of rotation coincident. The loss in kinetic energy of the system in the process is _________ J.
When a potential difference is applied across a wire of resistance , it dissipates energy at a rate . If the wire is cut into two halves and these halves are connected mutually parallel across the same supply, the energy dissipation rate will become:
Two identical charged spheres are suspended by strings of equal lengths. The strings make an angle of with each other. When suspended in a liquid of density , the angle remains same. If density of material of the sphere is , the dielectric constant of the liquid is _______
Three blocks and are pulled on a horizontal smooth surface by a force of as shown in figure

The tensions T and T in the string are respectively :
Match List I with List II
| List I | List II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | Gauss's law of magnetostatics | (I) | |
| (B) | Faraday's law of electro magnetic induction | (II) | |
| (C) | Ampere's law | (III) | |
| (D) | Gauss's law of electrostatics | (IV) |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Projectiles A and B are thrown at angles of and with vertical respectively from top of a high tower. If their ranges and times of flight are same, the ratio of their speeds of projection is :
[Take ]
In an experiment to measure the focal length of a convex lens, the magnitude of object distance and the image distance are measured with reference to the focal point of the lens. The - plot is shown in figure.
The focal length of the lens is ________ .

If the total energy transferred to a surface in time is , then the magnitude of the total momentum delivered to this surface for complete absorption will be:
If mass is written as then the value of will be : (Constants have their usual meaning with dimensionless constant)
A block of mass is pushed up a surface inclined to horizontal at an angle of by a force of parallel to the inclined surface as shown in figure. When the block is pushed up by along inclined surface, the work done against frictional force is :

A power transmission line feeds input power at to a step down transformer with its primary winding having 3000 turns. The output power is delivered at by the transformer. The current in the primary of the transformer is and its efficiency is . The winding of transformer is made of copper. The output current of transformer is _________ .
In a nuclear fission reaction of an isotope of mass , three similar daughter nuclei of same mass are formed. The speed of a daughter nuclei in terms of mass defect will be :
Choose the correct statement for processes A & B shown in figure.

If 50 Vernier divisions are equal to 49 main scale divisions of a traveling microscope and one smallest reading of main scale is , the Vernier constant of traveling microscope is
The current of flows in a square loop of sides is placed in air. The magnetic field at the centre of the loop is . The value of is _________.
An electron revolving in Bohr orbit has magnetic moment . If , the value of is
A block of mass is placed on a surface having vertical crossection given by . If coefficient of friction is 0.5, the maximum height above the ground at which block can be placed without slipping is:
Two resistance of and are connected in series with a battery of and negligible internal resistance. A voltmeter is used to measure voltage across resistance, which gives reading as . The resistance of voltmeter must be _______ .
A beam of unpolarised light of intensity is passed through a polaroid and then through another polaroid which is oriented so that its principal plane makes an angle of relative to that of . The intensity of emergent light is:
An alternating voltage volt is applied to a purely resistive load of . The time taken for the current to rise from half of the peak value to the peak value is:
A vector has magnitude same as that of and is parallel to . The and components of this vector in first quadrant are and 3 respectively where _________.
For the photoelectric effect, the maximum kinetic energy of the photoelectrons is plotted against the frequency of the incident photons as shown in figure. The slope of the graph gives

Given below are two statements:
Statement - I: Since Fluorine is more electronegative than nitrogen, the net dipole moment of is greater than .
Statement - II: In , the orbital dipole due to lone pair and the dipole moment of bonds are in opposite direction, but in the orbital dipole due to lone pair and dipole moments of N-F bonds are in same direction.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate from the options given below:
The of an aqueous solution containing benzoic acid and sodium benzoate is 4.5. The volume of benzoic acid solution in of this buffer solution is _________ . (given : )
The solution from the following with highest depression in freezing point/lowest freezing point is
Number of geometrical isomers possible for the given structure is/are _________.

Which among the following purification methods is based on the principle of "Solubility" in two different solvents?
Total number of species from the following which can undergo disproportionation reaction is ________.
A and B formed in the following reactions are:
The total number of correct statements, regarding the nucleic acids is _________.
A. RNA is regarded as the reserve of genetic information
B. DNA molecule self-duplicates during cell division
C. DNA synthesizes proteins in the cell
D. The message for the synthesis of particular proteins is present in DNA
E. Identical DNA strands are transferred to daughter cells.
Salicylaldehyde is synthesized from phenol, when reacted with

Given below are two statements:
Statement - I: Along the period, the chemical reactivity of the elements gradually increases from group 1 to group 18 .
Statement - II: The nature of oxides formed by group 1 elements is basic while that of group 17 elements is acidic.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate from the options given below:
Number of metal ions characterized by flame test among the following is ________.
The molecule / ion with square pyramidal shape is
Reduction potential of ions are given below:
The correct order of their oxidising power is :
Number of complexes which show optical isomerism among the following is ________.
Given below are two statements:
Statement - I: High concentration of strong nucleophilic reagent with secondary alkyl halides which do not have bulky substituents will follow mechanism.
Statement - II: A secondary alkyl halide when treated with a large excess of ethanol follows mechanism.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate from the options given below:
Two reactions are given below:
Then enthalpy change for following reaction is _______ .
Alkaline oxidative fusion of gives "A" which on electrolytic oxidation in alkaline solution produces B. A and B respectively are
Products A and B formed in the following set of reactions are





If a substance '' dissolves in solution of a mixture of '' and '' with their respective number of moles as and . Mole fraction of in the solution is
IUPAC name of following compound is :

Choose the correct statements about the hydrides of group 15 elements.
A. The stability of the hydrides decreases in the order .
B. The reducing ability of the hydride increases in the order .
C. Among the hydrides, is strong reducing agent while is mild reducing agent.
D. The basicity of the hydrides increases in the order .
Choose the most appropriate from the options given below :
The products A and B formed in the following reaction scheme are respectively





Number of spectral lines obtained in spectra, when an electron makes transition from fifth excited state to first excited state will be
The correct stability order of carbocations is

The coordination geometry around the manganese in decacarbonyldimanganese is
The orange colour of and purple colour of is due to
required for a reaction is produced by decomposition of in as by equation
The initial concentration of is and it is after 30 minutes.
The rate of formation of is , value of is _________. (nearest integer)
2-chlorobutane (isomers)
Total number of optically active isomers shown by , obtained in the above reaction is _________.
Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R:
Assertion A: is more acidic than .
Reason R: Bond dissociation enthalpy of is lower than .
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate from the options given below:
m-chlorobenzaldehyde on treatment with 50% KOH solution yields :




Consider two circles and , where . Let the angle between the two radii (one to each circle) drawn from one of the intersection points of and be . If the length of common chord of and is , then the value of equals _______.
The variance of the data
| 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 17 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
is _________.
Let . If and are the maximum and minimum values of , respectively in , then the value of is
Let be the sum to -terms of an arithmetic progression , If 40<\left(\frac{6}{n(n+1)} \sum_\limits{k=1}^n S_k\right)<42, then equals ________.
Let be a point on the hyperbola , in the first quadrant such that the area of triangle formed by and the two foci of is . Then, the square of the distance of from the origin is
If is a complex number, then the number of common roots of the equations and , is equal to
Let and be real constants such that the function defined by be differentiable on . Then, the value of \int_\limits{-2}^2 f(x) d x equals
For , let and a real number be such that . Then, the value of is equal to
The area of the region enclosed by the parabola , the line and the positive coordinate axes is _________.
Let ,
be three lines such that is perpendicular to and is perpendicular to both and . Then, the point which lies on is
Let be a curve lying in the first quadrant such that the area enclosed by the line and the co-ordinate axes, where is any point on the curve, is always . If , then equals __________.
Let . Let a vector be such that the angle between and is and . If , then the value of is equal to
Let be a function satisfying for all . If , then
If is the locus of a point, which moves such that it is always equidistant from the lines and , then the value of equals
The number of real solutions of the equation is _________.
Let \alpha=\sum_\limits{k=0}^n\left(\frac{\left({ }^n C_k\right)^2}{k+1}\right) and \beta=\sum_\limits{k=0}^{n-1}\left(\frac{{ }^n C_k{ }^n C_{k+1}}{k+2}\right) If , then equals _______.
Let be a function defined by , and . Then, is equal to
Bag A contains 3 white, 7 red balls and Bag B contains 3 white, 2 red balls. One bag is selected at random and a ball is drawn from it. The probability of drawing the ball from the bag A, if the ball drawn is white, is
The number of symmetric relations defined on the set which are not reflexive is _________.
If the domain of the function is , then the value of is equal to
Let be a thrice differentiable function in . Let the tangents to the curve at and make angles and , respectively with positive -axis. If 27 \int_\limits1^3\left(\left(f^{\prime}(t)\right)^2+1\right) f^{\prime \prime}(t) d t=\alpha+\beta \sqrt{3} where are integers, then the value of equals
Let be defined as . If and , then the value of equals
Let and be two vectors such that and . Then is equal to
Suppose are the coefficients of four consecutive terms in the expansion of . Then the value of equals
Let a line passing through the point intersect the lines at and at . Then, the value of equals __________.
Let and be be two distinct positive real numbers. Let term of a GP, whose first term is and third term is , is equal to term of another GP, whose first term is and fifth term is . Then is equal to
Consider the system of linear equations , where . Then, which of the following statement is NOT correct?
Let be a non-zero matrix, where . For a square matrix , let trace denote the sum of all the diagonal entries of . Then, among the statements:
(I) Trace
(II) If trace , then has exactly one non-zero entry.
Let and be the points on the line . Let the point divide the line segment internally in the ratio . Let be a directrix of the ellipse and the corresponding focus be . If from , the perpendicular on the -axis passes through , then the length of the latus rectum of is equal to,
In an examination of maths paper, there are 20 questions of equal marks and the question paper is divided into three sections : and . A student is required to attempt total 15 questions taking at least 4 questions from each section. If section has 8 questions, section has 6 questions and section has 6 questions, then the total number of ways a student can select 15 questions is __________.