By what percentage will the illumination of the lamp decrease if the current drops by 20%?

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By what percentage will the illumination of the lamp decrease if the current drops by 20%?
A body of mass '' is projected with a speed '' making an angle of with the ground. The angular momentum of the body about the point of projection, at the highest point is expressed as . The value of '' is _________.
The measured value of the length of a simple pendulum is with accuracy. The time for 50 oscillations was measured to be 40 seconds with 1 second resolution. From these measurements, the accuracy in the measurement of acceleration due to gravity is . The value of is:
A body of mass begins to move under the action of a time dependent force given by . The power developed by the force at the time is given by:
Light from a point source in air falls on a convex curved surface of radius and refractive index 1.5. If the source is located at from the convex surface, the image will be formed at ________ from the object.
Two circular coils and of 100 turns each have same radius of . The currents in and are and respectively. and are placed with their planes mutually perpendicular with their centers coincide. The resultant magnetic field induction at the center of the coils is , where __________.
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The speed of sound in oxygen at S.T.P. will be approximately: (given, )
An AC voltage is applied to a series LCR circuit which drives a current . The average power dissipated is:
The resistance per centimeter of a meter bridge wire is , with resistance in left gap. Balancing length from left end is at with resistance in right gap. Now the wire is replaced by another wire of resistance per centimeter. The new balancing length for same settings will be at
A light string passing over a smooth light fixed pulley connects two blocks of masses and . If the acceleration of the system is , then the ratio of masses is:

A nucleus has mass number and volume . Another nucleus has mass number and Volume . If relation between mass number is , then __________.
The magnetic flux (in weber) linked with a closed circuit of resistance varies with time (in seconds) as . The induced current in the circuit at is __________ A.

The output of the given circuit diagram is -




Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Electromagnetic waves carry energy as they travel through space and this energy is equally shared by the electric and magnetic fields.
Statement II: When electromagnetic waves strike a surface, a pressure is exerted on the surface.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
In a photoelectric effect experiment a light of frequency 1.5 times the threshold frequency is made to fall on the surface of photosensitive material. Now if the frequency is halved and intensity is doubled, the number of photo electrons emitted will be:
The mass number of nucleus having radius equal to half of the radius of nucleus with mass number 192 is :

A block of mass is placed on a rough inclined surface as shown in the figure. If is the force required to just move the block up the inclined plane and is the force required to just prevent the block from sliding down, then the value of is : [Use
When unpolarized light is incident at an angle of on a transparent medium from air, the reflected ray is completely polarized. The angle of refraction in the medium is:
Force between two point charges and placed in vacuum at '' cm apart is . Force between them when placed in a medium having dielectric constant at '' apart will be:
Two identical spheres each of mass and radius are fixed at the ends of a light rod so that the separation between the centers is . Then, moment of inertia of the system about an axis perpendicular to the rod and passing through its middle point is , where the value of is ___________.
Two blocks of mass and are connected by a metal wire going over a smooth pulley as shown in figure. The radius of wire is and Young's modulus of the metal is . The longitudinal strain developed in the wire is . The value of is _________. [Use ]

In the following circuit, the battery has an emf of and an internal resistance of . The power consumption in the entire circuit is _________ W.

The time period of simple harmonic motion of mass in the given figure is , where the value of is _________.

Consider two physical quantities and related to each other as where and have dimensions of energy, length and time respectively. The dimension of is
The distance between charges and is and between and is . The electrostatic potential at point at a distance from center is , where the value of is __________. (Use )

A uniform magnetic field of acts along positive -direction. A rectangular loop of sides and with current of is in plane. The current is in anticlockwise sense with reference to negative axis. Magnitude and direction of the torque is:
A gas mixture consists of 8 moles of argon and 6 moles of oxygen at temperature T. Neglecting all vibrational modes, the total internal energy of the system is:
If two vectors and having equal magnitude are inclined at angle , then
The mass of the moon is times the mass of a planet and its diameter is times the diameter of a planet. If the escape velocity on the planet is , the escape velocity on the moon will be :
A small spherical ball of radius , falling through a viscous medium of negligible density has terminal velocity ''. Another ball of the same mass but of radius , falling through the same viscous medium will have terminal velocity:
Major product of the following reaction is -





A sample of and weighed is ignited to constant weight of . The composition of mixture is :
(Given molar mass in )
From the vitamins and , the number of vitamins that can be stored in our body is _________.
Choose the correct statements from the following
A. is an oil at room temperature
B. reacts with acid to give
C. is a basic oxide
D. does not react with acid
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
If 5 moles of an ideal gas expands from to a volume of at under isothermal and reversible condition then work, , is . The value of is __________.
(Given R = 8.314 J K mol)
Identify structure of 2,3-dibromo-1-phenylpentane.




Match List I with List II
| List - I (Complex ion) |
List - II (Electronic Configuration) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | (I) | ||
| (B) | (II) | ||
| (C) | (III) | ||
| (D) | (IV) |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Identify A and B in the following reaction sequence.





Given below are two statements:
Statement I : Group 13 trivalent halides get easily hydrolyzed by water due to their covalent nature.
Statement II : upon hydrolysis in acidified aqueous solution forms octahedral ion.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Aniline reacts with con. , followed by heating at gives -aminobenzene sulphonic acid, which gives blood red colour in the 'Lassaigne's test'.
Statement II : In Friedel - Craft's alkylation and acylation reactions, aniline forms salt with the catalyst. Due to this, nitrogen of aniline aquires a positive charge and acts as deactivating group.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Consider the following elements.

Which of the following is/are true about and ?
A. Order of atomic radii:
B. Order of metallic character:
C. Size of the element:
D. Order of ionic radii:
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
The correct order of reactivity in electrophilic substitution reaction of the following compounds is :

The azo-dye formed in the following reactions is
Sulphanilic acid .





Identify major product 'P' formed in the following reaction.





A compound with molar mass undergoes acetylation to give product with molar mass . The number of amino groups in the compound is ___________.
The fragrance of flowers is due to the presence of some steam volatile organic compounds called essential oils. These are generally insoluble in water at room temperature but are miscible with water vapour in vapour phase. A suitable method for the extraction of these oils from the flowers is -
The molarity of orthophosphoric acid having purity by weight (specific gravity ) is __________ .
(Molar mass of )
In the reaction of potassium dichromate, potassium chloride and sulfuric acid (conc.), the oxidation state of the chromium in the product is _________.
Which of the following is least ionic?
Number of isomeric products formed by monochlorination of 2-methylbutane in presence of sunlight is ________.
Given below are two statements:
Statement I : solid undergoes disproportionation reaction under alkaline conditions to form and .
Statement II : can undergo disproportionation reaction under acidic condition.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
The four quantum numbers for the electron in the outer most orbital of potassium (atomic no. 19) are
for a reaction, of is decomposed in 120 minutes. The time taken for decomposition of is _________ minutes.
Number of moles of ions required by of to oxidise oxalate ion to is _________.
Identify the name reaction.

Choose the correct statements from the following
A. All group 16 elements form oxides of general formula and , where and . Both the types of oxides are acidic in nature.
B. is an oxidising agent while is reducing in nature.
C. The reducing property decreases from to Te down the group.
D. The ozone molecule contains five lone pairs of electrons.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
The correct relationship between and equilibrium pressure is
Select the option with correct property -
A diatomic molecule has a dipole moment of . If the bond distance is , then fractional charge on each atom is _________ esu.
(Given esucm)
Let and be the vertices of a parallelogram . If the point lies on and the point lies on , then the value of is equal to ___________.
If and , then is equal to
If \lim _\limits{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{a x^2 e^x-b \log _e(1+x)+c x e^{-x}}{x^2 \sin x}=1, then is equal to ________.
Let be the lengths of three sides of a triangle satistying the condition . If the set of all possible values of is the interval , then is equal to __________.
The shortest distance, between lines and , where and is the line, passing through the points and perpendicular to the line , is
The number of ways in which 21 identical apples can be distributed among three children such that each child gets at least 2 apples, is
Let the mean and the variance of 6 observations be and , respectively. If , then is
Let be the solution of the differential equation
.
If , then is equal to ____________.
Consider the function defined by . If and be respectively the number of points at which is not continuous and is not differentiable, then is
Let be a real matrix such that
Then, the system has :
\left|\frac{120}{\pi^3} \int_\limits0^\pi \frac{x^2 \sin x \cos x}{\sin ^4 x+\cos ^4 x} d x\right| \text { is equal to } ________.
Let be two functions defined by and . Then, the value of is equal to :
Let a variable line passing through the centre of the circle , meet the positive co-ordinate axes at the points and . Then the minimum value of , where is the origin, is equal to
Let and be a vector such that and . Then is equal to ________.
Let be the mirror image of the point in the line . Then, is equal to
Let . Let be a relation on defined by if and only if . Let be a symmetric relation on such that and the number of elements in is . Then, the minimum value of is _________.
The temperature of a body at time is and it decreases continuously as per the differential equation , where is a positive constant. If , then is equal to
Let and terms of a non-constant A. P. be respectively the and terms of a G. P. If the first term of the A. P. is 1, then the sum of its first 20 terms is equal to -
The number of solutions, of the equation , is :
Let and be two complex numbers such that and Then, equals -
Let be a parabola with vertex and directrix . Let an ellipse , of eccentricity pass through the focus of the parabola . Then, the square of the length of the latus rectum of , is
The area of the region enclosed by the parabolas and is equal to :
If for some and , then is equal to
Let A be a matrix and . If , then the remainder when is divided by 9 is equal to __________.
Let be strictly increasing function such that \lim _\limits{x \rightarrow \infty} \frac{f(7 x)}{f(x)}=1. Then, the value of \lim _\limits{x \rightarrow \infty}\left[\frac{f(5 x)}{f(x)}-1\right] is equal to
A coin is biased so that a head is twice as likely to occur as a tail. If the coin is tossed 3 times, then the probability of getting two tails and one head is
Let and respectively denote the centroid, circumcentre and orthocentre of a triangle. Then, the distance of the point from the line measured parallel to the line is
Let the coefficient of in the expansion of be . If \sum_\limits{r=0}^n \alpha_r=\beta^n-\gamma^n, \beta, \gamma \in \mathbb{N}, then the value of equals _________.
A line passes through and . The point , where are non-negative integers, on the line lies at a distance of 21 units, from the point . The distance between the points and is equal to __________.
If the function defined by is one - one and onto, then the distance of the point from the line is :