A wooden block, initially at rest on the ground, is pushed by a force which increases linearly with time . Which of the following curve best describes acceleration of the block with time :





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A wooden block, initially at rest on the ground, is pushed by a force which increases linearly with time . Which of the following curve best describes acceleration of the block with time :




In an experiment to measure focal length () of convex lens, the least counts of the measuring scales for the position of object (u) and for the position of image (v) are and , respectively. The error in the measurement of the focal length of the convex lens will be:
The resistances of the platinum wire of a platinum resistance thermometer at the ice point and steam point are and respectively. After inserting in a hot bath of temperature , the resistance of platinum wire is :
An infinite plane sheet of charge having uniform surface charge density is placed on - plane. Another infinitely long line charge having uniform linear charge density is placed at plane and parallel to -axis. If the magnitude values then at point , the ratio of magnitudes of electric field values due to sheet charge to that of line charge is . The value of is _________.
On celcius scale the temperature of body increases by . The increase in temperature on Fahrenheit scale is :
Which figure shows the correct variation of applied potential difference (V) with photoelectric current (I) at two different intensities of light of same wavelengths :




A solid sphere and a hollow cylinder roll up without slipping on same inclined plane with same initial speed . The sphere and the cylinder reaches upto maximum heights and respectively, above the initial level. The ratio is . The value of is __________.
Given below are two statements :
Statement I : When speed of liquid is zero everywhere, pressure difference at any two points depends on equation .
Statement II : In ventury tube shown

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
A alternating current at any instant is given by A. The value of the current is ______ A.
The equation of stationary wave is :
Which of the following is NOT correct :
The value of net resistance of the network as shown in the given figure is :

Which of the following nuclear fragments corresponding to nuclear fission between neutron and uranium isotope is correct :
Twelve wires each having resistance are joined to form a cube. A battery of emf is joined across point and . The voltage difference between and is ________ V.

A body travels in second and in second. The acceleration is :
A metal wire of uniform mass density having length and mass is bent to form a semicircular arc and a particle of mass is placed at the centre of the arc. The gravitational force on the particle by the wire is :
To measure the internal resistance of a battery, potentiometer is used. For , the balance point is observed at and for the balance point is observed at . The internal resistance of the battery is approximately :
An effective power of a combination of 5 identical convex lenses which are kept in contact along the principal axis is . Focal length of each of the convex lens is:
In an ac circuit, the instantaneous current is zero, when the instantaneous voltage is maximum. In this case, the source may be connected to :
A. pure inductor.
B. pure capacitor.
C. pure resistor.
D. combination of an inductor and capacitor.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
An elastic spring under tension of has a length . Its length is under tension . For its length , the value of tension will be _______ N.
Two forces and are acting on a body. One force has magnitude thrice that of the other force and the resultant of the two forces is equal to the force of larger magnitude. The angle between and is . The value of is _______.
The electric field in an electromagnetic wave is given by . The magnetic field induction of this wave is (in SI unit) :
Two wavelengths and are used in Young's double slit experiment. and . The minimum order of fringe produced by which overlaps with the fringe produced by is . The value of is _______.
The co-ordinates of a particle moving in - plane are given by : .
The motion of the particle is :
If a rubber ball falls from a height and rebounds upto the height of . The percentage loss of total energy of the initial system as well as velocity ball before it strikes the ground, respectively, are :
The magnetic field existing in a region is given by . A square loop of edge carrying 0.5 A current is placed in - plane with its edges parallel to the - axes, as shown in figure. The magnitude of the net magnetic force experienced by the loop is _________ .

An infinitely long positively charged straight thread has a linear charge density . An electron revolves along a circular path having axis along the length of the wire. The graph that correctly represents the variation of the kinetic energy of electron as a function of radius of circular path from the wire is :




P-T diagram of an ideal gas having three different densities (in three different cases) is shown in the figure. Which of the following is correct :

An electron is projected with uniform velocity along the axis inside a current carrying long solenoid. Then :
A soap bubble is blown to a diameter of . of work is done in blowing it further. If surface tension of soap solution is 40 dyne/ then the new radius is ________ cm Take .
A hydrogen atom changes its state from to . Due to recoil, the percentage change in the wave length of emitted light is approximately . The value of is _______.
[Given Rhc mass of the hydrogenatom ]
The number of different chain isomers for CH is __________.
Match List I with List II :
| LIST I Mechanism steps |
LIST II Effect |
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|---|---|---|---|
| A. | ![]() |
I. | E effect |
| B. | ![]() |
II. | R effect |
| C. | ![]() |
III. | E effect |
| D. | ![]() |
IV. | R effect |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Identify the correct set of reagents or reaction conditions '' and '' in the following set of transformation.

of a non-volatile, non-electrolyte is dissolved in of water at . The solution showed a boiling point elevation by . Assuming the solute concentration is negligible with respect to the solvent concentration, the vapor pressure of the resulting aqueous solution is _________ of (nearest integer)
pressure of , molar mass of water
Consider the following reaction
Product '' in neutral or acidic medium disproportionate to give products '' and '' along with water. The sum of spin-only magnetic moment values of and is ________ BM. (nearest integer) (Given atomic number of is 25)

Identify B and C and how are A and C related?




What pressure (bar) of would be required to make emf of hydrogen electrode zero in pure water at ?
The de-Broglie's wavelength of an electron in the orbit is ________ . ( Bohr's radius)
Consider the following transformation involving first order elementary reaction in each step at constant temperature as shown below.

Some details of the above reactions are listed below.
| Step | Rate constant (sec) | Activation energy (kJ mol) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 300 | |
| 2 | 200 | |
| 3 |
If the overall rate constant of the above transformation (k) is given as and the overall activation energy is , then the value of is ________ integer)
The element which shows only one oxidation state other than its elemental form is :
The Molarity (M) of an aqueous solution containing of in water is : (Given : Molar Mass and )
Given below are two statements :
Statements I : Acidity of -hydrogens of aldehydes and ketones is responsible for Aldol reaction.
Statement II : Reaction between benzaldehyde and ethanal will NOT give Cross - Aldol product.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :
The number of the correct reaction(s) among the following is _______.

Number of complexes from the following with even number of unpaired "" electrons is ________ [Given atomic numbers: ]
Which among the following is incorrect statement?
What will be the decreasing order of basic strength of the following conjugate bases?
The correct order of first ionization enthalpy values of the following elements is :
(A) O
(B) N
(C) Be
(D) F
(E) B
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Which of the following nitrogen containing compound does not give Lassaigne's test ?
of ethylamine is subjected to reaction with followed by water; evolved dinitrogen gas which occupied volume at STP. X is _________ .
One of the commonly used electrode is calomel electrode. Under which of the following categories, calomel electrode comes?
Which one of the following molecules has maximum dipole moment?
Identify the product in the following reaction:





Which of the following is the correct structure of L-Glucose?




The enthalpy of formation of ethane from ethylene by addition of hydrogen where the bond-energies of are and respectively is __________
Number of molecules/species from the following having one unpaired electron is ________.
Only of solution of unknown molarity is required to reach the end point of a titration of of oxalic acid in acidic medium. The molarity of solution should be ________ M.
Number of molecules/ions from the following in which the central atom is involved in hybridization is ________.
Number of elements from the following that CANNOT form compounds with valencies which match with their respective group valencies is ________. B, C, N, S, O, F, P, Al, Si
In the precipitation of the iron group (III) in qualitative analysis, ammonium chloride is added before adding ammonium hydroxide to :
The correct sequence of ligands in the order of decreasing field strength is :
There are 5 points on the side , excluding and , of a triangle . Similarly there are 6 points on the side and 7 points on the side of the triangle. The number of triangles, that can be formed using the points as vertices, is:
A square is inscribed in the circle . One side of this square is parallel to . If are the vertices of the square, then is equal to:
Let and . If , then is equal to:
One of the points of intersection of the curves and is . Let the area of the region enclosed by these curves be , where . Then is equal to
Let a unit vector which makes an angle of with and an angle of with be . Then is:
Let for all . Consider a function such that for all . Then the value of is :
\text { Let } f(x)=\left\{\begin{array}{lr} -2, & -2 \leq x \leq 0 \\ x-2, & 0< x \leq 2 \end{array} \text { and } \mathrm{h}(x)=f(|x|)+|f(x)| \text {. Then } \int_\limits{-2}^2 \mathrm{~h}(x) \mathrm{d} x\right. \text { is equal to: }
Let . Let the mean and the variance of 6 observations be 2 and 23, respectively. The mean deviation about the mean of these 6 observations is :
Let the length of the focal chord PQ of the parabola be 15 units. If the distance of from the origin is , then is equal to __________.
The sum of all rational terms in the expansion of is equal to :
Let the first three terms 2, p and q, with , of a G.P. be respectively the and terms of an A.P. If the term of the G.P. is the term of the A.P., then is equal to:
Let be a matrix of non-negative real elements such that . Then the maximum value of is _________.
The vertices of a triangle are and . A new triangle is formed by shifting the sides of the triangle by one unit inwards. Then the equation of the side of the new triangle nearest to origin is :
If the solution of the differential equation satisfies , then is equal to :
Let the point, on the line passing through the points and , farther from the origin and at a distance of 9 units from the point , be . Then is equal to :
Let Then is equal to _________.
Let be a triangle of area and the vectors and . Then the square of the length of the largest side of the triangle is _________.
If 2 and 6 are the roots of the equation , then the quadratic equation, whose roots are and , is :
Let the sum of the maximum and the minimum values of the function be , where . Then is equal to :
In a survey of 220 students of a higher secondary school, it was found that at least 125 and at most 130 students studied maths; at least 85 and at most 95 studied Physics; at least 75 and at most 90 studied Chemistry; 30 studied both Physics and Chemistry; 50 studied both Chemistry and maths; 40 studied both maths and Physics and 10 studied none of these subjects. Let and respectively be the least and the most number of students who studied all the three subjects. Then is equal to ___________.
Let and be the sum and the product of all the non-zero solutions of the equation . Then is equal to :
If the domain of the function is , then is equal to:
Let be a function given by
where . If is continuous at , then is equal to :
Let the solution of the differential equation satisfy . Then is equal to __________.
If the shortest distance between the lines and is , and \int_\limits 0^{\mathrm{k}}\left[x^2\right] \mathrm{d} x=\alpha-\sqrt{\alpha}, where denotes the greatest integer function, then is equal to _________.
If the system of equations
has a non-trivial solution, then is equal to :
Let be a square matrix of order 2 such that and the sum of its diagonal elements is 3 . If the points satisfying lie on a hyperbola, whose transverse axis is parallel to the -axis, eccentricity is and the length of the latus rectum is , then is equal to ________.
If \lim _\limits{x \rightarrow 1} \frac{(5 x+1)^{1 / 3}-(x+5)^{1 / 3}}{(2 x+3)^{1 / 2}-(x+4)^{1 / 2}}=\frac{\mathrm{m} \sqrt{5}}{\mathrm{n}(2 \mathrm{n})^{2 / 3}}, where , then is equal to _______.
Three urns A, B and C contain 7 red, 5 black; 5 red, 7 black and 6 red, 6 black balls, respectively. One of the urn is selected at random and a ball is drawn from it. If the ball drawn is black, then the probability that it is drawn from urn is :
If , where , then is equal to _________.