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Basic Physics Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams


Basic Physics Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams

We have listed important basic Physics questions and answers. These physics gk questions are frequently asked in many competative exams, you should go through it.


Q 61. By what process is heat transmitted from the filament of an evacuated electric bulb to the glass ?
Ans. Radiation
Q 62. If the K.E of a body is increased by 300%, its momentum will increase by ?
Ans. 100%
Q 63. Magnetic, electrostatic and gravitational forces come under which category ?
Ans. Non contact forces
Q 64. The freezer in a refrigerator is fitted near the top ?
Ans. So that it can cool the whole interior by setting up convection currents
Q 65. Woollens keep us warm in winter because ?
Ans. They do not allow our body heat to escape
Q 66. If a bomb dropped from an airplane explodes in mid-air ?
Ans. Its KE increases
Q 67. The distance between two crests in a wave is given by ?
Ans. Wavelength
Q 68. A thermostat is a device for ?
Ans. Regulating temperature
Q 69. An iron hammer, lying in the sun, appears much hotter than its wooden handle because ?
Ans. Iron is a good conductor of heat
Q 70. A body moves with a constant speed along a curved path its acceleration ?
Ans. Is perpendicular to its velocity
Q 71. Fish can survive inside a frozen lake because ?
Ans. Water near the bottom does not freeze
Q 72. The value of one quantity remains same in all system of units ?
Ans. Specific energy
Q 73. If water in a lake were to behave like other liquids, then in extremely cold weather it would freeze ?
Ans. From bottom to top
Q 74. When a cube of ice floating on water in s beaker melts, the level of water in the beaker ?
Ans. Remains the same
Q 75. This statement is correct about Energy ?
Ans. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Q 76. What will be the impact on the duration of swinging of a pendulum if it is carried on moon ?
Ans. It will increase
Q 77. In cold countries alcohol is preferred to mercury as a thermometric liquid because ?
Ans. Alcohol has a very low freezing point
Q 78. The science dealing with the study of phenomena at very low temperature is known as ?
Ans. cryogenics
Q 79. A person stands at the middle point of a wooden ladder which starts slipping between a vertical wall and the floor of the room, while continuing to remain in a vertical plane. The path traced by a person standing at the middle point of the slipping ladder is ?
Ans. A circular path
Q 80. A football bounces when it falls on the ground because ?
Ans. Of its property of elasticity
Q 81. The swing of a spinning cricket ball in the air can be explained on the basis of ?
Ans. Bernoulli's theorem
Q 82. An object moves in a circular path with a constant speed is TRUE when ?
Ans. The centripetal acceleration of the object is smaller for a gentle curve (i.e, curve of larger radius) then that for sharp curve (i.e, curve of smaller radius)
Q 83. A body has a free fall from a height of 20 m. After falling through a distance of 5 m, the body would ?
Ans. Lose one-fourth of its potential energy
Q 84. Motion of an oscillating liquid column in a U-tube is ?
Ans. Periodic but not simple harmonic
Q 85. On a clean glass plate a drop of water spreads to form a thin layer whereas a drop of mercury remains almost spherical because ?
Ans. Cohesion of mercury is greater than its adhesion with glass
Q 86. Acting on a non-rigid body, a force can ?
Ans. Produce dimensional change
Q 87. When two mercury drops are brought into contact, they merge to form a bigger drop because liquids have a tendency to possess ?
Ans. Minimum surface area
Q 88. Raindrops are spherical due to ?
Ans. Surface tension
Q 89. Dirty cloths containing grease and oil stains are cleaned by adding detergents to water. Stains are removed because detergent ?
Ans. Reduces drastically the surface tension between water and oil
Q 90. If the distance S covered by a moving car in rectilinear motion with a speed V in time T is given by S=VT, then the car undergoes ?
Ans. A uniform velocity