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Light

What is a virtual image? Give one situation where a virtual image is formed.

29/10/2024

Science

10th

Light

Find out the letters of the English alphabet or any other language known to you in which the image formed in a plane mirror appears exactly like the letter itself. Discuss your findings.

29/10/2024

Science

10th

Light

State the characteristics of the image formed by a plane mirror.

29/10/2024

Science

10th

Electric current and its effect

An electrician is carrying out some repairs in your house. He wants to replace a fuse with a piece of wire. Would you agree? Give reasons for your response.

29/10/2024

Science

10th

Electric current and its effect

Do you think an electromagnet can be used for separating plastic bags from a garbage heap? Explain.

29/10/2024

Science

10th

Electric current and its effect

When the current is switched on through a wire, a compass needle kept nearby gets deflected from its north-south position. Explain.

29/10/2024

Science

10th

Electric current and its effect

Name any two effects of electric current.

29/10/2024

Science

10th

Gravitation

Let us assume that our galaxy consists of 2.5 × 1011 stars each of one solar mass. How
long will a star at a distance of 50,000 ly from the galactic centre take to complete one
revolution ? Take the diameter of the Milky Way to be 105
ly.

29/10/2024

Physics

11th (Science)

Gravitation

Io, one of the satellites of Jupiter, has an orbital period of 1.769 days and the radius
of the orbit is 4.22 × 108
m. Show that the mass of Jupiter is about one-thousandth
that of the sun.

29/10/2024

Physics

11th (Science)

Gravitation

Suppose there existed a planet that went around the Sun twice as fast as the earth.
What would be its orbital size as compared to that of the earth ?

29/10/2024

Physics

11th (Science)