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The quality of sound produced by an instrument depends on the

A) Frequency B) Intensity
C) Number of overtones D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Number of overtones

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When light enters from air to water, then its 

A) frequency increases and speed decreases B) frequency is same but the wavelength is smaller in water than in air
C) frequency is same but the wavelength is larger in water than in air D) frequency and speed both decreases
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) frequency is same but the wavelength is smaller in water than in air

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What is measured with the Nephometer?

 

A) volume of rainfall B) Cloud volume and speed
C) Salinity of Sea D) All options are correct.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Cloud volume and speed

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Unit of solid angle is

A) degree B) radian
C) steradian D) radian second
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) steradian

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Find the work done (in J) when a charge of 20 C moves across a potential difference of 4 V.

 

 

A) 5 B) 40
C) 80 D) 10
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 80

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Q:

A woman’s voice is shriller than a man’s voice due to

A) weak vocal chords B) lower frequency
C) higher frequency D) higher amplitude
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) higher frequency

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As the frequency of sound is higher, women have shriller voices than men.

The shrillness or pitch of a sound is determined by its frequency. The higher the pitch shriller the voice. As the sounds produced by vocal cords of women are higher than men so women have shriller voices than men. Because their vocal cord is of smaller size. As their vocal cord is more stretched than men's.

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In a Cinema hall, the distance between the projector and the screen is increased by 2%. Then the intensity of illumination on the screen is 

A) decreased by 2% B) decreased by 4%
C) increased by 2% D) increased by 4%
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) decreased by 4%

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The capacity of a pure capacitor is 1 farad. In D.C circuit, its effective resistance will be

A) Zero B) Infinite
C) 1 Ohm D) 1/2 Ohm
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Infinite

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