NTS GAT Subject (Physics) FLP 2 Free Quiz

1. What does classical mechanics deal with?

A. Motion of objects under forces B. Electricity and magnetism C. Heat and temperature D. Atomic scale phenomena

2. What does Newton's First Law state?

A. F = ma B. Action-reaction C. Inertia (rest/constant velocity) D. Law of gravitation

3. What is Newton's Second Law?

A. Inertia B. Action-reaction C. Law of gravitation D. F = ma

4. What is kinetic energy?

A. Potential energy B. Thermal energy C. Kinetic energy D. Chemical energy

5. What is potential energy?

A. Kinetic energy B. Thermal energy C. Chemical energy D. Potential energy

6. What is power?

A. P = W/t B. P = F × v C. P = F × d D. P = m × a

7. What is momentum?

A. Mass × acceleration B. Force × time C. Mass × velocity D. Mass × displacement

8. What is torque?

A. Force B. Torque C. Work D. Power

9. What type of motion has a restoring force proportional to displacement?

A. Uniform circular motion B. Projectile motion C. SHM D. Random motion

10. What is the time of flight of a projectile?

A. (v sin θ)/g B. (v cos θ)/g C. (2v cos θ)/g D. (2v sin θ)/g

11. What is elastic potential energy?

A. ½mv² B. mgh C. ½kx² D. ½Iω²

12. What is the point where the mass of a system is concentrated?

A. Centroid B. Center of gravity C. Center of mass D. Center of pressure

13. What is Coulomb's Law?

A. F = Gm₁m₂/r² B. F = ma C. F = kq₁q₂/r² D. E = mc²

14. What is the electric field?

A. E = V/d B. E = kq/r² C. E = -dV/dr D. E = F/q

15. What is Gauss's Law for electric fields?

A. Φ = Q/ε₀ B. Φ = B·A C. ∮E·dl = 0 D. ∮B·dl = μ₀I

16. What is Ampere's Law?

A. ∮E·dl = 0 B. Φ = Q/ε₀ C. ∮B·dl = μ₀I D. Faraday's law

17. How many Maxwell's equations are there?

A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six

18. What is the speed of light in terms of μ₀ and ε₀?

A. c = 1/√(μ₀ε₀) B. c = μ₀ε₀ C. c = √(μ₀/ε₀) D. c = √(ε₀/μ₀)

19. What is the magnetic field of a long straight wire?

A. B = μ₀I/(4πr) B. B = μ₀I/(2πr) C. B = μ₀I/(2r) D. B = μ₀I/r

20. What device stores electric field energy?

A. Inductor B. Capacitor C. Resistor D. Diode

21. What is the Poynting vector?

A. S = (1/μ₀)(E × B) B. S = E × B C. S = E·B D. S = B × E

22. What is the impedance of free space?

A. 50 Ω B. 75 Ω C. 100 Ω D. 377 Ω

23. What is an isothermal process?

A. Adiabatic B. Isobaric C. Isochoric D. Isothermal

24. What is an isochoric process?

A. Isochoric B. Adiabatic C. Isobaric D. Isothermal

25. What is entropy?

A. Enthalpy B. Internal energy C. Entropy D. Gibbs free energy

26. What is internal energy?

A. Enthalpy B. Internal energy C. Entropy D. Gibbs free energy

27. What is a Carnot engine?

A. Internal combustion B. Steam turbine C. Carnot engine D. Gas turbine

28. What is the efficiency of a Carnot engine?

A. η = (TH - TC)/TH B. η = (TH - TC)/TC C. η = TH/TC D. η = 1 - (TC/TH)

29. What is COP in refrigeration?

A. COP B. Thermal efficiency C. Isentropic efficiency D. Mechanical efficiency

30. Which cycle is used in spark-ignition engines?

A. Diesel B. Otto C. Rankine D. Brayton

31. Which cycle is used in compression-ignition engines?

A. Diesel B. Otto C. Rankine D. Brayton

32. What is a reversible process?

A. Reversible process B. Irreversible process C. Adiabatic process D. Isothermal process

33. What is a pure substance in thermodynamics?

A. Mixture B. Solution C. Compound D. Pure substance

34. What is the critical point?

A. Critical point B. Boiling point C. Melting point D. Triple point

35. What does quantum mechanics deal with?

A. Atomic and subatomic scale B. Large scale motion C. Electricity and magnetism D. Heat and temperature

36. What is the de Broglie wavelength?

A. λ = h/p B. λ = h/mv C. λ = p/h D. λ = h/m

37. What is the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics?

A. Newton's equation B. Maxwell's equation C. Schrödinger equation D. Einstein's equation

38. What does |Ψ|² give?

A. Energy density B. Probability density C. Momentum density D. Charge density

39. What particles does the Pauli exclusion principle apply to?

A. Fermions B. Bosons C. All particles D. Photons

40. What are the energy levels of the hydrogen atom?

A. -13.6/n eV B. -13.6 n² eV C. -13.6/n eV D. -13.6/n² eV

41. What is the principal quantum number?

A. n B. l C. m_l D. m_s

42. What is the angular momentum quantum number?

A. n B. m_l C. l D. m_s

43. What particles have half-integer spin?

A. Bosons B. Quarks C. Leptons D. Fermions

44. What is quantum entanglement?

A. Entanglement B. Independence C. Anti-correlation D. Uncorrelated

45. What forms can the Schrödinger equation take?

A. Only time-dependent B. Time-dependent or time-independent C. Only time-independent D. Neither

46. What does optics deal with?

A. Light and its properties B. Motion of objects C. Electricity and magnetism D. Heat and temperature

47. What is the bouncing back of light from a surface?

A. Refraction B. Diffraction C. Reflection D. Interference

48. What is magnification?

A. m = -v/u (mirrors), m = v/u (lenses) B. m = u/v C. m = -u/v D. m = v/u

49. What is the superposition of waves?

A. Reflection B. Refraction C. Interference D. Diffraction

50. Which part of the eye focuses light?

A. Cornea B. Retina C. Pupil D. Lens

51. What type of lens corrects myopia?

A. Convex B. Concave C. Cylindrical D. Bifocal

52. What is the speed of light in a vacuum?

A. 3.00 × 10⁶ m/s B. 3.00 × 10¹⁰ m/s C. 3.00 × 10⁸ m/s D. 3.00 × 10¹² m/s

53. What phenomenon forms a rainbow?

A. Dispersion B. Reflection C. Refraction D. Diffraction

54. What principle do optical fibers use?

A. Reflection B. Refraction C. Total internal reflection D. Diffraction

55. What does waves and oscillations study?

A. Periodic motion and wave phenomena B. Motion of objects under forces C. Electricity and magnetism D. Heat and temperature

56. What is the maximum displacement from equilibrium?

A. Amplitude B. Wavelength C. Frequency D. Period

57. What is the number of cycles per second?

A. Period B. Wavelength C. Amplitude D. Frequency

58. What type of waves have oscillations parallel to propagation?

A. Longitudinal B. Transverse C. Surface D. Electromagnetic

59. What type of waves are sound waves?

A. Transverse B. Surface C. Longitudinal D. Electromagnetic

60. What is the change in frequency due to relative motion?

A. Interference B. Diffraction C. Polarization D. Doppler effect

61. When does destructive interference occur?

A. In phase B. Partially in phase C. Random D. Out of phase

62. What is the wave equation?

A. ∂²y/∂x² = v² ∂²y/∂t² B. ∂²y/∂x² = (1/v²) ∂²y/∂t² C. ∂²y/∂t² = v² ∂²y/∂x² D. ∂²y/∂x² = (1/v²) ∂²y/∂t²

63. What is the intensity of a wave proportional to?

A. Amplitude² B. Amplitude C. Frequency D. Wavelength

64. Which crystal system has two axes of equal length at 120°?

A. Cubic B. Tetragonal C. Orthorhombic D. Hexagonal

65. What are the seven crystal systems?

A. Cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, hexagonal, rhombohedral, monoclinic, triclinic B. Cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, hexagonal, rhombohedral, monoclinic, triclinic C. Cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, hexagonal, rhombohedral, monoclinic, triclinic D. Cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, hexagonal, rhombohedral, monoclinic, triclinic

66. Which crystal system has all axes of different lengths and all angles oblique?

A. Monoclinic B. Orthorhombic C. Triclinic D. Hexagonal

67. What is a lattice in Fourier space?

A. Reciprocal lattice B. Direct lattice C. Bravais lattice D. Crystal lattice

68. What type of semiconductor has excess holes?

A. N-type B. Intrinsic C. P-type D. Compensated

69. What does nuclear physics study?

A. Atomic nuclei and their interactions B. Motion of objects C. Electricity and magnetism D. Heat and temperature

70. What is the atomic number?

A. Number of neutrons B. Mass number C. Number of electrons D. Number of protons

71. What is the mass number?

A. Number of protons B. Protons + neutrons C. Number of electrons D. Number of neutrons

72. What are atoms with the same number of neutrons?

A. Isotopes B. Isobars C. Isomers D. Isotones

73. What is the energy required to separate a nucleus into its components?

A. Ionization energy B. Nuclear binding energy C. Dissociation energy D. Chemical energy

74. What is emitted in gamma decay?

A. Alpha B. Gamma C. Beta D. Neutron

75. What is the time for half of a radioactive substance to decay?

A. Half-life B. Mean life C. Decay constant D. Activity

76. What is the relationship between the decay constant and half-life?

A. λ = T½/ln(2) B. λ = ln(2)T½ C. λ = ln(2)/T½ D. λ = 1/T½

77. What is the SI unit of activity?

A. Curie B. Becquerel C. Rutherford D. Gray

78. What is the splitting of a heavy nucleus into two lighter nuclei?

A. Fission B. Fusion C. Decay D. Transmutation

79. What is the energy released in nuclear reactions?

A. E = mc² B. E = ½mv² C. E = hf D. E = Δmc²

80. What is the charge of a proton?

A. Positively charged B. Neutral C. Negatively charged D. Massless

81. What is the charge of an electron?

A. Positive B. Neutral C. Negative D. Massless

82. What is the charge of a positron?

A. Negative B. Positive C. Neutral D. Massless

83. What transfers heat away from the core in a nuclear reactor?

A. Control rods B. Moderator C. Coolant D. Fuel

84. What does atomic physics study?

A. Atoms and electron arrangement B. Atomic nuclei C. Motion of objects D. Electricity and magnetism

85. What quantum number determines the spin of the electron?

A. m_s B. n C. l D. m_l

86. What describes the distribution of electrons in orbitals?

A. Atomic number B. Mass number C. Electron configuration D. Isotope

87. What is the set of wavelengths emitted or absorbed by atoms?

A. Molecular spectrum B. X-ray spectrum C. Atomic spectrum D. Gamma spectrum

88. Which series corresponds to transitions to n = 1?

A. Lyman B. Balmer C. Paschen D. Brackett

89. What determine which transitions are allowed in atomic spectra?

A. Quantum numbers B. Energy levels C. Selection rules D. Wave functions

90. What is the Boltzmann entropy formula?

A. S = k_B ln Ω B. S = k_B Ω C. S = k_B ln Ω D. S = ln Ω/k_B

91. What is Boltzmann's constant?

A. 1.38 × 10⁻²⁰ J/K B. 1.38 × 10⁻²⁵ J/K C. 1.38 × 10⁻²³ J/K D. 1.38 × 10⁻³⁰ J/K

92. What is the classical description of blackbody radiation at low frequencies?

A. Planck's law B. Rayleigh-Jeans law C. Wien's law D. Stefan-Boltzmann law

93. What is the Stefan-Boltzmann law?

A. P = σAT⁴ B. P = σAT⁴ C. P = σAT⁴ D. P = σAT⁴

94. What does the equipartition theorem state?

A. k_B T B. ½k_B T C. ½k_B T D. 2k_B T

95. What is the heat capacity at constant pressure?

A. (∂U/∂T)_V B. (∂U/∂T)_P C. (∂H/∂T)_P D. (∂H/∂T)_V

96. What ensemble has fixed temperature, volume, and number of particles?

A. Microcanonical B. Grand canonical C. Canonical D. Isothermal-isobaric

97. What is the sum over all states of e^{-E/k_B T}?

A. Entropy B. Partition function C. Free energy D. Internal energy

98. What is the average energy in terms of the partition function?

A. E = ∂ ln Z/∂β B. E = -∂ Z/∂β C. E = -∂ ln Z/∂β D. E = ∂ Z/∂β

99. What is the energy of the highest occupied state at absolute zero?

A. Chemical potential B. Fermi energy C. Work function D. Ionization energy

100. What is another model for the heat capacity of solids?

A. Debye B. Drude C. Einstein D. Sommerfeld

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