Physics PSC exam questions

1. Fermionic condensate is ......th form of matter:
(a) 7 (b) 6
(c) 7 (d) 4
2. Super cooled Fermi gas is ......th form of matter:
(a) 8 (b) 7
(c) 6 (d) 5
3. Who discovered Doppler Effect?
(a) Christian Doppler (b) Newton
(c) Watson (d) Franc Whittle
4. Amount of matter is measured in:
(a) Mole (b) Coloumb
(c) Erg (d) Newton
5. NASA sent Phoenix mission to:
(a) Venus (b) Mercury
(c) Jupiter (d) Mars
6. Instrument used in submarines to view the surface of
water:
(a) Radar (b) Sonar
(c) Hydrometer (d) Periscope
7. The process of water becoming vapour is:
(a) Evaporation (b) Melting
(c) Condensation (d) Soldfication
8. The instrument that converts mechanical energy into
electrical energy:
(a) Motor (b) Dynamo
(c) Rectifier (d) Amplifier
9. In an electric motor electrical energy is mainly
converted to .......
(a) Chemical energy (b) Mechanical energy
(c) Magnetic energy (d) Potential energy
10. What will be the weight of a man on Moon, if he has 60
kg weight on Earth?
(a) 12 kg (b) 6kg
(c) 10 kg (d) 20kg
11. Which colour can absorb the maximum amount of
heat?
(a) Blue (b) White
(c) Red (d) Black
12. The glass used for making lens:
(a) Safety glass (b) Water glass
(c) Flint glass (d) None of these
13. Lens used in camera:
(a) Convex (b) Concave
(c) Biconcave (d) None of these
14. The bomb dropped in Hiroshima:
(a) Bokscar (b) Enola Gay
(c) Fatman (d) Little Boy
15. The bomb named Fatman was dropped in:
(a) Kawasaki (b) Kyoto
(c) Tokyo (d) Nagasaki
16. The smallest unit in computer memory:
(a) Byte (b) Bit
(c) Megabyte (d) Gigabyte
17. Sound does not pass through:
(a) Solid (b) Liquid
(c) Vacuum (d) None of these
18. India launched its first rocket in:
(a) 1960 (b) 1961
(c) 1962 (d) 1963
19. TERLS (Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station)
is dedicated to (1968):
(a) SAARC (b) NAM
Chemistry
Physics
(c) UNO (d) G-8
20. What is known as the king of inventions?
(a) Steam engine (b) Car
(c) Atom Bomb (d) Nuclear fission
21. The first to state that the earth revolves round the sun:
(a) Ptolemy (b) Galileo
(c) Kepler (d) Copernicus
22. ‘Megabytes’ is the unit for measuring which of the
following:
(a) Intensity of earth quake
(b) Memory capacity of a computer
(c) Intensity of wave length
(d) None of these
23. To determine the age of fossils ...... is used:
(a) Carbon dating (b) DNA test
(c) Superimposing (d) None of these
24. Amount of water in the atmosphere is known as:
(a) Density (b) Gravity
(c) Humidity (d) Humus
25. An instrument that does the function of human brain?
(a) Radar (b) Computer
(c) Radio (d) Televison
Answers
1 (b) 2(b) 3 (a) 4 (a) 5(d) 6(d) 7(a) 8(b) 9(b) 10(c) 11(d) 12(c)
13(a) 14(d) 15(d) 16(b) 17(c) 18(d) 19(c) 20(a) 21(d) 22(b)
23(a) 24(c) 25(b)

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