Practice Physics GS Questions and Answers

• An athlete can jump farther by running before jumping due to which type of inertia?
• A sound with a single frequency is called a:
• Which of the following is not a natural polymer?
• Which law states that "the rate of heat loss of a body is directly proportional to the temperature difference between the body and its surroundings"?
• A body is thrown upward with an initial velocity of 20m/s. How much time will it take to reach its maximum height. (g=10m/s)
• The wave nature of matter was proposed by:
• Which law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed?
• Which of the following gas is used in the manufacture of Vanaspati Ghee? 
• Which of the following vitamins are called fat-soluble vitamins?
• What is the SI unit of power?
• What type of lens is used to correct myopia (nearsightedness)?
• The charge of an electron is approximately:
• ‘Lubb-dupp’ sound is produced due to the action of
• You are asked to jog in a circular track of radius 35 m. Right one complete round on the circular track, your displacement and distance covered by you resp...
• In cricket match, while catching a fast moving ball, a fielder in the ground gradually pulls his hands backwards with the moving ball to reduce the velocit...
• A liquid is kept in a regular cylindrical vessel up to a certain height. If this vessel is replaced by another cylindrical vessel having half the area of c...
• Two identical piano wires have same fundamental frequency when kept under the same tension. What will happen if tension of one of the wire is slightly incr...
• The distance between the focus and the centre of curvature of a spherical mirror in terms of the radius of curvature R, is equal to:
• What happens to the electrostatic force between two charges when the distance between them decreases? 
• Which of the following is an alpha particle which is emitted in radioactivity?
• Which of the following is not a vector quantity?
• The distance- time graph for a body moving at uniform speed is?
• The current across the 3 ohm resistance in the given circuit is:
• What is the total capacitance in the given circuit?
• If n resistors with R Ω each as resistance are connected in parallel, then the equivalent resistance of the network is: ...
• Parsec is the unit of
• Mirror formula is
• What is the SI unit of magnetic flux?
• A 100 μF capacitor is charged to a voltage of 50V. How much energy is stored in the capacitor?
• In Young’s double-slit experiment, if the distance between slits is increased, fringe width:
• Magnetic susceptibility of a diamagnetic material is:
• A horse cannot pull a cart on a frictionless surface because:
• Which of the following is not a nuclear reaction?
• Which gate gives a high output only when both inputs are low?
• Focal length of a concave lens with power –2 D:
• Ratio of intensities of two waves with amplitudes 2 and 3 is:
• A wire is stretched by a force such that it experiences a strain of 2 x 10-3. If Young’s modulus of the material is 2 x 1011 Pa, the stress developed is:...
• Two equal charges are placed at a distance d. At what point along the line joining them is the electric field zero?
• For a projectile, maximum range is obtained when angle of projection is:
• Which law is violated if two bodies in mutual gravitational interaction exert unequal forces on each other?