Physics
GATE PH discipline:physics PYQs
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Question 51
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and
(
) are contravariant and covariant vectors, respectively. By convention, any repeated indices are summed over. Which of the following expression is/are tensors?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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The temperature T dependence of magnetic susceptibility
(Column I) of certain magnetic materials (Column II) are given below.

Which of the following option is/are correct?
Column I: (1)
decreases from a maximum as
increases; (2)
decreases with increasing
; (3)
is constant; (4)
decreases from a large value as
increases.Column II: (P) Diamagnetic; (Q) Paramagnetic; (R) Ferromagnetic; (S) Antiferromagnetic.
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The curves P and Q schematically show the variation of X-ray intensity with wavelength at two different accelerating voltages for a given target material. In the figure
,
,
, and
. Take Planck’s constant as
Js, speed of light as
and elementary charge as
C.

Which of the following statement is/are true?
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Apart from the acoustic modes, 9 optical modes are identified from the measurements of phonon dispersions of a solid with chemical formula
, where
and
denote the atomic species, and
and
are integers. Which of the following combination of n and m is/are possible?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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An oscillating electric dipole of moment
is placed at origin as shown in figure. 
Consider a point
at a very large distance from the dipole. Here
and
are spherical polar coordinates. Which of the following statement/s are true for intensity of radiation?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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The Fourier transform and its inverse transform are respectively defined as
and
. Consider two functions
and
. Another function
is defined as
Which of the following relation/s are true? Note: Tilde (
) denotes the Fourier transform.Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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A material behaves as a superconductor below a critical temperature
and as a normal conductor above
. A magnetic field
is applied when
. The material is then cooled below
in the presence of
. Which of the following figure represent the correct configuration of magnetic field lines?Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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A typical biasing of a silicon transistor is shown in figure.

The value of common-emitter current gain
for the transistor is 100. Ignore reverse saturation current. The output voltage
(in V) is ______ (in integer).Log in to check the answer
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The canonical partition function of an ideal gas is
where
and
denote temperature, volume, number of particles, and thermal de Broglie wavelength, respectively. Let
be the Boltzmann constant and
be the chemical potential. Take
. If the number density
is
at a temperature
, then
is ______
(rounded off to one decimal place).Log in to check the answer
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Lagrangian of a particle of mass
is
, where
is a positive constant. If the particle oscillates with total energy
, then the time period of oscillations is
The value of
is _____ (in integer).Log in to check the answer
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