Physics
GATE PH exam:gate PYQs
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Questions 441–450 of 650. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 41
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A free particle of mass
is located in a three-dimensional cubic potential well with impenetrable walls. The degeneracy of the fifth excited state of the particle is _____.Log in to check the answer
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Consider the circuit given in the figure. Let the forward voltage drop across each diode be 0.7 V. The current I (in mA) through the resistor is _____.

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Let
denote the 4-velocity of a relativistic particle whose square
. If
is the Levi-Civita tensor then the value of
is _____.Log in to check the answer
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Consider a simple cubic monoatomic Bravais lattice which has a basis with vectors
,
is the lattice parameter. The Bragg reflection is observed due to the change in the wave vector between the incident and the scattered beam as given by
, where
,
, and
are primitive reciprocal lattice vectors. For
and
, the geometrical structure factor is _____.Log in to check the answer
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A plane electromagnetic wave of wavelength
is incident on a circular loop of conducting wire. The loop radius is
(
). The angle (in degrees) made by the Poynting vector with the normal to the plane of the loop to generate a maximum induced electrical signal, is _____.Log in to check the answer
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An electron in a hydrogen atom is in the state
. Let
denote the y-component of the orbital angular momentum operator. If
, the value of
is _____.Log in to check the answer
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A sinusoidal voltage of the form
is applied across a parallel plate capacitor placed in vacuum. Ignoring the edge effects, the induced emf within the region between the capacitor plates can be expressed as a power series in
. The lowest non-vanishing exponent in
is _____.Log in to check the answer
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If
, for
, the value of
is _____.Log in to check the answer
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Let
The value of
is _____.Log in to check the answer
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Consider the Hamiltonian
where
and
is the time independent perturbation given by
where
. If the maximum energy eigenvalue of
is 3 eV corresponding to
eV, the value of
(rounded off to three decimal places) in eV is _____.Log in to check the answer
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