Physics
GATE PH topic:applied-physics PYQs
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Question 26
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The above combination of logic gates represents the operation

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In a semiconductor, the ratio of the effective mass of hole to electron is 2:11 and the ratio of average relaxation time for hole to electron is 1:2. The ratio of the mobility of the hole to electron is
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Consider a spin
particle in the state
. The probability that a measurement finds the state with
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An electromagnetic wave having electric field
is incident at
(normal incidence) on a square slab from vacuum (with refractive index
) as shown in the figure. The slab is composed of two different materials with refractive indices
and
. Assume that the permeability of each medium is the same. After passing through the slab for the first time, the electric field amplitude, in
, of the electromagnetic wave, which emerges from the slab in region 2, is closest to 
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Consider a point charge
of mass
suspended by a mass, inextensible string of length
in free space (permittivity
) as shown in the figure. It is placed at a height
(
) over an infinitely large, grounded conducting plane. The gravitational potential energy is assumed to be zero at the position of the conducting plane and is positive above the plane. If
represents the angular position and
its corresponding canonical momentum, then the correct Hamiltonian of the system is 
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Consider two concentric conducting spherical shells as shown in the figure. The inner shell has a radius
and carries a charge +Q. The outer shell has a radius
and carries a charge
. The empty space between them is half-filled by a hemispherical shell of a dielectric having permittivity
. The remaining space between the shells is filled with air having the permittivity
. 
The electric field at a radial distance
from the center and between the shells (
) isYour answerChoose one option.
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For the given sets of energy levels of nuclei X and Y whose mass numbers are odd and even, respectively, choose the best suited interpretation.

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Consider a system of three distinguishable particles, each having spin
such that
with corresponding magnetic moments
. When the system is placed in an external magnetic field
pointing along the z-axis, the total energy of the system is
. Let
be the state where the first spin has
. The probability of having the state
and the mean magnetic moment (in the +z direction) of the system in state
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Consider a particle in a one-dimensional infinite potential well with its walls at
and
. The system is perturbed as shown in the figure. 
The first order correction to the energy eigenvalue is
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Consider a state described by
, where
and
are respectively the second and fourth normalized harmonic oscillator wave functions and
is the angular frequency of the harmonic oscillator. The wave function
will be orthogonal to
at time
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