Physics
GATE PH year:2021 PYQs
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Questions 51–60 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 41
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As shown in the figure, inverse magnetic susceptibility
is plotted as a function of temperature
for three different materials in paramagnetic states.
(Curie temperature of ferromagnetic material
Néel temperature of antiferromagnetic material
)Choose the correct statement from the following
Your answerChoose one option.
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A function
is defined only for
. The Laplace transform of
is
whereas the Fourier transform of
is
The correct statement(s) is(are)Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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and
are two Hermitian matrices and there exists a matrix
, which diagonalizes both of them, such that
and
, where
and
are diagonal matrices. The correct statement(s) is(are)Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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A uniform block of mass
slides on a smooth horizontal bar. Another mass
is connected to it by an inextensible string of length
of negligible mass, and is constrained to oscillate in the X-Y plane only. Neglect the sizes of the masses. The number of degrees of freedom of the system is two and the generalized coordinates are chosen as
and
, as shown in the figure. 
If
and
are the generalized momenta corresponding to
and
, respectively, then the correct option(s) is(are)Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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The Gell-Mann – Okuba mass formula defines the mass of baryons as
where
,
and
are constants,
represents the isospin and
represents the hypercharge. If the mass of
hyperons is same as that of
hyperons, then the correct option(s) is(are)Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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The time derivative of a differentiable function
is added to a Lagrangian
such that
where
are the generalized coordinates, generalized velocities and time, respectively. Let
be the generalized momentum and
the Hamiltonian associated with
. If
and
are those associated with
, then the correct option(s) is(are)Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.
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A linear charged particle accelerator is driven by an alternating voltage source operating at 10 MHz. Assume that it is used to accelerate electrons. After a few drift-tubes, the electrons attain a velocity 2.9 × 10^8 m s⁻¹. The minimum length of each drift-tube, in m, to accelerate the electrons further (rounded off to one decimal place) is _____.
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The Coulomb energy component in the binding energy of a nucleus is 18.432 MeV. If the radius of the uniform and spherical charge distribution in the nucleus is 3 fm, the corresponding atomic number (rounded off to the nearest integer) is _____.
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For a two-nucleon system in spin singlet state, the spin is represented through the Pauli matrices
for particles 1 and 2, respectively.
The value of
(in integer) is _____.Log in to check the answer
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A contour integral is defined as
where
is a positive integer and
is the closed contour, as shown in the figure, consisting of the line from −100 to 100 and the semicircle traversed in the counter-clockwise sense.The value of
(in integer) is _____. 
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