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Sliding on a block with a circular cut

January 30th, 2022jeefirst0 Comments

JEE Advanced 2017 Paper 1, Question 2

A block of mass $M$ has a circular cut with a frictionless surface as shown. The block rests on the horizontal frictionless surface of a fixed table. Initially the right edge of the block is at $x=0$ , in a co-ordinate system fixed to the table. A point mass $m$ is released from rest at the topmost point of the path as shown and it slides down. When the mass loses contact with the block, its position is $x$ and the velocity is $v$ . At that instant, which of the following options is/are correct?

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The position

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An infinite ladder of resistors

January 16th, 2022jeefirst0 Comments

Problem 3.152 of Irodov

The figure below shows an inifite circuit formed by the repetition of the same link, consisting of resistance $R_1 = 4.0 \ \Omega$ and $R_2 = 3.0 \ \Omega$ . Find the resistance of this circuit between points $A$ and $B$ .

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Solution

Let’s denote the resistance between the points $A$ and $B$ by $R_{AB}$ . Since the circuit is infinite, removing the first $R_1$ and $R_2$ resistors gives the same arrangement back again — the arrangement is self-similar. That means, the resistance between the points $C$ and $D$ is just $R_{AB}$ without the left-most $R_1$ and $R_2$ resistors, and we may redraw the circuit as shown below.

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It is now straightforward to calculate the resistance,

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Pulleys and masses connected to a spring

January 14th, 2022jeefirst0 Comments

JEE Advanced 2019 Paper 2, Question 2

A block of mass $2 M$ is attached to a massless spring with spring-constant $k$ . This block is connected to two other blocks of masses $M$ and $2 M$ using two massless pulleys and strings. The accelerations of the blocks are $a_{1}, a_{2}$ and $a_{3}$ as shown in the figure. The system is released from rest with the spring in its unstretched state. The maximum extension of the spring is $x_{0}$ . Which of the following option(s) is/are correct?

[ $g$ is the acceleration due to gravity. Neglect friction]

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$x_{0}=\frac{4 M g}{k}$
When spring achieves an extension of $\frac{x_{0}}{2}$ for the first time, the speed of the

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Electric field in a hollow region

January 9th, 2022jeefirst0 Comments

IIT-JEE 2007 Paper 2, Question 6

(This problem is was repeated in JEE Advanced 2015 Paper 2, Question 11)

A spherical portion has been removed from a solid sphere having a charge distributed uniformly in its volume as shown in the figure. The electric field inside the emptied space is

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zero everywhere
non-zero and uniform
non-uniform
zero only at its center

Solution

As explained in a related problem we can think of the given charge distribution as a …

Charge at one corner of a cube

January 8th, 2022jeefirst0 Comments

A charge $q$ sits at one corner of a cube of side length $a$ as shown in the figure below. What is the electric flux through the shaded side?

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Solution

Since the problem is asking us to find the electric flux it is natural to guess that we need to apply Gauss’s Law. However, we need a closed surface with appropriate symmetry to be able to use Gauss’s Law (see article). So we consider the situation shown below.

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We have placed …