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Experimental Skills Previous Year Questions for JEE

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Goodmarks offers 2+ JEE-style PYQs for Experimental Skills with detailed solutions. While official past papers rotate yearly, our bank covers the same concepts, difficulty, and question formats tested in JEE Physics.

Previous year questions are the fastest way to understand how Experimental Skills is tested in JEE. Practise 2+ exam-pattern MCQs modelled on JEE Main and Advanced, with full solutions for every question.

Subtopics in Experimental Skills

  • Vernier calipers - its use to measure the internal and external diameter and depth of a vessel
  • Screw gauge - its use to determine the thickness/diameter of thin sheet/wire
  • Simple pendulum - dissipation of energy by plotting a graph between the square of amplitude and time
  • Metre scale - the mass of a given object by the principle of moments
  • Young's modulus of elasticity of the material of a metallic wire
  • Surface tension of water by capillary rise and effect of detergents
  • Co-efficient of viscosity of a given viscous liquid by measuring the terminal velocity of a given spherical body
  • Speed of sound in air at room temperature using a resonance tube
  • Specific heat capacity of a given (i) solid and (ii) liquid by method of mixtures
  • The resistivity of the material of a given wire using a metre bridge
  • The resistance of a given wire using Ohm's law
  • Resistance and figure of merit of a galvanometer by half deflection method
  • The focal length of convex mirror, concave mirror, and convex lens, using the parallax method
  • The plot of the angle of deviation vs angle of incidence for a triangular prism
  • The refractive index of a glass slab using a travelling microscope
  • Characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode in forward and reverse bias
  • Characteristic curves of a Zener diode and finding reverse breakdown voltage
  • Identification of diode, LED, resistor, a capacitor from a mixed collection of such items

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Q1PhysicsUnit 20: Experimental Skills
A tuning fork of frequency 500 Hz is sounded on a resonance tube. The first and second resonances are obtained at 17cm17 \mathrm{cm} and 52cm.52 \mathrm{cm} . The velocity of sound is
Q2PhysicsUnit 20: Experimental Skills
To determine the Young modulus of a wire, several measurements are taken. In which row can the measurement not be taken directly with the stated apparatus?

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Our bank includes exam-style MCQs aligned with JEE Main Physics syllabus for Experimental Skills, covering the same topics as previous year papers.

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