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Statement I: The concept of refractive index explains how light bends when passing through different substances. Statement II: Willebrord Snellius was the first to…

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Which scientist is associated with the Fourier-series representation of suitable periodic waveforms as weighted sine and cosine components?

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Which statements about James Watt and the conventional mechanical horsepower are correct? I. Watt introduced horsepower to compare steam-engine output with work done by…

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In which year did Heinrich Hertz observe that ultraviolet light facilitated electrical discharge, an observation associated with the early study of the photoelectric effect?

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Which device was invented by Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber in 1833?

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Which listed scientist built a working reflecting telescope in 1668?

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Which year was designated the International Year of Physics to mark the centenary of Einstein’s landmark 1905 work?

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Assertion (A): Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic pile in 1800, which was the first chemical battery. Reason (R): Andre-Marie Ampere is known for his…

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Which physicist confirmed Maxwell’s prediction by deliberately generating and detecting electromagnetic waves in the pioneering Karlsruhe experiments of 1886?

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In which year did Galileo discuss pendulum isochronism in a letter to Guidobaldo del Monte?

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Assertion (A): Johann Wilhelm Ritter discovered ultraviolet rays in 1801. Reason (R): Ultraviolet rays are part of the infrared region of the spectrum.

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Who demonstrated that lightning and sparks from clothes are the same phenomenon?

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Who proposed that every object in the universe attracts every other object with a gravitational force, explaining phenomena such as an apple falling to…

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National Science Day is celebrated in India on 28 February to commemorate which scientific discovery by Sir C. V. Raman?

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Which of Rutherford's experimental observations led him to conclude that the positive charge of an atom is concentrated in a very small region?

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A radioactive substance has a half-life of 10 days. How long will it take for 75% of the original sample to decay?

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Which type of high-energy electromagnetic radiation can be emitted in radioactive decay and in terrestrial flashes associated with thunderstorms?

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Which nuclear symbol represents an alpha particle? Use the upper number as mass number and the lower number as proton number.

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The device known as a 'tokamak' is primarily associated with which type of energy source?

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Which option gives a commonly quoted approximate wavelength range for visible light?

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What is the frequency (f) of a wave with a period of 0.04 seconds?

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Which term describes how fast successive wave crests advance across the water surface?

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A simple pendulum consists of a small metallic ball or a piece of stone suspended from a rigid stand by a thread. The metallic…

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In the common educational classification, the electromagnetic spectrum is divided into how many named regions?

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