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State whether the given statement is true or false.

A cerium atomic clock is used at the National Physics Laboratory NPL, New Delhi to maintain the Indian Standard of time.

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Important Questions on Motion and Time

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For the four sets of three measured physical quantities as given below. Which of the following options is correct?
i A1=24.36,B1=0.0724,C1=256.2
ii A2=24.44,B2=16.082,C2=240.2
iii A3=25.2,B3=19.2812,C3=236.183
iv A4=25,B4=236.191,C4=19.5
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A train leaves station A at 8 am and reaches station B at 12 noon. A car leaves station B at 8:30 am and reaches station A at the same time when the train reaches station B. At what time do they meet?
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The period of oscillation of a simple pendulum is T=2πlg.  Measured value of l is 20.0 cm, known to 1 mm  accuracy and time for 100 oscillations of the pendulum is found to be 90 s using a wristwatch of 1 s resolution. The accuracy in the determination of g is 
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The dimension of light year
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A boy increases his speed to 95 times of his original speed. By this he reaches his school 30 minutes before the usual time. How much time he takes usually?
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The angle of 1' (minute of arc) in radian is nearly equal to
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Walking at 45th of his usual speed, a man is 12 minutes late for his office. What is the usual time taken by him to cover that distance?
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The nearest star to our solar system is 4.3 light years away. The distance of this star in Parsec is (Mean distance between the earth and the sun =1.5×1011 m and one light year =9.46×1015 m
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A takes 2 hours 30 minutes more than B to walk 40 km. If A doubles his speed, then he can make it in 1 hour less than B. How much time (in hours) does A require for walking a 40 km distance?
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If Shivan walks at the rate of 19 kmph. How much time (in min) will he take to cover 665 m?
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Consider a particle moving along the positive direction of X-axis. The velocity of the particle is given by v=αx (α is a positive constant). At time t=0, if the particle is located at x=0, the time dependence of the velocity and the acceleration of the particle are respectively.
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Walking at 60% of his usual speed, a man reaches his destination 1 hour 40 minutes late. His usual time (in hours) to reach the destination is:
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Match the physical quantities with their correct SI units.

  List-I   List-II
(A) Planck's constant (I) kg m s-2
(B) Torque (II) kg-1 m3
(C) Weight (III) m2 kg s-1
(D) Specific volume (IV) kg m2 s-2

The correct match is

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The angular diameter of a planet measured from earth is 90". If the diameter of the planet is π×106 m, then its distance from the earth is
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A person in front of a mountain is beating a drum at the rate of 40 per minute and hears no distinct echo. If the person moves 90 m closer to the mountain, he has to beat the drum at 60 per minute to not hear any distinct echo. The speed of sound is
 
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A spherometer has 20 threads per cm. Its circular scale has 100 divisions. The least count of the sphere is
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A man is walking at a speed of 12 km/hour. After every kilometer he takes rest for 4 minutes. How much time (in minutes) will he take to cover a distance of 8 kilometers ?
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A and B are at a distance of 1.7 km apart and they start running towards each other at a speed of 8 m/s and 9 m/s respectively. After how much time, will they meet each other?
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Which of the following is not a unit of time?