📖 11th Physics Top 20 Three Mark Questions – Most Repeated (2025)
📚 Ace Your Public Exam with the Top 20 Repeated 3-Mark Questions!
This 11th Physics Top 20 Two Mark Questions Guide is designed to help Tamil Nadu 11th Public Exam 2025 students prepare effectively. It contains chapter-wise, most frequently asked 3-mark questions, compiled from previous year public exams, model tests, and textbook exercises. These frequently repeated questions are vital for scoring high marks in the 3-mark section.

✔ Based on Tamil Nadu 11th Board Exam Syllabus
✔ Top 20 Repeated 3-Mark Questions with Answers
✔ Includes Formula-Based, Conceptual & Definition Questions
✔ Covers Key Diagrams & Derivations
11th Physics top 20 Repeated Three Marks
- State Kepler’s three laws / State Kepler’s laws of planetary motion (Repeated 5 times)
- Explain the variation of g with latitude/Altitude / Depth (Repeated 3 times)
- Using a free-body diagram, show that it is easier to pull an object than to push it (Repeated 3 times)
- What are the limitations of dimensional analysis? (Repeated 2 times)
- Derive an expression for the energy of a satellite (Repeated 2 times)
- How is surface tension related to surface energy? (Repeated 2 times)
- Give the expression for linear, area, and volume thermal expansions (Repeated 2 times)
- State and explain Lami’s theorem (Repeated 2 times)
- Explain the similarities and differences between centripetal and centrifugal forces (Repeated 2 times)
- How will you measure the distance of the Moon using the parallax method? (Repeated 2 times)
- During a cyclic process, a heat engine absorbs 500J of heat from a hot reservoir, does work, and ejects 300J into the surroundings (cold reservoir). Calculate the efficiency of the heat engine. (Repeated 2 times)
- Differentiate between conservative and non-conservative forces (Repeated 2 times)
- Write the rules for determining significant figures (Repeated 2 times)
- Derive the relation between linear velocity and angular velocity (Repeated 2 times)
- Describe Newton’s formula for the velocity of sound waves in air (Repeated 2 times)
- An athlete covers 3 rounds on a circular track of radius 50m. Calculate the total distance and displacement traveled by him (Repeated 2 times)
- Explain the propagation of error in the division of two quantities (Repeated 2 times)
Other Important Three Questions : ( To Score 90+) Must
- Check the correctness of the equation 1/2mv2=mgh\frac{1}{2} mv^2 = mgh21mv2=mgh using the dimensional analysis method.
- Write a note on the triangulation method.
- Show that the path of a projectile is a parabola.
- Derive the relation between linear velocity and angular velocity.
- A particle moves along the x-axis in such a way that its coordinates vary with time t according to the equation x=2−5t+6t2x = 2 – 5t + 6t^2x=2−5t+6t2. What is the initial velocity of the particle?
- Discuss the properties of scalar products.
- Arrive at an expression for power and velocity.
- State and prove the Parallel Axis Theorem.
- Write the applications of Dimensional analysis.
- A car takes a turn with a velocity of 50 m/s on a circular road of radius 10 m. Calculate the centrifugal force experienced by a person of mass 60 kg inside the car.
- A wire 10 m long has a cross-sectional area of 1.25×10−4 m21.25 \times 10^{-4} \, m^21.25×10−4m2. It is subjected to a load of 5 kg. If Young’s modulus of the material is 4×1010 N/m24 \times 10^{10} \, N/m^24×1010N/m2, calculate the elongation produced in the wire. (Take g = 10 m/s²).
- Distinguish between streamlined flow and turbulent flow.
- State Pascal’s law in fluids.
- State Archimedes’ principle.
- How is surface tension related to surface energy?
- Give the characteristics of elastic and inelastic collisions.
- Define displacement and distance.
- Write down the kinematic equations for angular motion.
- What is the difference between velocity and average velocity?
- What is inertia? Give the types of inertia.
- Explain the propagation of errors in addition.
- Differentiate between static friction and kinetic friction.
- Explain with graph the work done by a constant force.
- Obtain an expression for the excess pressure inside a liquid drop.
- Give an expression for work done in an isothermal process.
- An object is thrown with an initial speed of 5 m/s at an angle of projection of 30°. Calculate the maximum height reached and the horizontal range.
- Explain the RADAR pulse method for determining large distances.
- We use a straw to suck soft drinks. Why?
- Explain Resonance. Give an example.
- What are the conditions for a reversible process?
- A force of (4i^−3j^+5k^)(4\hat{i} – 3\hat{j} + 5\hat{k})(4i^−3j^+5k^) N is applied at a point whose position vector is (7i^+4j^−2k^)(7\hat{i} + 4\hat{j} – 2\hat{k})(7i^+4j^−2k^) m. Find the torque of the force about the origin.
- Compare progressive waves and stationary waves.
- Derive an expression for the elastic energy stored per unit volume of a wire.
- Two bodies of masses m and 4m are placed at a distance r. Calculate the gravitational potential at a point on the line joining them where the gravitational field is zero.
- Mention the salient features of static and kinetic friction.
- The resultant of two vectors A and B is perpendicular to vector A, and its magnitude is equal to half of the magnitude of vector B. Find the angle between A and B.
- Write a note on the triangulation method to measure larger distances.
- Check the correctness of the equation V=u+atV = u + atV=u+at.
- What are inertial frames?
- Explain the inertia of rest with two examples.
- Derive the expression for the work done in an isothermal process.
- Write any three postulates of the kinetic theory of gases.
- What are the applications of viscosity?
- Why are there no lunar eclipses and solar eclipses every month?
- What is the relation between torque and angular momentum?
- What is radius of gyration?
- Derive the expression for loss of kinetic energy in a perfect inelastic collision.
- Show that impulse is the change of momentum.
- Calculate the area of the triangle for which two of its sides are given by the vectors A=5i−3j,B=4i+6jA = 5i – 3j, B = 4i + 6jA=5i−3j,B=4i+6j.
- Derive the dimensional formula for the expression hCG\frac{hC}{G}GhC, where h is Planck’s constant, C is the speed of light, and G is the gravitational constant.
- Explain the similarities and differences of centripetal and centrifugal forces.
- Prove that the equation X=Asin(ωt)+Bcos(ωt)X = A\sin(\omega t) + B\cos(\omega t)X=Asin(ωt)+Bcos(ωt) represents a simple harmonic motion.
- What are the energies possessed by a liquid? Write down their equations.
- What are the conditions for unstable equilibrium?
- State and prove the law of conservation of total linear momentum.
- State the properties of the vector cross product.
- Explain the variation of g with altitude.
- Draw the PV diagram for isothermal expansion and isobaric compression processes.
- Write the expression for RMS speed, Average Speed, and most probable speed of a gas molecule.
- State Perpendicular Axes Theorem of moment of inertia.
- In the cricket game, a batsman strikes the ball with the speed 30 m/s at an angle 30° with the horizontal. Will the ball go for a six?