A heavy ball of mass M is suspendeed from the ceiling of a car by a light string of mass m (m < < M). When the car is at rest, the speed of transverse waves in the string is 60 ms^$$-$$1. When the car has acceleration a, the wave-speed increases to 60.5 ms^$$-$$1. The value of a, in terms of gravitational acceleration g, is closest to :

Consider a tank made of glass(refractive index 1.5) with a thick bottom. It is filled with a liquid of refractive index $$\mu $$. A student finds that, irrespective of what the incident angle i (see figure) is for a beam of light entering the liquid, the light reflected from the liquid glass interface is never completely polarized. For this to happen, the minimum value of $$\mu $$ is :

A copper wire is stretched to make it 0.5% longer. The percentage change in its electrical resistance if its volume remains unchanged is :

A block of mass m, lying on a smooth horizontal surface, is attached to a sring (of negligible mass) of spring constant k. The other end of the spring is fixed, as shown in the figure. The block is initially at rest in its equilibrium position. If now the block is pulled with a constant force F, the maximum speed of the block is :