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Chemistry - Solid State

Practise 22 KVPY previous year questions on Solid State, compiled from papers spanning 2010 to 2020. Each question is pulled directly from the actual exam paper it appeared in, so you're practising in the exact style and difficulty KVPY tests.

  1. 1A compound is formed by two elements M and N . Element N forms hexagonal closed pack array with 2 / 3 of the octahedral holes occupied by M 2020 (SB/SX)
  2. 2A two dimensional solid is made by alternating circles with radius a and b such that the sides of the circles touch. The packing fraction is2020 (SB/SX)
  3. 3A solid is hard and brittle. It is an insulator in solid state, but conducts electricity in molten state. The solid is a2019 (SB/SX)
  4. 4Atoms of an element Z form hexagonal closed packed hcp lattice and atoms of element X occupy all the tetrahedral voids. The formula of the c2019 (SB/SX)
  5. 5Polonium (atomic mass = 209) crystallizes in a simple cubic structure with a density of . Its lattice parameter (in ) is closest to19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  6. 6The packing efficiency in a body-centred cubic (bcc) structure is closet to19 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  7. 7A two-dimensional solid pattern formed by two different atoms and is shown below. The black and white squares represent atoms and , respecti05 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  8. 8A mineral consists of a cubic close-packed structure formed by ions where half the octahedral voids are occupied by and oneeighth of the tet05 Nov, 2017 (SB/SX)
  9. 9Copper (atomic mass ) crystallizers in a FCC lattice and has density The radius of copper atom is closest to2016 (SB/SX)
  10. 10A unit cell of calcium fluoride has four calcium ions. The number of fluoride ions in the unit cell is2016 (SB/SX)
  11. 11The packing efficiency of the face centered cubic (fcc), body centered cubic (bcc) and simple / primitive cubic (pc) lattices follows the or2016 (SB/SX)
  12. 12Schottky defect in a crystal arises due to2015 (SB/SX)
  13. 13When of is added to a aqueous solution of , the concentration of is . if the same amount of is added to a aqueous solution of , the concentr2014 (SB/SX)
  14. 14In a cubic close packed structure, fractional contributions of an atom at the corner and at the face in the unit cell are, respectively:2014 (SB/SX)
  15. 15Two elements, and , have atomic numbers 33 and 17 respectively. The milecular formula of a stable compound formed between then is2014 (SB/SX)
  16. 16The radius of is and that of . The volume of the unit cell of expressed in is2014 (SB/SX)
  17. 17An ionic compound is formed between a metal M and a non-metal Y. If M occupies half the octahedral voids in the cubic close-packed arrangeme2013 (SB/SX)
  18. 18The inter-planar spacing between the ( 221 planes of a cubic lattice of length is2012 (SB/SX)
  19. 19Doping silicon with boron produces a-2012 (SB/SX)
  20. 20To obtain a diffraction peak, for a crystalline solid with interplane distance equal to the wavelength of incident -ray radiation, the angle2011 (SB/SX)
  21. 21In metallicids, the number of atoms for the face-centered and the body-centered cubic unit cells, are, respectively-2010 (SB/SX)
  22. 22A metal with an atomic radius of crystallizes in the face centred cubic structure. The volume of the unit cell in pm is-2010 (SB/SX)

Frequently Asked Questions

1.How many questions are available for Solid State?

This chapter includes 22 questions compiled from KVPY papers spanning 2010 to 2020.

2.Are these questions only from KVPY, or from other exams too?

These are KVPY questions specifically for the Solid State chapter. Questions from other exams like JEE Main or NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) are organised separately under their respective exam sections.

3.Is Solid State an important chapter for KVPY Chemistry?

Solid State has appeared in 10 of the 11 years of KVPY papers covered here, with 22 questions across 11 papers - about 2 per paper it appears in.