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JEE Main · Physics · Oscillations

Simple Pendulum Period

JEE Main asked Simple Pendulum Period 4 times in 4 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2021 and 2022. It belongs to Pendulums, in Oscillations (Physics). The longest wait between two years asking it was 1 year. In 2021 and 2022 it came in more than one shift of the same year.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
4
in 4 shifts
Years
2 of 8
First asked
2021
last in 2022
Pattern
Occasional
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2021 and 2022. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Physics questions.

00.050.10’170’200.07’210.07’220’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 2 in 24 shifts · 2022: 2 in 24 shifts · 2023: 0 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20230 of 12
  • 20222 of 24
  • 20212 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Single correct is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.

  • Height from pendulum period change
  • Length of pendulum from shm equation

Difficulty

Easy 3Medium 1Hard 0

Every question was multiple choice.

Every question

All 4 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 29 Jun 2022, Shift 2 · Q42The motion of a simple pendulum executing S.H.M. is represented by the following equation. y=Asin⁡(πt+ϕ)y = A\sin(\pi t + \phi) , where time is…EasySingle correct
  2. 28 Jul 2022, Shift 2 · Q6Assume there are two identical simple pendulum clocks. Clock - 1 is placed on the earth and Clock - 2 is placed on a space station located…MediumSingle correct
  3. 22 Jul 2021, Shift 2 · Q20T0\mathrm{T_0} is the time period of a simple pendulum at a place. If the length of the pendulum is reduced to 116\frac{1}{16} times of its…EasySingle correct
  4. 25 Feb 2021, Shift 1 · Q3If the time period of a two meter long simple pendulum is 2 s, the acceleration due to gravity at the place where pendulum is executing…EasySingle correct

Shifts: 25 Feb 2021, Shift 1, 22 Jul 2021, Shift 2, 29 Jun 2022, Shift 2, 28 Jul 2022, Shift 2.

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Pendulums has 10 ideas JEE Main has asked; 5 of them came up in more than one question.

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