N A L A N D A O P E N U N I V E R S I T Y
M.Sc. Physics, Part-II
PAPER-X
(Programming with Fortran and
Annual Examination, 2017
Time 3 Hours. Full Marks 80
Answer any Five Questions.
All questions carry equal marks.
1. Write acceptable and unacceptable Fortran integer constant.
2. Discuss the following three ways of writing × 2 in Fortran; x*x x**2.0
3. Write a FUNCTION subprogram which calculates the sum of the elements in a linear array
with N elements.
4. Discuss the characteristics of OPEN, READ, END FILE and CLOSE FILE statement used in file
format of Fortran.
5. List out all operators along with their ASSOCIATIVITY.
6. Write a program in to perform the work of finding the area of a triangle, the
circumference of a circle.
7. Summarize the syntactic rules of the following loop statements
While loop,
DO-while loop
8. What is meant by conditional compilation
9. What is multidimensional array and how is it different from a one dimensional array
10. Distinguish a structure data type with other data type variable.