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At- NUA POKHORI

WORKSHEET ON ELECTRICITY 2 MARKS

Class 10 - Science

1. An electric iron is rated 1 kW - 220 V. Calculate the following: [2]

i. The resistance of its heating element.
ii. The amount of current that will flow through the element.
iii. The amount of heat that will be produced in 2 minutes.
iv. The power consumed if the line voltage falls to 200 V.
2. How does potential difference (V) across a resistor depend on current passing through it? What is nature of I-V [2]
graph obtained?
3. B1, B2 and B3 are three identical bulbs connected as shown in figure. When all the three bulbs glow, a current of [2]
3A is recorded by the ammeter A.

What happens to the glow of the other two bulbs when the bulb B1 gets fused?
4. Calculate the resistance of an electric bulb which allows a 10A current when connected to a 220V power source? [2]
5. What precautions should be taken while performing this experiment? [2]
6. How will you infer with the help of an experiment that the same current flows through every part of the circuit [2]
containing three resistances in series connected to a battery?
7. What would you suggest to a student if while performing an experiment he finds that the pointer/needle of the [2]
ammeter and voltmeter do not coincide with the zero marks on the scales when circuit is open? No extra
ammeter/voltmeter is available in the laboratory.
8. What is an electric circuit? How are different components represented symbolically? [2]
9. What determines the rate at which energy is delivered by a current? [2]
10. Several electric bulbs designed to be used on a 220V electric supply line are rated 10W. How many lamps can be [2]
connected in parallel with each other across the two wires of 220V line if the maximum allowable current is 5A?
11. Calculate the cost of seeing 2 movies on colour T.V. daily for the month of September. [2]
Given wattage of colour T.V. = 60 W, duration each movie is 2 hours 30 min and 1kWh costs Rs. 4
12. What is meant by electric current? Write its SI unit. Calculate the amount of charge that flows through a [2]
conductor when a current 5A flows through it for 2 min.
13. Consider a network of resistance each of value of R as shown if figure: [2]

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 i. What is the equivalent of net work between A and C?
ii. What is the potential of B and D when the voltage source is applied across A and C?
iii. What is the potential of B and D when the voltage source is applied across A and B?
14. What is electrical resistivity? In a series electrical circuit comprising of a resistor made up of a metallic wire, the [2]
ammeter reads 5 A. The reading of the ammeter decreases to half when the length of the wire is doubled. Why?
15. An electric heater rated 1100 W operates at 220 V. Calculate (i) its resistance, and (ii) the current drawn by it. [2]
16. What would be your explanation for your friend who thinks that electrons are consumed in an electric circuit? [2]

17. A copper wire has diameter 0.5 mm and resistivity 1.6 × 10-8 Ω m. What will be the length of this wire to make [2]

its resistance 10 Ω ? How much does the resistance change if the diameter is doubled?
18. What is meant by saying that the potential difference between two points is 1 V? [2]
19. A bird sitting on an 11,000 V wire is quite safe but a man touching 220 V wire may die. Why do ? [2]
20. Why should a connection wire be thick? [2]
21. Let the resistance of an electrical component remains constant while the potential difference across the two ends [2]
of the component decreases to half of its former value. What change will occur in the current through it?
22. What is (a) the highest, (b) the lowest total resistance that can be secured by combinations of four coils of [2]
resistance 4 Ω , 8 Ω , 12 Ω , 24 Ω ?
23. Two cells of 3V each are connected in parallel. An external resistance of 0.5 Ω is connected in series to the [2]
junction of two parallel resistors of 4 Ω and 2 Ω and then to the common terminal of the battery through each
resistor. Draw the circuit diagram. What is the current flowing through 4 Ω resistors?
24. State the energy conversion taking place in the following electric appliances: [2]
a. Electric heater,
b. Electric motor,
c. Loud-speaker,
d. Electrolysis
25. What is Joule’s heating effect? How can it be demonstrated experimentally? List its four applications in daily [2]
life.
26. Why is lead-tin alloy used for fuse wires? [2]
27. Distinguish between an open and a closed circuit. [2]
28. Compare the power used in the 2Ω resistor in each of the following circuits: [2]
(i) a 6 V battery in series with 1Ω and 2Ω resistors,and
(ii) a 4 V battery in parallel with 12 Ω and 2Ω resistors.
29. B1, B2 and B3 are three identical bulbs connected as shown in figure. When all the three bulbs glow, a current of [2]

3A is recorded by the ammeter A.

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 How much power is dissipated in the circuit when all the three bulbs glow together?
30. In the given circuit, find: [2]
a. Total resistance of the network of resistors
b. Current through ammeter A, and
c. Potential difference across 3 Ω and 6 Ω resistors

31. How does the use of fuse wire protect electrical appliances? [2]
32. a. State the relation correlating the electric current flowing in a conductor and the voltage applied across it. [2]
Also draw a graph to show this relationship.
b. Find the resistance of a conductor if the electric current flowing through it is 0.35 A when the potential
difference across it is 1.4 V.
33. A current of 30 mA is flowing through a wire of resistance of 50Ω. what is the potential difference between two [2]
ends of the wire ?
34. Why is the tungsten metal more coiled in the bulb and not installed in straight parallel wire form? [2]
35. i. Distinguish between the terms electrical resistance and resistivity of conductor. [2]

ii. A copper wire of resistivity 1.63 × 10-8π − m has cross-section area of 10.3 × 10-4 cm2. Calculate the
length of the wire required to make a 20 Ω coil.
36. Write the formula for current I flowing through a conductor if n electrons flow through the cross-section of a [2]
conductor in time t.
37. Why does the cord of an electric heater not glow while the heating element does? [2]
38. Radhika is a student of class X. Her mother was making tea in an old electric kettle having metal case. When she [2]
switched on the power supply to the electric kettle. She got a severe electric shock. Radhika put off the main
switch quickly and found that the connecting cord was torn, where her mother touched the metal case of the
kettle. She also found that the red and black wires of connecting cord were firmly connected to the two lower
terminals of the power plug but the green wire of cord was not connected to the upper terminal of the plug.
Radhika replaced the torn connecting cord and also connected to the three wires of cord firmly to the power plug
terminals.
On the basis of the above passage, answer the following questions:
i. Why did Radhika put off the main switch quickly?

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 ii. Which wire red, black or green, touched the metal case of electric kettle when Radhika's mother got electric
shock?
iii. What values are displayed by Radhika in this incident?
39. What is meant by Joule's heating ? [2]
40. An electric lamp, whose resistance is 20 Ω, and a conductor of 4 Ω resistance are connected to a 6 V battery. [2]
Draw the circuit diagram. Calculate (a) the total resistance of the circuit, and (b) the current through the circuit.
41. Why are the heating elements of electric toasters and electric irons made of an alloy rather than a pure metal? [2]
42. Arrange 1Ω , 10Ω and 100Ω such that the equivalent resistance is greater than 10Ω but less than 11Ω . [2]
43. i. Draw a schematic diagram of a circuit consisting of a cell of 1.5 V, 10-ohm resistor and 15-ohm resistor and [2]
a plug key all connected in series.
ii. How would the reading of voltmeter (V) change, if it is connected between B and C as mentioned in the
given below circuit diagram? Justify your answer.

44. Mention two special features of the material used as an element of an electric iron. [2]
45. Why is resistance more in series combination? [2]
46. How much energy is given to each coulomb of charge passing through a 6V battery? [2]
47. (a) Define electric resistance of a conductor? [2]
(b) A wire of length L and resistance R is stretched so that its length is double and the area of cross section is
halved. How will its
(i) resistance change?
(ii) resistivity change?
[2]
48. a. In a given ammeter, a student saw that needle indicates 12th division in ammeter while performing an
experiment to verify Ohm’s law. If ammeter has 10 divisions between 0 to 0.5 A, then what is the ammeter
reading corresponding to 12th division?
b. How do you connect an ammeter and a voltmeter in an electric circuit?
49. An electric source can supply a charge of 500 coulomb. If the current drawn by a device is 25 mA, find the time [2]
in which the electric source will be discharged completely.
50. Alloys are used in electrical heating devices rather than pure metals. Give reason. [2]
51. A given length of a wire is doubled on itself. By what factor does the resistance of the wire change? [2]
52. The given figure shows the V-I graphs for two resistors. Identify the resistor that obeys ohm's law. Give a reason [2]
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53. Which uses more energy, a 250 W TV set in 1 hr, or a 1200 W toaster in 10 minutes? [2]
54. Three incandescent bulbs of 100 W each are connected in series in an electric circuit. In another circuit another [2]
set of three bulbs of the same wattage are connected in parallel to the same source.
a. Will the bulb in the two circuits glow with the same brightness? Justify your answer.
b. Now let one bulb in both the circuits get fused. Will the rest of the bulbs continue to glow in each circuit?
Give reason.

55. a. Write the mathematical expression for Joule's law of heating. [2]
b. Compute the heat generated while transferring 96000 coulomb of charge in two hours through a potential
difference of 40 V.
56. Though the same current flows through line wires and the filament of a bulb, yet only the latter glows. Why? [2]
57. A heater coil is rated 100 W, 200 V. It is cut into two identical parts. Both parts are connected together in parallel [2]
to the same source of 200 V. Calculate the energy liberated per second in the new combination.
58. Will current flow more easily through a thick wire or a thin wire of the same material, when connected to the [2]
same source? Why?
59. Draw the symbols of the following components that are used in the circuit diagram: [2]
i. Wires crossing without joining
ii. Variable resistance or rheostat
iii. A battery or a combination of cells

60. a. Write Joule’s law of heating. [2]

b. Two lamps, one rated 100 W; 220 V, and the other 60 W; 220 V, are connected in parallel to electric mains
supply. Find the current drawn by two bulbs from the line, if the supply voltage is 220 V.
61. Why is an ammeter likely to be burnt out if it is connected in parallel in a circuit? [2]
62. Two metallic wires A and B are connected in series. Wire A has length l and radius r, while wire B has length 2l [2]
and radius 2r. Find the ratio of total resistance of series combination and the resistance of wire A, if both the
wires are of the same material?
63. Draw a circuit diagram of an electric circuit containing of two resistors ammeter, a resistor of 2Ω in series with a [2]
combination of two resistors (4 each) in parallel and a voltmeter across the parallel combination. Will the
potential difference across the 2Ω resistors be the same as that across the parallel combination of 4Ω resistors?
Give reason.
64. Define: [2]
i. Potential
ii. Potential difference.
65. Draw a schematic diagram of a circuit consisting of a battery of three cells of 2 V each, a 5 Ω resistor, an 8 Ω [2]

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 resistor, and a 12 Ω resistor, and a plug key, all connected in series.
66. In the given circuit, find: [2]
a. Total resistance of the network of resistors
b. Current through ammeter A
c. Potential difference across 3 Ω and 4 Ω resistors

67. Draw a schematic diagram of a circuit consisting of a battery of four dry cells of 1.5 V each, a 2Ω resistor, a 6Ω [2]
resistor, 16Ω resistor and a plug key all connected in series. Put an ammeter to measure the current in the circuit
and a voltmeter across the 16Ω resistor to measure potential difference across its two ends. Use Ohm's law to
determine
a. ammeter reading, and
b. voltmeter reading when key is closed.
68. A V-I graph for a nichrome wire is given below. What do you infer from this graph? Draw a labelled circuit [2]
diagram to obtain such a graph.

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69. a. Calculate the resistance of an aluminium wire of length 1 m and area of cross-section 2 mm2. Resistivity of
aluminium is 2.63 × 10-8 Ω m.
b. From the values given below, plot a graph of I versus V. Show that the data is in conformity of the Ohm's
law.

Current - I (ampere) 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4

Potential Difference V (volt) 1.2 2.4 3.6 4.8

70. If a student wants to connect four cells of 1.5 V each to form a battery of voltage 6 V, then how would he draw [2]
the symbol of the battery?
71. Compute the heat generated while transferring 96,000 coulomb of charge in one hour through a potential [2]
difference of 50V.
72. How many 10Ω resistors are required to get a 25Ω resistor? [2]
73. The values of the current I flowing in a given resistor for corresponding values of potential difference V across [2]
the resistor are given below:

I (amperes) 0.5 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0

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 V (volts) 1.6 3.4 6.7 10.2 13.2

Plot a graph between V and I and calculate the resistance of that resistor.
74. Two wires P and Q are made of copper. The wire P is long and thin, while the wire Q is short and thick. Which [2]
will have more specific resistance? Give a reason for your answer.
75. Draw a circuit to study the dependence of current on the potential difference across a resistor. [2]

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