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Electricity
Question Bank
Q1. A given piece of a wire length L, cross-sectional area A and resistance R is stretched uniformly to
a wire of length 2 L. What will be the new resistance?
Q2. A current of 4 A flows through a 12V car head light bulb for 10 minutes. How much energy
transfer takes place during this time?
Q3. If the current in an electric bulb drops by 2%. Find the % decrease in power?
Q4. A wire of resistance 2 is redrawn so that its length becomes 4 times. Find the resistance of the
redrawn wire.
Q5. What is the Fuse wire?
Q6. Why is very less quantity of heat energy produced in the connecting wires?
Q7. Which one has more resistance 100 watt bulb or 60 watt bulb?
Q8. How much energy is given to each coulomb of charge passing through a 6V battery?
Q9. What determines the rate at which energy is delivered by a current?
Q10. What does an electric circuit mean?
Q11. Name a device that help to maintain a potential difference across a conduct.
Q12. Judge the equivalent resistance when the following are connected in parallel (a) 1W and 106 W
electric circuit.
Q14. What is meant by power-rating of an appliance? A bulb is rated as 60 W, 220 V. What does it
indicate?
Q15. Let the resistance of an electrical component remains constant while the potential difference
across the two ends of the component decreases to half of its former value. What change will
occur in the current through it?
Q16. A piece of wire is drawn by pulling it unit is length is doubled. Compare the new resistance with
Q18. Draw a circuit diagram with a cell, an electric bulb, an ammeter and plug key.
Q19. For a heater rated at 4kW and 220V, calculate (a) The current (b) The resistance of the heater (c)
of (i) 4W (ii)1 W?
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Q23. What is the terminal potential difference of a cell, when it is short-circuited?
Q26. How will you connect three resistors of 2, 3 and 5 respectively so as to obtain a resultant
Q29. If the n parallel resistances of equal resistance are connected in series with n series resistances
Q31. What are the differences between electrostatic potential and potential difference?
Q32. What is electric charge? What are the types of electric charge? Explain.
Q33. A 60- watt lamp is operated at 220-volt power line. What will be resistance when the lamp is
lighting? How much current will flow in it? Estimate, how much current will flow in the lamp when it
is connected to a 2-volt battery?
Q34. The resistance of two conductors in series is 40 and their resistance becomes 7.5 when
Q37. In a house there are 12 bulbs 440, one motor of 1/10 horse - power, and 4 fans each of 100
watt. These ore operated 5 hours per day. Find the expenditure of electricity in a month of 30
days if the cost of electricity is 50 paisa.
Q38. State ohm's law of resistances. Explained by drawing circuit diagram and also define the term
'resistance'.
Q39. Give the law of combination of resistances in parallel. With the help of a neat diagram drive the
formula for the equivalent resistance of three resistances connected in parallel.
Q40. Explain a) Electric Power. b) Electric energy. Write the different units of the each.
Q41. If two bulbs of power of P1 and P2 are connected in series. What is total power consumed by the
circuit?
Q42. A resistance 6 is connected in parallel with a resistance 3. What resistance R must be
connected in series with the combination of 3 and 6 so that the equivalent resistance is equal
to the resistance 3?
Q43. Two resistances in parallel, X of 20 and Y of unknown value, are connected in series with a third
resistance Z of 12 . The supply to the circuit is direct current. If the potential difference across the
ends of resistance C is 180 V and the power in the
X=20
complete circuit is 3600 W. Calculate: I I
1
Z=12
I
2 Y I
(a) The value of resistance Y.
1
80V
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(b) The current in each resistance.
(c) The voltage applied to the ends of the whole circuit.
Q44. Define one Ampere.
Q45. What is relation between V, W, Q?
A B
Q48. If the length of conductor wire is doubled and radius of cross section area is half than, what will be
Q50. What is the direction of the electric current in the circuit and in the cell?
heat 1kg of water from 20 C to 60 C, assuming that all heat is taken up by water?
Q55. What do you understand by Electric energy? Explain the B.O.T unit and Rule for calculation of
cost of power.
Q56. Give the 4 properties (physical facts) of each of series and parallel combination of resistances?
Q57. A resistance 6 is connected in parallel with a resistance 3. What resistance R must be
connected in series with the combination of 3 and 6 so that the equivalent resistance is equal
to the resistance 3?
30 ohm
Q58. What is the net resistance between points A and
2 ohm
B in the following circuit? 7 ohm 15 ohm
A B
Q59. Derive the expression for heat produced in a 60 ohm
an 8 ohm resistor and a 12 ohm resistor and a plug key all connected in series.
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Q61. A copper wire has a diameter of 0.5 mm and a resistivity of 1.6 x 10 6 cm. How much of this wire
Q63. The resistance of two conductors in series is 40 ohm and their resistance becomes 7.5 ohm,
Q67. What do you understand by heating effect of electric current? A water heater is rated at 220 V-
2kW. This heater is used for heating 20kg of water, which is initially at 20C. If the heater is
switched on for 15 minutes, what will be the final temperature of water? If C=4200J/kg/C.
Q68. A metal plate of surface area 250 sq. cm is to be coated on both sides with copper by electrolysis.
How long will it take to deposit 0.01cm in thickness if a current of 1.5 Amp is used? (E.C.E of
copper = 0.00033 gm/C, density of copper = 9 g cm-3)
Q69. The maximum power rating of a 20 resistor is 2.0 kW. (This is the maximum power the resistor
can dissipate as heat, without melting or changing in some other undesirable way). Would you
connect this resistor directly across a 300 V d.c. source of negligible resistance? Explain your
answer.
Q70. Out of the following bulbs rated 40W, 220V, 60W, 220V and 100W, 220V which one will give the
brightest when connected in series to a supply of 220V?
Q71. Read the following statements carefully and write whether the statement is true or false:
(i) The quantity of charge flowing past a point multiplied by time is current.
(ii) The flow of charge through a conducting wire connected to a cell is the result of chemical
reaction inside the cell.
(iii) The resistivity of all pure metals increases with increase in temperature.
(iv) Ohm's law is a relation between the power used in a circuit to the current and the potential
difference.
(v) A series circuit has only one conducting path for the electrons that move through it; a
parallel circuit has multiple conducting paths.
(vi) A conducting wire offers resistance to the flow of electrons because electrons repel each
other in the wire.
Q72. Calculate the equivalent resistance of the circuit as shown in Figure in which six 1 resistors are
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R2
R1 R3
A B
R4 R6
R5
Q74. A certain piece of copper having length L & A is cross-section area. If it is to be shared into a
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