ACHYUTA PUBLIC SCHOOL

ELECTRICITY- SEGMENT-1

Electric Current
1Marks
1. What is the rate of flow of electric charges called?
(a) Electric potential (b) electric conductance (c) Electric current (d) none of these
2. Which of the following is the SI Unit of Electric Current?
(a) ohm(b) ampere (c) volt (d) faraday
Coulomb is the SI unit of:
(a) charge (b) current (c) potential difference (d) resistance
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Potential Difference:-
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1. How much work is done in moving a charge of 2 C from a point of 118 V to a point of 128 V?
(a) 20 J (b) 30 J (c) 40 J (d) 10 J
2. Which instrument is used for measuring electric potential?
(a) Ammeter (b) galvanometer (c) voltmeter (d) potentiometer
3. When one unit electric charge moves from one point to another point in an electric circuit, then
the amount of work done in joules is known as?
(a) Electric current (b) electric resistance (c) electric conductance (d) potential
difference
4. When electric current is passed, electrons move from:
(a) high potential to low potential. (b) low potential to high potential.
(c) in the direction of the current. (d) against the direction of the current.
Electric potential is a:
(a) scalar quantity (b) vector quantity
(c) neither scalar nor vector (d) sometimes scalar and sometimes vector

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Circuit Diagram:-
1 Marks:-
The purpose of a rheostat is:
(a) Increase the magnitude of current only (b) Decrease the magnitude of current only
(c) Increase or decrease the magnitude of current(d) None of these
Which of the following is not correctly matched?

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Ohms Law:-

1 Marks:-
1. Point to be kept in mind for verification of Ohm’s Law is:
(a) Ammeter and voltmeter should be connected in series
(b) Ammeter should be connected in series and voltmeter in parallel
(c) Ammeter should be connected in parallel and voltmeter in series
(d) Ammeter and voltmeter should be connected in parallel
2. The hindrance presented by material of conductor to the smooth passing of electric current is
known as:
(a) Resistance (b) Conductance (c) Inductance (d) None of these
3. Two ampere current is flowing through a conductor from a 10 volt e.m.f source then resistance
of conductor is
(a) 20 Ω(b) 5Ω (c) 12 Ω (d) 8 Ω
4. What is the current through a 5.0 ohm resistor if the voltage across it is 10 V
(a) Zero (b) 0.5 A (c) 2.0 A (d) 5.0 A
5. When a 40V battery is connected across an unknown resistor there is a current of 100 mA in the
circuit. Find the value of the resistance of the resister:
(a) 5000 Ω (b) 800 Ω (c) 0.8 Ω (d) none of these
6. An electrical appliance has a resistance of 25 Ω. When this electrical appliance is connected to
a 230 V supply line, the current passing through it will be:
(a) 0.92 A (b) 2.9 A (c) 9.2 A (d) 92 A
7. When a 4 Ω resistor is connected across the terminals of a 2 V battery, the number of coulombs
passing through the resistor per second is:
(a) 0.5 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 4
8. Keeping the potential difference constant, the resistance of the circuit is halved. The current
will become:
(a) One-fourth(b) Four times (c) Half (d) Double
9. A wire of resistance R1 is cut into five equal pieces. These five pieces of wire are then
connected in parallel. If the resultant resistance of this combination be R2, then the ratio R1/ R2
is:
(a) 1/25 (b) 1/5 (c) 5 (d) 25
10. You are given four ammeters A, B, C and D having least counts mentioned below:
(I) Ammeter A with least count 0.25 A
(II) Ammeter B with least count 0.5 A
(III) Ammeter C with least count 0.05 A
(IV) Ammeter D with least count 0.1 A
Which of the ammeters would you prefer for doing an experiment to determine the equivalent
resistance of two resistances most accurately, when connected in parallel?
(a) Ammeter A (b) Ammeter B (c) Ammeter C (d) Ammeter D
The resistivity of insulators is of the order of
(a) 10-8 Ωm (b) 10-7 Ωm (c) 10-6 Ωm (d) 106 Ωm

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Factors on which the resistance depends:-

1 Marks:-
The length of a wire is doubled. By what factor does the resistance change
(a) 4 time as large (b) twice as large (c) unchanged (d) half as large
The resistance of a conductor is directly proportional to:
(a) Its area of cross-section (b) density (c) melting point (d) length
The electrical resistance of insulators is
(a) high (b) low (c) zero (d) infinitely high
Electrical resistivity of any given metallic wire depends upon
(a) its thickness (b) its shape (c) nature of the material (d) its length
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2 Marks
1. What does an electric circuit mean?
2. Distinguish between an open and a closed circuit. Draw diagrams for both.
3. What is the direction of conventional current? Give justification for your answer.
4. Define electric current and give its SI unit.
5. Define the unit of current, give the SI unit of electric charge.
6. Write a low resistance device name which is always connected in series.
7. How is an ammeter connected in a circuit to measure current flowing through it?
8. Define the term ‘coulomb’. State the relationship between the electric current, the
charge moving through a conductor and the time of flow.
9. A steady current of 1 ampere flows through a conductor. Calculate the number of
electrons that flows through any section of the conductor in 1 second. (Charge on
electron 1.6 X 10-19 C).
10. The charge possessed by an electron is 1.6 X 10-19 coulombs. Find the number of
electrons that will flow per second to constitute a current of 1 ampere.
11. Calculate the charge passing through an electric bulb in 20 minutes if the value of
current is 200 mA.
12. Define electric potential and give its unit.
13. Define potential difference and give its unit
14. Define the unit of potential difference
15. Define the term ‘volt’. State the relation between work, charge and potential difference
for an electric circuit.
16. Name a device that helps to maintain a potential difference across a conductor.
17. What do the following circuit symbols represent?

18. Write a high resistance device name which is always connected in parallel
19. State Ohm's law.
20. What is ohm? Define it.
21. Define the electric resistance of a wire and also write its SI unit. Name two metals
which are highly resistant.
22. What are the factors affecting resistance.
23. What happens to resistance of a conductor when its area of cross-section is increased?
24. A given length of a wire is doubled on itself and this process is repeated once again. By
what factor does the resistance of the wire change?
25. A torch bulb is rated 2.5 V and 750 mA. Calculate its resistance.
26. The potential difference between the terminals of an electric heater is 60 V when it
draws a current of 4 A from the source. Find the resistance of heater when in use.
27. Define the electrical resistivity of material and also write its SI unit
28. Out of the two wires X and Y shown below, which one has greater resistance? Justify
your answer.

29. Keeping the potential difference constant, the resistance of a circuit is halved. Then
how much does the current changes.
30. What is the difference between a good conductor and a poor conductor give two
examples of each.
31. If the length of the wire is halved and its cross sectional area is doubled, then what
would be the resistance of the wire? (given initially the resistance of the wire is R)
 32. How much current will an electric bulb draw from 220 V source if the resistance of the
bulb is 1200Ω? If in place of bulb, a heater of resistance 100 Ω is connected to the
sources, calculate the current drawn by it.
33. Calculate the resistance of 1 km long copper wire of radius 1 mm. Resistivity of the
copper is 1.72 x 10-8 Ω m.
34. A piece of wire of resistance 20 Ω is drawn out so that its length is increased to twice
its original length. Calculate the resistance of the wire in the new Situation.

5 Marks
1. Define 1 volt. Express it in terms of SI unit of work and charge calculate the amount
of energy consumed in carrying a charge of 1 coulomb through a battery of 3 V.
2. State Ohm’s law. Write the necessary conditions for its validity. How is this law
verified experimentally? What will be the nature of graph between potential
difference and current for a conductor? Name the physical quantity that can be
obtained from this graph.
3. V-I graph for two wires A and B are shown in the figure. If both wires are of same
length and same thickness, which of the two is made of a material of high
resistivity? Give justification for your answer.

4. The figure below shows three cylindrical copper conductors along with their face
areas and lengths. Discuss in which geometrical shape the resistance will be highest.

5. A small bulb has a resistance of 2Ω when cold. It takes up a current of 0.4 A from a
source of 4V and then starts glowing. Calculate (i) the resistance of the bulb when it
is glowing and (ii) Elaborate on the reason for the difference in resistance?
6. Define resistance and resistivity and also give the relation between them. Explain
the dependence of resistance on temperature.
7. When a high resistance voltmeter is connected directly across a resister its reading is
2 V. An electric cell is sending the current of 0.4 A, (measured by an ammeter) in
the electric circuit in which a rheostat is also connected to vary the current.
a) Draw an equivalent labelled circuit for the given data.
b) Find the resistance of the resister.
c) Name and state the law applicable in the given case.
8. Explain the following:
a. Though same current flows through the electric line wires and the filament of
bulb, yet only the filament glows. Why?
 b. The temperature of the filament of bulb is 2700°C when it glows. Why does
it not get burnt up at such high temperature?
c. The filament of an electric lamp, which draws a current of 0.25 A is used for
four hours. Calculate the amount of charge flowing through the circuit.
9. What is meant by electrical resistivity of a material? Derive its S.I. unit. Describe an
experiment to study the factor on which the resistance of a conducting wire depends.
10. In an experiment to study the relation between the potential difference across a
resistor and the current through it, a student recorded the following observations:

11. On examine the above observations, the teacher asked the student to reject one set of
readings as the values were out of agreement with the rest. Which one of the above
sets of readings can be rejected? Calculate the mean value of resistance of the
resistor based on the remaining four sets of readings.

12. Study the I-V graph for four conductors A, B, C and D having resistance RA,RB, Rc
and RD respectively, and answer the following questions:

a) Which one of these is the best conductor?

b) for all the conductors are of same thickness and of same material, which is
the longest?
c) If the dimensions of all the conductors are identical, but their materials are
different which one would you use as
d) resistance wire
e) connecting wire?
f) Which one of the following relations is true for these conductors?
g) If all the conductors are of same length and same material, which is the
thickest?

13. A wire of length L and resistance R is stretched so that its length it’s doubled. How
will the
Resistance change
Resistivity change?