TEST
Chapter 3 Current Electricity
1. State Ohm's law. Define resistance and resistivity and state their SI Unit.
2. Define electric current density and state it’s unit.
3. Define conductance and Conductivity and state their SI unit.
4. The colours of the four bands are yellow, violet, brown and gold; what is the resistance value?
5. Define the terms drift velocity and relaxation time.
6. Derive relation between electric current density and drift velocity.
7. Calculate the electric field in a copper wire of cross-sectional area 2.0 mm^2 carrying a current of 1A The
conductivity of copper=6.25 x10^7 Sm-1 .
8. Find the value of current I in the circuit shown in Fig.
9. What is internal resistance of a cell? On what factors does it depend?
10. Define the term electric power and state its SI unit.
11. Define the term electric energy. State its SI and commercial units.
12. Define efficiency of a source of emf Write an expression for it.
13. Define Kirchhoff’s current law (KCL) and Kirchhoff’s voltage law (KVL)
14. What is a potentiometer? Give its construction and principle.
15. What is Wheatstone bridge?
16. What is the cause of the electric current and define conventional direction of current and give reasons for
your statement.
17. Derivation for parallel and series combinations of resistors.
18. Derivation for parallel and series combinations of cells.