5h.

Answer. Power of the bulb,

Class 10 Science Electricity Long Answer Type Questions [5 Marks] – Year 2013

20. (a) 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.
(b) Draw a schematic diagram of a circuit consisting of a battery of 4 cells of
2V each connected to a key, an ammeter and two resistors of 2 Ω and
3 Ω respectively in series and a voltmeter to measure potential difference across 3
Answer.

21.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. A graph is drawn between a set of
values of potential difference (V) across the resister and current (I) flowing through it. Show
the nature of graph thus obtained.
Answer.
(c) Ohm’s law : When the physical conditions such as temperature etc. remain same, the
current flowing through the conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference
applied across the ends of the conductor, i.e.,

where R is constant of proportionality and is called resistance of the wire. Since current varies
linearly with potential difference, the graph between V and I will be a linear in nature as shown

Class 10 Science Electricity Short Answer Type Questions[l] [2 Marks] – Year 2012

22. 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.
Answer.

23.Draw a schematic diagrams of an electric circuit comprising of 3 cells and an electric

Answer. Wire ‘Y’ has greater resistance as it has more length than wire ‘X’. It is because
resistance of wire is directly proportional to the length of wire.

Class 10 Science Electricity Short Answer Type Questions[ll] [3 Marks] – Year 2012

25. Two identical wires one of nichrome and other of copper are connected in series and a
current (I) is passed through them. State the change observed in the temperatures of the two
wires. Justify your answer. State the law which explains the above observation.
Answer. The resistivity of nichrome is more than that of copper so its resistance is also high.
Therefore, large amount of heat is produced in the nichrome wire for the same current as
compared to that of copper wire. Accordingly, more change in temperature is observed in the
nichrome wire. This is explained by Joule’s law of heating.
Joule’s law of heating: It states that the amount of heat produced in a conductor is

26.An electric bulb is rated at 60 W, 240 V. Calculate its resistance. If the voltage drops to
192 V, calculate the power consumed and the current drawn by the bulb. (Assume that the
resistance of the bulb remain unchanged.)
Answer.
Current drawn by bulb at 192 V is

Class 10 Science Electricity Long Answer Type Questions [5 Marks] – Year 2012

27. Three bulbs each having power P are connected in series in an electric circuit. In another
circuit, another set of three bulbs of same power are connected in parallel to the same
source.
(i) Will the bulbs in both the circuits glow with the same brightness? Justify your answer.
(ii) Now let one bulb in each circuit get fused. Will the rest of the bulbs continue to glow in
each circuit? Give reason.
(iii) Representing each bulb by a resistor, draw circuit diagram for each case.
Answer.
(i) Bulbs in parallel provide more illumination. This is because
(a) each bulb gets same voltage and is equal to the applied voltage.
(b) each bulb draws required current from the mains. Hence, they work properly.
(ii)When one bulb in each circuit get fused,
In series: Rest of the bulbs will not glow. This is because in series arrangement, there is only a
single path for the flow of current.
In parallel: Rest of the bulbs will continue to glow as in parallel connection,
(a) individual branch in the circuit completes its own circuit, or
(b) different paths are available for the flow of current.
(iii) Circuit diagram

28. (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.
(d) An electric iron is rated 2 kW at 220 V. Calculate the capacity of the fuse
that should be used for the electric iron.
Answer. (a) Electric line wires offer extremely low resistance to the flow of current, so
they do not glow because negligible heat is produced in it.
The filament of bulb glows because it becomes red hot due to large amount of
heat produced, as it offers high resistance to the flow of current through it.
(b) The filament of bulb when it glows at 2700°C does not get burnt because the tungsten
metal of filament has
(i) a very high melting point (of 3380°C) and
(ii) a high resistivity.

(c) Given: I = 0.25 A, t = 4 h = 4 x 60 x 60 sec.

29.

In the given circuit, connect a nichrome wire of length ‘L’ between points X and Y and note
the ammeter reading.
(i) When this experiment is repeated by inserting another nichrome wire of the same
thickness but twice the length (2L), what changes are observed in the ammeter reading?
(ii) State the changes that are observed in the ammeter reading if we double the area of
cross-section without changing the length in the above experiment. Justify your answer in
both the cases.
(b) “Potential difference between points A and B in an electric field is 1 V”. Explain the above
statement.
Answer. (a)(i) Ammeter reading in the second case is half of the ammeter reading
in first case. This is because
=> i.e. when length is doubled, the resistance is doubled, this means the current is halved.
(ii) On doubling the area of cross-section without changing the length of the conductor, twice
of the previous reading is observed in the ammeter. This is because
So, when A is double, resistance becomes half, current will be doubled. (b) “Potential
difference between points A and B in an electric field is 1 V”. It means 1 J work is done in
moving 1 C of charge from point B to point A in an electric field.

Class 10 Science Electricity Very Short Answer Type Questions [1 Mark] – Year 2011

30. How is an ammeter connected in a circuit to measure current flowing through it?
Answer. In series

31. What happens to resistance of a conductor when its area of cross-section is increased?
Answer.

32. 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?
Answer. Am. Length becomes one-fourth of the original length and area of cross-section
becomes four times that of original.

So, new resistance is (1/16)th of original resistance.

Class 10 Science Electricity Short Answer Type Questions[l] [2 Marks] – Year 2011

33.A 9Ω resistance is cut into three equal parts and connected in parallel. Find the
equivalent resistance of the combination.
Answer.