Electricity Practice Questions Class 10

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OLIVE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, QATAR

ACADEMIC YEAR 2023– 24


TEST WORKSHEET - 1
Topic: Electricity

Answer the following


1. a) What do you understand by the term potential difference?
b) What is meant by saying that the electric potential at a point is 1 volt?
c) How much work is done in moving a charge of 2C from a point at 220V to another point a 230V?
2 a) What is the device used for measuring current and potential difference? Name the device which
helps to maintain a potential difference across a conductor.
b) How are these meters connected in the circuit to measure the current and potential difference?
Illustrate with the help of a circuit diagram.
c) What is the resistance of ideal voltmeter and an ammeter?
3 What is the potential difference between the terminals of a battery if 250 joules of work is required
to transfer 20 coulomb of charge from one terminal of battery to the other?
4 a) What is an electric current?
b) Define the unit of electric current.
c) A current of 4 A flows around a circuit for 10s. How many charge flows past a point in the circuit
in this time.
5 a) State Ohm’s law.
b) Draw a labeled circuit diagram which can be used to verify Ohm’s law.
c) What happens to the resistance of a conductor if i) the length is doubled ii) the thickness is
reduced and iii) the temperature increased?
d) A resistance of 20 Ω has a current of 2 amperes flowing in it. What is the potential difference
between its ends.
6. a) Plot a graph between voltage and current by using the data given in the table below. Determine
the resistance of the conductor from the graph.
Voltage V (V) 2.5 5 10 15
Current I (A) 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6
7. a) Define resistivity of conductor.
b) How does the resistivity of a conductor change if i) the length is tripled ii) the area reduced to
half iii) the temperature decreased.
c) Calculate the resistance of a copper wire of 1 km long and 0.50 mm diameter, if the resistivity
of copper is 1.7 x 10-8 Ωm.
d) Give two reasons why alloys like nichrome are used for making heating elements of electric
devices like toasters, electric iron etc.
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