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CBSE Class X: Electricity: Max marks: 20

General instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory
2. Wherever necessary, the diagram drawn should be
neat and properly labeled.

Section I (13 marks)

1. Define the unit of current

2. What is the SI unit of Electric charge and current?
3. If a current of 2 A is drawn for 1 hour through the filament of a bulb, find
the amount of electric charge through the circuit.
4. Define electric potential and potential difference.
5. Calculate the work done if a charge of 5 C moving across two point having
potential difference equal to 15 V.
6. Name a device that helps to maintain a potential difference across a
conductor.
7. What is meant by saying that the potential difference between two points
is 1 V?
8. Draw a schematic diagram of a circuit consisting of a battery of three cells
of 2 V each, a 5 Ώ resistor, an 8 Ώ resistor, 12 Ώ resistor and a plug key.
9. How is voltmeter connected in the circuit to measure the potential
difference between two points?
10. State Ohms’s law and give its mathematical expression.
11. Calculate the potential difference between two points of a terminal, if an
electric current of 10 A is flowing through it having resistance of 20 Ώ.
12. Mention any two factors on which the resistance of a cylindrical conductor
depends.
13. Two bulbs in a house, one glow brighter than the other. The bulb with
large resistance is…………..
(Dim bulb, brighter bulb, both has same resistance, None of these)

Section II

14. Derive an expression for the combination of two resistances connected in

series. (3m)
15. Calculate the equivalent resistance of the following circuit. (3m)
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16. When a 12 V battery is connected across an unknown resistor, there is a

current of 2.5 mA in the circuit. Find the value of resistance of the resistor.
(2m)

17. How can three resistors of resistances 2 Ώ, 3 Ώ and 6 Ώ be connected to

give total resistance of ( I ) 4 Ώ ( II ) 1 Ώ. (4m)

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