Assignment

Electric Energy, Power and House Hold Circuits

1. (a) State three factors which determine the quantity of heat produced in a
conductor.
(b) An electric appliance having a resistance of 150 is operated at 240V.
Calculate the energy consumed by the appliance in 5 minutes in SI system.
2. (a) What do you understand by the term earthing?
(b) Which part of the electrical appliance is earthed and why?
(c) Calculate the heat energy given out by the filament of a bulb in 10 seconds,
when its resistance is 4 and p.d. across its terminals is 24V.
3. (a) Explain, why the wires used as leads of an electric heater are thicker than
the leads of a table fan.
(b) Calculate the resistance of a nichrome wire which will bring 250 g of water
at 0C to its boiling point in10 minutes, when the current flowing through
the wire is 5A.

Class-X

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4. (a) Two bulbs of 100W and 15W are connected to 240V - A.C. mains in series.
It is found that 15W bulb glows brightly. Explain the observation very
clearly.
(b) An electric oven of resistance 20 draws a current of 10A. It works 2 hours
daily. Calculate the cost of energy for a single day if energy costs Rs. 2.75
per standard commercial unit

Answers
1. (b) 115200 J 2. (c) 1440 J

Class-X

3. (b) 7

5. (b) Rs. 11.00

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