DPS MODERN INDIAN SCHOOL, DOHA-QAT

ASSIGNMENT I - APRIL Class 8 - PHYSICS

CHAPTER: FORCE AND PRESSURE Date of submission : 4-5 - 17
I Define the following
1. Force 2. Pressure 3. 1 Kgf
II Distinguish between
1. Contact and non- contct forces
2. Electrostatic and magnetic force
3. Frictional and gravitational force
IV Answer the following:
1. Why do buildings have strong base?
2. Why are railway tracks laid on wooden or iron sleepers?
3. Briefly explain the principle, construction and working of a
manometer.
4. With the help of an activity explain how liquids exerts equal
pressure in all directions at a given depth.
5. What are the factors on which the pressure of a liquid depends?
6. What are the effects of force? Does force always produce motion in
a body?
7. State Pascal’s law. Write two applications of Pascal’s law.
8. What will be the resultant force if two unequal forces applied on a
body
(a) in the same direction
(b) in opposite direction
(c) Two equal and opposite force acts on same body.
9. How does pressure in a solid vary with force and area?
10. Calculate the pressure exerted on the floor if a boy standing on both
feet . ( W = 40 Kg, area of contact of each shoe is 6cm x 25cm ) . Take
1 kg wt = 10 N

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