Science-10th Jayshree Periwal High School Practice Worksheet

Physics Circuit based Questions

2 MARKERS
1. When a high resistance voltmeter is connected directly across a resistor 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 resistor.
2. 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.
3. Draw a schematic diagrams of an electric circuit comprising of 3 cells and an electric bulb,
ammeter, plug-key in the ON mode and another with same components but with two bulbs
in parallel and a voltmeter across the combination.
4 Three resistors of 5 Ω, 10 Ω and 15 Ω are connected in series and the combination is connected
to battery of 30 V. Ammeter and Voltmeter are connected in the circuit. Draw a circuit
diagram to connect all the devices in the correct order. What is the magnitude of the current
flowing and potential difference across 10 Ω resistor ?
5. In reference to the given figure, find the current flowing through 20 Ω resistor.

6. Will the potential difference across the 2Ω resistor be the same as that across the parallel
combination of 4 Ω resistors.

7. In the given circuit, the current in the 20  resistance is 1.8 A. Calculate the total current in
the circuit. (BOARD)

8. Find the resistance between points A and B in the circuit diagram given below: (2013)

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3 MARKERS
1. You are given 4 resistors of 10 Ohms, 20 Ohms, 30 Ohms & 60 Ohms. Arrange them in such
a manner so that equivalent resistance is (i) 5 Ohms, (ii) 20 Ohms, (iii) 12 Ohms.
2.

In the above circuit, if the current reading in the ammeter A is 2A, what wouldbe the value
of R1?
3. Calculate the total resistance of the circuit and find the total current in the circuit.

4. A student made an electric circuit shown here to measure the current through two lamps.

(a) Are the lamps in series or parallel?

(b) The student has made a mistake in this circuit. What is the mistake?
(c) Draw a circuit diagram to show the correct way to connect the circuit. Use the proper
circuit symbols in your diagram.
5. Three resistors are connected as shown in the diagram.

Through the resistor of 5 ohm, a current of 1 ampere is flowing.

(i) What is the current through the other two resistors?
(ii) What is the p.d. across AB and across AC?
(iii) What is the total resistance?
6. For the circuit shown in the diagram below:

What is the value of:

(i) current through 6 ohm resistor?
(ii) potential difference across 12 ohm resistor?
7. Consider the circuit given below where A, B and C are three identical light bulbs of constant
resistance.

(a) List the bulbs in order of increasing brightness.

(b) If C burns out, what will be the brightness of A now compared with before?
(c) If B burns out instead, what will be the brightness of A and C compared with before?

8. Consider the circuits given below:

(a) In which circuit are the lamps dimmest?

(b) In which circuit or circuits are the lamps of equal brightness to the lamps in circuit (i)?
(c) Which circuit gives out the maximum light?
4 MARKERS
1. For the given electric circuit in the figure find :
(a) Effective resistance of two 8 Ω resistors in the combination.
(b) Current flowing through 4 Ω resistor.
(c) Potential difference across 4 Ω resistor.
(d) Power dissipated in 4 Ω resistor.
(e) Difference in ammeter readings, if any.

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2. In the circuit shown below, the voltmeter reads 10 V.

(a) What is the combined resistance?

(b) What is the total current flowing through the circuit ?
(c) What is the p. d. across 2 ohm resistor ?
(d) What is the p. d. across 3 ohm resistor ?

3. In the circuit given below:

(a) What is the combined resistance?

(b) What is the p. d. across the combined resistance?
(c) What is the p. d. across the 3 ohm resistor?
(d) What is the current in the 3 ohm resistor?
(e) What is the current in the 6 ohm resistor?
4. A 5 V battery is connected to two 20 ohm resistors which are joined together in series.
(a) Draw a circuit diagram to represent this. Add an arrow to indicate the direction of
conventional current flow in the circuit.
(b) What is the effective resistance of the two resistors?
(c) Calculate the current that flows from the battery.
(d) What is the p. d. across each resistor?
5. The figure given below shows an electric circuit in which current flows from a 6 V battery
through two resistors.

(a) Are the resistors connected in series with each other or in parallel?
(b) For each resistor, state the p.d. across it.
(c) The current flowing from battery is shared between the two resistors. Which resistor
will have bigger share of the current?
(d) Calculate the effective resistance of the two resistors.
(e) Calculate the current that flows through 3 Ω resistor.