Calorimetry Class 10 Icse TEST

1. State three differences between the heat capacity and specific heat capacity.
2. Why do the farmers fill their fields with water on a cold winter night?
3. What is calorimeter?
(b)Name the material of which it is made of. Give two reasons for using the material stated by
you.
4. Out of the three metals A, B and C of specific heat 900 J kg-1 °C-1, 380 J kg-1 °C-1 and 460 J kg-1 °C-
1 
respectively, which will you prefer for calorimeter? Given reason.
5. How is the loss of heat due to radiation minimised in a calorimeter?
6. 1300 J of heat energy is supplied to raise the temperature of 0.5 kg of lead from 20oC to 40oC.
Calculate the specific heat capacity of lead.
7. The temperature of 600 g of cold water rises by 15o C when 300 g of hot water at 50o C is added to
it. What was the initial temperature of the cold water?

8. State the effect of the presence of impurity on the melting point of ice. Give one use of it.
9. ‘The specific latent heat of fusion of ice is 336 J g-1 ‘. Explain the meaning of this statement.
10. Explain the following:
(i) The surroundings become pleasantly warm when water in a lake starts freezing in cold
countries.
(ii) The heat supplied to a substance during its change of state, does not cause any rise in
its temperature.

Household Circuit Class 10 Icse TEST

1. Explain with the aid of a simple diagram, the transmission of electric power from the generating
station to your house.

2. State the function of each of the following in a house circuiting:

(a) kWh meter, (b) the main fuse, and (c) the main switch
3. How is a fuse put in an electric circuit? State the purpose of using a fuse in a circuit.
4. It is dangerous to connect the switch in the neutral wire. Explain your answer.
5. What purpose is served by the terminals of a three-way pin plug? Draw a diagram and name the pins.

(a) Why is top pin thicker and longer than the other two?
(b) Why are the pins split at the ends?
6. The earthing of an electric appliance is useful only if the fuse is in the live wire. Given the reason.
Name the part of the appliance which is earthed.
7. State two circumstances when one may get an electric shock from an electric gadget. What
preventive measures must be provided with the gadget to avoid it?