SHERWOOD HIGH

CHAPTER 9: CURRENT ELECTRICITY

WORKSHEET
1. What do you understand by electric circuit?
2. What do you understand by closed electric circuit?
3. What do you understand by open electric circuit?
4. What do you understand by the term electric resistance?
5. What do you understand by the term electric potential?
6. Define electric potential in terms of energy spent.
7. What do you mean by quantity of electric charge?
8. What do you understand by the term electric current?
9. Define the term potential difference.
10. What is an electric cell?
11. Define the two types of cells.
12. Define one ampere current.
13. What is a rheostat?
14. State ohm's law.
15. Define insulators and conductors.
16. Define 1 ohm.
17. Using a cell, key, rheostat, bulb, voltmeter and ammeter, draw an electric circuit to light a
bulb.
18. Draw the symbols of open key, closed key, open switch, closed switch, fixed resistor,
variable resistor,ammeter and voltmeter.
19. Write the SI units of current, potential difference, resistance and charge.
20. Name the instrument used to measure current and potential difference.
21. Distinguish between a closed circuit and an open circuit, with the use of suitable labelled
diagrams.
22. State two differences between a primary cell and a secondary cell.
NUMERICALS
1. A charge of 75 C is brought from infinity to a given point in an electric field, when
amount of work done is 3.75 J. Calculate the electric potential at that point.
2. A charge of 5000 C flows through an electric circuit in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Calculate
the magnitude of current in the circuit.
3. A charge of 8860 C flows through an electric circuit in 2 mins and 40 s. Calculate the
magnitude of current in the circuit
4. A battery can supply a charge of 25 × 104 C. If the current is drawn from the battery at the
rate of 2.5 A, calculate the time in which the battery will discharge completely.
5. Calculate the potential difference across the ends of a wire of resistance 2 Ω when a
current of 1.5 A passes through it.
6. Calculate the current flowing through a wire of resistance 7.5 Ω connected to a battery of
potential difference 1.5 V.
7. In transferring 1.5 C charge through a wire, 9 J of work is needed. Find the potential
difference across the wire.
1. A cell of potential difference 12 V is connected to a bulb. The resistance of filament of
bulb when it glows is 24 Ω. Find the current drawn from the cell.
2. A bulb draws current 1.5 V at 6.0 V. Find the resistance of filament of bulb while
glowing.
3. A current of 0.2 A flows in a wire of resistance 15 Ω. Find the potential difference across
the ends of the wire.