(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for Physics

State two differences between normal reflection and total internal reflection.

Two resistors having resistance 8 Ω and 12 Ω are connected in parallel. Find their equivalent resistance.

Four resistors each of resistance 5 Ω are connected in parallel. What is the effective resistance?

You have three resistors of values 2 Ω, 3 Ω, and 5 Ω. How will you join them so that the total resistance is less than 1 Ω? Draw a diagram and find the total resistance.

Two resistors of resistances 2 Ω and 3 Ω are connected in parallel to a cell to draw current 0.5 A from the cell. Draw a labelled diagram of the arrangement

Two resistors of resistance 2 Ω and 3 Ω are connected in parallel to a cell to draw current 0.5 A from the cell. Calculate the current in each resistor.

A particular resistance wire has a resistance of 3·0 ohm per metre. Find the resistance of 5 m length of a wire of the same material, but with twice the area of cross section.

Water boils at 120°C in a pressure cooker. Explain the reason.

Copy the diagram given below and complete the path of the light ray till it emerges out of the prism. The critical angle of glass is 42°. In your diagram mark the angles wherever necessary.

A ray of light XY passes through a right-angled isosceles prism as shown below

1. What is the angle through which the incident ray deviates and emerges out of the prism?
2. Name the instrument where this action of the prism is put into use.
3. Which prism surface will behave as a mirror?

What determines the pitch of a sound?

Draw a diagram to show the wave pattern of high pitch note and a low pitch note, but of the same loudness.

Name the subjective property of sound related to its frequency.

Name and define the characteristic which enables one to distinguish two sounds of same loudness, but of different frequencies, given by the same instrument.

How is it possible to detect the filling of a bottle under a water tap by hearing the sound at a distance?

The pitch of sound increases if its frequency ______.

If the amplitude of a sound is halved, its loudness becomes ______.

Name the characteristic which enables one to distinguish the sound of two musical instruments even if they are of the same pitch and same loudness.

State the factor that determine the pitch of a note.

Name the characteristic of the sound affected due to a change in its frequency.