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

What is the ideal mechanical advantage of a single fixed pulley? Can it be used as a force multiplier?

Name the pulley which has no gain in mechanical advantage. Explain, why is such a pulley then used?

What is the velocity ratio of a single fixed pulley?

In a single fixed pulley, if the effort moves by a distance x downwards, by what height is the load raised upwards?

Draw a circuit diagram using the dual control switches to light a staircase electric light and explain its working.

Name a machine which is used to change the direction for force applied.

The velocity ratio of a single fixed pulley is always more than 1.

A single fixed pulley is used because it ______.

Make the correct choice for each of the following :

Which one of the five diagrams represents the path of a ray of light through a periscope?

A uniform metre rule balances horizontally on a knife edge placed at the 58 cm mark when a weight of 20 gf is suspended from one end.

1. Draw a diagram of the arrangement.
2. What is the weight of the rule?

The diagram in Fig. shows a uniform metre rule weighing 100 gf, pivoted at its centre O. Two weights 150 gf and 250 gf hang from the point A and B respectively of the metre rule such that OA = 40 cm and OB = 20 cm. Calculate :

1. the total anticlockwise moment about O,
2. the total clockwise moment about O,
3. the difference of anticlockwise and clockwise moments, and
4. the distance from O where a 100 gf weight should be placed to balance the metre rule.

A uniform metre rule of weight 10 gf is pivoted at its 0 mark. 

1. What moment of force depresses the rule?
2. How can it be made horizontal by applying a least force?

A uniform half-metre rule can be balanced at the 29.0 cm mark when a mass of 20 g is hung from its one end.

1. Draw a diagram of the arrangement.
2. Find the mass of the half-metre rule.
3. In which direction would the balancing point shift if 20 g mass is shifted inside from its one end?

A uniform metre rule of mass 100g is balanced on a fulcrum at mark 40cm by suspending an unknown mass m at the mark 20cm. What is the resultant moment now?

A uniform metre rule of mass 100g is balanced on a fulcrum at mark 40cm by suspending an unknown mass m at the mark 20cm.

How can it be balanced by another mass 50 g ?

When an illuminated object is held in front of a thick plane glass mirror, several images are seen, out of which the second image is the brightest. Give reason.

A beam of blue, green, and yellow light passes through the earth's atmosphere. Name the colour which is scattered the least.

A beam of blue, green and yellow light passes through the earth's atmosphere. Name the colour which is scattered the most.

Which colour of white light is scattered the least? Give reason.