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

State the S.I. unit of electric potential.

How is the electric potential difference between the two points defined? State its S.I. unit.

Explain the statement ‘the potential difference between two points is 1 volt’.

Explain the analogy between the flow of charge (or current) in a conductor under a potential difference with the free fall of a body under gravity. 

How does the resistance of a metallic wire depend on its temperature? Explain with reason.

What adjustments would you make for tuning a stringed instrument for it to emit a note of a desired frequency?

The following diagram shows three ways in which the string of an instrument can vibrate.

(a) which of the diagram shows the principal note?
(b) which has the frequency four times that of the first?
(c) what is the ratio of the frequency of the vibration in (i) and (ii)?

A pair of scissors is used to cut a piece of a cloth by keeping it at a distance 8.0 cm from its rivet and applying an effort of 10 kgf by fingers at a distance 2.0 cm from the rivet.

1. Find:
   1. the mechanical advantage of scissors and
   2. the load offered by the cloth.
2. How does the pair of scissors act: as a force multiplier or as speed multiplier?

The figure below shows the use of a lever.

1. State the principle of moments as applied to the above lever.
2. To which class of lever does it belong ? Give an example of this class of lever.
3. If FA = 10 cm, AB = 490 cm calculate:
   1. the mechanical advantage and
   2. the minimum effort required to lift the load (= 50 N).

Draw a circuit diagram to expain the ring system of house wiring. State two advantage of it.

Draw a labelled diagram with necessary switch, regulator, etc. to connect a bulb and a fan with the mains. In what arrangement are they connected to the mains : series or parallel?

Fig 9.15 shows two ways (a) and (b) of connecting the three lamps A, B and C to a.c. supply of 220 V. Name the two arrangements. Which of them would you prefer in a household circuit? Give reason for your answer.

State a law, which determines the direction of magnetic field around a current carrying wire.

A current of 1.6 mA flows through a conductor. If charge on an electron is –1.6 × 10^-19 coulomb, find the number of electrons that will pass each second through the cross section of that conductor.

A straight wire lying in a horizontal plane carries a current from north to south.

1. What will be the direction of magnetic field at a point just underneath it?
2. Name the law used to arrive at the answer in part (a).

The V-I graph for a series combination and for a parallel combination of two resistors is shown in Fig – 8.38. Which of the two, A or B, represents the parallel combination? Give a reason for your answer. 

What is a lens?

Explain optical centre of a lens with the help of proper diagram(s).

State the condition when a lens is called an equi-convex or equi-concave.

The diagram below shows a lens as a combination of a glass slab and two prisms.

1. Name the lens formed by the combination.
2. What is the line XX’ called?
3. Complete the path of the incident ray AB after passing through the lens.
4. The final emergent ray either meets XX’ at a point or appears to come from a point on XX’. Label it as F. What is this point called?