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How can overloading be avoided?

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How can overloading be avoided?

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Overloading in the electric circuit can be avoided by not connecting many electric appliances at a time in the circuit.

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पाठ 4: Effects of electric current - Answer the Following

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

State four most common electrical appliances based on heating effect of electric current. Why do we use finely heated platinum wire in surgery?


Compute the heat generated while transferring 96000 coulomb of charge in one hour through a potential difference of 50 V.


An electric iron of resistance 20 Ω takes a current of 5 A. Calculate the heat developed in 30 s.


An electric heater of resistance 8 Ω draws 15 A from the service mains 2 hours. Calculate the rate at which heat is developed in the heater.


Why is the tungsten used almost exclusively for filament of electric lamps?


Why are the conductors of electric heating devices, such as bread-toasters and electric irons, made of an alloy rather than a pure metal?


How does the resistance of a wire vary with its area of cross-section?


Write Joule's law of heating.


Give two reasons why nichrome alloy is used for making the heating elements of electrical appliances.


Why are the coils of electric irons and electric toasters made of an alloy rather than a pure metal?


A heating coil has a resistance of 200 Ω. At what rate will heat be produced in it when a current of 2.5 A flows through it?


Name the material which is used for making the filaments of an electric bulb.


The elements of electrical heating devices are usually made of:

(a) tungsten
(b) bronze
(c) nichrome
(d) argon


Give Scientific reason.

In practice, the unit kWh is used for the measurement of electrical energy, rather than joule.


Identify the figure and give its use.


Solve the following example.

Two tungsten bulbs of wattage 100 W and 60 W power work on 220 V potential difference. If they are connected in parallel, how much current will flow in the main conductor? 


Name the factors on which the heat produced in a wire depends when current is passed in it, and state how does it depend on the factors stated by you.


Rewrite the following statement by selecting the correct option:

1 A = ____________ mA.


Write the mathematical expression for Joule’s law of heating.


Compute the heat generated while transferring 96000 coulombs of charge in two hours through a potential difference of 40 V.


Which of the following substance contracts on heating?


Which metal is used to make the filament of an electric bulb?


Heating effect of current is called ______


Which of the following gases are filled in electric bulbs?


Assertion: Bending of wire decreases the resistance of the electric wire.

Reason: The resistance of a conductor depends on length, thickness, nature of material and temperature of the conductor.


How does use of a fuse wire protect electrical appliances?


B1, B2 and B3 are three identical bulbs connected as shown in Figure. When all the three bulbs glow, a current of 3A is recorded by the ammeter A.

  1.  What happens to the glow of the other two bulbs when the bulb B1 gets fused?
  2. What happens to the reading of A1, A2, A3 and A when the bulb B2 gets fused?
  3. How much power is dissipated in the circuit when all the three bulbs glow together?

 


What are the uses of electromagnets?


It would cost a man Rs. 3.50 to buy 1.0 kW h of electrical energy from the Main Electricity Board. His generator has a maximum power of 2.0 kW. The generator produces energy at this maximum power for 3 hours. Calculate how much it would cost to buy the same amount of energy from the Main Electricity Board.


______ wire is used in the filament of the bulbs.


Match the following

1. Bulb a. Conductor
2. Electroplating b.

Insulator

3. Pure water c.  Heating effect of current
4. Salt solution d. Chemical effect of current

The electric fuse works on the Joule heating principle.


Anannya responded to the question: Why do electrical appliances with metallic bodies are connected to the mains through a three-pin plug, whereas an electric bulb can be connected with a two-pin plug?

She wrote: Three-pin connections reduce heating of connecting wires.

  1. Is her answer correct or incorrect? Justify.
  2. What is the function of a fuse in a domestic circuit?

When a current I flows through a wire of resistance R for time t then the electrical energy produced is given by ______.


An electric iron of resistance 20 Ω draws a current of 5 A. The heat developed in the iron in 30 seconds is ______.


The graph of voltage vs current for four different materials is shown below.

Which of these four materials would be used for making filament of bulb?


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