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10 SCIENCE I PHYSICS/ CHEMISTRY/ BIOLOGY
PHYSICS FULL PORTION TEST
SECTION A - 2 MARKS QUESTIONS
1 Define refraction. 2
2 What is least distance of distinct vision? 2
3 List of factors on which heating effect of electric current depends. 2
4 What do you mean by an electric circuit? 2
5 Why does a compass needle get deflected when brought near a bar magnet? 2
6 Show the magnetic lines of force due to a bar magnet. 2
7 What is Atmospheric Refraction? 2
8 Why does sky appear blue on a clear sky? 2
Explain the following terms connected with the eye. (i) Ciliary muscles (ii)
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Accommodation.
10 Can we change the polarity of a permanent magnet? Why? 2
SECTION B 3 MARKS QUESTIONS
What kind of magnetic field is produced by a current carrying circular coil? Show it with
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the help of a labelled diagram.
What do you mean by a solenoid? With the help of a labelled, show the magnetic field
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due to a current carrying solenoid.
Write symbols for the following:
(a) Cell
(b) Battery
13 (c) Fixed resistance 3
(d) Wires crossing without contact
(e) Variable resistance
(f) A wire joint
State Joule’s law of heating. Derive the formula for the Heat produced due to current
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flowing in a conductor.
Draw ray diagrams each showing.
15 (i) myopic eye and 3
(ii) (hypermetropic eye.
Draw a ray diagram showing the dispersion through a prism when a narrow beam of white
16 light is incident on one of its refracting surfaces. Also indicate the order of the colours of 3
the spectrum obtained
How are power and focal length of a lens related? You are provided with two lenses of
17 focal length 20 cm and 40 cm respectively. Which lens will you use to obtain more 3
convergent light?
Why does a light ray incident on a rectangular glass slab immersed in any medium
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emerges parallel to itself? Explain using a diagram.
Write laws of refraction. Explain the same with the help of ray diagram, when a ray of light
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passes through a rectangular glass slab.
What kind of magnetic field is produced by a current carrying circular coil? Show it with
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the help of a labeled diagram.
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SECTION C 5 Marks Questions
What is Joule’s heating effect? How can it be demonstrated experimentally? List its four
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applications in daily life.
With the help of a labeled circuit diagram, illustrate the pattern of field lines of the
magnetic field around a current carrying straight long conducting wire. How is the right
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hand thumb rule useful to find the direction of magnetic field associated with a current
carrying conductor?
Explain the structure and functioning of Human eye. How are we able to see nearby as
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well as distant objects?
A)If an object is placed at a distance of 50cm from a concave lens of focal length 20cm,
find the position, nature and height of the image
B) If an object of 7cm height is placed at a distance of 12cm from a convex lens of focal
length 8cm, find the position, nature and height of the image.
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Find the position and size of the virtual image formed when an object 2 cm tall is placed
20cm from (a) diverging lens of focal length 40cm and (b) converging lens of focal length
40 cm.
A p.d. of 250V is applied across a resistance of 500 Ω in an electric iron. Calculate (i)
current (ii) heat energy produced in joules in 10s.
b) Which uses more energy, a 250 W TV set in 1 hr, or a 1200 W toaster in 10 minutes?
(Or)
25 a)A copper wire of length 2m and area of cross section 1.7 x 10–6m 2has a resistance of 2 5
x 10–2ohms. Calculate the resistivity of copper.
b) A 100 V battery is connected across a resistor and causes a current of 5 mA to flow.
Determine the resistance of the resistor. If the voltage is now reduced to 25 V, what will be
the new value of the current flowing?
6.Draw neat and labelled ray diagrams for convex lens.
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Draw neat and labelled diagram for concave mirrors.
