BAGALKOTE DISTRICT PHYSICS LECTURERS FORUM
PHYSICS PRACTICAL VIVA QUESTIONS FOR II PUC
1.RESISTANCE PER UNIT LENGTH OF THE WIRE
1) What is electrical resistance?
The opposition offered by the material to the flow of current is called electrical resistance.
2) What is the reciprocal of resistance?
Conductance.
3) What is an ammeter?
The device used to measure the current.
4) What is voltmeter?
The device used to measure potential difference.
5) What is rheostat?
The device used as potential divider and resistance variable.
6) On what factors resistance of a conductor depend?
Temperature, length and area of cross section of the conductor.
7) What is the S I unit of resistance?
Ohm
2.RESISTIVITY OF THE MATERIAL OF THE WIRE
8) Define resistivity (specific resistance) of the material of the wire.
It is the resistance of the material of unit length and unit area of cross section
9) On what factors resistivity of the given material depend?
Temperature
10) How resistivity and conductivity are related?
Inversely proportional.
11) Length of the conductor is doubled. What will be its new resistivity?
Remains the same.
12) What is the principle of metre bridge?
Balancing condition of Wheatstone’s network.
13) What is the S.I unit resistivity?
Ωm
3.COMBINATION OF RESISTANCES
14) What is a metre bridge?
Metrebridge is a device used to measure unknown resistance accurately.
15) Which combination of resistors gives maximum value of resistance?
Series combination
16) Which combination of resistors gives maximum value of resistance?
Parallel Combination
17) When do you say that two resistors are in series?
When two resistors are connected end to end
18) When do you say that two resistors are in parallel?
When they are connected between two common points.
19) What is equivalent resistance?
The single resistance which produces the same effect in the circuit as that of the combination of the
resistances.
20) Two resistors are in series. What is common in them? current or voltage
Current
4.COMPARISON OF EMF’S OF TWO CELLS
21) What do you mean by emf of a cell?
The terminal potential difference of the when it is in open circuit.
22) What is a potentiometer?
The device used to measure potential difference between two points in the circuit accurately.
23) Define cell.
It is a device used to maintain constant potential difference across any circuit.
24) Give any one application of potentiometer
1. Used to measure potential difference
2. Used to find internal resistance of the cell.
25) What is potential gradient ?
The potential drop per unit length of the wire is called potential gradient.
26) What is meant by sensitivity of potentiometer?
Ans it is the smallest potential difference that it can measure.
5.INTERNAL RESISTANCE OF THE CELL
27) What is internal resistance of the cell?
The resistance offered by the cell to the flow of current.
28) What is the internal resistance of an ideal cell?
Zero
29) Does the internal resistance depend on the current drawn from the cell or external resistance?
Yes
30) On what factors does the internal resistance of a cell depend?
Distance between the electrodes, nature of the electrodes, nature of the electrolyte
31) How does the internal resistance of the experimental cell vary as the resistance connected across it
increases?
Increases
32) What is a galvanometer?
It is a device used to detect current in the circuit.
6.CONVERISON OF GALVANOMETER INTO AMMETER AND VOLTMETER
33) What is ammeter?
Device used to measure current is called an ammeter.
34) What is voltmeter?
Device used to measure potential difference is called an voltmeter.
35) How do you convert a galvanometer into an ammeter?
By connecting low resistance in parallel to galvanometer.
36) How do you convert a galvanometer into an voltameter?
By connecting high resistance in series with the galvanometer.
37) How do you connect ammeter in a circuit?
In series
38) How do you connect voltmeter in a circuit?
In parallel
39) Why can’t we use galvanometer directly as an ammeter or voltmeter?
Because it has finite resistance.
40) What is the resistance of an ideal ammeter?
Zero
41) What is the resistance of an ideal voltmeter?
infinity
42) A galvanometer is converted in to a voltameter of range V volts. If the range has to be increased
how does the series resistance should be varied?
It Should be decreased.
7.FREQUENCY OF AC USING SONOMETER
43) Define frequency of AC?
Number of cycles of A.C formed per second.
44) What is the value of frequency of AC in India?
Ans. 50 Hz
45) What is electrical resonating length?
The distance between the knife edges at resonance takes place.
46) What is an electromagnet?
The conductor which acquires magnetic properties when current is passed through it.
47) Using this experiment can you determine frequency of D.C.? Why?
No Frequency of D.C is zero
48) What is a sonometer?
It is a device used to determine the frequency of vibration of a stretched string.
49) How does resonating length vary with tension?
Resonating length is directly proportional to the tension.
8.SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE CHARATERISTICS (Forward bias)
50) What is a semiconductor?
The material which conducts charges partially is called semiconductor.
51) How semiconductors are different from conductors in terms of their resistance?
In semiconductors resistance decreases with increase in temperature where as in conductor resistance
increases with increase in temperature.
52) How do you make forward bias a diode?
A diode can be made forward bias by connecting positive terminal of the battery to p-region and negative
terminal of the battery to n-region of the diode.
53) Name one application of a diode?
It is used in rectifier circuit.
54) What do you mean by cut in voltage?
The forward voltage beyond which current increases rapidly with voltage is called cut in voltage.
55) What is the order of the current in forward bias?
Few milliampere
56) What is reverse saturation current?
In reverse bias of the diode, the current almost remains constant with charge in voltage. This is called
reverse saturation current.
57) What happens to the junction resistance of a diode when it is reverse biased?
Increases
58) Mention the majority charge carriers in p – type and n – type semiconductors.
Holes and electrons respectively.
9.ZENER DIODE CHARACTERISTICS
59) What is a Zener diode?
A heavily doped diode which works only in reverse break down region.
60) Give one application of Zener diode?
Voltage regulation.
61) What do you mean by Zener break down voltage?
At a particular voltage current suddenly increases. This voltage is called zener break down voltage.
62) How Zener diode is different from ordinary semiconductor diode?
It is heavily doped and used only in reverse biasing condition.
10.Focal length of convex lens
63) What is absolute refractive index?
The ratio of speed light in vacuum to that in given medium.
64) What is refraction?
The phenomenon of bending of the light ray when it travels from one medium to another medium is called
refraction.
65) What is a lens?
A transparent medium bound by either two spherical surfaces or one spherical surface and one plane
surface.
66) What is principal axis of lens?
The straight-line joining centers of curvature of the two spherical surfaces.
67) What is real image?
The image which can be caught on the screen is called virtual image.
68) What is the focal length of the lens?
The distance between optic centre and principal focus.
11.FOCAL LENGTH OF A CONCAVE MIRROR
69) What is the focal length of a mirror?
The distance between principal focus and pole of the mirror is called focal length of the mirror.
70) Give the relation between radius of curvature and focal length
Ans. f = R/2
71) Can a concave mirror form same sized real image ? If yes, when ? If no, why ?
Yes. When the object is placed at centre of curvature of the mirror.
72) Name one common use of concave mirror?
Dentists use concave mirrors.
73) Define linear magnification.
It is the ratio between height of image to height of object.
12.FOCAL LENGTH OF A CONVEX LENS
74) What is the focal length of the lens?
The distance between principal focus and optic center of the lens.
75) What is principle focus of the convex lens?
The point on the principal axis at which the paraxial rays converge is called principle focus of the convex
lens.
76) A lens made of glass is converging parallel rays of light in air. Which type of lens is it?
Convex
77) Mention the nature of the image in this experiment.
Real image.
78) For what position of object, a convex lens will produce virtual image?
Position between the principal focus and the pole
13.REFRACTIVE INDEX OF GLASS
79) What is the refractive index of the medium?
The ratio of velocity of light in air or vacuum to that in the given medium is called refractive index of that
medium
80) Give the value of R I of glass
Ans. 1.5
81) What is refraction of light?
The change in the direction of light when passing from one medium to another.
82) Name the material which has highest value of refractive index among water, glass and diamond?
Diamond
83) On what factors apparent depth depend?
Real depth and refractive index of the medium
84) State Snell’s law
The ratio of sine of angle of incidence to the sine of angle of refraction.
85) What is normal shift?
It is the difference between real depth and apparent depth due to normal refraction.
