SPM PHYSICS FORM 5

CHAPTER 2: ELECTRICITY

1. A colour TV draws 1.5A of current. If the TV is switched on for 30 minutes, how much is the
amount of electrical charge passes through it?

2. It is found that in 15 minutes, 9000 C of charge flows through a light bulb. Find the amount of
current produced.

3. Given that the amount of charge carried by one electron 1.6 x 10^19 C , calculate the number
of electrons in 10 C of charge.

4. How much charge flow in there in a circuit when

(a) 10 A of current passes through a circuit for 5 seconds?
(b) 250 mA of current passes through a bulb for 1 minute and 20 seconds?

5. What is the amount of charges (coulomb) flowing a point in a conductor for each second if 10
mA of current passes through the conductor?

6. A battery can supply a current of 3.0 A for 12 hours. Determine the total charge that flows in
the circuit which is connected to the battery for 12 hours.

7. A conductor which carries 1.0 x 10^-9 of electric charge is connected across a galvanometer.
The current detected is 1 microampere.
(a) What is the time taken for that amount of charge to flow through the galvanometer?
(b) Determine the amount of electrons flowing through the galvanometer. [charge of one
electron = 1.6 x 10-19C]

8. When a bulb is connected to a battery, it is found 50 coulomb of charge flow through the bulb.
The electrical energy carried by the charge after passing through the bulb which is dissipated
as heat and light energy is 250 J. what is the potential difference across the bulb?

9. A potential difference of 240 V is applied across a lamp. How much electrical energy is
changed into heat and light energy when a current of 2.0A flows through the lamp for 1
minute?

10. What is the potential difference across a light bulb of resistance 10Ω when the current flowing
through it is 0.2 A?

11. What is the work done to move 2 C of electrical charge through a potential difference of 10 V?

12. (a) What is the energy transfer when 3 C of charge move through a potential difference of 50
V?
(b)An electron has a charge of 1.6 x 10^-19C. the energy needed to move 1 electron across a
potential difference of V is 3.2 x 10‫־‬¹³ J. What is the value of V?
13. A charged particle of the 2.4 x 10 ^-4 C moves from point P to point Q which has a potential
difference of 20 V.
(a) How much energy is needed to move the particle from P to Q?
(b) If the time taken for the movement is 0.02 s, what is the current flowing through PQ?

14. When a current of 2.0 is supplied to a motor which is used to drive a machine, a mass of 2.0 kg
is lifted up for 5.0 m in 2.0s in a uniform velocity. Assuming that the machine is 100 %
efficient, what is the potential difference across the terminals of the motor?

15. Diagram 1 shows a conductor with an ammeter connected in series with a battery in a circuit.
A voltmeter is connected parallel to the conductor and the ammeter reading is 3.0A.
(a) What is the total amount of charge flowing through the conductor if the circuit is switched
on for 5 minutes?
(b) If 10800 J of energy is produced in the conductor, what is the reading of the voltmeter?

16. A battery can do 3.0 J of work to move 1 C of charge through it.

(a) What is the potential difference across the battery terminals?
(b) When the battery is connected in series with a wire in a circuit, 300 C of charge has moved
through the wire. How much electrical energy is supplied by the battery?
(c) If the current flow in the circuit is 2.0 A, determine the time taken for 300 C of charge to
move through the wire.

17. Diagram 2 shows a heater which is used to heat up 200 g of water for 5 minutes. The
temperature of the water rises from 28ᵒC to 33ᵒC and the current flow in the circuit is 2.0 A.
(a) What is the heat energy supplied by the heater?
[ specific heat capacity of water = 4200 kg‫־‬¹ ᵒC‫־‬¹]
(b) What is the amount of charge flow in the circuit for 5 minutes?
(c) Hence, determine the potential difference across the electric heater.
18. In the following circuits, determine the unknown quantities, i.e. the values of V, I or R.

19. A resistor has a resistance of 5.0 x 10^6 Ω. If the potential difference across the resistor is 500
kV, calculate the total amount of current flowing through it.

20. Three resistors R1 = 1Ω, R2 = 3Ω, and R3 = 6Ω are connected in series to a 20 V battery as
shown in the diagram. Calculate
(a) The total resistance of the circuit,
(b) The current, I
(c) The potential difference across each resistor, V1, V2 and V3.

21. Three resistors R1 = 1Ω, R2 = 3Ω, and R3 = 6Ω are connected in parallel to a 20 V battery as
shown in the diagram. Calculate
(a) The potential difference across each resistor,
(b) The total resistance of the circuit,
(c) The current I, in the circuit
(d) The current that passed through each resistor i1, i2, and i3.

22. You are given 4 identical resistors with resistance 2 Ω each. Draw circuit diagrams to show
how the resistors can be arranged so that the following resistances can be obtained:
(a) 8Ω (c) 1Ω (e) 0.5Ω
(b) 5Ω (d) 2Ω
23. In the following circuits, determine the reading of the ammeter which is marked “?”.

24. In the following circuits, determine the reading of the voltmeter which is marked “?”.
25. For the following arrangements of the resistors, determine the effective resistance across point
X and point Y.

26. In the following circuits, determine the unknown quantities, i.e. the values of V, I, and R.
27. For the circuit shown in Diagram 1, the reading of the ammeter is 2.0 A when the switch is
closed. Determine
(a) The total resistance in the circuit,
(b) The resistance of resistor R,
(c) The reading of voltmeter which is connected across the resistor R.

28. A circuit is connected as shown in Diagram 2. What is the reading of voltmeter

(a) When the switch is closed?
(b) When the switch is opened?

29. Five identical resistors are connected to a power source as shown in Diagram 4. If the reading
of ammeter A1 is 1.2 A, what is the reading of ammeter A2?

30. Two identical resistors are connected in series with and ammeter with negligible resistance and
they are connected to a 6V battery as shown in Diagram 6(a). the reading of the ammeter is 3.0
A. the circuit is then rearranged to another circuit as shown in Diagram 6(b).
31. In the circuit shown in Diagram 7, the reading of the ammeter is I1 when the switch is opened
and I2 when the switch is closed. Neglecting the internal resistance in the cell, determine the
ratio I1:I2

32. Diagram 8 shows a network of resistors which is connected across a battery of V volts. If the
reading of ammeter A1 is 1.0 x 10² mA, calculate
(a) The value of V,
(b) The current flowing through the 30 Ω resistor
(c) The current flowing through ammeter A2.

33. In the circuit shown in Diagram 9, the resistance of the battery can be ignored.
(a) What is the total effective resistance in the circuit?
(b) What is the value of the current I1 and I2?
(c) What is the potential difference across TR?

34. A battery of e.m.f 12 V is connected in series with a bulb in a circuit. The internal resistance of
the battery is 0.4 Ω and the current flowing in the circuit is 5 A. What is the resistance of the
bulb and the potential difference across the bulb?

35. What is the total e.m.f in the following arrangements of the batteries?
36. In battery which has an e.m.f of 3.0 V and an internal resistance of 0.5 Ω is connected in series
with a resistor of R Ω. If the current flow in the circuit is 0.4 A, calculate
(a) The potential difference across resistor R,
(b) The resistance R

37. A cell has an internal resistance of 2.0 Ω. The potential difference across the cell terminals is
2.4 V when a current of 3.0 A is flowing through it. Determine the e.m.f of the cell.

38. A voltmeter which has a high resistance is connected across a battery as shown in Diagram 2.
(a) What is the reading of voltmeter V?
(b) Determine the value of resistance R.

39. A battery which has an e.m.f of 1.5 V and and internal resistance of 0.2 Ω, is connected to a
resistor of 9.8 Ω. Calculate
(a) The current flowing in the circuit.
(b) The potential difference across the resistor.

40. Two resistors of 4 Ω and 2 Ω connected in parallel. They are connected across a cell which has
an e.m.f of 1.5 V as shown in the diagram.
(a) If the internal resistance of the battery is 2 Ω, calculate the current flowing through the
circuit.
(b) Determine the reading of the voltmeter.
41. The diagram shows a cell is connected in a circuit with a 4 Ω resistor. The reading of the
voltmeter across the resistor is 1.2 V. when the 4 Ω resistor is changed to a 29 Ω resistor, the
reading of voltmeter becomes 1.45 V. calculate

(a) The e.m.f of the cell

(b) The internal resistance of the cell

42. The diagram shows 2 resistors, 1 Ω and P Ω are connected in series with a 2 V cell which has
an internal resistance 0.5 Ω. When the switch is closed, the current flowing in the circuit is 0.6
A.
(a) What is the reading of the voltmeter?
(b) Determine the value of P.

43. An electric heater is connected to a household power supply. It is found that a current of 2 A
flow through its heating filament. The potential difference across the heating element is 240 V.
How much is heat is released after 3 minutes?

44. An electric is rated 240 V, 1kW. Calculate the resistance of its heating element and the current
at normal usage.

45. An electric motor is used to lift up a load onto a lorry. The power rating of the motor is 240 V,
3kW. The motor can work at the rate of lifting a 1500 kg load up to the lorry of height 1.5m
for 10s.
(a) Calculate the output power of the motor.
(b) What is the efficiency of the motor?
(c) If the motor works normally for 4 hours per day, how much is the cost of using electrical
energy for 1 week if the tariff is 23 sen for the first 100 units used?

46. How much electrical energy is used in a bulb of 12V, 0.5A for 5 seconds?

47. When a direct current of 10 A is flowing through a resistance wire for 5s, 100 J of heat energy
is released. What is the resistance of the wire?
48. An electric lamp is labelled ‘24V, 40W’. when the bulb is lighted as normal, calculate
(a) The current flowing through the filament,
(b) The resistance of the filament.

49. Two resistors of 4Ω and 8Ω are connected in parallel as shown in Diagram 1. When switched S
is closed, the reading on the ammeter is 3 A. what is the total heat energy released by bit
resistors in 1 s?

50. In Diagram 2, the current supplied by the battery is 3.0 A. how much energy is lost by the 3Ω
resistor in 1 minute?

51. Diagram 3 shows two light bulbs which are labelled ‘12V 24W’ and ‘12V 36W’ respectively
are connected to a 12 V batter and an ammeter. What is the reading of the ammeter?

52. Water is poured into an electric kettle an the kettle is connected to a 240V power source. The
water takes 10 minutes to boil. If the kettle is connected to a 200 V power source and the
current flow is still the same, how much time is needed for the water to reach its boiling point?

53. An electric heater used in a laboratory is labelled ‘240V 1500W’. the heater is then connected
to a 240 V power source. Calculate
(a) The current flowing through the heater,
(b) The resistance of the heater,
(c) The electrical energy lost in kWh when the heater is switched for 2 hours and 30 minutes.
54. A house is fixed with five 40 W lamps and two 100 W lamps. If the lamp in the house are on
for 6 hours every day in the whole January, calculate
(a) The electrical energy used per day in kWh,
(b) The total electrical energy used in January,
(c) The cost of usage of the electrical energy in January if the cost for 1 unit is 25 sen.

55. A student is doing cost estimation for the usage of electricity in his in his house in one month.
Table 1 shows the electrical appliances that are used in his house and the estimated time of
electrical usage in one day.

Electrical appliances Rating Usage of electrical energy /

hour
5 units lamps 240V, 40W 8
2 units of television 240V, 200W 6
1 water heater 240 V, 2500W ½
1 air conditioner 240 V, 2000W 8
1 refrigerator 240 V, 1000W 4
Table 1

Table 2 shows the tariffs for the electrical usage for houses in a month.

Electrical energy Rate per unit / sen

First 200 units 21
Subsequent units 25

Based on Table 1 and Table 2, calculate the total cost for the electrical usage for the student’s
house in January.

56. An electric motor labelled ‘240V, 2000W’ can do work to lift a load of 500 kg to a height of
2.4 m in 10 seconds. Calculate
(a) The output power of the motor,
(b) The efficiency of the motor. [take g = 10 N kg‫־‬¹]