Physics Tutorial Sheet-6

Periodic motion
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1)
a) State and explain Kirchhoff's laws of current and
voltage.
b) On which conservation principle are the Kirchhoff’s
first and second law based?
c) From the given circuit find the value of I. Ans: 0.6 A
d) Calculate the current that flows in the 1 Ω resistor in
the following circuit. Ans: 0.13

Wheatstone bridge principle

1)
a) What Wheatstone's bridge principle?
b) Wheat-stone Bridge is not suitable for measuring very
high or very low resistance accurately, why?
c) The Wheatstone bridge is shown in figure. What should be
the value of ‘X’ so that Wheatstone bridge will be
balanced? Ans:100 Ohms

Meter Bridge
1) What is meter bridge? Why it is called so?
2) In a meter bridge, the value of resistance in the resistance box is 10 Ω. The balancing
length is l1 = 55 cm. Find the value of unknown resistance.
3) In a meter bridge as shown in figure, the balance point is
found to be at 39.5 cm from the end A, when the resistor is
of 12.5 Ω.
i) Determine the resistance of x.
ii) Determine the balance point of the bridge above if x
and Y are interchanged.
iii) What happens if the galvanometer and cell are
interchanged at the balance point of the bridge?
Would the galvanometer show any current?
4) Two resistances 2  and 3 are connected across the two
gaps of the meter bridge as shown in Fig. (The resistance of
the bridge wire is 1.49 and its diameter is 0.12cm,)
a) Calculate the current through the cell when the bridge is
balanced.
b) Specific resistance of the material of the meter bridge
wire. [Ans: 1.74A, 1.68×10-6m]

Potentiometer
1) What is potentiometer? Write its principle.
2) Why do we prefer a potentiometer to measure emf of a
cell rather than a voltmeter?
3) If the length of the wire be doubled, what will be the
effect on the position of zero deflection in a
potentiometer?
4) A potentiometer wire AB is 100 cm long and has a total
resistance of 10 ohm. If the galvanometer shows zero
deflection at the position C, then find the value of unknown
resistance R in ohms. Ans: 4Ω
5) What is the principle of potentiometer? In the given
figure, a potentiometer wire AB is of 100 cm length and 5Ω resistance. The emf of
standard cell E1 is 6 V and variable resistor R is of 6Ω.
Null deflection point for the cell E2 is at C and length
A.C. is 75 cm. Then find out:
a) current flowing in the potentiometer, wire.
b) potential gradient of the wire,
c) emf of cell E2 [Ans. (i) 6/11 A, (ii) 3/110 V/cm, (iii) 2.04 V.
6) Figure shows a 2.0 V potentiometer used for the
determination of internal resistance of a 1.5 V cell. The
balance point of the cell in open circuit is 76.3 cm. When a
resistor of 9.5 Ω is used in the external circuit of the cell,
the balance point shifts to 64.8 cm length of the
potentiometer wire.
a) Determine the internal resistance of the cell.
b) How at null point a potentiometer acts as an ideal
voltmeter?
c) Why should be the cross-sectional area of
potentiometer wire be uniform?
7) The total length of the wire of a potentiometer is 10m. A potential gradient of 0.0015
V/cm is obtained when a steady current is passed through this wire calculate.
a) the distance of null point on connecting standard cell of 1.018 V.
b) the unknown p.d., if the null point is obtained at a distance of 940cm
c) the maximum p.d. which can be measured by this instrument. Ans: [(i) 6.8 m, (ii)
1.41V, (iii) 1.5V
8)
a) The resistance per unit length of a potentiometer wire 10m long is 1 ohm per meter.
A resistance box and a 2V accumulator are connected in series with a potentiometer
wire. What should be the resistance in the resistance box to have a potential drop of 1
mV in the potentiometer wire
b) A standard cell of 1.0185 v, when used in a one-meter slide wire potentiometer,
balances at 60 cm. Calculate the percentage error in a voltmeter which balances at 65
cm when reading 1.1v. Ans: [0.31]