The magnetic effect of a current - class-XII

the magnetic effect of a current

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What material is used for making the armature of an electric bell ? Give a reason for using this material.

  1. Soft Iron
  2. Carbon
  3. Glass
  4. Silicon
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Working of electric bells is an example of

  1. Mechanical effect of electric current
  2. Heating effect of electric current
  3. Magnetic effect of electric current
  4. None of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Electric door bell employs

  1. Permanent Magnet
  2. Electromagnet
  3. Thermistor
  4. Electric bulb
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the switch of an electric bell is pushed.

  1. Flow of the current stops through the electromagnet in the bell
  2. Current starts to flow through the electromagnet
  3. Voltage decreases in the current flowing through the electromagnet
  4. None of the above
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a component of electric bell?

  1. Gong
  2. Ferromagnetic strip
  3. Low magnetic field permanent magnet to attract ferromagnetic strip
  4. None of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a characteristic of a buzzer?

  1. It has different mechanism from electric bell.
  2. It has higher frequency of collision of gong and hammer
  3. It uses only AC power supply
  4. None of the above
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which power supply can be used in electric bell

  1. $AC$
  2. $DC$
  3. Can't be predicted
  4. Both A and B
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the switch of an electric bell is pushed

  1. Flow of the current stops through the electromagnet in the bell
  2. Current starts to flow through the electromagnet
  3. Voltage decreases in the current flowing through the electromagnet
  4. Circuit is closed in the electric bell
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the switch of an electric bell is on then electric current in it :

  1. Flows and stops in succession
  2. Flows continuously
  3. First flows in one direction and after sometime in other direction
  4. Flows in beginning and then stops forever
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why doorbell rings repeatedly when switch is pressed 

  1. Because of nature of current
  2. Because electrical switch is built in such a manner
  3. Because of make and break arrangement
  4. Because of slight humidity in the circuit
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What will happen if the strip in a doorbell loses its flexibility?

  1. Striker may break if current is large.
  2. After hitting the metal gong, it never returns to original position and only a single sound is produced.
  3. System of doorbell breaks
  4. Both A and B
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the use of flexibility strip in a doorbell?

  1. It brings back striker to its original position
  2. It supports the motion of the striker
  3. It completes the electric circuit flexibly
  4. Its a safety precaution
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Electric doorbell

  1. Always consume power
  2. Consume power only when switch is pressed
  3. Do not consume power practically and needs only starting power
  4. cant say
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Exposed Electric doorbell can be damaged by 

  1. Mechanical damage
  2. High Electric currents
  3. Humidity
  4. All of the above
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

During a doorbell ringing

  1. Current always flows in the circuit
  2. Electromagnet is always present
  3. Striker is always in contact with metal gong
  4. Striker always repeatedly hits metal gong
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Armature is pulled towards the spring when it strikes the gong because

  1. The electromagnet gets demagnetized
  2. The current flow breaks
  3. Spring effect
  4. All of the above
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which process is applied on a circuit for the working of an electric bell?

  1. Magnetization
  2. Make and break
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of the above
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The hammer hits the gong because

  1. It has electric charge
  2. It displays the spring effect
  3. It is attracted towards the electro-magnet
  4. All of the above
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The strength and direction of the magnetic field depends on ..........

  1. Magnitude of electric current
  2. Direction of electric current
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of the above
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following effects of current does not depend on the direction of current?

  1. Lighting and chemical effects
  2. Heating and lighting effects
  3. Heating and magnetic effects
  4. Magnetic and chemical effects
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What inferences were drawn from Oersteds experiment?

  1. A current or a moving charge produces magnetic field around it
  2. Presence of magnetic field can be detected using a compass needle
  3. The strength and direction of the magnetic field depends on the magnitude and direction of the current
  4. All of the above
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The magnitude of current is ........ the magnitude of magnetic field

  1. Inversely proportional to
  2. Directly proportional to
  3. Same as
  4. None of the above
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following observations are true for Hans Oersteds experiment?
a. When current passes through the wire the compass needle comes to rest in a direction along the Earths magnetic field.
b. When placed just above the wire, North Pole of the compass needle deflects towards the east when current is passes from A to B.
c. When placed just below the wire, North Pole of the compass needle deflects towards the east when current is passes from B to A i.e. on reversing the direction of current

  1. a and c
  2. a and b
  3. b and c
  4. All of the above
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When current passes through the circuit a compass needle rests in which direction (with respect to the Earth)?

  1. South-north
  2. North-south
  3. East-west
  4. West-east
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

State whether True or False :

If electric current is passed through metal body then it behaves as magnet.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who first discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism?

  1. Faraday
  2. Newton
  3. Maxwell
  4. Oersted
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Chose the correct statement from the following:

  1. Electric current is a scalar quantity
  2. Charge carries in metals are ions
  3. The area of current- time graph gives charge
  4. A charge in motion produces both electric and magnetic field
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two long parallel wires A and B separated by a distance d, carry currents $i _1$ and $i _2$ respectively in the same direction. Write the following steps in a sequential order to find the magnitude of the resultant magnetic field at a point 'P', which is between the wires and is a distance '$x$' from the wire A.
(All the physical quantities are measured in SI units)
(a) Note the given values of $i _1, i _2$, $d$ and $x$.
(b) Write the formula to find the magnetic field due to a long straight current carrying wire i.e. $\displaystyle B=\frac{\mu _0 i}{2 \pi r}$
(c) Find the directions of the magnetic field at 'P' due to two wires A and B, using right hand thumb rule.
(d) Determine the magnetic field at P due to wire A, using $B _1 \displaystyle = \frac{\mu _0 i _1}{2 \pi x}$
(e) If the directions of magnetic field are same, then the resultant magnitude is equal to the sum of $B _1$ and $B _2$.
(f) Determine the magnetic field $B _2$ due to wire B at point P, ie. $B _2 = \displaystyle \frac{\mu _o i _2}{2 \pi (d-x)}$
(g) If the directions of magnetic fields are opposite to each other, then the resultant magnitude is equal to the difference of $B _1$ and $B _2$.

  1. $d f c e g b a$
  2. $c d f e g b a$
  3. $a c b d f e g$
  4. $a b d f c e g$
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider a region where both uniform electric and magnetic fields E and B are present both along the z-axis. A positively charged particle of charge and mass is released from the origin with an initial velocity ${{\text{V}} _e}\hat i$. Which of the following option(s) are correct?

  1. (A)The y coordinate of the particle at time ${\text{t}} = \frac{{\pi {\text{M}}}}{{{\text{qB}}}}{\text{ is}}\frac{{ - 2{\text{mv}}}}{{{\text{qB}}}}$
  2. (B)The distance between two consecutive point on the z-axis where the particle touches the Z-axis is an odd multiple of a constant distance.
  3. (C)The distance between two consecutive point on the z-axis where the particle touches the Z-axis is an even multiple of a constant distance.
  4. (D)The time after which the particle touches the z-axis is $\frac{{2\pi {\text{m}}}}{{{\text{qB}}}}$
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is/are correct?

  1. Electric current can produce a magnetism
  2. Due to change in current the magnetic strength changes
  3. Magnetic strength of a magnet is independent of the number of turn in the current carrying coil
  4. All of the above
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A compass needle placed at a distance $r$ from a short magnet in $\tan\ A$ position shown a deflection of $60^{o}$. If the distance is increased to $r(3)^{1/3}$, then the deflected of the compass needle is:

  1. $30^{o}$
  2. $60^{o}\ \times (3)^{1/3}$
  3. $60^{o}\ \times (3)^{2/3}$
  4. $90^{o}\ \times (3)^{1/3}$
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Electromagnet can be formed due to which of the following?

  1. Heating effect of current
  2. Magnetic effect of current
  3. Chemical effect of current
  4. None of the above
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If we change in the direction of the current passing through the wire near to the magnetic needle:

  1. position of the pole of the needle will change
  2. position of the pole of the needle will remain same
  3. change in position of the pole depends on the current intensity
  4. none of the above is correct
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A magnetic needle vibrates in a vertical plane parallel to the magnetic meridian about horizontal axis passing through its centre. The frequency is $\pi$. If the plane of oscillation turned about a vertical axis by ${90}^{o}$, the frequency of oscillation in vertical plane will be:

  1. $\pi$
  2. zero
  3. less than $\pi$
  4. more than $\pi$
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What did Oersted conclude from the experiment ?

  1. The current carrying wire must be acting as a magnet for the compass needle to deflect.
  2. The current carrying wire gets heated up and causes the compass needle to deflect.
  3. The current carrying wire sets up air currents that makes the compass needle to deflect.
  4. None of the above
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism

  1. Faraday
  2. Newton
  3. Maxwell
  4. Oersted
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism?

  1. Faraday
  2. Newton
  3. Maxwell
  4. Oersted
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

With _____ in current in a wire near to magnetic needle, _____the vibration in the needle. Fill in the blank.

  1. increase, decreases
  2. increase, increases
  3. decrease, increases
  4. Non of above
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What did Orested do in the experiment ?

  1. Placed a compass near an electromagnet and observed its deflection
  2. Placed a compass near a magnet and observed the deflection of compass needle
  3. Placed a compass near a current carrying wire and observed the deflection of compass needle
  4. Placed a compass near an electrolyte and observed the deflection of compass needle
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The amount of deflection of the magnetic needle in a galvanoscope depends on:

  1. The amount of current passing through the insulated copper wire that is wound over it
  2. Magnetic strength of the magnetic needle
  3. Number of turns of the coil
  4. All the above
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What did Oersted observe while performing the experiment ?

  1. The compass needle placed near an electromagnet deflected
  2. The compass needle kept near an electrolyte deflected
  3. The compass needle kept near a wire carrying electric current deflected when the current was switched ON and OFF.
  4. None of the above
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What did Orested discover from his experiment ?

  1. Heating effect of electric current
  2. Magnetic effect of electric current
  3. Chemical effect of electric current
  4. Physical effect of electric current

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