Electricity Work Sheet 1

Question 1 Question 10
How much charge passes through a load if a current of 5.0 A What is the voltage drop being measured by this voltmeter if it
flows for 4.0 s? is connected to the circuit using the 3 V terminal?

Question 2
Name the two types of charge and the sub-atomic particles
associated with each.

Question 3
What is the difference between an insulator and a conductor?
Give an example of each.

Question 4
What is the difference between direct current and alternating Question 11
current? Calculate the amount of energy transformed in a toaster if it
has a voltage drop of 240 V and 50 C of charge pass through it.

Question 5
How many electrons make 1 coulomb of charge? Question 12
How much energy is delivered by a 12 V car battery to a starter
motor if it is operated for
Question 6 15 s and draws a current of 80 A. Assume that there is no
Which of the following amounts are possible? internal resistance in the battery.
(1 or more answers)
A. 3.2 × 10–19 C
B. 4.0 × 10–19 C Question 13
C. 4.8 × 10 –19 C How much energy is transformed in a radio if it has a voltage
D. 1.13 × 10–7 C drop of 9.0 V, it draws a current of 350 mA and it is operated
for 30 minutes?

Question 7
Convert 0.57 A to milliamperes. Question 14
What is the power rating of an electrical jug if it draws a
current of 2.0 A when connected to a 240 V supply?

Question 8
Question 15
What is the current flowing through this ammeter if there is a Estimate the current drawn by a 60 W light bulb when it is
connection to the 50 mA terminal? correctly fitted to a 240 V supply.

Question 16
What is the resistance of a light bulb if it has a current of 0.25
A when there is a voltage drop of 240 V across its terminals?

Question 17
What is the voltage drop across a 330 Ω resistor if it carries a
current of 4.0 A?

Question 9
What is meant by the expression ‘voltage drop’?
 Electricity Work Sheet 2
Question 1 Questions 5 to 8 refer to the following information.
Calculate the magnitude and direction of the unknown
current in the figure below. In the series circuit shown below, the emf of the power supply
is 12 V. The current at point c, Ic, is 0.5 A. The value of R1 is
16 Ω .

Question 2 Question 5
Calculate the unknown voltage drop Vab in the following What is the value of the current at point b?
circuit.
Question 6
Calculate the voltage drop across R1.

Question 7
What is the voltage drop across R2?

Question 8
Find the value of R2.

Questions 9 to 11 refer to the following circuit.

Question 3
Find the voltage at point c in the following circuit. The
voltage drop Vcd is 3.5 V.

Question 9
What is the effective resistance of this circuit?

Question 10
What is the magnitude of the current at point b?

Question 11
Calculate the voltage drop Vab.

Question 4
Find the effective resistance of three resistors, having values
of 220 Ω , 450 Ω and 1.1 k Ω , when they are connected in
series.
Question 12
What is the effective resistance of two resistors connected in
parallel if their values are 20 Ω and 5.0 Ω ?
Questions 13 to 16 refer to the following information. Questions 20 and 21 refer to the following information.

Consider the circuit below. The figure below shows the current versus voltage drop for two
electrical devices.

Question 13
What is the effective resistance of this circuit?

Question 14
What is the voltage drop across the 60 Ω resistor? The two devices are connected in series and the voltage drop
across device Y is 10 V.
Question 15
Calculate the current flowing through the 60 Ω resistor. Question 20
What is the current flowing through device X? Justify your
Question 16 answer.
Calculate the current flowing through the source of emf in
this circuit. Question 21
What is the total voltage drop across the series connection of
Questions 17 to 19 refer to the following circuit diagram. devices X and Y?

Question 22
A battery has an emf of 14.5 V and an internal resistance of
0.04 Ω .
Calculate the voltage drop across the terminals of the battery
when it is connected to a circuit that draws 50 A of current.

Questions 23 and 24 refer to the following information.

A cassette player uses four 1.5 V cells arranged in series. Each

cell has an internal resistance of 0.12 Ω .

Question 23
Question 17
What is the effective emf of this arrangement of cells?
Find the effective resistance of this circuit.
Question 24
What is the total internal resistance of this arrangement of
cells?
Question 18
What is the voltage drop across the 15 Ω resistor?
Question 19
What current flows through the 30 Ω resistor?
 Electricity Worksheet 3
Question 1 Question 4

10V 5Ω 2Ω R1

18V
a) What is the current flowing in the circuit? 1Ω R2

b) What is the voltage over the resistor?

a) What is the current flowing in the circuit?
Question 2
b) What is the voltage over R1?

5Ω R1 c) What is the voltage over R2?

Question 5
10V
5Ω R2
R1 10Ω

a) What is the current flowing in the circuit?

6V R2 20Ω
b) What is the voltage over R1?

c) What is the voltage over R2?

R3 30Ω
Question 3

R1 5Ω a) What is the current flowing in the circuit?

b) What is the voltage over R1?

R2 5Ω c) What is the voltage over R2?

9V
d) What is the voltage over R3?

R3 5Ω

a) What is the current flowing in the circuit?

b) What is the voltage over R1?

c) What is the voltage over R2?

d) What is the voltage over R3?

 Question 6 Question 9

5Ω R1 5Ω R2 10V 4Ω R1 5Ω R2 6Ω R3
10V

a) What is the current flowing through R1? a) What is the current flowing through R1?

b) What is the effective resistance of the two resistors? b) What is the effective resistance of the three resistors?

c) What is the current supplied from the power supply? c) What is the current supplied from the power supply?

d) What is the voltage over R1? d) What is the voltage over R1?

e) What is the voltage over R2? e) What is the voltage over R2?

Question 7 Question 10

10V 5Ω R1 5Ω R2 5Ω R3

a) What is the current flowing through R1? 5Ω R1 5Ω R2

b) What is the effective resistance of the three resistors? 10V
c) What is the current supplied from the power supply?

d) What is the voltage over R1? 5Ω R3

e) What is the voltage over R2?

Question 8 a) What is the effective resistance of this circuit?

b) What is the current from the power supply?

10V 1Ω R1 2Ω R2
c) What is the current flowing through R3?

d) What is the current flowing through R1?

a) What is the current flowing through R1?
e) What is the current flowing through R2?
b) What is the effective resistance of the two resistors?
f) What is the voltage supplied to this circuit?
c) What is the current supplied from the power supply?
g) What is the potential difference over R3?
d) What is the voltage over R1?
h) What is the potential difference over R1?
e) What is the voltage over R2?
i) What is the potential difference over R2?
 Electricity Work Sheet 4
Questions 1-2 refer to the following circuit Questions 7-8 refer to the following circuit.

Question 1
What is the current through the 20Ω?

Question 2
What is the power dissipated in the 20Ω?

Questions 3
Calculate the power supplied to the following circuit. Question 7
What is the current supplied?

Question 8
What is the power supplied to the circuit?

Questions 9-17 refer to the following circuit.

Question 4
Calculate the power supplied to the following circuit.

Question 9
What is the effective resistance of the circuit?
Questions 5-6 refer to the following circuit.
Question 10
How much power does the 10Ω resistor use?

Question 11
How much power does the 5Ω resistor use?

Question 12
How much power does the 2.5Ω resistor use?

Question 5 Question 13
What is the current supplied? What is the current through the 10Ω resistor?

Question 6 Question 14
What is the power supplied to the circuit? What is the current through the 5Ω resistor?

Question 15
What is the current through the 2.5Ω resistor?

Question 16
What is the current supplied to the circuit?

Question 17
What is the power supplied to the circuit?
Questions 18-31 refer to the following information Questions 32-35 refer to the
following circuit and
information. The light bulbs
are rated 10W, these rating
are calculated when the light
bulb has a potential difference
Question 18 of 240V.
Calculate the resistance of the 10W light bulb.
Question 32
Question 19 What is the current flowing through the light bulbs?
Calculate the resistance of the 100W light bulb.
Question 33
Question 20 What is the voltage over the each of the light bulbs?
Calculate the resistance of the 25W light bulb.
Question 34
Question 21 What is the power supplied to the circuit?
Calculate the effective resistance of the circuit.
Question 35
Question 22 What would the voltage supplied have to be to make the
What is the current flowing through the 10W light bulb? lights function at they rating of 10W?

Question 23 Questions 36-41 refer to

What is the current flowing through the 100W light bulb? the following circuit and
information. The light
Question 24 bulbs are rated 10W and
What is the current flowing through the 25W light bulb? 100W, these rating are
calculated when the light
Question 25 bulb has a potential
What is the current supplied to the circuit? difference of 240V.

Question 26 Question 36
What is the power used in the circuit? What is the current supplied to the circuit?

Question 27 Question 37
How many joules per coulomb are used in the 10W light What is the voltage over the 10W light bulb?
bulb?
Question 38
Question 28 What is the voltage over the 100W light bulb?
How many joules per coulomb are used in the 100W light
bulb? Question 39
What is the power used by the 10W light bulb?
Question 29
How many coulombs per second pass through the 10W light Question 40
bulb? What is the power used by the 100W light bulb?

Question 30 Question 41
How many coulombs per second pass through the 100W What is the power supplied to the circuit?
light bulb?
Question 42
Question 31 Which of the light bulbs would be brighter and why?
How many joules per second are used in the circuit?
 Electricity Work Sheet 5
The following information applies to questions 1 - 4
A refrigerator is designed so that its motor turns on when the
temperature rises above 5 oC. The circuit to control this and
thermistor characteristic are shown below
12V
Vout=
Question 1. What is the resistance of the
thermistor at the critical temperature?
Question 2. Using the voltage divider
equation or ratios, calculate the size of the
fixed resistor so that Vout is 4.5 at the
critical temperature.
Question 3. Using a lower temperature, check
that the circuit behaves as expected when
the temperature is lower than 5 oC.
Question 4. Using a higher temperature, ,
check that the circuit behaves as expected
when the temperature is higher than 5 oC.
The following information applies to questions 5 - 7
An automatic light is controlled by the circuit below. When
ambient light rises above a certain threshold, a spotlight is
turned off. The spotlight requires 2.5V potential in order to
activate.
20 KΩ Vout=
6V
LDR
Question 5. Given the potential difference
requirements, and the size of the fixed
resistor, determine the required resistance
for the LDR to behave in the way
described.
Question 6. At what illuminance will the LDR
have the resistance stated in question 5?
Question 7. Using a lower illuminance, check
that the circuit behaves as expected when
the light levels decrease.