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LAKHMIR SINGH & MANJIT KAUR-Electric Current And its Effects-EXERCISE
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  2. How can overloading in the electric circuit be avoided ?

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  7. What might happen if a fuse is not inserted in household electric wiri...

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  9. State the uses of electromagnetic radiations.

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  10. Why do we use iron for making an electromagnet and not steel ?

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  11. What is an electromagnet ? Explain in your own words, how to make an e...

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  12. What type of core is used to make an electromagnet?

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  13. What is meant by the heating effect of current ? Name two appliances w...

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  14. Explain why, the current that makes the heater element very hot, only ...

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  15. What is meant by a battery ? How will you arrange two cells to make a ...

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  16. Name any five electrical appliances in which the heating effect of cur...

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  17. When the current is switched on through a wire, a compass needle kept ...

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  18. At the time of short circuit, the current in the circuit :

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  19. The filament of an electric bulb is made of a thin wire of :

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  20. The 'element' of an electric iron is made of

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