Physics - Alternating Current
Practise 44 NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) questions on Alternating Current. Each question shows a quick preview so you can jump straight to the topic you want to revise.
Alternating Current has been asked in 0 of the 25 years of NTA Abhyas (JEE Main) papers analysed (2002–2026), with 44 questions in all. 100% of them were easy, 0% moderate and 0% tough. Most of its questions came from 2026, with 0 questions that year. In the last three years (2024–2026) it had 0 questions across 49 papers, about 0 per paper.
All of the chapter's questions come from a single topic, Uncategorized.
- 1A bulb is rated at 100 V , 100 W , it can be treated as a resistor. Find out the inductance of an inductor (called choke coil) that should b
- 2An AC circuit drawing power from a source of angular frequency 50 rad s - 1 has a power factor of 0.6 . In this condition, a resistance of 1
- 3The frequency of oscillation of current in the inductor is-
- 4A coil having inductance L and resistance R is connected to a battery of emf ε at t = 0 . If t 1 and t 2 are the times for 90 % and 99 % com
- 5In the circuit shown in the figure, E = 15 V , R 1 = 1 Ω , R 2 = 1 Ω , R 3 = 2 Ω and L = 1 . 5 H . The currents flowing through R 1 , R 2 an
- 6An inductor of inductance 2.0 mH is connected across a charged capacitor of capacitance 5.0 μ F and the resulting L-C circuit is set oscilla
- 7A transformer with efficiency 80 % works at 4 kW and 100 V . If the secondary voltage is 200 V , then the primary and secondary currents are
- 8An A.C. voltage V = 5 cos 1000 t V is applied to an L - R series circuit of inductance 3 mH and resistance 4 Ω . The value of the maximum
- 9The RMS value of AC which when passed through a resistor produces heat, which is twice that produced by a steady current of 1.414 A in the s
- 10If the rms value of the voltage of the waveform shown below is p q V , then what is the value of p + q ? ( p and q are the smallest positive
- 11The primary winding of a transformer has 100 turns and its secondary winding has 200 turns. The primary is connected to an AC supply of 120
- 12An ac source of 50 V (r.m.s value) is connected across a series R - C circuit. If the r.m.s voltage across the resistor is 40 V , then the r
- 13An LCR series circuit is connected to an oscillator (AC supply) having RMS voltage 200 V . If the RMS voltages across resistor, inductor and
- 14A telephone wire of length 200 km has a capacitance of 0.014 μ F km - 1 . If it carries an AC frequency of 5 kHz, what should be the value o
- 15In an LCR circuit, the resonant frequency is 600 Hz and half-power points are at 650 Hz and 550 Hz . The quality factor is
- 16A capacitor of capacitance 10 μ F is connected to an AC ammeter. If the source voltage varies as V = 50 2 sin 100 t , the reading of the a
- 17An inductor ( L = 0.03 H ) and a resistor ( R = 0.15 kΩ ) are connected in series to a battery of 15 V EMF in a circuit shown below. The key
- 18A power transmission line feeds input power at 2400 V to a step-down transformer and which delivers power at 240 V with its primary windings
- 19The output of a step down transformers is measured to be 48 V when connected to a 12 W bulb. The value of peak current is
- 20In the given circuit the R.M.S. values of voltages across the capacitor C , inductor L and resistor R 1 are 12 V , 10 V and 5 V respectively
- 21The steady-state current through L 1 after the switch has been closed for a very long time is
- 22In the adjacent circuit, the instantaneous current equation is
- 23A power transmission line feeds input power at 2400 V to a step-down transformer which delivers power at 240 V with its primary windings hav
- 24The resonance frequency of LCR series a.c. circuit is f 0 . Now the capacitance is made 4 times, then the new resonance frequency will becom
- 25An inductor coil and a capacitor and a resistance of 5 Ω are connected in series to an a.c. source of rms voltage 30 V. When the frequency o
- 26In a series LCR circuit, the voltage drop across the resistance is 8 V , across the inductor is 6 V and across the capacitor is 12 V . Then,
- 27A transformer is used to light a 100 W and 110 V lamp from a 220 V mains. If the main current is 0.5 A . The efficiency of the transformer i
- 28In the circuit shown in diagram, switch S is closed at time t = 0 . The charge which passes through the battery in one time constant is
- 29An inductor of inductance L = 400 mH and resistors of R 1 = 2 Ω and R 2 = 2 Ω are connected to a battery emf 12 V as shown in the figure. Th
- 30A transformer is used to light a 100 W and 110 V lamp from a 220 V mains. If the current is 0 . 5 A , the efficiency of the transformer is
- 31An alternating current is given by i = i 1 cos ωt + i 2 sin ωt . The value of rms current is
- 32A series L C R circuit with 100 resistance is connected to an ac source of 200 V with an angular frequency of 300 rad s - 1 . If only the ca
- 33A transformer having an efficiency of 90 % is working on 200 V , 3 kW power supply. If the current in the secondary coil is 6 A , then the v
- 34An AC e.m.f E = 4 cos 1000 t V is applied to an L R circuit containing inductance 3 m H and resistance 4 Ω . The amplitude of the current
- 35In the given circuit the R.M.S. values of voltages across the capacitor C , inductor L and resistor R 1 are 12 V , 10 V and 5 V respectively
- 36The reading of the ammeter and voltmeter are (Both the instruments are ac meters and measures rms value) -
- 37In a transformer the number of primary turns is four times that of the secondary turns. Its primary is connected to an AC source of voltage
- 38A coil having inductance L and resistance R is connected to a battery of emf ε at t = 0 . If t 1 and t 2 are the time for 90 % and 99 % comp
- 39The power factor of an L-R series circuit is 0 . 5 and that of a C-R series circuit is 0 . 2 . If the elements ( L , C a n d R ) of the two
- 40The natural frequency of an L - C circuit is 125000 cycles / s . When a dielectric medium of dielectric constant K is introduced between the
- 41In an AC circuit, the instantaneous values of emf and current are Ε = 200 sin 300 t V and i = 2 sin 300 t + π 3 A respectively. The averag
- 42In the circuit shown, current measured by ammeter is x ampere. Find x .
- 43In the circuit shown in the figure, the switch was kept in p o s i t i o n - 1 for a very long time and then at t = 0 it is shifted to p o s
- 44The figure below shows a battery of emf ε connected to an inductor L and a resistance R in series. If the switch is closed at t = 0 , then t
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Of the 44 questions analysed for this chapter, 100% are easy, 0% moderate and 0% tough. 2026 had the most, with 0 questions.
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All of this chapter's questions come from a single topic: Uncategorized.