Question

In an electric iron being used in a household, the plastic insulation of live wire and neutral wire in the connecting cable gets torn. Due to this, naked live wire touches the naked neutral wire directly and the electric fuse of the circuit blows off.
(a) What term is used to indicate the touching of naked live wire and neutral wire directly?
(b) When the naked wires touch each other directly, what happens to the resistance of the circuit so formed?
(c) What happens to the current flowing through the wires under these conditions?
​(d) Which wire connected to the body of an electric iron protects the person using this electric iron from electric shock?

Answer 1

Answer:

In an electric iron being used in a household, the plastic insulation of live wire and neutral wire in the connecting cable gets torn. Due to this, naked live wire touches the naked neutral wire directly and the electric fuse of the circuit blows off.

(a) What term is used to indicate the touching of naked live wire and neutral wire directly?

(b) When the naked wires touch each other directly, what happens to the resistance of the circuit so formed?

(c) What happens to the current flowing through the wires under these conditions?

(d) Which wire connected to the body of an electric iron protects the person using this electric iron from electric shock?

Answer 2

Answer:

option c is correct answer.....