Question

(i) An electrical gadget can give an electric shock to its user under certain circumstances. Mention any two of these circumstances.
(ii) What preventive measure provided in a gadget can protect a person from an electric shock?

Answer 1

(i) An electric shock may be caused:

(1) due to poor insulation of wires

(2) when the electric appliances are touched with wet hands.

(ii) The preventive measures to protect a person from an electric shock are the insulation of wire must be of good quality and it should be checked from time to time particularly when they become old, so that no wire is left naked.