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RR and R, Find The Number of

The document contains 26 problems related to calculating current, resistance, voltage, power, and other electrical concepts for circuits involving series and parallel combinations of resistors and batteries. The problems involve using formulas for resistance, current, voltage, power, and other concepts to solve for unknown values given certain parameters of the circuits.

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RR and R, Find The Number of

The document contains 26 problems related to calculating current, resistance, voltage, power, and other electrical concepts for circuits involving series and parallel combinations of resistors and batteries. The problems involve using formulas for resistance, current, voltage, power, and other concepts to solve for unknown values given certain parameters of the circuits.

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CURRENT ELECTRICITY

1. A wire has a length of 10 m and area of cross-section 105 m 2 . If the resistivity of the
material is 1107 m . Find the resistance of the wire.

2. A copper wire has a length 5 m and a resistance of 1.7 . If resistivity of copper is


1.7 1018 m , find the area of cross section of the wire.

3. A metal wire has a resistance of 5.2 and lenth of 4m. If the area of cross section is
5 1018 m 2 , find the resistivity ?

4. A coil of wire a resistance of 24 . If it is connected to a battery producing a potential


difference of 6 v, find the current through the coil ?

5. Using all the three resisters of different values R1 , R2 and R3 , find the number of
different equivalent resistances possible ?

6. Two resistance coils when connected in parallel gave an equivalent resistance of 2.4
and when the same two are connected in series gave an equivalent resistance of 10 .
Find the individual resistances of the two coils ?

7. The electric bulbs each having a resistance of 400 are connected in series. Find the
equivalent resistance of the combination .

8. Four identical bulbs connected in series together offer a resistance of 2500  . Find the
resistance of each bulb.

9. Two resisters of 3  and 6  are connected in series. Find the equivalent resistance.

10. Two resisters 9  and 18  are connected in parallel with each other. Find the
equivalent resistance.

11. Three resisters of 2  , 3  and 6  are connected in series. Find the equivalent
resistance.

12. Three resisters of 2  , 3  , and 6  are connected in parallel. Find the equivalent
resistance.

13. If the potential difference across the ends of a ‘Ohmic’ cinductor is halved, what happens
to the current that through it ?

14. The equivalent resistance of two resistors in series is R/2. If one of them is R/3 find the
other.

15. An immersion heater is rated 1500 W and 250 V. Find the current it draws when
connected to normal supply voltage.

16. An automobile bulb draws a current 3 A and delivers a power of 36 W. Ffind its voltage
on which it is working.
17. Two resisters of 4  and 6  are connected in series. A current of 0.25 A is following
through the combination. Find the potential difference across i) 4  ii) 6  and iii) across
the combination

18. Fill in the following table. Write the appropriate units also. V= potential difference , i=
current, R= resistance and P= electric power.

V I R P
1 20 V 4A ? ?
2 25V ? 10  ?
3 ? 3A 6 ?
4 ? ? 8 32W
5 ? 5A ? 100W
6 12V ? ? 72W

19. Two wires made of different materials and same radius and length are joined to form a
longer composite wire of double the length. If s1 and s2 are the specific resistances of
the materials, find the equivalent specific resistance of the composite wire ?

20. A source has an emf of 1.5 V and internal resistance of 1  . If it is connected to a load
resistance of 2  , find the current delivered by it ?

21. A battery has an electro motive force of 6V and internal resistance of 0.2  . It is
connected to a load of 23.8  . Find i) the current supplied by the battery ii) the terminal
pd iii) the internal drop inside the battery ?

22. A battery has an electro motive force of 4.5 V and internal resistance of 1.5  . It is
connected to a load of 7.5  . Find i) the current supplied by the battery ii) the internal pd
iii) the internal drop inside the battery iv) the electro charge passing through the load in
once minute ?

23. A wire of resistance “R” is bent in the form of an equilateral triangle. What is the
resistance across a side ?

24. A wire has a resistance ‘R’ across its ends. If it is stretched to i) diuble its length ii) half
its radius iii) increase the length by 1% iv) decrease its radius by 1% find the resistance in
each case ?

25. In the determination of the internal resistance of a cell using a potentiometer, a balance
length of 660 cm is obtained when the cell connected in the secondary circuit. When the
cell is shunterd by a resistance of 10  , the balance length decreased to 550 cm. Find the
internal resistance of the cell ?

26. An electric heater produces a certain amount of heat ‘H’ in a time of t1 and a second
electric heater working on the same mains produces the same amount of heat in a time of
t 2 . If the two heaters are connected in i) series ii) parallel to the same mains, find the
time taken to produce the same heat.

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