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DC Circuit

The document contains questions about electrical concepts including: 1) How the resistance of a wire changes when its diameter is reduced by half. 2) What a shunt is and how it is used to convert a galvanometer into an ammeter. 3) The definition of drift velocity and the relationship between current, drift velocity, and number of free electrons in a metallic conductor. It also contains two numerical problems calculating current density and drift velocity given information about current, wire dimensions, and number density of electrons.

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DC Circuit

The document contains questions about electrical concepts including: 1) How the resistance of a wire changes when its diameter is reduced by half. 2) What a shunt is and how it is used to convert a galvanometer into an ammeter. 3) The definition of drift velocity and the relationship between current, drift velocity, and number of free electrons in a metallic conductor. It also contains two numerical problems calculating current density and drift velocity given information about current, wire dimensions, and number density of electrons.

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 DC Circuit

Short Question
1. A wire is carrying current? Is it charged?

2. Define drift velocity

Long Question
1. A wire having resistance R is stretched so as to reduce it’s diamtere to half of it’s original
value. What will be It’s new resistance?

2. What do you mean by Shunt? Describe it’s use in converting a galvanometer into
ammeter?

3. What is drift velocity of electron? Derive a realation between the current through a
metallic conductor an dthe drift velocity in terms of the number of free electrons per unit
volume of the conductor

Numerical

1. A copper wire has a diameter of 1.02 mm and carries a constant current of 1.67A.If the
density of free electrons in copper is 8.5  1028 m3, calculate the current density and drift
velocity of electrons.

2. A current density of 1.8A flows through a wire of area of cross-section 0.5mm2 . Find the
current density in wire. If the number density of electrons in the wire is 8.8  1028 m3 .
Find the drif velocity of electorns.

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