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Ch3 Problem Current Electricity Q A

This document contains 13 numerical problems related to electricity and circuits. The problems calculate current, resistance, potential difference, and other circuit properties using formulas like Ohm's law. Key steps involve setting up equations for series and parallel circuits and solving them simultaneously to find unknown values. The document provides relevant formulas and data to help work through each multi-step circuit analysis problem.

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Ch3 Problem Current Electricity Q A

This document contains 13 numerical problems related to electricity and circuits. The problems calculate current, resistance, potential difference, and other circuit properties using formulas like Ohm's law. Key steps involve setting up equations for series and parallel circuits and solving them simultaneously to find unknown values. The document provides relevant formulas and data to help work through each multi-step circuit analysis problem.

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CURRENT ELECTRICITY

Numerical Problems:

1) Calculate the current density and average drift speed of conduction electrons in a copper
wire of cross sectional area carrying a current of . Given free electron
density of copper is , .

Given:

2) The number density of free electrons in a copper conductor is . How long


does an electron take to drift from one end of a wire long to its other end? The area of
cross section of the wire is and it is carrying a current of .

Given:

Time taken to drift long can be calculated as,

3) A silver wire has a resistance of at and a resistance of at . Find


the temperature co-efficient of silver. Also find its resistance at .

Given:

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If we take and , the resistance at zero degree is taken as


[ ]

4) mass of nichrome metal is drawn in to a wire of area of cross-section .


Calculate the resistance of the wire. Given density of nichrome and
resistivity of the material as . (Mar 2018)

Given:

( )

5) A wire having length , diameter and resistivity is


connected in series with a battery of emf and internal resistance .. Calculate the
resistance of the wire and current in the circuit. (July 2016)

Given:

First calculate A,

( ) ( )

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6) A battery of internal resistance is connected to resistor and potential difference


across the resistor is . If another resistor of is connected in series with the first
resistor and the battery again connected to the combination. Calculate the emf and the
terminal potential difference across the combination. (Mar 2014)

Case (i)
Given:

First calculate emf of the battery using the expression for


( )

Case(ii)

Terminal potential difference, V is given by


( )

( )

7) In the given circuit diagram, calculate:


(i) The main current through the circuit and
(ii) Also current through resistor. (Jul 2018)

Given:

Total resistance of the circuit is given by

( )

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( )

Current through resistor can be calculated as,

8) Two cells of emf and and internal resistances and respectively are connected
in parallel so as to send the current in the same direction through an external resistance of
. Find the potential difference across resistor. (Mar 2015)

Given:

First calculate effective emf and effective internal


resistance of the equivalent battery.
For parallel combination of cells,

Potential difference can be calculated as

( )

( )

9) Two identical cells either in series or in parallel combination, gives the same current of
through external resistance of . Find emf and internal resistance of each cell. (Jul
2015)

Given:

Cells are identical and

Case(i)
For series combination,
and

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Case(ii)
For parallel combination,

Solving equation (1) and equation (2) we get,


and

10) A cell supplies current through resistor and a current of through


resistor. Find the internal resistance and emf of the cell.

Given: and
and

Case(i) and

Case(ii) and

From (1) and (2)

Substituting the value of in equation (1)

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11) When two resistors are connected in series with a cell of emf and negligible
internal resistance, a current of flows in the circuit. When the resistors are
connected in parallel the main current is . Calculate the resistances. (Mar 2017)

Given:

For Series connection,

( ⁄ )

( ⁄ )

Solving Equation (i) and (iii), we get,

12) A uniform wire of resistance is bent into three parts in the ratio to form a
triangle. A cell of emf and negligible internal resistance is connected across the
highest of the three resistances. Calculate the current in each branch of the circuit.

Given:

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Total resistance of the circuit can be calculated as,

Total current can be calculated as,

Current through and is same, since each branch has


same resistance.

13) An electric current divides into 3 parallel branches in which the lengths of the wires are
in the ratio and the diameters are in the ratio . Find the current in each branch,
if the wires are of the same material.

Given: Total current,

Ratio of length
Ratio of their diameter
The ratio of their radius will be
The ratio of their Area
(since area )

We have,

In parallel combination

But,

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