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    Name: Monday, 23 November 2020

    Series Circuits, Ohms Law, Resistance and Share of Potential Difference

    These are a series of questions for each circuit. They increase steadily in difficulty. Only move onto
    the next circuit when you have completed all questions for the previous one.
    Circuit A
    1. If the reading on the voltmeter shows 1V, how much potential difference will be measured
    across resistor A?
    2. How does the resistance of resistor A compare to resistor B? Explain your reasoning.
    3. What is the ratio of the potential differences across A & B. Express this in the form A:B.
    4. Remembering that pd falls back to zero by the time it gets around the circuit and that larger
    resistance cause larger drops in pd, what then is the resistance of resistor A?
    Name: Monday, 23 November 2020

    Circuit B
    5. The resistance of the lamp is 150Ω, what is the total resistance of the circuit?
    6. Will the lamp take a larger or smaller share of the potential difference than resistor A?
    Explain your reasoning.
    7. What is the total current in the circuit?
    8. Use Ohm’s law to show that the potential difference across the lamp is 9V.
    9. Use Ohm’s law to show that the potential difference across the resistor is 3V.
    Circuit C
    10. What is the total resistance of the circuit?
    11. What is the ratio (Resistance of B):(Resistance of A)?
    12. What is the ratio (pd across B):(pd across A)?
    13. What is the potential difference across B?
    14. What is the potential difference across A?
    15. What is the current in the circuit?
    Circuit D
    16. Draw each of the circuit symbols in this diagram and label them.
    17. If the potential difference across B is 4V, and across the lamp is 4V, what is the potential
    difference across the component A?
    18. What can you say about the resistance of the lamp and the resistance B? How do you know
    this is true?
    19. What proportion of the total resistance is A?
    20. Calculate the resistance of A.
    21. What is the current in the circuit?
    22. As the resistance of A is increased describe what happens to the potential difference across B?
    Circuit E
    23. If the ammeter reads 2A, what is the potential difference of the battery?
    24. Use Ohm’s law to calculate the potential difference across A
    25. Use Ohm’s law to calculate the potential difference across B
    26. Explain with reference to the motion of ions and electrons why the resistor A gets hotter than
    resistor B. [4]
    Circuit F
    27. What is the name of the component A?
    28. Describe how the resistance of A changes with temperature.
    29. At 23 degrees room temperature the resistance of A is 100Ω, at this time the voltmeter V
    reads 8000V. What is the potential difference across A? [2]
    30. Show by calculation that as the resistance of A increases to 200Ω, the reading on the
    voltmeter falls to 6000V. [5]
    31. The temperature of the room rises significantly above room temperature. Explain what would
    happen to:
    a. The total resistance of the circuit. [2]
    b. The voltmeter reading across the lamp.[2]
    c. The brightness of the lamp. [2]
    Name: Monday, 23 November 2020

    ANSWERS
    1. 1V
    2. A = 4B, because Pd across A = 4xPd across B
    3. 4:1
    4. 40Ω
    5. 200 Ω
    6. Larger, it has larger resistance.
    7. 12/200 = 0.06A
    8. 150*0.06 = 9V
    9. 50*0.06 = 3V
    10. 150 Ω
    11. 2:1
    12. 2:1
    13. 8V
    14. 4V
    15. 12/150 = 0.08A
    16. Left to right -> Variable resistor, resistor, lamp, ammeter, voltmeter
    17. 16V
    18. They have the same resistance; they take the same share of the pd so they must have the same
    resistance.
    19. 4/6 = 2/3 = 67%
    20. 40 Ω
    21. 24/60 = 0.4A
    22. As the resistance of A increased, it becomes a larger proportion of the total resistance. This
    means it takes a larger proportion of the p.d, so the pd across B and the lamp falls.
    23. 2*400 = 800V
    24. 2*300 = 600V
    25. 2*100 = 200V
    26. In resistor A there is a higher resistance. Electrons flowing through A collide with positive
    ions [1] more often than in B [1] transferring more energy [1]. This heats resistor A [1] more
    than resistor B.
    27. Thermistor
    28. As temperature of the thermistor increases resistance decreases.
    29. 4000V
    30. Ratio of pd = 1:2 [1] meaning resistance of lamp is 200 Ω [1]. Increasing the resistance of A
    to 200 Ω means both components have the same resistance [1], so both component take equal
    share of pd [1]. 12000/2 = 6000V [1]
    31. As
    a. Total resistance of circuit decreases because resistance of A decreases,
    b. Voltmeter reading across lamp increases because lamp is now a larger proportion of
    total resistance (compared to before)
    c. Brightness of the lamp increases because total current increases & share of pd
    increases. Dissipated power = I2R.

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