Questions tagged [electrical-resistance]
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Finding resistance tough problem can anyone solve it? [closed]
I have designed this problem by my own but not able to find solution can anyone help me?
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How does voltage behave in a parallel circuit?
I am studying the series and parallel combinations of capacitors and resistors. I do know that voltage is divided in series whereas it's the same for all circuit components in parallel combination and ...
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Grounding a simple circuit?
Suppose I have a simple DC circuit consisting of a battery of voltage $V$ (no internal resistance assumed), and a resistor (resistance $R$) connected in series by conducting wires. Because the wires ...
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Proof of internal resistance acting like it does
I believe Ohm's law via the drude model (about average collisions time).
Right after, I read about internal resistance of a battery, and they used Ohm's law as a justification.
That doesn't make sense ...
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What is the current flowing through the ammeter? [closed]
Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?
I'm getting decimal values, but the answers should be integers. I think I messed up in the equations.
My equations using Kirchoff's loop rule are:
$$...
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How can you expect a “fractional resistance change” with change in temperature?
I was learning about temperature dependence of resistance on a website that states as follows.
An intuitive approach to temperature dependence leads one to expect a fractional change in resistance ...
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Incongruent expressions for $E$- and $B$-fields based on approach
I am having two issues with Maxwell's equations in the following problem:
A thin conducting disc has radius a thickness b and electrical
resistivity ρ. It is placed in a uniform time-dependent ...
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Potential difference between two cylindrical conductors [closed]
How to find potential difference between two cylindrical conductors given these?
I have an idea how to solve this using $R = pL / A$ but I have no idea how to get the equivalent resistance using the ...
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Does electronic drag exist?
I have an aluminum desktop toy that is not magnetic but when I spin it and move some high strength neodymium magnets near it slows down a lot faster than normal. Is this forming some kind of eddy ...
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What is the bump in the resistivity vs temperature curve of the nichrome 80 wire?
I have measured the resistivity of a nichrome ($80$ Nickel $20$ Chrome) wire as a function of temperature.
Because my setup is quite crude (just a power supply and a couple of multimeters to measure ...
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Finding resistance of infinite grid of resistors doubt in common method
While finding the resistance for an infinite square grid of resistors streching in all direction for two adjacent points. iT is assumed that the current coming out from the wire is same in all ...
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Longitudinal conductivity from density of states (DOS)
It is well-known that using the so-called Streda formula, the transversal conductivity $\sigma_{xy}$ and thus the Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional material is given as the derivative of the ...
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Will the charge flow to another capacitor after the switch is opened or will stay on $12 \rm F$ capacitor as there is no potential difference? [closed]
This is a question from a test series for iit jee.
answer of the question is zero
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RL circuit with AC source transient
I have a simulation of RL circuit connected with an ac source. Any one can tell me please that why the peak of the current during the first positive half cycle is higher than the peak of current ...
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Transient in RL circuit
Why the transient current will die off in series RL circuit with AC source?
Every time the ac voltage source reverses direction so does the current and the current has to pass through the same ...
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Is saying current as function of voltage same as current as function of $R$?
Is saying that current as a function of voltage same as saying current as voltage of Resistance?
And can we say both: current as function of voltage and resistance.
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Electrical impedance [closed]
I really just wanted to confirm if my understanding about electrical impedance in an AC circuit is correct.
So essentially the equation of impedance that $(\text{mod }Z)^2 = R^2 + (\omega L-\frac{1}{\...
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The Drude model appears to be inconsistent with itself?
According to the Drude Model, we have that
$$\vec{J}=\frac{ne^2 \tau}{m_e}\vec{E}$$
where $\tau$ is the mean free time of each electron and $n$ is the free electron density. This is simply ohms law ...
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A contradiction between the Drude Model and Ohm's Law?
Using the Drude Model, we get that
$$\vec{J}=\frac{ne^2 \tau}{m_e}\vec{E}$$
where $\tau$ is the mean free time of each electron and $n$ is the free electron density. This is simply ohms law and hence ...
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Voltage of capacitors after long time ($RC$ Circuit) [closed]
I'm currently taking a course in electromagnetism, and I got stuck with this problem:
The Problem:
All of the resistors and capacitors have the same values, $R$ and $C$ respectively.
The circuit is ...
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Why doesn't Current through a resistor decrease with voltage drop?
I'm teaching DC Theory. I started the class with a simple circuit. A 24V voltage source and a 8000 ohm resistor. As I was previewing Kirchoff's Law for Voltage a student asked...
"If the voltage ...
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What is the difference between the two formulas for each of resistance and capacitance?
Resistance and capacitance (of parallel plate capacitors) both have two formulas for them: $R=V/I$ and $R=ρL/A$ for resistance, and $C=Q/V$ and $C=ƐA/d$ for capacitance. For any given resistor and ...
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Why are these resistors not in series? [closed]
this is the circuit in question.
I treated $R_1$ and $R_2$ as resistors in series, and $R_3$ and $R_4$ as resistors in series. Then the equivalent resistors were combined in parallel. However, this is ...
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Heat Energy $\propto 1/R$ or $\propto R$?
I know that heat energy can be calculated by $I^2 R t$. Therefore, it's directly proportional to resistance.
However,
$$I^2 R t = \frac{V^2}{R}t$$
In this case, won't the heat energy be inversely ...
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Can deadly electrocutions be prevented by wearing a simple wire?
One way to die when working with electricity is for enough current to pass through your heart, not much is needed. Often you are protected by wearing shoes or by the current flowing through two parts ...
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Is it possible to arbitrarly shorten the oscillation path of the electrons inside an inductor just by increasing the number of turns?
Is it possible to arbitrarly shorten the oscillation path of the electrons inside an inductor just by increasing the number of turns?Is it possible to force them to oscillate between neighboring atoms ...
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Can the current through this $6 \text{ }\Omega$ resistor be zero? [closed]
In other words, can the $6 \text{ }\Omega$ resistor below have $I = 0$? I think the answer is yes, depending on the direction of the current.
Also, what do the negative $\epsilon$ values in the ...
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Doubt regarding concept of current electricity
Recently I started with concept of power provided by battery in moving charge from one point to other in a wire. NCERT says that
"if charge were to move in conductor free of collisions then the ...
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Can we measure resistance of a diode using Ohm's law $V=IR$ for a specific value of voltage and current?
As a diode doesn't follow $V$ proportional to $I$, I was wondering if we can use Ohm's law to calculate its resistance for a specific set of voltage and current, as its resistance varies as per the ...
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Is the 'electrostatics' condition impossible for a point charge existing in space with conductivity?
It is a known equation that:
$$ \vec{j} = \sigma \vec{E}$$
Where $\vec{j}$ is current per area density, $ \vec{E}$ is the electric field and $\sigma$ is the conductivity.
Consider the set up of having ...
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If $I \propto V$, then why is $R = V/I$ and not $I/V$?
I know that the current flowing through a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across its ends (by Ohm's Law).
Hence,
I ∝ V
V ∝ I
R = V/I, where R is a constant (Resistance)
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What is impedance?
I'm looking at impedance in the regime of a waveguide. I have not been able to find much on what impedance actually is apart from (ratio of electric over magnetic field strength). But what really is ...
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Combination of resistors [duplicate]
The question is find the potential difference between points A and B i.e. (V(A)-V(B)) in the network given.
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How does Ohm's law work? Can a resistance change depending on the applied voltage?
I'm refreshing my memory on electromagnetism, and even though I thought I completely understood Ohm's law, today, while reading my textbook I came across the following.
My question is, what does '...
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Rheostat at 0% interaction with Ohm's law
While working on an assignment, I recently came across something that I can't understand. I have a rheostat and an ammeter connected in line. When the rheostat gets the value $0$ I get a reading on ...
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Power of Bulbs Connected in Series and Parallel
Let's say that I have a circuit consisting of a power supply of $220V$ and $2$ bulbs of power-voltage rating $40W-220V$ and $60W-220V$ in series. How would I calculate the current flowing across the ...
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Current through a battery
Today was my first class in circuits.(I am moving to 11th grade).
We were given the following circuit.
After analyzing potential differences and finding current in the resistor , we found that ...
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Which statement is right for capacitor in steady state? [closed]
what should should I say for a capacitor in steady state
is the potential drop in capacitor 0 due to no current the current in capacitor 0 due to no potential drop or?
For the former statement I ...
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Wave impedance in a wave guide
I'm trying to get a better understanding of impedance for a wave guide. First of all, my current understanding of the topic is that its a ratio of the electric field amplitude over the magnetic field ...
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What happens when a bulb fuses in a parallel circuit? [closed]
Let's say there's a parallel circuit consisting of some bulbs (which are lit up). If one of them fuses, I know that the others would continue to glow. But because one of the bulbs has fused, would the ...
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How to find the canonical equations of the RLC circuit
First, I consider the LC circuit with an ion in the capacitor, which is like this:
The current $I$ can be derived easily by using Shockly-Ramo theorem
\begin{equation}
I = -\frac{qp}{dM} + C\dot{U} \...
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Divergence of charge velocity
$$
\mathbf J=\sigma \mathbf E
\\\rho \mathbf v=\sigma \mathbf E
$$
Taking the divergence of both sides:
$$
\rho\nabla\cdot\mathbf v=\sigma\nabla\cdot\mathbf E
$$
Subsituting $\nabla\cdot\mathbf E = \...
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Do resistance have to heat?
Not a physicist.
Is there a way to build resistances that do not heat when opposing current?
More generally, is it necessary to waste energy to resistance?
If I cut a wire, there will be an almost ...
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Can someone please explain the work of a resistor?
Well I want to know what does a resistor do let our electrical appliances from burning in a circuit I know it does not slow the current flow so what does it really do?
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Does a bulb offer still offer resistance even after it gets fused? [duplicate]
Sorry, for my naivety this is my first time posting here.
But, my question is that will the bulb offer any resistance after it's fused?
I know that no current can flow though the fused bulb i.e. $I=0$....
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What does a resistor do if not slow the current flow in a series circuit?
If the current is same in the series circuit then what does a resistor do to really if not less the flow of electrons?
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Why is the resistance proportional to the length squared in a wire?
I don't understand why the $R∝L^2$ (given that the volume doesn't change.) Eg: If the resistance of a wire is $3 \ \Omega$ and the length extends by $1.5$x the amount, then the new resistance will be $...
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Explaining Ohm’s Law using quantum mechanics
This is a follow up question to my earlier question here:
Increasing the Voltage, Ohms law, what am I missing?
A short summery of what was the problem in my original question is this:
We have a ...
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Simple Circuit analysis [closed]
Someone could explain to me why $U_{in} = \varepsilon \frac{R_1}{(R_1+R_2)} $?
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What happens to the charges when a resistor is short-circuited?
let's consider a parallel between a short circuit and a resistor $R$, supplied by a voltage source $V_S$ with a series resistor $R_S$.
Circuit Theory description: the resistor $R$ is completely ...
