
A battery has an of and internal resistance of . The terminal to terminal potential difference is less than, equal to or greater than , if the current in the battery is
(1) from negative to positive terminal,
(2) from positive to negative terminal,
(3) zero current?


Important Questions on Current Electricity

Two batteries of emf and and internal resistances and , respectively are connected in parallel, as shown in the figure.

The internal resistances of two cells shown are and . If , the potential difference across the cell

Two nonideal batteries are connected in parallel. Consider the following statements.
The equivalent emf is smaller than either of the two EMFs.
The equivalent internal resistance is smaller than either of the two internal resistance.




Consider the meter bridge circuit without neglecting end corrections. If we used and resistances in place of and , respectively, we get null deflection at . If we interchange the resistances, the null deflection is found to be at . If and are the end correction, then the value of should be,

