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A heater coil is cut into two equal parts and only one part is now used in the heater. The heat generated will now be

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Important Questions on Current Electricity

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A material B has twice the specific resistance of A. A circular wire made of B has twice the diameter of a wire made of A. Then for the two wires to have the same resistance, the ratio lAlB of their
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The resistance of a wire is 5 Ω at 50ºC and 6 Ω at 100°C. The resistance of the wire at 0°C will be
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Consider a thin square sheet of side L and thickness t, made of a material of resistivity ρ. The resistance between two opposite faces shown by the shaded areas in the figure is:

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The specific resistance of a conductor increases with
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The electric resistance of a certain wire of iron is R. If its length and radius are both doubled, then
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When a wire of uniform cross-section a, length l and resistance R is bent into a complete circle, the resistance between two diametrically opposite points will be:
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A wire of a certain material is stretched slowly by ten per cent. Its new resistance and specific resistance become respectively: