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A metal rod of length 10 cm and a rectangular cross-section of 1 cm×12 cm is connected to a battery across opposite faces. The resistance will be

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Important Questions on Current Electricity

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A carbon resistor of 47±4.7  is to be marked with rings of different colours for its identification. The colour code sequence will be:
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Masses of three wires of copper are in the ratio 1:3:5 and their lengths are in the ratio 5:3:1. The ratio of their electrical resistance are
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If the last band on the carbon resistor is absent, then the tolerance is

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A wire of resistance 3 Ω is stretched to twice its original length. The resistance of the new wire will be:
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I-V characteristic of a copper wire of length L and area of cross-section A is shown in figure. The slope of the curve becomes

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Assertion: The drift velocity of electrons in a metallic wire will decrease, if the temperature of the wire is increased.

Reason: On increasing the temperature, conductivity of metallic wire decreases.
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Though the electron drift velocity is small and electron charge is very small, a conductor can carry an appreciably large current because
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I - V graphs for two different electrical appliances P and Q are shown in the diagram. If RP and RQ be the resistances of the devices, then

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