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Calculate the electric current density in a uniform wire connected to a battery of emf 3.5 V and negligible internal resistance. The resistance of the wire is 2.0 Ω and its area of cross-section is 0.70 × 10-6 m2.

Important Questions on Electric Resistance and Ohm's Law

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 A 3.0 m long copper wire is carrying a current of 3.0 A. How long does it take for an electron to drift from one end of the wire to the other? The cross-sectional area of the wire is 2.0 × 10-6 m-2 and the number of conduction electrons in copper is 8.5 × 1028 m-3
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Find out the resistivity of a conductor in which a current density of 2.5 A-m-2 is found when an electric field of 15 V-m-1 is applied it.
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A very small current is sent through a wire of length15 m and cross-sectional area 6.0 × 10-7  m-2 Its resistance is measured to be 5.0 Ω. Find the specific resistance of the experiment. What will be the specific conductance?
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What length of a wire of diameter 0.46 mm and specific resistance 50 × 10-6 ohm-cm will be required to prepare a coil of 10 ohm?
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The specific resistance of Nichrome is 100 μΩ-cm. What will be the resistance of a Nichrome wire of 5 m length and 0.01 cm2 area of cross-section?
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A piece of copper of mass 50 g is drawn into a wire of length 50 m. Find the resistance of the wire. The density and the specific resistance of copper are 8.9 × 103 kg m-3  and 1.7 × 10-8 Ω-m respectively.
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A thick wire of 10 Ω resistance is drawn into a thin wire so that its length becomes three times. Calculate its new resistance.
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A wire of resistance 32 Ω is melted and redrawn into wire of half its original length. Find the resistance of the new wire.