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Carbon resistors are commonly used to calibrate resistance.

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Important Questions on Current Electricity

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A carbon resistance has the following colour code. What is the value of the resistance?
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The Wheatstone bridge shown in the figure below, gets balanced when the carbon resistor used as R1 has the colour code (orange, red, brown). The resistors R2 and R4 are 80 Ω and 40 Ω, respectively. Assuming that the colour code for the carbon resistors gives their accurate values, the colour code for the carbon resistor, used as R3, would be

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The difference between the maximum and minimum values of resistance of a resistor with the color scheme green-green-red-silver is
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The colours of a carbon resistor are yellow, violet, brown and golden respectively from left to right. If the corresponding numbers for the colours are 4, 7, 1 and 5. What will be the resistance of resistor?

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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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The order of coloured rings in a carbon resistor is red, yellow, blue and silver. The resistance of the carbon resistor is :
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Brown, Red and Orange coloured bands on a Carbon resistor are followed by silver band. The value of resistor is ________.
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The resistance of carbon resistor is 7600 + 20% ohms. Write the order of colour rings for it. 
 
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The colour code for a resistance of 22 Ω±5% is _____
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A 200 Ω resistor has certain colour code. If one replaced the red colour by green in the code, the new resistance will be:
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The colour code of a resistance is given below
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The values of resistance and tolerance, respectively, are
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A carbon resistor has bands of colours Green, Yellow and White respectively. Write its resistance. 
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The colour coding on a carbon resistor is shown in the given figure. The resistance value of the given resistor is:

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What are carbon resistors? A carbon resistor is marked in coloured band in sequence Blue, Green, Orange, Gold. What is the resistance and tolerance value of resistors?
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A galvanometer coil has a resistance of 15 Ω. The meter shows full scale deflection for a current of 4 mA. How will you convert the galvanometer into ammeter of range 0 to 6A?
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How will you represent a resistance of 3700Ω±5% using colour code ?
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Two resistances A and B have colour codes orange, blue, white and brown, red, green respectively. Then ratio of their resistances RA:RB is
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The colour code for a carbon resistor of resistance 0.25±10% is
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A 2 W carbon resistor is color coded with green, black, red and silver respectively. The maximum current which can be passed through this resistor is: