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If 400 Ω of resistance is made by adding four 100 Ω resistance of tolerance 5%, then the tolerance of the combination is

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Important Questions on Current Electricity

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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:
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A carbon resistance has the following colour code. What is the value of the resistance?
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A resistance is shown in the figure. Its value and tolerance are given respectively by:
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The colour code for a carbon resistor of resistance 0.25±10% is
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A wire made of aluminium having resistivity ρ=2.8×10-8 Ω-m with a circular cross-section and has a radius of 2×10-3 m. A current of 5 A flows through the wire. If the voltage difference between the ends is 1 V,  the length of the wire in m is 
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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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A wire of resistance 12 ohms per meter is bent to form a complete circle of radius 10 cm.  The resistance between its two diametrically opposite points, A and B as shown in the figure is

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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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Consider a cylindrical conductor of length L and area of cross-section A. The specific conductivity varies as σx=σ0Lx where x is the distance along the axis of the cylinder from one of its ends. The resistance of the system along the cylindrical axis 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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A uniform wire of length l and radius r has a resistance of 100 Ω . It is recast into a wire of radius r2. The resistance of new wire will be-
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Two metal wires of identical dimensions are connected in series. If v1 and v2 are the conductivities of the metal wires respectively, the effective conductivity if the combination is:
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The resistance of a wire is R ohm. If it is melted and stretched to n times its original length, its new resistance will be
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In a conductor, if the number of conduction electrons per unit volume is 8.5×1028  m-3 and mean free time is 25fs (femtosecond), its approximate resistivity is: me=9.1×10-31kg

 

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Space between two concentric conducting spheres of radii a and b (b>a) is filled with a medium of resistivity  ρ . The resistance between the two spheres will be:
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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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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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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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