
The three colours in a carbon resistor are red, black and orange. If the fourth colour is absent, then the value of tolerance of the resistor is

Important Questions on Current Electricity

A carbon resistance has the following colour code. What is the value of the resistance?


characteristic of a copper wire of length and area of cross-section is shown in figure. The slope of the curve becomes





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 and . What will be the resistance of resistor?










The colour coding on a carbon resistor is shown in the given figure. The resistance value of the given resistor is:


The values of resistance and tolerance, respectively, are

The Wheatstone bridge shown in the figure below, gets balanced when the carbon resistor used as has the colour code (orange, red, brown). The resistors and are and , respectively. Assuming that the colour code for the carbon resistors gives their accurate values, the colour code for the carbon resistor, used as , would be

