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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

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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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The colour code of resistor is brown, violet, yellow and gold. Then the value of the resistance is
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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 colour code for a carbon resistor of resistance 0.25±10% is
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A resistance is shown in the figure. Its value and tolerance are given respectively by:
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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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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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The colour code for a resistance of 22 Ω±5% 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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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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Brown, Red and Orange coloured bands on a Carbon resistor are followed by silver band. The value of resistor 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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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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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 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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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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