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The tolerance level of a resistor with the colour code red, blue, orange, gold 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 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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The colour code for a carbon resistor of resistance 0.25±10% is
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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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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 solids which have the negative temperature coefficient of resistance are:
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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 temperature dependence of resistance of Cu and undoped Si in the temperature range 300-400 K is best described by
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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 conductivity of semiconductor increases with increase in temperature because
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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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Consider four conducing materials copper, tungsten, mercury and aluminum with resistivity ρC, ρT, ρM and ρA respectively. Then :
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A carbon resistor of 56±5.6  is to be marked with rings of different colours for its identification. The colour code sequence will be
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The resistance of a wire at 20 °C is 20 Ω and 500 °C is 60 Ω. At which temperature, its resistance will be 25 Ω ?
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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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