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Two resistances of 400 Ω and 800 Ω are connected in series with 6 V battery of negligible internal resistance. A voltmeter of resistance 10000 Ω is used to measure the potential difference across 400 Ω. The error in the measurement of the potential difference, in volts, is approximately

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A galvanometer, having a resistance of 50 Ω, gives a full-scale deflection for a current of 0.05 A. The length, in metre, of a resistance wire of area of cross-section 2.97×10-2 cm2, that can be used to convert the galvanometer into an ammeter, which can read a maximum of 5 A current, is

(Specific resistance of the wire =5×10-7 Ω m)

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If the resistance of a voltmeter is 10,000 Ω and the resistance of the ammeter is 2 Ω, then find the resistance R, when the voltmeter reads 12 V and the ammeter reads 0.1 A.
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In the circuit shown in the figure, reading of voltmeter is V1 when only S1 is closed, reading of voltmeter is V2 when only S2 is closed and reading of voltmeter is V3 when both S1 and S2 are closed. Then,

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A moving coil galvanometer has 150 equal divisions. Its current sensitivity is 10 divisions per mA and voltage sensitivity is 2 divisions per mV. In order that each division reads 1 V, the resistance, in ohms, needed to be connected in series with the coil, will be
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The graph which represents the relation between the total resistance R of a multi-range moving coil voltmeter and its full-scale deflection V is
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The ammeter has range of 1 A, without shunt. The range can be varied by using different shunt resistances. The graph between shunt resistance and range will have the nature as

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In the circuit shown here, the readings of the ammeter and voltmeter are

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