
A wire of resistance is drawn out so that its length is increased by twice of its original length. The ratio of new resistance to original resistance is:

Important Questions on Current Electricity
A carbon resistance has the following colour code. What is the value of the resistance?













Model a torch battery of length to be made up of a thin cylindrical bar of radius and a concentric thin cylindrical shell of radius filled in between with an electrolyte of resistivity (see figure). If the battery is connected to a resistance of value , the maximum Joule heating in will take place for :

In a conductor, if the number of conduction electrons per unit volume is and mean free time is (femtosecond), its approximate resistivity 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

