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A wire of resistance R1 is drawn out so that its length is increased by twice of its original length. The ratio of new resistance to original resistance 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 wire of resistance 12 ohms per meter is bent to form a complete circle of radius 10 cm.  The resistance between its two diametrically opposite points, A and B as shown in the figure is

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Space between two concentric conducting spheres of radii a and b (b>a) is filled with a medium of resistivity  ρ . The resistance between the two spheres will be:
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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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Masses of three wires of copper are in the ratio 1:3:5 and their lengths are in the ratio 5:3:1. The ratio of their electrical resistance are
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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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Two solid conductors are made up of same material, have same length and same resistance. One of them has a circular cross section of area A1 and the other one has a square cross section of area A2. The ratio A1A2 is
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Consider a cylindrical conductor of length L and area of cross-section A. The specific conductivity varies as σx=σ0Lx where x is the distance along the axis of the cylinder from one of its ends. The resistance of the system along the cylindrical axis is
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A uniform wire of length l and radius r has a resistance of 100 Ω . It is recast into a wire of radius r2. The resistance of new wire will be-
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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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Two metal wires of identical dimensions are connected in series. If v1 and v2 are the conductivities of the metal wires respectively, the effective conductivity if the combination is:
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Model a torch battery of length l to be made up of a thin cylindrical bar of radius a and a concentric thin cylindrical shell of radius b filled in between with an electrolyte of resistivity ρ (see figure). If the battery is connected to a resistance of value R, the maximum Joule heating in R will take place for :

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In a conductor, if the number of conduction electrons per unit volume is 8.5×1028  m-3 and mean free time is 25fs (femtosecond), its approximate resistivity is: me=9.1×10-31kg

 

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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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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 electric resistance of a certain wire of iron is R. If its length and radius are both doubled, then
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The resistance of a wire is R ohm. If it is melted and stretched to n times its original length, its new resistance will be
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A wire made of aluminium having resistivity ρ=2.8×10-8 Ω-m with a circular cross-section and has a radius of 2×10-3 m. A current of 5 A flows through the wire. If the voltage difference between the ends is 1 V,  the length of the wire in m is 
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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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