Potentiometer

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Potentiometer: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Potentiometer, To Find EMF of an Unknown Battery Using Potentiometer, To Compare EMFs of Two Unknown Batteries Using Potentiometer and To Find Internal Resistance of an Unknown Battery Using Potentiometer.

Important Questions on Potentiometer

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The emf of a cell is 2 V and its internal resistance is 2ohm. A resistance of 8ohm is joined to battery in parallel. This is connected in secondary circuit of potentiometer. If 1 V standard cell balances for 100 cm of potentiometer wire, the balance point of above cell is

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A potentiometer can measure emf of a cell because :

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A cell of 2V, 1Ω is balanced at 1.9 m. Then what is balanced length for ideal cell of 2V ?

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The potential gradient of potentiometer is 0.2 volt m-1. A current of 0.1 amp is flowing through a coil of 2 Ohm resistance. The balancing length in meters for the p.d. at the ends of this coil will be

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The length of a wire of a potentiometer is 100 cm, and the emf of its standard cell is E volt. It is employed to measure the emf of a battery whose internal resistance is 0.5 Ohm. If the balance point is

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Resistivity of potentiometer wire is 10-7Ωm and its area of cross-section is 10-6 m2. When a current i=0.1 A flows through the wire, its potential gradient is :

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When a cell is balanced on potentiometer wire, then balancing length is 125 cm. If resistance of 2 ohm is connected across the ends of cell, then balancing length is 100 cm, then internal resistance of cell is

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A cell is balanced at 100 cm of a potentiometer wire when the total length of the wire is 400 cm. If the length of the potentiometer wire is increased by 100 cm, then the new balancing length for the cell will be (Assume pd across potentiometer wire is constant)

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If the specific resistance of a potentiometer wire is 10-7 Ω m, the current flowing through it is 0.1 A and the cross-sectional area of the wire is 10-6 m2 then, the potential gradient will be

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A standard cell of 1.08 V is balanced by the PD across 90 cm of a meter long wire supplied by a cell of emf 2 V through a series resistor of resistance 2 Ω. If the internal resistance of the cell in the primary circuit is zero then the resistance per unit length of potentiometer wire is

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In a potentiometer the balancing with a cell is at length of  220 cm. On shunting the cell with a resistance of 3 Ω balance length becomes 130 cm. Then the value of internal resistance of this cell is

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The temperature coefficient of resistance of a potentiometer wire should be,

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In a potentiometer experiment, the emf of a cell is balanced at L length. Another cell of same emf ε is connected parallel to it, then, new balancing length will be,

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Figure shows a potentiometer. Length of the potentiometer wire AB is 100 cm and its resistance is 100 Ω. EMF of the battery E is 2 V. A resistance R of 50 Ω draws current from the potentiometer. What is the voltage across R when the sliding contact C is at the mid-point of AB?

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A potentiometer is an accurate and versatile device to make electrical measurements of E.M.F, because the method involves:

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In a potentiometer experiment, the balancing with a cell is at a length of 240 cm. On shunting the cell with a resistance of 2 Ω the balancing length becomes 120 cm. The internal resistance of the cell is :-

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The potentiometer wire 10 m long and 20 Ω resistance is connected to a 3 V emf battery and a 10 Ω resistance. The value of potential gradient in V m-1 of the wire will be

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A potentiometer is an accurate and versatile device to make electrical measurements of E.M.F, because the method involves

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Potential gradient K remains constant until: 

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Null point in galvanometer is obtained when a cell of emf ε and internal resistance r is connected across the length of 22 cm wire of potentiometer. Now a resistance of 10Ω is connected across the terminals of the cell (by closing the key k ) and null point is obtained against the length of 20 cm. Then the internal resistance rof the cell is:

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