CURRENT ELECTRICITY

1. A wire has a length of 10 m and area of cross-section 105 m 2 . If the resistivity of the
material is 1107 m . Find the resistance of the wire.

2. A copper wire has a length 5 m and a resistance of 1.7 . If resistivity of copper is

1.7 1018 m , find the area of cross section of the wire.

3. A metal wire has a resistance of 5.2 and lenth of 4m. If the area of cross section is
5 1018 m 2 , find the resistivity ?

4. A coil of wire a resistance of 24 . If it is connected to a battery producing a potential

difference of 6 v, find the current through the coil ?

5. Using all the three resisters of different values R1 , R2 and R3 , find the number of
different equivalent resistances possible ?

6. Two resistance coils when connected in parallel gave an equivalent resistance of 2.4
and when the same two are connected in series gave an equivalent resistance of 10 .
Find the individual resistances of the two coils ?

7. The electric bulbs each having a resistance of 400 are connected in series. Find the
equivalent resistance of the combination .

8. Four identical bulbs connected in series together offer a resistance of 2500  . Find the
resistance of each bulb.

9. Two resisters of 3  and 6  are connected in series. Find the equivalent resistance.

10. Two resisters 9  and 18  are connected in parallel with each other. Find the
equivalent resistance.

11. Three resisters of 2  , 3  and 6  are connected in series. Find the equivalent
resistance.

12. Three resisters of 2  , 3  , and 6  are connected in parallel. Find the equivalent
resistance.

13. If the potential difference across the ends of a ‘Ohmic’ cinductor is halved, what happens
to the current that through it ?

14. The equivalent resistance of two resistors in series is R/2. If one of them is R/3 find the
other.

15. An immersion heater is rated 1500 W and 250 V. Find the current it draws when
connected to normal supply voltage.

16. An automobile bulb draws a current 3 A and delivers a power of 36 W. Ffind its voltage
on which it is working.
17. Two resisters of 4  and 6  are connected in series. A current of 0.25 A is following
through the combination. Find the potential difference across i) 4  ii) 6  and iii) across
the combination

18. Fill in the following table. Write the appropriate units also. V= potential difference , i=
current, R= resistance and P= electric power.

V I R P
1 20 V 4A ? ?
2 25V ? 10  ?
3 ? 3A 6 ?
4 ? ? 8 32W
5 ? 5A ? 100W
6 12V ? ? 72W

19. Two wires made of different materials and same radius and length are joined to form a
longer composite wire of double the length. If s1 and s2 are the specific resistances of
the materials, find the equivalent specific resistance of the composite wire ?

20. A source has an emf of 1.5 V and internal resistance of 1  . If it is connected to a load
resistance of 2  , find the current delivered by it ?

21. A battery has an electro motive force of 6V and internal resistance of 0.2  . It is
connected to a load of 23.8  . Find i) the current supplied by the battery ii) the terminal
pd iii) the internal drop inside the battery ?

22. A battery has an electro motive force of 4.5 V and internal resistance of 1.5  . It is
connected to a load of 7.5  . Find i) the current supplied by the battery ii) the internal pd
iii) the internal drop inside the battery iv) the electro charge passing through the load in
once minute ?

23. A wire of resistance “R” is bent in the form of an equilateral triangle. What is the
resistance across a side ?

24. A wire has a resistance ‘R’ across its ends. If it is stretched to i) diuble its length ii) half
its radius iii) increase the length by 1% iv) decrease its radius by 1% find the resistance in
each case ?

25. In the determination of the internal resistance of a cell using a potentiometer, a balance
length of 660 cm is obtained when the cell connected in the secondary circuit. When the
cell is shunterd by a resistance of 10  , the balance length decreased to 550 cm. Find the
internal resistance of the cell ?

26. An electric heater produces a certain amount of heat ‘H’ in a time of t1 and a second
electric heater working on the same mains produces the same amount of heat in a time of
t 2 . If the two heaters are connected in i) series ii) parallel to the same mains, find the
time taken to produce the same heat.