Consider a silver wire which it at a temperature of 40◦ and has a diameter of 1.2 mm.
a) What is the resistivity of the wire?
b) If a field of 3.5 V/m is applied to the wire, find the current in the wire as a result.
c) What is the potential difference from one end of the wire to the other to produce the current in part b) if the wire is 20 m long?
d) What is the drift velocity of a conduction electron in the wire (assume one conduction electron per atom of silver).
Consider a silver wire which it at a temperature of 40◦ and has a diameter of...
An aluminum wire with a diameter of 0.115 mm has a uniform electric field of 0.235 V/m imposed along its entire length. The temperature of the wire is 45.0°C. Assume one free electron per atom. (a) Use the information in this Table of Resistivities and Temperature Coefficients to determine the resistivity (in Ω · m) of aluminum at this temperature. ρ = Ω · m (b) What is the current density (in MA/m2) in the wire? J = MA/m2 (c) What is...
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An aluminum wire with a diameter of 0.095 mm has a uniform electric field of 0.205 V/m imposed along its entire length. The temperature of the wire is 35.0°C. Assume one free electron per atom. (a) Use the information in this Table of Resistivities and Temperature Coefficients to determine the resistivity (in . m) of aluminum at this temperature. p= 2.m (b) What is the current density (in MA/m2) in the wire? = C MA/m2 (c) What is the total...
A wire 3.66 m long and 6.77 mm in diameter has a resistance of
21.7 m?. A potential difference of 17.5 V is applied between the
ends. (a) What is the current in amperes in the wire?
(b) What is the magnitude of the current density? (c)
Calculate the resistivity of the material of which the wire is
made.
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Consider an electrophysiology experiment in which a 0.200 mm diameter round silver wire is used as a stimulation electrode. In this experiment, a current of 3.77~ mA is applied through the wire. The density of free electrons in silver is 5.86 x 10^28 electrons/m^3 . Calculate the magnitude of the drift velocity of the electrons in the silver wire under these conditions. Enter your answer in units of meters/second using calculator scientific notation (e.g., 1.23e-4 for 0.000123).
A 0.880-mm-diameter silver wire carries a 50.0 mA current. What is the electric field in the wire? What is the electron drift speed in the wire?
2) The number density of conduction electrons in silver is 5.86 x 1028 m-3. independent of temperature. If a cylindrical wire of length L and cross-sectional area A were made of silver its electrical resistance would be given by R= ρ L A where ρ is the resistivity of the material measured in Ω−m. The resistivity can also be shown to be related to microscopic properties of the metal such as the number density of conduction electrons, the mass and...
A 5.30 m length of 1.6 mm -diameter wire carries a 710 mA current when 18.0 mV is applied to its ends. The drift velocity is 1.2×10−5 m/s . Part A Determine the resistance R of the wire. Part B Determine the resistivity ρ. Part C Determine the current density j. Part D Determine the electric field inside the wire. Part E Determine the number n of free electrons per unit volume.
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