Current, Resistance, Power and Series Circuit Practice Problems

For this assignment, you will need to reference your notes from the first day of this unit.

1. A battery is charged using a current of 5.7 mA for 7 hours.

How much charge passes through the battery in this timeframe?
Hint #1: mA stands for milliAmps. 1 mA = 1/1000th of an Amp……so you need to divide by 1000
Hint #2: standard units for time is seconds….you need to convert hours to seconds
143.64 C

2. What is the current if 1000 Na+ ions were to flow across a cell membrane in 6.5 µs?
Hint #1: EACH individual sodium ion has the overall charge of a proton, e=1.6 x 10−19 C
Hint #2: µs stands for microseconds. 1 µs = 10-6 seconds……so you need to multiply by 10-6
2.46e-11

3. How much current is produced from a 12 V battery when a single 150 Ω resistor is connected to the
battery? 0.08 A

4. What voltage must a battery have to produce 0.5 A of current through a 2.0 Ω resistor?
1V

5. An LCD smart TV draws 1.15 Amps when operated at 120 V. How much power does it use?
138 Watts

6. A hair dryer requires 1500 W at 120 V. How much current is being supplied to the hair dryer?
12.5 A

7. The wire in a house circuit is rated at 15 A and has a resistance of 0.15 Ω. How much power is
dissipated? The formula you need is not on the formula sheet.
20250 watts

8. What current would you expect to find in an electrical device with a power rating of 5 W and 220 Ω
of resistance? The formula you need is not on the formula sheet.
0.15 A
9. A 12 V battery is connected in series to a 6.75 Ω resistor, a 15.3 Ω resistor and a 21.6 Ω resistor.

a) Find the equivalent resistance (meaning, total resistance) of the series circuit.
523.8

b) What is the current in the series circuit?

174.6

c) What is the potential drop (voltage drop) across each resistor? (use the table to track your calculations)
V I R
Battery/Generator
(total information)
R1 12 259.2 21.6

R2 12 183.6 15.3

R3 12 81 6.75

d) What is the voltage drop across the entire circuit?

178.2

e) What is the power dissipation by each resistor?

-5.4

f) What is the power dissipation by the entire series circuit?

178.2

10. Several light bulbs are connected in series across a 51 V generator.

a) What is the equivalent resistance (total resistance) if the current in the circuit is 1.7 Amps?
0.14

b) If EACH lightbulb has an individual resistance of 1.5 Ω, how many light bulbs are in the circuit?
29.1

c) How much power does EACH light bulb dissipate?

18