Topic 4.2 - Electrical Quantities
Short-Answer & Structured Questions
1 (a) Acoil of wire is connected into a circuit containing a variable resistor and a battery,
‘The variable resistor is adjusted until the potential difference across the coil is 1.8V.
In this condition, the current in the circuit is 0.45.
Calculate
{i)_ the resistance of the coll,
resistance = i
(i) the thermal energy released from this coil in 9 minutes.
energy released = [3]
(b) The coil in part (a) is replaced by one made of wire which has half the diameter of that
inf)
When the potential difference across the coil is again adjusted to 1.8V, the current is
only 0.304.
Calculate how the length of wire in the second coil compares with the length of wire in
the first col.
length of wire in second coll is the length of wire in fea
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2° In Fig, 9.1, A and B are two conductors on insulating stands. Both A and B were initially
uncharged.
Ez A Zz Z
Fig. 9.1
{a) Conductor A is given the positive charge shown on Fig. 9.1
(i) On Fig. 9.1, mark the signs of the charges induced at end X and at end Y of conductor B.
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(il) Explain how these charges are induced.
fest a (3)
a se 1
{b) Bis now connected to earth by a length of wire.
Explain what happens, if anything, to
(i) the charge at X,
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