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Factors Affecting The

Resistance Of A
Uniform Wire
GENERAL PHYSICS 2
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Factors
Cross-sectional Material of the Temperature Length
area wire
Cross-sectional
area
The cross-sectional area of the wires will affect
the amount of resistance. The more the area of
cross-section of the wire, the less is the
resistance, and the less the area, the more is the
resistance.
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How does cross-sectional area affect the
resistance of the wire?
The resistance of a thin wire is greater than the resistance
of a thick wire because a thin wire has fewer electrons to
carry the current. The relationship between resistance and
the area of the cross-section of a wire is inversely
proportional.
Material of the
wire
The type of material The resistance of an ohmic conductor also depends
from which the resistor is made on the kind of material it is made of. The
affects the resistance. Different composition of materials greatly
materials affects their ability to conduct. This means that
offer different amounts of electric current varies more
resistance. than almost any other physical property of a material.

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 Which material offered the
most resistance in the electric
circuit?
This will depend
on the materials used, but the material which has the lowest ammeter reading,
and therefore the lowest current has the highest resistance.

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 Which material offered the least
resistance in the electric circuit?
This will depend
on the materials used, but the material with the highest ammeter reading will
have the lowest resistance.

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conductor increases as the semiconductor/insulator decreases
temperature increases. as the temperature increases.

Temperature
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Length
The length (L) of the material (Longer
materials have greater resistance).
How does
- The resistance R of
the wire is directly proportional to the length of the wire.

the length of
- First, the total length of the wires will affect the
amount of resistance. The longer the wire, the more resistance
that there will

the wire
be. There is a direct relationship between the amount of
resistance encountered
by charge and the length of wire it must traverse. After all, if

affect
resistance
occurs as the result of collisions between charge carriers and
the atoms of the
wire, then there is likely to be more collisions in a longer wire.

resistance? More
collisions mean more resistance.

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Based on your
understanding,
differentiate the four
factors.
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