Physics Electric current and resistance

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Epanhua622
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Physics Electric current and resistance

Post by Epanhua622 » Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:23 pm

Can someone tell me how to begin this problem. Or what to do :!: :!: :!:

You build a wire by combining an 8 inches copper wire with a 10 inches nichrome wire. If their combine resistance is 10 kΩ, find the cross section area of both wires. The nichrome wire has twice the area of the copper wire.

ztruwk
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Re: Physics Electric current and resistance

Post by ztruwk » Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:10 pm

Two relevant facts:

1) Resistance = (resistivity * length)/(cross sectional area)
2) For series resistors, Rtot = R1 + R2

resistivities: google them
length: given
relationship between areas: given
Rtot: given

Only one thing to solve for!



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