TUTORIAL : ELECTRICITY 1. A current in a piece of wire which makes a complete circuit is measured to be 1.50 A.

a) Find the amount of charge that pass through a point in the wire after 10.0 s? b) How many electrons pass the same point after 10.0 s? 2. Consider a copper with cross sectional area of 2 mm2. The wire carries a current of 2.0 A and forms a section of an electrical circuit. a) How many electrons pass through a section of wire? b) What is the current density of the wire? c) If the wire has 8.5x1028 electrons per m3, what is the electron drift velocity in the wire? 3. A copper wire has a diameter of 2.0 mm and contains 8.5x1028 electrons per m3. if the wire carries a constant current of 5.0 A, what is the drift speed of the electrons? 4. A long cylindrical conductor has conductivity =5.88x107 -1 m-1. Its cross sectional area is 4.0 mm2. Determine the current density and the electric field acting between two points in the conductor if the current passing through it is 5.0 A. 5. An electric oven indicates a current flow of 12.0 A when connected to a 240 V supply. What is the resistance of the oven? 6. A piece of aluminium rod has 2.0 cm diameter and 10.0 cm long. What is the resistance of the rod? 7. A dry cell of 1.5 V has an internal resistance of 0.20. What is its terminal voltage when connected across a torchlight which draw a current of 50 mA? 8. Two identical resistors are connected in series. if the equivalent resistance is 50, what is the resistance of each resistor? 9. What is the relation between resistance and resistivity? 10. A current of 7.5 A maintained in a wire for 45 s. In this time a) how much charge b) how many electrons flow through the wire 11. If 0.6 mol of electrons flow through a wire in 45 min, what are a) the total charge that passes through the wire b) magnitude of the current? 12. A copper wire of 3.0 mm2 cross-sectional area carries a current of 5.0 A. Find the magnitude of the drift velocity for the electrons in the wire.

13. Three resistors of resistance 2 , 3 and 4 respectively are used to make the combinations X, Y and Z shown in the diagrams. List the combinations in order of increasing resistance.

14. Referring to the circuit drawn, determine the value of I1, I and R, the combined resistance in the circuit.

15. resistors R1 and R2 as shown in the diagram. A total current of 4.0 A is supplied by the battery and R2 has a resistance of 12 . Calculate the resistance of R1 and the power supplied to each circuit component.

16. A high-voltage transmission line with a resistance of 0.4 km-1 carries a current of 500 A. The line is at a potential of 1200 kV at the power station and carries the current to a city located 160 km from the power station. Calculate (a) the power loss in the line. (b) the fraction of the transmitted power that is lost.

17. A storage battery has emf 25 V and internal resistance 0.20. Compute its terminal voltage a) when it is delivering 8 A b) when it is being 8 A