Thread 4-1 (Current and resistance)

Verifikasi jawaban dari setiap soal PG berikut:

Soal
1. A car battery is rated at 80 A  h. An ampere-hour is a unit of:
A) power
B) energy
C) current
D) charge
E) force

Ans: D
Difficulty: E

Satuan ampere-hour adalah satuan muatan listrik. Satuan ini dipakai di baterai, yang
maksudnya adalah muatan listrik baterai tersebut. Satuan mAh adalah hasil kali antara arus
yang diberikan oleh batere dan berapa lama batere tersebut dapat memberikan arus sebesar
itu. Satuan Ah dapat diubah menjadi satuan energi seperti Joule ataupun Wh (watt-hour),
namun untuk itu kita perlu tahu tegangan baterai tersebut.

2. Current has units:

A) kilowatt·hour
B) coulomb/second
C) coulomb
D) volt
E) ohm

Ans: B
Difficulty: E

Di dalam ilmu fisika, arus listrik dapat dirumuskan sebagai berikut,

I = arus listrik

Q = muatan listrik
t = waktu
Dalam Satuan Internasional (SI), arus listrik I adalah Ampere, dengan Q adalah banyak
muatan listrik dalam Coulomb, dan t adalah satuan waktu dalam detik.

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3. Current is a measure of:
A) force that moves a charge past a point
B) resistance to the movement of a charge past a point
C) energy used to move a charge past a point
D) amount of charge that moves past a point per unit time
E) speed with which a charge moves past a point

Ans: D
Difficulty: E

Arus listrik atau electric current merupakan sebuah aliran yang terjadi akibat jumlah muatan
listrik yang mengalir dari satu titik ke titik lain dalam suatu rangkaian tiap satuan waktu.

4. A 60-watt light bulb carries a current of 0.5 ampere. The total charge passing through it in one
hour is:
A) 120 C
B) 3600 C
C) 3000 C
D) 2400 C
E) 1800 C

Ans: E
Difficulty: M

Q = I . t ...
i = 0.5 A,
t = 1 hr
t = 1 × 60 × 60 det
t = 3600 det
I = 0.5 × 3600 = 1800 coulomb

5. A 10-ohm resistor has a constant current. If 1200 C of charge flow through it in 4 minutes
what is the value of the current?
A) 3.0 A
B) 5.0 A
C) 11 A
D) 15 A
E) 20 A

Ans: B
Difficulty: M

I=Q/t
Q= 1200C.
t= 4*60=240 det.
I=1200/240 = 5A

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6. Conduction electrons move to the right in a certain wire. This indicates that:
A) the current density and electric field both point right
B) the current density and electric field both point left
C) the current density points right and the electric field points left
D) the current density points left and the electric field points right
E) the current density points left but the direction of the electric field is unknown

Ans: B
Difficulty: E

When a circuit is made using copper wires linking a potential source like a battery to a light
source (say, bulb), or a motor, we notice the bulb shining or the motor spinning. The electrons
in the copper are being driven around the circuit by the potential source. We call this flow of
electrons a current.

7. Two wires made of different materials have the same uniform current density. They carry the
same current only if:
A) their lengths are the same
B) their cross-sectional areas are the same
C) both their lengths and cross-sectional areas are the same
D) the potential differences across them are the same
E) the electric fields in them are the same

Ans: B
Difficulty: E

Current density is current per unit area, so two wires of equal cross section, but different
resistivity which are connected in series, will pass the same current through the same cross-
sections, so their current densities will be the same, despite the greater volt drop through the
higher resistivity wire.

8. In a conductor carrying a current we expect the electron drift speed to be:

A) much greater than the average electron speed
B) much less than the average electron speed
C) about the same as the average electron speed
D) less than the electron speed at low temperature and greater than the electron speed at high
temperature
E) less than the electron speed at high temperature and greater than the electron speed at low
temperature

Ans: B
Difficulty: E

Answer

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Good conductors of heat are generally substances that have a higher count of electrons. Like
in the case of metals, it has free-charge carriers that can easily move inside the metal. On
moving they gain kinetic energy from collisions with hot atoms and this energy is passed on
when they collide with cold atoms. In this way the transfer of heat takes place.

9. A wire with a length of 150 m and a radius of 0.15 m carries a current with a uniform current
density of 2.8 107 A/m2. The current is:
A) 0.63 A2
B) 2.0 A
C) 5.9 A2
D) 296 A
E) 400 A2

Ans: B
Difficulty: M

10. The units of resistivity are:

A) ohm
B) ohm·meter
C) ohm/meter
D) ohm/meter2
E) none of these

Ans: B
Difficulty: E

Resistivitas (resistivitas) adalah besaran fisik yang digunakan untuk menyatakan

karakteristik resistansi berbagai zat. Pada temperatur tertentu, ada rumus R=ρl / S, di mana ρ
adalah resistivitas, l adalah panjang material, dan S adalah luasnya. Dapat dilihat bahwa
hambatan listrik suatu material berbanding lurus dengan panjang material dan berbanding
terbalik dengan luas penampang material tersebut.

Rumus definisi resistivitas dapat diketahui dari rumus di atas: ρ=RS / l. Dalam sistem satuan
internasional, satuan resistivitas adalah ohm · meter (Ω · m), dan satuan umum adalah ohm ·
mm dan ohm · m.

11. Two conductors are made of the same material and have the same length. Conductor A is a

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solid wire of diameter 1 m. Conductor B is a hollow tube of inside diameter 1 m and outside
diameter 2 m. The ratio of their resistance, RA/RB, is:
A) 1
B)
C) 2
D) 3
E) 4

Ans: D
Difficulty: M

The resistance of conductor A is given by 

                                                   RA= ρL/(πrA2)

where  rA is the radius of the conductor. If ro is the outside diameter of conductor B and ri  is
its inside diameter, then its cross-sectional area is π(ro2–ri2), and its resistance is

                                                   RB= ρL / π(ro2–ri2)

The ratio is 

                                                   RA/ RB = ro2–ri2/ rA2= [(1.0mm)2–(0.50mm)2] / (0.50mm)2

=3.0   

12. The current is zero in a conductor when no potential difference is applied because:
A) the electrons are not moving
B) the electrons are not moving fast enough
C) for every electron with a given velocity there is another with a velocity of equal magnitude
and opposite direction
D) equal numbers of electrons and protons are moving together
E) otherwise Ohm's law would not be valid

Ans: C
Difficulty: E

the electrons are not moving the electrons are not moving fast enough for every electron
with a given velocity there is another with a velocity of equal magnitude and opposite
direction equal numbers of electrons and protons are moving together otherwise Ohm's
law would not be valid.

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