MORE PROBLEMS electrokinetic PART TWO

1. A block of carbon is 30cm long and has a square cros-ssection whose sides are 0.5cm long. A

potential difference of 8V is maintained across its length.

(a) What is the resistance of theblock?
(b) What is the current in this resistor?
(c) What is the total power and the power density?
(d) What is the maximum voltage that can be applied to the carbod block if the maximum value
of the current density is Jmax = 10A/mm2?
2. You need to temporarily splice, end to end, an 75m long copper wire that is 1mm2 in section
with a 50m long aluminum wire that has the same diameter. The current in the wires is 2A.
(a) Find the potential drop across each wire of this system when the current is 2A
(b) Find the electric field in each wire when the current is 2A.
(c) What is the maximum value of the voltage that you can apply to the system if the maximum
density of the current is 7A/mm2 for the copper and 5 A/mm2 for the aluminum?
The resistivity of copper is 310-8m and of the aluminum is 210-8m.
(d) What is the value of the power density in each conductor if the current is 4A?
3. A 10m long wire has a resistance equal to 0.5. A second wire made of identical material has
a length 20m of and a mass equal to the mass of the first wire.
(a)What is the resistance of the second wire?
(b) If you apply 100 V to the first conductor, what is the electric field in it?
(c) What voltage you should apply to the second conductor so that you have the same electric
field as at b) ?
4. A wire of Nichrome (a nickelchromiumiron alloy commonly used in heating elements) is
1.0 m long and 1.0 mm2 in cross-sectional area. It carries a current of 4.0 A when a 2.0 V
potential difference is applied between its ends. Calculate the conductivity of Nichrome.
5. A wire 4.00 m long and 6.00 mm in diameter has a resistance of 15.0 m . A potential
difference of 23.0 V is applied between the ends.
(a) What is the current in the wire?
(b) What is the magnitude of the current density?
(c) Calculate the resistivity of the wire material.
(d) Calculate the power and the power density in the conductor.
6. Two conductors are made of the same material and have the same length. Conductor A is a
solid wire of diameter 1.0 mm. Conductor B is a hollow tube of outside diameter 2.0 mm and
inside diameter 1.0 mm. What is the resistance ratio RA/RB?