Assignment 1 (current electricity)
Q1. A Potential difference (V) is applied across a conductor of length L and cross-sectional area A. How
will the drift velocity of electron and the current density be affected if another identical conductor of
same material were connected in series with the first conductor. Justify your answer.
Q2. The potential difference applied across a given conductor is doubled. How will this affect the mobility of
electron and the current density in the conductor?
Q3. A potential difference V is applied across a conductor of length L uniform cross-section area A. How will
the electric field, drift velocity and current density be affected when (a) V is doubled and (b) L is half
(keeping other factors constant).
Q4. Two wires of same material but having cross-section area in the ratio 2:3 and length in the ratio 1:2 ,
they are connected in series and then in parallel to a source. Find out the ratio of drift drift speed of
electron in the wires for the two cases.
Q5. A wire of resistance 20 ohm is stretched, such that its length is increased by 10%. What will be the new
resistance of wire?
Q6. The current through a wire depends on time as I = I + at where I =10A and a =4A/s. Find out the
charge flows across a section of the wire in 10 second.
Q7. A battery consist of 12 cells in series each having emf E and internal resistance r. Some of the cells in
the battery are connected with the wrong polarity. This battery is connected to another source of emf 2E
and internal 2r. An ammeter in the circuit reads 3A when battery and the source aid each other and 2A in
the same direction when they oppose each other, find out how many cells in the battery are connected
with the wrong polarity
Q8. Explain why alloys are used to make standard resistors ?
Q9. Find out the current flowing through 4 ohm
Q10. At room temp. the resistance of heating element is 100 ohm. What will be the temperature at which the
resistance is found to be 117 ohm. Given that
Q11. A Storage battery of EMF 8V and internal resistance 0.5 ohm is being charged by 120 V DC supply
using a series register of 15.5 ohm. What is the terminal voltage of the battery during the charging?
What is the purpose of having a series register in the charging circuit.
Q12. The variation of current versus voltage for the material of GaAs is
as shown in Figure. Identify the reason of negative resistance
and where the ohm’s law is followed.
Q13. Two cells of emf 2E and E with internal resistance r and r
respectively are connected in series to an external resistor R. What is
the value of R at which the potential difference across the terminals of
the 1st cell becomes zero
Q14. Two conductors have same resistance at 0 C but their temperature coefficients of resistance are a
and a . What are the values of temperature coefficients of their series and parallel combination
Q15. Two metal rods, each of length L and cross-section area A and A having resistivities P and P are
connected in parallel across a d.c. battery what is the effective capacity of the combination
Q16. What is the value of current passing through the battery in the given circuit?
Q17. Define drift velocity derive its formula.
Q18. Using the concept of drift velocity, derive the formula for resistivity in terms of number density of free
electrons and relaxation time.
Q19. Derive the relation between the current density, conductivity and electric field using the concept of
drift velocity
Q20. In a neon discharge tube 2.9 10 N e ions move to the right each while 1.2 10 electrons move to the
left per second. Electron charge is 1.6 10 C The current in the discharge tube
(1) 1 towards right (2) 0.66 towards right
(3) 0.66 towards left (4) Zero
