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On what factors does the potential gradient of the wire depend?

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The potential gradient is determined by the potential difference between the wire's ends and the wire's length.

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The potential gradient of the wire depends upon the potential difference between two points on the wire and the length of the wire between the two points.  

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अध्याय 9: Current Electricity - Exercises [पृष्ठ २२८]

संबंधित प्रश्न

Write two factors by which current sensitivity of a potentiometer can be increased.


(i) State the principle on which a potentiometer works. How can a given potentiometer be made more sensitive?

(ii) In the graph shown below for two potentiometers, state with reason which of the two potentiometers, A or B, is more sensitive.

State the underlying principle of a potentiometer ?


A potentiometer wire of length 1 m has a resistance of 5 Ω. It is connected to a 8 V battery in series with a resistance of 15 Ω. Determine the emf of the primary cell which gives a balance point at 60 cm.


Describe briefly, with the help of a circuit diagram, how a potentiometer is used to determine the internal resistance of a cell.


Two students ‘X’ and ‘Y’ perform an experiment on potentiometer separately using the circuit given below:

Keeping other parameters unchanged, how will the position of the null point be affected if

(i) ‘X’ increases the value of resistance R in the set-up by keeping the key K1 closed and the Key K2 opens?

(ii) ‘Y’ decreases the value of resistance S in the set-up, while the key K2 remains open and they K1 closed?

Justify.


The net resistance of a voltmeter should be large to ensure that ______________ .


Draw a labelled circuit diagram of a potentiometer to measure the internal resistance ‘r’ of a cell. Write the working formula (derivation is not required). 


Figure below shows two resistors R1 and R2 connected to a battery having an emf of 40V and negligible internal resistance. A voltmeter having a resistance of. 300 Ω is used to measure the potential difference across R1 Find the reading of the voltmeter.


Draw a labelled circuit diagram of a potentiometer to compare emfs of two cells. Write the working formula (Derivation not required).


A student uses the circuit diagram of a potentiometer as shown in the figure
(a) for a steady current I passing through the potentiometer wire, he gets a null point for the cell ε1. and not for ε2. Give the reason for this observation and suggest how this difficulty can be resolved.

(b) What is the function of resistance R used in the circuit? How will the change in its value affect the null point?

(c) How can the sensitivity of the potentiometer be increased?


Why should not the jockey be slided along the potentiometer wire?


State the uses of a potentiometer.


Describe how a potentiometer is used to compare the EMFs of two cells by connecting the cells individually.


Describe with the help of a neat circuit diagram how you will determine the internal resistance of a cell by using a potentiometer. Derive the necessary formula.


A potential drop per unit length along a wire is 5 × 10−3 V/m. If the emf of a cell balances against length 216 cm of this potentiometer wire, find the emf of the cell.


Find the equivalent resistance between the terminals of A and B in the network shown in the figure below given that the resistance of each resistor is 10 ohm.


Why is a potentiometer preferred over a voltmeter for measuring emf?


When two cells of emf's E1 and E2 are connected in series so as to assist each other, their balancing length on a potentiometer wire is found to be 2.7 m. When the cells are connected in series so as to oppose each other, the balancing length is found to be 0.3 m. Compare the emf's of the two cells.


The emf of a cell is balanced by a length of 120 cm of a potentiometer wire. When the cell is shunted by a resistance of 10 Ω, the balancing length is reduced by 20 cm. Find the internal resistance of the cell.


Two cells having unknown emfs E1 and E2 (E1 > E2) are connected in potentiometer circuit, so as to assist each other. The null point obtained is at 490 cm from the higher potential end. When cell E2 is connected, so as to oppose cell E1, the null point is obtained at 90 cm from the same end. The ratio of the emfs of two cells `("E"_1/"E"_2)` is ______.


A 10 m long wire of resistance 20 Q is connected in series with a battery of emf 3 V and a resistance of 10 Ω. The potential gradient along the wire in V/m is ________.


The resistance of the potentiometer wire should ideally be ____________.


The potentiometer is more sensitive, when ______.


The resistivity of potentiometer wire is 40 × 10-8 ohm - metre and its area of cross-section is 8 × 10-6 m2. If 0.2 ampere current is flowing through the wire, the potential gradient of the wire is ______.


A potentiometer is an ideal device for measuring potential difference because ______.


If the e.m.f of a cell is not constant in the metre bridge experiment, then the ____________.


To determine the internal resistance of a cell by using potentiometer, the null point is at 1 m when cell is shunted by 3 Ω resistance and at a length 1.5 m when cell is shunted by 6 Ω resistance. The internal resistance of the cell is ______.


A cell of e.m.f. 'E' is connected across a resistance 'R'. The potential difference across the terminals of the cell is 90% ofE. The internal resistance of the cell is ______.


Sensitivity of a given potentiometer can be decreased by ______.


A potentiometer wire of length 100 cm has a resistance of 10 `Omega.` It is connected in series with a resistance and an accumulator of e.m.f 2 V and of negligible internal resistance. A source of e.m.f 10 mV is balanced against a 40 cm length of the potentiometer wire. The value of the external resistance is ____________.


A potentiometer wire of length 100 cm and resistance 3 `Omega` is connected in series with resistance of 8 `Omega` and an accumulator of 4 volt whose internal resistance is 1 `Omega`.


A potentiometer wire has a length of 4m and resistance of 5Ω. It is connected in series with 495 Ω resistance and a cell of e.m.f. 4V. The potential gradient along the wire is ______


Two students X and Y perform potentiometer experiment separately and null point was obtained as shown in diagram. During the experiment, ______.

  1. X increases the value of R (resistance)
  2. Y decreases the value of S (resistance)

The position of null point obtained by students X and Y respectively.


In a potentiometer experiment when three cells A, B, C are connected in series the balancing length is found to be 740 cm. If A and B are connected in series, the balancing length is 440 cm and when B and C are connected in series, it is 540 cm. The e.m.f. of A, B, and C cells EA, EB, EC are respectively (in volt) ______


A potentiometer wire is 4 m long and a potential difference of 3 V is maintained between the ends. The e.m.f. of the cell which balances against a length of 100 cm of the potentiometer wire is ______


A potentiometer wire of length 'L' and a resistance 'r' are connected in series with a battery of E.M.F. 'E0' and a resistance 'r1'. A cell of unknown E.M.F, 'E' is balanced at a length 'ℓ' of the potentiometer wire. The unknown E.M.F. E is given by ______ 


In the potentiometer experiment, cells of e.m.f. E1 and E2 are connected in series (E1 > E2). the balancing length is 64 cm of the wire. If the polarity of E2 is reversed, the balancing length becomes 32 cm. The ratio `E_1/E_2` is ______   


Potentiometer measures the potential difference more accurately than a voltmeter, because ______.


In a potentiometer experiment, for measuring internal resistance of a cell, the balance point has been obtained on the fourth wire. The balance point can be shifted to fifth wire by ______.


It is observed in a potentiometer experiment that no current passes through the galvanometer when the terminals of the cell are connected across a certain length of the potentiometer wire. On shunting the cell by a 2 Ω resistance, the balancing length is reduced to half. The internal resistance of the cell is ______.


A potentiometer wire is 100 cm long and a constant potential difference is maintained across it. Two cells are connected in series first to support one another and then in opposite direction. The balance points are obtained at 50 cm and 10 cm from the positive end of the wire in the two cases. The ratio of emf's is ______.


For measuring voltage of any circuit, potentiometer is preferred to voltmeter because ______.

AB is a wire of potentiometer with the increase in the value of resistance R, the shift in the balance point J will be ______.


Three resistance each of 4Ω are connected to from a triangle. The resistance b / w two terminal is


The conductivity of super - conductor is


Specific resistance of a conductor increase with.


1°C rise in temperature is observed in a conductor by passing a certain current. If the current is double then the rise in temperature is approximately.


The instrument among the following which measures the e.m.f of a cell most accurately is ______


In a potentiometer circuit, a cell of EMF 1.5 V gives balance point at 36 cm length of wire. If another cell of EMF 2.5 V replaces the first cell, then at what length of the wire, the balance point occurs?


In a potentiometer circuit a cell of EMF 1.5 V gives balance point at 36 cm length of wire. If another cell of EMF 2.5 V replaces the first cell, then at what length of the wire, the balance point occurs? 


While doing an experiment with potentiometer (Figure) it was found that the deflection is one sided and (i) the deflection decreased while moving from one end A of the wire to the end B; (ii) the deflection increased. while the jockey was moved towards the end B.

  1. Which terminal + or – ve of the cell E1, is connected at X in case (i) and how is E1 related to E?
  2. Which terminal of the cell E1 is connected at X in case (ii)?


For the circuit shown, with R1 = 1.0 Ω, R2 = 2.0 Ω, E1 = 2 V, and E2 = E3 = 4 V, the potential difference between the points 'a' and 'b' is approximately (in V) ______.


A Daniel cell is balanced on 125 cm lengths of a potentiometer wire. Now the cell is short circuited by a resistance 2 Ω and the balance is obtained at 100 cm. The internal resistance of the Daniel cell is ______.


If you are provided a set of resistances 2Ω, 4Ω, 6Ω and 8Ω. Connect these resistances so as to obtain an equivalent resistance of `46/3`Ω.


A cell of internal resistance r is connected across an external resistance nr. Then the ratio of the terminal voltage to the emf of the cell is ______.


In balanced meter bridge, the resistance of bridge wire is 0.1 Ω cm. Unknown resistance X is connected in left gap and 6 Ω in right gap, null point divides the wire in the ratio 2:3. Find the current drawn from the battery of 5 V having negligible resistance.


What is the value of resistance for an ideal voltmeter?


The emf of the cell of internal resistance 1.275 Ω balances against a length of 217 cm of a potentiometer wire. Find the balancing length when the cell is shunted by a resistance of 15 Ω.


State dimension of potential gradient.


What is the internal resistance of the cell?


The Figure below shows a potentiometer circuit in which the driver cell D has an emf of 6 V and internal resistance of 2 Ω. The potentiometer wire AB is 10 m long and has a resistance of 28 Ω. The series resistance RS is of 2 Ω.

  1. The current Ip flowing in the potentiometer wire AB when the jockey (J) does not touch the wire AB.
  2. emf of the cell X if the balancing length AC is 4.5 m.

In a potentiometer, a cell is balanced against 110 cm when the circuit is open. A cell is balanced at 100 cm when short-circuited through a resistance of 10 Ω. Find the internal resistance of the cell.


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