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What are the disadvantages of a potentiometer over a voltmeter? - Physics

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What are the disadvantages of a potentiometer over a voltmeter?

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  1. The potentiometer is not portable.
  2. Direct measurement of potential difference or emf is not possible.  
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पाठ 9: Current Electricity - Short Answer I

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

A potentiometer wire has resistance of per unit length of 0.1 Ω/m. A cell of e.m.f. 1.5 V balances against a 300 cm length of the wire. Find the current in the potentiometer wire.


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


Figure shows a potentiometer with a cell of 2.0 V and internal resistance 0.40 Ω maintaining a potential drop across the resistor wire AB. A standard cell which maintains a constant emf of 1.02 V (for very moderate currents up to a few mA) gives a balance point at 67.3 cm length of the wire. To ensure very low currents drawn from the standard cell, very high resistance of 600 kΩ is put in series with it, which is shorted close to the balance point. The standard cell is then replaced by a cell of unknown emf ε and the balance point found similarly, turns out to be at 82.3 cm length of the wire.

(a) What is the value ε?

(b) What purpose does the high resistance of 600 kΩ have?

(c) Is the balance point affected by this high resistance?

(d) Is the balance point affected by the internal resistance of the driver cell?

(e) Would the method work in the above situation if the driver cell of the potentiometer had an emf of 1.0 V instead of 2.0 V?

(f) Would the circuit work well for determining an extremely small emf, say of the order of a few mV (such as the typical emf of a thermo-couple)? If not, how will you modify the circuit?


Figure shows a 2.0 V potentiometer used for the determination of internal resistance of a 1.5 V cell. The balance point of the cell in open circuit is 76.3 cm. When a resistor of 9.5 Ω is used in the external circuit of the cell, the balance point shifts to 64.8 cm length of the potentiometer wire. Determine the internal resistance of the cell.


State the advantages of potentiometer over voltmeter.


SI unit of potential gradient is _______.

(a) V cm

(b) `V/"cm"`

(c) Vm

(d) `V/m`

 


In the given circuit, with steady current, calculate the potential drop across the capacitor and the charge stored in it.


(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.

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.


Write two possible causes for one sided deflection in a potentiometer experiment.


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


Would you prefer a voltmeter or a potentiometer to measure the emf of a battery?


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


The potentiometer wire AB shown in the figure is 50 cm long. When AD = 30 cm, no deflection occurs in the galvanometer. Find R.


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


When the balance point is obtained in the potentiometer, a current is drawn from ______.


How is potential gradient measured? Explain.


State the uses of a potentiometer.


What will be the effect on the position of zero deflection if only the current flowing through the potentiometer wire is increased?


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


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.


What will be the effect on the position of zero deflection if only the current flowing through the potentiometer wire is decreased?


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.


The SI unit of the potential gradient is ______  


The instrument which can measure terminal potential difference as well as electromotive force (emf) is ______ 


What is the SI unit of potential gradient?


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


In a potentiometer experiment, when the galvanometer shows no deflection, then no current flows through ____________.


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 ______.


The length of a potentiometer wire is L. A cell of e.m.f E is balanced at length L/3 from the positive end of the wire. If the length of wire increases by L/2, then the same cell will give balance point at length ____________.


A potentiometer wire of Length 10 m is connected in series with a battery. The e.m.f. of a cell balances against 250 cm Length of wire. If length of potentiometer wire is increased by 1 m, the new balancing length of wire will be ____________.


Which of the following is true for a potentiometer?


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 ______.


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 ____________.


In the given figure, battery E is balanced on 55 cm length of potentiometer wire but when a resistance of 10 `Omega` is connected in parallel with the battery, then it balances on 50 cm length of the potentiometer wire. The internal resistance r of the battery is ____________.


In the potentiometer experiment, the balancing length with cell E1 of unknown e.m.f. is ℓ1 cm. By shunting the cell E1 with resistance 'R' which is equal to internal resistance (r) of the cell E1, the balancing length ℓ2 is ______


A potentiometer is used to measure the potential difference between A and B, the null point is obtained at 0.9 m. Now the potential difference between A and C is measured, the null point is obtained at 0.3 m. The ratio `E_2/E_1` is (E1 > E2) ______

 


A wire has a length of 2m and a resistance of 10Ω. It is connected in series with a resistance of 990Ω and a cell of e.m.f. 2V. The potential gradient along the wire will be ______


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.


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 ______ 


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


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 battery is connected with a potentiometer wire. The internal resistance of the battery is negligible. If the length of the potentiometer wire of the same material and radius is doubled then ______.


Potentiometer measures potential more accurately because _________.

In the experiment of potentiometer, at balance point, there is no current in the ______.


In a potentiometer of 10 wires, the balance point is obtained on the 7th wire. To shift the balance point to 9th wire, we should ______.


AB is a potentiometer wire (Figure). If the value of R is increased, in which direction will the balance point J shift?


Potential difference between the points A and B in the circuit shown is 16 V, then potential difference across 2Ω resistor is ______ V. volt. (VA > VB)


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.


What will a voltmeter of resistance 200 Ω read when connected across a cell of emf 2 V and internal resistance 2 Ω?


A particle carrying 8 electron charges starts from rest and is accelerated through a potential difference of 9000 V. Calculate the KE acquired by it in keV.


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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