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Drift Velocity

1. The document contains questions about calculating resistivity, resistance, diameter, and drift velocity using formulas involving resistivity, length, diameter, resistance, current, charge, and number of charge carriers. 2. It provides the formulas for resistivity, resistance, and drift velocity in terms of these variables and asks the reader to calculate values given certain parameters. 3. It gives values for the resistivity of copper, currents, diameters, lengths, areas, and number of charge carriers to calculate unknown values using the formulas.

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735 views5 pages

Drift Velocity

1. The document contains questions about calculating resistivity, resistance, diameter, and drift velocity using formulas involving resistivity, length, diameter, resistance, current, charge, and number of charge carriers. 2. It provides the formulas for resistivity, resistance, and drift velocity in terms of these variables and asks the reader to calculate values given certain parameters. 3. It gives values for the resistivity of copper, currents, diameters, lengths, areas, and number of charge carriers to calculate unknown values using the formulas.

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Complete the 2 questions

1. What is the resistivity of a material of diameter 2mm and length 5m is the resistance is 4.2 x 10-6 ? 2. What is the diameter of a copper wire whose resistance is7.4 x 10-6 its length is 80cm? The resistivity of copper is 1.72 x 10-8 m.

Drift Velocity

The volume of the container will be Al The number of electrons will be nAl The total charge, Q, on free electrons will be nAlq where q is the charge on each electron The drift velocity of the electrons will be v = l/t (using speed=distance/time)

Replacing t in v=l/t with t = Q/I gives us v = lI/Q Replacing Q with Q = nAlq gives us v = I/nAq

Which give us:

I = nAvq

Where n = number of electrons (or charge carriers) per cubic meter A = area of cross section of conductor q = charge on each electron v = drift velocity of electrons

What is the drift velocity in a copper wire of diameter 0.025mm with the current 160mA where the number of charge carriers per cubic meter is 8.0 x 1028m-3 A semi conducting strip 6.0mm wide and 0.5mm thick carries a current of 10 mA. If the value of n for the material is 7.0 x 1022m-3, show that the drift speed of the charge carriers, which carry a charge of 1.6 x 10-19C, is about 0.3ms-1. Extra question What would the current be in a wire of diameter 10mm where the electrons have drift velocity of 3.8 x 10-4 ms-1 if n for the wire is 1029 m-3?

A tungsten filament has a diameter of 0.025mm. Calculate the drift velocity if the current in the circuit is 160mA and the number of charge carriers per cubic meter is 4.0 x 1028m-3

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