On your first day at work as an electrical technician, you are asked to determin

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On your first day at work as an electrical technician, you are asked to determine the resistance per meter of a long piece of wire. The company you work for is poorly equipped. You find a battery, a voltmeter, and an ammeter, but no meter for directly measuring resistance (an ohmmeter). You put the leads from the voltmeter across the terminals of the battery, and the meter reads 12.4 . You cut off a 20.0- length of wire and connect it to the battery, with an ammeter in series with it to measure the current in the wire. The ammeter reads 7.40 . You then cut off a 40.0-length of wire and connect it to the battery, again with the ammeter in series to measure the current. The ammeter reads 4.20 . Even though the equipment you have available to you is limited, your boss assures you of its high quality: The ammeter has very small resistance, and the voltmeter has very large resistance.

What is the resistance of 1 meter of wire?

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The problem has to be solved carefully.

Let the Resistance per meter of wire be R .

Also there is some internal resistance r of Battery.

From given data we get

12.1 V = 7.5 A ( 20R + r ) and

12.1 V = 7.5 A ( 40R + r) .

Solving both we get

R = 0.0669 .

Thus resistance of one meter of wire is 0.0669

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