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Chapter 18: 50P-c (page 762)

Question: The following questions refer to the circuit shown in Figure 18.114, consisting of two flashlight batteries and two Nichrome wires of different lengths and different thicknesses as shown (corresponding roughly to your own thick and thin Nichrome wires).

The thin wire is 50 cm long, and its diameter is 0.25 mm. The thick wire is 15 cm long, and its diameter is 0.35 mm. (a) The emf of each flashlight battery is 1.5 V. Determine the steady-state electric field inside each Nichrome wire. Remember that in the steady state you must satisfy both the current node rule and energy conservation. These two principles give you two equations for the two unknown fields. (b) The electron mobility

in room-temperature Nichrome is about . Show that it takes an electron 36 min to drift through the two Nichrome wires from location B to location A. (c) On the other hand, about how long did it take to establish the steady state when the circuit was first assembled? Give a very approximate numerical answer, not a precise one. (d) There are about mobile electrons per cubic meter in Nichrome. How many electrons cross the junction between the two wires every second?

Short Answer

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The time taken by electron is 1.5 ns.

Step by step solution

01

Write the given data from the question.

The thin wire is 50 cm long and the diameter is 0.25 mm.

The flashlight battery is 1.5 V.

02

Determine the formula

Write the formula for the drift speed of the electron.

03

Determine the time taken to obtain the steady state.

Consider the electrical field is propagating the speed at 0.3ms.

Here, the shift of the electron sea takes very little time as the electron moves a very little distance. So the time taken to make a change of 0.5 m is 1.5 ns.

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Most popular questions from this chapter

During the initial transient leading to the steady state, the electron current going into a bulb may be greater than the electron current leaving the bulb. Explain why and how these two currents come to be equal in the steady state.

Question: Some students intended to run a light bulb off two batteries in series in the usual way, but they accidentally hooked up one of the batteries backwards, as shown in Figure 18.89 (the bulb is shown as a thin filament).

(a)Use+鈥檚 and -鈥檚 to show the approximate steady-state charge distribution along the wires and bulb.

(b)Draw vectors for the electric field at the indicated locations inside the connecting wires and bulb.

(c)Compare the brightness of the bulb in this circuit with the brightness the bulb would have had if one of the batteries hadn鈥檛 been put in backwards.

(d)Try the experiment to check your analysis. Does the bulb glow about as you predicted?

A Nichrome wire 48 cm long and 0.25 mm in diameter is connected to a 1.6 V flashlight battery. What is the electric field inside the wire? Why you don鈥檛 have to know how the wire is bent? How would your answer change if the wire diameter change were 0.20 mm? (Not that the electric field in the wire is quiet small compared to the electric field near a charged tape.)

In the circuit shown in Figure 18.91, all of the wire is made of Nichrome, but one segment has a much smaller cross-sectional area. On a copy of this diagram, using the same scale for magnitude that you used in the previous question for Figure 18.90, show the steady-state electric field at the locations indicated, including in the thinner segment. Before attempting to answer these questions, draw a copy of this diagram. All of the locations indicated by letters are inside the wire.

(a)On your diagram, show the electric field at the locations indicated, paying attention to relative magnitude. Use the same scale for magnitude as you did in the previous question.

(b)Carefully draw pluses and minuses on your diagram to show the approximate surface charge distribution that produces the electric field you drew. Make your drawing show clearly the differences between regions of high surface charge density and regions of low surface-charge density. Use your diagram to determine which of the following statements about this circuit are true.

(1) There is a large gradient of surface charge on the wire between locations Cand E. (2) The electron current is the same at every location in this circuit.

(3) Fewer electrons per second pass location Ethan location C.

(4) The magnitude of the electric field at location Gis smaller in this circuit than it

was in the previous circuit (Figure 18.90).

(5) The magnitude of the electric field is the same at every location in this circuit.

(6) The magnitude of the electric field at location D is larger than the magnitude of the electric field at location G.

(7) There is no surface charge at all on the wire near location G.

(8) The electron current in this circuit is less than the electron current in the previous circuit (Figure 18.90).

What is the most important general difference between a system in steady state and a system in equilibrium?
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