TUTORIAL 1. A dry cell of emf is 1.5 V is connected in series with a resistor. When a current of 3.

0 A flows from the cell, the voltage across the cell is 0.42 V. What is the internal resistance of the dry cell?

2. A cell of emf 1.5 V is connected across a 2.0 resistor. The potential difference across the resistor is 1.2 V. a. When a charge of 1.0 C flows round the circuit, what is the i. Energy dissipated from the resistor? ii. Total energy dissipated in the circuit? b. Explain the difference in the answers to (a)(i) and (ii). c. What is the internal resistance of the cell?

3. A 12 V battery has an internal resistance of 1.5 . It is connected to a 6.0 resistor. a. What is the current in the circuit? b. What is the terminal voltage of the battery?

4. A filament bulb A is rated 240 V 100 W and another bulb B is rated 240 V 60 W. a. Find the ratio of the resistances of the filaments at their normal working temperature. b. If each of the bulbs are connected in turns to 120 V supply, what is the power dissipated from each bulb?

5. A 25 W lamp is connected to a 240 V supply. a. What is the current in the lamp? b. What is the resistance of the filament? c. Explain how you would expect the resistance of the filament to be different when the lamp is not lit.

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TUTORIAL 6. In the circuit shown, find the equivalent resistance between the points P and Q.

7. The circuit shown has three resistors. The maximum working power of each resistor is 0.40 W. a. Find the maximum potential difference that can be applied between the points X and Y without damaging any resistor. b. If the potential difference applied exceeds the value calculated in (a), which resistor is most likely to be damaged?

8. The resistance of each resistor in the circuit shown is R. What is the effective resistance between X and Y?

9. For each of the circuit shown, calculate the a. Effective resistance in the circuit b. Values of the currents shown. c. Voltages marked.

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10.A source of emf which has an internal resistance r is used to light a lamp of resistance R. Find the fraction of the power supplied by the source that is used to light the lamp.

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TUTORIAL 11.The emf of a cell is 1.5 V and its internal resistance is 0.5 . Calculate the power supplied to an external resistor of 2.5 . What is the value of the external resistance when the power dissipated from the resistor is maximum?

12.Use Kirchoffs First Law to deduce an expression for the current I in terms of the combinations of the current I1, i2, I3, I4 and I5 in the following circuits. a. b.

13.Use Kirchoffs Second Law to deduce equations relating the emf, resistances and currents in the loops shown in the figures below. a. b.

14.Two batteries A and B are connected across a 4.0 resistor. The emf of A is 6 V and its internal resistance is 0.02 . Battery B has an emf of 6 V and internal resistance 2.0 . Find the current in the 4.0 resistor, and the current from each battery.

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15.In the circuit shown, the internal resistance of the cells X and Y can be neglected. Calculate a. Current I in the 8.0 resistor b. Emf of cell Y c. Resistance R

16.A cell with emf 1.50 V is connected in series with a lamp. When 2.0 nC of charge flows through the lamp in 4.0 s, the energy dissipated is 2.80 J. a. What is the energy provided by the cell to drive 2.0 C of charge round the circuit? b. Explain what happens to the difference between the energy provided by the cell and the energy dissipated from the lamp. c. Calculate the internal resistance of the cell. 17.When a battery of emf 3.0 V and internal resistance r is connected to a 2.5 resistor, the current in the circuit is 0.75 A. a. What is the internal resistance r of the battery? b. If another identical battery is connected in parallel across the first battery, how would the current in the resistor change? Explain your answer.

18.A filament bulb is labeled 240 V, 60 W.

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TUTORIAL a. Calculate the resistance of the filament. b. What would be the power dissipated from the bulb if it is connected to a 120 V supply?

19.Describe how the power dissipated from a nichrome wire heater varies as the temperature increased.

20.A number of resistors rated at 10 , maximum 2.0 V are available. Draw a circuit diagrams to show how you would connect these resistors to obtain. a. An effective resistance of 10 to a 4.0 V supply. b. An effective resistance of 5 to a 2.0 V supply.

21.State Kirchoffs laws and explain how each of the laws is based on the fundamental conservation laws of physics.

22.In the circuit shown, the emf and internal resistance of the cells are 3.0 V and 1.5 , 2.0 V and 0.4 , 1.5 V and 0.6 respectively.

Determine:

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TUTORIAL a. The currents across each resistor. b. The potential difference across the 15 resistor.

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