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Post by Rajah Cook on September 18, 2013

"Extra Example 1" tablet video is broken.

Electric Current

  • The current is the rate of flow of charge. If you take a cross-section of a wire and count how many Coulombs flow the cross-section in one second, the will be the current, expressed in C/s, or A (Ampere).
  • In a wire with uniform cross-sectional area A, the current can be shown to be equal to Anqv where n is the number of charge carriers (in conductors, these are electrons), q is the charge carried by a charge carrier, and v is the drift velocity of the charge carriers.
  • Ohm’s law: V = I R. The potential difference across a wire is equal to the resistance R of the wire, times the current in the wire.
  • For a wire of uniform cross-sectional area A and length L, the resistance is given by R = (rho) L / A, where rho is the resistivity of the material from which the wire is made.

Electric Current

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  • Intro 0:00
  • Definition 0:20
    • Consider a Wire ,Cylindrical
    • Cross Sectional Area
    • Crossing Charges Will be Counted
    • Amount of Charge Crosses Cross Sectional Area
    • Current I=q/t
    • Charges Flowing in Opposite Direction
    • Current Density
    • Applying Electric Field
  • Current in a Wire 15:24
    • Wire With a Cross Section Area A
    • Current Flowing to Right
    • How Much Charge Crosses Area A
    • Drift Velocity
    • Carriers in Cylinder
  • Ohm's Law 24:58
    • Va-Vb = Electric Field times Length of Wire
    • Ohm's Law
    • Consider a Copper Wire of 1m , Cross Sectional Area 1cm/sq
  • Temperature Effect 37:07
    • Heating a Wire
    • Temperature Co-Efficient of Resistivity
  • Battery EMF 43:00
    • Connecting a Resistance to Battery
    • Potential Difference at Terminal of Battery
  • Power 53:30
    • Battery Connected with a Resistance
    • Work Done on Charge
    • Energy Lost Per Second
  • Extra Example 1: Current
  • Extra Example 2: Water Heater

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