Current Electricity

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Introduction to Current Electricity

  • Electric Current Through Conductor
  • Types of Material on the Basis of Electrical Conductivity
  • The Requirement of Potential Difference
  • Cause of Resistance of a Conductor
  • The Resistance of a Conducting Wire
  • Specific Resistance or Resistivity of a Conductor
  • Conductance and Conductivity
  • Ohm’s Law and its Graphical Representation
  • Ohmic and Non-Ohmic Resistances

Effect of Temperature on the Value of Resistance

  • Temperature Dependence of Resistance
  • Expression for Temperature Coefficient of Resistance
  • Thermistors

Kirchhoff’s Laws

  • Kirchhoff’s Junction Law
  • Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
  • Application of Kirchhoff’s Law to Simple Circuit
  • Wheatstone’s Network (Bridge)
  • Wheatstone’s Metre Bridge

Numerical Problems on Wheatstone’s Metre Bridge – 01

Numerical Problems on Wheatstone’s Metre Bridge – 02

Potentiometer

  • Principle, Construction
  • Use of Potentiometer to measure e.m.f. of cell
  • Use of Potentiometer to compare e.m.fs. of cells
  • Use of Potentiometer to measure Internal Resistance of Cell of cell

Numerical Problems on Potential Drop Across Potentiometer Wire

Numerical Problems on Finding Internal Resistance of a Cell Using Potentiometer

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