- 18.1Q: What quantity is measured by a battery rating given in ampere-hours...
- 18.2P: (I) A service station charges a battery using a current of 6.7 A fo...
- 18.2Q: When an electric cell is connected to a circuit, electrons flow awa...
- 18.3Q: When a flashlight is operated, what is being used up: battery curre...
- 18.4Q: One terminal of a car battery is said to be connected to "ground." ...
- 18.6Q: Can a copper wire and an aluminum wire of the same length have the ...
- 18.8Q: If a rectangular solid made of carbon has sides of lengths a. 2a. a...
- 18.7Q: ?If the resistance of a small immersion heater (to heat water for t...
- 18.9Q: The equation indicates that the power dissipated in a resistor decr...
- 18.10Q: What happens when a lightbulb burns out?
- 18.11Q: Explain why lightbulbs almost always burn out just as they are turn...
- 18.12P: (I) What is the diameter of a 1 00-m length of tungsten wire whose ...
- 18.12Q: Which draws more current, a 100-W lightbulb or a 75-W bulb? Which h...
- 18.13Q: Electric power is transferred over large distances at very high vol...
- 18.14Q: A 15-A fuse blows out repeatedly. Why is it dangerous to replace th...
- 18.15Q: When electric lights are operated on low-frequency ac (say, 5 Hz), ...
- 18.16Q: Driven by ac power, the same electrons pass back and forth through ...
- 18.17Q: The heating element in a toaster is made of Nichrome wire. Immediat...
- 18.18Q: Is current used up in a resistor? Explain.
- 18.32P: (II) You buy a 75-W lightbulb in Europe, where electricity is deliv...
- 18.21P: ?(II) A rectangular solid made of carbon has sides of lengths 1.0 c...
- 18.34P: (II) At S0.095/kWh, what does it cost to leave a 25-W porch light o...
- 18.44P: (II) Estimate the resistance of the 120 -V rms circuits in your hou...
- 18.46P: (II) An 1800-W arc welder is connected to a 660-V rms ac line. Calc...
- 18.52P: (I) What is the magnitude of the electric field across an axon memb...
- 18.55P: (Ill) During an action potential, Na+ ions move into the cell at a ...
- 18.57GP: What is the average current drawn by a 1.0-hp 120-V motor? (1 hp=74...
- 18.58GP: A person accidentally leaves a car with the lights on. If each of t...
- 18.63GP: (II) A length of wire is cut in half and the two lengths are wrappe...
- 18.1P: A current of 1.30 A flows in a wire. How many electrons are flowing...
- 18.67GP: A microwave oven running at 65%efficiency delivers 950W to the inte...
- 18.3P: What is the current in amperes if 1200 Na+ ions flow across a cell ...
- 18.69GP: 220 V is applied to two different conductors made of the same mater...
- 18.4P: What is the resistance of a toaster if 120 V produces a current of ...
- 18.74GP: A 100-W, 120-V lightbulb has a resistance of 12 a when cold (20°C) ...
- 18.5P: What voltage will produce 0.25 A of current through a 3800-? resistor?
- 18.75GP: The Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab (Illinois) is designed to carr...
- 18.5Q: When you turn on a water faucet, the water usually flows immediatel...
- 18.76GP: An air conditioner draws 18 A at 220-V ac. The connecting cord is c...
- 18.6P: A hair dryer draws 7.5 A when plugged into a 120-V line. (a) What i...
- 18.78GP: In an automobile, the system voltage varies from about 12 V when th...
- 18.7P: An electric clothes dryer has a heating element with a resistance o...
- 18.79GP: Lightbulb A is rated at 120 V and 40 W for household applications. ...
- 18.8P: A 9.0-V battery is connected to a bulb whose resistance is 1.6 ?. H...
- 18.81GP: ?A copper pipe has an inside diameter of 3.00 cm and an outside dia...
- 18.9P: ?(II) A bird stands on a dc electric transmission line carrying 280...
- 18.83GP: A tungsten filament used in a flashlight bulb operates at 0.20 A an...
- 18.10P: An electric device draws 6.50 A at 240 V. (a) If the voltage drops ...
- 18.11P: A 12-V battery causes a current of 0.60 A through a resistor. (a) W...
- 18.13P: What is the resistance of a 3.5-m length of copper wire 1.5 mm in d...
- 18.14P: Calculate the ratio of the resistance of 10.0 m of aluminum wire 2....
- 18.15P: Can a 2.5-mm-diameter copper wire have the same resistance as a tun...
- 18.16P: A certain copper wire has a resistance of 10.0 ?. At what point alo...
- 18.17P: How much would you have to raise the temperature of a copper wire (...
- 18.18P: Estimate at what temperature copper will have the same resistivity ...
- 18.19P: A 100-W lightbulb has a resistance of about 12 ? when cold (20°C) a...
- 18.19Q: ?Different lamps might have batteries connected in either of the tw...
- 18.20P: Compute the voltage drop along a 26-m length of household no. 14 co...
- 18.22P: Two aluminum wires have the same resistance. If one has twice the l...
- 18.23P: A length of aluminum wire is connected to a precision 10.00-V power...
- 18.24P: A 10.0-m length of wire consists of 5.0 m of copper followed by 5.0...
- 18.25P: For some applications, it is important that the value of a resistan...
- 18.26P: The heating element of an electric oven is designed to produce 3.3 ...
- 18.27P: What is the maximum power consumption of a 3.0-V portable CD player...
- 18.28P: ?(I) What is the maximum voltage that can be applied across a \(2.7...
- 18.30P: A 115-V fish-tank heater is rated at 110W. Calculate (a) the curren...
- 18.29P: (a) Determine the resistance of, and current through, a 75-W lightb...
- 18.31P: A 120-V hair dryer has two settings: 850 W and 1250 W. (a) At which...
- 18.33P: How many kWh of energy does a 550-W toaster use in the morning if i...
- 18.35P: ?(II) An ordinary flashlight uses two D-cell 1.5-V batteries connec...
- 18.36P: What is the total amount of energy stored in a 12-V, 85-A·h car bat...
- 18.37P: ?(II) How many 100-W lightbulbs, connected to 120 V as in Fig. 18–2...
- 18.38P: An extension cord made of two wires of diameter 0.129 cm (no. 16 co...
- 18.39P: A power station delivers 620 kW of power at 12,000 V to a factory t...
- 18.40P: The current in an electromagnet connected to a 240-V line is 17.5 A...
- 18.41P: A small immersion heater can be used in a car to heat a cup of wate...
- 18.42P: Calculate the peak current in a 2.2-k? resistor connected to a 220-...
- 18.43P: An ac voltage, whose peak value is 180 V, is across a 330-? resisto...
- 18.45P: The peak value of an alternating current in a 1500-W device is 5.4 ...
- 18.47P: (a) What is the maximum instantaneous power dissipated by a 3.0-hp ...
- 18.48P: A heater coil connected to a 240-Vrms ac line has a resistance of 3...
- 18.49P: A 0.65-mm-diameter copper wire carries a tiny current of 2.3 ?A. Wh...
- 18.50P: A 5.80-m length of 2.0-mm-diameter wire carries a 750-mA current wh...
- 18.51P: ?(III) At a point high in the Earth’s atmosphere, \(\mathrm{He}^{2}...
- 18.53P: A neuron is stimulated with an electric pulse. The action potential...
- 18.54P: ?(III) Estimate how much energy is required to transmit one action ...
- 18.56GP: How many coulombs are there in 1.00 ampere-hour?
- 18.59GP: The heating element of a 110-V, 1500-W heater is 5.4 m long. If it ...
- 18.60GP: The conductance G of an object is defined as the reciprocal of the ...
- 18.61GP: A small city requires about 10 MW of power. Suppose that instead of...
- 18.64GP: A 1200-W hair dryer is designed for 117 V. (a) What will be the per...
- 18.62GP: (a) A particular household uses a 1.8-kW heater 3.0 h/day (“on” tim...
- 18.65GP: The wiring in a house must be thick enough so it does not become so...
- 18.66GP: Suppose a current is given by the equation I = 1.80 sin 210t, where...
- 18.68GP: A 1.00-? wire is stretched uniformly to 3.00 times its original len...
- 18.70GP: An electric heater is used to heat a room of volume 62 m3. Air is b...
- 18.71GP: A 2200-W oven is hooked to a 240-V source. (a) What is the resistan...
- 18.72GP: A projected electric vehicle makes use of storage batteries as its ...
- 18.73GP: A 12.5-? resistor is made from a coil of copper wire whose total ma...
- 18.77GP: A fish-tank heater is rated at 95 W when connected to 120 V. The he...
- 18.80GP: Copper wire of diameter 0.259 cm is used to connect a set of applia...
- 18.82GP: If a wire of resistance R is stretched uniformly so that its length...
- 18.58PE: Integrated Concepts An electron has an initial velocity of 5.00 × 1...
- 18.59PE: Integrated Concepts The practical limit to an electric field in air...
- 18.61PE: Integrated Concepts Figure 18.57 shows an electron passing between ...
- 18.62PE: Integrated Concepts The classic Millikan oil drop experiment was th...
- 18.63PE: Integrated Concepts (a) In Figure 18.59, four equal char? ges? q li...
- 18.65PE: Unreasonable Results (a) Two 0.500 g raindrops in a thunderhead are...
- 18.66PE: Unreasonable Results A wrecking yard inventor wants to pick up cars...
- 18.68PE: Construct Your Own identical spherical conducting space ships in de...
Solutions for Chapter 18: Electric Charge and Electric Field
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Summary of Chapter 18: Electric Charge and Electric Field
The earliest studies on electricity date back to the ancients, but only since the late 1700s has electricity been studied in detail. We will discuss the development of ideas about electricity, including practical devices, as well as its relation to magnetism, in the next seven Chapters.
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