1. Calculate the resistance of 1km long copper wire of radius 1mm. Resistivity of copper = 1.

72 x10-8
2. Given is the potential difference of 2 volt that is applied across the wire ends of length 5 m .A current of 1 A
flows through the wire . Calculate
( I ) Resistance per unit length of wire
( II ) Resistance of 2 m length of wire
( III) Resistance across the wire ends if the wire is doubled on itself
3. Calculate the end-to-end resistance of a 20 meter length of copper wire with a diameter of 0.05 cm. Use
1.678 106 cm for the specific resistance of copper.
4. What will be the resistivity of a metal wire of 2 m length and 0.6 mm in diameter, if the resistance of the
wire is 50 .
5. The resistance of an electric wire of an alloy is 10 . If the thickness of wire is 0.001 meter, and length is 1
m, find its resistivity.
6. The resistivity of a metal wire is 10 x 108 m at 20C. Find the resistance of the same wire of 2 meter
length and 0.3 mm thickness.
7. The area of cross section of wire becomes half when its length is stretched to double. How the resistance of
wire is affected in new condition?
8. Taking the resistivity of platinum as 3.3 x 10-7 m, find the resistance of 7.0 m of platinum wire of average
diameter 0.14 cm.
9. The resistance of the ohm is very approximately that of a column of mercury 1.06 m long and of uniform
cross-section of one hundredth of a cm2. Find the resistivity of mercury.
10. What length of German silver wire, diameter 0.050 cm, is needed to make a 28 resistor, if the resistivity
of German silver is 2.2 x 10-7 m?
11. The maximum allowable resistance for an underwater cable is one hundredth of an ohm per metre. If the
resistivity of copper is 1.54 x 10-8 m, find the least diameter of a copper cable that could be used.
12. A block of carbon, 1.0 cm by 2.0 cm by 5.0 cm, has a resistance of 0.015 between its two smaller faces.
What is the resistivity of carbon?
13. A uniform strip of eureka (resistivity 5-0 x 10-7 m) has a resistance of 0.80 per metre and is 0.25 cm
wide. What is its thickness?
14. A wire of uniform cross-section has a resistance of R . What would be the resistance of a similar wire,
made of the same material, but twice as long and of twice the diameter?
15. A wire of uniform cross-section has a resistance of R . If it is drawn to three times the length, but the
volume remains constant, what will be its resistance?
16. A simple way to make a resistor of high resistance is to draw a line with a graphite pencil across a sheet of
insulating material. One such line has a resistance of 10 M and is 80 cm long. If its width is 1.8 x 10-2 cm,
what is its average thickness? (Resistivity of graphite = 6.3 x l0-5 m.)
17. A wire of length L and resistance R is streched to get the radius of cross-section halfed. What is new
resistance ?
18. The specific resistance of manganin is 50 108 m. The resistance of a manganin cube having length

50 cm
19. A rod of certain metal is 1 m long and 0.6 cm in diameter. Its resistance is 3 103. A disc of the same metal is
1 mm thick and 2 cm in diameter, what is the resistance between its circular faces.
20. An aluminum rod of length 3.14 m is of square cross-section 3.14 3.14 mm2. What should be the radius of 1 m
long another rod of same material to have equal resistance
21. Length of a hollow tube is 5m, its outer diameter is 10 cm and thickness of its wall is 5 mm. If resistivity of
the material of the tube is 1.7 108 m then resistance of tube will be
22. Dimensions of a block are 1 cm 1 cm 100 cm. If specific resistance of its material is 3 107 ohm-m, then
the resistance between its opposite rectangular faces is
23. A copper wire has resistance 2, it stretched by 3 times, what is the new resistance?
24. A copper wire has resistance 3, it stretched by 5 times, what is the new resistance?
25. A copper wire has resistance 20, it bent by 1/2 times, what is the new resistance?