Electric Current Through Conductors — Class 11 Maharashtra HSC Physics revision notes
A 6-page visual revision sheet for Electric Current Through Conductors, written for Class 11 Maharashtra HSC Physics. Formulas, diagrams and the traps that cost marks, laid out to be read the night before rather than the term before. Free, and it opens inside CapCompass.
What this Electric Current Through Conductors sheet covers
- electric current
- drift speed
- Current and drift speed
- Current, drift speed and current density
- charge in a length L, n electrons per unit volume
- current in terms of drift speed
- current density
- ohm's law
- statement, physical state unchanged
- resistance
- conductance
- Ohm's law, the microscopic picture
- Electrical energy and power
- work to move charge Q through p.d. V
- power delivered
- power dissipated in a resistor, using Ohm's law
- Resistors and colour code
- Series and parallel combination
- series, same current in each
- parallel, same voltage across each
- resistivity
- specific resistance
- resistance of a uniform conductor
- conductivity
- field-current density form
- Resistance and temperature
- linear approximation
- temperature coefficient of resistance
- emf
- internal resistance
- EMF and internal resistance
- Cell in a circuit
- terminal voltage under load
- current drawn, external resistance R
- maximum possible current, R = 0
- Cells in series vs parallel
- Series
- Parallel
- Symbols
- Traps that cost marks
- Tricks that save time
How CapCompass uses this sheet
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