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Define a Potentiometer. - Physics

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Define a Potentiometer.

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A potentiometer is a manually adjustable, variable resistor with three terminals. Two terminals are connected to the ends of a resistive element, and the third terminal is connected to an adjustable wiper. The position of the wiper sets the resistive divider ratio.

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पाठ 9: Current Electricity - Exercises [पृष्ठ २२८]

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बालभारती Physics [English] Standard 12 Maharashtra State Board
पाठ 9 Current Electricity
Exercises | Q 2.01 (i) | पृष्ठ २२८

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Accuracy of potentiometer can be easily increased by ______.


Write two factors by which current sensitivity of a potentiometer can be increased.


Figure shows a 2.0 V potentiometer used for the determination of internal resistance of a 1.5 V cell. The balance point of the cell in open circuit is 76.3 cm. When a resistor of 9.5 Ω is used in the external circuit of the cell, the balance point shifts to 64.8 cm length of the potentiometer wire. Determine the internal resistance of the cell.


(i) State the principle on which a potentiometer works. How can a given potentiometer be made more sensitive?

(ii) In the graph shown below for two potentiometers, state with reason which of the two potentiometers, A or B, is more sensitive.

In the figure a long uniform potentiometer wire AB is having a constant potential gradient along its length. The null points for the two primary cells of emfs ε1 and ε2 connected in the manner shown are obtained at a distance of 120 cm and 300 cm from the end A. Find (i) ε1/ ε2 and (ii) position of null point for the cell ε1.

How is the sensitivity of a potentiometer increased?


When a resistor of 5Ω is connected across the cell, its terminal potential difference is balanced by 150 cm of potentiometer wire and when a resistance of 10 Ω is connected across the cell, the terminal potential difference is balanced by 175 cm same potentiometer wire. Find the balancing length when the cell is in open circuit and the internal resistance of the cell.


When the balance point is obtained in the potentiometer, a current is drawn from ______.


Why should not the jockey be slided along the potentiometer wire?


How is potential gradient measured? Explain.


Describe with the help of a neat circuit diagram how you will determine the internal resistance of a cell by using a potentiometer. Derive the necessary formula.


A battery of emf 4 volt and internal resistance 1 Ω is connected in parallel with another battery of emf 1 V and internal resistance 1 Ω (with their like poles connected together). The combination is used to send current through an external resistance of 2 Ω. Calculate the current through the external resistance.


A potential drop per unit length along a wire is 5 × 10−3 V/m. If the emf of a cell balances against length 216 cm of this potentiometer wire, find the emf of the cell.


Why is a potentiometer preferred over a voltmeter for measuring emf?


When the null point is obtained in the potentiometer, the current is drawn from the ______  


If the potential gradient of a wire decreases, then its length ______  


The instrument which can measure terminal potential difference as well as electromotive force (emf) is ______ 


What is the SI unit of potential gradient?


The emf of a standard cell is 1.5V and is balanced by a length of 300 cm of a potentiometer with a 10 m long wire. Find the percentage error in a voltmeter that balances at 350 cm when its reading is 1.8 V.  


A 10 m long wire of resistance 20 Q is connected in series with a battery of emf 3 V and a resistance of 10 Ω. The potential gradient along the wire in V/m is ________.


The resistance of the potentiometer wire should ideally be ____________.


A potentiometer wire of Length 10 m is connected in series with a battery. The e.m.f. of a cell balances against 250 cm Length of wire. If length of potentiometer wire is increased by 1 m, the new balancing length of wire will be ____________.


If the e.m.f of a cell is not constant in the metre bridge experiment, then the ____________.


To determine the internal resistance of a cell by using potentiometer, the null point is at 1 m when cell is shunted by 3 Ω resistance and at a length 1.5 m when cell is shunted by 6 Ω resistance. The internal resistance of the cell is ______.


A potentiometer wire of length 100 cm and resistance 3 `Omega` is connected in series with resistance of 8 `Omega` and an accumulator of 4 volt whose internal resistance is 1 `Omega`.


In the potentiometer experiment, the balancing length with cell E1 of unknown e.m.f. is ℓ1 cm. By shunting the cell E1 with resistance 'R' which is equal to internal resistance (r) of the cell E1, the balancing length ℓ2 is ______


A potentiometer wire has a length of 4m and resistance of 5Ω. It is connected in series with 495 Ω resistance and a cell of e.m.f. 4V. The potential gradient along the wire is ______


Two students X and Y perform potentiometer experiment separately and null point was obtained as shown in diagram. During the experiment, ______.

  1. X increases the value of R (resistance)
  2. Y decreases the value of S (resistance)

The position of null point obtained by students X and Y respectively.


In a potentiometer experiment, for measuring internal resistance of a cell, the balance point has been obtained on the fourth wire. The balance point can be shifted to fifth wire by ______.


It is observed in a potentiometer experiment that no current passes through the galvanometer when the terminals of the cell are connected across a certain length of the potentiometer wire. On shunting the cell by a 2 Ω resistance, the balancing length is reduced to half. The internal resistance of the cell is ______.


A battery is connected with a potentiometer wire. The internal resistance of the battery is negligible. If the length of the potentiometer wire of the same material and radius is doubled then ______.


A potentiometer is an accurate and versatile device to make electrical measurements of E.M.F. because the method involves ______.


A potentiometer wire is 100 cm long and a constant potential difference is maintained across it. Two cells are connected in series first to support one another and then in opposite direction. The balance points are obtained at 50 cm and 10 cm from the positive end of the wire in the two cases. The ratio of emf's is ______.


In a potentiometer of 10 wires, the balance point is obtained on the 7th wire. To shift the balance point to 9th wire, we should ______.


AB is a wire of potentiometer with the increase in the value of resistance R, the shift in the balance point J will be ______.


A 10 m long wire of uniform cross-section and 20 Ω resistance is used in a potentiometer. The wire is connected in series with a battery of 5 V along with an external resistance of 480 Ω. If an unknown emf E is balanced at 6.0 m length of the wire, then the value of unknown emf is ______.


The conductivity of super - conductor is


A wire of resistance R is cut into two equal part. There parts are then connected in parallel. The equivalent resistance of the combination will be


Specific resistance of a conductor increase with.


1°C rise in temperature is observed in a conductor by passing a certain current. If the current is double then the rise in temperature is approximately.


Consider a simple circuit shown in figure   stands for a variable resistance R′. R′ can vary from R0 to infinity. r is internal resistance of the battery (r << R << R0).

  1. Potential drop across AB is nearly constant as R ′ is varied.
  2. Current through R′ is nearly a constant as R ′ is varied.
  3. Current I depends sensitively on R′.
  4. `I ≥ V/(r + R)` always.

Potential difference between the points A and B in the circuit shown is 16 V, then potential difference across 2Ω resistor is ______ V. volt. (VA > VB)


In potentiometer experiment, null point is obtained at a particular point for a cell on potentiometer wire x cm long. If the length of the potentiometer wire is increased without changing the cell, the balancing length will ______. (Driving source is not changed) 


A potentiometer wire AB having length L and resistance 12r is joined to a cell D of emf ε and internal resistance r. A cell C having emt `ε/2` and internal resistance 3r is connected. The length AJ at which the galvanometer as shown in the figure shows no deflection is ______.

 


A particle carrying 8 electron charges starts from rest and is accelerated through a potential difference of 9000 V. Calculate the KE acquired by it in keV.


What should be the diameter of a soap bubble such that the excess pressure inside it is 51.2 Pa? [Surface tension of soap solution = 3.2 × 10−2 N/m]


State dimension of potential gradient.


Draw neat labelled diagram of potentiometer as voltage divider.


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