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Practice Problems

1. An electric motor is supplied with current by a power supply. If 720 C of charge passes
through the motor each minute, what current is flowing?
2. If a current of 2.4 A flows in a circuit, how much charge flows past a point in one second?
How much charge flows in 30 s.
3. A battery supplies a current of 1.25 A to a circuit. How long will it take for 75 C of
charge to flow round the circuit?
4. Calculate the resistance of a lamp if a potential difference (p.d.) of 36 V makes a current
of 4.5 A flow through it.
5. A student measured the resistance of a resistor. To do this, she set up a circuit in which
the resistor was connected to a variable power supply, a voltmeter and an ammeter. Draw
a circuit diagram to represent these components connected together correctly so that the
student could measure the current in the resistor and the p.d. across it.
6. Calculate the combined resistance of four 120 Ω resistors connected in series.

7. A) Are the two resistors connected in series or in parallel?


B) Calculate the current in the 30 Ω resistor.

8. Derive formula to calculate equivalent resistance 𝑅𝑒 for the resistors connected in series.
9. Two batteries of 3 𝑉 connected in series. What is the value of the voltage across them?

10. One coulomb of charge passes through a point in an electric circuit every ten seconds.
What is the current in the circuit?

11. Three resistors, each having a resistance of 25 Ω, are connected in series. What is their
effective resistance?

12. A hair dryer and a curling iron have resistances of 15 Ω and 25 Ω, respectively, and are
connected in series. They are connected to a 60 V battery. Calculate the current through
the circuit.

13. Three resistors, each having a resistance of 30 Ω, are connected in parallel with each
other. What is the value of their effective resistance.
14. Suppose that you are experimenting with a 15 V source and two resistors: 𝑅1 = 2500 Ω
and 𝑅2 = 25 Ω. Find the current for a, b, c, and d below. What do you notice?

A. 𝑅1 in series with 𝑅2
B. 𝑅1 in a circuit alone
C. 𝑅1 in parallel with 𝑅2
D. 𝑅2 in a circuit alone
15. A 20 Ω lamp and a 30 Ω lamp are connected in series with a 10 V battery. Calculate the
following:
a. the equivalent resistance
b. the current through the circuit
c. the voltage drop across the 20 Ω lamp
d. the voltage drop across the 30 Ω lamp

16. You have a 30 V source and two resistors: 𝑅1 = 10 Ω and 𝑅2 = 25 Ω. Find the current in a
circuit with the resistors connected in parallel. What is the current through each resistor if
they are connected to the power supply separately? Do you notice anything?

17. A voltage divider is a series circuit that is used to produce a specific voltage across one of
its resistors. Find a symbolic expression for the voltage 𝑉2 across resistor 𝑅2 using circuit
elements V, 𝑅1 , and 𝑅2 .

18. Four 1 Ω resistors are connected in parallel across a 10 V battery. What is the equivalent
resistance of the circuit?

19. An alarm clock draws 0.5 A of current when connected to a 120 volt circuit. Calculate its
resistance.

20. What current flows through a hair dryer plugged into a 120 Volt circuit if it has a
resistance of 25 ohms?

21. How much current flows through a 16 V battery that has a resistance of 5.1 Ω?

22. The human body offers a very small amount of resistance (let’s say 1 mΩ for argument).
If a lightning bolt (said to have 1.21 GV of potential according to a famous movie called
Back to the Future released in 1984) hits you, how much current is flowing through your
body? PS. It takes a mere 50 mA of current to kill a human being.

23. What is the potential difference across an electrical load that has a resistance of 4 Ω and a
current of 3 A flowing through it?

24. Calculate the current an electric clothes dryer draws when it is connected to a 230 V
source and has a resistance of 9.2 Ω.

25. Find the applied voltage of circuit that draws 0.021 Ampere through resistance of 15000
Ohms.

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