A diagram of a closed circuit with a power source on the left labeled 120 V. There are 3 resistors in parallel, separate paths,
2 answers:
1) The equivalent resistance is
2) The voltage in the circuit is 120 V
3) The total current in the circuit is 44.0 A
Explanation:
1)
Resistors are said to be in parallel when they have the same potential difference at their terminals.
The formula to calculate the equivalent resistance for three resistors in parallel is:
where are the resistances of the three resistors.
In this problem, the resistance of each resistor is:
Substituting,
So the equivalent resistance is
2)
In this problem we are told that the three resistors are connected in parallel. This means that their terminals are connected to the same point of the circuit: therefore, this means that they also have the same potential difference across them.
Therefore, the voltage in each branch containing each resistor is the same, and it is equal to the voltage of the battery, which is
So, the voltage in the circuit is 120 V.
3)
The total current in the circuit can be found by using Ohm's law:
where
V is the voltage
R is the equivalent resistance of the circuit
I is the current
In this circuit, we have:
V = 120 V
Re-arranging the equation for I, we find the current:
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E. d and O
Explanation:
"Light passing through a single slit forms a diffraction pattern somewhat different from those formed by double slits or diffraction gratings".
According to Huygens’s principle, "for each element of the wavefront in the slit emits wavelets. These are like rays that start out in phase and head in all directions. (Each ray is perpendicular to the wavefront of a wavelet.) Assuming the screen is very far away compared with the size of the slit, rays heading toward a common destination are nearly parallel".
The destructive interference for a single slit is given by:
Where
d is the slit width
is the light's wavelength
is the angle relative to the original direction of the light
m is the order od the minimum
I represent the intensity
When the intensity and the wavelength are incident normally the angular as we can see on the expression above the angular separation just depends of the distance d and the wavelength O.