Silver is a very good conductor, this means its resistivity is very low (from table, we can check the precise value, which is
).
Pure water, instead, is a very bad conductor, this means its resistivity is very high, of order of
(
). Even without knowing the precise value of the pure water resistivity, we can estimate the ratio between the pure water resistivity and the silver resistivity by comparing the two orders of magnitude:
Therefore, we can say that the correct answer is
M1 v1 = (m1 + m2)v2.
All of the exponents should be lowered to the bottom right of the letters.
The lithosphere includes the crust, and the mantle :)
<u>Increase the thickness of the wire</u> would decrease the resistance in a wire
Explanation:
Thicker wires have a larger cross-section that increases the surface area with which electrons can flow unimpeded. The thicker the wire, therefore, the lower the resistance.
Thin wires have very high resistance the reason the thin tungsten in a bulb glows because it is heated from the high resistance of many electrons trying to pass through a very small cross-section.