Do electrons have more room to move along a thick or thin wire?
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1) First of all, let's find the resistance of the wire by using Ohm's law:
where V is the potential difference applied on the wire, I the current and R the resistance. For the resistor in the problem we have:
2) Now that we have the value of the resistance, we can find the resistivity of the wire
by using the following relationship:
Where A is the cross-sectional area of the wire and L its length.
We already have its length
, while we need to calculate the area A starting from the radius:
And now we can find the resistivity:
where V is the potential difference applied on the wire, I the current and R the resistance. For the resistor in the problem we have:
2) Now that we have the value of the resistance, we can find the resistivity of the wire
Where A is the cross-sectional area of the wire and L its length.
We already have its length
And now we can find the resistivity: