A car battery has a rating of 330 ampere-hours. This rating is one indication of the total charge that the battery can provide to a circuit before failing. (a) What is the total charge (in coulombs) that this battery can provide? (b) Determine the maximum current that the battery can provide for 57 minutes. (a) Number (b) Number i Units Units

A car battery has a rating of 330 ampere-hours. This rating is one indication of the total charge that the battery can provide to a circuit before failing. (a) What is the total charge (in coulombs) that this battery can provide? (b) Determine the maximum current that the battery can provide for 57 minutes. (a) Number (b) Number i Units Units

Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Foundations and Connections

1st Edition

ISBN:9781133939146

Author:Katz, Debora M.

Publisher:Katz, Debora M.

Chapter28: Current And Resistance

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 65PQ

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

What current flows through a 2.54-cm-diameter rod of Pure silicon that is 20.0 cm long, when 1.00103 V is applied to it? (Such a rod may be used to make nuclear- particle detectors, for example.)
The quantity of charge through a conductor is modeled as: q(t)=at4+bt+c --> I(t) = 4 a t^3 + b If a = 5.02C/s4, and b = -4.36C/s, and c = 1.75μC, then what is the current, in amperes, at t=1.45s?
Is it possible to connect a group of resistors of value R in such a waythat the equivalent resistance is less than R? If so, give a specificexample
Batteries are rated in terms of ampere - hours (A ⋅ h). For example,a battery that can deliver a current of 3.0 A for 5.0 h is ratedat 15 A ? h. (a) What is the total energy, in kilowatt - hours, storedin a 12 - V battery rated at 55 A ⋅ h? (b) At $0.12 per kilowatthour,what is the value of the electricity that can be producedby this battery?
A person with body resistance between his hands of 10.0 kΩ accidentally grasps the terminals of a 20.0-kV power supply. (Do NOT do this!) If the internal resistance of the power supply is 2000Ω , what is the current through his body?
A 6.00 V battery delivers a steady current of 1.25 A for aperiod of 1.50 hours. Calculate the total magnitude of chargeQ, in coulombs, that passes through the circuit and the electrical work done by the battery.
Consider a cylindrical ohmic wire with the following dimensions: length = 10.0 m, radius = 0.05 m. When the ends of the wire were connected to a 2.0 V voltage source, a 1.0 A current through the wire was measured. Determine the resistivity of the wire. Choices: 3.93 x10^-4 Ω-m, 1.57 x 10^-3 Ω-m, 3.14 x 10^-2 Ω-m, 3.92 x 10^-2 Ω-m, 1.57 x 10^-1 Ω-m
The compressor on an air conditioner draws89.6 A when it starts up. The start-up time isabout 0.282 s.How much charge passes a cross-sectionalarea of the circuit in this time?Answer in units of C.
The current flowing in a given circuit can be described by the function: I(t) = Imax(1 - e-t/τ), where Imax = 25 A and T = 2.4 s. At what time in seconds is the current equal to 75% of the maximum current? How much charge in coulombs, passes through a point in the circuit as the current increases from 0 to 75% of the maximum current?
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) operated an electron storage ring about 72.0 m in diameter called SPEAR (closed in 2009), in which a circulating beam of electrons moved at nearly the speed of light. Assuming that this electron beam had a current of 25 A, how many electrons were in the beam at any given moment?
The quantity of charge through a conductor is modeled as: q(t)=at4+bt+c If a = 5.02C/s4, and b = -4.36C/s, and c = 1.75μC, then what is the current, in amperes, at t=1.45s?
A high tension (HT) supply of, say, 6 kV must have a very large internal resistance. Why?