(a) What resistance would you put in parallel with a 40.0-Ω galvanometer having a 25.0-μA sensitivity to allow it to be used as an ammeter that has a full-scale deflection for 10.0-μA ? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are responsible?

(a) What resistance would you put in parallel with a 40.0-Ω galvanometer having a 25.0-μA sensitivity to allow it to be used as an ammeter that has a full-scale deflection for 10.0-μA ? (b) What is unreasonable about this result? (c) Which assumptions are responsible?

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