Consider a portable electric blanket that runs on a 6 V battery. If you use copper wire with a 0.75 mm diameter as the heating element, how long should the wire be (in units of meters) if you want to generate 15 W of heating power? (Take the resistivity of the copper wire as p = 1.7 x 10 n. m.) Answer:

Consider a portable electric blanket that runs on a 6 V battery. If you use copper wire with a 0.75 mm diameter as the heating element, how long should the wire be (in units of meters) if you want to generate 15 W of heating power? (Take the resistivity of the copper wire as p = 1.7 x 10 n. m.) Answer:

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Chapter21: Current And Direct Current Circuits

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