Consider a wire made of copper with conductivity 6.0x10^7 omega^-1m^-1, which has a circular cross-section of radius 0.29 mm. In a particular circuit, this wire Carrie’s a current of 6.5 A. Part (a) what is the electrical field, involves per meter, inside the wire? Part (b) if we replace this wire with the gold one of the same size, with 4.1x10^7omega^-1m^-1, conductivity what will the electrical field in the wire be?

Consider a wire made of copper with conductivity 6.0x10^7 omega^-1m^-1, which has a circular cross-section of radius 0.29 mm. In a particular circuit, this wire Carrie’s a current of 6.5 A. Part (a) what is the electrical field, involves per meter, inside the wire? Part (b) if we replace this wire with the gold one of the same size, with 4.1x10^7omega^-1m^-1, conductivity what will the electrical field in the wire be?

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