Suppose that you wish to fabricate a uniform wire out of 2.0 gram of copper. The resistance of wire is to be 0.8 ohms and if all of the copper are to be used, what will be the diameter of wire? Specific resistance is 1.72 x 10^-8 ohm-meter and mass density is 8.92 x 10^3 kg/m3.

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Suppose that you wish to fabricate a uniform wire out of 2.0 gram of copper. The resistance of wire is to be 0.8 ohms and if all of the copper are to be used, what will be the diameter of wire? Specific resistance is 1.72 x 10^-8 ohm-meter and mass density is 8.92 x 10^3 kg/m3.

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