You find a long silver metal rod with a circular cross-section and you measure its cross-section diameter to be 1 mm. You set the rod up in a way that a current of 2 A passes through its cross-section. The free- electron density of silver is 5.9 × 1028 m-3. Given this information, what is the magnitude of the drift speed of the electrons flowing in the rod? (Express the speed in mm/s with two decimal places)

You find a long silver metal rod with a circular cross-section and you measure its cross-section diameter to be 1 mm. You set the rod up in a way that a current of 2 A passes through its cross-section. The free- electron density of silver is 5.9 × 1028 m-3. Given this information, what is the magnitude of the drift speed of the electrons flowing in the rod? (Express the speed in mm/s with two decimal places)

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Chapter9: Current And Resistance

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Problem 31P: Consider a wire of a circular cross-section with a radius of R = 3.00mm. The magnitude of the...

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