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Physics: Post your doubts here!

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length is directly proportional to resistance. length increases , resistance increases so PD across the component increases
Pd across the wire increases that's true.
However does the terminal pd of cell y refer to this?
 
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Hi this is 2014 ON paper 23 question 6 (c).
Please help, shouldn't terminal p.d. be less than emf due to lost volts?
The question mentions the other way around?
It's because the resistance increases as length increases, so the terminal pd increases
Note that it is higher than emf of cell Y ; the emf of the total circuit will be higher than this pd as cell X is also supplying a current.
 
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what's the definition of electric potential energy?
is it
1energy stored in a charge available to do work in electric field OR
2energy stored in a charge due to its work done against electric field?
 
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what's the definition of electric potential energy?
is it
1energy stored in a charge available to do work in electric field OR
2energy stored in a charge due to its work done against electric field?
i think it's the first one; cause it's the energy stored right?
 
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Someone please summarise brownian motion
and also radioactive decay ; all we need to know for p2
; like what is spontaneous and all that please!
 

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Someone please summarise brownian motion
and also radioactive decay ; all we need to know for p2
; like what is spontaneous and all that please!
Radioactive decay of a nucleus : Nucleus emits alpha or beta particle
Spontaneous decay : decay unaffected by environmental changes such as temp , pressure
Random Decay : Constant probability of decay per unit time of a nucleus. Cannot predict which particular nucleus will decay
Brownian Motion : Random movement of particles
 
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yeah i thought so too
but for Gravitational potential E don't we say energy stored in a mass due to its work done against the gravitational field ?:(
i think it's the first one; cause it's the energy stored right?
 
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yeah i thought so too
but for Gravitational potential E don't we say energy stored in an mass due to its work done against the gravitational field ?:(
Yeah true...I just define electric potential energy as the energy possesed by a charge when placed in an electric field (that's what i've been taught) :)
 
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