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Electric Current

a wire has resistance 16ohm. now its shape has been changed to a circle. what is resitance now.

Profile image of chinky mutreja
15 Years agoGrade
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Profile image of Surbhi Kumari
15 Years ago

 even after making it into a circle the resistance remains the same as it depends on the cross sectional area of the wire which remains same in both the cases and also th elength remains same.

so there is no change in the resistance.

Profile image of Vikas TU
15 Years ago

R = 16 Ω * ∏r2