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Why do we use thick copper strips in a meter bridge?

Why do we use thick copper strips in a meter bridge?

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Aman Bansal
592 Points
12 years ago

Dear Shalini,

we use thich wire so that the resistance of the wire remains constant is tends to 0;

R= rho * l /A A= area,

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suman gurnani
21 Points
7 years ago
Thick copper wires are used because it provides zero or negligible end resistance and hence to minimise error

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