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Grade Upto college level General Physics

Explain how will you use a metre bridge to find the resistance of a given resistor wire?

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12 Years agoGrade Upto college level
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Profile image of Karthik
12 Years ago
This is an easy concept. There are a few good examples in the NCERT class 12 textbook.
We assume known resistance to be ‘R’ and unknown resistance-“X” the R is at left gap and X in right gap. The distance “L” is from left on the metre bridge. Then we use the following formula:
R/X = L/(100-L)