Electric Circuits
What is the fundamental definition of electric current?
The rate of change of voltage in a circuit.
The amount of charge flowing through a cross-sectional area per unit time.
The energy consumed by a resistor.
The speed at which electrons move through a conductor.
A cylindrical aluminum wire has a radius of and carries a current of . The number of free electrons per cubic meter in aluminum is . What is the drift velocity of the electrons?
A silver wire has a mass density of and an atomic mass of . Assuming one free electron per atom, and given that the wire carries a current density , what is the drift velocity of the electrons?
A conductor has 30 C of charge pass through a fixed point in 6 seconds. What is the current in the conductor?
3 A
5 A
10 A
180 A
A circuit has a current of 200 mA. How long will it take for 24 Coulombs of charge to pass through the circuit?
0.0083 s
1.2 s
120 s
240 s
In a circuit, how does the direction of conventional current relate to the direction of electron flow?
They are in the same direction.
They are in opposite directions.
Conventional current flows only in semiconductors.
Electron flow is always zero.
In a simple circuit with a battery and a resistor, what is the direction of the conventional current flow?
From the negative terminal to the positive terminal through the resistor.
From the positive terminal to the negative terminal through the resistor.
From the middle of the resistor to both terminals.
There is no conventional current in a simple circuit.

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A copper wire carries a current of 10 A with a drift velocity of . If the number of charge carriers per unit volume is , what is the cross-sectional area of the wire?
A wire carries a current of 500 milliamperes. How much charge flows through the wire in 2 minutes?
0.25 C
1 C
60 C
100 C
A copper wire has a charge carrier density and carries a current of 5 A. If the drift velocity of the electrons is , and the charge of an electron is , what is the cross-sectional area of the wire?