Given a Fixed Mass of Conducting Metal, What Factors Need

question 29

Essay

Given a fixed mass of conducting metal, what factors need to be considered in maximizing the resistance of a length of wire made from this metal if the diameter of the wire must NOT be less than a prescribed value? How sensitive is this maximum to the minimum value of the diameter?

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