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    A Power Problem - Isaac Physics 2

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    The circuit diagram shows a battery connected to resistors with different resistance values. One of the resistors will fail if it dissipates over 2W of power. The maximum battery voltage that can be used without causing a resistor to fail must be determined. Working through the circuit sections labeled A, B, and C to find the resistor that dissipates the most power will help solve this problem.

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    The circuit diagram shows a battery connected to resistors with different resistance values. One of the resistors will fail if it dissipates over 2W of power. The maximum battery voltage that can be used without causing a resistor to fail must be determined. Working through the circuit sections labeled A, B, and C to find the resistor that dissipates the most power will help solve this problem.

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    The circuit diagram shows a battery connected to resistors with different resistance values. One of the resistors will fail if it dissipates over 2W of power. The maximum battery voltage that can be used without causing a resistor to fail must be determined. Working through the circuit sections labeled A, B, and C to find the resistor that dissipates the most power will help solve this problem.

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    The circuit diagram shows a battery connected to resistors with different resistance values. One of the resistors will fail if it dissipates over 2W of power. The maximum battery voltage that can be used without causing a resistor to fail must be determined. Working through the circuit sections labeled A, B, and C to find the resistor that dissipates the most power will help solve this problem.

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    A Power Problem GCSE - Challenge (C2)


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    The circuit shown in the figure below is made up of a battery connected to a set of
    resistors with different values of resistance. However, if a power of over 2.00 W is
    dissipated in one of these resistors, that resistor will fail.

    Figure 1: Circuit diagram showing a resistor network with the resistance values on the resistors.

    What is the maximum voltage of the battery that can be used without any of
    the resistors failing?

    Value

    8.62 ?

    Units

    Incorrect
    Check your working.

    Check my answer

    Hint 1 Hint 2 Hint 3 Hint 4

    A C
    B

    Figure 2: Particular parts of the circuit to look at it in order

    It may be helpful to systematically work through the circuit to find the resistor that dissipates
    V2
    the highest power by comparing the R or I 2 R terms for a few resistors at a time. The figure
    shows three sections of the circuit labelled A, B and C. For each of these in order, try to work
    out which resistor will dissipate the largest power.

    Created for isaacphysics.org by Dominic Lyons

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