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Resistance is an electrical phenomenon. When you send electricity into a resistor, less goes out the "outlet lead" than went in the "inlet lead." The difference between inlet and outlet is dissipated as heat. If you're building a radio or something, excess heat isn't good. Sometimes you want the heat, so to get as much as you can you use a massive resistor.
A thicker wire has less resistance than a thinner wire.
Because there is less resistance
The electrical resistance in thick wires is less than thin.
A semiconductor only allows some electrons to flow across its junction. It has some resistance, in fact more resistance than a conductor but less than an insulator. A superconductor has no resistance.
No it is not. A resistor has a known resistance that is less than infinity. A switch has a resistance of either infinity when it is open or low when it is closed
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The smallest resistor.
If you are placing more than one resistors in series, then its combined resistance is higher than when you place these resistors in shunt.
The voltage of a battery goes as the current times the resistance (V=IR). Because the voltage is being held constant, the resistor that draws the most current will have the lower resistance.
decrease to half of its original value
A Resistor Is Used To Limit The Current In A CircuitFurther AnswerA resistor is sometimes used to modify the natural resistance of a circuit -e.g. by adding a resistor in series, you can increase the natural resistance; by adding a resistor in parallel, you can decrease the natural resistance. Two or more resistors can be used to create a voltage divider -a method of obtaining a voltage lower than the supply voltage in a d.c. circuit.Use of resistor is to produce a particular amount of resistance to the flow of current
A Resistor Is Used To Limit The Current In A CircuitFurther AnswerA resistor is sometimes used to modify the natural resistance of a circuit -e.g. by adding a resistor in series, you can increase the natural resistance; by adding a resistor in parallel, you can decrease the natural resistance. Two or more resistors can be used to create a voltage divider -a method of obtaining a voltage lower than the supply voltage in a d.c. circuit.Use of resistor is to produce a particular amount of resistance to the flow of current
If you need a resistor of a certain value, and you have no resistors with small enough values,you can create the one you need by connecting several of those you have in parallel.The effective net resistance of resistors in parallel is always less than the smallest individual.And the more resistors you add in parallel, the smaller the net effective resistance becomes.
Voltage drop is the product of current and resistance. When you connect a voltmeter across a resistor, you are connecting that voltmeter's internal resistance in parallel with that resistor. The resulting resistance of this parallel combination is lowerthan that of the resistor. As a result the voltage drop (current times this lower resistance) will be lower than it would be without the voltmeter connected. This is called the 'loading effect' of that voltmeter.The higher the internal resistance of the voltmeter, the less effect it will have on lowering the overall resistance when connected across a resistor. This is why the internal resistance of a voltmeter is made deliberately very high. Under most circumstances, therefore, a conventional voltmeter will have very little effect on the resistance of the circuit being tested and, so, it will have no significant effect on the voltage appearing across the resistor.However... for circuits that already have exceptionally-high resistance values, you must be careful when you select a voltmeter as you must take into account its internal resistance and ensure the voltmeter you use has the very highest internal resistance available. This is because the loading effect increases with circuits that have a high resistance. That might involve selecting a voltmeter that works on a completely-different principle , such as an electrostatic voltmeter or, perhaps, an oscilloscope
The tolerance of a resistor is basically a measure of how close the actual resistance of that particular resistor is to the stated resistance. For example, a "220 ohm" resistor with a tolerance of 10% (silver band) has an actual resistance somewhere between 198 and 242 ohms.
When you add an additional resistor in parallel, there are additional paths which the current can take - making it easier for the current to go from one side to the other.