An electric heating element to dissipate 480 watts on 240 V mains is to be made from nichrome wire of 1 mm diameter. Calculate the length of the wire required if the resistivity of nichrome is 1.1 × 10-6 Ω m.
Solution:
Given,
power dissipation,
voltage supply,
diameter of wire,
radius of wire,
length of wire,
resistivity of wire,
Now,
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