Current Electricity

Submitted by pradipta pramanik on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 20:18

Current Electricity : Electric current, drift velocity and mobility, Ohm’s law, resistivity, combination of resistances in series and parallel, combination of cells.
Kirchoffs laws, Wheatstone bridge, Metre bridge, potentiometer.
Heating effect of current, thermoelectricity, Seebeck and Peltier effect.
Chemical effect of current, Faraday’s law of electrolysis, primary and secondary cells.

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