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How does the electric field affect the resistance?

Exactly!!! but my professor seems to think it does as he added that question to the review sheet.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Before answering I'm deriving a formula for resistance

    Let

    v = (drift) velocity of electron

    V = potential across material

    n = no. of free electrons in a unit volume of material

    A = cross sectional ares of material

    e = charge on electron

    E = Electric field intensity

    m = mass of electron

    L = length of material;

    Current, I = nAev

    v = Ee/m

    E = V/L

    I = Ane²E/m

    R = V/I

    R = mV/Ane²E

    So you can see resistance is inversely proportional to Electric field intensity.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It doesn't.

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