How to Find Current Passing Through Wires Connected in Parallel?

By Team Aakash Byju's | 17th November 2022 Chat Box

An electric current is passed through a circuit containing two wires of the same material connected in parallel.

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C

If the lengths and radii of the wires are in the ratio of and , then the ratio of the currents passing through the wire will be 4 3 1 4 3 1 2 3 4 3 2 3

The correct answer is B.

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The expression for current passing through the circuit.

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The potential difference when the wires are connected in parallel remains the same. Let l and l be the current passing through two wires. Then,

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Using the expression for resistance, we can write

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Using

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