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  • Just being careful: about the copyright thing, am I allowed to refer to this as a source in my A-level (English equivalent of high school) physics coursework? I don't really want to incur the wrath of the FBI.

  • I thought the area was done in CM circular mils instead of cm centimeters

  • Keira Knightly?

  • Thanks a lot Dr. You are great teacher.

  • converting the units to the SI before calculating

    i got

    [(2.44x10^-6)x10] / [pi((5x10^-4)^2)] = 31.06ohms

    have i done something wrong?

    everything is in meters

  • The resistivity would have to be converted to 2.44x10^-8 ohms-meters; right now it's in ohms-cm. Then you'd get the 0.31 ohms we got in the video. - bob

  • thanks man!

  • you made it nice and clear

    thank you

  • Hi Dr. Abel,

    At the end when you find your final answer, shouldn't it be 0.311 times 10 to the negative something? Or more like 3.11 x 10^-4?

    It seems like since you're dividing a number times 10^-6 by a number times 10^-3, the final answer should have a 10^-X as well because the numbers are so tiny.

    ps. These videos are GREAT.

  • @hottiepants87 no because the number x10^-6 is first multiplied by 1000 (which is x10^3) which takes the power to -3. Then its divided by a number x10^-3, giving the answer without a power.

    lol sorry for proving u wrong a whole year later. im now revising for my physics A Level.

    And thanks Dr. Abel for the video, it helps.

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