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B5 practical: EMF and internal resistance

To measure the internal resistance of a battery the PD across the terminals needs to be measured as current flows, in this practical the current is varied by changing the length of a piece of nichrome resistance wire connected across the terminals.The circuit can be represented by the diagram below, where R represents the resistance wire and r the internal resistance of the battery.The equation for this circuit is ε...

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