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PHYSICS
FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS A STRATEGIC APPROACH 4/E
Chapter 27 Lecture
RANDALL D. KNIGHT
Chapter 27 Current and Resistance
IN THIS CHAPTER, you will learn how and why

charge moves through a wire as a current.
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Electric Current
 How does a capacitor get discharged?

 Figure (a) shows a charged capacitor in equilibrium.
 Figure (b) shows a wire discharging the capacitor.
 As the capacitor is discharging, there is a current in the
wire.

Electric Current
 When a current is flowing, the conductors are not in

electrostatic equilibrium.
 Though you cannot see current directly, there are
certain indicators that current is present in a wire.

Charge Carriers
 The outer electrons of

metal atoms are only
weakly bound to the
nuclei.
 In a metal, the outer
electrons become
detached from their
parent nuclei to form a
fluid-like sea of electrons
that can move through the
solid.
 Electrons are the charge
carriers in metals.

The Electron Current
 We define the
electron current ie
to be the number of
electrons per
second that pass
through a cross
section of the
conductor.
 The number Ne of
electrons that pass
through the cross
section during the
time interval Δt is

The Electron Current
 If the number density of

conduction electrons is
ne, then the total
number of electrons in
the shaded cylinder is
Ne = neV
= neAΔx
= neAvdΔt
 So the electron current
is

The Electron Density
 In most metals,
each atom
contributes one
valence electron to
the sea of
electrons.
 Thus the number
of conduction
electrons ne is the
same as the
number of atoms
per cubic meter.
Example 27.1 The Size of the Electron Current

Discharging a Capacitor
 How long should it
take to discharge this
capacitor?
 A typical drift speed
of electron current
through a wire is
vd ≈ 10–4 m/s.
 At this rate, it would
take an electron
about 2000 s (over
half an hour) to travel
20 cm.
 But real capacitors discharge almost instantaneously!
 What’s wrong with our calculation?
Discharging a Capacitor
 The wire is already full

of electrons!
 We don’t have to wait
for electrons to move
all the way through the
wire from one plate to
another.
 We just need to
slightly rearrange the
charges on the plates
and in the wire.

Creating a Current
 A book on a table
will slow down and
stop unless you
continue pushing.
 Analogously, the
sea of electrons
will slow down and
stop unless you
continue pushing
with an electric
field.

Establishing the Electric Field in a Wire
 The figure shows

two metal wires
attached to the
plates of a
charged capacitor.
 This is an
electrostatic
situation.
 What will happen if
we connect the
bottom ends of the
wires together?

 Within a very brief

interval of time
(≈10–9 s) of
connecting the
wires, the sea of
electrons shifts
slightly.
 The surface charge
is rearranged into a
nonuniform
distribution, as
shown in the figure.

 The nonuniform distribution of surface charges along a

wire creates a net electric field inside the wire that
points from the more positive end toward the more
negative end of the wire.
 This is the internal electric field that pushes the electron
current through the wire.

A Model of Conduction
 Within a conductor
in electrostatic
equilibrium, there is
no electric field.
 In this case, an
electron bounces
back and forth
between collisions,
but its average
velocity is zero.

 In the presence of an
electric field, the
electric force causes
electrons to move
along parabolic
trajectories between
collisions.
 Because of the
curvature of the
trajectories, there is a
slow net motion in the
“downhill” direction.

 The graph
shows the
speed of an
electron during
multiple
collisions.
 The average
drift speed is

Electron Current
Electron
 The Current
electric field strength E in a wire of cross-
section A causes an electron current:
 The electron density ne and the mean time between

collisions τ are properties of the metal.
 The electron current is directly proportional to the
electric field strength.

Example 27.3 Collisions in a Copper Wire

Example 27.3 Collisions in a Copper Wire

Current
 If Current
Q is the total amount of charge that has moved
past a point in a wire, we define the current I in
the wire to be the rate of charge flow:
current is the rate at which charge flows
 The SI unit for current is the coulomb per second,

which is called the ampere.
 1 ampere = 1 A = 1 C/s
 The conventional current I and the electron current
ie are related by

Current
 Note that the direction of the current I in a metal is
opposite to the direction of the electron current ie.

The Current Density in a Wire
The
 The Current
current Density
density inwire
J in a a Wire
is the current per
square meter of cross section:
 The current density has units of A/m2.

Example 27.4 Finding the Electron Drift Speed

Conservation of Current
 The figure shows two
lightbulbs in the wire
connecting two charged
capacitor plates.
 As the capacitor
discharges, the current
through both bulbs is
exactly the same!
 The rate of electrons
leaving a lightbulb (or
any other device) is
exactly the same as the
rate of electrons
entering the lightbulb.
Charge Conservation and Current
 Due to conservation of charge, the current must be the

same at all points in a current-carrying wire.

Kirchhoff’s Junction Law
 For a junction, the law of

conservation of current
requires that
where the Σ symbol

means summation.
 This basic
conservation
statement is called
Kirchhoff’s junction
law.
Conductivity and Resistivity
 The conductivity of a material is
 Conductivity, like density, characterizes a material

as a whole.
 The current density J is related to the electric field
E by
 The resistivity tells us how reluctantly the electrons

move in response to an electric field:

This woman is measuring her percentage body fat by

gripping a device that sends a small electric current
through her body. Because muscle and fat have different
resistivities, the amount of current allows the fat-to-muscle
ratio to be determined.


Example 27.5 The Electric Field in a Wire

Superconductivity
 In 1911, the Dutch
physicist Kamerlingh
Onnes discovered that
certain materials
suddenly and
dramatically lose all
resistance to current
when cooled below a Superconductors have unusual
certain temperature. magnetic properties. Here a
small permanent magnet
 This complete loss of levitates above a disk of the high
resistance at low temperature superconductor
temperatures is called YBa2Cu3O7 that has been cooled
superconductivity. to liquid-nitrogen temperature.

Resistance and Ohm’s Law
 The figure shows a section
of a conductor in which an
electric field E is creating
current I by pushing the
charge carriers.
 The field strength is
 The current density is

J = I/A = E/ρ
 So the current is related
to ΔV by

Resistance and Ohm’s Law
 The current through a conductor is proportional to

the potential difference between its ends.
 We define the resistance R of a long, thin conductor
of length L and cross-sectional area A to be
 The SI unit of resistance is the ohm.

 1 ohm = 1 Ω = 1 V/A
 The current through a conductor is determined by
the potential difference ΔV along its length:

Batteries and Current
 A battery is a source of
potential difference ΔVbat.
 The battery creates a
potential difference
between the ends of the
wire.
 The potential difference
in the wire creates an
electric field in the wire.
 The electric field pushes
a current I through the
wire.
 The current in the wire is
I = ΔVwire/R
Ohm’s Law
 Ohm’s law is limited to

those materials whose
resistance R remains
constant—or very
nearly so—during use.
 The materials to which Ohm’s law applies are called ohmic.

 The current through an ohmic material is directly proportional
to the potential difference; doubling the potential difference
doubles the current.
 Metal and other conductors are ohmic devices.

Nonohmic Materials
 Some materials and devices are nonohmic,
meaning that the current through the device is not
directly proportional to the potential difference.
 Diodes, batteries, and capacitors are all nonohmic
devices.

Battery-Wire-Resistor-Wire Circuit
 The figure shows a
resistor connected to
a battery with current-
carrying wires.
 Current must be
conserved; hence the
current I through the
resistor is the same as
the current in each
wire.
 The next two slides
show how the electric
potential varies
through the circuit.


Example 27.7 A Battery and a Resistor

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PHYSICS

FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS A STRATEGIC APPROACH 4/E

IN THIS CHAPTER, you will learn how and why

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 How does a capacitor get discharged?

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 When a current is flowing, the conductors are not in

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 The outer electrons of

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 If the number density of

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 The wire is already full

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 The figure shows

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 Within a very brief

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 The nonuniform distribution of surface charges along a

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 The electron density ne and the mean time between

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 The SI unit for current is the coulomb per second,

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 The current density has units of A/m2.

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 Due to conservation of charge, the current must be the

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 For a junction, the law of

where the Σ symbol

 The conductivity of a material is

 Conductivity, like density, characterizes a material

 The resistivity tells us how reluctantly the electrons

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This woman is measuring her percentage body fat by

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 The current density is

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 The current through a conductor is proportional to

 The SI unit of resistance is the ohm.

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