Conductance Definition and 57 Threads

My first thought was that as the heat current ##I_H## is going to be constant at any cross section of the rod, by the equation of continuity, as the area of cross section is constant throughout the rod. So using: (where ##R_{total}## is the total thermal resistance of the rod) $$I_H =...

The answer given is 524*10^4. The process used is by adding/subtracting the values given. But my concern is that isn't molar conductivity an intensive property? And it hence can't be added. So how is it added and the answer obtained.

How does one roughly predict the mean free path for electrical conduction in a nanostructure at different temperatures and under different electrical conditions such as different voltages and amperages based on the composition and dimensions of the structure? For instance in carbon single and...

Hi, I have data of impedance but due to limitation of software after measurement I do not receive numerical values for admittance and real conductivity vs frequency. How mathematically I can convert Nyquist plot into plot real conductivity vs frequency?

Options (a) and (b) are facts and therefore correct. Since ionic bonds weaken with temperature, ionic mobilities should increase with temperature. Also in physics, we learnt that the resistance of every material other than conductors (i.e. semi-conductors, insulators and electrolytes decreases...

My attempt is the handwritten one. But my reference book solved it in a different way, they left a note saying at infinite dilution α = 1(100%). (the attached picture) Which one is the correct approach?

I have a vacuum chamber of volume V connected to a vacuum pump via a tube of radius R and length L, and I want to design this "tube" such that R can be controlled in order to provide a constant rate of pressure change inside of the chamber of 2.5 mbar/sec, from atmosphere down to ~0.5mbar...

why smaller cross-sectional area increases the resistance of a conductor?

Assuming the electrons are non interacting and spin degenerate, the conductance of a quasi one dimensional quantum wire is quantised in units of 2e^2/h. For small voltages, we simply count how many bands have their bottoms below the chemical potential and multiply this by 2e^2/h. This is due to...

(i) Dividing the rod into thicknesses of dx we get discs of area A with lengths=dx so using (****) we have the resistance of a typical disc (between point x' and x'+dx) as: (1) ##R(x'dx)=\frac{dx}{g(x)A}## (ii) Using (1) and (*) and the integrating from a to b of the entire rod we get...

Preface to thread: Back in October I created a thread titled "How does a digital ammeter work?" That thread was about how digital ammeters measure current. The purpose of this thread is to learn how digital multimeters measure conductance, not voltage. This is a separate issue for 2 reasons...

I am studying about dielectric materials and their relaxation properties. There are several ranges of electromagnetic frequencies where different material show different kinds of resonance starting from molecular to atomic motions. Based on the frequency dependence of the imaginary part of the...

I was thinking about hall conductivity, when this question popped up. If there is a magnetic field and an electric field perpendicular to it, then a hall current is generated since the ions have larger gyro radii compared to electrons. Now this current would produce a J cross B force in the...

Maybe someone can help me out; I've been seeing conflicting information on the meaning behind optical conductivity vs AC conductivity. Some papers seem to post plots of transmission and reflectivity, and others a Drude-like \sigma(\omega). In many textbooks I can't seem to find a satisfactory...

Imagine attaching electrodes to a complex sample, e.g. a semi-conductor or a single chemical molecule, leading to some electric current. Can we decompose this electron flow into local flows? - like locally attaching amperometer and counting what fraction of electrons flow directly between given...

i connected one probe of digital mutimeter to the Earth terminal of domestic ac supply and held the other probe. it showed resistance of 1.8Mohm . but when i touched that end (one i'd held) to the floor. it displays 1( beyond 200Mohm ). why so ? shouldn't resistance be lesser?doesnt any current...

Hi, So I have this situation, I'm totally inexperienced with anything electricity. But as faith has it sometimes, suddenly I need a device that would be able to measure the electrical conductivity of a thin film. Is there anyone who could guide me what would be the essential parts of a system...

Greetings, I hope this is the right place to ask. I have been working with modeling of thermal conductance, G [W/K] of semi-conductor nanowires as a function of temperature. To start, thermal conductivity of a nanowire is modeled using BTE (Boltzmann Transport Equation). Then the conductance...

Disclaimer: I'm not sure if this is the correct forum. An ideal conductor (ideal = no resistance) is essentially taking the electric field at one terminal and connecting it to the other terminal. Charge moves when it is in an electric field, electric field strength is in Volts per meter, or...

I wanted to do a science experiment and it is very important that i learn the electrical resistance of carbon dioxide. From what i would guess, this may be wrong, but carbon dioxide and the atmosphere on Earth probably have a similar electric resistance due to the fact carbon dioxide already...

Today while reading a book i read that conductance of a metal depends on its density. But it is also dependent on its resistivity. Does that mean that resistivity and conductivity are proportional to each other?

Homework Statement In an electrically heated home, the temperature of the ground in contact with a concrete basement wall is 10.7 oC. The temperature at the inside surface of the wall is 21.4 oC. The wall is 0.17 m thick and has an area of 6.4 m2. Assume that one kilowatt hour of electrical...

I have a question about the derivation of the formula for relation between Specific Conductance and Equivalent Conductance i.e. Eq. Conductance = k.V where, k= Specific Conductance ,V=Volume in ml Given link explains the derivation...

How to calculate the thermal conductance ( in axial direction ) of a cylinder having length equal to its radius

according to the Landauer formula, the conductance is proportional to the transmission probability. But the transmission probability is not quantized generally So why is the conductance quantized?

I am collecting skin conductance data for a research study. For this, we apply a constant voltage (5v) to a participants finger and then measure the voltage at another finger (or I think this is what is happening, there is also something about a resistor in there [see attached schematic])...

Hello all, I'm new to the forum so I hope I'm posting this in the correct section. I'm currently conducting an experiment in which I'm examining how the dielectric constant of a binary mixture changes with concentration and temperature using a parallel plate capacitor for measurements. The...

Homework Statement I have 2 arbitrarily shaped conductors with charge Q1 and Q2 with potetials V1 and V2 respectively. I then short them (connect with a thin metallic thread) now i have to prove that the amount of charge that flows from one to the other is: Only dependent on the geometry of...

Homework Statement Question: "What does a polygraph test measure; skin resistance or conductance?" To me this is two sides of the same coin and it seems it must be measuring both. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution I thought that the person is acting as a resistor so I wrote down...

I had a thermal conductance homework problem where heat flowed through gold, and then silver. Both materials were of the same length and same cross sectional area. The problem mentioned that the energy transfer had reached a steady state, and I found through doing the problem that under these...

After summer I have to do my physics A2 experiment coursework. I really like working with electricity and looking at what happens at an atomic level, but I fear that what I want too do is more chemistry than physics. I had the idea of look at electrical conductance through a salt solution...

Hi everyone, took a bit of a break lately...but with 6 days left to the final test of electronics, I figured I'd clear up some understandings I have Homework Statement http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4474/vbbreversed.jpg I'm asked if the VBB potentials are flipped, at what condition will...

Homework Statement Starting with: G = \frac{I}{V}= \frac{-\int_{s}\sigma\mathbf{E}\cdot d\boldsymbol{s}}{-\int_{l}\boldsymbol{E}\cdot d\boldsymbol{l}} Derive the conductance per unit length, G', of a coaxial cable by assuming a line charge of \rho_{l} on the center conductor...

i don't understand how an applied Voltage on a (intrinsic) Carbon Nanotube could change its conductance... There is not a population inversion like in mosfet. So, which is the physics? Where this carriers can from? thank you.

Hi all, I am trying to compute the coupling effects or crosstalk in the circuit attached. In MTL (multiconductor transmission line) model of two wire or three wire lines for main lines, how to calculate or simple equation of mutual conductance? which is denoted as g12 in the circuit...

I'm doing an experiment today in class and I just wanted to know what's the inverse of conductance (expressed in S) and its units in the SI system. Thanks for viewing!

Homework Statement Find the leakage conductance per meter of a cylindrical coax cable whose inner conductor (r1) is 0.125" (3.175*10^-3 m) and whose outer conductor (r2) = 0.5" (1.27*10^-2 m) if the space between them is filled with a material whose: \varepsilon_r = 2 and \sigma_c =...

Hello EE forum ! I would like to talk about conductance and resistance. I understand both terms. And formulas that they derived from. First newbie question: Each element has conductance and and resistance(admittance)? Probably yes, just checking. Second question: In process of...

Hey, I am making a cooling system using a peltier junction with a cold finger on one side and a heat sink on the other. For my heat sink, I am depositing the heat into the phase change of a bismuth alloy (about 70 deg C). When the current across the peltier is increased and the hot side...

In nano-sized objects ( at least one dimension < 100 nm) the conductance is quantized. It is given in multiples of G _0 = 2(e^2) / h . Now, that means that Ohm's law would look like I = GV, where G is an integer multiple of G_0. What does this actually mean however? How does this limit the...

Greetings, I'm trying to understand how protons might move through solid water ice. More specifically this concerns how deuterium/hydrogen ratios are used to date ice core samples drilled into glaciers. On one hand I am told that, once it is deposited from the atmosphere in the form of...

I am looking at the following application note that goes into nodal analysis of op amps: http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/an_pk/1939/ and down at the bottom where they're analyzing the Wien bridge oscillator the equation at the negative input of the op-amp taken from the output in terms of...

My question is how the maximum quantum contact conductance 2*q^2/h comes from. The maximum contact conductance can only be obtained when there is no scattering in the contacts between nano-channel and two big pads. (To my understanding, resistance comes from scattering, but if there is no...

Homework Statement 123984[/ATTACH]"] Homework Equations H= (NI)/ (2(Pi)r) V=IR The Attempt at a Solution a) total resitance = 100ohms? from this would the current be 0.12A over 1ohm resistor: 0.12V not sure if this is correct even. Any help would be much appreciated.

hey, I have a question, it might be really stupid, but I'm probably not as smart as any of you here. Anyway: if you had a sustained plasma field held in place, maybe spinning in a toroidal motion, is it possible to "harvest" free electrons from the field by an anode, and feed it back into the...

Heat conductance - linear? Hello forum friends, I have stumbled upon the fallowing heat conduction problem: Consider a heat source of constant power embedded inside a solid with a constant heat capacity and conductance. Around the source is a box with a constant temperature, which cools the...

Hi all... I want more information about the analogy between calculating the capacitance C and the conductance G ?

My COMSOL model consists of a suspended membrane supported by two arms. At low pressure, the membrane temperature will increase upon thermal irradiation. I want to simulate the temperature rise as a function of pressure but don't know how to include the gaseous conductance. Any suggestion...

Hi , I have this problem but I cannot figure out the last question. A coaxial cable has an inner radius of a and an outer radius of b. between the two conductors is a material with conductivity σ. 1-Determine the resistance between the two conductors for a one meter length of cable...

I am struggling to work out out whether the conductance will increase or decrease with an increase in temperature. This I know sounds so basic yet i can't grasp something. I know that resistance increases with temperature so I would assume that conductivity will decrease. However a formula I...