What Resistor Should Be Used As A Safety Precautionary Measure Against
What Resistor Should Be Used As A Safety Precautionary Measure Against
What Resistor Should Be Used As A Safety Precautionary Measure Against
A. The resistor can give a 95% value of the actual resistance that it can
offer. C. Both A and B.
What is It
Resistors
A resistor is a passive electrical component that can resist the flow of
charges in a circuit. In the simulation in the previous activity, it was portrayed as if
elements in the resistor are blocking the passage of electrons. Similarly, inside a
resistor, electrons collide with ions, slowing the flow of electricity and lowering the
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current while producing heat. Insulators are materials that resist the flow of current.
But a resistor is a device that can introduce precisely controlled amounts of
resistance in a circuit.
Table 3 shows information about the symbols/ schematic diagram for resistors
and the notation.
Table 3. Resistor
Elec@ggiggymbol and Notation
(Source: https://www.circuitstoday.com/resistors-and-types-of-resistors)
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Some Parameters in Resistors
• A resistor's Temperature Coefficient of Resistance (TCR) tells how much
its value changes as its temperature changes. It is usually expressed in ppm/
O
C (parts per million per degree Centigrade) units.
• Tolerance is the percentage of error in the resistor's resistance, or how
much more or less you can expect a resistor's actual measured resistance to
be from
its stated resistance. A gold tolerance band is 5%
tolerance, silver is 10%,
What's More
Activity 2. What is in a Resistor?
Direction: Complete the given table to describe the
structure of a resistor.
Component/ Function/ Examples of
Part Purpose Materials
Used for
this Com
onent
Core Resistive
Element
Outer Coatin
Connectin
Terminals
Lesso
n
Types of Resistors
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resistors and variable resistors. Fixed resistors have
a fixed and defined electrical resistance that is not
adjustable. Examples of general-purpose fixed resistors
are carbon film, metal film, wire-wound, and surface
mount technolow (SMT) resistors. Variable resistors
have ohmic resistance values which can be adjusted
either mechanically or electronically. Examples are
potentiometer and rheostat.
Nonlinear resistors arc those types where the
electric current flowing through them changes with the
exchange in applied voltage or temperature and does not
change according to Ohm's Law.
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