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11.5 Compound Direct Current (DC) Circuits
11.3 Resistance, Resistivity, and Ohm’s Law
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Parallel wire branches with different radii.
Parallel wire branches with different radii.
An electrical wire carrying current \(I_0\) reaches a junction that splits into two parallel branches, Wire 1 and Wire 2, made of the same uniform conductive material and having equal length \(L\). The radius of Wire 2 is twice the radius of Wire 1 (\(r_2 = 2r_1\)). Both branches reconnect at a common downstream node so that the potential difference \(\Delta V\) across each branch is identical. Which of the following correctly compares the current density \(J\) and the electron drift velocity \(v_d\) in Wire 1 to those in Wire 2?

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