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The Wheatstone bridge shown in the figure below, gets balanced when the carbon resistor used as has the colour code (orange, red, brown). The resistors and are and , respectively. Assuming that the colour code for the carbon resistors gives their accurate values, the colour code for the carbon resistor, used as , would be
Colour band and indicate the first two significant figures of resistance in 'ohm', while the band gives the decimal multiplier i.e., the number of zeros that follows the two significant figures and .
The last band indicates the tolerance in percentage about the indicated value or in other word, it represents the percentage accuracy of the indicated value.
For , the given colour of the rings of a carbon resistor are orange, red, brown then, the value of resistance is
Condition for balance in the Wheat stone's bridge is
So,
, so colour coding of resistor is
Brown
Blue
Brown
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