Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Ohm's Law · easy

If the voltage across a fixed resistor is tripled, the current is

  1. reduced to one third
  2. unchanged
  3. tripled
  4. multiplied by nine

Answer

C. tripled

Solution

I=V/R with R fixed, so current is directly proportional to voltage. Tripling V triples I.

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