11. Two wires are identical, except that one is aluminum and one is copper. The aluminum wire has a resistance of 0.20 . What is the resistance of the copper wire?

 

Resistance for a wire can be found from

 

Where ρ is resistivity of material, L is length, and A is cross-sectional area.  Therefore for each wire we have

 

  and

From the aluminum wire

Plug that into the copper wire

 

 

From Textbook Table 20.1 (Page 544)

and

 

 

 

 

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