How do I calculate the Power lost by internal resistance? Please help.
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Hi Samuel,
Good question.
We will represent the internal resistance as if it were a resistor. Normally you would be given, or be able to calculate two or more quantities relating to this ‘resistor’:
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the current through this resistor
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the voltage drop across this resistor
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the resistance of this resistor
Given two of those, you should be able to use P=IV, P=I^2R, or P=V^2/R to calculate the power of the resistor.
There are a couple of alternative ways you could work it out, but I think the above would be a more likely approach for a L3 Physics paper.
If you’d like to post the question, and any relevant values, I’ll post a solution.