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A wire is stretched to double its length .what happened to its resistance and resistivity?



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Resistivity of wire remains constant. As the length of wire gets doubled, the cross-sectional area will become half of its previous value because volume of wire remains constant. Hence, we can see that the new resistance is four times the previous resistance.
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