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You have a special lightbulb with a very delicate wire filament. The wire will break if the current in it ever exceeds 1.30 A , even for an instant. What is the largest root-mean-square current you can
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You have a special lightbulb with a very delicate wire filament. The wire will break if the current in it ever exceeds 1.30 A , even for an instant.

What is the largest root-mean-square current you can run through this bulb?

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about 0.919 amp

Step-by-step explanation:


I_r_m_s=\frac{I_m_a_x} {√(2)}\\ I_r_m_s=(1.3)/(√(2))\\I_r_m_s\approx 0.919 amp

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