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Action and use of circuit components
Understand that the potential difference across a conductor increases with its resistance when the current remains constant.
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CambridgeIGCSEPhysicsElectricity and magnetism
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- Understand that the potential difference across a conductor increases with its resistance when the current remains constant.
- Explain how a variable potential divider operates.
- Remember and apply the formula for two resistors functioning as a potential divider: R1/V1 = R2/V2.
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