Tuesday, 8 September 2020

electricity - Why isn't resistance proportional to distance squared


Here we have a wire. At both ends there is an equal and opposite field caused by a chemical reaction. So, if we decrease or increase the distance between the two points, the strength of the field increases/decreases with the square of distance. Why then is resistance linearly proportional to distance then?




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