(a) What is the resistance of the heater element in a 1500-W hair dryer that plugs into...

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(a) What is the resistance of the heater element in a 1500-W hair dryer that plugs into a 120-V outlet?
(b) What is the current through the hair dryer when it is turned on?
(c) At a cost of $0.10 per kW · h, how much does it cost to run the hair dryer for 5.00 min?
(d) If you were to take the hair dryer to Europe where the voltage is 240 V, how much power would your hair dryer be using in the brief time before it is ruined?
(e) What current would be flowing through the hair dryer during this time?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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