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20.3 Exercise 19

Avg difficulty 2.5

An electronic device designed to operate at any temperature in the range from –10.0ºC to 55.0ºC–\text{10} . 0º \text{C to 55} . 0º \text{C} contains pure carbon resistors. By what factor does their resistance increase over this range?

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