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A high tension wire is at a high potential with respect to a wire which is well grounded called Earth wire. You must have seen such wires stretched parallel to roads. There is a high tension wire between two points A and B. 1 km apart. The distance between HT wire and earth wire is 1 m. The resisatnce of the HT (and also the earth wire) is `1 Omega//m`. This wire is at a potential of 11 KV at point A w.r.t. to earth wire. and its is carrying 1 A current which returns back to the generator by through the earth wire. This wire is quite a thick wire. There is a sign board at a pole over which this wire is stretched reading DANGER, 11 KV. You might thick what would happen if one touched this wire. Will one feel a shock or not. Well ! it depends on whether the current through our body exceeds a particular valuem which we may call CRITICAL CURRENT. Why is H.T wire thick wire. Select the most appropriate optionA. so that more current may flowB. so that resistance may be less thereby reducing power loss in the transmission lineC. so that it may bear high tension & therefore sag lessD. so that when in further population increases, the existing wire may serve the purpose. |
| Answer» Correct Answer - B | |