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- Define potential difference. What is the difference in potential difference and voltage? What is the unit of voltage?
- Define:
- conductivity
- resistivity
- resistance
- insulator
- conductor
- apparent resistivity
- What are the units for resistivity? Give a formula for resistance.
- What is the most important thing that determines conductivities of rocks?
- When a current is passed through the ground, what effects do bodies of different conductivity produce?
- How can you map the electric field produced when a current is passed through the ground?
- Define equipotential lines.
- What happens to equipotential lines in the presence of a good conductor? in the presence of a good insulator?
- How can you study vertical differences in resistivity in the Earth?
- Write a good original question to add to this list.
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