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Will current flow more easily through a thick wire or a thin wire of the same material when connected to the same source ? Why ?

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The current flows more easily through a thick wire than through a thin wire. This is due to the reason that the resistance `R` of a thick wire (of large area of cross-section,A) is less than that of a thin wire (of small A) as `R prop 1//A`.
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