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The unit of conductance of the material of the given conductor is _______.

Asked in GSEB Board March 2019 · Ohm's law and resistivity

Answer: (4) (ampere)/(volt)

Step-by-step solution

Idea: conductance measures how easily a conductor passes current; it is the reciprocal of resistance.

G=1/R, and Ohm's law gives R=V/I.

So G=I/V, whose unit is (ampere)/(volt).

This unit is the siemens (S), also written mho or Ω⁻¹.

The property of the material itself is the conductivity σ=1/ρ, measured in S m⁻¹; no option has that form, so the question means the conductance.

Why the other options are wrong

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