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Here's your Shmoop du jour your brought to you by resistivity.

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Resistivity is a measure of... resistance a student is comparing the resistivity of [Alarm clock electrocutes young boy]

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two different metallic bars that have an equal shape and size. What would be the

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best way to do so? And here's the potential answers.

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(Mumbles)

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All right, well if we're gonna be measuring

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something it's important to use the right tool for the job, for example we

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can't take someone's temperature using a bathroom scale. Uh, we tried that on our [Sick looking man goes to stand on a scale]

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selves once and all we learned was that our fever was making us a little

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delirious... So to compare the resistivity of two different metals we need to use

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the right method and the right tool since resistivity is a measure of how

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easily electric current flows through a material the only way to measure it is

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by using electricity, and the best way to measure that difference in resistance

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also known as the voltage drop is with a voltmeter. If you do it again it's a

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revolting sorry nevermind... Alright so by a little process of elimination the

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correct answer here is D, if we were trying to measure how the different

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metals conduct heat then A would be the right answer and if we were trying to [Metal objects are thrown onto a fire]

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see how heavy each metal is well then it'd be C and if we'd had a long day and wanted

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to rage out on something well then option B would be right. Oh and you could

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also determine which metal is more brittle that way too yep the right tool for the

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job it's important in plumbing, car repair and physics and now we're feeling [Luigi, car mechanic and scientist appear in a toolbox]

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increased resistivity to being awake so well you know, nap time... [Alarm clock jumping on young boys head]

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