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    This document provides instructions for an experiment on voltage, current, and Ohm's Law. The goals are to familiarize students with these electrical concepts and measurement tools. The necessary equipment includes resistors, a digital multimeter, a protoboard, voltage supply, and potentiometer. The procedure has students measure voltages and resistances, build series and parallel circuits, and use a potentiometer as a voltage divider to further explore these concepts. Measurements are compared to theoretical predictions based on Ohm's Law.

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    This document provides instructions for an experiment on voltage, current, and Ohm's Law. The goals are to familiarize students with these electrical concepts and measurement tools. The necessary equipment includes resistors, a digital multimeter, a protoboard, voltage supply, and potentiometer. The procedure has students measure voltages and resistances, build series and parallel circuits, and use a potentiometer as a voltage divider to further explore these concepts. Measurements are compared to theoretical predictions based on Ohm's Law.

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    Voltage, Current and Ohm’s Law. p.

    Voltage, Current, Resistance and Ohm’s Law

    Goals of Experiment:
    To gain familiarity with the ideas of voltage, current and resistance and to become
    familiar with the tools and equipment used in simple electrical measurements.

    Necessary Equipment
    1. Resistors of various magnitudes
    2. Digital Multimeter (DMM)
    3. Protoboard
    4. Voltage Supply
    5. Potentiometer

    Procedure
    1. Use a DMM to read the voltage of a power supply. Note: If you blow a fuse in the
    DMM, on this occasion or another, you should replace the fuse inside on your
    own.
    2. Use the resistor color code to find a 33 kΩ and a 1 kΩ miniature axial lead
    resistors. Check these values with a DMM. Are the DMM readings consistent
    with the tolerance rating marked on the resistor?

    Note: Every time you pick a component, such as a resistor, from a component bin,
    you should verify whether the value markings on that component agree with your
    Voltage, Current and Ohm’s Law. p. 2

    expectation. Unfortunately, it is common for the components to be returned to


    incorrect bins.
    3. The power rating of a resistor depends on its size. Using the vernier calipers
    measure the length and diameter of one of your resistors. Compare your
    measurements with the data on the page from a component catalog at
    http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/2011fall/PHY440/Exp_pdf/DigiRes.pdf. What
    are the power ratings for your resistors?
    4. Fit the DMM with alligator clips and wire leads to make a continuity checker.
    Use it to discover the pattern of electrical connections on a protoboard. Which
    holes are connected? You will rely on that pattern of connections in putting
    together circuits during laboratory exercises.
    5. Use a DMM to measure the resistance of a 1 MΩ resistor, while holding one
    resistor lead in the fingers of your left hand and the other resistor lead in the
    fingers of your right hand. Repeat the measurement in a way that gets your body
    out of the circuit. Do you find a difference? Would you expect to find a
    difference if the resistance to be measured was 10 kΩ? Try it.
    6. Predict and measure the combined resistance of:
    A) 82 kΩ and 100 kΩ in series.
    B) 82 kΩ and 100 kΩ in parallel.
    7. The circuit in Figure 1 is known as a
    voltage divider. You can build it on
    your protoboard.
    A) Predict and measure the voltages V1
    and V2. Compare with the supply
    voltage.
    B) Predict the battery current. Use the
    DMM to measure it.
    C) Suppose the 82 kΩ resistor is
    shorted. Predict the battery current Figure 1: Resistors in Series.
    and the current through the 100 kΩ
    resistor. Use the DMM to measure these.
    8. Figure 2 shows an open circuit. What is the current through the ammeter? What
    is the voltage at point P?

    Figure 2: Open Circuit.


    Voltage, Current and Ohm’s Law. p. 3

    9. Figure 3 shows a voltage divider that is loaded by a load resistor RL. Predict how
    the voltage V2 changes if RL = 1 MΩ. Measure it. Predict how the voltage V2
    changes if RL = 330 kΩ and measure it.

    Figure 3: Voltage Divider.

    10. A potentiometer (pot) has three terminals. Use a DMM to identify the terminal
    for the moveable tap on a standard rotary trimmer pot. Which terminals get
    connected together for maximum clockwise rotation? For maximum CCW
    rotation?
    11. Adjust the pot so that the resistances of the two sides are equal. Show by
    measurements that this pot is now a voltage divider that divides the voltage by
    two. Does it matter what the net resistance of the pot is? How does the net pot
    resistance affect the behavior of this divider under loading?

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