Ohm's law experiment Amr Essam Wasfy

Contents
Introduction Objectives Equipment Steps Results Comments
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Introduction
Ohm's law states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the potential difference or voltage across the two points, and inversely proportional to the resistance between them.[1] The mathematical equation that describes this relationship is:[2]

Where I is the current through the resistance in units of amperes, V is the potential difference measured across the resistance in units of volts, and R is the resistance of the conductor in units of ohms. More specifically, Ohm's law states that the R in this relation is constant, independent of the current.[3] The law was named after the German physicist Georg Ohm, who, in a treatise published in 1827, described measurements of applied voltage and current through simple electrical circuits containing various lengths of wire. He
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presented a slightly more complex equation than the one above (see History section below) to explain his experimental results. The above equation is the modern form of Ohm's law.

Objectives
In this experiment we want to verify Ohm's law by proving that the relation between the current in the circuit and the resistance is a linear relation.

Equipments
Resistance Ammeter Conducting wires Voltage source

Connections
We will connect the equipments stated as shown in figure (1)

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Figure (1)

Steps
First we have to know the value of the resistance. There are two ways to know the value of the resistance the first is to use the Avommeter to measure the value of the resistance, the second way is to use the colors painted on each resistance to know its value by using the data shown in figure (2).

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Figure (2)
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Then we will measure the current in the circuit, it will be zero as we didn't turn on the voltage source yet. Then we will turn on the voltage source which connected to the circuit shown in figure (1), we will set it to supply the circuit with (2v), and we will measure the current in the circuit. We will set the voltage source supply the circuit with (4,6,8,10v) and we will measure the current in each case. We will note the measures we took an draw the grave between the voltage and the current. Then we will calculate the slope of the grave it should equal the value of resistance we measured in the first step.

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Results
By measuring R=0.69

V I

0 0

2 3

4 6 8 10 5.84 8.87 11.73 14.69

Slope =

=0.66 k

0.69 k

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Comments
There should be an error between calculating and measurements when we measured the resistance it was 0.69 k and

when we calculated it from the grave it was 0.66 k so the percent of the error here is 4.3%.

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