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Investigation Task Physics 2019

This document describes a physics experiment conducted to investigate Ohm's Law. Key points: - The experiment measured voltage, current, and calculated resistance at varying voltage levels using a battery eliminator, voltmeter, ammeter, and rheostat. - Data was recorded in a table and plotted on a graph. The graph showed a direct relationship between voltage and current, with resistance remaining roughly constant, consistent with Ohm's Law. - Some inaccuracy was noted in one resistance measurement, but overall the data supported the principle that increasing voltage leads to increased current.

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Investigation Task Physics 2019

This document describes a physics experiment conducted to investigate Ohm's Law. Key points: - The experiment measured voltage, current, and calculated resistance at varying voltage levels using a battery eliminator, voltmeter, ammeter, and rheostat. - Data was recorded in a table and plotted on a graph. The graph showed a direct relationship between voltage and current, with resistance remaining roughly constant, consistent with Ohm's Law. - Some inaccuracy was noted in one resistance measurement, but overall the data supported the principle that increasing voltage leads to increased current.

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Physics Investigation Task

Initiator: Priyanka Goswami


Made by: Deep Shah
Background information:
Voltage: - It is a quantity of the energy present between point ‘a’ and point ‘b’ in a circuit.
Voltage measured in volts. The charges are present between the two points is called voltage.
Per coulomb of energy charge, it will impart one joule. The unit of voltage which is volt is
named after an Italian physicist named ‘Alessandro Volta’, and invented first chemical battery.
In an equation ‘Voltage’ is represented as uppercase letter “V”.

Current: - It is basically the flow rate in a wire. It depends on the area of the hose or the wire, so
the wider the hose or wire more the flow rate, thinner the hose or wire less the flow rate. In
both the situation if you want to equal the flow rate, increase the charge in the thinner hose or
wire so you’ll get equal flow rates in both the thinner hose and wider hose.

Resistance: - Resistance is the electrical quantity which measures how it reduces the electric
current flow. The resistance is measured in ohms which is the unit. If we take example of water
pipe the resistance will be more when the pipe is thinner, so basically the water flow decreases
when the pipe gets thinner.

Voltmeter: - it is an instrument that helps in measuring the potential of electricity in the units of
volts.

Ammeter: - It is an instrument that helps in measuring the electric current in the units of
amperes.
Rheostat: It is an instrument that helps control the current by varying the resistance.

Variable Table: -
Independent variable Dependent Variable Constant Variable
Voltage Resistance Current

Method: -
1. Firstly gathered all the equipments and materials needed that was three normal sized wires, a
voltmeter, ammeter, battery eliminator and rheostat.
2. The first connect the battery eliminator and voltmeter and check the volts when you supply 2, 4,
6, 8, 10 volts from battery eliminator to the real converted volts in voltmeter.
3. Right down the reading for each of them.
4. Then remove the voltmeter and connect the ammeter and rheostat with each other.
5. Then supply 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 volts from battery eliminator and check what amperes you are getting
in the ammeter.
6. Right down the readings.
7. After that from the voltage and current (amp) find out the resistance using this formula!

V
R=
I
8. Done with the experiment!
Data Table:
Sr. no Voltage Voltage Current Resistance ‘R’ Processing
Battery ‘V’(volts) ‘I’(amp) Data:
Eliminator Equation: -
V
R=
I

1. 0 0 0 - -
2. 2 3.5 0.4 8.75 3.5
R= =8.75 Ω
0.4

3. 4 5.4 0.65 8.30 5.4


R= =8.30Ω
0.65

4. 6 7.5 0.9 8.3 7.5


R= =8.3Ω
0.9

5. 8 9.6 1.1 8.72 9.6


R= =8.72Ω
1.1

6. 10 11.4 1.3 8.76 11.4


R= =8.76 Ω
1.3
Graph: -

Analysis: -
The graph above that shows reading of the resistance that is used is to know whether the data is correct
/ accurate or not. Meanwhile my data it is a bit inaccurate as the line is straight but the measurement
marked on the third point seems to be little changed. This was just to check the ohm’s law. The increase
of voltage also has increase of current because when the voltage increase, the electron’s energy also
increases therefore they start to move much faster, and the rate of the current passing from a
conductor increases therefore there is more rate of flow and more current. In this case when the
voltage is increased the current is also increased and the resistance as well. But the first resistance
which I took out is high then suddenly goes little down and then the resistance increased by and by.
That’s why the slop is going up.

Conclusion: -
This experiment has allowed me to explore and check the ohm’s law and widen the knowledge about
resistance, current and voltage and the equipments used. this will help me in my investigatin task about
resistivity .

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