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Class Notes - Intro To Ohms Law

This document introduces Ohm's Law and provides example problems for applying it. It begins with a review of the direct relationship between current and resistance found in experiments, and expresses this relationship mathematically as V=IR. Several practice problems then ask students to calculate missing values like current, resistance, voltage or power given two of the three Ohm's Law variables. The last problem has students calculate the cost of running a 100W light bulb for 24 hours using the power consumption and electricity rate.

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Class Notes - Intro To Ohms Law

This document introduces Ohm's Law and provides example problems for applying it. It begins with a review of the direct relationship between current and resistance found in experiments, and expresses this relationship mathematically as V=IR. Several practice problems then ask students to calculate missing values like current, resistance, voltage or power given two of the three Ohm's Law variables. The last problem has students calculate the cost of running a 100W light bulb for 24 hours using the power consumption and electricity rate.

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Electric Circuits LCHS Physics Honors 2020/21

Intro to OHM’S LAW


1. From the Ohm’s Law lab, what relationship did you
find between Current and resistance?

2. Graph the relationship below:


Current (I)

Resistance (R)

3. What is the equation for this relationship?

4. How is Ohm’s Law in electric circuits similar to Newton’s Second Law in Mechanics?

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Electric Circuits LCHS Physics Honors 2020/21

Intro to OHM’S LAW Example Problems

1. How much current flows in a 1000-ohm resistor when a voltage of


1.5 V is impressed across it?

2. If the filament resistance in an automobile headlamp is 3 ohms, how much current does it
draw when connected to a 12-V battery?

b. What is the power rating of the bulb?

3. What is the current in the 30-ohm heating coil of a coffee maker that operates on a 120-V
circuit?

4. How much resistance allows an impressed voltage of 6 V to


produce a current of 0.006 A?

5. What is the voltage across a 100-ohm circuit element that draws a current of 1 A?

6. The current in an incandescent lamp is 0.5 A when the lamp is connected to a 120-V circuit,
and 0.2 A when it is connected to a 10-V source. Does the resistance of the lamp change in
these cases? Explain your answer and defend it with numerical values.

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Ohm’s Law – Problem set 1


V = I∙R P = I∙V Energy converted = Power x Time
1. Find the missing quantities in each of the following:
a) Potential difference is 120 V and the current is 30 A, what is the resistance? (4 Ω)

b) R = 30Ω and the battery supplies 5.0 V, What it the current? (0.167 A)

c) If a 6 A current flows through a circuit with 200 Ω of resistance, what is the potential
difference across the circuit? (1200 V)

2. An electric heater produces heat by applying a potential difference of 50 V across a


nichrome wire with a total resistance of 8.0Ω.
a) find the current in the wire (6.25 A)

b) Determine the power rating of the heater. (313 W)

3. A potential difference or 120 V is applied across a 75 W light bulb.


a) Find the current flowing through the bulb (0.63 A)

b) Determine the resistance of the bulb. (190Ω)

4. How much does it cost to burn a 100 W bulb for 24 hours if electricity cost $0.08 per
kilowatt-hour? (Remember that a kilowatt-hour is a unit of energy) - USE THE FACTOR
LABEL METHOD, KEEP TRACK OF UNITS ($0.19)

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