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This virtual lab experiment aims to test Ohm's Law by measuring how electric current changes with resistance. The experiment will hold voltage constant using a battery while varying resistance using a resistor. It is predicted that as resistance increases, current will decrease, following the inverse relationship described by Ohm's Law. A table will record the measured current under different resistance levels. The results will then be analyzed to determine the correlation and statistical significance between current and resistance.

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Virtual Lab: Materials

This virtual lab experiment aims to test Ohm's Law by measuring how electric current changes with resistance. The experiment will hold voltage constant using a battery while varying resistance using a resistor. It is predicted that as resistance increases, current will decrease, following the inverse relationship described by Ohm's Law. A table will record the measured current under different resistance levels. The results will then be analyzed to determine the correlation and statistical significance between current and resistance.

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Virtual Lab

Title:The electric current changes with resistance.

INTRODUCTION
❖ Design an experiment to answer the Research Question: How does electric current
change with resistance?

Ohm's Law describes the relationship between electric current (I), voltage (V), and resistance
(R) in an electrical circuit; we use this formula.

V=I*R
In this equation
● V represents voltage, measured in volts (V).
● I It represents electric current, measured in amperes (A).
● R represents resistance, measured in ohms (Ω).

According to Ohm's Law:


● If resistance (R) increases while voltage (V) remains constant, the electric current (I)
will decrease. In other words, as resistance goes up, current goes down.

● Conversely, if resistance (R) decreases while voltage (V) remains constant, the
electric current (I) will increase. Lower resistance allows more current to flow.

So, resistance and current have an inverse relationship in a simple electrical circuit with
constant voltage: as resistance increases, current decreases, and as resistance decreases,
current increases. This relationship is essential in understanding how electrical circuits and
components work

Independent variable: Resistance


Dependent variable: Electric current.
Controlled variable: Voltage
Control mechanism Battery which contains it.

METHOD
Materials
● Battery
● Ammeter
● Wires
● Resistor
Procedure
● You connect the battery with two wires at the ends.
● Then put a resistor between the cable, ammeter and the battery to prevent it from
catching fire.
● We connect all.
● We modify the resistance to observe how the current changes and we write down in
the table.
● Then with the acquired data we take correlation and significance.

✓Table 1

Relationship between electric current and resistance with an electric potential of

(indicate magnitude) V. Voltage 11

Resistance Current correlation significance


10.0 1.10 -0.931 0.06
20.0 0.55
30.0 0.37
40.0 0.27
Table 1 shows (describe to the reader the information displayed in the table).
The table shows how the current is affected by the resistance each time it increases.

DISCUSSION
With the experiment we were able to observe that our hypothesis was true, with the
change in resistance there is a change in current. This is because a higher resistance makes it
more difficult for electrons to flow through the circuit, resulting in a lower current.

REFERENCES

● Correlation coefficient calculator - Pearson and Spearman’s rank, with solution. (s/f).
Statskingdom.com. Recuperado el 16 de octubre de 2023, de
https://www.statskingdom.com/correlation-calculator.html

● Current, voltage and resistance. (s/f). Org.uk. Recuperado el 16 de octubre de 2023,


de https://www.hsa.org.uk/electricity/current-voltage-and-resistance

● Primary Connections: Linking science with literacy. (s/f). Org.au. Recuperado el 16


de octubre de 2023, de
https://www.primaryconnections.org.au/themes/custom/connections/assets/SBR/data/
Phy/sub/current-qual/current-qual.htm

● (S/f). Colorado.edu. Recuperado el 16 de octubre de 2023, de


https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/circuit-construction-kit-dc-virtual-lab/latest/circui
t-construction-idc-virtual-lab_all.html

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