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Name ___________________________________________ Date ______________________ Class ________________________ To observe how current changes in and out of basic resistors. You’ve been using electricity your whole life, but have you ever taken time to think about what causes the electricity to flow and how it gets to you from the power plant? You might see electric lines lining streets and coming up to each house. How much electricity can that wire handle and how do power companies measure it? Ampere, current, multimeter When you click on a light, turn on a computer, or start a car there is something that provides electricity. The electricity must flow through the different devices in order for them to work. The “something” that is flowing through
the wires and the devices is what we call electric current. The current is what powers your lights where the greater the current the brighter the lights. We can measure current using a multimeter, which measures current using the standard units of amperes. The SI symbol of the ampere is the letter A
. The current is what we call the flow of the electrons in the wire. The amount of current entering a wire is equal to the amount of current leaving that wire. You will use a multimeter to measure the current in different circuits. 1.
How do you think the current going into a resistor compares with the current flowing out of the
resistor?
1.
Start Virtual Physics
and select Electric Current from the list of assignments. The lab will open in the
Circuits laboratory.
2.
The laboratory will be set up with three simple circuits made of resistors on the breadboard. You will
need to connect the Function Generator to the three different circuits you will be examining. Using the
oscilloscope and the multimeter you will measure the electric current at different locations on the basic
circuits and then you will measure it at different locations on the more complex circuit.
3.
The Function Generator is already connected to the single resistor circuit and is set to 12 V DC, but the
Function Generator is turned off. The blue wire is connected to the positive side and the green wire is
set on the negative side. Use these wires when it’s
time to connect the other circuits.
The current going into a resistor is expected to be equal to the current flowing out of the resistor, according to the principle of conservation of electric charge.
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Name ___________________________________________ Date ______________________ Class ________________________ 4.
Turn on the Function Generator using the power button at the top. The multimeter is set to measure
current in Ampere (A) and is already attached to pin 23c on the left side of the resistor. The current will
flow through the multimeter and then into the circuit. Record the current in the data table below.
5.
Move the leads to the other side of the resistor by dragging the red multimeter lead to pin 20c. Record
the current. Current flows from the negative to the positive so Current IN means the negative side of
the resistor is in and the other side is out. The negative side is the side in which it would lead back to
the black or negative lead of the function generator. The positive side is the side that would lead back to
the positive lead on the function generator.
1.
What will happen to the current if more resistors are put in the circuit?
1.
Drag a new blue wire from the top red positive row to pin 20f in the column with the set of three
connected resistors at the bottom of the breadboard. It will connect the positive side to the function
generator and the first resistor in the series. Put out a new green wire to connect the last resistor in the
series to the negative blue row (the end of the wire will be in 5f). Double click each of the blue and
green wires from the single resistor circuit to remove them from the voltage source.
2.
Now measure the current going into and out of each resistor by moving the multimeter probes as
before. Record all your data in the data table below.
2.
How does the three resistor circuit arrangement affect the current?
Resistors Current IN (A) Current OUT (A) 1 Resistors Current IN (A) Current OUT (A) 1 (150Ω)
2 (180Ω)
3 (100Ω)
The three-resistor circuit arrangement affects the current by dividing it among the resistors based on their resistance values.
If more resistors are added in series to a circuit, the total resistance of the circuit will increase. 0.5
0.5
4.3
3.6
6.45
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3.6
6.45
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