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Physics 2/12 Lab 4 Prelab Questions 1. Consider the circuit pictured and represented in the circuit diagram below. It contains a power supply V 0 , variable resistor R x , some unknown element E, and two multimeters marked by blank circles in the diagram. a. To measure the current through the circuit and the voltage across the unknown element, we need to use one multimeter as an ammeter (A) and one as a voltmeter (V). Label the circles in the diagram A and V to indicate which multimeter should be used in each mode. b. If we want to measure the voltage across E at very small current ( I ≈ 0 ), to what value should we set the variable resistor? Explain your reasoning. 2. Say now that we have measured several data points for the circuit in question 1. We enter the data into a spreadsheet program (i.e. Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets) and have the following: A B C D 1 Current (mA) Voltage (V) Current (A) Power (W) 2 109 3.3 =A2/1000 =B2*C2 3 98.5 2.7 4 48.5 0.73 5 7 0.01 6 16.7 0.073 7 68.7 1.4 8 0 0 Columns C and D will help you create two plots: one of I vs. V and one of P vs. V. To do this, you must fill in the two blank columns. Once you have entered the two formulae 1 in cells C2 and D2, you can easily fill in the rest of the table by copying cells C2 and D2 and pasting them into the rows below a. Create report-ready plots of I vs V and P vs V and be ready to show them to your TA at the start of lab. Based on the info in the lab manual, what is the unknown circuit element most likely to be? b. If we wanted to collect more data to fill out this curve, for what range of voltage values would you be most interested in collecting data? Why? 1 (Optional) A more technical explanation: the `=' lets Excel know we want to enter a formula, not words. The reference `L#', where L is some letter A, B, C... and # some number 1, 2, 3... tells Excel what cell you want by specifying the column L and row #. We see that / and * are multiplication and division operators, as you're familiar with. We can just enter numbers (such as 1000) directly. R x E V 0
(By the way, this spreadsheet you just made will be used in the lab! It will save you the time and trouble of having to calculate values by hand. Be sure to bring it with you.) 1 (Optional) A more technical explanation: the `=' lets Excel know we want to enter a formula, not words. The reference `L#', where L is some letter A, B, C... and # some number 1, 2, 3... tells Excel what cell you want by specifying the column L and row #. We see that / and * are multiplication and division operators, as you're familiar with. We can just enter numbers (such as 1000) directly.
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