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Introduction
Most of the people uses electricity every day.
That electricity is handled in circuits: a closed loop of
conductors travelling from power plants to
neighborhoods to households and back again. That
closed loop, with all of its many parts, forms one
huge electrical circuit. Three essential parts of a
circuit is used in this laboratory experiment, the
power supply, wires, and resistors. Well learn how
resistors affect the current of electrons that flows
through them, and how connecting resistors in
different ways changes their behavior. Ohms
law states
that
the current through
a conductor between
two
points
is
directly proportional to the voltage across the two
points. Introducing the constant of proportionality,
the resistance, one arrives at the usual mathematical
equation that describes this relationship:

I=

V
Ii
R

where I is the current through the conductor in units

of amperes, V is the voltage measured across the
conductor in units of volts, and R is the resistance of
the conductor in units of ohms. More specifically,
Ohm's law states that the R in this relation is
constant, independent of the current and if the ratio
is constant over a wide range of voltages, the
material is said to be an "ohmic" material.

table.1

table.2

Discussion
The Ohm's law equation is often explored in
laboratory experiments using a resistor, a power
source, an ammeter and a voltmeter. And is as well
used in this case. An ammeter is a device used to
measure the current at a given location. A voltmeter
is a device equipped with probes that can be touched
to two locations on a circuit to determine the electric
potential difference across those locations. By
altering the value for VR (voltage across the resistors)
using the variable resistor or rheostat in the first part
of the experiment which results to have changes in R
and otherwise altering the value for V T and resulting
to changes in VR for the second part which is
supported by the table below:
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Synthesis

I=

V
Ii
R

As an equation, this serves as an algebraic

recipe for calculating the current if the electric
potential difference, V and the resistance, R are
known. Yet while this equation serves as a powerful
recipe for problem solving, it is much more than that.
This equation indicates the two variables that would
affect the amount of current in a circuit. The current
in a circuit is directly proportional to the electric
potential difference impressed across its ends and
inversely proportional to the total resistance offered
by the external circuit. The greater the power source
voltage (i.e., electric potential difference), the greater
the current. And the greater the resistance, the less
the current (presented in table.1). Charge flows at the
greatest rates when the power source voltage is
increased and the resistance is decreased (this is
shown in table.2). Moreover, a twofold increase in the
power source voltage would lead to a twofold
increase in the current (if all other factors are kept
equal). And an increase in the resistance of the load
by a factor of two would cause the current to
decrease by a factor of two to one-half its original
value.

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Grading system:

table.

Introduction (3 pts.)
Discussion (3 pts.)
Synthesis (4 pts.)
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