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Resistances
Introduction
In electricity, wires have resistances. The resistance (R) of a wire is
proportional to the length (L) of the wire and inversely proportional to its
cross section area (A). We can thus write:
R
RL
R=
1
A
or R
L
A
L
A
1. The first color from the left is the first number from the left
2. The second color from the left is the second number from the left
3. The third color from the left is the number of zeros in front of the first
two numbers.
4. The forth color is usually either silver or gold color. It represents the
percentage error on the resistance as follows:
BROWN: 1%
RED:
2%
GOLD:
5%
SILVER: 10%
NOTHING: 20%
Example: The resistance in figure (1) has the colors of Blue Red Black.
This gives 6 2 0 so the value of the resistance is 62 ohm (because no
zeros) . The fourth color is gold so the error is 5%. This means that this
resistance can be 62 62
5
62 3 so this resistance can be between 59
100
and 65 ohm
Experiment
1. You have five resistances of different values. Read the color code for
the first resistance and find the resistance value and the error
2. Use the AVO meter (multimeters) to measure the value of the
resistance by setting the switch of the AVO meter to resistance range
3. Repeat steps (1) and (2) for the other four resistances
4. Put your results in the table below and see if the measured value is
within the error range
First
Color
R1
R2
R3
R4
R5
Second
Color
Third
Color
Fourth
Color
(error)
Resistance Measured
Value
Value
error