ISRA UNIVERSITY HYD

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Applied Physics
Lab Experiment No. 1

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Objective: Upon the successful completion of this experiment students will be able to usage of
 Breadboard.
 Digital Multimeter
Equipments
 Breadboard
 Multimeter
 Connecting Wires

1. Breadboard
Introduction:- A breadboard is a rectangular plastic box filled with holes, which have contacts in which
electronic components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, LEDs, Transistors, ICs and wires
etc can be inserted. A breadboard is what someone uses to string together a temporary version of circuit.
Someone doesn’t have to solder wires or anything else; instead, someone pokes components and wires
into the little contact holes arranged in rows and connected by lines of metal; then someone can connect
components together with wires to form circuit.

Figure 1.1 Breadboard

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Applied Physics

Figure 1.2 shows that how to make series and parallel resistor circuits using breadboard.

Figure 1.2 Series and parallel resistor circuits using breadboard

2. Digital Multimeter
Introduction:- A multimeter or a multitester, is an electronic measuring instrument that combines
several measurement functions in one unit. A typical multimeter may include features such as the
ability to measure voltage, current and resistance. Whereas some multimeters can have some of
extra features; such as measuring capacitance, inductance, conductance, decibels, duty cycle,
frequency, temperature, continuity, diode, transistor, battery etc

A simple digital multimeter and its probes are shown in the figure 1.3, which consists of
following main parts

Digital display: It show measured value of different functions in digits

Rotary switch: This switch is used to select one of different functions

Function value panel: It shows minimum to maximum values of all functions to be

selected

Probe connections: Here probes are plugged in with respect to selected function

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Applied Physics

Figure 1.3 Digital Multimeter and probes

Measuring resistance with Multimeter

If it is possible to remove component from circuit and then measure resistance, else turn
off any power source connected to component

 Turn multimeter on

 Set multimeter as an ohm meter

 Select lowest scale on ohm meter

 Connect multimeter with component (eg. resistor) as shown in the figure

 If there is no reading, then increase the scale value and find the value of resistor

 Turn off multimeter after use

Figure 1.4 Multimeter used as an ohm meter

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Applied Physics
Measuring voltage with Multimeter
 Turn multimeter on
 Set multimeter as a volt meter AC/DC accordingly
 Select highest scale on volt meter
 Connect multimeter in parallel between two points as shown in figure 03
 If there is no reading, then decrease the scale value
 Turn off multimeter after use

Figure 1.5 Multimeter used as a volt meter

Measuring current with Multimeter

 Turn on Multimeter
 Set Multimeter as a ampere meter AC/DC accordingly
 Select lowest scale on ampere meter
 Break circuit and connect Multimeter in series between two points as shown in
figure1.6
 If there is no reading, then increase the scale value and measure the current
 Turn off Multimeter after use

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Applied Physics

Figure 1.6 Multimeter used as an ampere meter

Exercise Questions:
Q#01: What are advantages of using Breadboard?

Q#02: What is Multimeter and what does it measure?

Q#03: Measure the current using multimeter if 1k-ohm resistor is connected to 5V battery?

Q#04: With the help of multimeter; how one can know that whether diode is faulty or not?

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Applied Physics

Conclusio

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DE PART MENT O F ELECTRICAL E NGINEE RING
Lab - 1 -7-

Lab Instructor: Engr. Bharat Lal Harijan ISRA University Hyd