Ohms Law

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This machine was very useful on circuits to recall and refresh our

memories. It also helped to explain a lot of questions I had and


confusions from last year that were carried over. Acting on my own was
good and I did the practice issues without much trouble. The numerous
laws were overwhelming at first. It just took a bit of practice, however,
to get used to understanding when and when the law applies. This unit's
mathematical comprehension is fine. Wii is the most trouble I seem to be
having, homas Edison, America’s homegrown inventive genius, and
Nicola Tesla, an immigrant from Serbia who arrived with four cents in
his pocket at Castle Garden, New York, in 1884, were as different as day
and night. Both men are remembered, today, as inventors with “genius”
insights, and they each set out to tackle one of history’s great
engineering challenges and commercial opportunities at the close of the
nineteenth century. Their technological approaches to the challenge were
diametrically opposed: one of these men was destined to win and the
other to lose and lose big Ohm's Law states that the current flowing in a
circuit is directly proportional to the applied potential difference and
inversely proportional to the resistance in the circuit. In other words, by
doubling the voltage across a circuit the current will also double.
The Ohm's Law formula or equation is very straightforward.
Ohm's law can be expressed in a mathematical form: V=IR
Where:
    V = voltage expressed in Volts
    I = current expressed in Amps
    R = resistance expressed in Ohms
The formula can be manipulated so that if any two quantities are known
the third can be calculated
I=V/R
R=V/I
To help remember the formula it is possible to use a triangle with one
side horizontal and the peak at the top like a pyramid. This is sometimes
known as the Ohm's law triangle.
In the top corner of the Ohms law triangle is the letter V, in the left-hand
corner, the letter I, and in the right-hand bottom corner, R.

To use the triangle, cover up the unknown quantity and then and then calculate it from the other two.
If they are in line they are multiplied, but if one is on top of the other then they should be divided. In
other words, if current has to be calculated the voltage is divided by the resistance i.e. V/R and so
forth.

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