UNIVERSITY OF BOHOL

City of Tagbilaran
LABORATORY REPORT IN PHYSICS

Name: ______________________________________________Date Performed: ____________

Course and Year: __________________ Checked: ___________________
Experiment No. 6 (Date) (instructor’s Initial) (Rating)
Title: OHM'S LAW

Objective: To verify experimentally Ohm's Law for a simple electric circuit.

Apparatus: 1 set MBL Interface (Science Cube), 1 set Voltage sensor, 1 set Current sensor, 6 unit
Battery holder (including 1.5 V battery), I unit Alligator clip, 10 unit Carbon Shied Resistance
(10 ohm, 1% error), 1 unit miniature bulb, 1 unit Circuit Breadboard.

Background:
The relation between Voltage and Current in the electric circuit can be explained by Ohm's Law.
By the law, and current are 'in inverse proportion in the circuit with constant electric if we
express the relation as an equation, R V/I. Here, the unit of resistance is ohms. If is. IV and
Current is IA, then resistance is 1.

Cautions:
1) Never connect the power of electrical outlet to experiment equipment’s, voltage sensor,
current sensor directly (Use the battery of which voltage is 1.5 V and not exceed max. 12V)
2) Design experiment accurately for voltage and current not to flow to sensor over the amount
Regulated.
3) Use 10? (1% error). If the value of resistance is too high or low then it affects to the
amperage, and we are not able to do the experiment within the range of measurement and
the degree of precision. Warning! Use proper resistance in order for IA current not to flow
to current sensor (Design the experiment in order to use Calculate voltage and resistance
properly in order to use the current from 0.001 A to 1 A.
4) Tum on the power (connecting the battery) only when you are doing the experiment and
turn it off when suspending the experiment. Otherwise, measurement values may be
different because there may be different because there may be resistance change in the
body (Heat reaction of resistant body, etc.).

Investigation Activities
1) at first, observed the brightness change of the miniature bulb while connecting 112/3
battery(s) to the miniature bulb serially. Forecast how Current changes and measure
Voltage and current.
2) Measure voltage and current using 10? Resistance (Series or Parallel) instead of the
miniature bulb in the above procedure 1)
3) Connect several same resistances serially (for more detail, up to 5) and measure the
voltage and current which flows to each resistance. Compare voltage and current applied to
entire composition resistance with those applied to each resistance
Experiment Procedures:

1. Preparing Experiment
a) Prepare a computer and MBL interface. Carbon is as the figure (2).
b) Connecting voltage and current sensor to the battery, make an electric circuit as the
circuit diagram in the figure below. (The measurement range of MBL's sensor- Design
the experiment in order that voltage does not exceed 9V and current does not exceed 1A)
c) You can repeat the experiment many
times by changing the value of resistance
using breadboard as the figure below.
Repeat the experiment max. 5 times by
using resistance 10 in (Experiment 1 J,
resistance 20 in (Experiment 2),
resistance 30 in (Experiment 3) with the
interval of 10.
d) Connect voltage sensor to the channel A
of MBL interface and current sensor to
the channel B of MBL interface. And
prepare event input experiment. (If you
draw a graph with chart wizard, you can get the graph in real time.

e) Complete the preparation of the

experiment using battery, breadboard
and carbon resistance as the figure
below. Increasing the number of
battery by one (e.g. 1, 2, 3), make the
point which is connected to (-) side of
battery' be connected to only when to
measure.

2. Experiment Execution
a) Set resistance R to 10, and measure
voltage and current through event input
experiment, increasing the number of
battery by one (e.g. 1, 2, 3.. up to 6) using (-
) electrode of electric circuit as the figure
below.

b) After completion of measurement for the

above procedures 1) R— 10 and the
number of batteries is 6, set resistance R to 20 and repeat the above procedure again.
At this moment, move data of completed experiment to empty cell of Excel worksheet
and name on them like experiment 1, experiment 2, etc. Like this way, repeat this experiment 5
times up to max. 50.