UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI – FACUITY OF ENGINEERING

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC DEPARTMENT

Experiment to Verify Ohm’s Law

Name : Walaa Abdussalam Arebi

ID : 022171978

Supervised by : Taissir Elganimi

Group : (D)

Fall 2018 1/11/2018

Abstract
We assembled two different values of resistors (one each time) with a DC power supply and
measured the current through the resistor. We noticed that The higher voltage values
caused a higher current values .

Introduction
The purpose of the experiment was to demonstrate Ohm’s law by assembling a simple
circuit that contain a resistor, a power supply, and a digital multimeter.
Ohm's law expresses the voltage as a function of the current. It states that the voltage across
a resistance is directly proportional to the current flowing through it. The resistance,
measured in ohms, is the constant of proportionality between the voltage and current.
The mathematical relationship of Ohm's law is illustrated by the equation:
V=IR

Where
V : the voltage in volts,
I = the current in amperes,
R : the resistance in ohms,

Equipment
 Digital multimeter
 AC/DC power supply with integral function generator
 Universal panel
 Resistor, 1kohm, 5%, 2W
 Resistor, 2.2kohm, 5%, 2W
 Set of connection cables
 Connection plugs (jumpers), 2mm/7.5mm

Experimental Procedure
In this experiment, a 1kohm resistor was connected in series with a multimeter and an
AC/DC power supply with integral function generator, connection plugs and cables was used
to connect the circuit elements . At first , the voltage was set to be 2V , the current was
measured at this voltage, then the voltage was changed to 4,6,9 and 12V ,and the current
was measured for each value of the four voltage values . results are shown in table below

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 R[ohm] 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
V[V] 2 4 6 9 12
I[mA] 2.18 4.18 6.31 9.23 12.25

The 1kohm resistor was excluded, a 2.2kohm resistor was connected to the circuit ,and the
procedure was done again , the results are shown in table below

R[ohm] 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200

V[V] 2 4 6 9 12
I[mA] 1.011 1.818 2.84 4.22 5.60

I(mA
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 V(V
Graph 1 :the graph of table 1

I(mA
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 V(V 14
Graph 2: the graph of table 2

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Discussion
The data indicate that that the voltage and the current are lineary related , the slope of the
line or the ratio between voltage and current seemed to be matched with the resistor value,
which proves Ohm’s law .The current expected values are shown in table 3 and table 4 ,also
the measured values are inserted in the tables. In order to compare them ,we will calculate
percent error which formula is :

percent error = |accepted value - experimental value| \ accepted value x 100%

for the data we collected we will calculate the average of the percent error for all the
values :

The average percent error = the sum of the percent error values\ the number of values

For our collected data , the average percent error (for the 1kohm resistor) = 4.66% ,

And the average percent error (for the 2.2kohm resistor)=4.26% .

Current(measured) Current(calculated) Current(measured) Current(calculated)

2.18 2 1.011 0.909
4.18 4 1.818 1.818
6.31 6 2.84 2.727
9.23 9 4.22 4.09
12.25 12 5.60 5.45

Conclusion
The voltage is lineary related to the current and the ration between them is the value of the
resistance .

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References
[1]BASIC ENGINEERING CIRCU IT ANALYSIS
[2]INTRODUCTORY CIRCUIT ANALYSIS