Experiment 1 (Current Flow)

Jagandeep Bal
April 24, 2016

Aim: My aim is to investigate the flow of the current inside a circuit.

Materials:
1. 1 SK-50 breadboarding socket
2. 1 Battery
3. One 100 ohm resistor
4. One 1000 ohm resistor
5. 1 LED (light emitting diode)
6. 3 wires
7. 200 ohm resistor
8. 1 million ohms
Procedure:
1. Assemble the circuit
2. Observe the LED
3. Replace 100 ohm resistor with 100 ohm resistor
4. Observe LED
5. Repeat (3) and (4) with more resistors
Resistor Resistance
(ohms)
100
1000
470
1000000

LED Brightness

Current (amps)

Bright
Less brightness
Bright
No light

0.05
0.005
0.0106
0.000005

Discussion:
1. As the ohms of the resistors go down, the LEDs brightness gets higher and also
when the ohms of the resistors go up, the LEDs brightness goes down.
2. I think that the ohms resist electricity from flowing so more ohms meaqns less
light.
Conclusion:
To conclude, resistors affect the flow of electric current in a circuit by slowing
down the electricity using ohms. More ohms means less light and less ohms means
more light. So, to control a circuit, based on if you want more or less amps, you can
adjust the ohms and change it.