LAB EXPERIMENT # 08

Study and Analysis of Parallel connections of circuits

Name: Roll No:

MEASUREMENT EQUIVALENT CAPACITANCE OF CAPACITORS IN SERIES
Score: AND PARALLEL ARRANGEMENTS
Signature of Lab Tutor: Date:

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE:

Upon successful completion of this experiment, the student will be able:

 To Construct the parallel combination of resistors.

 To Measure equivalent resistance of parallel combination of the resistors.

EQUIPMENTS:

 Switches (S1,S2,S3),
 Resistors (R1, R2, R3),
 Digital Multimeter
 An Electric Network circuit.

THEORY:

Resistor: It is a component of a circuit which opposes the flow of Electric current.

Resistor dissipates electrical energy, its unit is Ohm, and denoted by Ω.
Current: Current is defined as the flow of electrons per unit time, It is unit is ampere
and is denoted by I.
Voltage: It is defined as the work done per unit charge, its unit is volt, and is denoted
by V.
Resistance in Parallel: When the Resistors are connected in Parallel to each other
than their combination is called Parallel Combination. In Parallel Combination the
Voltage across each Resistor remains same whereas the current across each Resistor is
Different. Let I be the Current across an Electric Circuit and I1, I2and I3 be the
voltage across the Parallel connected resistors R1, R2 and R3 respectively. Due to the
Current I Voltage V1, V2, V3 across the resistors R1, R2 and R3 produced. Then total
I across the circuit is given as

I=I1+I2+I3
V/R= V/R1+V/R2+V/R3

V/R= V (1/R1+1/R2+1/R3)
1/R= 1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3

PROCEDURE FOR PARALLEL:

1. Connect the multimeter, Set as an Ohmmeter as shown in fig 7.1
2. Connect the multimeter.
3. Switch S1 on and S2 and S3 off.
4. Measure the resistance in R1.
5. Again for R1 and R2
6. Switch of S3
7. Measure resistance in multimeter as shown in fig 7.2
8. For Total resistance Switch on all S1 , S2 and S3 as shown in fig 7.3

Fig 7.1
 Fig 7.2

Fig7.3

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS:

An electrical network circuit was used having three random resistors in

series. Fifteen volts was measured on the power supply and applied to the
circuit. The resistance of each of the resistors was then measured and
recorded in Table
Table 1: Measured, calculated and percent error for resistances
Resistance Measured Value Calculated Value %
Error ( R) (R)

R
1

R
2

R
3

The total resistance was found to be:

1/RTS= 1/R1+1/R2+1/R3

1/RTS

=…

…+

…….

+…

RTS=

…..............Ω
REVIEW QUESTIONS:

1. Why electrical loads are connected in parallel?

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2. Why current increase when extra load is connected in parallel?

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3.What is the use of multimeter in this experiment?

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