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: SERIES CIRCUIT

Objective: To verify experimentally the law for Series Circuit.

Apparatus: 1 set MBL Interface (Science Cube), 1 set Voltage sensor, 1 set Current sensor, 2
units Battery holder ( including 1.5 V battery), 2 unit crocodile clip2, 1 unit switch, 10 units
Carbon Shied Resistance (33 ohm, 1% error).

Background
if we connect the same resistance serially in the electric circuit which was supplied with constant

source power, the entire resistance is same as sum of each resistance. Also, the sum of voltages
applied to each resistance is same as the voltage applied to entire circuit. Also, we can find out
that the intensity of current applied to the entire circuit is constant through the experiment.
1) Entire composition resistance: R = RI + R2 + R3 +
2) Voltage applied to the circuit voltage by composition resistance
V = IR = IRI + IR2 + IR3 +.......
If the value of all the resistance is same as RI then V equals IRI + IRI +...
the formula about the entire voltage is V IR I (nR1) and the composition resistance R
nR1.

Caution:
1) Be sure not to connect the power source of electrical outlet to experiment equipment’s,
voltage sensor, current sensor (Use the battery of which voltage is max. 12 V)
2) Use 10 unit of 1 (1% error battery) resistance. If the value of resistance is so small or big,
we are not able to do experiment within the range of measurement and the degree of
accuracy due to different amount of current. Warning! You have to use resistance properly
in order for 1 A of current not to flow to current sensor. (Design the experiment, calculate
accurate voltage and resistance by the law of Ohm to use the range from 0.1A to I.OA.
3) Turn 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 resistance change in the resistant body (Heat reaction of
resistant body, etc.).

Investigation Activities:
1) Connect the same 3 of remittances parallel (for more detail, up to 10) and measure
the voltage and current which flows to each resistance. Compare theoretical values with
Experiment. In case of event input experiment, you prepare the experiment by
downloading the event input experiment file in advance. And start the experiment by
setting up the experiment time long enough in the experiment configuration of Excel
experiment program. The reason of setting up the experiment time long enough is
that this is the event Input experiment which is regardless of time.
b. If you finish the experiment preparation, measure the value of voltage and current
moving (-) electrode to the location of resistance between and as the
following figure.

Deepening Courses (Additional Activities)

1) If you finish the experiment like the above, bind up (1) and (2) and then measure it after
measuring (1). Bind up (1), (2) and (3) and then measure it. By the same way, measure all
the 10 resistances binding them sequently.
2) Calculate the value of resistance from voltage and current which is obtained from event
input using Ohm's Law. Find the relation between voltage applied to each resistance and
the entire voltage. And then make a relation graph between current and resistance.

Experiment Results:

Number Resistance Resistance Resistance Resistance Resistance

RI R2 R3 R1 + R2 R1 + R2 + R3

Current applied
to resistance
(A)
Deepening Course — Additional

The purpose of this additional activities is to find out how we can calculate the composition
resistance through resistance through the relation between the number of and voltage
in serial connection and also find the relation graph between voltage and resistance in serial
connection for the reference (Deepening Course). So this experiment can be omitted.

Discussion:
1) We used the same resistances in this experiment. If the value of voltage applied to the
entire resistance is divided by the value of current then what is the calculated value? If this
calculated value is divided by the number of resistances then what is that? Is that value
same as that of one resistance? If not, explain the reason (aside of carbon resistance, think
about or wire, error etc.)
2) Measure the voltage applied to each resistance and 2 or 3 resistances and then calculate
the Examine you can obtain the same value as that of experiment principles
when the number of resistances are 2 and 3.
3) How different are the entire resistance and current when making the circuit using 10 units
of the same resistances and 5 units of the same resistances?
4) Explain what the graph of the above experiment results (Additional activities) mean?
Real values from experiment like entire composition resistance and the sum of each
resistance.
2) Repeat the above experiment with resistance which has different value each other. What
happens? Examine whether the voltage (descending) by the entire composition resistance is
the same as the sum of voltage (descending) by each resistance.

Experiment Procedures
A) Experiment Preparation
a. Prepare a computer and MBL interface.
The following electric circuit diagram in
figure<A> shows how to connect voltage
sensor and current sensor. Connect the
resistances serially between <a> and
<b> in the figure <V>. Is (+) electrode of
voltage sensor and measure the voltage
applied to the resistance or each location.
Also, measure the voltage applied to each
resistance moving (-) electrode together.
b. The carbon shield resistance is as figure
<A> can get it at low prices from
electric components market and use the
Resistance which has the value of 33, and
error range within 1%.
c. Use breadboard in order to easily connect
the resistances serially. In case you don't
the use breadboard, connect all resistances
Serially.
d. In case you use the breadboard, conned
the resistances serially as the following
figure (Understand how to use
breadboard in advance)
e. Finish experiment preparation as the
following figure according to the
figure about serial connection in the
above procedures 1.
B) Experiment Execution
a. Deactivate <Execution>-<record
experiment data> because you just read
measurement value from the experiment.
Also, when you are going to find the
relation between the resistance and the
current as an additional activity, you can
do experiment through the event input