FAKULTI TEKNOLOGI KEJURUTERAAN

ELEKTRIK DAN ELEKTRONIK

UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

TECHNICAL PHYSICS

BEEE 1013 SEMESTER 1 SESI 2020/2021

LAB 5: OHM’S LAW

NO. STUDENTS' NAME MATRIC. NO.

1.

2.

3.

PROGRAMME

SECTION /
GROUP

DATE

1.
NAME OF
INSTRUCTOR(S)
2.

EXAMINER’S COMMENT(S) TOTAL MARKS

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Rev. Date Author(s) Description
No.
1. Update to new UTeM logo
1.0 30 Jan 1. Khairul Anuar Bin A
2019 2. Update faculty's name
Rahman
3. Change "course" to
"programme".
4. Remove verification stamp.

2.0 2 Sep 1. Dr. Fara Ashikin Binti 1. Revise procedure.

2019 Ali
2. Gloria Raymond
Tanny

1. Revise equipment
3.0 27 Jul 1. Ts. Fakhrullah bin
2020 Idris
2. Win Adiyansyah

4.0 13 Okt 1. Farees Ezwan Bin 1. Revise contents so that

2020 Mohd Sani @ Ariffin students can do the lab at
home.

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1. OBJECTIVES
1) To investigate the relationship between voltage, current intensity and resistance.
2) To determine the resistance of unknown resistor arrangement.

2. EQUIPMENT
1) PC

3. SYNOPSIS & THEORY

OHM’S LAW

One of the most basic and important laws of electric circuits is Ohm’s law. Ohm’s law states
that the voltage across a conductor is directly proportional to the current flowing through it,
provided all physical conditions and temperature remain constant.

Mathematically, this current-voltage relationship can be shown in (1):

V = IR (1)

where,
V = voltage
I = current
R = resistance

In (1), the constant of proportionality, R is a resistance and has units of ohms, with symbol
of Ω. The same formula can be rewritten in order to calculate the current and resistance
respectively as shown in (2) and (3):

I = V/R (2)

R = V/I (3)

Ohm’s law only holds true if the provided temperature and the other physical factors remain
constant. In certain components, increasing the current raises the temperature. An example
of this is the filament of a light bulb, in which the temperature rises as the current is increased.
In this case, Ohm’s law cannot be applied. The lightbulb filament violates the Ohm’s Law.

4. PROCEDURES

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Part A

1) Open the falstad website at below link.

http://falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html
2) You will see a page as shown in Figure 1 once you open the link.

Figure 1 Falstad webpage

3) Delete the existing circuit as shown in Figure 1.

4) Draw circuit as shown in Figure 2.
5) Set Rx as 100 Ω.
6) Set Input voltage as setting in Figure 3.
7) Click SW to close the switch.
8) Click Run/Stop to run the simulation.
9) Record the current intensity value from the Ammeter measurement result.
10) Rise the input voltage from 3 V up to 12 V as in Table 1 and record the measured
current intensity in Table 1.
11) Next, set the input voltage to 10 V.
12) Change the resistance values as in Table 2 and measure the current intensity.
13) Record all the measured current intensity in Table 2.

Figure 2 Circuit diagram 1

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 Figure 3 Input voltage setting

Part B

1) Set up the circuit as shown in Figure 4. X is the resistor arrangement shown in

Figure 5.
2) Set the voltage to 12 V.
3) Close the switch and record the current intensity, I.
4) Do the same procedure 1 and 2 to find the resistance values of all X in Figure 5.
5) Measure and record the current intensity, I, for each combination.

Figure 4 Circuit diagram 2

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 No. Resistor arrangement
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2.

3.

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5.

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Figure 5 Resistor arrangement

(Resistance for each resistor is 100 Ω)

5. EXPERIMENT DATA AND RESULT

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 Part A

Table 1
Current Intensity Current Intensity
Resistance, R [Ω] Voltage, V [V]
measured, I [mA] theoretical, I [mA]
100 3
100 6
100 9
100 12

Table 2
Current Intensity Current Intensity
Voltage, V [V] Resistance, R [Ω]
measured, I [mA] theoretical, I [mA]
10 68
10 100
10 1000
10 4700
10 10000

Part B

Table 3
Current Intensity,
No. Resistor arrangement, X Resistance X, R [Ω] 1/I [1/mA]
I [mA]

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

6. QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS

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 1) What is the relationship between voltage, V, and current intensity, I, and, resistance,
R, and current intensity, I?

2) From the relationship of the theoretical values for resistance, voltage and current
intensity, it is possible to recognize a mathematical relationship. Describe this
relationship both in mathematical and written form.

3) By using excel, plot a graph of Voltage, V [V] vs. Current intensity, I [mA] both for
experimental and theoretical results.

4) Using your diagram, determine the values for current intensity at a voltage of 2, 5 and
7.2 V.

5) Calculate the following using the formula of Ohm’s Law you have worked out:
a. What is the resistance value of a lamp with 4 V / 0.04 A printed on it?
b. What voltage is applied to a 1 kΩ resistor when a current of 18 mA flows
through it?
c. How high is the current intensity flowing through a resistance wire of 200 Ω
when a voltage of 8 V is applied?

7. CONCLUSIONS

State your conclusion of the experiment.

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