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Ohms Law

Essence
Ohms law is defined as voltage is always directly proportional to current
while resistance of the circuit is kept constant. There is a linear relationship
between voltage and current depending upon the value of the resistance.
The purpose of this lab is to study ohms law and to prove this law how
voltage is directly proportional to current and how a linear relationship
occurs between voltage and current. In this lab, we connected different
resistance of different values in series with voltage to observe ohms law.

Analysis
In this lab, we used three different values resistances in series with the
voltage and we observed that there is a linear relationship between voltage
and current flowing through the circuit but slope of that relationship depends
on different resistor values. Slope of that relationship gives us the value of
resistance. So, the percent error for each resistor value can be calculated as
follows

|150138.89
|100=7.4
150

At R = 150 ohm

Error=

At R= 470

Error=

At R = 2200

|470438.64
|100=6.7
470
|22001767
|100=19.7
2200

Error=

From these percent errors, it is concluded that the percent error increases as
circuit resistance increases.

Conclusion

From the results and relationship obtained from the circuit for different
resistor values, it is concluded that percent error increases as the resistance
of the circuit increases. It is also concluded that there is a relationship
between voltages and current which proves ohms law. Value of resistance
can also be calculated from the linear relationship between voltage and
current. It is also concluded that by increasing the resistance in series with
the voltage, the current flowing through that circuit will flow down.

Expansion
Linear relationship not only depends on the resistance connected in series
with the circuit, inner resistance of the wire and leads also have great effect
in ohms law of this experiment depending upon the quality of the material
used in that wires leads. Inner resistance of wires and leads also added in the
circuit and has great effect on the behavior of ohms law. Power dissipated by
a resistor can be calculated from the current flowing through that resistor
and voltage drop across that resistance. The size of filaments in fuses is
small so that less power will be dissipated in the circuit.

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