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Exercise 2: Resistors in Series: Circuit

This document provides instructions for building a circuit with 3 resistors in series and measuring various voltage drops and currents. Students are asked to: 1) Measure voltage drops across each resistor; 2) Measure current between resistors; 3) Check if findings are consistent with Ohm's Law; 4) Measure voltage drops across pairs and all resistors; 5) Infer if total voltage drop is the sum of drops and current is constant.

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Exercise 2: Resistors in Series: Circuit

This document provides instructions for building a circuit with 3 resistors in series and measuring various voltage drops and currents. Students are asked to: 1) Measure voltage drops across each resistor; 2) Measure current between resistors; 3) Check if findings are consistent with Ohm's Law; 4) Measure voltage drops across pairs and all resistors; 5) Infer if total voltage drop is the sum of drops and current is constant.

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Exercise 2: Resistors in series

Create the following circuit on your breadboard:


Questions:
1. Measure and record the voltage drop across each resistor:
resistor 1:____________________
resistor 2:____________________
resistor 3:____________________
2. Measure and record the current flowing between the first and second resistor (point 1)
and the second and third resistor (point 2):
point 1:___________________
point 2:___________________
3. !re your findings consistent with "h#$s law% &'plain and show calculations.
!ssure that all 3 resistors have the sa#e
resistance
(. Measure and record the voltage drop across each pair of resistors:
resistor pair 1:____________________
resistor pair 2:____________________
). Measure and record the voltage drop across all three resistors: _______________
*. +ased on your findings in this si#ple circuit would you infer the following state#ents
to be true% _____________________.
1. ,he total voltage drop across a circuit is the su# of the voltage drops across each
ele#ent in that circuit.
2. ,he total current flow is constant.

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