Gordon Liu

9/15/2016
Physics 110
Lab #2 Discovering Ohms Law
Data:
Part 1: Voltage Vs Current
Voltage
(V)
Current
(i)

1
.885

2
1.78

3
2.60

4
3.61

5
4.45

6
5.61

.01082

.02170

.03170

.04350

.05370

.06750

Data reduction 1
Value of extracted R =83.462
And Error= +/- 0.24137

Part 2: Resistance vs. Length

Length
Voltage V
(V)
Current i
(Amp)
Resistance
(i/V)

2m
.785

4m
.914

6m
.950

8m
.975

10m
.988

.0472

.0279

.01934

.01487

.01208

16.63

32.75

49.12

65.56

81.79

Data reduction 2
Value of extracted A=

Value of extracted d = r2 x 2 = 3.14(.000318m) x 2 =

Cross Sectional Area

Questions:
1.Based on the conclusions we have calculated from our data reduction, it is
apparent that there is an obvious liner relationship between voltage and current. As
voltage is getting larger, the current is getting proportionally larger as well. The same
goes for the graph from part 2, for we can see that as the length of the wire gets larger, the
voltage also becomes larger which in turn proportionally increases resistivity.
2. The experimental points do fall in the general direction of a straight line but
does not literally fall into a perfectly straight line. This is because we have to account for
errors in our experiment due to many factors such as difficulty getting precise calculation,
environment, weather, and etc. However, we can see that the correlation is apparent
enough to be seen.