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Project A1 - Resistance of Reference Resistor

This document summarizes an experiment to measure the resistance of a reference resistor. The objectives were to obtain a more accurate value of the resistor through measurement and apply Ohm's law. A circuit was built using the reference resistor and measurements were taken of voltage and current. The data was analyzed to calculate the resistance using Ohm's law, which yielded a value of approximately 10 ohms, consistent with the rated value. Graphs of the data showed the expected linear relationship between voltage and current.

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Project A1 - Resistance of Reference Resistor

This document summarizes an experiment to measure the resistance of a reference resistor. The objectives were to obtain a more accurate value of the resistor through measurement and apply Ohm's law. A circuit was built using the reference resistor and measurements were taken of voltage and current. The data was analyzed to calculate the resistance using Ohm's law, which yielded a value of approximately 10 ohms, consistent with the rated value. Graphs of the data showed the expected linear relationship between voltage and current.

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Project A1:

Resistance of Reference Resistor

EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONICS LABORATORY


Instructor:

Assoc. Prof. Tetsuo Kishimoto


Assist. Prof. Varun Vohra

Author name: Oscar Alam Guzman Medrano


Partner name: Tim Schewe
Experiment conducted on:
Report submitted on:

20/10/2016
26/10/2016

Department of Engineering Science

University of Electro-Communications
Tokyo, Japan

Table of Contents
OBJECTIVES ..................................................................................................................... 3
BACKGROUND THEORY (or INTRODUCTION) ......................................................... 3
EQUIPMENT and COMPONENTS USED ....................................................................... 3
EXPERIMENTAL METHOD AND PROCEDURE ......................................................... 4
OBSERVATIONS, DATA, FINDINGS and RESULTS ................................................... 4
Data discussion ............................................................................................................... 5
Graphs ............................................................................................................................. 5
Error Analysis ................................................................................................................. 6
QUESTIONS ...................................................................................................................... 6
RECOMMENDATIONS and CONCLUSIONS ................................................................ 6

OBJECTIVES
Obtain a more accurate value, than the one provided by the color code, of the
reference resistor through the experimental measurement.
Apply the Ohms law in order to get a further understanding of it.
Learn how to use the laboratory equipment and get used to it.

BACKGROUND THEORY (or INTRODUCTION)


This experiment is carried out to obtain an accurate value of the resistance of the
reference resistor, which value is essential to the determination of Z (Complex
Impedance). A series of measurements are carried out and the results are presented in a
table and then plotted. Finally, mathematical formulas are applied to get the resistance
and compared with the measured data.
Electrical impedance: It is the measure of the opposition that a circuit presents to a
current when a voltage is applied.
Electrical resistance: It is the opposition to the flow of electric current, measured in
ohms.
Ohms law: It describes the relation between the resistance, voltage and current. It
states that the current through a conductor between two points is directly
proportional to the voltage across the two points.

Figure 1. V, I and R, the parameters of Ohms law


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s_law

EQUIPMENT and COMPONENTS USED

Name: Oscilloscope
Brand: Tektronix
Model: TDS2001

EXPERIMENTAL METHOD AND PROCEDURE


1.- The circuit of Figure 2 was constructed so that the reference resistor (R100) could be
tested.

Figure 2. Diagram of the circuit under test

2.- Apply different voltage and get the measurements from current (A) and voltage (V).
(At least 5).
3.-With the data obtained determine the slope of the line, RSlope with the equation:

RLSQ

VI
I
i

i i
2
i i

(1)

OBSERVATIONS, DATA, FINDINGS and RESULTS


Vs (v)

I (mA)
0.5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
10
11

V1 (v)
0.3
0.8
1.7
2.55
3.5
4.3
5.2
6.2
8.9
9.7

0.045
0.0887
0.170
0.270
0.350
0.444
0.530
0.624
0.900
0.970

Table 1. Values obtained from measurement of the circuit shown in figure 2. Where Vs is the voltage from
the source, I is the current and V1 is the voltage that pass through R100.

Vs (v)

I (mA)
0.5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
10
11

V1 (v)
0.3
0.8
1.7
2.55
3.5
4.3
5.2
6.2
8.9
9.7

RLSQ ()
15.0000

0.045
0.0887
0.170
0.270
0.350
0.444
0.530
0.624
0.900
0.970

11.0875
10.0000
10.5882
10.0000
10.3256
10.1923
10.0645
10.1124
10.0000

Table 2. Results of equation 1.

The resistance R100 measured with a digital multimeter was 10.004 Ohms.

Data discussion
The results obtained from the equation 1 are practically the same compare with the
resistance measured with a digital multimeter. We also can notice that this value does not
change, or change not too much, and this is because of the principle explained by the
Ohms law. It is important to notice that some values oscillate because of measurements
errors, specially the first value.

Graphs
Graph for table 1
12

Voltage (v)

10
8
6
4
2
0
0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.2

Current (A)
Figure 3. Graph of contents of table 1.

The results of table 1 are shown graphically in figure 3 where the measured I is plotted
with respect to the V1. It can be seen that the slope of the line made by the measured
values is constant. The behavior of the graph was the expected according to the
theoretical concepts.

Error Analysis
In this subsection of an error analysis should be provided that compares the theoretical
(calculated) to the obtained (measured) results. The formula needed follows:
% error

calculated measured
calculated

100%

(2)

So, as an example consider the results in table 1. Using equation 2, one can calculate that
the % error between calculated and measured R100 when Vs is 3 volts is:
% error of VR2 (Vs

10) 0.1059 0.1004 100% 5.19%


0.1059

QUESTIONS
What is the role of the 1k resistor?
R: Reduce the current flow.
Do you foresee any problem if this resistor is zero?
R: Yes, without this resistor the amount of current through R100 would be more than
enough to damage it. Also, it is dangerous to work with high values of current.

RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS


All the obtained data from table 2 were expected except the first one, the resistance value
15.0000 was higher than the others, this was probably human error or equipment error
but, further conclusion cannot be done.

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