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Worksheet Work 11 January

This document contains multiple exercises applying Ohm's Law to calculate values of voltage, current, and resistance in various circuits. Exercise 1 involves calculating these values when given two of the three factors. Exercise 2 presents additional circuit scenarios. Exercise 3 provides more complex, multi-step problems related to household circuits. The document concludes with additional questions exploring relationships between voltage, current, and resistance according to Ohm's Law.

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Worksheet Work 11 January

This document contains multiple exercises applying Ohm's Law to calculate values of voltage, current, and resistance in various circuits. Exercise 1 involves calculating these values when given two of the three factors. Exercise 2 presents additional circuit scenarios. Exercise 3 provides more complex, multi-step problems related to household circuits. The document concludes with additional questions exploring relationships between voltage, current, and resistance according to Ohm's Law.

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Ohm’s Law Worksheet

Exercise #1

1. What is the current in a 10V circuit if the resistance is 2Ω?

2. What is the current in a 220V circuit if the resistance 11Ω?

3. What is the current in a 12V circuit if the resistance 30Ω?

4. What voltage is required to move 2A through 500Ω?

5. What voltage is required to move 0.5A through 10Ω?

6. What voltage is required to move 4A through 100Ω?

7. What is the resistance of a circuit with 15V and 1.5A?

8. What is the resistance of a circuit with 200V and 2.5A?

9. What is the resistance of a circuit with 120V and 10A?

Exercise #2

1. A current of 3.7 Amps is running through a circuit with a resistance of 1.5 Ω. What is the voltage?

2. If the current in the circuit is 10 amps and the resistance is 3 Ω, what is the voltage?

3. If the battery in the circuit is 24 V and the resistance is 12 Ω, what is the current, I?

4. Given a voltage of 20 volts and a current of 5 Amps, what is the resistance?

5. Given a resistance of 1500 Ω and a current on 0.03 Amps, what is the voltage?
6. Resistance is 200 Ω and voltage is 24 V. Find I.

7. Battery potential is 12 volts and current is 2.7 Amps. What is the resistance?

8. House voltage is 230 volts. If a lamp runs a current of 0.5 Amps, what is the resistance of the lamp?

Exercise #3

1. An alarm clock draws 0.5 A of current when connected to a 230V circuit. Calculate its resistance.

2. A subwoofer needs a household voltage of 230V to push a current of 5.5A through its coil.
What is the resistance of the subwoofer?

3. A diskman uses a standard 1.5V battery. How much resistance is in the circuit if it uses a current of 0.01A?

4. A circuit contains a 1.5V battery and a bulb with a resistance of 3 Ω. Calculate the current.

5. What current flows through a hairdryer plugged into a 230V circuit if it has a resistance of 25 ohms?

6. If a toaster produces 12 Ω of resistance in a 240V circuit, what is the amount of current in the circuit?

A 12 Volt car battery pushes charge through the headlight circuit resistance of 10 ohms. How much current is
passing through the circuit?

How much voltage would be necessary to generate 10 amps of current in a circuit that has 5 ohms of resistance?

An electric heater works by passing a current of 100 A though a coiled metal wire, making it red hot. If the
resistance of the wire is 1.1 ohms, what voltage must be applied to it?

A light bulb has a resistance of 5 ohms and a maximum current of 10 A. How much voltage can be applied before
the bulb will break?

What happens to the current in a circuit if a 1.5-volt battery is removed and is replaced by a 3-volt battery?

What happens to the current in a circuit if a 10Ω resistor is removed and replaced by a 20Ω resistor?
1. How much current is in a circuit that includes a 9-volt battery and a bulb with a resistance of 3 ohms?

2. How much current is in a circuit that includes a 9-volt battery and a bulb with a resistance of 12 ohms?

3. A circuit contains a 1.5 volt battery and a bulb with a resistance of 3 ohms. Calculate the current.

4. A circuit contains two 1.5 volt batteries and a bulb with a resistance of 3 ohms. Calculate the current. 13.3

5. What is the voltage of a circuit with 15 amps of current and toaster with 8 ohms of resistance?

6. A light bulb has a resistance of 4 ohms and a current of 2 A. What is the voltage across the bulb?

7. How much voltage would be necessary to generate 10 amps of current in a circuit that has 5 ohms of
resistance?

8. How many ohms of resistance must be present in a circuit that has 120 volts and a current of 10 amps?

9. An alarm clock draws 0.5 A of current when connected to a 120 volt circuit. Calculate its resistance.

10. A portable CD player uses two 1.5 V batteries. If the current in the CD player is 2 A, what is its resistance?

11. You have a large flashlight that takes 4 D-cell batteries. If the current in the flashlight is 2 amps, what is the
resistance of the light bulb? (Hint: A D-cell battery has 1.5 volts.)

12. Use the diagram below to answer the following problems.

a. What is the total voltage in each circuit?


b. How much current would be measured in each circuit if the light bulb has a resistance of 6 ohms?
c. How much current would be measured in each circuit if the light bulb has a resistance of 12 ohms?
d. Is the bulb brighter in circuit A or circuit B? Why?
13. What happens to the current in a circuit if a 1.5-volt battery is removed and is replaced by a 9-volt battery?

14. In your own words, state the relationship between resistance and current in a circuit.

15. In your own words, state the relationship between voltage and current in a circuit.

16. What could you do to a closed circuit consisting of 2 batteries, 2 light bulbs, and a switch to increase the
current? Explain your answer.

17. What could you do to a closed circuit consisting of 2 batteries, 2 light bulbs, and a switch to decrease the
current? Explain your answer.

18. You have four 1.5 V batteries, a 1: bulb, a 2: bulb, and a 3: bulb. Draw a circuit you could build to create
each of the following currents. There may be more than one possible answer for each.
a. 1 ampere
b. 2 amperes
c. 3 amperes
d. 6 amperes

Ohm’s Law states that if the voltage (energy) in a circuit increases, so does the current (flow of charges).
If the resistance increases, the current flow decreases.

Voltage (volts V )
Current (amps A ) =
Resistance (ohms Ω )
V
I
R

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