Multimeters
UTD physics - Fall 2023
REPORT
NAME:___________________________ Course & Section: __________________
Feel free to draft your answers in pencil but remember that the report to be given to your TA must be
in pen.
Questions 1,2 and 3 ask you to fill table 1: (Circuits 1, 2 and 3)
Question Flow through Flow through Reading on DMM
bulb H the DMM (milliamps)
(glows)
1) 1 glow
2) 1 glow
3) 1 glow
[3]
Excel is used to draw a graph of data in the last two columns of table 1. Add a linear trend-line.
Display the equation of the trend-line and the value of R 2
4) What value of R 2 do you get for this graph and what is the significance of this number?
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5) What can you conclude about the concept of ‘flow’ and the physical quantity measured in
amps?
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6) What is the slope of this graph? Comment on how the slope can be used to convert amps to
glows.
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Table 2: (Circuit 4)
Length of Rheostat (cm) Reading on the DMM (Ohms)
20 cm
30 cm
40 cm
7) Fill table two in your report. [3]
Excel is used to draw a graph of data in table 2. Add a linear trend-line. Display the equation of the
trend-line and the value of R 2
8) What value of R 2 do you get for this graph and what is the significance of this number?
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9) What can you conclude about the concept of obstacle and the physical quantity measured in
ohms?
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10) Calculate the cross-sectional area, 𝐴𝐴, of the wire (assuming that the wire is circular).
𝜌𝜌
Calculate the ratio �𝐴𝐴 and compare it with the slope of your graph. Do they agree?
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11) Comment on how the slope of the graph can be used to convert ohms into cm of Kanthal.
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12) Try to measure the resistance of the 22 MΩ resistor. How does the meter indicate that this
resistance is too large to be measured?
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13) Measure the size of the obstacle presented by bulb H when 1 glow flows through it
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Table 3 (circuit 5);
Obstacle Flow (glow) Pressure Difference Reading on the DMM
Presented (cm) (glow cm) (Δ𝑉𝑉)
Rheostat
Bulb H
1
Network of
bulbs B & C
Bulb B
Bulb C
Battery
[19]
Excel is used to draw a graph of pressure difference (on the y-axis) versus the reading on the DMM.
The next three questions are about this graph.
14) What value of R 2 do you get for this graph and what is the significance of this number?
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15) What can you conclude about the concept of ‘pressure difference’ and the physical quantity
measured in volts?
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16) What is the slope of this graph? Comment on how the slope of the graph can be used to
convert volts to ‘pressure difference’ (measured in units of glow × cm ).
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17) Someone asks; “I hear about 9-volt batteries and 1.5-volt batteries. Why do I never hear of 1
Amp batteries or 1 mA batteries?”
What answer can you give to them? Make sure to explain your answer.
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