investigate what affects the resistance of a piece of wire. Wire is made up of atoms. Electric current is a flow of electrons‚ and it is these electrons that collide with the nucleus of the atoms. Every time this happens‚ it causes resistance. The build up of friction is what produces the heat. There are many variables that could affect the resistance of the piece of wire: Length Potential difference Tension Temperature Diameter Shape Material of the wire I have chosen
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Introduction The resistance of a wire depends on certain factors. Some of these variables are listed below: Length of wire Diameter or thickness of wire Temperature at which wire is kept The material of which wire is made out of. The potential difference or voltage. Humidity Cross sectional area. Voltage across circuit All these factors will have to be kept constant except the diameter of the wire whilst doing the experiment to ensure that the investigation is
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factors that affect the resistance of a piece of wire; the one I am investing is the length at constant temperature. My objective in this experiment is to investigate one of the factors that affect the resistance of a piece of wire. The factor I chose was length. Factors: There our four different things that affect the resistance of a wire: 1. The Length because the wire is thinner than the rest of the wires the electrons wood have more trouble going through for if the wire had the same
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Factors Affecting The Resistance Of Wire Aim: To investigate the factors that affect the resistance in a conductor. The main factors that affect the resistance in a conductor are: · Length · Temperature · Cross sectional area · Material · Magnetism The factor that we are going to change is the cross sectional area. Hypothesis: I think that the higher the cross sectional area‚ the lower the resistance in the conductor will be. This is because the Resistance in a metal conductor happens
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The resistance of a wire Planning:- Introduction: To investigate the resistance of a wire at different lengths to see whether or not a longer wire has a larger resistance than a shorter wire. Apparatus: Wire Voltmeter Ammeter Battery 2 crocodile clips Metre rule Variable resistor Diagram: Variables: Length Thickness Resistance Material The material and diameter of the wire needs to be kept constant to keep the test fair as we are investigating resistance. The
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effect of Length on the overall resistance of a circuit. Research question: How does the length of the conductive putty affect the over all resistance of a circuit? This experiment will be discussing how the length of the conductive putty wire affects the overall resistance of a circuit. The variables for this experiment are being used for a number of reasons‚ however one of the main reasons behind choosing this experiment is investing how length of an object is affected be the resistance. The electrons
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Preliminary Investigation: Aim: To investigate the main problems with my main experiment and to see how to resolve these. Preliminary Method: 1. Setup Equipment 2. Make Circuit with the set length of wire 3. Draw Results table 4. Record Results 5. Change the lengths of wire and do same steps 2 more times. Preliminary Equipment: Metre Ruler Metre length Of wire Voltmeter Ammeter Power Unit Sellotape Paper‚ Pencil Preliminary Diagram: Preliminary Investigation:
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Investigating the Resistance Of A Wire A simple investigation of the factors affecting the resistance of a wire. For each student group Cells‚ 1.5 V‚ with holders‚ 2 Crocodile clips‚ 2 Ammeter (0 - 1 amp)‚ DC Leads‚ 4 mm‚ 5 Wire available for class use (see technical notes) Power supply‚ 0 to 12 V‚ DC (OPTIONAL) Metre rule (OPTIONAL) Insulating tape (OPTIONAL) Digital and analogue ammeters‚ 0-1 A (OPTIONAL) Digital and analogue voltmeters‚ 0-12 V (OPTIONAL) Micrometer (OPTIONAL)
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| Resistance and Electric Circuits | Lab 5 | | | The goal of the “Resistance and Electric Circuit” Lab was to determine the resistivity of a conducting wire given two known resistors. The main property of resistivity is that it represents how easily electrons can flow through a material. A Galvanometer is used to measure the current of the circuit and the Wheatstone Bridge is used to measure the resistances and determine the unknown resistance. This experiment also relates Ohm’s Law
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factor that affects the resistance of a wire. Reworded: I am going to investigate if changing the length of a wire changes its resistance. I predict that the longer the wire‚ the more resistance it has. Planning and Preparation Independent Variable: The variable I changed was length (cm). Dependent Variable: The variable I measured was resistance (Ω). Fixed Variables: The variables I kept constant to make it a fair test; were‚ the type of wire (nichrome)‚ the thickness of the wire‚ and the temperature
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