Electricity

This term November holidays drove a change in the order of the laboratories. Lab thirteen Ohm's law was moved up one week and optics was pushed back one week. No renumbering was done.


This term also saw new resistor values. 

And additional battery holders.

The 8:00 session proceeded with groups each using a single multimeter. This was changed to using two multimeters per group and leaving the settings at 20 Volts on one and 200 milliamps on the other.

The morning included an addition to the car collection along the fence line.


One of the new transistor values.


220 Ohms at 1%


470 Ohms at 1%. Both of the 1% tolerance resistors were beyond 1% away from the color band value, on the order of 2% to 2.5% different.


The 11:00 setup minus the batteries. This worked better and meant less dial twirling. At 8:00 there was too much confusion. Not to mention that there was no schematic diagram put up at 8:00.

Veronica records data while Grace Marie records data and works with the circuit.

Maicalany, Veroniica, Grace Marie, and Bracey

Trusty, Ashton, and Jerson.

Trusty works on the circuit setup.

Maicalany joined Roselihn, Roselihn has already set up her circuit.


Iryann tests the voltage while Youlanae Maiea observes


Iryann checks the data point in Desmos


Rachel taking notes

Marikai and Haily joined Rachel


Trishelle

Moki joined Trishelle and Trevor
Jaymar, Franchesca, and Kayla

Moke took over data entry for the middle table. Only three rigs could be supported using two multimeters per rig. At one point a nine volt battery was used which mimics six batteries. 

Moki entering data


Marikai enters data into Desmos, Haily records data in her notebook. They were working with a 470 Ohm resistor, here with four batteries.

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