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Showing 16 experiments that use the Voltage Sensor (unshrouded).

College / Physics

Induction: Magnet through a Coil

The purpose of this experiment is to examine Faraday’s Law of Induction. A magnet will be dropped through a coil and the voltage across the coil graphed...

College / Physics

General Properties of Diodes

The purpose of this experiment is to investigate the characteristic curves (I vs. V) of various types of diodes and to determine their “turn-on” voltages.

College / Physics

RC Circuit

The manner by which the voltage on a capacitor decreases is studied. The half-life for the decay is measured directly and also calculated using the capacitive...

College / Physics

Kirchhoff’s Circuit Laws

Kirchhoff’s Junction Rule and Loop Rule form the basis of all circuit analysis. Here we verify the laws for a resistive circuit.

College / Physics

Series and Parallel Circuits

Series/Parallel circuits are reduced to an equivalent resistance and that resistance is verified by measuring the total current and total voltage. In a...

College / Physics

Ohm's Law

The purpose of this experiment is to verify Ohm’s Law for commercially manufactured resistors and to examine the limits of validity for Ohm’s Law....

College / Physics

Electric Field Mapping

This qualitative activity introduces the concepts of equipotential surfaces and electric fields. A number of rules about the electric field are verified....

College / Physics

Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws

Verify the laws for a resistive circuit using a DC input and for a time varying RC circuit. The DC portion and the RC portion of the lab are each stand-alone...

College / Physics

RC Circuit

For a capacitor discharging through a resistor, the half-life for the decay is measured directly and also calculated using the capacitive time constant.

College / Physics

LRC Series Circuit

The phase differences between the output voltage, the voltage across the inductor, the voltage across the capacitor, and the voltage across the resistor...

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