Lab: Solderless Breadboard, open-circuits and short-circuits( February 28, 2017)

Date: 02/28/2017

Solderless Breadboards, open-circuits and short-circuits

Lab 1: 

This part of the lab dealt with measuring the resistance between two holes on a solderless bread board. This also served as an introduction to the tool that we will be using everyday throughout the course. The breadboard is the electrical engineers choice for testing circuits and circuit ideas. As we can see in the picture the resistance of two holes is about 0.38 ohms. The solderless breadboard also has specific orientation for its nodes depending on where one is working on.

 In this picture we see the relation ship of power and energy. Also, we had graphed simultaneously what happens to the power as the voltage changes.

 In this picture we continue to analyze the electrical engineers tool of choice as we make more measurements on the internal resistance only this time we took the resistance after creating what is known as an open circuit. An open circuit is a connection of wires without any components such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. As we can see from the picture the resistance of an open circuit is about 0.16 ohms.

In this picture we further expand our understanding of the basics of electrical engineering. We see the relation between current and voltage. We also used current and voltage to derive the equation for power.