Higher Physics

Electricity and Electronics - Activity 5   

The Balanced Wheatstone bridge

Aim - To find the resistances of unknown resistors     Instructions
  •  Select resistor A to be the unknown resistor
  • Click on a  yellow connector, to select a resistor on the resistance board.
  • Find the value of the resistance of the resistance board which balances the Wheatstone Bridge and find the value of resistance A
  • Repeat to find the value of resistance B and C
  • Replace R2 with a 10 k W resistor
  • Predict the value of the resistance board that will balance the Wheatstone Bridge for each of the resistors A B and C with this value of   R2.
  • Confirm your predictions
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