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Wheatstone Bridge Explained

1) Wheatstone Bridge is a circuit used to measure unknown resistances using a balanced bridge configuration of four resistances connected in a mesh. 2) When the currents through the branches of the mesh are balanced such that no current flows through the galvanometer, equations can be derived relating the known and unknown resistances. 3) By adjusting the known resistances until this null point is reached, the value of the unknown resistance can be determined using these equations.

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Wheatstone Bridge Explained

1) Wheatstone Bridge is a circuit used to measure unknown resistances using a balanced bridge configuration of four resistances connected in a mesh. 2) When the currents through the branches of the mesh are balanced such that no current flows through the galvanometer, equations can be derived relating the known and unknown resistances. 3) By adjusting the known resistances until this null point is reached, the value of the unknown resistance can be determined using these equations.

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Wheatstone Bridge
Wheatstone Bridge is the combination of four resistances, arranged in the form of mesh, used to find out
unknown resistance.
Explanation
Consider four resistances , , , connected in such a way so as to form a mesh ABCDA. A
battery of emf is connected between points A and C. A sensitive galvanometer of resistance is connected
between points B and D.

Let the current , , flows through the loops ABDA, BCDB, ADCA respectively. The
nd
Kirchhoff’s 2 Rule as applied to loop ABDA gives:
( – ) ---------- (1)
nd
Similarly by applying the Kirchhoff’s 2 Rule to the loop BCDB, we have:
( – ) ---------- (2) The
current through the galvanometer will be zero if
or . With this condition, the equation (1) and (2) reduces to:
( – ) ---------- (3)

( – ) ---------- (4)
Dividing equation (3) and (4), we get:
( – )( –
)

---------- (5)

If we connect three resistance , , of known adjustable


values and unknown resistance in such a way that no current pass through
galvanometer, then the unknown resistance can be find out easily
by equation (5).

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