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Nichrome Wire Resistivity Analysis

The Resistivity Lab report details experiments conducted by Joseph Lam, Evan Sun, Nathan Liu, and Levant Chen, focusing on the resistivity of nichrome wire. The analysis includes calculations of the wire's cross-sectional area, resistivity, and percent error, with a resulting percent error of approximately 1.42%. The report also notes a discrepancy in the graph's trendline not intersecting at (0,0) due to measurement errors.

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Nichrome Wire Resistivity Analysis

The Resistivity Lab report details experiments conducted by Joseph Lam, Evan Sun, Nathan Liu, and Levant Chen, focusing on the resistivity of nichrome wire. The analysis includes calculations of the wire's cross-sectional area, resistivity, and percent error, with a resulting percent error of approximately 1.42%. The report also notes a discrepancy in the graph's trendline not intersecting at (0,0) due to measurement errors.

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February 28, 2023

Names: Joseph Lam, Evan Sun, Nathan Liu, Levant Chen


Period: 7

Resistivity Lab

Graph

Data Table
Current(mA) Voltage(mv) Length(cm) Resistance(Ω)
135.6 46.5 9.6 0.343
135.6 79.1 16.3 0.583
135.6 116.1 23.9 0.856
135.6 177.9 37.5 1.312
135.6 207 44.6 1.527
Analysis

1) The Radius of a nichrome wire is 0.3213mm, or .0003213 m. The cross sectional area,
by using pi(r)^2, is 0.324318202mm, or .000324318202 m.
𝑝𝐿
2) Using the equation 𝑅 = , where p is the resistivity of the nichrome wire, we can
𝐴
𝑅𝐴
solve for p: 𝑝 = . Plugging in our cross sectional area and the slope of the
𝐿
trendline (R/L) and applying dimensional analysis, we get
−3 −2 −6
𝑝 = . 0344 * 10 /10 *. 000324318202 = 1. 11565461 * 10
ohmmeters.
|𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 − 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒|
3) Percent Error = ( 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒
)*100%
−8 −6
|(110*10 )−(1.11565461*10 )|
−8 * 100% = 1.42314636% error.
(110*10 )
We also found that our graph should include (0,0), but our trendline fails to intersect at
(0,0) due to human error while measuring.

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