Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Lab 1


1. What is the class format?
    The class format consists of quizzes, discussions, blog reports, midterms and a final exam.  Monday will begin with a pre-quiz, lab intro and the start of the lab itself. During the Wednesday's class period we will continue the lab if it is not completed. Friday's class will have blog discussions and a post-quiz.


2.What are the important safety rules?
   Everyone must know where the fire extinguisher, first aid kid, telephone and the list of emergency numbers. Every group must test if the equipment is working properly. When conducting the lab it is safest to power everything off when not working, ground the circuit and don't have wet hands. After you are done with the lab clean and tidy up your work station.



3.Does current kill?
   Yes when the amperes is between 0.1 and 0.2 it could cause death. Lower amperes will cause some pain and breathing troubles along with shock, muscular paralysis but this will not cause death.



4.How do you read color codes? (Video)




5.What is the tolerance? Give an example from your experiment
   Tolerance is the percentage that the resister could be off. If the resistor has a 5% tolerance and a value of 470, the reading could be 5 percent higher or lower than 470.



6.Prove all your resistors are within the tolerance range
 We had resisters with the values of 150k 

1. What is the class format? The class format consists of quizzes, discussions, blog reports, midterms and a final exam. Monday will begin with a pre-quiz, lab intro and the start of the lab itself. During the Wednesday's class period we will continue the lab if it is not completed. Friday's class will have blog discussions and a post-quiz. 2.What are the important safety rules? Everyone must know where the fire extinguisher, first aid kid, telephone and the list of emergency numbers. Every group must test if the equipment is working properly. When conducting the lab it is safest to power everything off when not working, ground the circuit and don't have wet hands. After you are done with the lab clean and tidy up your work station. 3.Does current kill? Yes when the amperes is between 0.1 and 0.2 it could cause death. Lower amperes will cause some pain and breathing troubles along with shock, muscular paralysis but this will not cause death. 4.How do you read color codes? (Video) 5.What is the tolerance? Give an example from your experiment Tolerance is the percentage that the resister could be off. If the resistor has a 5% tolerance and a value of 470, the reading could be 5 percent higher or lower than 470. 6.Prove all your resistors are within the tolerance range We had resisters with the values of 150k