Electricity experiments

© Sean Foley 2003

There are five electricity experiments on the leaving certificate physics course. All five are listed here and a Java applet simulation of each experiment can be accessed by clicking on its title.

  1. Verification of Joule's law (as change in temperature proportional to current squared)
  2. Measurement of the resistivity of the material of a wire
  3. To investigate the variation of the resistance of a metallic conductor with temperature
  4. To investigate the variation of the resistance of a thermistor with temperature
  5. To investigate the variation of the current (I) with pd (V) for: