phetsims / resistance-in-a-wire

"Resistance in a Wire" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/resistance-in-a-wire
GNU General Public License v3.0
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User suggestion: resistance of a wire experiment #216

Open oliver-phet opened 4 years ago

oliver-phet commented 4 years ago

A standard experiment is the resistance of a wire experiment. To do this with your fantastic simulation one would need a ruler and the ability to change the resistivity of multiple lengths of wire. That is the copper wire to have a very low resistivity, connected to a piece of say nichrome wire with a high resistivity. One could then investigate different types of wire (resistivity) and perhaps even different thicknesses of wire (place said wire in parallel or have literally different thicknesses of wire. image