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Table of Contents

  • 1. Mechanics
  • 2. Harmonic Motion, Waves and Sound
  • 3. Matter and Thermodynamics
  • 4. Electricity and Magnetism
    • A. AC Circuits
    • B. Capacitors and Inductors
    • C. DC Circuits
      • 10. Batteries and Electrolysis
      • 20. Internal Resistance of a Meter
      • 30. Joule Cooking
      • 40. Light Bulbs in Series and Parallel
      • 50. Making Ammeters and Voltmeters
      • 60. Ohm's Law
      • 70. Temperature Coefficient of Resistance
      • 80. Terminal Voltage
      • 90. Voltage and Current Measurements
    • D. Electrodynamics
    • E. Electronics
    • F. Electrostatics
    • G. Mag Lev
    • H. Magnetic Fields of Currents
    • I. Magnetostatics
  • 5. Light and Optics
  • 6. Modern Physics
  • 7. Astronomy
  • 8. Software and Multimedia
  • 9. Index and code conversion from older manual
  • External Resources

50. Making Ammeters and Voltmeters

You can wire up an ammeter or voltmeter by adding a shunt or series resistance to the Leybold 60 mV, 300 mA meter or other galvanometers. Alternatively, the Cenco multimeter has the shunt and series resistors ready to plug into a circuit that is fairly visible to the class.

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