Hi,

I am doing a project to measure power required to heat up a wire. I will be measuring the resistance and voltage across the wire against time. Therefore I will have:

resistance of wire = R(t)
voltage across wire = V(t)

I know power =V*R

So am I correct to do integrate V(t)*R(t) from t=0 to t=t1?

Thank you.

 

Hi,

I am doing a project to measure power required to heat up a wire. I will be measuring the resistance and voltage across the wire against time. Therefore I will have:

resistance of wire = R(t)
voltage across wire = V(t)

I know power =V*R

So am I correct to do integrate V(t)*R(t) from t=0 to t=t1?

Thank you.

Im not sure about the rest but "I know power =V*R" is wrong
Power = I*V Current times voltage

 

Im not sure about the rest but "I know power =V*R" is wrong
Power = I*V Current times voltage

thanks for the correction. u r right.

so now my equation will be to integrate V(t)*V(t)/R(t) from t-0 to t-t1.

 

I believe you will find that power is actually V squared divided by R.

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