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    Conversion of Galvanometer Into Voltmeter

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    A voltmeter measures potential difference across circuit components without drawing current from the main circuit. To convert a galvanometer, which measures current, into a voltmeter, a high resistance is added in series so that only a negligible amount of current flows through the galvanometer. This allows the galvanometer to instead measure voltage by indicating the potential difference across the added high resistance.

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    Conversion of Galvanometer Into Voltmeter

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    A voltmeter measures potential difference across circuit components without drawing current from the main circuit. To convert a galvanometer, which measures current, into a voltmeter, a high resistance is added in series so that only a negligible amount of current flows through the galvanometer. This allows the galvanometer to instead measure voltage by indicating the potential difference across the added high resistance.

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    A voltmeter measures potential difference across circuit components without drawing current from the main circuit. To convert a galvanometer, which measures current, into a voltmeter, a high resistance is added in series so that only a negligible amount of current flows through the galvanometer. This allows the galvanometer to instead measure voltage by indicating the potential difference across the added high resistance.

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    Conversion of Galvanometer Into Voltmeter

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    A voltmeter measures potential difference across circuit components without drawing current from the main circuit. To convert a galvanometer, which measures current, into a voltmeter, a high resistance is added in series so that only a negligible amount of current flows through the galvanometer. This allows the galvanometer to instead measure voltage by indicating the potential difference across the added high resistance.

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    Conversion of Galvanometer into Voltmeter Voltmeter is an instrument used to measure the potential difference between any two points

    in a circuit. It is always connected in parallel to the circuit across the component where we want know the potential difference and will not alter the current flowing through the circuit neither will it draw current from the main circuit. The current should be negligible through the voltmeters if the resistance of the voltmeter should be high. For an ideal voltmeter the resistance should be infinity which is impractical but let see how to convert galvanometer into voltmeter in this page. A galvanometer is the sensitive instrument used to measure small currents. Galvanometer to Voltmeter Conversion Now our interest is to convert a galvanometer to voltmeter to measure the potential difference across any component in a circuit. This can be done by adding a suitable high resistance in series with galvanometer. When high resistance is connect in series with the galvanometer, very negligible current flow through it.

    The figure shows a galvanometer g is connected in series

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