00:01
So when you're connecting a volt meter to a battery, say, say this is that little readout, dial, there we go.
00:09
There's typically two wires, two probes.
00:12
That'll be color -coded.
00:15
Let's make this a 9 -volt battery to make it a little easier to see.
00:18
So you can see the two terminals.
00:21
Right, so these four questions are all sort of dealing with the same idea.
00:25
What happens if you only touch one of the meter test probes to the battery? we only connect this one, and this one's left open.
00:35
You're going to get a reading that's inconclusive.
00:39
It could read as, depending on the model of the multimeter, you could get infinity, you could just get zero, you could get no connection.
00:45
And all of these are going to kind of come back to the same reasoning because voltage is also referred to as you might see an electric potential.
01:02
But in reality, the full description should be called the electric potential difference, or even just the potential difference.
01:09
Because it's comparing the electric potential between two locations.
01:17
So you'll get some sort of inconclusive reading if you just connect one.
01:20
How is it supposed to be connected? well, you should have one probe connected to one lead and another probe connected to the other...