Ohm's law calculator
Fill any two. Leave the rest blank.
Voltage, current, resistance and power — give any two, get the other two.
How it works
Enter any two of voltage, current, resistance and power, and this gives the remaining two. V = IR, and P = VI, which combine into the twelve forms of the Ohm’s law wheel.
Power is the one people forget to check, and it is usually what fails. A resistor sized correctly for its resistance can still burn out if the power dissipated exceeds its rating — a quarter-watt resistor passing 100 mA at 5 V is dissipating half a watt and will not survive.
Ohm’s law describes ohmic conductors, which is most wire and most resistors under normal conditions. It does not describe diodes, transistors, filament lamps at varying temperature, or anything else whose resistance changes with the current through it.
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Common questions
- What is Ohm’s law?
- V = IR — voltage equals current times resistance. Combined with P = VI it gives every relationship between the four quantities.
- Does Ohm’s law apply to everything?
- No. It describes ohmic conductors. Diodes, transistors and filament lamps all have resistance that varies with conditions, so it does not hold for them.
- Why does my resistor get hot?
- It is dissipating more power than its rating. Check P = I²R against the resistor’s wattage, not just its resistance.
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