We all carry supercomputers in our pockets and use dozens of electric gizmos every day but rarely stop to marvel at the magical act of flicking a switch. Use your ordinary conducting and extraordinary ...

Among the abundance of components making up electronic circuits, very few are as important as capacitors. These components, taking the form of conductive plates separated by an insulating material ...

A 6-V battery powers a circuit with parallel branches on a board. Several wires and light bulbs plug into the board to make various series and parallel circuits. The brightness of the bulbs changes ...

Circuit 3: Ammeter on each branch, voltmeter across each bulb Circuit 4: Ammeter on each branch, voltmeter across each bulb Circuit 5: Ammeter on each branch, voltmeter across each bulb Circuit 6: ...

This experiment will investigate how the brightness of bulbs changes depending on whether they are arranged in series or parallel. Circuit 3. Ammeter on each branch, voltmeter across each bulb Circuit ...

To understand a series circuit, visualize it. You can do that by making a drawing. Just draw a box, to start with. This box represents your circuit. Notice there is only one path: the perimeter of the ...