Series & Parallel Circuits

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Series Parallel Circuits

• Sage Project

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Series Circuits

• The electrical components connected in line or in
  a single path.
• If 1 component dies or breaks there will be no
  flow of electricity and nothing will work.
• Old style Christmas lights (If 1 burned out none
  would work)

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Parallel Circuits

• The electrical components are connected across
  parallel paths allowing the electrical energy to
  flow evenly across multiple paths.
• If 1 component dies or breaks the electricity
  will still flow across the other legs and all
  other components will still work.
• New style Christmas lights (If 1 burned out the
  rest still work)

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Series-Parallel circuit

• A series parallel circuit combines both a
  parallel circuit and a series circuit by either
  having a series circuit before, or after the
  parallel component, as on or more leg of the
  parallel circuit or a combination of these.
• If a portion of the series component goes down
  nothing that follows that portion will work as
  the circuit has been broken, however if the
  parallel components still have energy

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Voltage Loss Flow of Energy

• Voltage loss
• Lights in series
• Lights in Parallel
• Flow of Energy
• What would happen if the switch was parallel to
  the rest of the circuit?
• What would happen if the switch was in series
  with the circuit?

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Ohms Law
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Watts Law
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