Series Circuits
Parallel Circuits
Ohm's Law
Power & Energy
Mr. W's Waterpark of Science!
100
Definition of a series circuit.
What is two or more resistors in a row?
100
Definition of a parallel circuit.
What is when resistors are on two separate, split wires? (side-by-side not good enough!)
100
If the current running through a 25 Ω resistor is 2 A. What is the voltage across the resistor?
What is 50 V?
100
Power can be calculated in these two ways.
What is P = IV & P = ΔE/t
100
This represents a battery or electric cell in the Waterpark.
What is an elevator?
200
What current does in a series circuit.
What is stay the same?
200
Current ______________ (stay the same or split) in a parallel circuit.
What is split?
200
Rewrite Ohm's Law for I.
What is I = V/R
200
The power of a light bulb that has a current of 0.5 A and voltage of 120V.
What is 60 W?
200
The battery or elevator ___________ (increases or decreases) energy of electrons.
What is increases?
300
Voltage ______________ (stays the same or splits) in a series circuit.
What is splits/changes?
300
Voltage ______________ (stay the same or split) in a parallel circuit.
What is does not change?
300
The resistance of a resistor that has a potential difference of 15 V and a current of 3 A.
What is 5 Ω?
300
Power used by a toaster that has used 120 kJ of energy in 5 minutes.
What is 400 W?
300
How fast a person falls/slides in the waterpark determines how fast people can move. This is analagous to __________ in an electric circuit.
What is current?
400
Current will always _________ (increase or decrease) when adding more resistors to a circuit.
What is decrease?
400
Current will always _________ (increase or decrease) when adding more resistors to a circuit.
What is increase?
400
Voltage in a circuit where current is 5 mA and resistance is 20 kΩ.
What is 100 V?
400
Energy used by a 13 W bulb in one minute.
What is 780 J?
400
This type of slide represents large resistance.
What is a slide with a gradual slope or a coiled one?
500
The total resistance of a circuit will _________ (increase or decrease) when adding resistors in series.
What is increase?
500
Two resistors are in parallel with each other. Another resistor is added in series with one resistor in a branch. The other resistor remains by itself. The total resistance of the circuit will therefore _________ (increase or decrease).
What is decrease?
500
Current through a 100 Ω resistor in a circuit that has five 10 V cells.
What is 1/2 or 0.5 A?
500
The electrical energy in kJ (to the nearest one) A TV uses that has a current of 3.7 A.
What is 53 kJ?
500
This arrangement of slides represents a parallel circuit.
What is two or more slides at the same height and side-by-side?
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