Voltage
Current
Resistance
Parallel Circuits
Series Circuits
100
This is the unit for voltage
What are Volts?
100
This is the unit for electric current.
What is Amperes?
100
This is the unit for resistance.
What are Ohms?
100
This quantity is the same in all branches of a parallel circuit.
What is voltage?
100
This quantity is the same throughout a series circuit.
What is current?
200
This represents voltage in the "Car rolling down the hill" analogy
What is the slope of the hill?
200
This represents series in the "Car rolling down the hill" analogy
What is the speed of the car?
200
This represents resistance in the "Car rolling down the hill" analogy
What are obstacles/smoothness of road?
200
This equation is the equivalent resistance of R1, R2, and R3 in parallel.
What is 1/Req = ?1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3
200
This equations is the equivalent resistance of R1, R2, and R3 in series
What is Req = R1 + R2 + R3
300
This device is used to measure voltage and is wired as ___________ in a circuit.
What is a voltmeter and parallel?
300
This device is used to measure current and is wired as ___________ in a circuit.
What is an ammeter and in series?
300
This is sometimes called a variable resistor
What is a potentiometer? (or dimmer switch)
300
This is the equivalent resistance of a 5 Ω, a 10 Ω, and 15 Ω resistor in parallel
What is 2.7 Ω?
300
This is the equivalent resistance of a 5 Ω, a 10 Ω, and 15 Ω resistor in series
What is 30 Ω?
400
This is the electric potential necessary to create 5 Amps of current over 2 Ohms of resistance.
What is 10 Volts?
400
A 13 Watt compact fluorescent light bulb produces the same amount of light as a 60 Watt incandescent bulb. This bulb draws more current in a circuit.
What is the 60 Watt incandescent bulb?
400
Using the hallway-as-wire analogy, this kind of hallway will minimize resistance.
What is wider/taller, and emptier?
400
This is how the total resistance of a parallel circuit changes when more resistors are added.
What is decreases?
400
This is how the total resistance of a series circuit changes when more resistors are added.
What is increases?
500
AA, AAA, C, and D batteries are all rated at 1.5 Volts, so this is the quantity that differs between them.
What is amount of charge? (NOT current)
500
This is the current drawn from a 55 Watt light bulb plugged into a 110 Volt wall outlet.
What is 0.5 Amps?
500
Of a 40 Watt and a 100 Watt light bulb, this one offers less resistance.
What is the 100 Watt light bulb?
500
This is why Christmas lights should be wired in parallel
What is because if one bulb goes out, the rest stay on?
500
This is why Christmas lights should be wired in series
What is it uses fewer wires
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