Know Your Materials
When making our Halloween Light-Up cards, the name for the 'bulb' used in the card lit up once we completed our circuit is called this.
What is an LED (light-emitting diode).
What the flow of electrons is called in a circuit.
What is an electric current.
There are various items needed to build a circuit. As the players, name one of these items as your answer.
What are batteries, wires, alligator clips, lightbulbs, etc.
Ohms are a unit of...
What is electrical resistance.
If a battery, wire, and bulb all cycle through with electrons, the circuit is known as a:
Closed circuit.
The names for the positive and negative sides of the battery.
What are the cathode and anode.
The name for negatively charged particles.
What is an electron.
The symbol for a resistor in a circuit diagram.
What is a zigzag line.
According to Ohm's Law, this is the formula used to calculate ohms/Ohm's law.
What is V = I x R
Also known as an incomplete circuit, this term is a circuit in which the continuity is broken so that current does not flow. It is a discontinuous circuit through which no current can flow.
What is an open circuit.
Sharing the name of a relative to a crocodile, this is another name for the wires we use in our circuit experiments.
What are alligator clips.
The name for neutrally charged particles.
What are neutrons.
As for units of current or electricity, there are a few different kinds of units for electrical engineering. As the players, name one of these units.
What are ohms, amperes, watts, etc.
This is the symbol for ohms.
What is a broken line with a bend in it. Ω
An electrical connection in which circuit elements are connected such that any charge passing through one element, must proceed through the other and has no other path available between them.
What is a simple series circuit.
The names for the positive and negative terminals of the bulb.
What are the base and foot.
The name for positively charged particles.
What are protons.
This is the formula used for calculating electrical current.
I = V / R
WAGER QUESTION!
- Your team may discuss how many points you would like to bet on for this question. If you get it right, your team receives the additional points, if not, your team loses the gambled points. Your team may bet up to how many points your team currently has.
If a circuit has a resistance of 25 ohms and a current of 6 amperes, this number would by the voltage across the circuit.
A type of electrical circuit that has multiple branches or loops, so that the current can flow through different paths is called:
What is a parallel circuit.
The object(s) inside a bulb that light up.
What is the filament.
The abbreviated symbol for electrons.
What is e-
This physicist and mathematician is named after the unit of ohms as he discovered the law of electrical resistance.
Who is Georg Simon Ohm.
If a circuit has a resistance of 37 ohms and a current of 29 amperes, this number would by the voltage across the circuit.
What is 1,073 ohms.
This circuit allows a current to travel along an unintended path with no or very low electrical resistance. This results in an excessive current flowing through the circuit.
What is a short circuit.