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Let's Get Series-ous
Ohm's Law
Rules and Regulations
Units
Hodge Podge
Final Jeopardy!
100
If a circuit only has one path for current it is said to be this type of circuit.
What is a series circuit?
100

Using a hair dryer with wet hands is a HORRIBLE idea. The water on your skin _________ the resistance and thus current would __________.

What is decrease the resistance and increase the current?

100
The current through every load is always the same in this type of circuit.
What is series?
100
This unit is one joule per coulomb.
What is a volt?
100

The total current in a series circuit does this when the total resistance of the circuit decreases.

What is increases?

100

This is the dominant resistor in a series circuit.

What is the largest resistor?

200
The equivalent resistance of 3 bulbs in a row is found by doing this.
What is by adding the resistances?
200
These two quantities determine the current in a circuit.
What are voltage and resistance?
200
The total resistance of a series circuit can be determined this way.
What is by adding them up or by dividing total voltage by total current?
200
This unit is one coulomb per second.
What the ampere?
200

This thermo-electromagnetic device protects the circuits in a modern building and is rated in amperes.

What is a circuit breaker?

300

What is the total voltage of the source if one bulb has a potential energy difference of 3.4V and a second bulb in series has a potential energy difference of 6.6V.

What is 10V?

300
If the Voltage is 110V and the resistor is 10 Ohms, then the current must be this value.
What is 11 A?
300
"Total voltage is equal to the sum of the individual voltage drops in a series circuit" describes this basic principle.
What is Kirchhoff's Voltage Law?
300
This is the unit of resistance.
What is the ohm?
300
A 1500W hair dryer plugged in to a 110V outlet draws this much current.
What is 13.6 A?
400

If you find the current through the first load in a mulitple-load series circuit is 10A, then this must the current be through the loads.

What is 10A?

400

This voltage is necessary to push 200 A through a electric heating coil if the resistance in the wire is 0.9 ohms.

What is 180 V?

400
The voltage drop across any resistor in a series circuit can be calculated using this "segmenting" formula.
What is the voltage divider formula?
400
This unit is defined as one joule per second.
What is the watt?
400
The is the total current in a three load series circuit with resistances of 3 k ohms, 4 k ohms, and 5 k ohms that is powered by 12 volts.
What is 1 mA?
500

The source voltage is 12V.  The first resistor is 8ohms, the second is 6ohms, and the third is 10ohms, this must be the total series current.

What is 0.5 A?

500
The resistance of a load that needs 110V to push a current of 5.5A through it is this value.
What is 20 ohms?
500
If you measure the source voltage across a load in a series circuit, then that load has failed in this way.
What is opened?
500
This unit can be defined as one volt per ohm.
What is the ampere?
500

A load in a series circuit suddenly shorts. This causes the total voltage of the circuit to do this.

What is nothing? (The source voltage doesn't change...)