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100

This resistor dominates in a series circuit.

What is the largest resistor?

100

This resistor dominates in a parallel circuit.

What is the smallest resistor?

100

The total current just went down in your circuit.  This has to be because total resistance must have done this.

What is increase?

100

This is the base unit of conductance.

What is the Siemen?

100

What is the value of R3 if IT = 4.286mA?

What is 2.2kΩ?

100

It takes this many days for the Earth to make one complete orbit of the Sun.

What is 365.25?

200

This electrical quantity remains constant in a series circuit.

What is current?

200

This electrical quantity remains constant in a parallel circuit.

What is voltage?

200

You pull a bulb out of a string of Christmas lights and they all go out.  The circuit must be wired in this way.

What is in series?

200

"The current entering a node must be equal in magnitude to the current leaving that node" is known by this simpler name.

What is Kirchhoff's Current Law?

200

RT =

What is 1.1kΩ?

300

This electrical quantity is divided in a series circuit.

What is voltage?

300
This electrical quantity is divided in a parallel circuit.

What is current?

300

In a series circuit if one of the loads shorts, then the current through the other loads does this.

What is increases?

300

P1 + P2 + P3 =

What is PT?

300

RT =

What is 650Ω?

400

R1 + R2 + R3 =

What is RT?

400

1/((1/R) + (1/R) + (1/R))  is better known as this formula name.

What is reciprocal?

400

If a resistor in a parallel network open, then the current through all of the other loads does this.

What is remains unchanged?

400

This quantity is the proportional inverse of resistance.

What is conductance?

400

RT

What is 169.565Ω?

500

There are three resistors in a series circuit.  The source voltage is 20 V.  There is 1.96 mA of current flowing through R2.  R1 is 2.2 kΩ and R3 is 3.3 kΩ. What is the resistance of R2?  

What is 4.7kΩ?

500

What is the resistance of R2 below?

What is 4.7kΩ?

500

What resistor is at fault?

What is R3? (It's open by the way...)

500

This type of diode has the ability regulate or hold a voltage constant.

What is a zener diode?

500

IT

What is 154.762mA?