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ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS

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ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS. All you need to be an inventor is a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison. Ohm’s Law. I = V / R. I = Current (Amperes) (amps) V = Voltage (Volts) R = Resistance (ohms). Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854). How you should be thinking about electric circuits:.

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  1. ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS All you need to be an inventor is a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison

  2. Ohm’s Law I = V / R I = Current (Amperes) (amps) V = Voltage (Volts) R = Resistance (ohms) Georg Simon Ohm (1787-1854)

  3. How you should be thinking about electric circuits: Voltage: a force that pushes the current through the circuit (in this picture it would be equivalent to gravity)

  4. How you should be thinking about electric circuits: Resistance: friction that impedes flow of current through the circuit (rocks in the river)

  5. How you should be thinking about electric circuits: Current: the actual “substance” that is flowing through the wires of the circuit (electrons!)

  6. Would This Work?

  7. Would This Work?

  8. Would This Work?

  9. The Central Concept: Closed Circuit

  10. circuit diagram Scientists usually draw electric circuits using symbols; cell lamp switch wires

  11. Simple Circuits • Series circuit • All in a row • 1 path for electricity • 1 light goes out and the circuit is broken • Parallel circuit • Many paths for electricity • 1 light goes out and the others stay on

  12. 1 2 3 The current decreases because the resistance increases. Ohm’s Law says that I=V/R. The voltage in the system is constant, resistance increases.

  13. PARALLEL CIRCUIT • Place two bulbs in parallel. What do you notice about the brightness of the bulbs? • Add a third light bulb in the circuit. What do you notice about the brightness of the bulbs? • Remove the middle bulb from the circuit. What happened?

  14. measuring current Electric current is measured in amps(A) using an ammeter connected in series in the circuit. A

  15. measuring current This is how we draw an ammeter in a circuit. A A PARALLEL CIRCUIT SERIES CIRCUIT

  16. measuring voltage The ‘electrical push’ which the cell gives to the current is called the voltage. It is measured in volts (V) on a voltmeter V

  17. measuring voltage This is how we draw a voltmeter in a circuit. V V SERIES CIRCUIT PARALLEL CIRCUIT

  18. OHM’s LAW • Measure the current and voltage across each circuit. • Use Ohm’s Law to compute resistance Series Circuit Parallel Circuit

  19. measuring current SERIES CIRCUIT 2A • current is the same • at all points in the • circuit. 2A 2A PARALLEL CIRCUIT 2A 2A • current is shared • between the • components 1A 1A

  20. fill in the missing ammeter readings. ? 3A 3A ? 4A ? 1A ? 4A 4A 1A ? 1A

  21. The circuit is no longer complete, therefore current can not flow The voltage decreases because the current is decreased and the resistance increases.

  22. The current remains the same. The total resistance drops in a parallel circuit as more bulbs are added The current increases.

  23. Series and Parallel Circuits • Series Circuits • only one end of each component is connected • e.g. Christmas tree lights • Parallel Circuits • both ends of a component are connected • e.g. household lighting

  24. copy the following circuits and fill in the missing ammeter readings. ? 3A 3A ? 4A ? 1A ? 4A 4A 1A ? 1A

  25. measuring voltage Different cells produce different voltages. The bigger the voltage supplied by the cell, the bigger the current. Unlike an ammeter, a voltmeter is connected across the components Scientist usually use the term Potential Difference (pd) when they talk about voltage.

  26. measuring voltage V V V V

  27. series circuit • voltage is shared between the components 3V 1.5V 1.5V

  28. parallel circuit • voltage is the same in all parts of the circuit. 3V 3V 3V

  29. measuring current & voltage copy the following circuits on the next two slides. complete the missing current and voltage readings. remember the rules for current and voltage in series and parallel circuits.

  30. measuring current & voltage a) 6V 4A A V V A

  31. measuring current & voltage b) 6V 4A A V A V A

  32. answers a) b) 6V 4A 6V 4A 6V 4A 4A 2A 3V 3V 4A 6V 2A

  33. Voltage, Current, and Power • One Volt is a Joule per Coulomb (J/C) • One Amp of current is one Coulomb per second (6.24 x10^18 electrons/second). • If I have one volt (J/C) and one amp (C/s), then multiplying gives Joules per second (J/s) • this is power: J/s = Watts • So the formula for electrical power is just: • More work is done per unit time the higher the voltage and/or the higher the current P = VI: power = voltage  current