Series & Parallel Circuits
Two ways to wire components, and why your house uses one of them.
What this lesson covers
Series & Parallel Circuits is a 10-part Class 6 Science lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
In a series circuit all the components sit on one single loop. In a parallel circuit the current has more than one path to follow.
The 10 parts
- Two arrangements
- What current is
- Current in a series circuit
- Current in a parallel circuit
- What happens when one breaks
- Why houses are wired in parallel
- Adding cells and resistance
- Where marks go
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
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