Electromagnetism · Electricity & Magnetism

Electric Circuits

Building and analyzing series and parallel circuits using Ohm's Law and Kirchhoff's Rules.

Key Questions

  1. 1How does the arrangement of resistors in a circuit affect the total current flow?
  2. 2What factors determine the power consumption of different household appliances?
  3. 3How would an engineer design a circuit to ensure that a single component failure does not disable the entire system?

Common Core State Standards

HS-PS3-3HS-PS3-5
Grade: 9th Grade
Subject: Physics
Unit: Electromagnetism
Period: Electricity & Magnetism

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