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Current, Resistance & Circuits

Try this: In series, which resistor runs hotter? Now switch to parallel.

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About this simulation

Send charge round a loop and count it past every point: current is not used up on the way.

Taught in Current, Resistance & Circuits

  • current
  • resistance
  • Kirchhoff's laws
  • RC circuits

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