This week in class we got to learn alot about electricity and electrons such as creating circuits with light bulbs, drawing diagrams using proper electrical symbols and using the voltmeter which at first seemed all quite tricky, but towards the end of the week i started to understand alot more about electricity and electrons.

parallel circuit

I learnt that in a parallel circuit the voltage across each component will always remain the same, but the current through each of the circuits may be different. that's because the current is being shares between components. we did this by measuring the available voltage from two bulbs which was 11.91 from the first bulb and 11.91 from the second bulb and than we measured the voltage drop across each light bulb. the results was bulb one 11.78v and 11.80v. the current flow was bulb one 0.73 and bulb two was 0.71 which adds up to 1.44 and that's because the current was all shared between  them.

series circuits

A series circuit is a circuit with only one path this basically means that the current in the circuit must flow through all the loads so when one bulb breaks down the whole operation breaks down . with the series circuit we created a circuit with two light bulbs. I found out the the available voltage gets all used up between the two bulbs, only one bulb turns out with more resistance. we also compared the amps between the individual circuits and the series we did which turnd out that the amps in this circuit stays the same because of the law of electricity there fore it remains the same through out the circuit.