What is a Series Circuit?
-is a circuit in which resistors are arranged in a chain, so the current has only one path to take. The current is the same through each resistor. The total resistance of the current is found by simply adding up the resistance values of the individual resistors.
Advantages of Series Circuit:
Disadvantages of Series Circuit:
- Adding Power Devices- you can add the additional power devices, usually using batteries. Doing this will greatly increase the overall force of your output. This will give you more power.
- Easy to use- they are easy to learn and to make. It's simple design is easy to understand. this will help you make repairs without the help of a professional.
- If one component in a series circuit fails, then all the components in the circuit fails.
- the more components there are in the circuit, the greater the circuit's resistance.
- - has two or more paths for current to flow through. Voltage is the same across each component of the parallel circuit. The sum of the currents through each path is equal to the total current that flows from the source.
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- Advantages of a Parallel Circuit:
- a failure of one component does not lead to the failure of the other components.
- more components may be added in parallel without the need for additional voltage.
Disadvantages of a Parallel Circuit:
- It requires the use of lot of wires.
- The source amperage is increased whenever we add a new load to a parallel circuit.
- Due to proper working sometimes the damage if any, caused to the circuit, may get neglected. This is hazardous.
- We cannot increase or multiply the voltage in a parallel circuit.
- Multiple control devices are to be employed for the control of the devices in parallel connection.
- Parallel connection fails at the time when it is required to pass exactly same amount of current through the units.
- The design of a parallel circuit is very complex.
- Additional power sources like batteries cannot be added in parallel connection.
Watch a Video in Solving Series and Parallel Circuits!
Laboratory Activity:
The experiment was conducted inorder for us to know how to measure the voltage and current in a 7.5 resistor. We plotted the circuit in a breadboard.
Reflection:
My understanding in series and parallel circuits has increased because my previous learnings are more on basic concepts. I was able to know the formula for current & voltage division and when to use them. I thought that a diagram for representing a series or parallel circuits are always in straight or linear form. Now, I know that they could be represented in a curve way.
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