Teachers' Domain, Designing Electric
Circuits: Door Alarm, published January 22, 2004, retrieved on
October 27, 2008,
Whether you are wiring your family room to install a new
3-way switch for the funky blue track lights to complete your remodeling
project, to jump starting your car's dead battery in the dead of winter, to
the billions of transistors wired into your computer's microprocessor, to
the flow of electrical currents throughout your body that keeps your heart
beating and your muscles pumping, the ebb and flow of electric currents
around us is something we often take for granted in our 21st century
technological society. In this unit we will be exploring the world of
current electricity, series & parallel circuits, multimeters, the
lights of Las Vegas, to your electric bill, and household safety--enjoy your
explorations of electric current! :)
Really Cool Stuff:
PHeT Circuit Construction Kit
Ohm's Law Sim
Battery Voltage Sim
Resistance in a Wire Sim
Battery Resistance Circuit
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