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In a series circuit with multiple light bulbs attached to a battery why are you seeing the light bulbs closest to the battery are brighter than those bulbs further from the battery?
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What will happen to a bulb if you add more batteries to a simple circuit?
It gets brighter and brighter - until it burns out.
What are the circuit effects due to a short circuit or open circuit?
It would depend on the circuit diagram. In some cases, the circuit would be incomplete (simplest case is a battery with a wire attached to just one terminal).Parallel branches that have a connection to the battery without going through other branches are independent of each other. Say you have two parallel branches and a battery. If you short circuit one of the branches, the other branch will not be affected but the battery will be (current through the battery would decrease because taking out a parallel branch increases resistance).In short, it would depend on the circuit diagram. Note that for a nanosecond, there would be current in an open circuit, but after this brief time there would be no current flow in the segment of the circuit that has been shorted.
What is an complete circuit?
A circuit is complete whenever current can flow from the battery (or what is producing current), through the circuit, and back to the battery. A complete circuit could contain just a battery and one wire. An incomplete circuit could be a battery with a wire attached to just one terminal, because current cannot flow all the way through the circuit in this case (i.e. cannot flow through the battery). note: not all elements in a circuit may have current flow in a complete circuit. For instance, a light bulb may be shorted but you still have a complete circuit.
Why does a circuit stop working when you remove the battery?
The battery is the power source of the circuit. It supplies current to the circuit and the circuit is simply a path for the current to follow. When you remove the current (battery), the path still exists but there is no current going through it.
An electric DC circuit is attached to a 12 volt battery and has a 3 ohm resistor in it find the current flowing through the circuit?
If the 3-ohm resistor is the ONLY thing in the circuit, then the current flowing through it is (12 volts)/(3 ohms) = 4 amperes. If there are other things in the circuit besides the resistor, then the current depends on all of them.
How can you make a bulb in a circuit brighter?
you can make it brighter by adding another battery/cell
What happens to a bulb when you move it closer to a battery on a circuit?
The bulb will get brighter
What are the two places on a battery to which battery circuit wires can be attached?
Positive and Negative Terminals.
Two places on a battery circuit wires can be attached?
Positive and Negative Terminals.
If you add an extra battery to a circuit containing a bulb how will this affect the bulb?
The bulb becomes brighter unless it is too much till it shot-circuits.
What are the two places on a battery to which circuit wires can be attached called?
Positive and Negative Terminals.
Does anything happen to the brightness of the bulb when you add an extra battery to a simple circuit?
We did this experiment in class, the more batteries added, the brighter the bulb will become!
What is the purpose of the battery in the circuit?
The purpose of the battery in a circuit is to wive energy to the circuit
If Greater resistance is put into a circuit the brighter the bulb?
no
What will happen to a bulb if you add more batteries to a simple circuit?
It gets brighter and brighter - until it burns out.
What jobs dose a battery do in the circuit?
The purpose of the battery in a circuit is to wive energy to the circuit
Is the test light supposed to light up when you use the ground from the battery or only light up from the positive side?
If the alligator clip from the test light is attached to the negative post of the battery it will light up whenever the probe end touches a positively charged circuit and likewise if the alligator clip is attached to the positive terminal of the battery the test light will light up when the probe end touches a negatively charged circuit
