Build a Series Circuit from a Circuit Diagram (3D)

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Series circuits

Build the circuit from the circuit diagram

How do you build a circuit from a circuit diagram?

After this practical you will be able to:

1Match each symbol to the real part.
2Join two lamps and the rest of the parts in one loop.
3Move the voltmeter's probes about the circuit to find where the 6 V goes.

One loop, one current · the volts get shared

Sharing out the 6 volts

The battery pushes with 6 V, and that 6 V is shared out between the lamps in the loop. One lamp gets all six. Two lamps get 3 V each. Three lamps get 2 V each. The voltmeter measures between its two probes, so move them one at a time: across one lamp it reads that lamp's share, and if you leave the black probe still and move the red one back past another lamp, the reading goes up by that lamp's share. Span them all and you are back to 6 V. Less voltage across a lamp means less current through it, so every lamp goes dimmer, not just the new one.

Voltmeter readings across each lamp, their total, whether the total was checked by spanning every lamp at once, and the current, for one, two and three lamps in series
Lamps	Voltmeter across each lamp	Added up	Current

Workbook — the full method, the blank results table and the questions on this experiment are in your workbook. Fill the table in there as you go.