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The document analyzes the components of an electrical circuit. It discusses the roles of voltage, current, and resistance. Voltage is the potential difference that provides energy to move charge, current is the rate of charge flow, and resistance opposes charge flow. The experimenters gathered data on current through resistors in series and parallel circuits and applied Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws to determine relationships. Their results showed voltage varies in series but is constant in parallel, while current is constant in series but varies in parallel.

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Castillo - E109

The document analyzes the components of an electrical circuit. It discusses the roles of voltage, current, and resistance. Voltage is the potential difference that provides energy to move charge, current is the rate of charge flow, and resistance opposes charge flow. The experimenters gathered data on current through resistors in series and parallel circuits and applied Ohm's and Kirchhoff's laws to determine relationships. Their results showed voltage varies in series but is constant in parallel, while current is constant in series but varies in parallel.

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Castillo, Adrian Clark F.

Department of Physics
PHY101L A: E109
acastillo661@gmail,com

Analysis

The 3 main components of the electrical circuit include the voltage, current, and resistance. Each plays an
important role in an electrical circuit. The voltage is the potential difference in charge between two points in the
circuit. In other words, it is the work or energy required to move a unit of positive charge from a lower electric
potential region to a region of higher potential. Current refers to the rate of the flowing charge in the circuit.
Resistance is the object’s tendency to resist the flow of the charge. The charge that all three components involved
is the movement of electron which is used to do work, such as lighting up a bulb, and like most digital devices
and wiring systems nowadays. In an electrical circuit, it is important to have all three components to have a
working circuit. Supplying the voltage would be provided by sources of voltage such as batteries, solar cells, or
any power supply. In order for the charge to flow, wires with negligible resistance would be needed, thus having
the current of the circuit. Resistance, the focus of this experiment, is provided by resistors, any electrical
component that creates resistance in the flow of the current. Current is measured using the unit amperes (A),
voltage through the unit volts (V), and the resistance being measured through ohms (Ω).

The experimenters gathered the data which was obtained from the experiment for the use of measurement of the
flowing current through the resistors connected to the series and parallel, while applying Ohm’s law for
determining the series and parallel connection of the resistors, and the current through the resistors and voltage
across the DC circuit with the application of Kirchhoff’s law.

Conclusion

Our group was able to effectively measure the flowing current through each resistor connected in series, to
measure the voltage across each resistor connected in parallel and the application of Ohm’s law in series and
parallel connections of resistors. In the series conection, the voltage reading is different as it passes through
different resistance, unlike the parallel connection which has approximately equal/constant as it passes in
different resistance. The series connection has constant value of the ampere which compared to the parallel
which is different from passing in different resistance.

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