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Practice Booklet With The PhET Simulator PDF

This document presents a series of practices on series and parallel electric circuits. In practice 1, circuits formed by a battery and one or more resistors are explored, measuring current and voltage. Practice 2 analyzes series circuits, calculating and identifying the current and voltage at each component. Practice 3 introduces parallel circuits. Each practice includes conceptual questions and practical exercises with screenshots from the simulator.
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Practice Booklet With The PhET Simulator PDF

This document presents a series of practices on series and parallel electric circuits. In practice 1, circuits formed by a battery and one or more resistors are explored, measuring current and voltage. Practice 2 analyzes series circuits, calculating and identifying the current and voltage at each component. Practice 3 introduces parallel circuits. Each practice includes conceptual questions and practical exercises with screenshots from the simulator.
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PRACTICE 1 [1/6]

APPROACHING OHM'S LAW

Assembly 1
Circuit formed by a battery and a resistor.
V=9 V
Case 1: R= 30 Ω Case 1: R = 120 Ω

Question 1.1
Calculate the current intensity in both cases
Response

Question 1.2
Measure the current intensity in both cases and take screenshots. Does it match what
Have you calculated? What should you do in the simulator so that the calculation and the measurement do not match?
Why?
Case 1 Case 2

Response
PRACTICE 1 [2/6]
Approach to Ohm's Law

Assembly 2
Circuit formed by a battery and a light bulb.
V=20 V
Different resistances for the light bulb

Question 2.1
Calculate the current flowing through the bulb if its resistance is 80 Ω.
Response

Question 2.2
Set the bulb's resistance to 0 Ω and observe what happens. Insert a screenshot of the
situation. Why do you think it happens?
Screenshot Explanation

Question 2.3
What happens to the light intensity of the bulb if we increase the resistance of the battery to
a value of 10 Ω? What do you think it is due to?
PRACTICE 1 [3/6]
Approach to Ohm's Law

Assembly 3
Repeat the assembly that you can see in the image and answer the questions that come next.
The resistance of the cable has been set to the maximum. The circuit must occupy only the central position.

Question 3.1
How has the ammeter been connected, in series or in parallel? Why?

Question 3.2
Stretch the cables to the maximum until they fill the entire screen. Take a screenshot and justify.
What has happened with the intensity reading based on the change made.
Screenshot Explanation
PRACTICE 1 [4/6]
APPROACH TO OHM'S LAW

Question 3.3
Look at the image on the left showing how the voltmeter has been placed to measure the voltage that
out of the battery. Is it connected in series or in parallel?
Answer

It has been placed in (put an x in the correct one):

Series
Parallel

Screenshot

Question 3.4
Repeat the same setup as question 3.3, but with a voltage of 12 V and a 50 Ω bulb.
Take a screenshot of the voltage measurement in the battery and then in the bulb.
Do they match? Present your answer reasoned based on the studied magnitudes.
Screenshot stack Light bulb screenshot
PRACTICE 1 [5/6]
APPROACH TO OHM'S LAW

Assembly 4
Observe the following setup, in which a resistor has been placed between the battery and the bulb.
The resistance of the image has a nominal value of 0 Ω.

Question 4.1
Raise the resistance value to 10 Ω. and then to 100 Ω What happens? Take a screenshot of
screen of the two new situations.
Explanation of what was observed

Screenshot 10 Ω Screenshot 100 Ω


PRACTICE 1 [6/6]
APPROACH TO OHM'S LAW

Question 4.2
Pay close attention to the following variant of the previous circuit. Do your best to build it.
same. The image with symbols is also provided to be of assistance. Next, close the
switch and explain what happens. Take a screenshot. Help: enable the function 'Show'
conventional current
Circuit with images Circuit with symbols
Explanation Screenshot with switch closed
PRACTICE 2 [1/4]
SERIES CIRCUITS

Assembly 1
Circuit formed by three resistors in series
V=9 V
R1= 10 Ω R220 Ω R2= 30 Ω

Question 1.1
Make the setup in the simulator and take a screenshot. Do it in two ways: in one of them
Three resistors must appear in the same section of cable, in another they must appear in three sections.
different.
Configuration 1 Configuration 2

Question 1.2
Calculate the equivalent resistance and set up a circuit with that resistance. Attach a screenshot of it.
screen.
Equivalent resistance Screenshot
PRACTICE 2 [2/4]
SERIES CIRCUITS

Question 1.3
Calculate the intensity of the equivalent circuit and measure it on the circuit (include the direction)
intensity in the capture.
Calculation Measure

Question 1.4
If you now reconsider the circuit with the three original resistors, what will be the current?
What happens through each resistor? Why? Measure the current at the entrance of each resistor with
three distinct ammeters.
Response Screenshot
PRACTICE 2 [3/4]
SERIES CIRCUITS

Question 1.5
Calculate the potential difference across each of the resistors and measure them directly.
with the voltmeter. Take a screenshot for each resistor separately
Calculation

V1= V2= V3=


Measurement
Resistance 1 Resistance 2

Question 1.6
Prove that by adding the three tensions you get the total tension. Take a screenshot in the
that you measure the tension from the beginning of the first resistance to the end of the third.
Calculation Measure
PRACTICE 2 [4/4]
SERIES CIRCUITS

Assembly 2
Now place two light bulbs in series.
V=12 V
R1= 20 Ω R240 ohms

Question 2.1
What do you observe in the light intensity of each of the light bulbs? Take a snapshot of it.
screen.
Explain here what you observe Capture

Question 2.2
Now go into the settings of the second resistor and raise it to 120 Ω. Then gradually lower it.
Little by little until reaching 0 Ω. Go up and down several times and observe the intensity of the two. What do you notice?
Take a capture at 120 Ω and another at 0 Ω.
Explain here what you observe

Capture 120 Ω Capture 0 Ω


PRACTICE 3 [1/4]
CIRCUITS IN PARALLEL

Assembly 1
Circuit formed by three resistors in parallel
V=12 V
R1= 10 Ω R220 Ω R2= 60 Ω

Question 1.1
Haz el montaje en el simulador y toma una captura de pantalla. Hazlo de dos formas diferentes. En
una pon la pila abajo, con las tres resistencias arriba. En otra, pon la pila a un lado y las tres
resistances to the other.
Configuration 1 Configuration 2

Question 1.2
Calculate the equivalent resistance and assemble a circuit with that resistance. Attach a screenshot of it.
screen.
Equivalent resistance Screenshot
PRACTICE 3 [2/4]
PARALLEL CIRCUITS

Question 1.3
What is the voltage across the ends of each of the three resistors? Prove your hypothesis.
measuring on the circuit.
Response

Resistance 1 Resistance 2 Resistance 3

Question 1.4
What will be the current passing through each resistor? Make some comments about it.
result. Measure the current entering each resistor with two different ammeters.
Response Screenshot
PRACTICE 3 [3/4]
PARALLEL CIRCUITS

Question 1.5
Add the two intensities and store the result.
Response

Question 1.6
Reassemble the equivalent circuit, that is, with a single resistor that has a value equal to
the equivalent. Place the ammeter at the input of this, what do you observe? Attach a screenshot of
intensity measurement screen.
Your observation Measure of intensities

Question 1.7
Now sum only the first two resistors in parallel and assemble the resulting circuit with this.
resultant resistance (R12) and the one that has not been added (R3Calculate and measure the intensity that
enter that resistance (I12How can you mathematically verify that it has turned out well?
in addition to comparing between measurement and calculation?

Calculation of resistance R12and the intensity I12 Assembly circuit R12-R3and measure of I12
PRACTICE 3 [4/4]
PARALLEL CIRCUITS

Assembly 2
Now place two light bulbs in parallel with the
resistances that are indicated.

Question 2.1
What is the potential difference in the light bulbs? Is it the same?, why? Measure them with the
voltmeter and take screenshots
Response

50 Ω bulb 100 Ω bulb

Question 2.2
Calculate the currents that pass through each bulb and take a screenshot in which
you hold both at the same time.

Calculation screenshot

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