Blog 24

In this week of Physics we learned about the differences between a series circuit and parallel circuit. Here are the differences:

SERIES:
- 1 path, 1 current
-Vtotal - V1 + V2 + V3 ...
- Req = Rtotal = R1 + R2 ...

PARALLEL
- Constant Voltage
- Ivsource = I1 + I2 ...
- 1/Req = 1/R1 + 1/R2 ...

I also learned that our houses are wired in a parallel circuit. This is good so every appliance, or "resistor" may run using all of the volts it needs. If our houses were wired in a series circuit, then we could only be able to run a few to one thing at a time because everything would have to share a total voltage.