Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CP9a-c Electricity and Circuits:Physics Revision
- CP9a Electric Circuits
- Series
- lamps cannot
be controlled
individually.
- If one bulb fails, all
bulbs in the circuit
will not work.
- Parallel
- Lamps can be controlled individually
- If one bulb fails, the
rest could still work.
- Need to know symbols.
- Switch
- Cell
- Battery
- ammeter
- Volemeter
- Lamp
- Conventional Direction of current flow
- negative to positive
- Actual direction of current flow
- positive to negative
- CP9b
- Current
- Measured using an ammeter in series.
- ammeters can go in series
because they have low
resistance.
- Meausred in amperes (amps) (A)
- Ammeters show the current
passing through a component in a
circuit.
- Potential difference
- Measured using a voltmeter
- Voltmeters show the
difference in current before the
component and after the
component.
- Potential difference
is the same as
voltage.
- Measured in Volts (V)
- The bigger the potential
difference, the bigger the
current.
- CP9c: Current,. charge and energy
- Charge using energy
- energy transferred = charge x potential difference
- energy in J
- Charge in C
- Potential difference in V
- Charge using current
- Electric charge is measured in coulombs (C)
- Can be calculated using charge= current x time
- charge in (C)
- Current in A
- Time in s
- <--- How energy is transferred in a circuit.