Virtual Circuit Builder to Download.

Posted by Mr Mallon on December 5, 2011

Hi Physics lovers over the next few weeks and after Christmas we will be studying electric circuits.
Those brilliant people from PhET have a brilliant virtual circuit builder.

You can download it here and run it on your pc or laptop. You don`t need to be online to use it after it is downloaded.

I will be adding worksheets to build circuits.

As a starter activity build the following circuit.

3 lamps: Change their resistances as shown: 6 ohms, 2 ohms and 1 ohm by right clicking the lamps
2 cells each having a value of 9V
Use non-contact ammeter
also use a voltmeter.

Measure the pd across the cell = 18 volts.
Now measure the pd across each lamp to see if they add up to the cell`s pd.

Categories: Higher Physics
5Dec

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