{"id":1086,"date":"2011-12-05T18:39:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2011-12-05T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:39:31","slug":"virtual-circuit-builder-to-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Circuit Builder to Download."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Physics lovers over the next few weeks and after Christmas we will be studying electric circuits.<br \/>\nThose brilliant people from <a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/\">PhET<\/a> have a brilliant virtual circuit builder.<\/p>\n<p>You can download it <a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/en\/simulation\/circuit-construction-kit-dc-virtual-lab\">here<\/a> and run it on your pc or laptop. You don`t need to be online to use it after it is downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>I will be adding worksheets to build circuits.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 300px; height: 226px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/sims\/circuit-construction-kit\/circuit-construction-kit-dc-virtual-lab_en.jnlp\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/sims\/circuit-construction-kit\/circuit-construction-kit-dc-virtual-lab-screenshot.png\" alt=\"Circuit Construction Kit (DC Only), Virtual Lab\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\"\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 80px; left: 50px; top: 73px; background-color: #FFF; opacity: 0.6; filter: alpha(opacity = 60);\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 80px; left: 50px; top: 73px;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; color: #000; font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\">Click to Run<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As a starter activity build the following circuit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/3lamps9voltcircuitphet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/3lamps9voltcircuitphet.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"3lamps9voltcircuitphet\" width=\"530\" height=\"430\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1090\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3 lamps: Change their resistances as shown: 6 ohms, 2 ohms and 1 ohm by right clicking the lamps<br \/>\n2 cells each having a value of 9V<br \/>\nUse non-contact ammeter<br \/>\nalso use a voltmeter.<\/p>\n<p>Measure the pd across the cell = 18 volts.<br \/>\nNow measure the pd across each lamp to see if they add up to the cell`s pd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpmyphysics.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}