DC circuits
Electrical Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How a DC circuit works - current, voltage, resistance and resistors; Ohm's law and Kirchhoff's laws; series and parallel resistor networks; troubleshooting faults; and everyday applications.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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- Properties of resistors
- Ohm's law
- Using Ohm's law
- Kirchhoff's current law
- Kirchhoff's voltage law
- Series resistor networks
- Parallel resistor networks
- Series-parallel networks
- Constructing resistor networks
- Cells in DC circuits
- Analysing a DC circuit
- Open and short circuits
- Tracing faults in DC circuits
- DC circuits in daily life